Various random thoughts from my head this morning, in no particular order:
- Watched Hell's Kitchen off the DVR last night. Have to say it was kind of an "eh" episode. I'm bummed that (avert your eyes if you haven't seen it and are wanting to) Rachel (ok, you can look now) got booted off though I will say she messed up a ton, but Virginia had the perfect opportunity to get rid of Sara and boffed it and now, now she has managed to totally screw up any chance of there being any kind of actual "team" on the red side of things. Clearly she needs one of my "There's no P in team" mugs to help her remember important things like that. I'm guessing from the promo for next week with "You won't believe who has to leave" in breathy, excited tones from the announcer that Heather is going home next week. Cause really, she's the only one that would surprise me. Any of the others have an equal chance in my mind. Or they were just going for an attempt at suspense and surprise and it's really Virginia who goes home and the only surprise is that you entertained, if only briefly, the idea that it might be someone else.
- Paperwork is now complete for an offer on a home by the inlaws. Pray hard, please, if you will. It's a low offer - they're still under the impression that real estate around here works like it does in other places where you negotiate like you would if buying a car (though this is also one reason I purchase Saturns). However, mostly around here sellers are able to get away with whatever they want cause there are people in line for anything that's in good shape and reasonably priced. I'm assured by another realtor friend, however, that the market has slowed somewhat so this isn't completly
brainless of themimpossible to turn out well. - My retardo company - hereafter to be known as Dunder-Mifflin - has instituted a new employee leave policy wherein you are not allowed to take vacation in increments less than 4 hours. Now, they're still going to give you vacation in increments of well under 4 hours a pay period - with fractional hours to boot. You just can't use them that way. No explanation as to why. My guess? They're tired of people actually using the vacation time instead of simply saving it up, losing half at the turn of the new year (you can only roll over 40 hours - and even then you have to use it by the end of the 1st Q or it's gone), and watching as your soul slowly oozes out from between your toes in an attempt for some part of you to actually get some sort of rest. Oh and they have a really neat-o form for you to fill out in advance of actually taking vacation where they will tell you if it's ok for you to go. So make sure you fill that out before making any plans because more than likely they will deny all but the executives a chance to get away over major holidays. The rest of us "workerbees" (as we're so lovingly referred to by the admin/HR staff) can just suck it and take vacation when it's convenient for the company, not for us.
- I'm very, very tired. In both physical and mental and emotional measurements. I'd love a vacation but, well, see the bullet above.
Good assessment of HK - I watched it last night, too. I was cracking up when Virginia was explaining the whole lying thing with Sara from last week - the editing was brilliant. She's so immature.
ReplyDeleteSo say you need to take an hour or two for some kind of non-medical appointment (and therefore you can't take sick leave), you have to take 4 hours even if you only really need 2? That makes no sense for productivity. But you work for Dunder-Mifflin. Does your office have a Dwight?
Hmmm...actually, we do have a Dwight. In fact, we had an even better Dwight but he just took a job somewhere else because his "Michael" had moved on and his sucking up to the new "Michael" wasn't going so well.
ReplyDeleteVirginia...oh dear Virginia. She's 25 and yet so, so immature. I don't understand that.