My boss just asked me if I wanted to move to Shanghai, China with him if he takes a new position there.  I had to consider it for half a second but no, moving to another country is not in my future plans.  But it was nice to know that he value me enough to want to take me with him. 

I woke up this morning with all kinds of things running through my head, mostly of the enormous amount of work that's managed to piled up while I was scrambling all of this week to put out fires that seem to erupt out of nowhere, felt physically sick and made it to the bathroom in time to throw up stomach acid (oh, it was so not pretty and burned ( Read more... )

Okay, this week has been a series of "oh my god, oh my god, oh my god," and my name being bellowed across the 8th floor too many times to count.  (I stopped counting the number of times I've been paged over the PA after we hit 35.)  Everything was a "now, now, now" project and I thought I would have to drop dead to let them know that they were ( Read more... )

So... here I am, being all busy bee-like, just doing my job and silently going insane with all the work that seem to converge upon me all at the same time.  Send out a document to be filed with the Federal Court... an hour later the messenger company calls me to tell me that my messenger got hit by a car!

Me: OH MY GOD!!!  Is she okay?

Them:  ( Read more... )

So recently, the firm has been cleaning house by getting rid of the incompetent people they've been holding onto for a while now.  So the firing of temps, part-timers and a few full fledged employees that thought they'd be around for a while commenced end of last week.  They let go a total of 6 people, not counting the temps that were just asked ( Read more... )