Comments on: Tuesday and the mess tent http://www.technoprimitive.org/wordpress/archives/2008/02/12/tuesday-and-the-mess-tent/ Rumblings, Ramblings, and Ruminations Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:03:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Steve http://www.technoprimitive.org/wordpress/archives/2008/02/12/tuesday-and-the-mess-tent/#comment-3285 Steve Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:27:52 +0000 http://www.technoprimitive.org/wordpress/archives/2008/02/12/tuesday-and-the-mess-tent/#comment-3285 It's been a while since I was over there, I'm going to have to stop by and take the $0.05 tour to help me keep a good mental image of how it is now. Sounds like it's getting pretty extensive. Didn't even boot the machine last night, the weather was a little bit iffy, and the wife and I had to check out the benefits options from the ownership change at her work. They had meetings yesterday to let everyone know about the changes in medical and such, and then told them "You must sign up by midnight on the 15th or you won't have any!" LOTS of time, eh? When someone complained about the little bit of time they were given to sign up, the b***h, er, I mean the company representative who was telling them all this said "Well, we have found most people wait until the last minute anyway!" Yeah, and like I told Sue, if she needs some time off for something and there isn't the one month or whatever it is they require lead time, just tell them "Most people wait until the last minute to make out the schedule anyway!" Yeah, like that will work, the schedule-makers were in there going WTF along with her. I know the people taking over don't have much time and all, but they should have had someone a little more suave there to smooth things over. Tact, if you will remember, is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a fashion that they enjoy the trip. Fallout from being bought out twice in a year, I guess. I felt like genuine crap off and on all day, and am just now getting to feel somewhere in the very lower primates now, after nearly one cup of coffee. Think I might have a touch of what has had Kayla sick for 2 or 3 days. Hope it stays a touch, and not for long. Oh, well, off we go.... It’s been a while since I was over there, I’m going to have to stop by and take the $0.05 tour to help me keep a good mental image of how it is now. Sounds like it’s getting pretty extensive. Didn’t even boot the machine last night, the weather was a little bit iffy, and the wife and I had to check out the benefits options from the ownership change at her work. They had meetings yesterday to let everyone know about the changes in medical and such, and then told them “You must sign up by midnight on the 15th or you won’t have any!” LOTS of time, eh? When someone complained about the little bit of time they were given to sign up, the b***h, er, I mean the company representative who was telling them all this said “Well, we have found most people wait until the last minute anyway!” Yeah, and like I told Sue, if she needs some time off for something and there isn’t the one month or whatever it is they require lead time, just tell them “Most people wait until the last minute to make out the schedule anyway!” Yeah, like that will work, the schedule-makers were in there going WTF along with her. I know the people taking over don’t have much time and all, but they should have had someone a little more suave there to smooth things over. Tact, if you will remember, is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a fashion that they enjoy the trip. Fallout from being bought out twice in a year, I guess.

I felt like genuine crap off and on all day, and am just now getting to feel somewhere in the very lower primates now, after nearly one cup of coffee. Think I might have a touch of what has had Kayla sick for 2 or 3 days. Hope it stays a touch, and not for long. Oh, well, off we go….

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