It was either those or commas, and there would be entirely too many of them if I used those exclusively.
Here’s the deal:
My latest “new boss”, in her infinite wisdom, hired an incompetent. A Trust Fund baby, who hadn’t held a job in four years (and had partied away the majority of the funds) with no computer skills (it took her four weeks to remember how to get into her work Outlook program without asking someone, and yes, it was just a one click operation from the Toolbar icon) no map reading skills, little knowledge of the layout of the area, no alphabetical look-up skills and had never worked a communcations base-station (probably the easiest part of the job).
She could type better than I could (which isn’t difficult). But since she was also a work area slob, I’m not even willing to give her full credit for that.
Next, my latest “new boss” had to justifiably fire the semi-competent my previous “new boss” had hired, and whom myself and the guy who does my old job finally trained to competence (she was a partier and finally ran out of “coming in late credits”).
This caused the incompetent (who could see the writing on the wall as to how, after seven weeks of the best training, she’d never get the job down to where she could function) to quit.
Now, the guy who does my old job is going on vacation leave for the week and, because I refused to go back to dayshift, they have a person who used to kind of do my old job at another division filling in for him. I am the backup, who will be staying late to make sure the day at least starts off decently, and will then arrive early to try and end it civilly.
While to overtime will be nice, I’d much rather be home.
All this adds up to me posting later in the AM and quite possibly not a whole lot. I will be thinking of y’all (so that I don’t end up in a holding cell after throttling someone for an extended time) and posting what I can. David is getting back into the swing after a rather busy patch at work himself, so it seems as though you’ll be getting tag-teamed.
Lastly, if anyone in the Seattle area with a living, breathing work-ethic who can read a map (and possibly generate one), knows at least a little of the local layout, can speak English clearly, use the alphabet, get along with Teamsters, doesn’t mind some hefty OT at the beginning and the rotating management, and can use a PC to do more than just read this here interweb is in need of employment, I know of a multi-national corporation who pays above the industry standard and has some rather impressive benefits (after 90 days, of course) who has postitions open.
Apply to my email.
Have a good week. I know I’ll be attempting to do so.