Never have problems sleeping, but I sure did last night! I'm thinkin' that gigantor decaf iced coffee wasn't so decaf. Wawa has a bad habit of mixing up their carafes & often you're playing russian roulette with your caffeine intake there. So I finally dozed off somewhere toward 2:30 this morning. Today I'm so epically tired I can barely type. You ( Read more... )

The best part of working my ass off on the What Where When is once it's all done I get to post it to all the lists for people to see. I don't do the graphic work, though I enjoy showering Miss Fidget with praise, but I love to be the one that announces it. Someone else did it this time, and though it shames me mightily, my heart broke for a minute ( Read more... )

1) My boss drives me crazy. When business slows down he gets all up in my grill and starts nitpicking because he's feeling out of control. A few weeks ago he questioned my integrity in the most unprofessional of ways. Then he forgot my birthday. He's been talking to everyone in that same grating, condescending tone with which he speaks to his wife ( Read more... )

1)  I lost my AmEd book assignment progress TWICE yesterday, once due to power outage, once to user error (which was far more drastic, alas, since it encompassed 3 hours' work - though I SWEAR I saved, I couldn't find it anywhere). I am not good at futility and hate, hate, HATE having to redo work. Especially twice. And what I wrote the second time ( Read more... )

Now that the Biggest Douche in the Universe is gone, there is one thing remaining about my job that really gets to me: being hung up on.  For some reason, in New Jersey & Philadelphia when you tell someone something they don't like, they feel that it's ok to hang up on you.    So. Damn. Rude.  What's so wrong with basic polite social intercourse?

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