Slacker Week - Weekend Update
Monday, October 17, 2005Hey all! Here's Monday's Slacker Week post for the Daily Slacker, and make sure to stop over to the Visual Edition to check out some NEW turtle pictures!
So yeah, onto the update!
I guess I really owe ya a whole week update, but I'll keep it short! I'd like to say I spent last week slacking and that's why I didn't post, but actually I had a ton of
work to do and then was busy from Thursday night on.
Bloggable Moment of the Week
The main blogworthy highlight from last week was managing to royally piss of my Idiot Boss, and then manage to get my way with him after he tried to yell at me. We have this monthly meeting, and each person in our department takes a turn "facilitating" the meeting. Every hates this meeting because it's always a waste of an hour and a half. We only go because there's usually food at it. Being the "facilitator" really means that you just follow the agenda Idiot Boss write, and then he dominated the meeting. I decided to protest that.
Instead of bringing the Agenda, I brought nothing. When Idiot Boss asked where it was I said "IB, there's nothing on the stuff you sent me that couldn't be covered by sending out an email. How about we have everyone here talk about stuff that matters?" He got all annoyed and the meeting went nowhere because it wasn't going his way. To make him happy I went and got his agendas, though I helped make sure that we plowed through the stuff as fast as possible. Hour and a half because 45 minutes.
He called me into his office later and confronted me on "My Horseshit Attitude." I let him blow off steam for a bit and once he got to the part about the agenda and he called it "My meeting" I laid into him. It wasn't "my meeting" if he's making the agenda, and running the meeting, so don't try and say it is. After telling him how much people hate the meeting and picking apart the problems I got him to agree that we needed to find a way to make the meeting useful.
He commented on my Attitude and said it seemed poor since a coworker got promoted before me. And I said yeah, because I have been annoyed about that. Not so much about the promotion, but the fact he told me the other guy got it because "He was a flight Risk from The Company." Did he mention whether he deserved it? Nope, just that he was looking to move on. Then the day before I got promoted, another quite undeserving employee got promoted too. I told him that the way he's been communicating and running things lately just about no one who works for him respects him. I think after a pummeled him for a bit, he really wished he hadn't opened that vent.
The outcome of the meeting? Me getting what I want: More control over some stuff in our department and more supervisory responsibilities. I am now going to be doing some of the training for the department. That Conflict to Collaboration class paid off!
Thursday -
Had kickball, we lost again. It would help if we could get people to show up consistently. Oh well, the afterbar had some decent flip-cup. Most people left fairly early though, so it was a quiet night. The dozen of us there managed to drain 61 bottles of beer though. Not bad.
Friday -
OKTOBERFEST!!!! Yes, it was that time of year again. Time to travel to the land of Gashtof's and take part in their Oktoberfest celebration. They have a huge tent (well, two this year) outside with live German music and of course, actual German beer!
I played some football after work like usual, then met up with G-Spot and her friend/ex IndiKenyan. We stopped off and ate some Chipotle then headed over to Gasthof's to meet up with G-Spot's Hot Friend with a Boy's Name and a friend of her's Jo. Had a couple half liters of Paulaner Oktoberfest and we all had a shot of German Appley Schnappsy goodness.
There had been some mild email flirting between Hot Friend and I during the week (What, you don't call the NASD the Nasty? hehe. All the finance geeks out there just giggled) we picked up well that night. After the tent closed Jo headed out and the rest of us decided to move down to the Keller Bar in the basement and dropped off the mugs we got in my car. HFWABN and I took them and it suddenly and extremely quickly went from flirting, to a peck, to mild tongue humping. Yup.
After a boot was shared by all (A three liter glass boot filled with beer, passed around with certain rules) we all made our way to the dance floor. Let's just say that some of the dancing that ensued with Hot Friend possibly may have been worth of a Minnesota Vikings Boat Cruise. Will it go anywhere? Who knows.
After the place shut down and kicked us all out, we headed over to The Dinkytowner for some breakfast and then I dropped each person off at home. Nice way to start a weekend I tell ya!
Saturday -
The Pub Crawl. Yeah. The title was "I've only slept with 9." The theme was "Yuppie." Dress as 80's yuppies and hit 9 bars in 6 hours. With our popped collars and sweater vests some friends from Kickball, other random people and I had a great time at the bars. We noticed later that it totally fit the Yuppie theme that the first 3 bars were all in the same Mall. heh. We ended up only making it to 8 of the nine but it was still good. The bars hit (And the drink Drunk) were:
1. 101 blu - A Martini bar (101 Martini - Stoli Vanil, Banana Schaaps, some juice)
2. The Independent - Another better Martini Bar (After Dinner Mint Martini - Stoli & Rumpleminze)
3. Figlio - Italian Bar/Restaraunt (Whiskey Diet, Scooby Snack Shot)
4. Chino Latino - A Latin/Carribean/Oriental bar/restaurant (Liquid Sin - whole bunchs stuff with passion fruit)
5. Old Chicago - American Bar/Restaurant (Whiskey Diet, The Anthony - Some shot the bartender made up)
6. Williams Pub - A Peanut Bar (Whiskey Diet)
7. Bar Abeleine - Tex Mex Magarita Bar/Restaurant (Cherry Bomb Margarita)
8. Drink - An American Bar (Whiskey Diet)
Yes, definitely a good night.
Sunday -
Suprisingly mild hangover, watched the Vikings get embarrassed again. Being a Green Bay Packer fan, that was thoroughly enjoyable. I also loved the fact that on my money FFL league I have LaDanian Tomlinson, and he managed to not only rush and receive for touchdowns, but also throw a TD pass. I vegetated, Conservative Girl came over and we watched Wag the Dog. Watched Bill Maher's show on HBO and had thought about how right Tom Wolfe was about how the "bases" of dating are nowhere near what they used to be.
And that was the weekend. So there, I think this HUGE ASS post should make up for not posting last week. Now time to move on to the REST of Slacker Week! Stop back often and tell everyone :O)
P.S. How is it that the Blogger dictionary has the word vegetated, but not blog or Blogger? Sillyness.
posted by Chief Slacker @ 4:29 PM,
8 Comments:
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At Mon Oct 17, 07:34:00 PM,
Chief Slacker said...
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Pieces - I wouldn't say "Things" It was one night. Go back and read my last bunch of "girls" and not many of thm have ben that great past one or to dates after a great first one. ;o) And yeah, the Packers are a lot better than their record shows. Think the bucs will be as good with a different QB now?
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At Mon Oct 17, 08:44:00 PM,
said...
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OG here. No more going for that long without writing. Your blogs are great,especially the one about long distance relationships and such. As you and I know I was a bit of an expert on that a couple of years back. Anyway DS, keep up the slack! ;)
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At Mon Oct 17, 10:55:00 PM,
Chief Slacker said...
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OG - HEY! You finally comment! Yay. Everyone say Hi to OG! I've been in my share my share of long distnace stuff too. Pretty hard. There will b a follow up to that one tomorrow so stop back!
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At Tue Oct 18, 09:24:00 AM,
Taylor said...
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Ok tomorrow is here and I'm jonesing for an update on LD relationships...so get to slacking and update us man!
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At Tue Oct 18, 09:54:00 AM,
Amber said...
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I can't believe you had only a mild hangover after the large amount of alcohol mixing you did -- and what's a scooby snack shot?
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At Tue Oct 18, 10:34:00 AM,
Anisa said...
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that's great about the work situation. way to go!!
glad you've been doing well. :) -
At Tue Oct 18, 01:31:00 PM,
Chief Slacker said...
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Tay - working on it! check back later today and It'll be there!
Amber - Hey, I AM from Wisnconsin, and there are place in Vegas taht consider that enough to be called a Professional Drinker. :O) A scooby snack is Midori, Malibu, Peach Scnaaps and Cream. Occasionally places will add their own ingredients as well.
Anisa - Yeah, it's kinda sad how easy I can work the Idiot Boss though. thanks for stopping by! check back all week! -
At Fri Oct 21, 04:31:00 AM,
OzzyC said...
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I second Pieces' motion. I wish I could get away with unloading on my prima donna bosses like that. Shit, when I think about coming close to considering the possibility of maybe bringing up the potential of anything other than yes-man commiserative sucking up, the bosses get their panties in a bunch. Consider what a tactless individual I tend to be, and you can see how the stress just isn't worth it, and I just shut up and drink another beer.