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I woke up earlier to the sound of thunder. Almost completely without pause for several minutes. And the flash of lightning. Drifted in and out of sleep for a bit, and it got closer until it was a series of deafening cracks.

Yeah, that storm was centered right over my neighborhood. It was impressive. I watched it from my bed. Heavy, pelting rain, hail, thunder and lightning that just didn't stop til the storm passed.

I wonder if it did anything for the humidity, which was literally nauseating this morning.

edit: According to the weather channel, it did a good bit. Dunno about the humidity but the temperature is only 84 degrees, feels like 87. Sounds like a drastic improvement from 8 this morning when I thought I was going to be sick walking out of my office.

Someone got fired in my department today for schedule adherance. I can't say I'm the least bit surprised. And literally half the department is on final warning for the same reason- seems they made an example of the worst offender and told the rest they're next in line. (No, I'm not one of those.) It's impressively disturbing. Of course people are complaining about it. They actually have to pay attention to their schedule adherence now or worry about getting fired.

*sigh* stupid people, it's work, not Romper Room. No, you really don't have a right to complain when you consistently take 20-25 minute breaks instead of 15 minute breaks and come in ten minutes late 3 out of five days.

So around 3 in the morning, one of our operations managers, Chuck decides to come and visit. There's only me and one other person there at that time of the night, and we were a bit confused to see him. Apparently he lives just down the road from the office and is a chronic insomniac so he decided to come in and see what we actually do in the middle of the night. it was uneventful. He pulled up a chair and chitchatted a bit, asked us about the job and all that fun stuff. He was extremely amused to see me knitting and let us know that if we ever needed anything in the middle of the night, we could just give him a call. He attempted to give Tony his monthly review so Rich didn't have to stay til after midnight on Friday but couldn't access it. But he did tell us what our bonuses for this month would be. Mine is exactly what I expected it to be so I'm happy. Chuck's relatively new to the office and I like him a lot more than our other OM...she just creeps me out, and it was pretty cool that he bothered to come in and see what we were doing at 3am, and said he would probably do so every few weeks or so.

Comments

[falnfenix]

dude...that storm was IN-FUCKING-SANE. we were heading for the shuttle down at the hospital when it hit. my poor newb wore suede sandals to work today - needless to say, we waited for the next shuttle before heading outside.

sleepy wetness

[darkfiremoon.livejournal.com]

Oh girl do I feel yer pain. I got to sleep around noon and starting at 1:15 the crazy ass thunder invaded my dreams. Ha wasn't dreaming 'bout Thor though. Gardening in a way, my dream view of Highland Farms is weird, but I digress...I thought I could sleep through it then the brown out happened and blew one fuse, there went the living room a/c. Then as I drifted back to sleep the second fuse blew and my bedroom suddenly had no a/c. Oy....Took till almost 3:30 to get back to sleep and I had to get up at 5pm...the joys of sleeping during the day LOL. At least I don' have to water my garden today.

[ivyluna.livejournal.com]

We had a storm right over our house as well, and suffered a brief power outage. The relief we felt afterward was wellllll worth it! The humidity has been deadly!