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The other day, my Dad asked me why there were no pictures of my bike on my website. Danny had pics of his bike so why didn’t I? Although my bike is very cool and deserves equal screen time, it is not nearly as shiny, pretty, or new as Danny’s. Instead of a photo, just imagine a dark grey mountain bike. See, wasn’t that easy?

On my first day of work, I went through the obligatory benefits overview with the people from HR. After sitting with them for an hour as they went over my options, they told me “if you have any questions, email us.”
Yesterday, I had a question, so I emailed them. This morning I got a reply stating “During our orientation I had explained xyz to you. We cannot give you the information you requested until your employee information is updated. Therefore, we will email you the requested information when it is ready.”
Really? Oh wow, I guess you DID tell me that along with a bazillion other things I was apparently supposed to memorize on the spot. Geez, this Q&A system is great. Thanks for your help! So anyway, I will ask her no more questions unless I preface them with the phrase “I’m sure you told me before and my feeble brain cannot recall it, but please bless me with your infinite knowledge once again.”
I spoke with one of my coworkers and they confirmed that HR was essentially useless and that asking questions was the only way to get anything done. This made me feel a little better, but not much.

Question of the day:

Why is there a warning on my tube of chapstick that says “keep out of eyes?” Is this really a problem? This also provokes the question, how do you get chapstick in your eye in the first place? There is the obvious way of removing the lid and smearing a substantial amount of “stick” into your eye. I doubt if anyone has really done this but there are a lot of idiots out there. The other ways include getting some chapstick on your finger and then rubbing your eye or kissing someone directly on their eyeball - yuck. I guess I’m just surprised at this warning. I mean why the eye? Why not say “do not eat the chapstick?” Maybe because eating it won’t cause the same burning sensation as rubbing it in your eye. I just have a hard time believing that you could damage yourself with chapstick and that the damage would be so severe that it would require a warning label.

Any thoughts? Any other good chapstick warnings that should be shared with the dozen regular readers?