Post-Thanksgiving.

[same_sky]

Taking a brief break from the Christmas decoration. Yes, yes, we put the tree up today, and went to considerable effort to do it--the tree was in Morehead in storage, so we picked it up last night before we left the Thanksgiving festivities. With our car. Now, we have a Buick, but still. The tree didn't even come close to fitting, so we had to ride home with the trunk open (safely strapped down, incidentally, please stop driving around with things hanging unsecured off your vehicles, dear rednecks.) I'm a little concerned that the tree is forever scarred from being in storage this year--it smells horrible. We'll see how that turns out. And no, I don't particularly feel bad for having an artificial tree--I think real trees make me sneezy. I seem to be feeling a tad defensive about my Christmas spirit this year, don't mind me.

M received a "Separation Survey" from his last employer--the portrait photography job. They want to know why he left and how they can improve their employee experience. He is really enjoying this. "Limiting the blatant lying" made the top of his list on how to do that. I'd like to be a fly on the wall when the HR team gets that one.

Why do people say that? I don't really want to be a fly. It seems like a miserable existence. Basically, I just want a hidden video camera. People are so dramatic sometimes. Of course, maybe there were no hidden video cameras when the first person wished to be an insect on the wall.

Clearly, I have very big matters on my mind these days.

Comments

[sweet-pickles.livejournal.com]

My 2-cents on the separation survey: say nothing that you can be held to, and nothing unless you are compelled to.

The fact that they call it a "separation survey" says a lot. While it may be tempting to let it all out, I would be careful. The reality is that on some level the company knows what is going on. How much they choose to admit it is another matter. Thus, telling them the whole truth really doesn't serve any purpose for the "separated" employee. If anything there is a possibility it could fall into the wrong hands and prevent you from getting a job in the future (for example you could be labeled as a troublemaker and somewhere down the road someone remembers this survey, and is now in a position to grant you a new job and as a result you don't get the job).

So have fun, fill it out to get it all out, but if you do decide to send it, go back and clean it up. The world is just too small.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I think I might have been a little misleading.. he did enjoy filling their survey in, but he wasn't overly malicious when he did so.. except for that one line, which was a little out of context. (But deserved, since the lies were the big problem.)

[big-bubba.livejournal.com]

The real problem with being a fly on the wall is that someone might decide to squish you. Much safer to be a stuffed-up moose-head.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

That's a good idea. Of course, in our house, being a stuffed moose head will end you up with a finger buried deeply in your nose, but I guess that's preferable to dead.

[big-bubba.livejournal.com]

Now why would you treat a poor, innocent moose head like that?

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

1. Its nostrils! Like, two inches deep!
2. No one ever believes just how deep those nostrils really are.
3. It's a terrific conversation piece.
4. We're bad people.

[marketeer]

I put up an artificial tree too. Actually, I put up two artificial trees. The big one in the living room and a miniature one in the dining room that I've been using since my days as a swinging bachelorette in a studio apartment (I have an awesome collection of miniature ornaments). I shudder to think of what the threewisecats would do with real trees in the house. They go slightly nuts every time we track in a dead leaf.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Last year I had a miniature tree up in our computer room, but I don't know exactly what I did with it when we took everything down. I love the little trees.. they're so cute.