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Georgiagranny said:
Effective immediately Kroger has a hiring freeze. At first I thought it was a joke...like April Fool's Day or something. Nope. Hiring freeze. For pity's sake! The newbie was officially on the payroll since last week. Now she isn't, even though she has completed all the on-line training and completed all the paperwork.

I want to cry.
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That makes no sense at all, Kroger reported a good Q2 earnings and told their investors they would expect to be able to have 8 to 11% returns. I guess they plan to do that by having one person do the job of two or three people.

Do you have a union?

If not, here is a link to think about starting one:
https://www.ufcw.org/actions/campaign/kroger-union/#sau-form
 
Apropos the hiring freeze. It has nothing to do with any store. It has to do with corporate IT rolling out a new company-wide program to "benefit" employees. The program being used now was rolled out a few months ago. Works fine. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Kroger employees have a union. The union will do nothing. The union doesn't do anything except collect dues. I've been there almost a year, and AFAIK, there has not been a union meeting during this time. Because there's a union, no employee who's management is allowed to pitch in and "take" work away from the hired help.

Anyway, never mind. The problem is that we still have no help and now won't get any. By the time the freeze is lifted, the person who was hired will probably have found another job. I doubt that she'd have quit the one she had if she'd known she'd be without a paycheck for however long the freeze lasts.
 

Today is gray and rainy. I did both a Walmart and a Wegman's shopping trip. And then during a break in the rain I went for a short walk. Feeling quite tired, but still need to do laundry.

The past few days were much better than today, Saturday I drove an hour and a half to get to the opposite side of the city to watch the Washington International Horse Show. It is a week long show and I used to practically live at it the whole week, in olden times I'd volunteer at the info desk and get free tickets and t-shirt. It has changed since my day, a new venue (a good thing) but no fudge vendor booth which was a disappointment. They used to have lots of flavors, pumpkin, maple nut, choco pb, etc., and I'd go home from the show with several tiny boxes. Sadly the fudge people no longer do the show. I only stayed for a daytime show of the young riders (since I am old enough now to want to get home before dark), which turned out to have free admittance for seniors (and free parking too!). So other than the quarter tank of gas for the round-trip, it was an economical entertainment.

Yesterday I started a new museum - previously I was visiting the Natural History Museum, now I've started seeing the National Gallery of Art museum. Already I can tell it is going to take many trips to see it all. So far I saw a lot of fancy looking furniture of various periods (I liked the little animal paw feet on some of the styles), and then looked at some Degas and Rodin sculpture pieces. Turns out what I thought was a disgusting lack of taste on my father's part when he once brought home a sculpture of a naked man and woman kissing, is actually Rodin's 'The Kiss'. So, score one for Dad, and I need to learn about art. Ha ha.
 
Today was my weekly "day off." I find it interesting to see what I do when I don't have to do anything.

I checked some expat info online. Found some science questions for the trivia game. Puttered a bit (organized a cupboard, things like that).

Now that I finally have my free pool pass, I guess I'll go to the pool tomorrow. I hope I have a swimsuit that fits. I haven't been in a body of water for ... 10 years?

PS. I lied. The thread on nudity reminded me that I did go in the ocean, nude, a few times in recent years. Good times. I hate bathing suits actually.
 
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I took my last antibiotic yesterday, and I'm feeling good! Today, I'm going to start getting back to being me! (Look out, world! 😁).

My plans for today include getting a pot of barley mushroom soup started, then going outside to move logs that were cut last winter! 😁

It's going to be a good day!
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Well it rained heavily all night, so everything is wet today.. albeit that the sun is out now.. but it;s very windy.. In parts here in the south last night there was quite a bit of storm damage , mainly nearest the coast..

It's forecast to rain again from around 2pm ..( it's 12.30pm now)...

I too all the Halloween decor cleared away this morning, I've just got to get it into the attic now.. which is a trial in itself tbh.. means a lot of heavy lifting with big ladders and attic door.. anyway I'll get it done asap, I hate stuff lying around waiting to be put away..

Waiting in today for an Amazon delivery...
 
Trick and treaters were out in full force last nite.
The weather made a wonderful evening.
I’ve been in town since 2016, and last nite was the most littles ones I’ve ever had.
Prior years was either, cold, raining, snowing.
Counted 68 treaters…..other than the bags I did up for the grandkids, I had this strange feeling that I should stock up on treats this year.
So got all the things I like…..but none left for me…..that’s a good thing.
Now the parents and teachers get to deal with the sugar high for a long while. 😉😏😃😀😆.
 
My guilty-pleasure murder shows (pleasure?!! ;))...how come the women who get killed are always beautiful and have smiles that light up a room? Don't homely women who have snaggle-tooth smiles ever get killed?

@hollydolly My mother always said "dark as the inside of a cow's belly". No idea how she knew how dark that would be.
 
just got back from taking my new car for an hours drive to run her in ...

yep she drove well...very pleased with her,

hubby loved it also viewing the farms and animals on our journey ..

a nice smooth ride , much better than the mercedes
 
It rained all morning, but started clearing up by noon. Spent a small fortune in the shops, which is an improvement on the large fortune we usually spend. Things went OK till Tesco where there were long queues at the checkout. We went through a self service checkout, but it wouldn't accept our empty shopping bags - apparently too heavy. Got that sorted, but the scanner was so slow and by the time we finished, the queues had largely gone.

Anyway, the sun is shining now. Mrs. L got a present of one of these 'laundry eggs ' which as well as cleaning your clothes, apparently saves the planet. We had considered buying one, but the reviews were so bad, we didn't bother. We'll give it a try and see if it works.
 
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