general life update, plus digression on workplace shenanigans
I have spent this past week shoving through a cold, which I started to come down with on the evening of Friday the 20th. (This is not surprising -- tax season ended, I wasn't running under pressure anymore, my body relaxed the constant "go go go" messages... and of course I got sick. That is just how life works.) Anyway, I've been sleeping and blowing my nose a lot, but I think I'm finally mostly better.
Last Sunday I went to my champagne-and-waffle brunch (yes, despite the cold -- it wasn't too bad at that point; Monday through Thursday were the really bad days) and had a lovely time. That meant I wasn't able to do coffee-hour cleanup, though I did still sign up to bring snacks. This week I again brought snacks, and also did cleanup. There were only two of us on the cleanup team, which meant we took a bit longer than ideal to get through the tasks (it's really a three-person job: one to wash/sterilize dishes, one to put away cleaned dishes, and one to gather used dishes from the parlor and clean up the tables) but we got it done.
Today I have been productive! In addition to the church stuff, I changed my linens, took my trash to the bin and the bin to the curb for pickup Monday morning, tossed some old leftovers that had gone funny (on account of them being Not Food to me right now *sigh*), cooked a batch of Laddie's hotdish, made a packing list for my flying trip to NJ later this week, sent a bunch of emails on behalf of the Stewardship team, backed up my computer, did my weekly reading for my Anthropology class, prepped for laundry tomorrow (I decided to postpone it one day on account of persistent rain, bleh), boiled eight eggs, wrote to-do lists for the coming week, and submitted my 2018-19 FAFSA application. So that's good. :)
Tomorrow's schedule includes phone chats with Susan and Cat, a lease update appointment with Landlord Dude (he wants to raise my rent because of property tax increases, and I'm hoping to bargain him down a little), a couple shopping tasks, laundry, vacuuming, some Stewardship team phone calls to people who didn't have listed emails, and various other things.
Hmm, what else, what else.
Oh! In other news, I should tell you about a ridiculous mess at the rental office. So, the rental company I work for has two offices, right? It turns out that one of the leasing agents in the downtown office is moving out of state very soon. So Lawyer Man, who runs the downtown office, asked Miss Cactus (my coworker, who does my job on Monday, Thursday, and Friday, plus a few ancillary things I don't handle because reasons) if she'd like to replace the soon-to-leave downtown employee. Miss Cactus wasn't thrilled about working directly under Lawyer Man's supervision instead of Mom Boss and Aunt Boss, but she said she would, if the offer was good enough.
Well, Lawyer Man's offer was... it included some "new perks!" that she already has, a promise of commissions at unknown rates because he hadn't decided them yet (*side-eyes him real hard*), and a deeply inadequate raise. Miss Cactus was like, "Um, excuse me? In what sense does this equal 'good enough'?"
So then Lawyer Man emailed Mom Boss instead of Miss Cactus -- which, we work in an open office and they sit right next to each other; I don't know HOW he thought Mom Boss wasn't going to immediately tell Miss Cactus everything -- asking for the applications of the people who'd answered the job listing to replace Miss Cactus at the Collegetown office. Mom Boss sent him one application, from a person who was nice and personable but had no qualifications whatsoever, and told him to talk to Miss Cactus directly.
And that's where it sits. Miss Cactus is pissed off and doesn't want to move downtown even if Lawyer Man makes a non-insulting offer... but she might, for financial reasons, if he pulls his head out of his ass. And in that case, I guess I should talk to Mom Boss and Aunt Boss and ask if I could move to Miss Cactus's position and have them hire a new person for mine, instead of hiring a direct replacement for her. Because I can't deny that an extra day a week would be very nice for my budget, even if it still wouldn't come with full-time benefits.
Anyway, it's all up in the air and I guess we'll have to wait and see.
And that's pretty much my life at the moment. :)
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Last Sunday I went to my champagne-and-waffle brunch (yes, despite the cold -- it wasn't too bad at that point; Monday through Thursday were the really bad days) and had a lovely time. That meant I wasn't able to do coffee-hour cleanup, though I did still sign up to bring snacks. This week I again brought snacks, and also did cleanup. There were only two of us on the cleanup team, which meant we took a bit longer than ideal to get through the tasks (it's really a three-person job: one to wash/sterilize dishes, one to put away cleaned dishes, and one to gather used dishes from the parlor and clean up the tables) but we got it done.
Today I have been productive! In addition to the church stuff, I changed my linens, took my trash to the bin and the bin to the curb for pickup Monday morning, tossed some old leftovers that had gone funny (on account of them being Not Food to me right now *sigh*), cooked a batch of Laddie's hotdish, made a packing list for my flying trip to NJ later this week, sent a bunch of emails on behalf of the Stewardship team, backed up my computer, did my weekly reading for my Anthropology class, prepped for laundry tomorrow (I decided to postpone it one day on account of persistent rain, bleh), boiled eight eggs, wrote to-do lists for the coming week, and submitted my 2018-19 FAFSA application. So that's good. :)
Tomorrow's schedule includes phone chats with Susan and Cat, a lease update appointment with Landlord Dude (he wants to raise my rent because of property tax increases, and I'm hoping to bargain him down a little), a couple shopping tasks, laundry, vacuuming, some Stewardship team phone calls to people who didn't have listed emails, and various other things.
Hmm, what else, what else.
Oh! In other news, I should tell you about a ridiculous mess at the rental office. So, the rental company I work for has two offices, right? It turns out that one of the leasing agents in the downtown office is moving out of state very soon. So Lawyer Man, who runs the downtown office, asked Miss Cactus (my coworker, who does my job on Monday, Thursday, and Friday, plus a few ancillary things I don't handle because reasons) if she'd like to replace the soon-to-leave downtown employee. Miss Cactus wasn't thrilled about working directly under Lawyer Man's supervision instead of Mom Boss and Aunt Boss, but she said she would, if the offer was good enough.
Well, Lawyer Man's offer was... it included some "new perks!" that she already has, a promise of commissions at unknown rates because he hadn't decided them yet (*side-eyes him real hard*), and a deeply inadequate raise. Miss Cactus was like, "Um, excuse me? In what sense does this equal 'good enough'?"
So then Lawyer Man emailed Mom Boss instead of Miss Cactus -- which, we work in an open office and they sit right next to each other; I don't know HOW he thought Mom Boss wasn't going to immediately tell Miss Cactus everything -- asking for the applications of the people who'd answered the job listing to replace Miss Cactus at the Collegetown office. Mom Boss sent him one application, from a person who was nice and personable but had no qualifications whatsoever, and told him to talk to Miss Cactus directly.
And that's where it sits. Miss Cactus is pissed off and doesn't want to move downtown even if Lawyer Man makes a non-insulting offer... but she might, for financial reasons, if he pulls his head out of his ass. And in that case, I guess I should talk to Mom Boss and Aunt Boss and ask if I could move to Miss Cactus's position and have them hire a new person for mine, instead of hiring a direct replacement for her. Because I can't deny that an extra day a week would be very nice for my budget, even if it still wouldn't come with full-time benefits.
Anyway, it's all up in the air and I guess we'll have to wait and see.
And that's pretty much my life at the moment. :)
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