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What a mad set of days.
Last Friday we had an all-hands meeting at work, as we typically do. Before it, we got an e-mail saying that each department would be taking a department-wide picture, with about 3 minutes' turn-around time. This was interesting to me mostly because I'm a contractor, not an employee, so I wasn't going to be in the picture. I made plans to go back to my desk and keep working.
Normally, when we walk into the all-hands meeting, there's nondescript Club Shit playing on the speakers, but on Friday, it was all Mariah Carey. And, at the meeting, the CEO brought up rumors, reported by TMZ, that Kate Upton, our celebrity spokesboobs, would be replaced by Mariah Carey, and that these rumors were true. And that was when I made the connection: "Not only is it true, but she's going to walk into the meeting, and she's going to be in the department photos."
Recently I've also read the fourth of the three novels in the Girl with the (Etc) series by Stieg Larsson. The new author they hired is not as deft, and I called one of its major plot twists halfway through the book. Which is all simply a round-about way of saying, I was right about this one too.
But I don't have anything to show for it, because of course I don't work there.
The other big news is that Mariah Carey gave me the flu. I had to stay home on Monday and Tuesday due to immensely ringing headaches, I've only slept well twice since then, and today I'm still coughing and sniffling a little bit. This has been very frustrating because, well, remember how I'm a contractor? They decide whether to turn contractors into actual employees in... September. So this is not the right time to be showing things like human frailty.
Time to get ready for work.
Last Friday we had an all-hands meeting at work, as we typically do. Before it, we got an e-mail saying that each department would be taking a department-wide picture, with about 3 minutes' turn-around time. This was interesting to me mostly because I'm a contractor, not an employee, so I wasn't going to be in the picture. I made plans to go back to my desk and keep working.
Normally, when we walk into the all-hands meeting, there's nondescript Club Shit playing on the speakers, but on Friday, it was all Mariah Carey. And, at the meeting, the CEO brought up rumors, reported by TMZ, that Kate Upton, our celebrity spokesboobs, would be replaced by Mariah Carey, and that these rumors were true. And that was when I made the connection: "Not only is it true, but she's going to walk into the meeting, and she's going to be in the department photos."
Recently I've also read the fourth of the three novels in the Girl with the (Etc) series by Stieg Larsson. The new author they hired is not as deft, and I called one of its major plot twists halfway through the book. Which is all simply a round-about way of saying, I was right about this one too.
But I don't have anything to show for it, because of course I don't work there.
The other big news is that Mariah Carey gave me the flu. I had to stay home on Monday and Tuesday due to immensely ringing headaches, I've only slept well twice since then, and today I'm still coughing and sniffling a little bit. This has been very frustrating because, well, remember how I'm a contractor? They decide whether to turn contractors into actual employees in... September. So this is not the right time to be showing things like human frailty.
Time to get ready for work.