bronxgirl- I *hate* those kind of exchanges. I don't know if you saw when I posted about one of the "gifts" I received. It looked like they emptied their junk drawer. I redistributed all the stuff into other people's gift bags when they went into another room.
I'm so mad at work right now. A bunch of us were voluntold that we're being "sent" to a different division permanently. It was all I could do not to sit at my desk and cry. I'm sooooo mad and just feel blindsided.
"But now millennials are grown, sandwiched between their own kids and aging boomer parents."
They fucking left out GenX again. Fuck you, article writer!
As for the substance, I finally created a planner that I use daily.
I had the exact same thought. LOL.
I've been toying with the idea of a custom planner, but strictly for work project planning. I want this, but in a bound notebook:
And then I want either a 6 month view, a quarterly view, and then monthly view. Which would make the planner all of.... 20ish pages. So, generally not worth it.
I use a month-view planner for work tasks (not appointments, but to track projects and to-dos). My current one is a 2 year but I used to have a 3 year and I loved that bc it was easy to flip back to a previous year and see what I was working on that time last year.
I'm loving my new state House representative. I'm thrilled with three bills that he's proposed.
One is to prevent employers from asking if someone has been convicted of a crime on an application. There are exceptions for jobs in certain industries. It doesn't prevent employers from running background checks. It was one of the promises he made to me when he stopped by. It was a priority to him to help prevent recidivism since lack of gainful employment is a big issue for people who have served time in jail/prison. He acknowledged that serving a sentence =/= guilt since a lot of people plead vs being convicted.
The second bill is on animal cruelty. The bill states that animal cruelty crimes should be seen as warning signs and opportunities for intervention. The bill would encourage judges who hear animal cruelty cases to mandate anger management or mental health treatment as part of the sentence. I understand that the hope is that early intervention will prevent future violent crimes against people. My hope is that it will prevent people with violent backgrounds from owning guns. It's a slippery slope we need. (You guys might remember that I got a postcard from a candidate who mentioned my cat. That was this guy.)
The third bill is to prevent garnishment of wages due to medical debt for low income people. Maybe, just maybe, we can stop kicking people when they're down and have had no/shitty health coverage and astronomical medical bills as a result. Garnishing wages from people who don't make enough to survive is cruel.
He's Latino and openly gay. I'm so glad to have his perspective and ideas in our legislature.
Every word of this makes my cold little heart so happy.
We're having a belated holiday party at work tomorrow. We're doing a gift exchange and the theme was regift, i.e. bring something you got as a gift (or crap lying around your house?) for the exchange, or you can just bring a regular gift instead. I don't have anything around my house to bring in so I bought a gift. I have a feeling that whatever I end up with in exchange is going to be crap.
We are doing the same thing, also tomorrow. We are heavily discouraged from buying anything.
My uncle sent us 36 pounds of oranges last week (a whole other story), so I'm giving about a dozen oranges and a 6 pack of miller lite that we got from a neighbor. I really didn't have anything else.
I usually just try to get the smallest gift in these exchanges, because I really don't want more crap in my life.
I think I need a new job. I’m a manager, was hiring my 2nd in command. My boss (who knows nothing about my day to day, needs and the team I manage) selected the replacement without even consulting me (not my preferred candidate and he knew it).
I’m so sorry, that’s awful. Does your boss normally overrule you in the day to day decision making? Why does he get to decide for your team?
I have a manager/director title where I report to an Exec Director. I would definitely consider quitting in this situation.
I think I need a new job. I’m a manager, was hiring my 2nd in command. My boss (who knows nothing about my day to day, needs and the team I manage) selected the replacement without even consulting me (not my preferred candidate and he knew it).
I’m so sorry, that’s awful. Does your boss normally overrule you in the day to day decision making? Why does he get to decide for your team?
I have a manager/director title where I report to an Exec Director. I would definitely consider quitting in this situation.
Nope, he's usually completely uninvolved and doesn't care, which makes it all the more maddening. It was his hire technically, he was the deciding official for it (I'm govt, it was a 15 position). I'm the deciding official for the general attorneys (11-14) hires.
I passed my resume out to a lot of colleagues this morning. Time to see what's out there.