Purron
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My Billbergia Hallelujah bloomed:
Oh! That's beautiful! We could all use more beauty in our lives. Thank you GregLee.
My Billbergia Hallelujah bloomed:
Every time I accidentally get caught in rush hour.
Submarines run a six-hour watchbill, and not all classes of submarines have a bathroom in the engineroom or the control room. At least not one that you'd want to be observed peeing into, anyway.So you were denied bathroom privileges in your working days? Well there's a new one
One of my commanding officers once told me "We just got told that in two weeks all the training command COs have to go to this one-week conference at HQ. I have my master's degree final exams that week so you're going. I want daily summaries."There was the boss who told me to attend a meeting out of town on short notice to replace someone who [-]couldn't go[/-] weaseled out of it. When I said I'd have to check my calendar because I was pretty sure I had a commitment, she said "We own you. You're going."
Recalls many of my meetings before I retired. Since I worked with teams from other countries/timezones, we used NetMeeting and the phone for our multi-hour sessions.Occasionally I had to participate in 2-3 hour telecons during which the opportunity for a quick "nature break" was tough to find.
Unusual gym. Any one I have ever been to is pretty heavily used anytime except late night or very early am.What makes me happy to be retired? Going to the gym in the middle of the day like we just did, and finding only a few other retirees there and nobody else but staff. No waiting to get exactly the machine I want, when I want it, and the gym was spotless and very cool even in this heat. It was as though we owned the gym. I feel like a pampered princess.
Unusual gym. Any one I have ever been to is pretty heavily used anytime except late night or very early am.
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Today's (July 10) Dilbert had a take on on what you do after you have "already mastered the art of being useless at work": The official Dilbert website with Scott Adams' color comic strips, animation, mashups and more!...(snip)...
The only downside is that you definitely are not eligible for membership in the Do Nothing Club, something I aspire to.
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In my final position of interim Executive Quality Director for the site I was arm twisted into taking while they found a replacement for my boss who left and whos' job I was doing in addition to my own for almost 6 months. I was already a documented retiree so I was clear I did not want the job a second longer than they found someone. When it became obvious the foot dragging was going on I decided I would no longer take any trips out of town to any meetings; regardless of who called them; including the CEO. It made for some interesting telephone calls between my and my boss and his boss. My answer was there was nothing I can contribute nor learn and my time would be better spent running the operation than on a boondoggle to corporate headquarters in Southern Calif. It is amazing the lee way one gets when they have no choice but to say OK to what ever you want or don't want. Every meeting among the other manufacturing sites and the two headquarters areas were all done via conference call in my office so I could get some work done while they pontificated and stabbed little pins into each others backs the whole time. I just said NO to any additional work or projects as well as to any budget cuts. A nice firm polite "No." The silence on the other side was deafening. Despite all my hard-headedness they still wanted me to keep the job.
My answer was....you have exactly 2 weeks before I leave. I will no be here and I will not come back. If you want me to interface with your candidate you better get one in here before that and if not...you better get my boss to move in here so he can run this place after I leave.
It was liberating after having to suck it up for so many years in the corporate world of BS and management flailing.
Life is Good.
When I said I'd have to check my calendar because I was pretty sure I had a commitment, she said "We own you. You're going."
Monday mornings.