Today's headache is brought to you by the letters O, T, and E ( Read more... )

Yeah, today isn't going quite according to plan ( Read more... )

There's something about the higher-ups' screaming tantrums in this office that really steams me, even beyond the high-stress situations they cause.

Whenever I actually go to challenge someone who's being overly loud and disruptive? They apologize to me. Often as not, they'll tell me I'm right. And then, a few minutes later, they go right back ( Read more... )

Some days, the office environment is nice and collegial. Some days, it's like a war zone ( Read more... )

The big news here in Greece recently has involved a borderline-insane radical fringe party that saw an upswing in popularity, overestimated the leeway it gave them to play fast and loose with the accepted norms of society, and are currently in several flavors of deep trouble ( Read more... )

Up-down-sideway sort of time. A lot has been happening, but not too much of note. Parents came for their annual vacation, staying at my place for a few days before heading to the islands, but there was a bit of excitement. Thankfully, it seems to have all turned out OK ( Read more... )

Just realized I've gone a month without a post. Then again, not too much in the way of excitement here - the protests seem to have died down from years gone by, and the worst of the psychodynamics is closer to home ( Read more... )

Blasting loud music into my ears as a defense mechanism gets old. So after finishing a task for work, I did a bit of mathematics.

Specifically, I tried to think of a rough correlation between the extent to which someone resorts to screaming and bully tactics, and the extent to which I will take them seriously.

It looks a little bit like this:

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Yeah, things got kind of unruly in Athens on Tuesday, with Chancellor Merkel's visit ( Read more... )

Apparently, for some reason, the Chancellor of Germany is coming to Athens ( Read more... )