It's only the first week of November
Saturday, 5 November 2022 11:28![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elusivekThanksgiving is not "a thing" here. We know about it, but then it's not really seriously observed. Black Fridays are always Friday the 13th to me LOL. So when I first heard of a "Black Friday sale" a couple years back I was like "huh... if it's a day prone to bad luck why would people decide to go shopping? What if they get a heavily discounted item but it's faulty?"
Anyway, the point is... I also read/heard about how people complain right after Thanksgiving all the Christmas things are up.
Well.
My Starbucks today (5-November) has the Christmas Tree up already, WTF. At least they are not putting Christmas songs yet. I enjoy the Christmas tunes well enough, but not for the whole of December... hopefully not for the whole of November now.
I was reading an email about "welcome our new team members!" and saw a familiar name. Surely, that's a very common Chinese name and a very common Chinese surname, so surely it could be just a matter of people so-happen-to-have-the-same-name. Like, I suppose if you search for John Smith then there's a ton of John Smiths out there. Similar case here.
But it would be so funny if it IS the person I know. She was my assistant for a bit when I was working for my ex-boss. I was newly promoted to be an EA and I was not expected be the office manager and EA at the same time. My ex-boss was a bit of a... erm.... how should I put it in a non-demeaning way... likes quality and efficiency, but he also likes aesthetically nice things. I by no means am a person who dolls up to work, but he's happy with my quality of work. So when I had to look for an assistant, this girl was the one with some potential as she was interested in learning all the document processing tools (like, more in-depth of how use Word and Excel and such). She was a bit weak on the English front though, and she definitely also didn't doll up.
My ex-boss hated her so much that he used some stupid analogy about there's nothing wrong with the shoe, it's just that it simply doesn't fit and all that. My friend-colleague made a joke-jab at the ex-boss saying all he wanted was a nice figured girl so he can look at while Kat (me) worked all the load.
Well. The joke's on him. She worked a few months and then found a new job with the government... the clicker? In the department that oversees casinos and such. When I told him she's quitting, he was all victorious and saying what kind of job can a girl like that get? And I said "ah, the DICJ" and I smirked right back at him because what are we? A casino, LOL. I warned him, "better not upset her, lest she get her revenge in the future and has some say in there!"
In the end, I was the EA and the office manager and the inter-departments coordinator (because that office was a mixed-departments floor and needed someone to coordinate all their different requests and such). Should have played stupid and said "oooh I don't know how to do it".
Anyway, so I see on this email someone with the exact same name as that girl. They're going to snap a photo of her when she's on board and show me. It would be a funny coincidence if that indeed is her, LOL.
Anyway, the point is... I also read/heard about how people complain right after Thanksgiving all the Christmas things are up.
Well.
My Starbucks today (5-November) has the Christmas Tree up already, WTF. At least they are not putting Christmas songs yet. I enjoy the Christmas tunes well enough, but not for the whole of December... hopefully not for the whole of November now.
I was reading an email about "welcome our new team members!" and saw a familiar name. Surely, that's a very common Chinese name and a very common Chinese surname, so surely it could be just a matter of people so-happen-to-have-the-same-name. Like, I suppose if you search for John Smith then there's a ton of John Smiths out there. Similar case here.
But it would be so funny if it IS the person I know. She was my assistant for a bit when I was working for my ex-boss. I was newly promoted to be an EA and I was not expected be the office manager and EA at the same time. My ex-boss was a bit of a... erm.... how should I put it in a non-demeaning way... likes quality and efficiency, but he also likes aesthetically nice things. I by no means am a person who dolls up to work, but he's happy with my quality of work. So when I had to look for an assistant, this girl was the one with some potential as she was interested in learning all the document processing tools (like, more in-depth of how use Word and Excel and such). She was a bit weak on the English front though, and she definitely also didn't doll up.
My ex-boss hated her so much that he used some stupid analogy about there's nothing wrong with the shoe, it's just that it simply doesn't fit and all that. My friend-colleague made a joke-jab at the ex-boss saying all he wanted was a nice figured girl so he can look at while Kat (me) worked all the load.
Well. The joke's on him. She worked a few months and then found a new job with the government... the clicker? In the department that oversees casinos and such. When I told him she's quitting, he was all victorious and saying what kind of job can a girl like that get? And I said "ah, the DICJ" and I smirked right back at him because what are we? A casino, LOL. I warned him, "better not upset her, lest she get her revenge in the future and has some say in there!"
In the end, I was the EA and the office manager and the inter-departments coordinator (because that office was a mixed-departments floor and needed someone to coordinate all their different requests and such). Should have played stupid and said "oooh I don't know how to do it".
Anyway, so I see on this email someone with the exact same name as that girl. They're going to snap a photo of her when she's on board and show me. It would be a funny coincidence if that indeed is her, LOL.
