“I’ve called this all-hands meeting to touch base vis-a-vis optimizing the fourth quarter deliverables going forward. I’ll need out-of-the-box thinking from every team player, starting with you, Ramona. What action items do you have in the pipeline? Ramona? Ramona?“
We can circle back to Ramona later, Andrew Y.
I think Ramona gave it all she had, I’d leave her be if I was you.
Our fourth quarter just ended…normally I would work from home tomorrow but my boss asked us to be in the office an extra day this week since it’s the end of the fiscal year. Not sure I even have four work-worthy outfits to wear at this point…
Is that a strawberry on her collar? 🍓 Or maybe a mushroom? 🍄
I am so glad that I work at a place that follows the calendar year now. Weird fiscal years just feel, well weird.
Our year used to be February to January, then we acquired the College division and switched to their fiscal year because the beginning of the typical winter semester isn’t exactly a good time for College to be trying to close out the year. We later sold them off again but I guess they didn’t want to go through the hassle of switching back.
that makes sense for a college, I remember working at the bank, the Fed didn’t understand what ‘holidays” or weekends were. Espeically New Years so they’d order in huge trolleys of sandwiches on Dec 31st.
What’s really fun is that my vacation and personal time go by my anniversary date, which is October, so I have to use them by the end of September, but my floating holidays and sick time are on the calendar year, so have to make sure I keep track properly.
I have nothing to offer re: fiscal years, but I think it’s a strawberry.
The shape suggests strawberry; it was the white spots that made me think mushroom.
You could well be right, it might indeed be a toadstool. The spots look to me like they’re meant to be seeds, but I’m no expert.
She’ll wake up once she hears the paradigm break.
This is me in every meeting ever! I had to resort to “taking notes” (ie news scrolling, game playing, email perusing, etc.) on my phone so I could stay awake.
remember these during the pandemic?
Oh yes!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I remember some of the videos that circulated about what not to do on a Zoom/Teams call. Who could forget the lawyer who turned himself into a cat? Or naked people walking through the backgound? Or the one that had me on the floor, a lady went to use the bathroom, brought her computer in so as not to miss anything, and forgot to turn off her mic AND her camera????!! Talk about awkward! And I know it was prepandemic but remember that BBC interview when the kids rolled into the room and then the mom came to get them out. Meanwhile dad didn’t miss a beat. One of the funniest videos ever.
To be fair to the lawyer, I think it was his granddaughter who turned him into a cat; he just couldn’t figure out how to turn it off.
You all are bringing back hysterical memories.
Cat-lawyer is my fave Zoom blooper for sure.
Especially when the lawyer said “I am not a cat…”. 😂
“Shut up. I am thinking very hard, and any one can see that I am not in a box.”
This could be me. There’s lots to do in the near future but I need my boss to make decisions before I can proceed.
Also Ramona is adorable.