Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
You can do it, Lee!
I am so the anti-motivator. I'd be all "Sit down! Drink some more! Where are your Community DVDs again? Enh, moving, whatever".
I was on the phone with the tester, and she suddenly screamed and said that I needed to be in the office stat. The source of her discomfiture? The project manager's shoes. He's wearing them today because his boss is out--he's already been called into her office and told to tone it down for other shoes.
It took them five minutes of futzing and two iPhones, but they sent me the picture, and my response was "That was on purpose?? You weren't mugged by a graffiti artist on acid?"
He took it pretty well, considering how hideously rude that was.
I considered uploading the pic to share with you, but I thought that would be overly invasive. So I googled "really colourful Asics", and they were result #6.
My eyes are dilating right now, but whoa shoes and yay Lee!
Those shoes look like they escaped from
Yellow Submarine.
Ugh! I'm blanking--what's the name of the NY gay (dead) artist who does really simple stylised colourful drawings (usually of people in abstracted almost-stick figurish forms)? My god, my social circle was obsessed with him when I was in university, and I've been to his store in NY a million...oh, idiot ita !, you have one of his children's books .... Keith Haring!
Yes, it's like Keith Haring on (even more) hallucinogenics.
(Vendor developer, when our tester tells you our SMTP server takes 30 seconds to respond to your setup, don't suggest you time out earlier--we're your customers. You don't code to explicitly exclude us)
MY EYES MY EYES!!!!
Okay, I just got told off by previously unseen neighbor across the hall for being rude (i.e., sticking my head out my door at 3:30 in the morning to see who was speaking in raised voices right in front of it, and asking her apparently drunk guest to keep it down).
Oh princess, you're going to want to be in our landlord's office bright and early tomorrow morning for the discussion about exactly what is and isn't rude.
WTF? Oh, yes, Matt -- go polite-postal on her ass. Princess needs a verbal spanking. Rude? You? Nope, babybee -- that Manolo is on YOUR foot.
ita, your job is crazy. It sounds kind of great?
Yeah, the property Controller's jaw dropped and then she laughed with me about the gall. She said their first step is to issue a general reminder about being considerate of neighbors so as to avoid singling any one tenant out. I'm not sure that will be effective, as Princess may not make the connection between that and her own obviously in-the-right behavior last night. (Though if she's self-aware enough for it to dawn on her she'll know it was me that complained. And I'm fine with that; I ceased to care about her opinion of me about 45 seconds into our first meeting.)
It sounds kind of great?
I am kinda lucky right now. Knock wood. The corporate culture is a good one, and the people are kinda really great. I know, I know, I'm the anti-bond-with-coworkers person, but I've been burnt hard. Still, the level of in-office ease and honesty that goes on here is great.
And in the past six or so months I've been able to almost double the number of people I work (well) with, and I have reached a point where all parties will call me to confide and get them on their side in a discussion, and it's no more uncomfortable than being an informed mediator.
Which reminds me, I have someone else's mind to change. New person. This should be interesting. I do love the process of gaining a new person's respect. Let's hope it works this time.
Those shoes are... uh... bright.
I was at work at 8 am this morning, AFTER dropping one child off at the bus stop. I'm hoping cup of coffee #2 kicks in soon so I can get back to work.
