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selenayIt's the last day of my working year and I couldn't be happier :-D We're going out for Thai food at lunch, just my little team, which is going to be lovely. One colleague is still trying to persuade us to go to the Chinese place because the portions there are massive.
His entire rating system for restaurants is portion based. The lunch specials at the Thai place are too much for me to finish so they're not exactly tiny, but this guy won't be happy unless they're about double that size. Ugh. He's being overruled eleven to one so it looks like we're all on the same page for once :-D
I suspect my lunch will be a large plate of tofu pad thai because I'm really craving that. It's going to be gorgeous.
I had my annual appraisal earlier in the week (passed with flying colours, very happy with my work despite Project Doom's craziness, so phew!) and at the end Da Boss asked me a question.
He asked whether the guy he fired last month had ever said anything offensive to me. I hesitated for a bit and he told me to be honest. So I explained that there had been a lot of days when I'd bitten my tongue and gone home to vent because of things W had said. He was racist, misogynistic, homophobic and thought I was an aberration of nature for not wanting to settle down and have a bunch of kids like a proper woman. I didn't tell Da Boss what W had said, just that he'd been offensive on multiple occasions.
Da Boss looked so defeated. Apparently he's asked everyone on the team (I was the last one he spoke to) and we'd all confessed the same thing. And we'd all admitted we didn't say anything because it felt wrong to tell tales. I didn't add that usually making complaints like that go nowhere, which was a large part of why I didn't say anything, but I think Da Boss could guess.
He works on a different site so he had no idea what W was like day to day. He knew W wasn't working his hours, was abusing his sick time and working from home privileges and wasn't actually doing any work on the odd occasions when he was at his desk. Da Boss didn't know W had been upsetting people and I think he's feeling guilty that it took so long to get rid of W now that he knows more about what W was doing.
I'll give W one thing: he never made me feel nervous to be alone with him. I've had other co-workers (and bosses) in the past who have tries things or who I wouldn't be alone with because they have that vibe, but W was never like that. It was probably his one good feature.
However, Da Boss is now feeling pretty bad about the whole thing. He's told all of us to be honest the next time something like this comes up (although reality is, people still don't like telling tales if they feel like they're the only one) and apologised for it all, but yeah. It wasn't good.
I feel bad for Da Boss, I really do. At least he can stop feeling so guilty about firing W, though, if he's now got the full picture of just what a nightmare working with him was.
Argh, stop being depressing. Time to start looking forward!
I'm really looking forward to Saturday, which will be my first day of the "sleep lots, do very little" vacation plan. IT'S GOING TO BE SO GOOD.
Tomorrow is my busy rush around day but I fully intend to treat myself to comics and French pastries as well. Because I'm worth it :-D
And tomorrow or Saturday I need sushi. I have a gift voucher for my favourite sushi place burning a hole in my pocket (er, from the beginning of the year...) and I'm treating myself.
This has nothing to do with an envelope that appears to be from that place arriving in my mail box yesterday. Nothing at all. It's voucher shaped :-D My pile of boxes and parcels is getting rather tall. Christmas morning is going be so much fun. Mostly for the cats - they're going to have so many boxes and ribbons to play with!
His entire rating system for restaurants is portion based. The lunch specials at the Thai place are too much for me to finish so they're not exactly tiny, but this guy won't be happy unless they're about double that size. Ugh. He's being overruled eleven to one so it looks like we're all on the same page for once :-D
I suspect my lunch will be a large plate of tofu pad thai because I'm really craving that. It's going to be gorgeous.
I had my annual appraisal earlier in the week (passed with flying colours, very happy with my work despite Project Doom's craziness, so phew!) and at the end Da Boss asked me a question.
He asked whether the guy he fired last month had ever said anything offensive to me. I hesitated for a bit and he told me to be honest. So I explained that there had been a lot of days when I'd bitten my tongue and gone home to vent because of things W had said. He was racist, misogynistic, homophobic and thought I was an aberration of nature for not wanting to settle down and have a bunch of kids like a proper woman. I didn't tell Da Boss what W had said, just that he'd been offensive on multiple occasions.
Da Boss looked so defeated. Apparently he's asked everyone on the team (I was the last one he spoke to) and we'd all confessed the same thing. And we'd all admitted we didn't say anything because it felt wrong to tell tales. I didn't add that usually making complaints like that go nowhere, which was a large part of why I didn't say anything, but I think Da Boss could guess.
He works on a different site so he had no idea what W was like day to day. He knew W wasn't working his hours, was abusing his sick time and working from home privileges and wasn't actually doing any work on the odd occasions when he was at his desk. Da Boss didn't know W had been upsetting people and I think he's feeling guilty that it took so long to get rid of W now that he knows more about what W was doing.
I'll give W one thing: he never made me feel nervous to be alone with him. I've had other co-workers (and bosses) in the past who have tries things or who I wouldn't be alone with because they have that vibe, but W was never like that. It was probably his one good feature.
However, Da Boss is now feeling pretty bad about the whole thing. He's told all of us to be honest the next time something like this comes up (although reality is, people still don't like telling tales if they feel like they're the only one) and apologised for it all, but yeah. It wasn't good.
I feel bad for Da Boss, I really do. At least he can stop feeling so guilty about firing W, though, if he's now got the full picture of just what a nightmare working with him was.
Argh, stop being depressing. Time to start looking forward!
I'm really looking forward to Saturday, which will be my first day of the "sleep lots, do very little" vacation plan. IT'S GOING TO BE SO GOOD.
Tomorrow is my busy rush around day but I fully intend to treat myself to comics and French pastries as well. Because I'm worth it :-D
And tomorrow or Saturday I need sushi. I have a gift voucher for my favourite sushi place burning a hole in my pocket (er, from the beginning of the year...) and I'm treating myself.
This has nothing to do with an envelope that appears to be from that place arriving in my mail box yesterday. Nothing at all. It's voucher shaped :-D My pile of boxes and parcels is getting rather tall. Christmas morning is going be so much fun. Mostly for the cats - they're going to have so many boxes and ribbons to play with!
