Friday, December 09, 2005
Blathering about nuttin
Oh my gosh, after two days of drizzle and gloom, I see the sun trying to peek out; that tends to lift the blues, just by having the sun shows it's little face! :)
Why is it there always has to be a "good cop-bad cop" mentality in the work environment, or is that not the case everywhere? I have an immediate boss who is very hard nosed (and not the brightest light on the tree...); I have a boss above her with whom I have a great relationship, who is much more humane, easier to approach, and less apt to let you know she is irritated than the immediate boss.... problem is, NB (nice boss) is completely snowed by HN (hardnose). She never sees the same side we underlings do... and even if we all told her in a chorus, she wouldn't believe it. Anyway, we had an edict made that if we wanted any time off during the holiday season the request slips (official forms, mind you) had to be turned in by some date in September. As a matter of course, I asked for all the holidays off, figuring that if I ended up working one of them, it would be fine (they are always looking for extra coverage), but at least I would be scheduled off. A couple of my co-workers did not put the requests in "on time." Now there are several people being forced to work December 26th and January 2nd because they missed the deadline. NB is out until January 3rd; HN is in charge and she plans to wield the whip.
I feel bad for some of these people, they have children and families to tend to... guess it's a hard lesson to learn... I don't feel badly enough, however, to offer to work for any of 'em! (Does that make me a creep or what?) I would in a pinch, if somebody asked me to.
BTW, the fudge tastes great. My daughter called me yesterday afternoon while I was in a meeting begging to be allowed to cut it. I figured, what the hey, what she didn't know wouldn't hurt her.... well, she loved it. It's about half gone. I'm still never doing it again, I will find every way I can to make fudge an easier way... found a tiny little blob of dark brown as I made coffee this morning... wedged between the coffee maker and toaster oven... a testimony to the "Dance of the Beaters" (I can hear the Nutcracker Suite now, but it would have to be to the tune of the Chinese dance, not the Waltz of the Flowers!:)
Posted JDaaris @
1:10 PM ::
5 chocolate drops
Gimme some chocolate!
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