It’s The Weekend, Apparently [DOT 9/5/20]

9/5/20 MegMegMcGee 18

On a team call on Thursday my boss asked for something by COB on Saturday.

Anyone know what time that might be? That would be helpful, thanks.

In the meantime, maybe I’ll have an old school Saturday and watch some cartoons and eat cereal. Or, actually, when I was a kid I would eat Swiss Miss with a spoon out of the canister.

Let us know what you are watching under Saturday Morning Brain Drain. Let me know what time you think “COB Saturday” means below.

While you’re noodling that, here’s what’s going on…

Okily Dokily!

Dow rises more than 400 points despite record job losses, posts first weekly gain in three
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/07/us-stock-futures-rise-slightly-after-nasdaq-composite-claws-back-2020-losses-jobs-report-ahead.html

This seemed but a matter of time.

A day after breaking his White House self-isolation for a cross-country trip meant to signal the country’s readiness to restart, Trump received word that one of his Oval Office valets tested positive for the virus.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/08/politics/donald-trump-staffers-coronavirus/index.html

Time that we do not necessarily have.

Trump plays down coronavirus testing as U.S. falls far short of level scientists say is needed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-plays-down-coronavirus-testing-as-us-falls-far-short-of-level-scientists-say-is-needed/2020/05/08/d9241454-913f-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html

Sprots!

Capitals waive Brendan Leipsic after his vulgar remarks on social media
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/05/08/capitals-waive-brendan-leipsic-after-his-misogynistic-reprehensible-remarks-social-media/

Checks out.

Toxic Masculinity Is Going to Get Us All Killed
https://gen.medium.com/toxic-masculinity-is-going-to-get-us-all-killed-6057e0f1952f

That’s some hard core gardening!

Brian May taken to hospital after tearing buttock muscles while gardening
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/08/brian-may-hospitalised-gardening-injury-tears-buttock-muscles

Well this is adorable.

Happy Saturday!

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18 Comments

  1. cob?….i’ll just assume he meant asap but is in fact an idiot that cant spell or read
    thats usually the safest bet with when work should be in anyway


    (its actually saturday noon here…but i’d listen to this song anytime)

    • …obviously there are exceptions but I’d say under quarantine most of us are trying to establish all the lines of demarcation we can between the week & the weekends…if only to help reassure ourselves we can still tell one day from another & are hence in with a shot at knowing what today is?

      …that being the case I think I have two potential equations to solve for X if X is COB on a Saturday…option #1 assumes the important aspect is the posted hours of “the business” as in “are we open on a Saturday?”…option #2 assumes the thing turns on the question of whose business we’re talking about, as in “whose business is it how I spend my Saturday? None of yours.”

      …I think it’s clear that in both cases the math clearly involves dividing by zero…& therefore your boss never wants that thing done so they’ve given you a provably infinite deadline & in fact you never have to do anything for them ever again because we’ve just shown that this Saturday will never end & we’re all on holiday forever…QED?

    • It does. Years ago I got a freelance job through a friend and her boss, the department head, sent me an email with the head “Needs to be on [something I’d never heard of] COB [that date] eom.

      I called her in a panic. She translated. That something was an internal channel I didn’t have access to so she said to send it to her and she’d post it. COB was Close Of Business. eom was end of message (meaning no text or attachments, just the subject line.) They liked my work and I still do work for them because they are self-described as Best in Class (BIC).

      One of the little-known drawbacks of being a work-from-home journeyman is that each organization has its own patois filled with specific jargon, buzzwords, and acronyms, and the freelancer has to get up to speed just to be able to communicate with the people paying the bills.

      • OMG the lingo. Finance is bad, but Mr. McGee is a consultant and while he’s been working from home I’m fairly convince he speaks an entirely foreign language. I couldn’t interpret his conference calls if I tried.
        In the meantime, since I was told COB on a day business isn’t technically open, I’m just going to wait for the inevitable text that says “Where are we with xyz?”

        • My husband works in finance and I have taken on the job of personal assistant. I look over stuff he presents and read stuff other people send him and review materials to be sent to potential clients. It’s all gibberish. The client materials are the worst, because it’s a lot of RFP (Request for Proposal) responses. So, the client will ask a straightforward question. A simple yes or no would suffice. But at his company “yes” = “paragraphs-long sales-y buzzword-laden repetitive smokescreen.” When I involuntarily took on this role my first comment was, “If this crossed my desk I’d cross you off the list.” He said, “They all do this. If we don’t we look weak and not eager enough.”

  3. Oh my – deepest sympathy on your tone-deaf to the pandemic boss. Do you normally pull an occasional weekend for work? If so, I’d suggest getting ‘er done asap so that you can feel free in what weekend time is left. Also I think you may feel a migraine coming on, oh say, about 8AM Monday. “So sorry – all that eye strain over the weekend – see you Tuesday.”

  4. trump is afraid a MASK will make him look ridiculous? Has he seen his hair, weird facial expressions or any of his press conferences?
    Someone needs to tell the guy trying to buy a toaster that if he was a real American, a rugged individualist, he’d build a fire in the back yard and toast his bread on a stick. Or better yet, shoot his neighbor and take their toaster. He sounds like a pussy socialist snowflake. /s

    • Bake his OWN bread, then put it on a stick and toast it on a fire.
      Also, we have a toaster and it’s a pain in the ass. My kitchen is small, so said toaster needs dragged out of the cupboard. I’m too lazy to do that most days, I’m definitely not going to the store during a pandemic for a gd toaster.

  6. “The country as e know it has been destroyed”
    He’s been thoroughly dunked on on Twitter but another thing here is that I think he’s mad that, as a customer, he can’t just go around touching things and be inconsiderate. The employees are, like in usual times, supposed to kowtow to him and meekly stand by while he does the touching and the coughing. Why else would you go out to a store if not to be personally waited upon?!

    Came across this song last night. The artist wrote it in 2018 but released it the other day. It won’t get any radio play but I think it’s this Summer’s theme.

  7. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-plays-down-coronavirus-testing-as-us-falls-far-short-of-level-scientists-say-is-needed/2020/05/08/d9241454-913f-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html

    The president said he didn’t think “you need that kind of testing or that much testing,” he called testing “somewhat overrated,” and he told reporters that “in a way, by doing all of this testing, we make ourselves look bad.”

    here you go, testing makes HIM look bad. who cares if people live or die? what’s important is how HE looks

    “I feel about vaccines like I feel about tests. This is going to go away without a vaccine,” Trump said, a statement at direct odds with the physicians on his coronavirus task force.

    I hope you go away before you kill us all

    “It’s going to go away and it’s, we’re not going to see it again, hopefully, after a period of time. You may have some, some flare-ups,” in the fall or later, the president said. “They die too,” Trump said of viruses.

    of course they die. the point is for the virus to die before the person that has it, you colossal moron

    The president has played down the need for testing as he overrides public health recommendations that would prolong the closures of schools, businesses and much of daily life. Although he is now tested every day with a rapid-result machine, Trump has questioned the value of extensive testing

    tell grandpa joe to hit him on this when he (joe) wakes up

    • …makes you think it might be helpful if the name Biden showed up a bit without being in conjunction with a particular albatross around his neck

      …considering that the allegations about Biden – even on the assumption that they’re entirely true – to literally everybody’s detriment still amount to less than the offences his opponent openly confessed to on tape before unaccountably going on to scrape through the electoral college for the democratic equivalent of a technical knockout

      …& yet somehow here we are & we have to know some idiot said a bunch of dangerously stupid shit because the idiot is the president of the United States & people traditionally like to know what those say

      …a quaint notion from a gentler time, perhaps?

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