No I didn’t disappear off of the face of the Earth. With the new job, I just don’t have the time at work to cruise the internet like I did at my old job. But I do like having the new challenges. I’m enjoying it and think I can make this job a good one. I’m being trained by the outgoing Director of Accounting. She is bitter about many things but I’m also wondering how much of her troubles were of her making. She comes across as someone who was overly strict to the point of almost abusive.
I have good employees, with the exception of one. On the Thursday of her full first week of work, she had been late to work 3 days of the 4 (by late I mean at least 15 minutes, I’m not talking a couple of minutes late). I keep walking in and finding her on the cell phone or on personal emails. Now I’m the first to say that sometimes I’m on my phone or check personal email, but not to the excessive amounts I’m seeing in her and I’m hearing about from others. Then she has gotten confrontational with some of the supervisors in the company. This is just too many problems from someone in two weeks of being on her job. I would have let her go on Thursday but I need to make sure the people who back up her work are going to be present while I hire a new person.
My mother’s house is coming along very quickly. In the two weeks since they started, it is weathered in, has drywall up on the walls and is ready for the siding to go on the outside this next week, taped, mudded and painted and for the floors to go in. She will be able to move in the house in about 3 weeks. Her builder has been absolutely amazing.
I got a lovely hutch for my living room, although we broke off a door in the moving it. I think I can fix it easily. It has a nice little distressed look and beadboard back and sides. I am a sucker for beadboard. When I finish out my island, it will be done with a beadboard look to it as well. For a little old house like mine, beadboard is a natural.
Otherwise life is going along real normal like.
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