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FIRED
Not me, thankfully, but my boss was fired last week. There hasn't been any clear explanation given as to why she was fired - she wasn't given one. There were rumors going around a week or so before, but knowing that she didn't really help to improve the image she gave the president I guess.
See, she found out the week before that her husband out of the blue wanted a divorce, and then found out that he was having an affair with his coworker. She was screaming profanities at him on the phone during work (she doesn't have a private office, it's shared with the rest of the Marketing Department (which consists of 2 designers and 1 marketing assistant/PR person) along with spending a lot of her time checking his phone records at work.
I mean, she's was very understandably upset (as I would be) and I know it must be hard to control your emotions when you have something like that happening in your personal life, but it seems like she didn't try to control herself at work with that regard and I know our President really doesn't like bringing personal problems or issues into work.
I was sad to see her go though - she's a really nice person and a big reason why I accepted the job. So the three of us have been fending ourselves for the past week, trying to figure out what projects were going on and what we have to finish. Right now we're working on the large task of putting together a 300 page catalog in a couple of months without a manager to guide everything. We have daily meetings in the morning and worked out a clear time line, which helped. If we can't pull this project off though, we're probably all out of a job, so we'll see how it goes.
It gets a little frustrating trying to get work done because people are always coming into the office asking for little things, so it's impossible to just zone into one particular project. I think once we get deep into working on this big catalog project, we're just going to shut the door so that me and the other designer won't be interrupted.
MIRROR'S EDGE
I beat Mirror's Edge last week, over a couple of nights during the week. I didn't realize how much I enjoyed it until I beat the game and felt a pang of sadness from not being able to play the game anymore. It was really frustrating at times (I required Kyle's guidance on a couple of parts), but I really enjoyed pretty much everything in the game.
Any parts where I encountered enemies though sometimes proved to be too intense for me and I would have to take a break to calm down (I know, but I don't really play any single player FPS so I'm not used to taking on a bunch of enemies alone in a first person view).
MASS EFFECT
I purchased Mass Effect through Steam over the weekend and got started with that. I really like how strong the female version of Shepard is - I was afraid she was going to be wishy washy like the majority of video game female leads. There's tons of extra story background to read, side quests, and planets to explore, so that's all been really fun so far.
Maybe I just suck, but I've found the combat to be challenging as well (I'm playing as a Sentinel too, which is pretty much a support class, so maybe that's part of it too). I remember exploring this one planet and I kept dying to this one particular portion of enemies. I quit the game for a couple hours, thinking I had perhaps stumbled on an area that I wasn't supposed to be at yet in the game or something. But when I returned, after a couple more attempts I finally killed them and found out that it was all actually part of the story line.
When it comes to arranging my squad, equipment, mods, and talent points, I don't really know WTF I'm doing. I'm just hoping I don't screw up too bad and just guessing with everything.
STAR OCEAN
Kyle is over 80 hours in now. He got the max level of 255 on all the characters and has completed the first dungeon and a lot of the arena. I think all he has left now is the second dungeon and the bunny racing. He might have to save the second dungeon for the weekend though, since there are no save points in it.
Not me, thankfully, but my boss was fired last week. There hasn't been any clear explanation given as to why she was fired - she wasn't given one. There were rumors going around a week or so before, but knowing that she didn't really help to improve the image she gave the president I guess.
See, she found out the week before that her husband out of the blue wanted a divorce, and then found out that he was having an affair with his coworker. She was screaming profanities at him on the phone during work (she doesn't have a private office, it's shared with the rest of the Marketing Department (which consists of 2 designers and 1 marketing assistant/PR person) along with spending a lot of her time checking his phone records at work.
I mean, she's was very understandably upset (as I would be) and I know it must be hard to control your emotions when you have something like that happening in your personal life, but it seems like she didn't try to control herself at work with that regard and I know our President really doesn't like bringing personal problems or issues into work.
I was sad to see her go though - she's a really nice person and a big reason why I accepted the job. So the three of us have been fending ourselves for the past week, trying to figure out what projects were going on and what we have to finish. Right now we're working on the large task of putting together a 300 page catalog in a couple of months without a manager to guide everything. We have daily meetings in the morning and worked out a clear time line, which helped. If we can't pull this project off though, we're probably all out of a job, so we'll see how it goes.
It gets a little frustrating trying to get work done because people are always coming into the office asking for little things, so it's impossible to just zone into one particular project. I think once we get deep into working on this big catalog project, we're just going to shut the door so that me and the other designer won't be interrupted.
MIRROR'S EDGE
I beat Mirror's Edge last week, over a couple of nights during the week. I didn't realize how much I enjoyed it until I beat the game and felt a pang of sadness from not being able to play the game anymore. It was really frustrating at times (I required Kyle's guidance on a couple of parts), but I really enjoyed pretty much everything in the game.
Any parts where I encountered enemies though sometimes proved to be too intense for me and I would have to take a break to calm down (I know, but I don't really play any single player FPS so I'm not used to taking on a bunch of enemies alone in a first person view).
MASS EFFECT
I purchased Mass Effect through Steam over the weekend and got started with that. I really like how strong the female version of Shepard is - I was afraid she was going to be wishy washy like the majority of video game female leads. There's tons of extra story background to read, side quests, and planets to explore, so that's all been really fun so far.
Maybe I just suck, but I've found the combat to be challenging as well (I'm playing as a Sentinel too, which is pretty much a support class, so maybe that's part of it too). I remember exploring this one planet and I kept dying to this one particular portion of enemies. I quit the game for a couple hours, thinking I had perhaps stumbled on an area that I wasn't supposed to be at yet in the game or something. But when I returned, after a couple more attempts I finally killed them and found out that it was all actually part of the story line.
When it comes to arranging my squad, equipment, mods, and talent points, I don't really know WTF I'm doing. I'm just hoping I don't screw up too bad and just guessing with everything.
STAR OCEAN
Kyle is over 80 hours in now. He got the max level of 255 on all the characters and has completed the first dungeon and a lot of the arena. I think all he has left now is the second dungeon and the bunny racing. He might have to save the second dungeon for the weekend though, since there are no save points in it.