Whelp. We made it to Friday. Barely.
Another week nearly in the books at work and another batch of turds flung at my head by the monkeys. I know that’s such an assy thing to say, but…
Remember in my last entry I wrote about my boss taking away a fraction of a percent of a raise to my team? And remember how I said it would affect the morale of my already miserable and moody team?
Well, on Wednesday of this week, I’m already frustrated by a million and one things going on before 9am, and my team walks into the end of my 8am meeting, and Easy E (my favorite…and YES, I think that like parents, it’s okay to have a favorite if you don’t let them know, right?) slides into the meeting and interrupts by asking, “When are we going to get our raises?!”
Neat, huh? What could I even say to that?
So in the afternoon I marched down to Boss’s office to remind him that HE’S going to be the one to tell them why they are not getting the full cost of living increase. Will they get an increase? Yes. But every year they have gotten a 3% cost of living increase pretty much automatically. This year, they won’t. And this is the year when it feels like all hell is breaking loose.
Boss said he would talk to them. Let’s see if it really happens.
OMG. You guys. Just now…RIGHT now…I can hear Negative C. quietly crying in her cube. What the hell is going on around here?
I’ve already stress-eaten my lunch for breakfast. The stress is not worth it. Not at all.
I had a conversation at lunch yesterday with a woman who would/could potentially be my peer at the new company if it comes down to taking a full time position there. And really, the more I think about it, the more I think I’d like for this to happen.
If it doesn’t work out I can always go back to my consulting idea, but more and more I think I just need a safety net to fall into when the shit hits the fan here - and it pretty much already has. I really want to make more of the conversations I’ve been having over the last three years with my former colleague. Let’s make something happen!
Also funny, last night I ran into that CEO of the marketing company I’ve been telling you about! I ran into him at the little taqueria that I frequent every so often. I was walking the dog and wanted to have a light dinner (veggie tacos). He was there with his business partner and another guy who works with them and they are all such cutie-pies. They seem sooooo very young and they also seem to be working constantly. I am glad that I took some extra time to freshen up after work because I was also going to see a friend of mine who is in a hobby band play a gig at the park close to my house. Anyway, fun to run into them. It just feels like I see this guy everywhere now.
And then, the band last night was fun as well. My friend Mac, who is married to a guy I used to work with a long, long time ago, was playing at the park like I said. Fun to see the guys and fun to hear about the surprise birthday gift that Robert is giving Mac…a trip to LA where they’ll go see a taping of the Ellen show! How much fun is that?! Mac is going to flip! I love those guys.
OK. Better run to lunch. I’ve already eaten the lunch that I packed so I need to run to Whole Foods to get some more (healthy) grub. It’s going to be a long afternoon with my bitches.
Happy Friday, y’all.
xox,
GS
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