News from Chicago:
School buses scrapped - chicagotribune.com
Eight school buses were stolen from the Far South Side overnight and driven to a salvage yard, where they were cut apart and shredded into a two-story pile of scrap, police said.
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The buses were all equipped with GPS tracking devices, and police were able to track "their entire movement" to the scrap yard on the West Side, police said.
When officers arrived, several people who apparently worked in the scrap yard ran into a building, police said. Officers initially apprehended one person and later took two others into custody.
"There was a pile of shredded school buses about two-stories high," one police official said. Some pieces were large enough that police could see the "Sunrise bus logo," the official said.
Engines and transmissions from the buses had already been cut in half, and the seats tossed in a "big pile of scrap."
wtf?
What does your company think this means? Because I don't think they are doing it right.
This isn't something I can hold against the company. When the director went to a different group, he got what he wanted within minutes. My manager is still balking at providing that *exact* same thing, because she didn't read the original email, and refused to let me tell her what was in it. She needed a meeting with the director, she said, and in the meanwhile, someone else got to look like they do their job right, and I and my group look like idiots.
I tried to hash this out with the analyst that doesn't butt heads with the manager, but all he could do is tell me the history that provokes the constant freakouts--when I asked him why not forestall all that by reading the whole email he shrugged.
I've been making a point to look better than what my team actually provides, because so often management gets in the way of us doing anything at all, and I'm frustrated that I had to lose face here
on top of
not doing my job right. It can't keep being my fault that she doesn't think I'm taking all the criteria into account, because they're
right there
in the email, all the stuff she says she didn't know.
But that's not important right now--I made it about ninety minutes at work, and had to cancel/postpone all my meetings and come home. In fact, I might have passed my manager in the parking lot. This means I won't get a one on one before the bonuses/raises are given out, but I don't expect to get much, since my direct management has the poorest impression of me in the company.
Oh good LORD. I just realized why I was getting annoyed with my boss's comments on this letter I was writing: By version 3, we were basically back to my original letter, which she made me change! Not having a boss made this kind of thing much easier.
On the upside, they are letting us go early. On the downside, I don't know if anything's plowed yet.
This isn't something I can hold against the company.
True. But the group is boggling. I just don't understand why they never want to do things.
I hope you feel better.
working today is HARD. I want to go home and pack and re-think things and repack!!!
Working today sucks. I want a nap. Possibly until tomorrow.
I want a nap too. But a hot bath before that. Or maybe some time in a sauna.
Maybe I'll go to a Russian bathhouse this weekend.
Hivemind! I am writing a cover letter and I need help with this sentence: "As a post-production house, CaptionMax had a very tech-savvy staff, so I am comfortable with Geeky Peeps." But I don't want to say geeky peeps. What could I say instead? Or maybe I should just restructure the whole sentence? Any suggestions?
"teams possessing cutting edge and esoteric interests"?
Is the point of the sentence your comfort with geeky peeps?
