How was your Friday?

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: bignateyk
Was terrible. Had to put my dog (probably my best friend of 12 years) down last night, have been working 12 hour days at work trying to prepare for a field test, and my girlfriend has been going through some stuff. I was so stressed out I never even fell asleep last night. When I got up this morning I started puking because of the stress, then went to work feeling tired and ill.

holy hell

we put the family dog down a month ago, had him 14 years and he was awesome. what a lousy day that way, i know how you feel.

today i took my kids to the family pond for a couple hours, beautiful day, made pizza for dinner, took it easy. today was a decent friday, not great, but good.

 

[Kadarin]

Had food poisoning last night, so I've been shaky and out of it all day today.

 

[Chronoshock]

Woke up at 12:20 PM, sat around playing ikariam and surfed for any new updates on the Blizzard splash page until around 1. Got on the campus shuttle at 1:20, arrived in lab. Surfed ikariam forums and atot for a while. Now I'm working on my thesis (what I should have been doing all day) hurrah. A pretty average day overall

 

[olds]

Had biscuits and gravy for breakfast.
Ice cream for lunch (gave me a stomach ache)
Started playing Doom 3
Now I am hungry for brats after reading the brat thread.

 

[TehMac]

I woke up at 6, stayed in bed til 7. I worked out with my best friend at 9:30, got back at 11:30, had a protein shake. Then got my Mustang going, helped my grandma move some furniture at her apartment, swam in the pool, went in the Spa and yeah, pretty cool day, but now I'm bored.

 

[RKS]

Woke up and called in sick, went back to bed, woke up later and verified my new employment, drafted a letter of resignation, spent the rest of the day playing with my kids.

Overall it was a great day and in about two weeks I can finally get on the road to working for myself.

 

[nageov3t]

not terrible.

one of The Powers That Be (second person ever to be hired within the company) got fired today, so I stood around doing a lot of gossiping about what the hell happened, which is really me in my element OTOH, tensions are starting to escalate with this guy in my department that my boss wants to get rid of and no one likes.

 

[BZeto]

Good so far. On my 3rd beer and feeling surprisingly buzzed. Going to the GF's house in 45 minutes, should be an awesome weekend. Also next Wednesday I leave for a week vacation to northern Utah.

 

[herm0016]

i have had a good day. I received a unit coin from the 126th Michigan national guard army band, that was really cool. Their concert was awesome too. yay for working almost 12 hours. hope some of you have better weekends.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

left work at 11 to play in a golf tourney. played decent, and our team came in second place. Got a $50 gc to the pro shop. Bought a $50 Nike shirt that turned out to be on sale for $35, so I got a hat too. Also got a dozen balls for playing. And one of the other guys paid for the greens fees.

and I fired a potential client, so I won't have to go in to work tomorrow.

 

[mAdMaLuDaWg]

Pretty intense day at work today. Was sort of hung over from drinking yesterday evening with co-workers. My boss, who got plastered yesterday, decided to "work from home" and we had a meeting with a consultant which I had to man bymyself. My new home closing was in jeopardy because my lawyer forgot about some documents and I had to call a bunch of people to try and get it sorted out. All the while preparing for a massive change to our UNIX environment at work over the weekend (yay, I get to work on Sat. mornings). So from 8:30 - 1 PM, I was worrying about my home purchase/lawyer, preparing for our UNIX environment change (turns out I f'ed up on doing some due diligence work before making the change, help my co-workers set up their application enviornments and had to get some questions in my head for the meeting with the consultant. Didn't even get a chance to pick up some lunch and picked the consultants brain for a good 2 hours and got a lot of useful information. As I get back to my desk, I find out that my lawyer sorted out the document issue and now I have to follow up with a few people to make sure I close on time. Then my boss calls me and I had to give him a summary of what I discussed with the consultant. Then I had to talk to our Managing Director and justify the change that I am making over the weekend... he hammers me with a few questions and I answer them the best I could. After which my Operations manager wanted to get a summary as well. By the time I finish writing an email at 7 PM that contained the minutes of my meeting, I'm burned out not having drank a drop of water since 7:30 AM in the morning... I get ready to go home and have my lunch/dinner at 8 PM. Turned on the computer and whatddya know, I get artifacts all over myscreen. Likely a video card problem... try tinkering out a bit and realize that I may have to goto work tommorrow instead of remoting in. Luckily, it turned out to be an overheating issue and I just had to wait until the card cooled down.. will probably RMA it.

Now I'm typing my stuff on ATOT and have to get up in the morning to call our team in moscow and test out the change that is being made for work.

Pretty eventful and stressful day... I used to freak out about days like this, but now I'm used to it. Sort of become indifferent to everything, its like I'm a little dead inside

 

[Tweak155]

Worked for almost 11 hrs then saw Wall-E with the girl-E.

I was not impressed however didn't expect much. It was one of those MEH films (digitals?).

 

[Cienja]

I had some major deadlines that required others' input and work. It didn't happen the way it was planned, so I get to explain to my manager why my folks didn't produce like they were supposed to...

Overall, had a good week though.

 

[ranmaniac]

Finished some yard work and currently having some Utz Pub Mix, a Coke, and watching Deal or No Deal while listening to some random internet radio stations.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Got back from work at 8AM. Was on the computer until 12PM. Went to bed, rolled around in bed, fell asleep at 2PM. Woke up at 7PM, was at work by 9PM, got back at 8AM.

It's now 9:47AM Saturday.

 

[Azraele]

My whole week was pretty bad. Mon. my husband was laid off from his job. Tues. a guy at my work had a terrible accident. He was trapped in a shredding type machine for 30 mins, screaming. He lost his hand. I'll spare the gory details. Wed. ...had to sit in on a meeting regarding those gory details. Almost passed out. Thus. Prison break a few miles from my house. They did finally catch the guy later that night. Fri. Uneventful, thank god.

 

[HannibalX]

Originally posted by: Journer
why the hell didnt you give them any notice? i never understood why the 2-week notice doesn't go both ways

Because big corps are shit.

 

[PricklyPete]

Originally posted by: Journer
why the hell didnt you give them any notice? i never understood why the 2-week notice doesn't go both ways

What do you think a severance is? It's a notice where you don't even have to work.