Marguerite
Active Member
G'day, people.
easy child 2/difficult child 2 picked up her wedding dress today. It is absolutely beautiful! I met her at the final fitting (8.15 am!) so they could show me how to lace it up at the back. We have a young friend who can't come to the wedding (along with her parents, good friends of ours) and easy child 2/difficult child 2 had invited this young girl to meet with her once we had the dress, so we could take some photos with her as if she was a guest at the wedding. So back at easy child 2/difficult child 2's apartment we did just that. And somehow I botched the lacing up, I don't know what I did wrong. It looked OK but was harder to pull tight and I heard a stitch give way. The dress looks OK though, I think it was just a single stitch on the well-sewn in top loop.
This afternoon we did some tidying up (it's a street rubbish collection on Monday) then husband & I cooked dinner. husband did the steak, I did some vegetables.
Tonight easy child 2/difficult child 2 texted me, her problems with her boss are escalating. She tried to talk to a supervisor but was toldto send her complaint to head office. Now she is being punished for having complained, and has been told she must never contact head office. But she's being told this by the person she complained about.
I'm not sure, but I think this kind of bullying is illegal... I'm going to make some enquiries on Monday, but it seems to me that her boss is trying to make life at work so nasty, she will resign. And once she resigns she won't have any recourse.
For the moment she's keeping her head down and playing dumb, doing what she's told by the boss even though it's undermining her position as shift supervisor. Give him plenty of rope, I told her. But there needs to be some suitable conflict resolution procedure in place and she shouldn't be getting victimised because she complained in exactly the way the boss's supervisor told her to do!
Enjoy your Saturday. Despite it still being wintry cold at night here, during the day we can smell spring.
Marg
easy child 2/difficult child 2 picked up her wedding dress today. It is absolutely beautiful! I met her at the final fitting (8.15 am!) so they could show me how to lace it up at the back. We have a young friend who can't come to the wedding (along with her parents, good friends of ours) and easy child 2/difficult child 2 had invited this young girl to meet with her once we had the dress, so we could take some photos with her as if she was a guest at the wedding. So back at easy child 2/difficult child 2's apartment we did just that. And somehow I botched the lacing up, I don't know what I did wrong. It looked OK but was harder to pull tight and I heard a stitch give way. The dress looks OK though, I think it was just a single stitch on the well-sewn in top loop.
This afternoon we did some tidying up (it's a street rubbish collection on Monday) then husband & I cooked dinner. husband did the steak, I did some vegetables.
Tonight easy child 2/difficult child 2 texted me, her problems with her boss are escalating. She tried to talk to a supervisor but was toldto send her complaint to head office. Now she is being punished for having complained, and has been told she must never contact head office. But she's being told this by the person she complained about.
I'm not sure, but I think this kind of bullying is illegal... I'm going to make some enquiries on Monday, but it seems to me that her boss is trying to make life at work so nasty, she will resign. And once she resigns she won't have any recourse.
For the moment she's keeping her head down and playing dumb, doing what she's told by the boss even though it's undermining her position as shift supervisor. Give him plenty of rope, I told her. But there needs to be some suitable conflict resolution procedure in place and she shouldn't be getting victimised because she complained in exactly the way the boss's supervisor told her to do!
Enjoy your Saturday. Despite it still being wintry cold at night here, during the day we can smell spring.
Marg