Happy St. Patrick's Day

Happy Saint Patrick's Day to all.  I apparently have a little Irish in my background, but mostly I'm of German descent.  I learned an odd fact about the way German's "celebrate" this holiday.  Apparently there is quite a rift between German's and the Irish.  (Not sure if that is still true today, but at one time that was the case.)  So, because of this dislike of the Irish, the German's took to wearing Orange on March 17th in protest of St. Patty's Day!  I've heard before that you can wear either orange or green today, but didn't know why.  I always just stick with green.

Anyway, I learned that tidbit tonight at school.  We had our final for Computer Applications, which took two hours to do!  Quite the work out.  My poor brain was fried when it was over.  But after that, we were introduced to the next class - Introduction to Management.  The teacher for that class gave us the head's up on St. Patty and the Germans!

She also gave an overview of the class and it doesn't seem like it will be as dull as I thought.  Two reasons:  The teacher is very nice and interesting and she said she has learned the most about teaching this class from the Horrible Bosses movies.  We are going to have discussions on some of the awful bosses we may have had in the past, or maybe even have now.  I do have some stories to tell on that front!  I've been working since I was 16 so that is 40 years in the work force.  At the beginning it was sporadic to say the least, but still that's a lot of time to evaluate the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of the bosses I've had.

One story goes something like this.  I worked at a different bank early on and had this one boss who apparently was very paranoid.  She always assumed if she could see any of us talking to each other, that we had to be talking about her.  In one of my reviews, she marked me way low on being respectful to her, or something like that.  I was shocked, because I couldn't for the life of me know what she was talking about.  I asked her when was I ever disrespectful.  Her comment was that I hadn't done anything directly to her but she could just see my body language and knew I was thinking bad thoughts about her.  Another evaluation, she said that in June (mind you, evaluations were in December) she saw me talking to another teller on a break and knew we were making fun of her because she had a garage sale!  The think is, neither one of us knew anything about this garage sale; and I had now explanation of what we were talking about that day in June because 6 months had passed.  My guess is that we were deciding what to eat for lunch.

I have never seen Horrible Bosses, but am thinking I need to watch the movies.

With that, I think I'd better sign off for now.