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12 December 2020

Saturday 3-point update [More:]
1. After announcing two weeks ago that 700 of us (including the team of 35 I work in) were likely to lose our jobs next year, our line managers tried to get the 35 of us to engage with them about an end of year event which they called "Coming Together" (ugh!). An initial email on Monday about possible online options - a quiz, an auction - and inviting further suggestions by Wednesday was met with silence from us. It was followed by a peevish email on Thursday wondering why there hadn't been a response and thinking the excuse was lack of time, not the actual reason that we think they're a bunch of c**ts with whom we have no intention of engaging in a fake show of Christmas bonhomie when they're going to start the process to fire us in a few weeks' time. Next Monday the formal invitation will go out with an accept/decline option, and I think they will have a rude awakening when all 35 of us decline. Read the room, boys, read the fucking room.

2. My neighbour and closest friend has inexplicably decided to go into the West End of London today with a couple of people to see the Christmas lights. This is madness. I was invited too but declined. It will be mobbed, as London is going to go into Tier 3 lockdown next week so this is the last chance people will have to do their Christmas shopping in London. This is what it was like last Saturday. She is the only person I have any contact with and today I begged her to reconsider. She said that her husband has recently gone back to his tennis club and enjoyed it and so he supported her decision to do something 'fun'. But playing tennis on an outdoor court with one other person is hardly the same as joining throngs of people with zero option for social distancing, many of them not wearing masks and who the hell knows how many of them have Covid. She said the only way she will get Covid is if someone breathes in her face. Well, yes, if you're in a crowd of hundreds of people, that is exactly what is going to happen. I think that I will have to isolate from her for the next week, at least, because of this. I'm really sad about this, as I love our forest walks with her dogs, but going into London for something as trivial as this is not just a risky thing to do, it's thoroughly reckless.

3. In September I started Couch to 5K, after I found a training app I really liked (it allows me to listen to my own podcasts and just comes in with the run/walk prompts). I've built up my stamina and distance, although my speed has never improved. Today I ran just over 5K, for the first time in years, and it felt great.
1. Putting some effort in today deleting more of my online life. It is pleasing how little is left even on Google. They say the Internet is forever but bit rot takes a toll quickly.

2. Much is they same as it has been since Feb. We are back in deep lockdown as of Sun night. That won't change our lives much really. My wife will likely get her first vaccination shot within a month. For me it will likely be next fall.

3. Indoor and outdoor cats all are well.

Senyar, when I got to "Coming Together" I pictured you and your coworkers with pitch forks and torches storming an office building.
posted by arse_hat 12 December | 16:05
I like the pitchfork response! You're a survivor, Jan, I know we all here will support you, in spirit, during the difficulties of brexit and job search. Ugg. That's a clusterfuck. Ugg.

I am hanging on. I sent out a few cards but have not completed my list. That's all I'm doing this year of covid cheer. Today is my personal deadline for sitting down and getting them all done and ready to mail.

This is typically a difficult season for me, and this year it's moreso. My patience is non-existent.

I put up lights and my seasonal indoor displays early with the idea that it would cheer me up. I do love looking at it all. It's very personally "me".

All of my African violets are in process of blooming their little hearts out. However, the xmas cactus is sitting there, waving at them, saying "nah, y'all go ahead without me."

Yesterday after work I stopped by the grocery and impulsively purchased a big box of clearanced holiday cookies. Seems appropriate in hindsight.

And I so greatly enjoy the kitty updates, arse_hat.
posted by mightshould 14 December | 07:01
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