June 20, 2026
The Banality of Girlbossing
Banality lurks below the fold.
As compensation here is a song that, while not my cup of tea, still knocks it out of the park thanks to the superb editing of Calvin C. Shinobi..
WHELP!
Yesterday was supposed to be my retirement date. As noted on stream last night this was not the case.
My retirement is denied.
Not permanently mind you, but I must go to work Monday.
Because reasons.
All of the reasons are very silly.
The company no longer has a personnel department. After the I.P.O., this very useful institution was replaced by an H.R. department.
The H.R. department handles everything online via computer website and assistance in negotiating the process of retirement is no longer handled by specialists in the process, but by tech support people who will assist one with interacting with the website.
The tech support line will, after several minutes of placing the caller on hold, consistently hang up on anyone who chooses "retirement Issues" as an option.
After nearly two weeks of being unable to get my retirement confirmed because of what appeared to be a software issue, I hacked the system after several days of this runaround by selecting a different issue than retirement, pretending to be mentally disabled (at least I think....I hope I was pretending) and actually speaking to a human being rather than a c%$#!*r.
This resulted in getting a bit of tech support that could have easily been programmed seamlessly into any LLM.
"The retirement website needs to be accessed in Microsoft Edge or Safari"
However the fix itself indicates that the problem does not actually lie with the A.I. itself, but with the [derogatory term goes here] that manages the H.R. website.
So I got my approval.
Fast forward to Thursday, and I was informed that since the technical fix had taken so long to process the time between the approval date and the retirement date was less than 14 business days and therefore my retirement submission was invalid.
HOWEVER! THERE IS GOOD NEWS!
The reason for the panicky, compressed timeline was that the facility where I worked was being shut down. I was about to be transferred to another location roughly an hour's commute away and accessible via toll roads.
Instead of my retirement I was informed that a decision had been made after 6 weeks to not do this.
The reason for this decision to reverse the previous decision was that the company I work for has as its C.E.O. a girlboss. Note that this is not the same as a C.E.O. who happens to be a woman. A person's plumbing has little effect on their overall management ability.
A girlboss is someone who lives down to all the (usually) unfair negative stereotypes of women in management and has sadism in their mental decision flow chart slightly above cost benefit analysis.
SO: the day before my erstwhile retirement date. The C.E.O. was (reportedly) in a conference call with the regional and building managers screaming at them in an attempt to find out why on earth they were transferring the employees to other buildings when the building being shut down meant that there would be no more work. The whole point of the was seemingly to fire them
(Reportedly) she had explained to her several times that the work being transferred to the other buildings still needed to be done, that those buildings were already at capacity which would result in a net increase in person-hours and that any personnel adjustment ought to be done by the remaining buildings. Furthermore any reductions in staffing were likely to come from clerical positions which are logistically easier to consolidate.
Clerical positions are overwhelmingly occupied by people whose heraldry includes "the order of the lady parts" and "the escutcheon of the dark skin". At that point in the conversation the C.E.O. (reportedly) earned the moniker of girllboss by (reportedly) saying (again, this is hearsay, but given past events is believable) "Those aren't the people we want to hurt!"
It was further explained that the building will still be needed to manage Christm... HOLIDAY overflow. So the building will have to be maintained and property taxes paid whether or not it is generating any revenue.
REPORTEDLY this information has been sent up the chain multiple times and only at the very last minute, (8 days before the announced move) after multiple people have quit already was it reversed in a conference call.
SO: I have time.
I'll resubmit my retirement at a later date and have, more savings, a job lined up and a place to live without the mad panic that 5 weeks of notice had afforded me.
I am slightly frustrated, but my frustration is well tempered by relief.
But boy-howdy, this week has been hell.
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