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Oh. I had totally spaced on checking for updates on the UFCW 3000 website regarding the union vote, which I did know was happening this week but did know know precisely which day. I got a text from Shobhit this morning asking if the union voted, so I went to check.
Indeed they did, and as expected,
they ratified the agreement. Perhaps notable is this snippet from the latest update:
Many members who were initially skeptical ended up voting yes when they saw the details of the contract.
I mean, who knows what "many" means, the use of that kind of language makes me think of the way President Fuckwit would constantly say things like "A lot of people are saying" without any concrete information behind it. But, the relevant part is that the agreement has been reached, and ratified, by a majority of union staff.
Now we can truly move on. Until this process happens again in two years, anyway. I sure hope it doesn't get this messy again. It's been a wilder ride than anything that's happened at work since the pandemic, and outside the pandemic, it could be argued it was the wildest period since I've worked here.
We have an "Office Huddle" meeting at 12:30 today—minutes from when I'll be posting this—and presumably there will be discussion about all this.
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Shobhit had an evening shift last night, so was gone most of the evening, but I was at home.
I killed the time by watching the movie
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves on Prime Video. I had gone back and forth on seeing it in theaters when it got shockingly positive reviews, but in the end I never go around to it, mostly because there were other things playing I was more interested in. That is absolutely not happening right now: the biggest release last weekend was
Argylle, and I just listened to an entire podcast episode about how terrible it is. I noticed yesterday it has a score of 35 on MetaCritic. Yikes.
I was somewhat mixed on
Dungeons & Dragons, though I had to admit I enjoyed the writing and the humor. Its CG effects are terrible. Here's my
Letterboxd review:
The impressive trick of this movie is how its charismatic cast and surprisingly good—and pretty consistently funny—writing barely makes up for its wall-to-wall shitty CGI.
A lot of it genuinely cracked me up, so I have to give it credit for that. And not "bad movie" funny, either: it has a lot of intentional humor that actually lands, which I never would have expected of it. The casting is great. I even texted Laney about it, she checked its MetaCritic page, and she said she put it on her list.
The movie is 139 minutes long, though, so it took up most of my evening. I made myself hot chocolate while I had it on. Before that, I walked home from work, deturing to the central branch of the Seattle Public Library, to return a book and pick up two more. I got 10,580 steps in yesterday as a result. Usually I barely stop short of 10,000, even when I walk home.
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[posted 12:12 pm]
