Advice from a Scot - not an ounce of whisky, a treble shot/dram at least. When it's hot, you can't tell how much whisky is in there and a generous dose will knock you out faster. 

Eff off to a co-worker (she works under me) who put her two weeks in yesterday!! Buh-Bye you toxic B!!! My assistant is getting promoted and Sunday is his last day he's a great kid.. I'm really going to miss him at work. 

To automobile shopping.  Probably one of the things I hate the most... and I have to finish it before our road trip on the 19th.

Eff off to this week - it's been insanely busy and one more crazy busy week to go and I should be able to breathe again.

Eff off to the pool at the gym closing for two weeks,  Crying. But it's for a cleaning so that's good but no swimming?!?!

Eff off to my experimental elimination diet. I'm hungry. It's difficult to have time to prepare food with my work schedule. I thought I'd miss wine more but nope, DAIRY. I miss cheese and yogurt!

Eff off to potenial uterine cysts. Made appointment with gyn but have to wait way until APRIL. That's potentially two more cycles. The heavy bleeding was really rediculous this month.

I've got licorice herbal tea for my night time drink - so good. I can have honey so this is a lovely sweet treat. However, I will want wine when I go back to adding things back into my diet.  LOL.

Also, while its nasty... tumeric and ginger tea. 

Seriously when you are sick this stuff is amazing. 

Eff0ff:

Eff0ff to by amazing bride's now former employer. She logged off for the last time at EOD today.  It is about damned time. She has started to emerge back into life and into her usual radiant self.  I am one relieved and happy groom.  Welcome back my stunning bride. I have missed you.

Eff0ff to the leader of my current company. THis guy is a piece of work utilizing intimidation, threats, and never ending reference to comply or face disciplinary action in every single corporate communique.  An employers  choices and culture have a direct effect on the resilience of employees. This guy is going to be the kiss of death to this company.  He has no clue about where his revenue is generated and is defaulting to letting the HR department and the Safety department run the business.

Eff0ff to my Safety manager and the head of HR.  These are organizations that know absolutely nothing about business or industrial engineering and related operations.  My 4th direct boss in less than 2years is expressing that he may leave.  If i were him, I would. He is intelligent, dynamic, a solid leader, and far more capable than his two up boss who runs our company.  If I were not nearing the twilight of my career, I would be gone already.  I have had several interviews recently but.... I am not ready to pull the plug just yet.  I have built a very strong team and this year will in all probability allow me to move my business to the top tier of the account and asset network.   

One may ask what has prompted my ire towards the dipshit at the top.... my team had two first aid events this week.  We followed the HR and Safety provided escalation process.... to the letter.  Which got the way low performing Regional Safety Manager all flumoxed so he cried to the Exec who decided that there was a failure in leadership at my boss's level, my level, and my management team's level. Instead of assessing and engaging, he got power drunk.  So... my team and I went all data on his ass which shut him up... but... probably got my bonus scalped if I had to guess.  

As a multiple federally protected  class individual, this may be a very interesting year if he continues to go dumbass in running the company. I never wanted to be that guy and I have never played those cards. Ever.  I have prided myself in my performance and the performance of the organization(s) and I have let that speak for me.  This guy may get the aging, disability classified Rags all over him if this continues to unfold as he is seeming to want to drive it.

My new #2, who is outstanding, lost his cool on the Exec today. Fortunately he asked me to read his e/m response to the dickhead being a dickhead.  #2 did tone it down a bit after I read his response but it had a decided F-Off tone to it underneath the professional wording.

My boss, my #2 and I had a very interesting situation review over all of this today.  

My bare the bullshit with data based performance improvement and sharing of archived examples of the Safety Dumb-ass's dumb shit apparently had garnered the attention of the Regional  leadership team  (my boss and his peers) who started flooding the Exec with facts rather than  letting the Safey and HR leaders crap go uncountered. The Exec brought the head of HR and head of Safety with him when he joined the company a year ago.  None of them know the business.  Though I will say they are experienced in their fields. While that is the case, they have never run organizations in this space.

Anyway, ... just about everything and everyone around work can Eff0ff this week.

F0rn:

Not sure yet what that will look like this weekend.  We just finished Chef salads that I threw together for dinner. We do our Ideal Protein clinic weigh in every Sat AM and try to keep the salt boms and heavy dinners off of Friday so we do not swell up and cover up a couple of pound weight loss. Saturday night is usually our holy crap amazing dinner night. Some decadent protein dish and some incredible low carb veg thing. Since tomorrow is my B-day and DW will not tell me where we are going... it should be interesting.  LV has a ton of celebrity Chef restaurants so it could be anything.  No doubt it will be yummy.

Thanks for letting me vent.

Have a great weekend all.

Regards, 
Rags

Eff off work.  Not as bad as Rags's but getting up there.  I work in a deals part of the business.  There is a huge one underway at the moment that I brought to the company.  The head honchos have conviently forgotten this fact.  The approach came directly to me from an University Alumi and I pulled the business case together and made the running for us to go for it.  Now it is happening,  I've been cut out of the relationship part of the deal and relegated to the back office work.  Plus the head person is claiming that he found the opportunity because my contact didn't pan out when he is literally meeting a couple of time a week with my guy.  I'm seething.

Same person has decided I can do no right with anything so I suspect my time here is over.  However, they can definitely go ahead and make me redundant and pay.  

Eff off to cancer.  MIL was in for an operation to get a lump removed on Friday.  The docs may or may not have got it all but we'll know soon.  Mr TASM is going down to stay with her for the week on Monday.  His brother is with her now.  We've had one fright already with her post op situation.  A lump appeared on her leg overnight, so brother took her back to hospital today.  Many blood tests and other test later, they have discharged her again.  Looks like it was a false alarm.

F0rn

The lovely Mr TASM made a caribean chicken and rice dish for lunch.  Loads of spices and bell peppers.  Then baked in the oven with olives added for the last few minutes of cooking.  So good and I've got leftovers for tomorrow and Tuesday