I got an apology today. AN APOLOGY. From a woman here in the office who didn't talk to me for a YEAR awhile back because she didn't like something I did, or the way I responded to her request for assistance. Didn't speak to me, didn't look at me...nothing. After awhile, we got back into our groove and things have been fine. Until yesterday.
You see...I'm still not used to my new position. You know, being the head of my department. Of one. Of myself. My department is very demanding. They don't have time for me to sit here and blog, but yet, here I am, day after day...true to my commitment to you guys. I hope you appreciate this as my boss breathes down my neck asking me if the vectors have been aligned and the sockets sealed and if the unidirectional connections are flowing in the connection direction. Very serious stuff here...and my boss, well she is a bitch. And today she has a headache, so I'm sure I'm going to get an earful later for wasting this precious 5 minutes.
Enough of that insanity...I'm not used to being in charge of stuff. So I have to do these server updates, right? Because the jackasses out there in the internet universe splooge into sweatsocks every night just dreaming of more ways to stick it to Bill Gates by screwing with windows. I'm sure Bill is losing sleep over it you pansy ass paste eating anti-social hacker parasites. Anyway, I leave on my brilliant beach vacation next week, so I have to get these updates done. I suck it up and realize I have to come in early this morning and update the servers. Because windows updates don't always go well. There's always the potential that you're going to actually kill your system by doing these updates, so I need these updates in place for a few days before I leave.
So I talk to two of the supervisors about their morning routine, check with my senior programmer...everything seems kosher...until I send the email to the rest of the supervisors and hit the door. Whoops. Apparently one of the supervisors, the one who didn't talk to me for a year, had her peeps coming in early this morning because of something big happening next week. Whoops. And she freaked. So I get a call from calm supervisor on my cell not to do the updates. Fine. Whatever. I call freaking-out supervisor and tell her I'll come back at night to do them, last night, while Alex was in guitar and drum lessons. Now this, my friends is a sacrifice. Alex music lesson time = Rebecca wine/martini time...so I had to give THAT up last night and come here. It's HARD to be the boss of me, I tell ya, because I am a slave-driver!
Now when I called FOS to tell her that I was rescheduling, she wasn't exactly nice to me, but she wasn't exactly rude either, what she was was short. I let it go.
But this morning...she apologized. That doesn't happen around here. Really, it doesn't. I told her I didn't think she was rude to me last night on the phone, but if she's apologizing for stuff she said about me behind my back while I wasn't here, then I accept. She laughed, all is well. But boy...I shouldn't have done that. I have to make it a habit to check with everyone before I decide to do this stuff, not just the couple I THINK are affected. Because I'm pretty sure we've all learned from previous stories in this blog, thinking is not exactly my strong suit.
So my boss and I decided that I should run everything past her before I make decisions. And send emails to all supervisors before making decisions. We're smaller now...must keep the peace.
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NO SHE DIDN'T??!!?? Maybe she's turning over a new leaf!.......(right)
Well, I got a "good luck to you" out of her when I quit. So maybe that's her 2 leaves for the year!
She so did! Can you believe it?? It was the strangest thing. Maybe she just realizes that we are getting way to small and she can't burn any bridges...who knows. I was glad for it, though.
Maybe she is working on her karma.
In Buddhist teaching, the law of karma, says only this: `for every event that occurs, there will follow another event whose existence was caused by the first, and this second event will be pleasant or unpleasant according as its cause was skillful or unskillful.' A skillful event is one that is not accompanied by craving, resistance or delusions; an unskillful event is one that is accompanied by any one of those things. (Events are not skillful in themselves, but are so called only in virtue of the mental events that occur with them.)
Therefore, the law of Karma teaches that responsibility for unskillful actions is born by the person who commits them.
For an example goto:
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/freenet/rootdir/menus/sigs/religion/buddhism/introduction/truths/karma2.html
For me it's always the Wiccan 3-fold law. Everything you do in life comes back to you 3-fold, good or bad.
Whatever she's working on, karma or wiccan (some might believe the latter) - I'm just glad she was an adult for once and took some ownership of her behavior.
I don't know, I think you are giving her MUCH TOO MUCH credit for taking ownership of her behavior, what is truly going on is that she has come to the understanding that you are all she has, and she better start kissing ass or you will bug her computer and find all that girl on girl porn!!!
I think the pea might have a point.
o.k. I have to let you all know of a product out there, and I am going to take this inappropriate time to do it. As some of you may know, I did a "while you were out" thing with my bedroom and redid it, including pulling up the nasty carpet (four cats and carpet do not work) and found this beautiful hardwood floor. It was not taken care of and there was paint all over it, so I tried the "Ready Strip" product which is non-toxic, does not burn your skin, and does not smell. IT WORKS LADIES, it does all that is says it does, and the part of the floor that I did looks great. So, if you worry about kids, animals, yourself when stripping something, try this product, you can buy it on the internet or at the "As Seen on T.V." store in the mall.
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