Let me see. What happened today? Nothing really noteworthy. The headache was back onsite. And I closed my office door since I really did not want to deal with her. The less time I deal with her the better. I did have a conversation with her about that 4hr block that she scheduled for tomorrow. She titled that BS “Organizing the office”. I asked her what kind of organizing she was thinking. She just wanted some clutter cleared. Throw some marketing materials away, mark chairs to be donated, mark things that need to be disposed of. And I told her that the title of that block was ominous and I was ready to fight her if the “organizing” involves people onsite moving furniture around. And she said fight who. And I said YOU! I just want to make sure that we are on the same page. No one onsite will do freaking manual labor. Period.

I also had a 1×1 with her this afternoon. A 30-minute one that went over to about an hour and a half. Because we had so much to talk about. About my aspirations, but I always moved the focus to my team. How the team has no room to move up. We need to have levels so that they have the motivation to learn more. And so they can get paid more. I was complaining about the fact that if workers at a store or a car wash are getting paid more, then there is something wrong. My guys are handling patient samples and having to catch this and that in an order, they need to get paid better. I told her if all of us walk out of the lab right now, the lab will not run, and the pay does not reflect that. And she says I’m right. We’ll talk about this in December when new budgets are getting discussed. I told her one main reason why I am very hesitant to move on was that I don’t want the PS team to be forgotten and I want them to get what they actually deserve. Did I cry? Yes. I couldn’t help it. I want the team to get the compensation reflected on what they do in one of the most expensive cities in the US. 

Anyway, after work, I got to watch a couple of episodes of Cowboy Bebop with Chris. And a couple of episodes of Ouran High School Host Club and an episode of Dorohedoro with my hun. So far I am really enjoying Cowboy Bebop. My hun is willing to continue with Ouran. But I think he will enjoy it better dubbed. So we will be watching it in English, which is fine. I really think the dub on that anime was really good.

I did read some chapters of Darling Girl last night. And oh boy, there was a part there that made me so uncomfortable. Made my skin crawl. I will not disclose what since that is a bit of a spoiler but for crying out loud. That was just wtf.