We put aside a little of our tax refund to do this. It's very affordable, and by the time Thanksgiving gets here, it's VERY needed. At least for me. Any time I can get away from my job is good.
Bastard.
Anyway, the weather was very warm on Wednesday and Thursday, so we spent a lot of time on this big front porch. Ate our meals out there, spent time well into the evening playing dominoes out there.
Inside, there is no table, just a breakfast bar/counter with room for your knees on just one side, so the table on the porch is really great.
Friday, though, was really cold and windy, so we went over into Muskogee and visited an Indian museum...the museum of the Five Civilized Tribes. It was very interesting, and the art on display on the upper level was stunning.
This was our fire on Wednesday night. We took enough firewood along so that on that cold day, Friday, we were able to keep the fire going extra long, and it heated the main room of the cabin quite nicely.
We spread out the extra blankets and comforter on the floor, and sipped wine, and played dominoes in the cozy firelight.
Headed back home yesterday, and found the house unmolested.
In other news, a package I had coming of holiday gifts for my family was sent to the wrong state, and for some reason, has never been heard of again. Barnes and Noble uses a hybridized shipping method that starts out with UPS and then transfers to USPS in the destination state.
According to tracking records, UPS brought the package to Oklahoma City, where it was given to the USPS for delivery, and they sent it to some shipping dock in Texas instead of bringing it to my house.
And it has never moved from there.
I contacted Barnes and Noble, I contacted UPS, and I contacted USPS. No one knows where it is.
Barnes and Noble offered to refund my money, and I accepted their offer....but they never confirmed if they did that or not, so I have to wait for my next statement to come in the mail.
And now I am at square one, when I was done with my shopping with that order.
Bastards.
In still other news, there may be some good changes happening at work.
Most of my readers probably know that I do not like my boss, and this is the main reason that I do not like my job.
She's ignorant, blatantly favoritist, and a HORRIBLE supervisor. She promotes people based upon ONLY their ability to suck up to her. She revels in the brown nose.
In addition, she doesn't answer emails, but is never at her desk, because she's out shopping, or at a restaurant, or on a smoke break.....so what are we supposed to do?
Well, my team at work was recently called into the operations manager's office, and were told that we are being moved to be with a different supervisor. We were told our supervisor is "overwhelmed," and that we "were the easiest to get rid of."
They think she's overwhelmed, but we know she's out having a pack of cigarettes.
Anyway, after realizing that we were not being fired (our operations manager is also not very good with the English language).....we realized that this is potentially VERY GOOD NEWS.
We were told that the change was effective immediately.
However, in the interim, it seems that the operations manager and our former boss did not communicate the details very clearly.
During that meeting, we were told NOT TO GO to the staff meeting that was scheduled for later that same morning, because we were no longer on our original supervisor's staff.
In fact, the operations manager seemingly kept us in her office past the time of the other meeting so that we could not go. She regaled us with tales of her daughter. Yawn.
Later, when our now-ex supervisor came over to ask us why we didn't come to her staff meeting, we told her that we had been behind closed doors with the operations manager at that time, and that we were specifically instructed not to go to the staff meeting because we were now under a different supervisor, she got outwardly mad AT US.
She said the change was not effective until 12/1, and she stormed off while we were still trying to talk to her.
She's now very short with any of us to go to her with a question,and has altogether stopped coming over to our area to speak to us. She prefers to call us on speaker phone, and hang up as soon as we give her an answer, or as soon as she feels that the conversation is over.
BUT, she continues to behave as though we are still on her team until 12/1, as well. She had her "team leader" come over to us and tell us what time we needed to clock out a week ago Friday, so that we wouldn't have any overtime.
She usually does this herself....so she clearly sent her lackey to do it because she didn't want to have to talk to us.
However, we are already turning in our work logs to our new supervisor, and if anyone needed to tell us what time to clock out, it would be our new supervisor or team leader.
Ugh.
So my team is stuck in a very uncomfortable, awkward place. The tension is palpable when we have to have anything at all to do with our former boss.
It doesn't help that our new supervisor was off all of Thanksgiving week, so we had no choice but to go to our original boss if we needed anything this past week.
Fortunately, I had a very short week, and didn't need anything. But I DID have the joy of my original boss ignoring me in the hallway, giving me a dirty look as we passed inside the office, and of her hanging up on me on the phone.
So, this coming week, our new supervisor will be in the office, and either way, it's the last week that our old supervisor seems to think she's over us....so let's get this week DONE, and see how things improve after that.
Sigh....
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