Deep breaths, deep breaths. Just let me have a second to vent about something, ok? This is so cliched, but I really hate hate hate it when you’re in a meeting, or any sort of discussion (via email in this most recent case), and you have to say something ten times, in ten different ways, before someone finally hears it. Then someone else says it in another way (possibly the way you said it the first time) and then everyone says, “Oh, yeah, that makes sense. Good thought.” And this, of course, is directed at the person who just regurgitated whatever it was you said in the first place.
UPDATE (not that anyone has read this anyway): Another thing that sucks about being on the board of directors of the union is having to disagree with your friends. I just had a friend/member of the union come to me with a question about her work schedule and I clearly gave her an answer she did not like and she stormed out of here with a terse, “Thanks.”
life and puppies 