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We have a new-ish public folder in Outlook at work, called "VendorReports." Can you guess what goes in there? Vendor reports! Promo files, cost change files, that sort of shit.
Yesterday there was an email in there from the Meat Lead at the Greenlake Aurora store, with the subject: "Inappropriate Shirt For a Plymouth Driver To Be Wearing." It CCed the Store Director; the Assistant Store Director; the Meat and Seafood Merchandiser; and the Meat Operations Manager (the latter two work in-office a day or two a week). There is no visible CC to the VendorReports account, which must mean it was blind-CCed?? Strange thing to do, and I can only assume it was the result of a typo when attempting to send to some other alias. Or! Maybe this person saw the existing alias "VendorReports" and assumed it was where to report issues with our vendors? That literally just occurred to me while writing this very paragraph.
Anyway, the email was actually forwarding one from the Grocery Coordinator at the store, to store staff and not office staff. That one included a fairly grainy photo of the driver in question. I could see that the top of the shirt read, PRISON IS PERFECT FOR LIBERALS, but the bullet points below it are not legible. But, all I had to do was google the top portion and I found
the same shirt on Etsy, so you can read it there. You can buy it for $5.53!
And, after reading the whole thing:
yeesh.
I bet that idiot paid way more than five bucks for the shirt he was actually wearing.
The person who sent in the email even attached a screnshot of our Anti-Harrassment Policy. For a minute I wondered whether it was a stretch to apply that policy here: "unwelcome or offensive conduct aimed at someone based on their being part of a protected class." I mean,
liberals are not a protected class. Then I finally zeroed in on the last bullet point: the reference to "same-sex relationship" is pretty clearly homophobic. Yuck.
It was fascinating, though, to get a glimpse into an area of the business I tend not to be privy to, in a rather unlikely place. Honestly this is one of thousands of reasons I am so grateful I work at the office and not in the stores. Being much more secluded from the general public, I feel far more respected by default than I might in a store.
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As for last night, I went yet again to see a movie—this time a regular one, not part of the Tasveer Film Festival: the new adaptation of
Sense and Sensibility, which I really enjoyed. In spite of that, I am now eager to rewatch the Emma Thompson one from 1995, which won her an Oscar; I suspect I will like that one even more, and particularly the male actors in it.
The movie was at the AMC Pacific Place, at the perfect showtime of 4:45, giving me plenty of time to walk the few blocks over there without having to leave work early. It has a runtime of 132 minutes, so with the standard half an hour of trailers and commercials beforehand but subtracting the credits, I was out of there at about 7:15. I decided to take the bus home; I'm not sure why except that for some reason I just didn't feel like walking. It saved me a bit of time, as I then needed to write the review, which I finished at roughly 8:30, giving me plenty of time to be ready to watch the finale of season (or "series," as the British would say it) six of
Slow Horses on Apple TV. It was very good.
Oh, shit. We need to watch a bunch of episodes of the latest season of
Silo tonight, as my subscription ends on Friday.
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I just had what is typically a Friday / biweekly Zoom lunch with Karen, but which she reschuled from Friday this week to today due to a scheduling conflict. Before we ended the call, we did the same with our next scheduled lunch, which will now be on Thursday November 5 rather than November 6. And eventually we will need to reschedule the lunch on Friday December 18, probably to Thursday the 17th, because she is scheduled to get a
cochlear implant for her right ear on that day.
(Naturally I once again told her about the excellent movie
Sound of Metal, which she still has not seen; the main character eventually gets one of these impants in that movie. In his case, it's made to seem like it may have been a mistake, but his circumstances are very different than Karen's, and as I said to her today, I would fully expect she would have done all the necessary research to make an informed decision. Apparently another friend, who is also hard of hearing, kind of tried to get her to reconsider.)
Anyway, I also told her all about Shobhit's performance in
The Jury Experience on October 11, which I have been dying to be able to tell her about. Shobhit did get an email yesterday basically suggesting he make sure he's fully off-book in a way he wasn't quite during those performances. He was reacting to it with real defensiveness, but I told him it was actually fair. Not only that, but it was far more respectful than just letting him go without warning, as happened with
The Foreigner earlier this year. At least now Shobhit knows what he needs to do to make sure he succeeds, and I have full faith that he can do it.
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