Fall slowly arriving

One of those odd studies came out this past week saying that rats found Oreo Cookies more favorable than cocaine or morphine.  Had they offered the rats pot first wasn't mentioned to explain the jonsing for cookies.  I didn't have any 'normal' Oreo cookies to picture but oddly enough the new vanilla ones...so there may be something to the story.

As my frequent readers know my life tends to flow in odd circles.  My co-workers die or get fired and as of Thursday get demoted and docked $3 an hour and given a month to become perfect.  Cap it off with a sudden call into a 'meeting' for me at nearly 5 on Friday to say I am not nice enough.  Nothing was said about the JOB I am PAID to do.  Just that I get snippy?  Anyone else find that totally stupid?
I already am privy to some of the changes coming up this week so I figure it is a preemptive strike in case I get upset.  I didn't do the stupid things that resulted in the changes causing these folks to be fired and demoted and actually warned the folks it was going to get ugly so I can't speak to that.  I was asked by one of the gals in the mix to head to HR and tell them how horrid my working environment was.  Ah, hello to the no?  I lived through more than one bad job.  Granted I need to add in that it didn't end well for any of the others who've done that in the past four months.  I like my job it pays my bills but this is pretty ugly.

This is the pretty side of my job.  The right hand side of the monopole cell tower my company owns has an osprey nest.  With the protection laws there is limited time to remove the nest.  They missed the window this year from what I heard and the Sprint network rents that platform and can't do any work on it.  You can't see but there are small green parrots called Quaker Birds here that were pelting us with seeds below.  I like that my company keeps track of nature.