Eff off to mean people.

At the start of the pandemic, most people were kind, patient, accommodating. Now that we're all tired of it, people are back to being assholes.

Three people took potshots at me at work this week, personally, for something they screwed up or didn't want to do. I don't TAKE this stuff personally, but man it's exhausting. Earlier, I received phone calls and emails fairly regularly thanking me for the the good work my staff and I were doing in the midst of a pandemic and upheaval. 

I'm tired too. But we're still doing good work, so eff the hell off.

Eff off to C-19. As many of you are aware I work for a large medical research facility, lots of C-19 research going on. Conference call Wednesday - really, really pessimistic outlook from the researchers.  A. Counts going up, lag time from counts increasing to deaths...expect a lot of deaths (starting to happen) B. Expect a huge upswing in counts, period. C. Do not get complacent - this is scary...they don't know much yet about how the mutation to easier transmission effects the virus...may or may not effect deaths, but could increase due to increased transmission numbers D. They simply do not yet know exactly how the virus is transmitted, it's not fitting any of the normal/usual virus methods, might be a mix of droplets/airborne but mask wearing DOES help. E.  CDC just added "runny nose" to symptom list.

Eff off to being called back to work after being furloughed for 2 months just in time for quarter-end close and no time to prepare or catch up on what was done to my accounts!

Eff off to MIL who invited herself over last weekend and proceeded to make a milion passive aggressive comments and undermine DH with SSs. 

Eff off to the sexist HR Director at work, who propose I get a raise last year due to "market comps", because he has no market comps for my position. He proposed a low raise the year before, because he claimed I didn't have enough "experience", but fortunately, I made the case for parity. Guess what, no raises this year, so even though my boss promised to "make it up to me" this year after he realized he messed up by letting the HR Director call the shots, he can't, because I work for a government agency and money is tight now.

Eff off to my boss for not having the balls to push for me to get what I'm worth. I'm the only person who was called out in his evaluation by our Board as someone who added value for him and should be utilized more effectively. I've taken on more work from others who couldn't handle it and I've covered his a$$ with our Board multiple times, but other than telling me "you know I appreciate you", I get no increase again this year. 

Eff off to BM for a variety of reasons, but most recently for being a self-centered, childish POS. DH and I are expecting a baby. When SS told BM, she started crying...no joke, she started crying, leading SS to feel like he needed to be really upset about it, too. Then she sent DH a message over OFW telling him how "selfish" he was being and how he was making his children feel like they were being replaced. Nothing like being totally obvious about whose causing the drama. 

Eff off to people who complain about wearing masks. If you don't want to wear a mask, fine, but avoid other people. I would rather not be stuck in COVID-19 quarantine forever, so if masks contain this thing, I'm happy to wear one. 

Eff off to:

- This job. I despise it. Silver lining: it's my last day. I've accepted a management position with my organization. Going to be a lot of work but challenging.

- The heat wave. Where's the rain they promised today? I'm sick of sweating like a pig!

- SO, for every reason possible. That man is trying.