Hi, friends!
How was your weekend? Good? Get stuff done? Enjoying warm winter food?
I am really looking forward to this week. My employer fucked me over spectacularly last week, and I can’t get into details here. I don’t have a legal recourse to explore, I’m basically just fucked unless I want to change jobs. And given that Cheeto Mussolini wants to tank the economy, I don’t want to be the new person at another job since that’s typically the first person let go.
Anyways, quiet quitting is where it’s at. I think my job is about to get a lot less stressful.
That sucks. I’m going to guess the employer did something stupid and preventable, not something accidental and facing a lot of hard choices.
We test drove a car this weekend. In theory the old car could be eked out for another couple of years, but I definitely don’t want to have the transmission or suspension need a bunch of work but have the supply of both parts and new cars frozen up because of trade wars or supply chain problems.
Oh, nice! Are you going to get the car?
Probably. It’s a Kia hybrid that gets a ton of mpg. Totally utilitarian but that’s what we want.
We promised my youngest our CR-V when she graduates so we are going to replace it with a mini truck so my wife can get bark & such whenever she wants. I wanted another EV but her range anxiety is too much so going to do a hybrid. Next year Ford is doing an AWD hybrid Maverick which is our back up but I’m hoping the Toyota Stout hybrid is not just a runout but real! I will be first in line!
Mavericks are supposed to be great, and it’s impressive how much mileage hybrids add. The one we’re looking at gets about 90% of what a Prius gets according to real life reports I’ve seen and has more room for stuff, so it seems like a good match.
It was accidental but preventable, if that makes sense. But also, there’s no real effort in my leadership to push for it to be fixed – so you know, there’s that.
Sorry to hear that. It’s strange how corprat (sic) life goes.
Where I work, the brain dead dicks decided to shuffle production level management around because of issues/time bombs left by the previous manager. I don’t care at managerial level, but they’re also shuffling my supervisor who was doing a decent job (even if I don’t fully trust him) and we’re getting another connected person who isn’t familiar with the process and how things work on the floor.
Normally I’d be all up in the political shenanigans and quietly whine, “Why not me?” but things are much easier when you don’t care anymore.
Yep!
I got a fuckton of sick days too, so I guess a good amount of mental health days are happening in 2025.
I think there’s going to be a huge brain drain in the next few years at a lot of levels due to quiet quitting, early retirement, and people shifting to easier jobs. The exec/business media handwringing is going to be through the roof about employees not stepping up, with zero awareness that the elites are the problem, not the everyday workers.
After the bosses the second biggest impediment to change is going to be the section of the rank and file that swallows the story that it’s everyday people who are the problem, not the ones in charge. It’s a weird dynamic how many people can look at bad executive leadership and decide they’re the last ones to blame.
Same energy, can’t be the execs!
Sorry, bosses can & usually do suck! I know what happened…
We had a great brewery crawl yesterday, good to see an old friend & my wife got to cut loose which rarely happens. My baby comes home tomorrow for Xmas break & I made German spaghetti for dinner tonight for the first time in a long time which was good. Now if Seahawks could wake the fuck up? It would be a good weekend.
I’d never heard of German spaghetti before so I looked it up. It sounds interesting, but I think I’ll wait for someone to make it for me.
That’s amazing, I’ve never heard of anything called German spaghetti and when I looked it up, it’s really close to what some of my older relatives made when I was growing up.
Spoiler alert – that branch of the family spent a long time in Germany before ending up in the US. So that makes sense.
Lots of variations of it. My exgirlfriend’s mom was from Hamburg & made the one I fell in love with. The key thing is good bacon, lots of onions & heavy cream ratio. I make turkey meatballs too. I still can’t make it as good as hers & don’t know what I am missing. When we broke up she was not too happy that I told her I would miss her mom more than her. Sounds like I was the dick but she accused me of cheating which I never did & after I took her back after she tryed to with my friend in front of me!
Sorry to hear this; it seems to be endemic these days.
Don’t worry, the CEO is on track to make 90 million in 2024 still, thankfully his salary will be okay.