Timelies all!
So I colored my hair this weekend. Nothing fancy, just one of the short-term ones from the drugstore.(Clairol Natural Instincts in Egyptian Plum) So far the only person who has noticed is one of the delivery guys from work. He's been a bit more...friendly than I'm comfortable with(complimenting my outfits/earrings, telling how glad he is to see me, etc.) so I guess him noticing this yesterday is not too surprising.
Then he called my work number this morning to tell me how much he likes my hair. Hopefully my hesitant, non-commital replies clued him in on how creeped out I was.
Ugh.
I hate having an anxious supervisor. Everything is so fraught with drama to him, and he always acts like he's afraid of catastrophe. So I get projects from him, and he's all anxious, and I think it's simple but start wondering if there's some hidden horror going on.
If he has a heart attack before he turns 40, I won't be surprised.
I often get twitted for not seeming concerned enough about my work, but my customer satisfaction scores, from the customers themselves, are always very high. Supervisors don't appreciate hearing that, though.
Jesse, I put some serious thought to writing, for myself, "Go the f*ck to work". Of course, I wasn't working when I was thinking about that.
Oooh, I just asked Anxious Man why we were giving a customer the special privilege of me waiting while a 745 mb file takes another 23 minutes to download, and he got a very pissy look on his face and said, "Because I decided to." I'm so sorry, sir, I will blithely ignore a major exception to our standard practices in the future if you tell me to do so.
Erin, I would also recommend Through the Gates of Splendor and especially Beyond the Gates of Splendor (see both). It's more about a mission to a largely uncontacted tribe in Ecuador, and it is from the POV of the missionaries...I'm not entirely sure how neutral it is toward westernizing tribal peoples (and I'm leaving out some crucial plot details to avoid spoiling). But there is a fantastic sequence where one of the tribesmen visits the US.
Jilli, is Clovis franchising? I ask because I saw a flier on a utility box for the Mysterious Rabbit Puppet Army. The rabbit looked more piratical than vampiric.
Of course, I immediately thought of you.
bon, thanks for the rec; I've put it on hold at the lib.
To be filed under unprofessional: So my friend manages this huge, well known student summer program, one site which is in LA, where she's at now. Anyway, she spends most of her summers running from site to site, managing the start of sessions, getting staff trained, etc. The morning of the start of this session, she glances at her email before hopping in the shower. At 3:45 in the MORNING, their office manager quit. The day when all the craziness starts and they absofuckinglutely need someone uh, managing the office ? while they are wrangling kids and new staff. I mean, REALLY?? WHO DOES THIS?!
And this was after they'd already had to scramble to reschedule sessions and staff because the 405 closure would make it nigh impossible to get the kids and staff to the site. And one of her other key staff members sliced his foot open within an hour of getting to work. It's not been a smooth summer for her.
What the hell?!? That sounds like the most passive-aggressive move possible.
