Tomorrow after work we get our annual vacation at our friend's cottage. God, I need this. Everyone needs a week in the summer where you can get daydrunk at least two or three times with lots of beef, beer and bacon in close proximity.
A small, decently well equipped cabin in the woods is soothing, I don't care who you are. If you can't relax in that enviornment, I don't think its possible to relax anywhere. Mind you, I lived in San Diego, I've done the whole beach scene, its different. There's something about being in the woods thats more peaceful. However, falling asleep to the sound of crashing waves can not be replicated or matched, that is one of the best things in the world.
FYI to any new members, this is absolutely not a safe place. I will judge you the SECOND you try to open up anywhere on this board. All your fears are justified and you're right about all your insecurities.
We spent yesterday walking around DC and visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum. The exhibit is amazing and so informative. Very somber. Til some stupid broad's cellphone starts ringing and she answers it...and has a conversation...during the Liberation part of the exhibit. I rarely see my husband angry. He's SO mellow. But the Jew Bear was damn near raging yesterday. That female is quite fortunate he couldn't get eyes on her and get to her.
I hope that the new guy is going to get fired. I mean, probably not any time soon, but I wonder if it will happen while I am still working there. Dude is a fucking waste of space and stands in the way to watch whatever game is on TV or to schmooze with the bartender and/or manager. He never runs any food, drinks, or does any side work. I have to remind him when somebody comes in to sit in his section. Fuck that guy. Here's a happy Friday picture! ...well, I was looking for a cool boob picture but I found this instead. Spoiler
Ever have one of those moments where everything lines up and something gets said that's absolutely delicious? I was in a meeting yesterday with my team members, my boss and my boss's boss, going over our goals for the year. Every single goal had an action that my boss was supposed to have accomplished by the beginning of June, and none of the actions were completed. He kept apologizing about it and finally his boss just said "Look, keep apologizing all you want, but you're clearly the bottleneck and the problem. Get your shit together." It took every fibre of my being to keep from laughing.
I had a boss that kept telling our store to pick up the numbers. Basically sell more shit. When he decided we needed help, he started working half days in our store Mon-Fri the whole month. At our team meeting he had to admit we had the worst month of sales yet. The store manager said something along the lines of "good thing you put those half days in to boost our sales." The tension was crazy but somehow he was fired a month later for "not being a team player". Btw shouldn't there be a new WDT by now?
Calling him out like that is awesome. I wonder if that helps morale in these types of situations. Seeing a superior held accountable, does that undermine them or does it at least validate the work the employees under the superior do?
Look at mah gourds! Your task was "cool boob picture" and you settled on that? You combed through how many pictures, decided none of them met the standard, and then changed directions altogether? "Here's some boob, but not cool enough. Hmm, now, this is cool, but not enough boob." Like, what got rejected, to push you into pumpkin comedy so that you had to abandon the search for cool boobs? Fascinating.
It's easier to find virgins in Vegas on a Saturday night than to find a job in the Bermuda triangle of New England: the corner that encompasses NH, VT and MA. Goddammit, I just had a CEO tell me that my references (all fucking six of them) should call HIM. After four phone interviews (one in Spanish), he asks for six references and they have to call him? Am I out of touch with getting hired or is this excessive?
Yeah sounds like this guy is a douche & just looking for a reason to turn you down. I've never heard of having your references call a potential employer... Just saying...
If this guy offered me a job I wouldn't take it. This is a guy who will ask you to bring him coffee and print his documents for him, and generally treat you like a 70's era secretary in addition to your actual work, regardless of your field and education because he's a lazy dick with an entitlement issue.
They dont want to hire you. Move on. And where the fuck does one find a job in NH or VT other than a maple syrup farm?
So after getting up on my soapbox about today's youth in that other thread, we had a guy in his mid 20s come interview for a scientist position here yesterday, and he showed up in a t-shirt, shorts, and hiking shoes. Way to prove me right, Youth of Today. A freind of mine posted on Facebook that he has a serious illness. Cue the sympathy roll call. So this numbnuts decides to parlay all of that goodwill into an attempt to get naked pictures of another friend. I can't blame him for trying, this woman is stacked, but he does this by going onto her page, jumping into a conversation in progress and asking her to post naked photos of herself on her facebook page. Smooth.