The Anchorage, Part 3

[Satira Capriccio]

I always loved the Oregon Coast ... even when it rained.

Except once. We'd gone camping for the weekend and don't you know, not only was it raining cats and dogs (and fish and frogs and lizards and snakes and everything that should never fall from the sky), but thunder and lightning. We finally packed up and went back home.

If I remember right, we weren't even tent camping, but had the camper at that time. I suspect if it had just been me, I'd have just wrapped up in a blanket in the camper with a book and spent a very relaxing evening listening to the rain beating on the camper roof. But then hubby and son would have gone stir crazy.

Nothing beats wandering the beach covered head to toe in toasty raingear. Not that I have any raingear. Just a fleece jacket that while exceedingly warm and cozy doesn't do much to keep the rain from soaking through to my skin. At which point, it's no longer warm and cozy.

 

[Pendraia]

Must be an Aussie thing, didn't even take me a second hehehe

Me either and totally accidental...as I said I misread. Takes my eyes to focus a bit in the mornings these days...hehe!

But after the crap week I had(which I'm not allowed to talk about) it was good to have a laugh. Where would I be without you guys!

 

[Satira Capriccio]

After the week we had, we need laughs too! My week started with a two day training in Mental Health First Aid. Sooo ... now I'm qualified to "respond" to a person having a mental health crisis. Don't you know, I had an opportunity to use that training with a coworker!

Though ... my response was ... having a bad hair day, are we? Granted, she wasn't exactly having a severe mental health crisis along the lines of what our training focused on (depression, panic attacks, suicide, psychosis) so much as had reached her breaking point with our supervisor. So after letting her vent (and cry), I followed up with the bad hair day and pull yourself up by the bootstraps (both were examples of what one does not say to a person in a mental health crisis.) She and I were both in the same training ... as was our supervisor and the director of our department.

Unfortunately, she's now considering leaving because of how he's been treating her. And another coworker gave his notice.

Both of these people are far too valuable to lose because of an incompetent supervisor

 

[Miss B]

Good thing I don't work there Satira, because I'd open my mouth to anyone who doesn't treat me with respect. I've always believed, if you want respect, you have to earn it, and the best way to do that, is to give respect. Supervisor or no supervisor, he would've gotten a good talking to by me.

I once told off one of the partners at my firm when he complained, loud enough for the whole floor to hear, that I didn't get that week's legal hiring report done correctly. Now if that were true, I would've apologized and gotten him a corrected copy. Problem was, the reason it wasn't "correct", was because he hadn't gotten his share of the data to me in time. I went through this with him every week, and every week he'd call and complain. This last time he did it in person, and then went into my boss's office to complain, since my boss was chairman of the legal hiring committee. I went in after him, slammed the door shut, and told him if he wanted the info to be correct, he had to get the data to me on time. I reminded him I sent the memo requesting updates out on Thursday mornings, and called his secretary every Thursday afternoon to make sure he saw it, and then called her again on Friday mornings to see if she had any updates for me.

I used to complain to my boss every week, and every week he told me to send it out anyway, so I told him, in front of my boss, the ball was in his court, because there was no way I could snap my fingers and pull the appropriate data out of thin air. If he wanted the weekly report to be up-to-date, he needed to get any updates to me no later than 10:00am on Fridays.

He never complained to me again, but it was still like pulling teeth to get him to spare 5 mins. to give his secretary the necessary updates for the week. ~Sheesh~

 

[Lorraine]

Oh that sucks, Satira! I left my last job cos of bullying, still get side affects if anyone starts attacking me verbally. So weird how I can be as brave as with physical dangers or defending other people but a few words said to me send me crumbling into a heaving mess. So I sympathise entirely with your coworker and hope her supervisor breaks his mouse finger.

 

[Mythocentric]

I suspect if it had just been me, I'd have just wrapped up in a blanket in the camper with a book and spent a very relaxing evening listening to the rain beating on the camper roof.

Sounds like my idea of heaven Satira! All my life I've loved the sound of rain or the wind blowing through trees in woodland. As a child I used to love sitting in the vestible of our old house wrapped in my dad's old Army greatcoat watching the rain fall (and quite frequently going to sleep during the process!). Indeed I have been known to head for the beach during a rainstorm to perch on the rocks under my fishing brolly and just chill out for a few hours!
Raingear usually gets left at home on the principle that wearing it in humidity in the 90's usually means getting wetter with than without it so a brolly suffices if necessary.

 

[Dreamer]

Its interesting, I have never been one for just letting things slide and have had to bight my teeth together more than once but since my ex walked out and made life hell I am even less inclined to sit down and shut up. To the point I ripped a strip off a classmate, (that I am meant to be working with), in front of the class and tutor last thursday with out a seconds thought. He gave me a wide birth for the rest of the week lol

 

[Dreamer]

@Mythocentric I love being on the coast on a stormy day too

 

[quietrob]

@Lorraine I know what you mean! I'm gone for a few days. Necessary days and come back to cork and speedos and Myth's crazy wonderful sense of humor. It's so good to be back.

 

[Pendraia]

@Satira Capriccio sorry to hear this...I've been having a bad hair week but I've soldiered on and luckily enough had lots of support from work. Sometimes bad stuff happens even when everyone is doing what they should which sucks. Can't say more than that.

@Miss B I think we might be very alike in some ways. Many years ago boss told me not to laugh at senior officers (not him was someone from another department) my response was if he wants my respect he needs to earn it and if he says stupid things then I will most likely laugh at him. He let it go, after that we still had a good relationship but he knew better than to take if further. Mind you back then I did have a reputation for not being scared to speak up and say what I thought. I'm more mellow these days and only speak up if I think it's worth the effort.

 

[Miss B]

Good for you Pen. I just can't seem to mellow where that's concerned, and sometimes I think I get more ornery as I get older.

 

[Satira Capriccio]

Confrontations aren't always worth it. When I was younger, I avoided confrontations because I couldn't deal with them. Now I avoid them because they just aren't worth it. Which isn't to say that I'll allow someone to walk all over me. If a manager treated me as he treats her, I'd go to our Director or Legal.

Then too, I will be full retirement age 2018, so that's always an option for me

 

[Miss B]

I didn't even wait that long, but by the time I retired, I hated the whole firm and the way they were treating their non-legal staff, and figured it wasn't worth it to wait another 21 months.

 

[Lorraine]

Look what I was doing today

I am sooooo lucky to live here

 

[quietrob]

Anything that goes with the ocean, like skidoo's, or some jet propelled rafts is alright by me.

 

[Miss B]

Definitely looks like fun.

 

[Terre]

That it does.

 

[Mythocentric]

Anything that goes with the ocean, like skidoo's, or some jet propelled rafts is alright by me.

That sounds like just the ticket quietrob! Preferably equipped with rams to deal with the gobheads on jetski's who insist on screaming along the waters edge in close proximity to bathers (including many children) or think it's fun to 'buzz' shrimp boats while they are netting! While it's tempting to say that such people should be lobotomised on conviction I confess that it would be difficult to achieve given that there appears to be nothing between their ears to start with.

 

[quietrob]

I'm lucky to live near the ocean. It's about 15 minutes away if there is no traffic. When I was still a colt there was nothing like playing hoops by the sea. The only time I was on the water was during a fishing expedition where I caught barracuda (As opposed to the two legged barracuda that used to catch me. I will not say if they threw me back) and on trips to see the whales. They feel quite secure coming along our boats and showing off. Sad to say, I never got to ride a jet ski. It's still on my list cuz that looks like fun.

 

[Mythocentric]

I don't think I would consider living anywhere else now quietrob. I'm lucky in that the beach is just a two minute walk away so I've no excuses not to indulge myself whatever the weather! We get some incredible sunsets and quite frequent rainbows too my favourite though has to be the day I was heading back into the Stone Jetty after a rainy days boatfishing just as the sun was heading for the horizon behind us, and looking up to see a perfect rainbow stretching end to end right across the bay. The colours were so intense I was speechless and I've never seen anything so beautiful since. These landlubbers don't know what they're missing!