Oof, this holiday season is really approaching at plaid.
42 thoughts on “November 25, 2109: Hyperspeed”
Catching up on winter ball:
Jonathan Cheshire:
Friday, he pitched a third of an inning, walking one and striking out one, as Escogido lost to Estrellas 6-5 in ten innings.
Sunday, he pitched two-thirds of an inning, retiring both men he faced, as Escogido lost to the Toros 8-6.
For the season, Cheshire is 2-0, 1.08, 0.60 WHIP with 3 walks and 9 strikeouts in 8.1 innings (14 games).
Escogido is 19-15, in second place, two games behind the Toros.
Randy LeBlanc:
I can't find him in a box score, but the season stats say he played in a second game. For the season, he is 0-1, 5.06, 1.50 WHIP. He has walked 2 and struck out 2 in 5.1 innings (2 games)
His Mayaguez team is 3-3, in third place, two games behind Carolina.
Aaron Whitefield:
Friday, he was 1-for-4 with a double and a run as Adelaide defeated Brisbane 10-3.
Saturday, in game one, he was 1-for-3 with a run and two RBIs as Adelaide defeated Brisbane 4-0.
In game two, he was 2-for-3 with two walks, a run, and an RBI as Adelaide defeated Brisbane 6-5.
Sunday, he was 1-for-4 with a grand slam as Adelaide defeated Brisbane 6-5.
For the season, he is batting .357/.438/.643 in 14 at-bats (4 games).
Adelaide is 4-0, in first place, one game ahead of Perth and Geelong-Korea.
I'm also having a bit of a moral quandary and am seeking some input. Four years ago I was passed over when the institution fired my then boss and hired my new boss. They had trouble pulling the trigger on hiring me because I had some sincerely insubordinate colleagues and because I was too new to the organization. I was wounded, but understood the complexity of the situation and went about doing my job. Quickly it became clear that new boss was like the old boss, but with one much worse 'trait' - he couldn't stop talking about women in a sexual way - including coworkers and his subordinates. He brandished nude photos an acquaintance sent him throughout the office even after a group protest that he was making the men around him uncomfortable. He was generally a turd of a human. A female subordinate was fired for just reasons and we set about the search for a replacement and settled on clearly the best choice who turned out to be a young, attractive female artist. She's been the best colleague I've ever had the pleasure to work with, but of course our horndog boss had to take a pass her. I think I wrote a bit about it here at the time, October of last year, and I encouraged her to go to HR. At the time she was too new to the job, felt like she'd get in trouble, felt like she was responsible for the repeated sexual advances he made, thought she could manage him by repeatedly and loudly saying no .... The knowledge of what was happening in the office was killing me, and the turd's continued mismanagement of the team was mounting. Well, Thursday the straw broke the camels back, and a petty incident led my team to all go to HR and the floodgates opened. First we all documented the management issues - it was a volatile, unpredictable and abusive working environment to say the least - and the HR manager was visibly upset by our stories, but clearly not interested in major discipline because turd be turd. Then the sexual stuff -with contemporary documentation - came to light and the HR manager began to apologize to us about the support this monster was give for the last four years...... (I'm still pissed about some of this but this is too long for me to write any more ....) Needless to say he was fired on Friday.
Now the questions - I want to burn the MF'er to the ground. This town is too small, and I want to ensure that he never gets to manage anyone / work in museums ever again. I can very, very easily do this, but should I?
And now a colleague who was hired with him 4 years ago (a good craftsperson, a good prep person, but someone who had no experience in museums until 4 years ago - whom I trained on best practice and how to work in a museum) is making noise about wanting that job despite the obvious fact that I have many, many more years experience and twice as many years on this job as him. He required we meet to discuss the future and expressed that he's going to apply for the job. There is no opening, and the administration told me that they plan to study structure for a hot minute before deciding on a search. How do i avoid a power struggle with this guy when the entire rest of the institution is already regarding me as the boss of the prep team?
No suggestions on the second question. As to the first, I think you are absolutely obligated to speak truthfully about the many horrible things you know about Turd Ferguson. Of course, it is up to you whether to take to the bully pulpit or wait for when (or even if) you get asked about him.
I do agree with this. I think it is also important to remember that the reason you are speaking out (whether when asked or otherwise), and, indeed, the reason there is an obligation, is for the sake of preventing future harm, not retaliating for past harm. I'd try to find a way of phrasing that made it clear this was the case. "Although I hope he gets the rehabilitation he needs and lands on his feet, I need to be candid about our past experience..." or something like that?
Part the first - I'd put that asshole on blast on a three state radius, proactively. Anyone you have any contacts with, send them an email, and tell them to send it on. And I would cc everyone so that they can all see how many people got the email to hammer home how important you feel the issue is. But be careful to be as professional as possible - you don't want to be the one coming out of it looking bad if it comes across as a personal grudge instead of your well-considered professional opinion.
The open position - this I have less input for. If the position does remain and becomes open, I would ask your current colleagues to write letters to the hiring committee, if they want, outlining why they think you would be qualified, how they would work well under you, etc. Don't have them go negative on the other guy, but talk up how you'd be a great fit, that you understand the culture of the institution, you are mega-ethical, they'd follow you into the gates of Hell, or what have you.
On the second question, I'm curious: did he come to you in a spirit of openness or obliviousness? I think that would change how I responded to some extent.
On the colleague, tough sitch in the here and now. This is a leadership opportunity for you.
Has anyone called a team meeting to discuss interim issues? Maybe engineer such a meeting with some allies in the group. Is there someone in the group willing to speak up for you as a team leader?
You could 1) try to get him promoted to a bigger position in another department, OR 2) sprinkle salt on his backyard lawn spelling H-A-L-F-B-A-K-E-F.
1 would require great stamina and reserve. 2 would be fun next Spring.
Oooooh.
If you go with 2 please take a pix and post it here.
I think, knowing what you know about the Turd, you have a moral obligation to spread as much manure about him as you can. Regarding the colleague and his ambition, I would probably just smile and nod and keep leading your team to the best of your ability, doing as much discreet self-promotion as decorum allows. If and when the position opens up, get on your steamroller and hit the gas.
The Twins hire a new batting coach: Edgar Varela. I don't know anything about him beyond what's written here, but they certainly didn't hire him because he's a big name.
I know I'm in the extreme minority but I've never liked the baby blue uniforms.
I'm there with you. Though for some reason, I don't mind the baby blue caps.
Bring back the creams as the home jersey, ditch the dark blue alts, and they’d have their best uni set in decades.
I agree!
This is the correct take.
Maybe the most correct take ever.
yes, i would like to subscribe to his newsletter.
Wait, did they already ditch the red abominations?
those grew on me a little.
Fungus will do that.
If they haven’t already, deep six those, too.
As long as the away jersey has "MINNESOTA" across the front
I will say, I hate that makers’ marks are appearing on all the uniform components, now. Prohibiting that was once something that made MLB special.
The wolves are pretty bad, y'all.
The Hawks are the Trae Young Show and nothing else, but a double digit road win is "pretty bad"?
Unrelatedly, I can think of another team that just turned two 3rd period road leads into two OT losses...
**considers writing a Whangdoodle**
**Looks at point streak**
...
To be faaaaaaair, I said this during the third quarter when it looked like they were probably going to brick their way to another loss to an inferior team. Also, outside of KAT, this team just cannot shoot.
They definitely need a couple shooters but they've been better than I thought they would be.
Maybe I'm projecting, but it really doesn't look like Jeff Teague likes playing basketball.
Over the past few days, my antivirus software has been popping up to tell me my browser tried to connect to a website infected with malware. This doesn't happen with every website, and I can't discern any pattern to it, that is, it's not always on news sites or sports sites or tech sites, so it seems fairly random. So there appear to be a significant number of mainstream websites trying to route traffic to a malware injection site. I'm going to dig a little deeper, but I wanted to see if this has happened to anyone else in the past week or so.
Okay, so this is a browser extension javascript/adware injector redirecting to a malware site in the Bahamas. Time to check all of my Chrome extensions.
I switched back to FF on my laptop....
About a week ago I registered for a webinar on ageism in the workplace and, without my knowledge or permission, a WebEx extension got installed, so I think that's the culprit. I've shut it down now to see if I get a recurrence and so far so good. And as I think on it, that webinar was promoted in a sponsored post on, you guessed it, Facebook. Mea culpa.
Uffda. That sucks, but thankfully it sounds like you tracked down the culprit. (How gross, too; I keep needing to order more roll-offs for all the parts of the Internet my brain assigns to the trash.)
Isn't necessarily the website/extension itself: the ad-supported websites contract out to [company] to provide ads and get $$ for displaying them, but those ads sometimes slip in malware/popups. The [company] is the one not doing the due-diligence and checking the ads ahead of time, not the website/extension itself.
I would guess that this is it, honestly.
Sounds right. At any rate I’m not getting the warnings anymore.
Catching up on winter ball:
Jonathan Cheshire:
Friday, he pitched a third of an inning, walking one and striking out one, as Escogido lost to Estrellas 6-5 in ten innings.
Sunday, he pitched two-thirds of an inning, retiring both men he faced, as Escogido lost to the Toros 8-6.
For the season, Cheshire is 2-0, 1.08, 0.60 WHIP with 3 walks and 9 strikeouts in 8.1 innings (14 games).
Escogido is 19-15, in second place, two games behind the Toros.
Randy LeBlanc:
I can't find him in a box score, but the season stats say he played in a second game. For the season, he is 0-1, 5.06, 1.50 WHIP. He has walked 2 and struck out 2 in 5.1 innings (2 games)
His Mayaguez team is 3-3, in third place, two games behind Carolina.
Aaron Whitefield:
Friday, he was 1-for-4 with a double and a run as Adelaide defeated Brisbane 10-3.
Saturday, in game one, he was 1-for-3 with a run and two RBIs as Adelaide defeated Brisbane 4-0.
In game two, he was 2-for-3 with two walks, a run, and an RBI as Adelaide defeated Brisbane 6-5.
Sunday, he was 1-for-4 with a grand slam as Adelaide defeated Brisbane 6-5.
For the season, he is batting .357/.438/.643 in 14 at-bats (4 games).
Adelaide is 4-0, in first place, one game ahead of Perth and Geelong-Korea.
I'm also having a bit of a moral quandary and am seeking some input. Four years ago I was passed over when the institution fired my then boss and hired my new boss. They had trouble pulling the trigger on hiring me because I had some sincerely insubordinate colleagues and because I was too new to the organization. I was wounded, but understood the complexity of the situation and went about doing my job. Quickly it became clear that new boss was like the old boss, but with one much worse 'trait' - he couldn't stop talking about women in a sexual way - including coworkers and his subordinates. He brandished nude photos an acquaintance sent him throughout the office even after a group protest that he was making the men around him uncomfortable. He was generally a turd of a human. A female subordinate was fired for just reasons and we set about the search for a replacement and settled on clearly the best choice who turned out to be a young, attractive female artist. She's been the best colleague I've ever had the pleasure to work with, but of course our horndog boss had to take a pass her. I think I wrote a bit about it here at the time, October of last year, and I encouraged her to go to HR. At the time she was too new to the job, felt like she'd get in trouble, felt like she was responsible for the repeated sexual advances he made, thought she could manage him by repeatedly and loudly saying no .... The knowledge of what was happening in the office was killing me, and the turd's continued mismanagement of the team was mounting. Well, Thursday the straw broke the camels back, and a petty incident led my team to all go to HR and the floodgates opened. First we all documented the management issues - it was a volatile, unpredictable and abusive working environment to say the least - and the HR manager was visibly upset by our stories, but clearly not interested in major discipline because turd be turd. Then the sexual stuff -with contemporary documentation - came to light and the HR manager began to apologize to us about the support this monster was give for the last four years...... (I'm still pissed about some of this but this is too long for me to write any more ....) Needless to say he was fired on Friday.
Now the questions - I want to burn the MF'er to the ground. This town is too small, and I want to ensure that he never gets to manage anyone / work in museums ever again. I can very, very easily do this, but should I?
And now a colleague who was hired with him 4 years ago (a good craftsperson, a good prep person, but someone who had no experience in museums until 4 years ago - whom I trained on best practice and how to work in a museum) is making noise about wanting that job despite the obvious fact that I have many, many more years experience and twice as many years on this job as him. He required we meet to discuss the future and expressed that he's going to apply for the job. There is no opening, and the administration told me that they plan to study structure for a hot minute before deciding on a search. How do i avoid a power struggle with this guy when the entire rest of the institution is already regarding me as the boss of the prep team?
No suggestions on the second question. As to the first, I think you are absolutely obligated to speak truthfully about the many horrible things you know about Turd Ferguson. Of course, it is up to you whether to take to the bully pulpit or wait for when (or even if) you get asked about him.
I do agree with this. I think it is also important to remember that the reason you are speaking out (whether when asked or otherwise), and, indeed, the reason there is an obligation, is for the sake of preventing future harm, not retaliating for past harm. I'd try to find a way of phrasing that made it clear this was the case. "Although I hope he gets the rehabilitation he needs and lands on his feet, I need to be candid about our past experience..." or something like that?
Part the first - I'd put that asshole on blast on a three state radius, proactively. Anyone you have any contacts with, send them an email, and tell them to send it on. And I would cc everyone so that they can all see how many people got the email to hammer home how important you feel the issue is. But be careful to be as professional as possible - you don't want to be the one coming out of it looking bad if it comes across as a personal grudge instead of your well-considered professional opinion.
The open position - this I have less input for. If the position does remain and becomes open, I would ask your current colleagues to write letters to the hiring committee, if they want, outlining why they think you would be qualified, how they would work well under you, etc. Don't have them go negative on the other guy, but talk up how you'd be a great fit, that you understand the culture of the institution, you are mega-ethical, they'd follow you into the gates of Hell, or what have you.
On the second question, I'm curious: did he come to you in a spirit of openness or obliviousness? I think that would change how I responded to some extent.
On the colleague, tough sitch in the here and now. This is a leadership opportunity for you.
Has anyone called a team meeting to discuss interim issues? Maybe engineer such a meeting with some allies in the group. Is there someone in the group willing to speak up for you as a team leader?
You could 1) try to get him promoted to a bigger position in another department, OR 2) sprinkle salt on his backyard lawn spelling H-A-L-F-B-A-K-E-F.
1 would require great stamina and reserve. 2 would be fun next Spring.
Oooooh.
If you go with 2 please take a pix and post it here.
I think, knowing what you know about the Turd, you have a moral obligation to spread as much manure about him as you can. Regarding the colleague and his ambition, I would probably just smile and nod and keep leading your team to the best of your ability, doing as much discreet self-promotion as decorum allows. If and when the position opens up, get on your steamroller and hit the gas.
The Twins hire a new batting coach: Edgar Varela. I don't know anything about him beyond what's written here, but they certainly didn't hire him because he's a big name.
well well well
Yes please!
I know I'm in the extreme minority but I've never liked the baby blue uniforms.
I'm there with you. Though for some reason, I don't mind the baby blue caps.
Bring back the creams as the home jersey, ditch the dark blue alts, and they’d have their best uni set in decades.
I agree!
This is the correct take.
Maybe the most correct take ever.
yes, i would like to subscribe to his newsletter.
Wait, did they already ditch the red abominations?
those grew on me a little.
Fungus will do that.
If they haven’t already, deep six those, too.
As long as the away jersey has "MINNESOTA" across the front
I will say, I hate that makers’ marks are appearing on all the uniform components, now. Prohibiting that was once something that made MLB special.
The wolves are pretty bad, y'all.
The Hawks are the Trae Young Show and nothing else, but a double digit road win is "pretty bad"?
Unrelatedly, I can think of another team that just turned two 3rd period road leads into two OT losses...
**considers writing a Whangdoodle**
**Looks at point streak**
...
To be faaaaaaair, I said this during the third quarter when it looked like they were probably going to brick their way to another loss to an inferior team. Also, outside of KAT, this team just cannot shoot.
They definitely need a couple shooters but they've been better than I thought they would be.
Maybe I'm projecting, but it really doesn't look like Jeff Teague likes playing basketball.
Over the past few days, my antivirus software has been popping up to tell me my browser tried to connect to a website infected with malware. This doesn't happen with every website, and I can't discern any pattern to it, that is, it's not always on news sites or sports sites or tech sites, so it seems fairly random. So there appear to be a significant number of mainstream websites trying to route traffic to a malware injection site. I'm going to dig a little deeper, but I wanted to see if this has happened to anyone else in the past week or so.
Okay, so this is a browser extension javascript/adware injector redirecting to a malware site in the Bahamas. Time to check all of my Chrome extensions.
I switched back to FF on my laptop....
About a week ago I registered for a webinar on ageism in the workplace and, without my knowledge or permission, a WebEx extension got installed, so I think that's the culprit. I've shut it down now to see if I get a recurrence and so far so good. And as I think on it, that webinar was promoted in a sponsored post on, you guessed it, Facebook. Mea culpa.
Uffda. That sucks, but thankfully it sounds like you tracked down the culprit. (How gross, too; I keep needing to order more roll-offs for all the parts of the Internet my brain assigns to the trash.)
Isn't necessarily the website/extension itself: the ad-supported websites contract out to [company] to provide ads and get $$ for displaying them, but those ads sometimes slip in malware/popups. The [company] is the one not doing the due-diligence and checking the ads ahead of time, not the website/extension itself.
I would guess that this is it, honestly.
Sounds right. At any rate I’m not getting the warnings anymore.
That's when you should worry....