Oh no, not again! [NOT 1/12/24]

1/12/24 brightersideoflife 29
(l. to r.: British National Treasure Mary Berry, Platinum Jubilee Pudding Contest Winner Jemma Melvin, THE TRIFLE!, and another judge Monica Galetti, who I'm sure is famous)

Hi, friends!

Happy Sunday! I hope your weekend went well. If you are looking for deals tomorrow for Cyber Monday, godspeed and good luck.

Tonight I’m making cranberry bread. Oh no, how could this have happened? Well, I had extra cranberries because of course I bought a spare bag just in case I fucked up the dessert I brought to Thanksgiving. And of course I have baking ingredients in the house this time of year. I swear, it’s practically an accident that I made another dessert!

What are you up to, dear friends? Are you still eating leftovers from Thursday? Are you ready for all the December shenanigans?

People with kids, are you dreading all the gift wrapping? We were always a small amount of presents family (due to financial constraints), and some years I go help friends and family wrap gifts for their kids. Holy fuck, can that be a lot of work depending on how many things they’re getting!

People with work parties, are you dreading those? Luckily we have just the one party and it’s optional, so not a big impact to my time.

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29 Comments

  1. One of the blessings of working from home is no holiday parties. My wife has three for different departments, and she hates it. One is covered dish, one is place your own order with Door Dash or somebody, and the third is still under intense debate.

    Since I am avoiding my MAGA relatives, we got reservations on Thanksgiving and just went to a restaurant. No cooking, no fussing, no rushing to get somewhere, no leftovers, and no relatives. It was heavenly.

    • Oh those parties sound horrible. Mine is at a local venue and it’s drinks and appetizers and then people leave. Would be nice to have it during business hours, but it’s also not something I have to do anything else except show up for.

  2. We had a sewer backup last night into our basement sink – fortunately no overflow, but we had to use almost no water.

    This morning I called the city expecting to have to leave a message and get someone to call back tomorrow, but I got to talk to someone. Half an hour later a guy showed up to check our line. Half an hour after that two guys came to clear it. All done in an hour and half. Needless to say, that was great.

  3. i just woke up at 02:30 for no damn reason…

    at least so i thought

    beginning to suspect covert operations from the candy cat wanting a late night snack

    • For most of his 4 years of life, my mom’s dog has been “unable” to go more than 6 hours without a bathroom break.

      Mind you, when I would watch him, that was no issue. But for the parents, it meant he got someone up early/middle of the night to go outside and get a treat. Nobody went outside with him so he probably pranced around in the yard and then got a treat for nothing.

      So yes, 100% would believe the cat is running a covert ops to sneak you awake for snackies.

  5. The worst ever work related party was about 10 years ago. My supervisor at the time decided to use Lean Six Sigma techniques when ordering the pizza. Needless to say we ran out of food to the dismay of everyone while Mr Lean was making excuses to everyone’s amusement. Who the fuck Lean Six Sigmas the food?

    When I organized parties we never ran out of food. Better to have leftovers than not enough.

      • Both cheap and stupid/arrogant.

        1 It wasn’t his money. The company told him that he could be reimbursed 100%.

        2 He isn’t the type to make friends so I suspect he never had to organise anything like that.

        The amusing part was watching the Dept manager show up and poke thru each box looking for a non existent pizza Slice and the look of disgust when he didn’t find anything and seeing us gleefully staring at him.

        Since I loathe both the supervisor and manager, this is one of those amusing moments for me. The sad part is that this is how they actually ran things.

        I didn’t endear myself to them when I would tweak their plans to be less fucked up. They took credit for that, but at the same time my insolence/passive insubordination/competence made me a target.

    • actually…that makes sense to me

      having worked with halfarsed lean six sigma and one piece flow for fucking years now….and all the work stopages that come with it…

      i can totally imagine the powers what be trying to use it for food…

      i can do yous one better tho

      last work party HR decided everybody needed vegan food

      you know….that went well

      • Ugh, annoying. We always have some vegan and vegetarian options at ours but you can usually find other things made with meat on other tables. So folks with dietary restrictions have options and those that don’t have meats.

        • i have nothing against vegan or veggie foods

          but you know…im kind of an outlier amongst floor techs there

          you are going to be hard pressed to find a harder core of militant meat eaters anywhere…..cept maybe construction

          • Yep, there are militant carnivores who get so pissy if there’s no meat option. It’s annoying but also kind of funny to watch grown ass adults have meltdowns over being expected to enjoy veggies and starches without meat.

            • it really is kind of like watching toddlers throwing a hissy fit….

              you are probably going to need to put a gun to their heads before some of them will even try a veggie option tho

    • I googled Lean Six Sigma and still have no idea what it means. More corporate-speak gibberish. Thank God I spent my career in a company where this clownishness was frowned upon.

      At one point they hired a guy (no one else wanted the job) who came from garbage-speak world, so he was always taking convos off-line and circling back and contemplating whether something was a sandbox he wanted to play in. I had the temerity once in a division-wide meeting to announce a new initiative that would make what I did for the company more collaborative. That was the kick-off and he took the ball and ran with it. It would be a more iterative process, literally, with many moving parts—oh God, it was awful. He didn’t last long, thankfully.

      Joke was on me. He liked me. When he got shown the door someone I really liked took his place and promptly laid off me and 25% of the staff. No honor among thieves.

  7. also i was today years old when i learnt floor tech means janitor in american

    thats kind of like when i got told being a welder made me an engineer in american

    not sure im onboard with all the fancy titles….

    im a technician what works on the shop floor…..ergo…floor tech

    i also make a pretty mean cuppa….but that skill isnt apreciated in this country

    • I would think a floor tech is a skilled worker for some of manufacturing. Like the floor being the manufacturing facility and the tech being the person with the skills.

      If you said custodian, I’d think janitor.

    • Oh, you didn’t think the Big Guy was going to let his 10% (“the vig”) from his son be investigated, did you? I wonder if he’s going to pardon himself. After all that Trump has (rightfully) gone through, I doubt he’s in much of a forgiving mood. The Big Guy/Dr. Jill will have to take it upon themselves to make all of this go away.

    • Honestly it makes sense. He knows Trump is going to push for getting Hunter thrown in prison regardless of the fact that—at least on the gun charge—that’s rarely ever been pursued to trial. It’s about stalling Trumps retribution.

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