Things that happen at work:
So, it’s Head Plumbers last day, and this is what I made to celebrate. Shepherds pie (technically a cottage pie) and hay stack cookies (I call the moose scat cookies) it turned out pretty well overall, but I did get some legit critical comments from my work children that I treat my plumbers better then I treat my mechanics. Which is a fair point that I do need to work on.
But I did get compliments on my cooking, which is…rare. And not because I rarely cook, but because my cooking is rarely good.
Basically I can do nice tasting things with ground beef and potatoes (provided onions, garlic, butter and salt), or bacon and eggs, with maybe potatoes and butter. And that’s it…my cooking knowledge is strictly in prep and dump, maybe fold into pre-made dough, casseroles and meat pie…
These are also his favorite cookies that I’ve made and Head Plumber definitely made sure that my mechanics felt deprived of “Christmas cookies” and I had to jump in and be like “I made these, now, specifically because you like them most, they are NOT the only thing I make during Christmas”
It’s honestly cute how he likes to just stir the pot, regardless of status. I respect and admire him for being a genuinely kind and empathetic boss, but it takes really a special constitution to take his jokes.
He genuinely likes being called out on his shit, no matter how left or right it swings. He loves being correct about plumbing more than he loves getting promoted…part of the problem now, honestly.
Regardless, I’m absolutely going to miss this fucker, and I’m so sorry I didn’t know him ten years ago.









