Resignation Withdrawn
Thursday, September 28th, 2023 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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70F and cloudy this afternoon. I wasn't out of bed until 11:20AM, and I slept so long and soundly that I forgot about yesterday's resignation until I was outside with Yvette, sipping my coffee.
But, sitting out there in the back yard, I decided I should stay with GeoStaff.
All things considered, I was taking a lot of things for granted, and, had I known I'd already gotten a raise... would never have dared to ask for another dollar on top of that, plus two extra PTO days in October.
The deal I swung yesterday should not have been possible, so... it would be foolish to press my luck any further...
Kristine,
As per the items we discussed in person yesterday, and pending their implementation, I have reconsidered my resignation.
I would like to stay with GeoStaff, and at Cloud Elementary, and am looking forward to the school year ahead.
I am therefore withdrawing my resignation.
Please forward this to those whom it may concern, and have a happy Thursday!
-Pat Melody
If there's any lesson to be learned from this, it's that being adult about things is almost always the best approach.
I could have cold quit, or written a nasty resignation with a list of grievances, and an FU at the end. And I may have lived to regret it.
I did the grown up thing of looking for a different job and getting it all lined up... before giving some decent notice, and being civil about it... and it paid off!
Was the whole thing predicated on misunderstandings, about a stolen janitor cart, that wasn't stolen, and a missing raise, that wasn't missing?
And does that make me a huge idiot?
Yes to both. But... it's also true that I'm one of the few reliable people they have, and that's worth something.
And yes, I'm sworn to secrecy about the raise.
In other news, I did glaze the back of Window B today.
As you can see, it was amateur hour out there on the porch with that tube of glaze this afternoon!
I thought it would be thicker... more like clay... but it was the same consistency as ordinary caulk... which is really messy when you're doing a super wide bead.
So I did the best I could, and now it's gonna sit there with the fan on it for today, tomorrow, and all of Saturday.
Chantele called me around 4:30PM to tell me that Darnise would be coming at 6PM, and I needed to be by the back door to let her in, because she lost her badge.
So, at 5:55PM I dropped everything and sat in the office by the back door.
Thirty minutes later... at 6:25PM, Darnise finally came strolling in.
So... what was I saying up there about being one of the few reliable employees?
On the Brian front, he'd been saying his new car had a bad smell inside, since the day he got it... and was making a big deal about all the lengths he was going to, to get rid of the terrible smell.
Then today, out of curiosity, he googled, "chevy cruze bad smell," and turned up a TV news piece on YouTube warning that the Chevy Cruze has a terrible defect where the coolant leaks into the car and pools under the floor mats, creating a terrible smell that can poison people.
It was a very alarming piece, with several witnesses, and the reporter rented a Cruze to test it out, and could smell the smell, and it was making him ill!
He brought it to a shop and sure enough, they found coolant under the floor mats!
Brian then added that his own mechanic, who'd checked his own Chevy Cruze, DID notice that the coolant was low... even though they'd topped it off at the dealership a few days before!
Needless to say, this alarmed Colleen, Kevin, and Sheila, all of whom were telling him to take advantage of his option to reject it in the first 30 days for a different car.
No brainer, right?
But suddenly Brian was reassuring everybody that it probably wasn't the coolant, and the smell he'd been complaining about really wasn't that bad... and it was almost gone now... and it was probably just from an air freshener that the previous owner had been using.
Everybody was like, "What???"
And they continued to insist... this is a huge red flag... this car is a lemon... I would never keep a car that could be poisoning me...
And Brian countered with, no, it's certainly nothing, but even if there was something wrong, the dealership would have to fix it.
Kevin tried his best to explain that a good car normally just works, and cars that need some kind of a fix, usually break again, or start to have all kinds of other problems.
And he warned Brian that this car could leave him stranded somewhere, or worse, burn a hole in his lung.
But no. Brian's sure that it's fine.
I did not say a damn word the whole time.
I already tried telling him two weeks ago that Chevy's are hot garbage, and he needed to go for a Toyota.
And he went STRAIGHT to a Chevy dealer!
Today, Colleen, Kevin, and Sheila... all his elder siblings, and the ones he supposedly looks up to... got the same treatment.
On the short term, this could be good, because the Chevy will be in the shop 90% of the time, so Brian & Karen will be driving loaner cars from the dealership most of the time.
But once that warranty runs out, it's gonna break down and just sit there like a pile of garbage.
And he'll get ZERO sympathy from any of us about it.
It occured to me today that, now that the glaze on Window B is curing... I can just set Window A on top of it, and get the glass in place and glaze that one too.
I'll start that tomorrow before work, and then both of them will have a week to cure simultaneously.
And now I AM back to thinking that it's probably better to just do a thin bead of Dynaflex Ultra on the front sides.
Dynaflex Ultra is a brand of exterior caulk made by DAP, and it's designed to expand and contract with the heat of summer, and cold of winter, indefinitely. And it's also resistant to mold, mildew, and algae.
Expansion and contraction is actually an issue with the entire system of these storm windows... the wood, the glue, and the glaze will all expand and contract.
But from what I can turn up online, it seems like the storms, as constructed, will tolerate that pretty well.
Dynaflex on the outside is... partly to save time... and partly cosmetic.
Glaze on the front would just be overkill, and make the storms look more klunky.
Yes... doing glaze on the back, and a thin bead of sealant on the front, IS... exactly backward!
And that's just down to me being an amateur.
But at this point I don't care!
Storm windows are not art installations that people come and examine close up and think deeply about.
Storm windows are meant to be seen from far away... in passing... as part of the neighborhood backdrop!
As long as they are blue rectangles, with nicely centered cross bars, that have glass in them... they will PASS!
Meanwhile, from inside the house... yes, they can be seen more closely. But they will still have the sashes and blinds in front of them... and the scenery behind them!
Once again... nobody's gonna be thinking too deeply about them. And as long as they're woodgrain rectangles, with nicely centered cross bars, that have glass... they'll PASS!
I do have to admit though, I do this A LOT!..
Where I put my all into a project, like the fire pit... and it ends up kinda wonky... and I have to justify why THAT'S NOT IMPORTANT, THOUGH!
All I can say is... that is perfectly in keeping with the entirety of this house!
This house was amateur DIY from it's inception, and has remained so, for four generations.
As it's fifth owner... only I have the lack of skill necessary to keep that tradition alive!
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