Y12 D168

 I was so tired from yesterday I completely forgot to set an alarm and ended up sleeping an extra hour this morning. Oops. Yesterday took a lot out of me. Here's the story:

I did a training for a new client. But it was one of those situations where it was a 3rd party client and they had some awful demands. Come to find out, they were even more awful than I knew. Apparently on Friday night the one particular contact demanded more changes to the curriculum post contract signing. Mind you, he pushed for these changes Friday 4pm for a Monday 8:30am training. Um, no? I learned all that Friday night and thought it was the end. Nope. He called our guy Saturday night and chewed his ass out for not making the changes. Excuse me? Wait, there's more. When he didn't get his way, he escalated to our CEO. Yeah. Now here's where I come in. First off, our classes are set to be for a group of 12 students, 15 max. They sent 17. Strike one. This individual had promised us that all students would have the requisite knowledge for the level of the material. They did not. Strike two. But for me, the best part was when he tried to weasel in during the class the shit he had wanted added. I swiftly shut him down on two counts - first, I couldn't do what he wanted anyway because it was impossible in our environment and two, what he wanted is 100% against best practices. He was wanting me to teach his clients basically a workaround to deal with the shit job his company was doing with the data. He was not happy when I shut him down on this topic. I don't know if I will get any fallout, but I do know it was being moved to a new account manager. We are supposed to have five more sessions with these people and they've already violated by telling us they have arranged for 20 per group. I am under orders to shut down any more than 17. This is going to be fun. Apparently we're also not the only ones who have problems with them. The students complained loudly during class that they can't do any of the things I was showing them because they were "handcuffed" (their word, not mine) by the hosts. This is going to have some interesting fallout.

Because of all that, I didn't finish until almost 6pm, then had to take out all the garbage and recycling as today is trash day. Finally ate around 7 and was just exhausted. Not a good night.

Meanwhile in the real world, we're seeing the most obscure lame duck session ever. Normally at this point a president would be doing minimal shit to ride out the holidays. Not this prick. Fires the Secretary of Defense yesterday. WTF? Who knows what kind of shenanigans he will try to get into over the next two months. At the same time, Biden announced his COVID team and it includes people fired by stupidhead because they disagreed with him about stuff, you know, like drinking bleach. Because remember Aunt Rona? She's still out there infecting 100,000+ a day killing a thousand a day. Priority one is containment people.

Not sure what today is going to bring. I am very curious though.