I can't go home for another hour, and my head is getting worse by the second
:( And I can't even tell my boss, because she's left on vacation for 2 wks.
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Putting the M back into MCW... (rant)
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Well if your boss has gone...tell 'em you don't feel well, and get yourself home. You don't want to let it get so bad it spoils your weekend if you can help it. {{hugs}}
Posted 2 years ago by MadcatwomanintheUK #
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Cadburys Buttons.....and a Twirl...and now we're going to watch an episode of Stargate whilst munching...YUM!!!!!
Posted 2 years ago by MadcatwomanintheUK #
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LOL, after a bumpy few weeks in Corporate America I was just thinking last week that it would be great to work in a privately owned family business....maybe I should re-think that, eh? MCW and Karen, you have cured me of that naive thought. Best of luck to SMM, hugs for you and Kilroy both. It's Friday afternoon Kilroy, just go and get some rest, I hope your headache gets better.
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MCW, sounds like you have some nice yummy chocolate and so enjoy! Kilroy, I am sorry you head is hurting so much. If the boss is away, can you at least leave a little early?
Well, back from the meeting it had a few bumps but it went well. Unfortunately coworker told me that it seems I talk too much and some people at work when they see me coming over are saying oh oh she's coming over. That had me very upset and got me crying. I had to say how hurtful that sounded as it made me feel very unwanted. HR agreed with me on this and so coworker apologized to me for it not realizing how upsetting that would be to me. I now know that I need to stay in my cubicle, not talk to my coworkers except if it is about business and keep it short. I am apparently am too chatty and too friendly. Boy that just makes a person feel really unwanted. Obviously no one has the cajones to let me know about this. This just makes me so un-motivated to come to work! I really do not like this job I have but it pays the bills and so I must do the job.
Anyways, all has been worked out with the coworker and we can at least work professionally with one another. I will keep my head down and just do my work and keep my mouth shut from now on.
Posted 2 years ago by SylMiaFelixsMomma #
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Hi there! How is everyone tonight? I need some baking advice if anyone is around... I baked a Victoria Sponge, and it didn't rise! Not at all! So now I have a flat pancake-esque cake. I don't want to just bin it so how can I save this? I was thinking of putting jam and cream on top anyway and just serving it as open cake... any better ideas anyone?!
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Oh SMM, I'm sorry that happened. Please remember though that this is one man, and a man you don't get on with, that said this, and not the other people themselves. So it might well just be him being spiteful. I'm glad that you had the meeting and cleared the air a bit, even though the man does seem like a bit of an 'idiot' (can't say what I really want to :) ).
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I'm a notoriously bad baker!
SMM, I'm so sorry - what a cruel thing to be told. How can anyone possibly be too friendly? Don't let one person's comment turn you into an office recluse, though.
Kilroy - go home!!!! You need some serious R&R time.
Posted 2 years ago by WillowandWindismom #
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{{{SMM}}}, I'm with Metsa, this is one guy's opinion so don't be down on yourself, he isn't authorized to speak for what other people think. I had a similar experience once in a prior job, I didn't know it was possible to be too friendly...but apparently my boss thought so! I'd rather be friendly and have to "stifle" it during business hours than be closed up tight all the time without a clue. As you point out, it's just work...Metsa, as for your cake: fruit/chocolate/whipped cream (or any combination therof) will rescue any cake emergency!
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Hope you feel better Kilroy! George give your Momma some purrs. Yes it was one man's opinion but it is based on observations as well. I have to squash the thoughts about it as I it has me starting to cry again and soon I will be bawling and I don't need this right now.
Posted 2 years ago by SylMiaFelixsMomma #
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Unless you're sitting on their lap and batting your eyelashes, I wouldn't say it was possible tobe too friendly...what a stupid, ill-thought out thing to say. {{{hugs}}}
Posted 2 years ago by MadcatwomanintheUK #
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SMM, {{{HUGS}}} What jerks! I guess they just love sitting in their little cubicles, not communicating with anyone else, not being friendly and doing the little things that make a workplace more pleasant, just concentrating on their paperwork. What boring closed-off, unimaginative little lives they must lead...
Metsa, personally I find pouring your favourite liquor/sherry/italian liqueur over the sponge, THEN piling on the fruit, chocolate and whipped cream, is always a good solution (and call it tiramisu or trifle a la Metsa!)
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Ooh, that sounds like a good solution to the sponge cake, Jcat. Thanks for the hugs too.
So I went and bought some chocolate ganache cake to drown my sorrows in tonight. I went and got a hair cut and even though it is a little shorter than I wanted, it looks nice. They gave me a 20% discount for being a first time visitor to the salon. I gave the hairdresser a 20% tip but it seemed kind of small - $32 hair cut and only $6.50 for the tip. I think I should have given more as she massaged my scalp when she washed it. It was very nice.
Posted 2 years ago by SylMiaFelixsMomma #
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Family businesses can be delightful and dreadful at the same time. Personality conflicts aside, there are also different stances on subjects that may meet resistence, or subjective interpretations of objectives or operations that don't coincide peacefully. I suppose that is part of what contracts are for, to iron out differences and clarify items of contention. I'm not saying that you should employ a contract in your family business; someone in your family may become offended and take it personally and think of it in sort of the same terms as a pre-nup agreement, that it implies they are unreliable and why do we need a piece of paper for me to show I can be trusted? Our family business, that of making and selling hand-made cookie cutters at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire in Agoura, Caliofornia, never employed contracts, but I see now that we should have used them. My mom was the main artist, designing and making cookie cutters that were fantastically detailed and unlike anything you can find in stores. Her problem was that she could not keep up with her orders even though the average price of one of her cutters was around $15 way back in 1975. To keep up with her orders, she trained assistants who one by one would quit once they had mastered the craft and start their own businesses, often competing directly with my mother in other fairs where she wanted to sell her wares. She toyed with the idea of contracts, but the "just between friends" contract was the only one employed, unfortunately to my mom's detriment.
Even with our business problems at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire, we had a world of fun. We ran around in costume, speaking Elizabethan English (or at least our approximation of it) and became introduced to a vibrant community of craftspeople, artisits, musicians and actors. I sang with my college Chamber Chorale there and I learned to play the recorder and ocharina and since I have written a slew of English Sonnets, I see that somehow I became embued with the spirit of my cousins across the Atlantic.
Another crazy connection to my brothers and sisters in the UK, was strangely enough with J.K. Rowling. While I was reading the song lyrics of the Hogwarts Sorting Hat from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, (which was not included in the movie) what I believe is the absolute perfect melody for it came to me. The movie had already come out when I read the book and sang this neat little song to myself: Rowling's Lyrics and my melody. I even sent her a copy of it, and was answred by her secretary who identified him/herself as"Fiddy". The letter said that Ms. Rowling was looking forward to listening to it. I wasn't looking to sell the song, just to see if she liked it, but I never heard from her again and I didn't want to bother her so I never wrote again. I still wonder if she liked it or not.
When you told me that you had laughed out loud at my poem, "Don't Mess with Mama", it was the first time I had shared that, or indeed any of my poems. It was a dark day in my life, and the shadow of it still remains, but it was lightened considerably by your comment. I now know it is possible to laugh and cry at the same time. Thank you.Posted 2 years ago by Kitty poet #
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