in the realm of the fictionman

Keeping Up To Date...?

Opera puts a little banner ad in the window to encourage people to pay/upgrade to get rid of the ads. Usually the banners are ignorable. Every now and then one strobes, which just means I close Opera and re-open it to get a different add. Here's this morning's:

Of course, I get the image of selecting a coworker and hitting delete to update. Today my supervisor was training somone to replace someone who started Monday and was invited to not come back for Tuesday. Yesterday was the first time our phone list was updated twice in the same day. There are twenty of us, plus twelve on the list of those not here anymore. Ms Monday never even made the list. Apparently she was taking personal call on her cell phone even during training. I think it was seven times total. I got to hear most of the call to the agency explaining that it just wasn't going to work.

I suppose it's a bad sign when HR is lining up replacements in advance. i don't specifically like the job, although it is refreshing to have a job where it matters if I don't come in. On the other hand, we laugh a lot. I've never laughed so much at a job before, and I actually feel popular there. Maybe that says something about the people I work with. Maybe it means I'm making progress in therapy. But there are conversations over the cube walls, and I let myself take part in them. I'm not just keeping to myself like I normally would. We've all been invited to the company's Christmas party two Fridays from now.That'll be my first really social setting in some time. We'll see how that goes...