Snow day and taxes

Yes, it snowed here as expected and while I think we only had 4-5 inches around the metro area, other areas farther north and south got 10-12 inches.
Work was like a ghost town for the first few hours but about 75% finally made it in by 10 am.  The rest took a "snow day," including the guy that has officially given his notice and is quitting next week.
Perhaps it is rude of me to say, but according to my co-worker he was already talking about the potential "snow day" before he left early Friday afternoon, when there was all of a dusting predicted for Sunday night so I wasn't too surprised when my boss told me he opted to stay home. 
Guess he figured since he's on his way out anyway, no need to bust his butt and try to get any work done in his remaining 6 days.  Wonder if he got to do any sledding on his day off today?!?

In other news, after being a slacker, I finally finished my taxes and D's and got them filed tonight.  It may have been the only productive thing I accomplished today.  I had all intentions of taking both of our returns and creating a joint return for giggles.  Actually, I wanted to see how screwed we would be not having any deductions.  Typically I get a refund which is like bonus money for me (more wedding funds!) but D make sure that he nearly breaks even.  We'll see what getting married does to us for 2015....and we'll see if I actually get around to our "mock" joint return for 2014.

First major snow of 2015?

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Even though it seems like everyone else has been hit hard with winter and snow already, we're just getting started here.
First winter storm of the season is supposed to hit STL later this afternoon into tomorrow evening.  The snow was first predicted as a dusting to 1" and as of this morning its now 3" to 6" but with a possibility of as much as 10" for our area.  Fun, fun, fun!
I'm holding out to see what really happens but at this point, I'm wishing it will snow enough to keep me from walking or possibly driving the 8 blocks to work.  (Yeah, really wishful thinking!  Can you tell how much I don't want to deal with work tomorrow?!?)

We'll see what happens....

Cracking jokes

As probably everyone knows D and I work for the same company and in the same group even though we do two completely different jobs.  He recently moved into Export Logistics from Domestic Logistics and for the past 2 years I've been the Export Sales Accountant.  Export isn't much harder than Domestic, there is just bigger sales and a few more details to worry about when loading a vessel rather than a train or barge.  I've been showing him the ropes over the last month as he's the Logistics Coordinator I work directly with in order to get a good portion of my job done.
D sent an email out at work this morning notifying the sales, logistics and accounting group about a export vessel nomination. The vessel name is Tana Sea. 

So I sent him a side email:
How does someone from the deep south say the name of the state where Memphis, Nashville and Knoxville are located?

Tana Sea

I was expecting he would groan at my bad joke but instead he sent me back an email....

Good one!  That was really funny!  :)

 

I'm not known for cracking many jokes and he's usually the one that makes me and everyone else laugh around the office (and at home for that matter), but I had to pat myself on the back for being clever enough to come up with that one.

Not impressed

So I was finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel this week at work and I had even started working out at lunch again after a LONG hiatus and what happens?  My work world comes to a screeching halt once again as the newbie hired a mere 4 weeks ago already turns in his notice because the job is just "too much responsibility" for him.  Really?!?
When we (me and another co-worker) interviewed him in mid-December, we used almost scare tactics to see if he could handle the position he was applying for and ironically he impressed us with his ambition and everything he had already learned in such a short work history.  We explained, you come in and hit the ground running and our boss does not follow up to make sure the job is getting done, you step in and create your procedures to get your work done and pretty much handle everything from start to finish, he was ok with that.  He struggled through close last week, to the point where me and the other co-worker had to step in to finish his facilities, but we still were will to help and just figured it would take him a bit longer to fully learn the ropes.
Nope....
He was done even before he really got started and he pretty much told our boss that yesterday.  So now, we're back to square one and finding another new person and me training someone else for 4th time in 7 months.
Guess taking lunches or lunchtime workouts and potty breaks will be at a premium again.