Things That Are Bothering You, Got You All Hibbeldy-Jibbeldy, or just downright pissed, RIGHT NOW!



patrickBOOTH said:

That would piss me off too, but en generale it seems like you are a very successful guy. If a messy kitchen is the only thing you can complain about I think you are very fortunate.

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yes, have to agree that I am a very fortunate guy. but that doesn't mean I don't get pissed off every now and again.

in general, we don't really fight about anything in my household, which keeps the stress level down. but sometimes this kind of thing pisses me off.



globetrotter said:

yes, have to agree that I am a very fortunate guy. but that doesn't mean I don't get pissed off every now and again.
in general, we don't really fight about anything in my household, which keeps the stress level down. but sometimes this kind of thing pisses me off.

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Thanks for the travel advice btw. My girlfriend leaves today. As it turns out she is going a few days early and spending a few days with a friend in Tokyo. It all seems to have worked out.



patrickBOOTH said:

Thanks for the travel advice btw. My girlfriend leaves today. As it turns out she is going a few days early and spending a few days with a friend in Tokyo. It all seems to have worked out.

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The kiss and fly area at the Lefferts Station (Long term parking area) at JFK is my favorite way to send someone off at JFK if you're driving a car. Its the best of both worlds you took the time/effort to drive them there, and you can give them a good 5-10min of good bye face time (which is a huge deposit in the emotional savings bank for the girlfriend/wife). There's pretty much no time limit for cars to sit there while you talk/say goodbye.

Plus you put them on the airtrain and then let them decompress before facing the bustle of the airport.

there is even those carts and everything there if the person leaving has a ton of bags. its a 100x smother/easier way to send someone off.



patrickBOOTH said:

Thanks for the travel advice btw. My girlfriend leaves today. As it turns out she is going a few days early and spending a few days with a friend in Tokyo. It all seems to have worked out.

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cool, happy to help



edinatlanta said:

The simple solution is stop giving her property.

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this is something i have seriously considered.



edinatlanta said:

The simple solution is stop giving her property.
Just got on the elevator. It was full. One large woman, one with boobs I was checking out and one of the other of the group wouldn't shut up. They all had on WAY too much perfume and reeked of cigarettes.

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I hope you were noticed checking out the chesty one. That makes an elevator trip awkward in a hurry.



whiteslashasian said:

I hope you were noticed checking out the chesty one.

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I was. She smiled slyly.



edinatlanta said:

I was. She smiled slyly.

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kop a feelsky?



LawrenceMD said:

The kiss and fly area at the Lefferts Station (Long term parking area) at JFK is my favorite way to send someone off at JFK if you're driving a car. Its the best of both worlds you took the time/effort to drive them there, and you can give them a good 5-10min of good bye face time (which is a huge deposit in the emotional savings bank for the girlfriend/wife). There's pretty much no time limit for cars to sit there while you talk/say goodbye.
Plus you put them on the airtrain and then let them decompress before facing the bustle of the airport.
there is even those carts and everything there if the person leaving has a ton of bags. its a 100x smother/easier way to send someone off.

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This is good advice, thank you. I am actually, sadly, not going to be escorting her today. I have a ton of things to do at work over the next few weeks and prep for shareholder's meeting and such. I just can't be out of the office. She understands though. In the future this will work out well.



patrickBOOTH said:

Thanks for the travel advice btw. My girlfriend leaves today. As it turns out she is going a few days early and spending a few days with a friend in Tokyo. It all seems to have worked out.

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Will you be able to go over to visit her while she's away?



JayJay said:

Will you be able to go over to visit her while she's away?

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Ha, no ******* way.



patrickBOOTH said:

She understands though.

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No she doesn't.

patrickBOOTH said:

In the future this will work out well.

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No it won't.

Wife's new supervisor is turning out to be a heinous *****. 6 months ago wife's beloved direct supervisor retired. They hired a replacement, but they divided the role into operations and line of business responsibilities, and gave my wife a newly created, associate director position with some operational responsibilities, reporting to the new director. The new director has been a problem from day 1: she is judgmental, quick to leap to conclusions, confrontational, and she has undermined my wife repeatedly.

A few months ago, my wife was given responsibility for managing IT, despite a complete lack of experience in the area. Soon after she started the role, she was involved in a botched application for a technology grant - she reduced the size of the ask to make it more targeted, without getting management buy-in. Senior management found out at the last minute and upped the ask without telling my wife, then came back and demanded to know what was going on. Wife explained her (very sound) reasoning behind reducing the ask to make it more targeted and more likely to succeed. Unfortunately, they did not get the grant. Wife apologized profusely, went through a process of 1) explaining her reasoning and 2) identifying where she could have handled the process differently / better. She thought (and was told) it had been left behind and everything was fine, and went back to her usual daily grind of too many projects and not enough support.

Well, yesterday her supervisor informed her that, "I would be remiss if I did not write you up for what happened, and place it in your permanent record. You will have an opportunity to rebut, but you, the CEO, and I will all be signing the write-up." Wife is freaking out and was in tears last night, we were both up until all hours and now I'm sitting in a training class trying to keep my eyes open.

Why the eff would you write someone up for a mistake? What kind of petty, punitive bullshit is that?













tl;dr: wife is stressed at work, making me lose sleep.

in stitches said:

kop a feelsky?

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this is a new brand of clothing?

imatlas said:

Hate to tell you this but new supervisor is creating a paper trail to terminate.

tl;dr: wife is stressed at work, making me lose sleep.

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