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Okay, so here's one time I can chime in with a sports comment: yay, Seahawks! I don't normally follow football but because we are fairly close to Seattle (600-some miles by air) they are the closest thing to a "local" team we have, so I actually watched the Super Bowl yesterday (the whole game...

Yeah, we've had people fall asleep during these meetings before, particularly if the room is too warm or after lunch. Luckily I never have, and nobody has ever fallen asleep when I've been giving a presentation, so that's a plus, anyhow!

I've been in meetings for the last 2.5 days. It's amazing how exhausted I am after sitting in meetings all day long. I sit on my fanny most of the day anyhow, working at my desk, but somehow all-day meetings just leave me completely drained.

Yay to waking up, boo to winter! Are you guys still in the deep freeze there?

I've found that in banking, many younger people are aware that banks tend to have stricter dress codes so a lot of them will actually make an effort to look professional when they go to work in a bank. We have younger men working for us who wear neckties to work every day when the men in upper...

If you aren't sure, it seems to me that it's better to err on the side of caution and wear business-type attire, but I guess not everybody's brain works that way! Speaking of dress codes, most businesses around here have business casual dress codes but I've been observing lately that there...

Hope everybody's staying safe and warm with the weather doing what it's doing in so many parts of the country. We've got temps in the 50's and rain here. We haven't had any real winter weather to speak of, although in our case we often don't get snow until February or March so we're still apt to...

Of course it didn't occur to her that maybe you'd like to have a Saturday off....you're there for her convenience, the same way she wants to be a mom when it's convenient for her. (Can you tell I have had some experience with parents like this?!) What you want or need, or for that matter, what...

Wow! I would have been more inclined to suspect that something had happened to that girl than what she was actually doing! I'm not all that easily shocked but she doesn't sound like someone you would have expected that of. I've known a number of people who have left jobs in strange ways...on...

Maybe she figured she was in such good standing with you she could flake out on you the last day and you'd be all right with it? :confused:

We had one of those in our house for awhile and you practically had to be sitting on top of it to get the benefit of any heat! We just had a house fire in town last weekend that was caused by a space heater...burned one house down completely and did some pretty bad damage to the houses on...

Came back to work yesterday after 2.5 weeks off. It took me all day just to wade through my e-mails. Luckily my assistant checks and sorts my regular mail and handles what she can of it while I'm gone, or I'm sure my desk would have been completely buried as well. I hope all of you who are in...

Our schools very rarely even get a snow day. I remember just one when my kids were little. It snowed like crazy over a weekend, and on Sunday I opened my front door to a snowdrift about four feet up that side of the house. On Monday the schools were closed, but the kids had a dentist appointment...

Sounds like fun, Elle! I don't think we've ever had a snow day. We don't get all that much snow here to start with and even if we did have a really heavy snowfall, I only live a couple of miles from the office and our road is a major one that is one of the first to be plowed (and we drive an...

My assistant came back with a stand that worked, and I put it in the stand and got the lights plugged in, then I turned it over to the accounting staff to finish decorating - there are more of them than there are of us HR people and they got it finished in pretty much no time at all and it looks...

So, we got out our Christmas tree and all the department decorations but found out that the tree stand in the box with the tree isn't the right one, so the tree wobbled really badly. My assistant and I went out to buy a new stand, had to go to two different stores to find one, and when we got it...

It's funny that our latest discussion has been about the temperature in our office buildings...this morning when I got to work I found out the furnace isn't working in this end of the building. It's only about 25 degrees outside so it's pretty chilly in here. My assistant and I were going to put...

The area of our building my office is in was remodeled less than 10 years ago and we've always had issues with the heating/cooling. I can stand under the vents in the ceiling of my office and the air coming in there is freezing cold, but when I step outside my office the vents there are pouring...

Yeah, I noticed that too. I never ask for e-mail notices so thought it was kind of annoying! But I haven't taken the time to try to figure out if there's a way to turn them off. We had a good Thanksgiving. We managed to squeeze 11 people into our living room around two tables put together...

Anybody have any big Thanksgiving plans? We're having it at our house again this year, so I'm taking next week off to get ready. There's ten of us and our house is small so it takes a bit of wrangling to have room to set up the table(s) so we can all sit down to eat together. I like doing it at...