Nat’s cat was trying to helps me work this morning.
Helping!, a visual progression
Tag: work
Some people have no sense of humour, also snitches get stitches
As part of moving out of our fixed, assigned office area to hot desks in an open space, we got allocated lockers. I wanted to keep a bit of personal touches by moving some of my wall decorations. Apparently my stick of compliance poster is not compliant, as someone brought it to the attention of my line manager, saying that it might not give a good impression to visitors.
My manager, actually having a sense of humour, gave me this advice: “you need an inspirational sentence (that doesn’t mean anything really) from a famous person (who never pronounced it)” and gave me his approval to put this up:
I love my boss.
A bit (overly) dramatic….
Methinks the health & safety people at work went a bit too far in their latest campaign, bordering on drama llama territory. This is what is at the bottom of the main stairwell into the research center.
Bring your chonk to work day
International Dog Day is August 26th. That’s also the day of the next NR staff meeting, and the comms team wanted to make a video to highlight both the dog day and the fact that NR has a pets@work policy. Because he’s a chonk – but mostly for gender balance reasons – the comms team asked me to bring bubs to work and be part of the video.
It actually went a lot better than expected, as bubs didn’t go into woofy-guard-dog mode nearly as often as last time. Very encouraging for it to happen again, esp when it’s cooler.
Wine club activities
July 17 – BBQ & Raclette
August 8 – Wine & Boat
WFH with velcro dog
Byron loves it when I work from home, because he gets to “help” me when I’m listening in on my meetings.
And this is him at the end of the day when we’re just Netflix and chillin’.
Not my most PC email ever….
I didn’t have the patience to deal with this BS today. We’ve been trying to get a manuscript published for the last year. It’s been in review for the last 6 months. When the editors ask you for something, it’s hop! hop! to it!! When we ask them something, it’s hurry up and wait. I called the journal’s editorial support staff on it this morning. The same person sent the same answer in two different emails.
Hello, this is dog
So much to do, so little memory
Take your chonk to work
…and then bring him home soon after
I tried to bring Byron to the office today. He passed the behavioral assessment without issue, but then the fun began when he saw Katy leave (without him) and refused to go back to the dog-friendly office we have to use (in the equivalent of the siberian gulag of campus).
After several strops, I got him back to the office, but then he went into full guard dog mode, where every door opening or voice he could hear bug not see made him woof and growl. I was slobd in the fog office, but the people on the other side of the wall were starting to grumble, so I cut the test short and went bzvk home to finish my day.
We’ll try again soon.