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In my first lines post I turned up that on the first of November I was listening to Mel Brooks music in fast forward (because I was trying to locate the breaks in order to snip the wav files up into mp3s). In particular the one I was listening to when I posted about it being 'trippy' was "Vorobyaninov's Theme (The Walk Through Russia)" from The Twelve Chairs. Don't download it because it's from a Mel Brooks movie; you might expect something funny and be disappointed. It's quiet and melencholic, and better for Halloween than Christmas.
I was good and went to the gym yesterday, though I was also bad and went late, so it was for a very short period of time. So of course today I went back to bed and slept soundly for another couple of hours after Eor left for work. There may actually be a connection between the two, as my shoulder was hurting last night so I took a Tylenol PM, which has a small amount of anti-histimine in it to make a person sleep soundly. If I haven't used it in a while it can make me crash hard.
Yesterday was the Tip Monk's last day and he's gone. Now I'm waiting to see what new trainee I get. They interviewed something like forty people a few weeks ago - most of them women - and were only able to offer about ten of them a job. Of that ten there will be a certain amount of drop outs. Some won't want to go to Boston for training, some will realize that when the person they're talking to says 'you need to be flexible in your hours and take whatever schedule we give you' they REALLY MEAN it. They will give you X schedule for training and then you'll get changed again as soon as you're done with training, and then you'll have a shift bid a few months along and get changed again. For some reason they asked all the women to brainstorm ideas as to how to attract women and keep them here. We were a little thin on the ideas of attracting women, but as to keeping them here we thought anyone should know that it would help a lot if we all got treated a little better. At least put a trainee into a schedule which they're going to have for six months. And try to work with people's needs a little if they say it's really rough for their life to fit into the schedule offered. Or as one of the Mr. Pinks (J.N.) very succinctly said, "Everything's always 'If you don't like it you can find another job,' and then when people DO find another job they whine 'why is everyone leaving?'"
Hm. Just realized I have one egg left in the fridge. I was going to do a small shopping trip this morning, but it might be too late, and all I really need is eggs, so maybe a quick walk to the corner store will do.
... (a walk to the corner store happened) ...
Yay, eggs have been fetched and scrambled. Although I couldn't find them at the first corner store I went to, can you believe that? Milk, sandwiches, no eggs.
... (work happened and now I'm home again)...
I forgot to post this. Because I left my computer downloading Stephen Fry reading The Hitchhiker's Guide. A huge file - I may need to get it onto a CD, quickly.
I was good and went to the gym yesterday, though I was also bad and went late, so it was for a very short period of time. So of course today I went back to bed and slept soundly for another couple of hours after Eor left for work. There may actually be a connection between the two, as my shoulder was hurting last night so I took a Tylenol PM, which has a small amount of anti-histimine in it to make a person sleep soundly. If I haven't used it in a while it can make me crash hard.
Yesterday was the Tip Monk's last day and he's gone. Now I'm waiting to see what new trainee I get. They interviewed something like forty people a few weeks ago - most of them women - and were only able to offer about ten of them a job. Of that ten there will be a certain amount of drop outs. Some won't want to go to Boston for training, some will realize that when the person they're talking to says 'you need to be flexible in your hours and take whatever schedule we give you' they REALLY MEAN it. They will give you X schedule for training and then you'll get changed again as soon as you're done with training, and then you'll have a shift bid a few months along and get changed again. For some reason they asked all the women to brainstorm ideas as to how to attract women and keep them here. We were a little thin on the ideas of attracting women, but as to keeping them here we thought anyone should know that it would help a lot if we all got treated a little better. At least put a trainee into a schedule which they're going to have for six months. And try to work with people's needs a little if they say it's really rough for their life to fit into the schedule offered. Or as one of the Mr. Pinks (J.N.) very succinctly said, "Everything's always 'If you don't like it you can find another job,' and then when people DO find another job they whine 'why is everyone leaving?'"
Hm. Just realized I have one egg left in the fridge. I was going to do a small shopping trip this morning, but it might be too late, and all I really need is eggs, so maybe a quick walk to the corner store will do.
... (a walk to the corner store happened) ...
Yay, eggs have been fetched and scrambled. Although I couldn't find them at the first corner store I went to, can you believe that? Milk, sandwiches, no eggs.
... (work happened and now I'm home again)...
I forgot to post this. Because I left my computer downloading Stephen Fry reading The Hitchhiker's Guide. A huge file - I may need to get it onto a CD, quickly.