Llamapants86 wrote: »

@Canadian if you can find a way to enjoy it. Do it! Makes it easier to get through. I am struggling with some foolish-ness at work.
My boss tries to be transparent on what is going on above us in the company but it is a lot of "well I didn't pick up on all of it" and "I think I understood this to mean this" and it causes a lot of unrequired stress because we don't really know what is going on and if we align with it because my boss doesn't know enough to effectively communicate up or down. I am quite concerned on what he is saying about what we do and what we require. My guess he is miss-translating a lot of things.

Be careful - incompetent bosses reflect poorly on the people under them.

I've been at an industry Tea conference/expo the last 3 days. I blog about tea, so I was doing press work there.

Anyways, I was at the tea expo last year so people I met last year recognized me. There was a few comments of "oh, the tea must be working for you, you look trim." Nope, just lifting weights. If anyone questioned this, it was like "I can squat you on my back with you also holding a 45lb plate".

bleh, hate the tea makes you lose weight belief. I would be a flipping super model if it did.

canadianlbs wrote: »

awkwardsoul wrote: »

If anyone questioned this, it was like "I can squat you on my back with you also holding a 45lb plate".

hah. every time my head plays me an imaginary soundbite of someone getting sniffy about women lifting and how it makes them bulky, my brain makes this imaginary comeback that goes 'i could bench press you.'

trouble is, of course i can't. and then i imagine myself saying it to one of those snippy undermining types of woman and immediately making it worse by eyeballing her up and down to guess at her weight and adding 'well, no . . . probably not.'

Omg yes. I want to do this to one person at work in particular. Maybe when I'm ready to get packaged out at work...

Sumiblue wrote: »

You would think if they got close enough to my car to leave a note on my windshield they might have noticed that I did not have a dog in my car.

i'm literally laughing out loud, but how peculiar. could it have been a dust bunny they spied? not to cast any aspersions on you, but there could well be life forms in the back seat of mine.

random me too. physio checked out my knee. not that i felt like there was much need for it, but i guess i 'have' a physiotherapist now in the same maintenance sense that people 'have' dentists and people who clean out their gutters for them. he confirmed that i didn't sprain or strain anything, which didn't surprise me since i was the person who crashed and i know exactly the angle the bike went down at. but it was still nice to know.

while i'm at it i'm going to get on a slightly strange soapbox and sing the praises of bike crashes that happen so fast you don't even know they've happened. you can get a hell of an impact from them, but at least you don't do the kinds of real damage you get when you know it's coming and your body does something to try 'save' itself.

Sumiblue wrote: »

My post is truly random. Had to go to IKEA today to get a few things: pillow cases for tempurpedic pillows, glass bottle with stopper for my homemade kombucha and I was hoping to pick up some pendant lights for our kitchen to replace 2 with broken shades. Of course, the lights were out of stock. Serious fatigue set in from wandering those blasted meandering paths through the store with those ridiculous carts that want to go sideways. We had lunch on the second floor, then I shopped on the first floor, kid wanted to play in the children's section, back to second floor. Finally get the stuff to my car and while I'm loading a poster sized picture frame into my car I notice it's broken. While I am seeing this someone is waiting for my parking spot and when I don't move fast enough for them they peel out of there like they are drag racing. Whatever. I have to go back into the store to return and replace the picture frame because I want it, dammit! When I get back to my car someone has left a note on my car berating me for leaving my dog in the car while I shop, telling me they would have smashed my windows had it been a hotter day. You would think if they got close enough to my car to leave a note on my windshield they might have noticed that I did not have a dog in my car. Perhaps this person was experiencing IKEA induced hallucinations, I dunno

How funny would it be if they actually had smashed your windows only to find a car devoid of any animals? What an idiot. I find that other people at IKEA are sickos.

Results from my trail race were published today. 86th out of 194. Fastest time was 26:05 and I did it in 40:27. Last year on a similar distance trail I was 141st out of 206.

@Llamapants86 Well done! 40 spots up!!!

oy.

i had a day just loaded iwth captain scudge. by the end of it - i looked into his office and he wasn't there, so i was sort of debriefing with the banana woman just how detrimental his bulldozing is. halfway through - well, no, not halfway through - i realised he'd come into the office again and was back at his desk. which would have put him about ten feet and two wide-open doors from my voice.

i don't think i was saying anything wildly offensive or personal, i don't think. i don't think. but i was saying that imo more things go his way than is good for the place purely because he bludgeons you into this state where you really need him to just leave you alone. which is true, and at least i wasn't going on about his weird personal appearance or terrible draggy penetratingly monotone voice. so there's that mercy at least.

but tomorrow might be a hell of a thing.

well, ugh. the captain scudge story is no longer especially funny . . . at least not right now.

afaik i had nothing to do with it. but i don't think his overhear experience the night before can have helped all that much and there could still be anvils waiting to fall on me once the long weekend is over.

we had a collaborative conversation about something potentially explosive in the first part of the day, so there was that. but then we had The Meeting with the whole gang of us, in which he presented to us his lovingly hand-crafted description of Process in Principle. and we got 98% agreement on that, which was great. and then the wheels just fell off.

98% agreement was reached, and then scudge says 'great. so now i'll go away and spend another two or three or four or five days crafting Prototypes of the two different ways in which we can put this into actual practice, and i'll present that and then we'll decide.' back on his damned obsessive hobby-horse thing that he just won't let go. but this time the little size-zero project manager melted, right on the spot, and said no. this process describes what we've already been doing for at least two weeks, it works, and i'm not authorizing any more time to be spent on all this.

so then it was back to the high holy loud wars once again about what's pragmatic versus what's perfection. about good-enough versus i'm-not-sure-what. it got so loud and so contentious (i had nothing to do with this part of it) that the banana woman came and peered through the blinds to see if she needed to come in and break up a fight. and then the project manager FINALLY spelled out a couple of cold hard facts about the time already wasted on all of this, and scudge leaped up and stormed out.

he didn't come back for the rest of the day and he didn't come in at all today. i didn't think much of it personally, but then i don't know scudge's patterns this way. but the business analyst who does know him because she's been working with him for six years said she actually has no idea what this behaviour means. for all we know he might never come back.

and i have my tri-weekly encounter with medusa first thing on the first day next week. about How Testin'g Going, and have i been able to think about it? bleh. just bloody BLEH.

Anyone see this yet?
http://distractify.com/Deborah-Gross/let-me-see-your-muscles/?ts_pid=2&ts_pid=5

@missholidaygolightly . . . saw a comment in a forum this weekend that 'intjs are the type most likely to be a wizard.' un/fortunately, my brain re-cast the last word as 'lizard'. i laughed for ten minutes and now i SO want that shirt.

"type most likely to be lizard"

That video just cracked me up. So. Great. @MalineVD congrats on taking time for yourself and family!

i'm about set to take bets on the outcome at this job. holy cow. i've worked with abusive and unreasonable temperament-princes before, but i ain't seen nothing exactly like scudge. maybe because nobody else has had the powers of scudge, in the practical sense. either way, i'm not all that sure anymore what's going on, but i kind of infer that we've got our very own personal version of waco, texas in place.

he's been told not to spend any more of anyone's time on his shiny and special idea, that nobody wants. project manager dropped the hammer last thursday and refused to authorize. left the meeting, the 'conversation' and the building and didn't come back for one statutory holiday and one day-off all of his own. so, in his absence, the three of us who have an actual reason to care got together, sat down, and worked out what the next level of customization is that we need for 'our' way.

guess who's the only system administrator left for this tool? go ahead, see if you can. he shut us all out of it a few weeks ago when the 'other team' started to use it as well . . . so basically now we have a standoff. scudge isn't 'allowed' to keep beating his drum (but i think he is anyway; he came back on tuesday but he's been ominously quiet and full of hatred for two days in a row - and he sure as hell ain't writing code.) and we sort-of can't proceed in any real direction with our own stuff until he gives us the modifications we need.

actually, that isn't true. we could cut him ocmpletely out and just mcgyver up our own workarounds. which we kind of have been doing anyway. but he's caught on that we do need those settings to make 'our' way work, so he's backing himself into this brainless corner that goes 'your way doesn't work . . . no, it doesn't. what's that you say? you need 'states' settings first? well, w here are they then? you said you were going to do them but you haven't, have you ?' this was what i heard him taunting the business analyst with near the end of today . . . and when she pointed out that WE have done that and HE is the reason why they don't exist, he leapt up and he stormed out again. groke only knows what tomorrow will bring. it's thursday, which is the day of our 'team' meeting, in which conversations like this tend to really take place.

if he was anyone else, i'd be saying i think the man's losing his mind. since it's scudge, i have this terrible fear that all he's doing is using the mind that he already has.