Post by Honeylioness on Mar 8, 2010 9:22:26 GMT -5
Honeylioness - 03/01/10 11:53 AM
Final February Update
22/25 NEO
24/25 NSD/CSD
And my Grocery Spending for the month was under $200!!! I have NO idea just how I did that either. Sure is going to make it harder to repeat ... no?
March Goals
25 NEO
30 CSD
Honeylioness - 03/04/10 02:05 PM
Not even going to start commenting on weight and fitness because that is the surest and fastest way to make me psycho - and one of the reasons I will NOT post a picture of myself on facebook etc.
Anywho - just letting you all know I am not in a good place at the moment, and having incredibly awful ovulation pain is NOT helping the situation. I may go AWOL for a bit until I feel a little more human.
Honeylioness - 03/05/10 01:02 PM
As a continuation of my "warning" yesterday I just think I need to get this off my chest in order to feel better - so feel free to pass on this post.
Question for the teachers - what ever happened to recitation? Sure it was not the sexiest teaching method or the latest "thing" but I don't see anyone who was emotionally crippled for life by having to learn and recite back the multiplication tables out loud in class with the other students. There is a reason they were taught that way for so long - it WORKED!!!!! Same with conjugation of verbs. And penmanship - I may not have the prettiest handwriting when I get going fast but at least I know how to do it and it's legible. Do we even teach kids how to write or print anymore?
Teenagers - I think it is a good thing Fraulein is going away for a week because I am "this close" to smacking her upside her head. I am tired of feeling as though I am talking to myself since lately what I say seems to have the magical ability to enter her left ear and move with the speed of light out her right without any speck of verbage of information being retained at all.
And everything to her is done last minute. For a planner and list maker like myself this is driving me batty. AND I am scared to death about putting her on a plane alone tomorrow and hoping to God she actually makes her connection in Newark. I swear she has the attention span of a flea and is just as likely to wander off "shopping" before finding her gate only to see the plane pull away.
Work - These last two weeks are the ones I do believe I HATE more than any other two. Not because I don't know what I am doing, not because the process is unfamiliar or weird, not because it hinges on multiple and linked spreadsheets and rows upon rows of data, and not because it is incredibly time consuming and I get nothing else done. All of that is fine, I like my spreadsheets and being busy. No, the problem is HIM - as in the head of HR - as in the Bane of My Existence during times like this!!!!
See, back in January we got the memo wording, time lines and procedural reminders for the company's annual employee review and salary planning. By March 1st - every year - we determine annual raises, promotions and adjustments, and managers work on employee evaluations. All of which need to be presented to the employee BEFORE they just see the new dollar amount in their paycheck.
But what does he do? Puts things off and waves me away when I try to help him move things forward. I created all the original sheets, drafted the memo we would send to managers, asked him several times as gently as I could if he would like me to start forwarding the requests today (did this over a two week period) and he would instead say he was busy doing something else - and I would find reams of paper on the printer about his kids basketball or soccer teams and his coaching schedules.
Then when information was sent out he would not let me follow up with managers who did not get back to us by the deadline. And the other one was no help either as she was too busy working on a project team with R&D instead of being the HR Manager. So big surprise - we missed corporate's deadline for loading the pay data - which of course he blames on them being inflexible and stupid. We have barely seen 15% of the employee reviews for checking before managers give them out - those must be finalized by next Friday.
Yeah right, like that deadline will be met *RME*
Add to all this I have been feeling "off" this week, my downstairs toilet STILL is not working as it should even after snaking it, I've agreed to do House Tours in April for the Sheep Shearing Festival and I really need to finish my new dress, we have a condo Owner's meeting I am trying to prepare for, I am on the committee for the Guild Quilt Show set up and the Chair is not that organized, I need to make the scale drawing of the exhibit hall, do something about the disaster that is my bedroom, register for Vermont before the rooms are gone and the classes full, figure out which bills need to be paid this week and start looking for a hair dresser I can trust within 10 feet of me with scissors (I have not had anyone else near me with scissors in over five years).
So as Hawk used to say "Other than that Mrs. Lincoln how was the play?"
Final February Update
22/25 NEO
24/25 NSD/CSD
And my Grocery Spending for the month was under $200!!! I have NO idea just how I did that either. Sure is going to make it harder to repeat ... no?
March Goals
25 NEO
30 CSD
Honeylioness - 03/04/10 02:05 PM
Not even going to start commenting on weight and fitness because that is the surest and fastest way to make me psycho - and one of the reasons I will NOT post a picture of myself on facebook etc.
Anywho - just letting you all know I am not in a good place at the moment, and having incredibly awful ovulation pain is NOT helping the situation. I may go AWOL for a bit until I feel a little more human.
Honeylioness - 03/05/10 01:02 PM
As a continuation of my "warning" yesterday I just think I need to get this off my chest in order to feel better - so feel free to pass on this post.
Question for the teachers - what ever happened to recitation? Sure it was not the sexiest teaching method or the latest "thing" but I don't see anyone who was emotionally crippled for life by having to learn and recite back the multiplication tables out loud in class with the other students. There is a reason they were taught that way for so long - it WORKED!!!!! Same with conjugation of verbs. And penmanship - I may not have the prettiest handwriting when I get going fast but at least I know how to do it and it's legible. Do we even teach kids how to write or print anymore?
Teenagers - I think it is a good thing Fraulein is going away for a week because I am "this close" to smacking her upside her head. I am tired of feeling as though I am talking to myself since lately what I say seems to have the magical ability to enter her left ear and move with the speed of light out her right without any speck of verbage of information being retained at all.
And everything to her is done last minute. For a planner and list maker like myself this is driving me batty. AND I am scared to death about putting her on a plane alone tomorrow and hoping to God she actually makes her connection in Newark. I swear she has the attention span of a flea and is just as likely to wander off "shopping" before finding her gate only to see the plane pull away.
Work - These last two weeks are the ones I do believe I HATE more than any other two. Not because I don't know what I am doing, not because the process is unfamiliar or weird, not because it hinges on multiple and linked spreadsheets and rows upon rows of data, and not because it is incredibly time consuming and I get nothing else done. All of that is fine, I like my spreadsheets and being busy. No, the problem is HIM - as in the head of HR - as in the Bane of My Existence during times like this!!!!
See, back in January we got the memo wording, time lines and procedural reminders for the company's annual employee review and salary planning. By March 1st - every year - we determine annual raises, promotions and adjustments, and managers work on employee evaluations. All of which need to be presented to the employee BEFORE they just see the new dollar amount in their paycheck.
But what does he do? Puts things off and waves me away when I try to help him move things forward. I created all the original sheets, drafted the memo we would send to managers, asked him several times as gently as I could if he would like me to start forwarding the requests today (did this over a two week period) and he would instead say he was busy doing something else - and I would find reams of paper on the printer about his kids basketball or soccer teams and his coaching schedules.
Then when information was sent out he would not let me follow up with managers who did not get back to us by the deadline. And the other one was no help either as she was too busy working on a project team with R&D instead of being the HR Manager. So big surprise - we missed corporate's deadline for loading the pay data - which of course he blames on them being inflexible and stupid. We have barely seen 15% of the employee reviews for checking before managers give them out - those must be finalized by next Friday.
Yeah right, like that deadline will be met *RME*
Add to all this I have been feeling "off" this week, my downstairs toilet STILL is not working as it should even after snaking it, I've agreed to do House Tours in April for the Sheep Shearing Festival and I really need to finish my new dress, we have a condo Owner's meeting I am trying to prepare for, I am on the committee for the Guild Quilt Show set up and the Chair is not that organized, I need to make the scale drawing of the exhibit hall, do something about the disaster that is my bedroom, register for Vermont before the rooms are gone and the classes full, figure out which bills need to be paid this week and start looking for a hair dresser I can trust within 10 feet of me with scissors (I have not had anyone else near me with scissors in over five years).
So as Hawk used to say "Other than that Mrs. Lincoln how was the play?"