I work part time, and don’t work on Fridays. I often set Friday deadlines. They mean i want the stuff available when i log on Monday morning. I don’t actually care if the work gets done on Sunday.
I woke up while hubby was getting ready for work. I needed to be up early today anyway so I prepared to start my day. I picked up my phone and it was 4 am. He accidentally got up an hour early!
I never did get back to sleep and now my head hurts.
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Also - am glad I am not a people manager for this exact reason.
Yup, I recognize I’m in the minority in how I use it, so I’ve adapted to be explicit about what I need. Fortunately a lot of people I work with do have a sense for how to juggle a lot of moving pieces and are conscientious of deadlines and what is required of other members of the team to meet those deadlines.
Yeah, “by Wednesday so I can review it Thursday” is pretty clear, so if you’re saying that and don’t have it waiting for you when you start working Thursday morning then that’s definitely on the other person.
“By Thursday” when you mean something earlier than 11:59 PM Thursday is unclear communication.
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I come and go as I please. And turn in work when I feel like it. There are two important dates in my line of work: 3/15 and 10/15. Get the shit done on time, and I’m cool.
Going back to vague-up my posts, as I would feel bad if someone read it and thought it was about them. It’s good to get feedback - it sucks to be put on blast.
Let us know if you need us to “vague up” any quotes. I get it.
I don’t think so, but thanks.
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This made reading through the conversation very confusing until I came to Lucy’s post that had a more specific quote.
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I’m an enigma.
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Some of this misogony stuff I pick up on like a red flag. Some of it, I’m oblivious to. If they say ‘ladies’ in a professional setting, it sounds condescending to me as I noted.
But I’ve also had my SO point out that salespeople will sometimes speak exclusively to me. That I can be oblivious to until my SO points it out. I think I just assume if we’re both there then my SO can answer questions on their own.
Didn’t have this with the last car we bought because it was a woman salesrep. In fact, the reverse was true, the rep starts to explain compound interest or something to me, and my spouse jumps in with ‘you don’t have to explain that to him, he understands it’.
Obligatory Simpsons vid:
Why did I take contract to.write 100k words on life insurance. My gawd, I shoulda stayed in actuarial.
Wait, i remember why now.
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if you need a subcontractor, I’m available.
So my kids are at a birthday party play-place thing yesterday. The birthday girl is the daughter of a friend from college (of my kids’ bio-parents). She is the younger of two girls - maybe around 7 years old or something (I’m guessing). I’ve seen her maybe once or twice in my life, at other shared events.
We go to pick up the offspring after the party and I’m sitting on the thing kids use to put their shoes on. Birthday girl suddenly comes over to me, smiling profusely, and I motion for her to give me a second to put my mask on. She comes right up to my face and says “Your hair is long now!” and I was like… “Yeah, it sure is. I like it long.” and husband adds “…and she just got it cut!” (I literally just chopped 3 inches off and it’s still very long). I was a little confused about the conversation, but I figured the last time she saw me my hair was in a ponytail.
“It was short last time” she says to me.
It was… short… last time.
And then I remembered that baby mama just cut her hair short. A small child literally just walked right up to my face, and mistook me for my kids’ baby mama.
My husband has a TYPE.
“I’m a work in progress.” has become the go-to phrase by pr-handlers when one of their pr-handles :beep:s up.
Basically me at parties.
They’re out of root beer…