Developments with the transition to the new office at work. I asked my supervisor when he wanted me to move over to the new building. He said he didn't care, but warned that once I went over he wasn't going to be signing my timesheets or anything so if I don't have a supervisor I won't be getting paid. Since, you know, he can't very well supervise me when I'm all the way over in a different facility. This sounds like it's just a reflection of the deep suspicion for remote work a guy who has a two-hour daily commute inexplicably has. But he has got a fair point in that if I'm already administratively in a different department and never in the same building, in what meaningful way is he supervising me?
So I reported this to the people who are going over, and who are putting together plans for when to make the move. Their general consensus is to do it during the office days the last week of this month. (If nothing else, it'll make it easier to move the office equipment --- we were told verbally to just take our monitors and docking stations and stuff over to the new building ourselves --- if we're a large group going past the security guard. On my own, I'd want it in writing and shown the guard ahead of time.) And the person overseeing the move wrote down notes, so something might be coming of this.
Because this is probably not something to be settled immediately. They haven't hired the person who's to be my grand-boss at the new facility. I think they are almost ready to list it (so people wanting to be above me in the chain of command, check the Michigan state jobs postings). But they haven't even got that far with the people who'll be underneath that, the my-boss level of things. This on the reasonable theory that in setting up a brand-new division the grand-boss ought to be able to pick their team. But past experience suggests this will take quite some time.
There is a potential hack, though. There's no reason that the division chief, the former firefighter who explained everything to us during the field trip last week, can't be supervisor enough at least for the interim. We'll see how long that takes to sort out.
Also my boss, coming in at the end of the day to reiterate that his hard line was nothing personal about me, just (fairly) that he feels left out of a big reorganization that should be consulting him and that I blindsided him with this first thing in the morning like that. I asked him just before lunch, and pointed that out. He didn't realize he needed quite so long to get started in the morning. Also he pointed out I should know how skittish he is. I challenged him: in our relationship, he's the timid one? Not timid, he said, skittish, and yeah, I guess that's fair.
That's a lot about work so please have just a little of KennyKon:
It's Spinvasion! One of the rides that we KennyKon attendees had exclusive ride time on after the park closed. We got on for a ride, although just the one, which seems to have been most everyone's experience. Later on we'd see the ride empty, with a couple bored ride operators around, and felt bad but also like it would be awkward to go up and ride it.
It's a fun ride, bit of an intense one when you've been going out and about for thirteen hours now and it was a hot, muggy day, but still you see how attractive it looks by night.
It's very hard to get a picture that shows the side-to-side swinging of the rigid pendulums but trust me, it's there. I do like how the more distant arms have a ghostly and insubstantial look thanks to the light effects and all.
And here's the other exclusive ride time feature: The Phantom's Revenge, which is why we weren't worried about getting onto this by day. You can see plenty of ACE people were here and they would re-ride it until they got sick.
Here we are, ready and waiting for a front-seat ride. (Doesn't ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger look great? I mean, she always does, but particularly here.)
Here's a photo from near the exit: the tunnel clearly was some part of an old ride or feature but what? No way to know except by getting up and walking all the way across the room for that little Kennywood pocket guide I got or maybe checking on Wikipedia but that's so much work, you know?
Trivia: It was not until 1900 that British corporate law required that shareholders of joint stock companies be given audited accounts. (General incorporation law came in the 1862 Companies Act.) Source: The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge.
Currently Reading: Interesting Stories for Curious People: A Collection of Fascinating Stories About History, Science, Pop Culture, and Just About Anything Else You Can Think Of, Bill O'Neill.
PS: What's Going On In Gil Thorp? Are Gil and Mimi Thorp Divorced? November 2023 - February 2024, and the answer is ``yes''.
