@shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee, it's your lemmyversary tomorrow, but I might forget about it, so wish it to you now, happy cake day! đ
(Also my instance still has the leap-year-1-day-too-early-cakeday bug)
Aww thanks <3
Found out yesterday my wife has to have an amputation... again. :(
Sorry to hear...
It feels wrong to upvote this. Hoping for a successful procedure and gentle recovery.
Nothing special, just woke up and went to office right now writing this comment. did some configuration of zsh, vscode to make it a good experience to debug Odoo software.
This comment about odoo software made me think of that Bowie song from labyrinth where he says "voodoo who do you do the power of the baaabe!"
So things are really looking up.
Two more days at the old job. Itâs going slower than molasses. Usually there is hoopla planned when someone leaves this team but I havenât heard anything about that happening. I canât decide if I rather duck out quietly or do the hoopla.
This weekend there is a big block party happening near me. I said I wasnât gonna go but I changed my mind. I like getting out and going amongst people sometimes.
Let me flip this and ask you OP how is your week going so far?
Pretty good, nothing too special, thanks for asking!
My brother is coming tomorrow! We're gonna hang for a day then go north and hang with the rest of the fam. So exited, haven't seen him for a year!
Nice!
Spent the week doing tours with wifey, gaming like a maniac, catching up on some documentaries, and being glad for not having to worry about kids or pets or anything else đ
I'm excited at your dearth of excitement! Enjoy the off time!
Dearth of excitement? I sometimes wish for a bit less excitement :-) But the day only has 24h and there are so many hobbies to pursue....
Got Influenza A. My wife and daughter too. Shit's fucked. Haven't felt this sick since COVID in 21. And we even had our flu vaccinations a month or 2 ago... So must be some other strain.
Iâve spent the work week stuck at the office, and have the weekends back at home, since the new year. This one has been the worst one yet. Iâm taking every Friday off for the next few months, so this is the last day of the week for me. But, itâs still rough. Itâs been a train wreck.
For example, there was an issue I inherited from someone else. So, when the next higher ups at regional asked about what was going on, I explained in detail what I was handed and what very limited timeline I had to get it running to meet its deadline. Not to make something perfect with more time, just to get it out the door. Then this individual didnât read my detailed response and asked the same question again. So, I copied that small portion that originally answered her question (removing the deep dive explanation) out of my prior email, added âlike I said in the below emailâ because she added a CC of her boss to it, escalating for some reason, and I did the same for my boss, and I wanted to make sure that the new comers knew what I had said and was saying⌠and then her boss responded back asking about why I had âattitudeâ and why I didnât do it ârightâ the first time.
I didnât have attitude, and I didnât start the project, I just made sure we got it out the door in the very limited time period I had. That mission wasnât going to wait for me, so I made sure we completed it. The email was a concise and professional. She didnât read my last one with detail on what lead to the problem, and her boss didnât either, before they jumped down my throat about it. The last hour yesterday, that I could have been using elsewhere on other projects, was sitting in my bossâ office as he explained to them the same situation I did and that having read the email chain himself he absolutely sees what I meant and how I meant it. If these guys would have just called and asked⌠instead of putting people on blastâŚ
Anyway, Iâm still in my room at the office putting off getting up. Iâm going to skip my work out and get Starbucks instead, for the second time this week. Fuck it.
It sucks that people are so quick to escalate, especially when they're the ones misunderstanding the situation. Surely they were apologetic once it was explained. Ha.
'room at the office'? You sleep at your office?
Yeah, youâd hope theyâd be sorry about it. But, no. My boss had a phone conversation with their boss and then we discussed it this morning. Theyâre on their toes, so weâre going to continue like we have been until everything blows over. Short, guarded and professional.
Yeah, I got promoted from one region to the other, 4 hours away. I bought a decent home a few years ago with a really good interest rate and the value is up about 75k. Iâd rather not sell it. Which means Iâm living in a room on our footprint. Itâs not unheard of in our industry, so much so that we even have a name for it; âGeo Bachelorâ.
Found out today that some of my coworkers are antivaxxers who just got the required COVID shots for work, and they spent lunch gaily chatting about how it's not needed while I seethed. I will be avoiding them from now on.
People like this make me lose faith in humanity.
Blithely assuring each other that it's not needed, as if millions haven't died. Another coworker is super upset because she lost 15 family members in India pre vaccine to COVID. The ignorance is real and I shall eat elsewhere now.
Been working on cleaning out my mom's house. Called a guy for what i thought was a small repair. That turned into $10k (that i agreed to and am now scrambling to find) and led to a foundation repair estimate of $25k plus expected plumbing issues. I don't really want to sell it but not sure i can afford to keep it. Sad, frustrated, still have a tremendous amount of stuff to donate/sell and much cleaning to do. Grateful that i have summer break to do it so there's time to appreciate the memories. Also happy that my son is living there, covering the mortgage, and having a nice, safe home that he wouldn't otherwise be able to afford.
