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Our CEO came to visit us. It was fun. Some people couldn’t make it because they were out on vacation.

Our department manager announced with less than a week’s notice that he’ll visit us after our CEO, for no specific reason, the weeks around the Easter weekend (Friday and Monday are public holidays so 4 days weekend). For the occasion he asked everyone in the team to cancel vacations approved months ago.

All department employees individually politely declined to cancel their personal plans or approved vacations and involved HR. HR wasn’t aware of the manager’s decision.

He’ll be alone at the office for 2/9 visit days 😂

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Ha!

Very stupid of the CEO to come during a known holiday period.

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Department Manager not CEO

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Pardon me. Department manager.

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cutest girl at work asked me if i knew what poppers were, then supplied the explanation after i said yes. unfortunately i was/am too stupid to advance the ball further, and we both left the job shortly after due to a terrible regime change

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if you still have her contact details, keep being in touch. ask her for a date if things go well, good luck.

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What are poppers?

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Not really drama but my boss accidentally told me one of my coworkers is pregnant before she was going to tell me (it was because he was telling me about stuff I was going to have to take over while she’s on maternity),

So now I feel like an overinflated balloon filled with wanting to congratulate her but not being able to because she hasn’t told me yet and I just can’t because I fokkin’ love babies and not being able to get my excitement out over it just makes me antsy.

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For a split second, I read that as if you called her an overinflated balloon. I was very relieved.

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Honestly I haven’t seen her in person so IDK how far along she actually is other than the general time frame of her due date

But I personally think of allegories like balloon or soccer ball as a fun way to describe the baby bump once it’s fully baked bun time.

It’s a baby, babies love to play, especially with rolly stuff and floaty stuff!

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My former job lost 8 people including me in the last year due to holding onto outdated processes and not being open to the workers requests. My former had a big brain drain and is only being held up nowadays by the leader, someone you can’t give any tickets but easy things (like enabling user rights by klicking one option) and another guy who is doing practically everything, even beyond his tasks. He too is currently looking for another job and I also hear from at least two other people who are fed up with top management. We’re talking about a company with only about 30 people when I startet two years ago and who only got 2 new people during that time.

I’m just sitting here, observing from afar and enjoying my new employee giving me the certificates I want. I dunno, but perhaps it is essential to listen to their employees to perhaps avoid them abandon ship…?

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