Work? OH man, hoooo-boy, don’t get me started. Ooops, too late. 'nyhoo, 6 people absent today, means I gotta work late to cover. They laid off that custodian, plus Friday’s Marie’s last day so of course we gotta buy lunch, but she’s lovable so it’s cool. 7-11 microwave burrito for lunch, which I was finally able to take at 2:10, but only for 15 minutes 'cuz y’know I had to go do that thing 'cuz, you know, nobody else available to do that thing. Plus now I have to skip the gym.
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Lots of people are quitting or getting fired. We’ve been asked to come back to the office but nobody is bothering to. There are high-profile media projects but too many weak links to decide on good plans. Our department is out of money.
I work in web comms at a big research university.
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My workplace is actually fine except for the thing where parts of my house are falling off and I don’t make enough money to have them reattached. 
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I’m always happy to be self employed, some days more than others.
Today at work I got to explain to a (newish) client that the Subscribe To Our Newsletter form on their website doesn’t do anything, and as near as I can tell, never has.
Fortunately this client is pretty chill.
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Today I picked up a one point story that was more like three points.
I got it done with the help of a coworker and I’m currently testing it but still… Underestimated work is always fun to pick up 
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Point guesstimation continues to mystify me, and my SAFe instructor couldn’t even explain it clearly. I usually just bark out a number and let them wonder.
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Part of why we call it SWAG* in scrum agile
*Scientific Wild Ass Guess
Eventually we as a team decided what the complexity numbers mean thru experience
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Copywriter/editor. Worked at the same company for 18 years and last fall, after working from home for 7 months, we were told that one of the partners was leaving the company, the other was retiring, and the company was going away. BUT… they arranged for the whole company to be absorbed by another company and we all kept our jobs. So that worked out well… been here for a year now.
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I read that as "BigMcLargeTech!
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I held a TS/SCI clearance with a contractor during the War on Terra madness. We worked for an agency of which there is no such agency. Too freaking spooky and intrusive, and I was happy when the contract ended. Never again.
I’m a privacy advocate. That said, if people understood just how much information gets vacuumed up, and how utterly inept “they” are at sorting through most of it, they really wouldn’t worry so much.
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Reminds me of my late father in law, who worked for an agency whose existence was only declassified in 1992…
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That’s maybe the one that isn’t. Ha.
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What’s going on at work… A continual dribble of students who are out because of COVID and me just grateful that the university is doing something to control the spread (masks required in all campus buildings).
Just let me say that, when you live with your elderly parents, it’s not the easiest thing in the world to work with the demographic that is generally the least vaccinated and most likely to spread the virus.
Is there money in being a hermit because that sounds really good to me lately.
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We’re thinking treehouse. With a retractable ladder. And a moat. And boiling oil, and a trebuchet.
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Oh, that sounds great. As long as I have books, music and an internet connection (and no social media), I can watch MST3K, read, write and rock out as I choose.
Sheer bliss.
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I am also a Civil Servant. I work in the Environmental Department of a military base. We don’t have a lot of employees on base so there is only one other Environmental person. We each have 8 programs to run, so I do a lot of different things. My main jobs are Natural Resources and Hazardous Waste. Yesterday I rescued a bat first thing in the morning that decided a smoke detector in a busy hallway was a good place to hang out. Today I had ‘birthday lunch’ with my coworker since our birthdays are 2 days apart, but I’m taking next week off, so we had to do it this week. And I had to get my paperwork in for my next hazardous waste loadout and relabeled one of the drums. My favorite activity is checking my 14 trail cameras, it’s like opening Christmas presents. I’ve posted pics here:
And so has @SandyFrank!
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I work for a very large Credit Reporting Agency in their identity theft division. It’s okay, but stressful and it feels like we need twice the staff we have right now.
Folks, please regularly check your credit reports for unusual accounts and inquiries, and if you see anything you don’t recognize, report it to the police and get a police report and report the fraud on the FTC web site. If you need to dispute something on your credit report, credit reporting agencies may ask for this information, so get it first and save yourself some heartache.
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I posted about this in the RiffTrax forum:
October 15, 2021: Well today was a crazy day at the post office…
I was reading a safety email about a shooting that took place at the Memphis, TN distribution center when 2 city carriers had to be separated as one accused the other of not helping when he finishes his route and the other saying he’s too slow on purpose so as not to help the other carriers out with partial routes created when a carrier is off or sick… One guy is huge like 6’4" and over 300 pounds, the other guy is a stocky retired Marine. Might have made for an interesting Pay-Per view match but stress is already at an all time high with mail carriers being over worked and under staffed, and we’re over 2 months away from Christmas !
12/04/2021: So the union has been working hard trying to get these 2 city carriers back to work and the postmaster is fighting tooth and nail not to bring them back. Got word yesterday that she sent out a ‘Letter of Removal’ to both carriers without informing the city union reps so now the city union will file another grievance against the postmaster for trying to terminate their employment without consulting the union. These carriers have been out of work going on 2 months and this will keep them out of work another month or longer. They have bills to pay and families to support and she’s purposely trying to destroy their lives simply out of spite. The postmaster is very vindictive and because she seems to think she has the power to do what ever she wants to do and does not care at all who she hurts or steps on when she doesn’t get her way. It’s like a war of attrition between her and the unions.
Eventually the union will win the arbitration and those 2 carriers will get their jobs back. We’re pretty sure she’s either trying to get transferred or forced to retire as the district manager as well as the postal inspectors have made several trips to our post office because of the chaotic working environment that doesn’t seem to be getting any better. It’s even worse now with the Christmas rush underway and stress levels are at an all time high. We can only hope something gets done before another clash happens…
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OMG so stressed out, pulled in too many directions - my office assistant will be leaving on the last day of school before our winter break (I work at a school) on maternity leave and I have to find a substitute, our Assistant Principal and our Coordinator left to work at different schools closer to home and guess who a whole lot of their responsibilities fell on top of? And there’s a teacher who’s trying to get me to take the last day off to join “Educational Awakenings Center” - he thinks their four day immersive whateveritis will help me become a more fully realized person (I signed up 'cuz the guys so damn hot, but there’s no way I’m going - sounds like a cult). I just want to go away…
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OK, I’ll post some positive stuff: The company I work for is on the cusp of getting some revolutionary health technology into people’s hands. I have to be vague for a variety of reasons, but the underlying science is real and solid, and truly game-changing.
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