phyncke

So, I usually love my manicurist but today she totally wrecked the zen of my appointment. She used MY time to try and sell me on this web based vertical marketing scheme. This pyramid thing that she has gotten into. I am sorry, that is totally inappropriate. I am paying her to do my nails, not to sell me sh*t. This will get me to stop going there. It really well. I had a great hair appointment and then this crap. I have another nail salon I can go to where they don't even talk to you and that sounds way better. They play soothing music and just let you be. Honestly, I don't need this. I am paying her!

I told my friend J*** what happened and she was like, no, not appropriate. Comments and feedback welcome. I am so mad about this. I have enough stress as it is. I don't need someone in my face, selling me on crazy web sites and pyramid schemes.

So mad about it. My nails look great but I was so tense when I left there, it almost does not matter.

I get my hair done there but can just make my hair thing and skip nails. I am getting a headache again just doing this post. So not relaxing. Augh!

Has this ever happened to any of you?


by yueshi

This is what I am gleaning from tonight's news cast. Budget cuts will cause us to lose -

-state parks
-scientific research on outer space (SETI)
-welfare benefits (mention made of misuse of ATM debit card program)
-travel perks for state employees (essential travel allowed only)

Not all of this is bad but much of the news was about budget cut backs. I am truly alarmed about the loss of state parks here in California and there was some talk of privatizing those or having them come under city or county jurisdiction. We have beautiful state parks in California that are a resource for the whole country, it would be a shame to lose those.

Depressing news and sobering. How much will we lose before people decide to suck it up and raise taxes to protect our society? It seems we are willing to sacrifice the public education system and infrastructure and not levy taxes to preserve these things. Boggles the mind.

Pardon the mild rant as I am a public employee and this all makes little sense.


by izzydollie

I sent an angry email at work and as a rule I refrain from this as I think it is a bad thing to get into but I was pretty peeved. Let me set the stage.

In my review, over the last two years, I have repeatedly set as a goal to take project management training. Along with that event planning training but now, since I took the second one, I am hot on the trail of project management training. In my last review my boss and I sort of came up with the idea that it would be a good idea to bring the training to our division and provide it to our employees as a group. But I was the one who was yammering about this for about two years. I tell you this to set the stage.

So now it has come to pass that the training will be in Jan for the division. This has not been announced yet, but my old boss told me this today (she is now my old boss as I have a new supervisor) and the course will be a seminar on Jan 7th. Excitement and it will be for 20-25 people, first come first serve and so forth. She tells me we need to set up to run this and I say sign me up, I am interested in it and I can also help with the event planning for it.

Later that day, I email my current supervisor and request permission to take the seminar which has not been announced yet but will be on such and such a date and it meets with my professional goals and so forth. She sends me and email back that I tee off on. It just pushes my buttons to the point where I have to say "Hey wait a minute..."

In her email she does not give me permission to take the seminar as she might want to take it HERSELF and spews some line about resources and so forth. I write her back and tell her I am going to write frankly and give her more back story about how it came to be that we would be offering the seminar. That it was essentially MY idea that had come up in MY review over the past few years. I told her that I project manage every day in my position and I felt that the training was essential to my work at ____ Division.

She mailed back that we would see and she had not known the history of what was going on. Anyways. I will be mighty peeved if I don't get that training as it was my idea and I am going to be MORE than pissed if they turn it into a manager's only training. I think regular staff can use this more than managers as we actually DO the work. Timelines, to do lists...etc.

If this does not go down well, I will begin looking. Even in this economy, I will. But first, I will get signed up for this training as a two day seminar and get my department to pay for it. You can bet on that.

Mighty PEEVED. Argh. Fuckers.

Last event of the year is tomorrow. Small luncheon.


laurahonest

Where are the skimpy volleyball outfits for the men on the men's volleyball? I mean cha! The women wear next to nothing. Tighty spandex sports bras and what not and the men are wearing baggy clothing there. I want skin, I want speedos. I want equal treatment here. This is totally sexist.

Yes, I am a perv but I want to see something there.

So we get it with the swimming but I think there should be parity in the sports.

Just saying.

Are you sick of me yet. I thought so. I will continue my pithy commentary.

To *blank* graphics community on LJ. Boy am I mad.

( To the mod... )

*I was first told this*It gets better. Come to find out. I was banned or possibly banned because I condone blinkie box stealing. Uhhh...wtf? Like never? What is that about?! I supposedly said that there is nothing wrong with stealing someone else's blinkie boxes. Ya right.

Then I was told something else altogether that is no longer even relevant and I think was pretty much dealt with at the time. So old news.


by laurahonest the perfect blinkie for this post!

Complaints:
*It was so hard to get up this morning. I snoozed 3 times!
*It took me forever to feel coherent.
*Weekends are not long enough.

Good things:
*I found a coffee coupon for a discounted latte in my office while cleaning.
*All my co-workers are out at a training so I am not being bothered.
*I have lunch planz.
*My new earrings look smashing.
*I am getting Wednesday off.

So far the good out weighs the bad but that does not mean it is not still Moanday.

Lay it on me. Our operators are standing by.

Moans:

I had to wake up at 5:00am
My back hurts.
I want the day off.

Here is this meme things.

Get Your Sexy Name

I started my new schedule and getting up for a 7:00 am is much earlier than for an 8:00 am start time. I went back to sleep and was late today but the beauty of it all is that no one was there to know it. Woot. I think I am going to like this new schedule a lot. I will try to be on time though, as ethics demand.

I bought myself a large latte today at Peet's to make up for the horror's of my wake up debacle.

So here I am. n

Lay it on me people's. We have all day to moan here.

Nothing...going on.

Just this. The telecomm company cut the phone line to our panic alarm here at the office thereby causing an annoying alarm to sound through our whole office. Annoying repetitive beeps...over and over. I finally figured out who was in charge of the device and could get them to handle it.

But cha.

What's minor annoyances have gotten you today?

Share with us all here...

Kind of like group therapy.

Cept on livejournal and you are typing. O.o

Not much to complain about today. All that went wrong so far was that I spilled coffee on my blouse as I arrived at the office. I got the stain out with cold water though so that was good. *nod*

I am listening, however. It is MOAN-day after all.