Passing of a great man

I mentioned funeral leave in my last post like people know what is going on in my life.

Saturday afternoon my grandfather passed away. Honestly, he has been ready to move on since his wife died suddenly in October 2004. He was my last grandparent and 95 years old. The last few years have been kind of rough for him, near the end it has been difficult to see.

My mom is an amazing woman who has visited him every day (or made sure one of us kids did when she absolutely couldn't) since he came to Texas two years ago and went in to the nursing home. She is taking it harder than I (or I think she) thought she would. She has dedicated a lot of her life to him these last few years and that has got to leave a hole in your heart, even knowing that he is better off.

The family is headed to farm town upstate New York to lay him to rest next to his wife at the end of the week. I have thousands of happy memories of this self made man -- farmer, Realtor, father, land lord, grandfather. Every grandchild should be so lucky. He was an amazing man.

Cheers to a life well lived.

Brilliant!

After the whole Facebook shenanigan of mine yesterday (yes I am still irritated by the whole thing) a good friend of mine mentioned that you should have two Facebooks. One to keep up with 'the people' and one solely for people who are actually friends understand and don't judge and will let you rant without ratting you out.

I, for one, think that he is brilliant.

Leave

I never take time off of work. I was raised that you have a job and you are supposed to do it. Be there come hell or high water. I sit here and state over and over that I need a vacation but I just got my attendance calendar and i have had -- surgery, jury duty, a holiday and this week I will add funeral leave to the list -- all in the last month.

Makes me feel like a slacker. Especially when I have a new boss that I really need to like me.

But I still want a vacation.

Again, makes no sense.

I was right

Like I said. I came in to work yesterday and got more done in two hours than I normally do in three days at work. No distractions except the cleaning people.

Excellent.

But sad.

Free speech?

So, late last week I posted a mini (and not untrue or unjustified) rant on my Facebook status about our payroll department being unresponsive and hanging up on me multiple times (they f-ed up and my paycheck was $304.90). This morning I get chastised and told to take it down by my VP because someone from the Team forwarded it to Payroll and the manager called him because their feelings were hurt. WTF? Really? You guys screw me up and then have bad customer service to top it off and I get in trouble for venting it on Facebook.

What a load of crap.

And I know they have no recourse, but I don't want to piss my VP off. So down it came.

Grrrrr

And I used to wonder the value of being anonymous in blogs and social media.

Oh and it took them four days to get me the rest of the money.