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[cupcake_goth]

 The new house (yay!) has a long hallway on the main floor that runs all the way from the front door/eventual library to the other end of the house. (And right past my office.) We knew Vlad would be ecstatic for more space to run and careen around in, but the fact that Erzabet, my round dumpling of a kitty, is doing the same is kind of mind-blowing. Multiple times a day, even!

Now if she'd just play chase with her brother, instead of scampering up and down the hallway, then getting affronted with him when he thinks it's playtime.

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Today I had to be up at a ridiculously early (for me) time for a big training thing. Because things kicked off at 8am and attendees were expected to be on camera, that meant the alarm went off at 6:45, I got to have two snoozes, and then it was get up, take meds, have food and coffee, and put on makeup. The training was "Insights"; yet another "Identify your personality traits and communication types! Learn to identify what ones your coworkers are, and use those insights to increase communication!" corporate horoscope thing that HR departments love. I hate those sorts of things because if you are the slightest bit self-aware, you can predict what your outcome will be. Yes, training person, I am well aware that I am a Helping Inspirer and am not an introverted data-driven observer. And because I have spent a good chunk of my corporate and personal lives learning how to communicate with people who are Not Like Me, I know how to adjust my communication styles for people who ARE introverted data-driven observers.

Oh, and then I had 4.5 more hours of meetings across the day, leading to a grand total of seven (7!) hours of meetings. I'm about halfway through right now, and I am not a happy goth. At all. Ah, the dark side of being a manager: all the meetings. 

Comments

[staxxy]

Introverted data-driven observers.... Like maybe your husband for example? Different fields but a lot of the communication skills needed for him are translatable to your coworks of that personality. Just ugh for the mental masturbatory review. It's great they provide it for those who actually need it but it just sounds super tedious for you. Speaking of tedious... meetings, which CAN be productive but are often mostly a waste of time. Ugh.

But YAY for having a kitty run for kitties to get some exercise and OMG YAY for Erzabet getting some exercise in! Maybe she will feel up to playing with Vlad when she builds up more endurance. :)

[tei]

I always end up in a frothy rage of "I'M NONE OF THESE TYPES! I REFUSE! SMASH THE SYSTEM!"

[tiggymalvern]

I have many clients with overweight cats, and it is AMAZING the difference that moving to a larger place can make. Some of those sedentary cats that never left the sofa in an apartment will lose two pounds effortlessly when they have more space and a set of stairs. Cats really do want to exercise when given more interesting opportunities.

I can't imagine how tedious it must be to have to people telling you the basics of er... what you already know perfectly well how to do. By the time you reach a certain age, you've already learned how to do it, or you never will. Frustrating to be made to do it over and over (but at least you can switch off brain and be sure you're not missing anything).

[sara]

I was once made to go to a two-day training on "emotional intelligence" and it was extraordinarily unhelpful -- the issues that my manager had observed were primarily the result of my marriage collapsing, and not that I lacked some sort of abstract emotional self-management skills.

[archersangel]

7 hours of meetings in one day is about 6.5 too many.

[lilysea]

and I am not a happy goth. At all.

I send you a goth beach in the hope that it will help a smidgen.

https://youtu.be/og_bZlD1VQA

[danabren]

Every comment here is gold and I agree with all of them.

HR wokeness or whatever it's being called this week is a complete waste of time and, like a 100-level college class, should offer the option of getting credit for proving you already know your Briggs-Meyers type while flashing your CSM cert.

[movingfinger]

I love when they decide they're panicking for no reason and tear off down the hall with tail wild and ears flat. Then they sit down. What are you looking at?

We had a long hallway in one place with doors opening off it that a kitten adored; we would bowl soft toys or balls of paper or whatever down the hallway and she would lie in wait and ambush the passing prey with ridiculously dramatic leaps and dancing. That was a good apartment because the rooms at both ends of the long hall made loops, a real racecourse.

[sistawendy]

Kitties have the zoomies? Excellent!

4.5 more hours of meetings across the day

My brain would be attempting escape through one of my ears. As an IC, I'm grateful to those that take the meetings on my behalf.

[noxcat]

LOL! My new place also has a long hallway that runs almost the entire length of it, and my 2 senior felines are taking full advantage of it, as if they were half their age. :)