Tolstoy is helping. In his own inimitable style. That, or he’s warming his ass on my keyboard.
Tag: work
Apero on the water
Delphine, the head of the wine club, is leaving Nestlé for new adventures so we had a little apero on her boat to celebrate her departure. We were initially supposed to go out on the water but we stayed in the marina because the lake was a bit too windy and choppy. Was really nice to be sociable again!
Helping!
Professional emails
I love the fact that I work in an environment where it’s ok to send this in reply to an email you get from your department head.
The last meeting of the Ceriously Baby core team
When life gives you small coffee cups…
Now that I’m back working at the office a couple of times a week, I have come to the conclusion that the coffee cups are much to small….
Moving things around
In all of the covid fun and games in the last year, I’ve been working from home quite a bit. During the first lockdown last year, I was WFH 100%, then we started alternating one week at the office, one week home. Then when the second wave started to get worse, even on the weeks we were supposed to be at the office, we were asked to WFH for a few days in those weeks.
From the start of 2021, I’ve been WFH all the time, and that’s going to be like that until after Easter now, based on the latest directives. Work has actually been very supportive, giving us a small allowance to buy office furniture and supplies. The major downside to all of this is the loss of the sense of separation between work and home. In essence, my office was snack in my bedroom. Also it meant that Katy didn’t have any chance of getting any quiet space for herself. To try and counter this, we’ve moved the office into the guest bedroom. We’ll see how that works in the coming weeks.
They like me, they really like me
As part of a recent planning exercise, we had to talk about what we thought we were good at, what we liked about ourselves and what we’d like to change about ourselves. Then others gave us love bombs to say what they loved about us. A nice, feel-good moment. It’s nice to be appreciated.
The new WFH normal
Katy had to go to Lausanne for a job this afternoon so I had to work from the living room to keep an eye on puppers. I was on a video call with the team with the birds squawking on my left, the cat stretched out brokenly behind me and NMD on the beanbag snoring and farting. The usual…
Corporate communication
We received this by email a few days ago:
With a focus on our environment, we are welcoming sheep to the Vers-chez-les-Blanc campus during October and November. Please feel free to say hello, but be aware of the electric fence and DO NOT feed the sheep.
This was my reply:
Whoever made that decision might regret it. We used to have sheep at my parents’ farm. They look all cute and innocent, but in reality are wooly, stupid assholes that are the malicious embodiment of Murphy’s law.
It was surprisingly well received :)