respect

Is there a way to show particular young people, who know everything because they are young and smart, that they are also huge assholes in their utter inability to entertain even the most remote notion about the ways in which they interact with other people?

They are certifiable little shits. Is what they are.

One is unable to even begin to start. One is angry. One is trying to find a way to help a particular young person understand the impact of her actions. One is trying to understand how to remove herself from this equation. She is, at present, unable to do so. She will, therefore, wait.

no good deed

so this

in hindsight, of course, realize that just because someone knows how to do something, or knows about something, doesn't necessarily mean that that person can teach others about it. or about how to do it.

as grief has seven stages or something of something (denial, anger, bargaining, sleepy, dopey, happy, cranky, acceptance), so, too, do I do the dance:

- it wasn't my assignment, it was ok to take the night off, I was trying to help , I offered a solution
- I should have stayed and done the thing there and not gone and done the thing I wanted to do, which wasn't at work. which wasn't work
- it's done
- shit
- my stomach hurts
- whatever

another piece of the larger picture of too much to do and too few people to do it. going through motions.
needing to step back. contemplate what does actually matter. head down, balls to the wall.

What does matter, actually? How do I focus on that/on those things, and do them and make every best effort to do them well?

and that other job

the department wants you to know that we're devoting time and energy

the department is excited to let you know

so I just wanted to let you know

the department will have more staff to let you know

just wanted to

just wanted to

just wanted to

have a nice day and end of training

living beside

letting go of being angry about being angry

accepting anger as an element. air, earth, fire, water. or is it iron, coal, dust. rock, paper, scissor?
whatever it is, it's there: absurd whatever, assholery, helpfulness, foolishness, sleepy, dopey, grumpy, doc, heckle, jeckyll and hyde and the other/s.

It is. letting go of being angry about [being] angry, arguably, makes room and energy for something else. maybe better.

living beside

the good doctor suggests that it is possible to hold anger as its own entity

"hmmm," I think. "hmmm."

why?

about being laid off

from ilovecharts
(please click through if you'd like to make sense of it. or some of it. caption/report/source)

not so sure

that I agree with this whole Monday is hell thing (although I do very much like the graphic that's posted just below this entry).

Sundays can be difficult when it feels that time's just gone missing that all this maybe doing of other things has left work squished up against unmet deadlines. But Monday itself isn't entirely the culprit. Isn't entirely to blame. It's also waking up in the lessening light; it's the bullshit of people not listening or caring or trying or trying to see any other point of view.

It's impatience. It's meanness. Those things are tiring. Those things make me ask why and whythefuck.

just found this

welcome to the working week

at work, at rest

day of atonement
reflection

fatigue
anger, outrage

inexorable

forward

Apply for Job Offer

This, in my work mail inbox this morning:













Grand Hotel & Suites


show details 9:50 PM (12 hours ago)


Hello My Good Friend!!!!!

I am Shadia Hamed from Grand hotel suites in Canada , Grand hotel are recruiting new workers, looking for talented people who want to join the best hotel in the world and as a successfully applicants are eligibility for the following:
- Relocation allowances
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Child day care assistance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Paid time off
_ Free Accommodations
_ Free Air ticket direct to Canada

Grand hotel management offer these benefits to any applicants who successfully obtain an approval for an undergoing visa processes, each of an applicant will also be eligible for an accommodation, free airline ticket & work authorization permit document which is obtainable through the HRSDC Labor Office Canada.
Grand hotel will also submit an applicant file record to the HRSDC Labor office for the proper employment registration and any candidates registered in Canadian Labor Market will begin to receive the remission of his/her Labor-market blustery fees, to the nominated insurance account where Grand hotel Management will be paying your premium and the account information we be sent with your traveling documents to the embassy as soon as the visa processes is approved by the visa authority Canada.
We do channel our offer and our best services in guiding our applicants for their visa processes and for more information concerning the job vacancy, submit your application and request via;
web: www.grandhsuitescemployment.iwarp.com
mail: recruitinformtion@grandhsuitescemployment.iwarp.com
mail: employmentgrandhotel@yahoo.ca
mail: joboffergrandhotelanduites@yahoo.ca
All applicants are responsible for there Visa process .

Regards
Ms.Shadia.

Lucy Kate at work

This, the workspace of Lucy Kate Hopkins whom Jason Sween has nominated as
the kick assiest baby in Indiana, and possibly the planet. Get to know her and her people. They are funny, goofy, loving, fabulous.
really. And smart. and kind but not in a horrible cloying way. just they are. do this. trust me.

click through. you will be gladdened.






with permission from Lucy Kate's people, these photos and a link to her excellent series of other photos and writing.

stop

in this very building, this house, this office, on this day in 2001.

at work. when work, when the world, felt a very very different place.
when we tried to comfort students, when we tried to imagine a "post tuesday" world.

same same sky.

pausing.
and working

and meeting other students shortly.
their all day first new semester training.
working. learning, god, i hope, learning.

one woman's work space

How I work, at work, but also at home (sometimes (not really))

please click on through.



lovely

and the beat goes on

Dear All,

Most of you know that [Colleague 1] has accepted a new position [within the organization]. [Colleague 1] has been a key part of our own [work] efforts, and we will miss him terribly. But first, we will have a little party from him, at which we will also congratulate [Colleague 2] on her new position [also within the organization]. We will miss her presence [in her to-be former office], where she has been unfailingly cheerful, helpful, and beautifully dressed.

Please join us [soon], in the [place] to congratulate [them] on their new positions--both of which constitute promotions. We'll have the standard yummy pastries from [the yummy pastry place], and we'll all have an opportunity to thank both [of them] for their excellent work with us.

Best.

on labor day

from poem-a-day

Vocation
by Sandra Beasley

For six months I dealt Baccarat in a casino.
For six months I played Brahms in a mall.
For six months I arranged museum dioramas;
my hands were too small for the Paleolithic
and when they reassigned me to lichens, I quit.
I type ninety-one words per minute, all of them
Help. Yes, I speak Dewey Decimal.
I speak Russian, Latin, a smattering of Tlingit.
I can balance seven dinner plates on my arm.
All I want to do is sit on a veranda while
a hard rain falls around me. I'll file your 1099s.
I'll make love to strangers of your choice.
I'll do whatever you want, as long as I can do it
on that veranda. If it calls you, it's your calling,
right? Once I asked a broker what he loved
about his job, and he said Making a killing.
Once I asked a serial killer what made him
get up in the morning, and he said The people.

100

a boss yesterday told me about someone who'd been his boss (I think, or maybe not a boss) but who said [more or less] the following:

For every 100 decisions you make, you gain 99 enemies and 1 ingrate.

Think this had to do with funding allocations/foundation work. Chilling in some ways, insulating in others. Perhaps the psychic thermos lining for those whose job it is to decide such things.
and yet.

?

this afternoon

people learning new things about the city they now, provisionally, maybe, call home

three students spend part of their afternoon preparing to prepare to learn to teach. to teach.
it begins, it continues.