Trying to Avoid a Change in Diet

Work has been the main stay of my existence lately, and that of Chris' too. We've both been putting in a lot of overtime. I have found my job to be simplistic at best, but all in all, not bad. I'll admit that I want to contribute more to the divisions "transformation", otherwise known as a restructure, but I don't have enough company background to make things coherent, even though I understand their motivations for making changes. Hopefully those changes will be good for my desired job variety, but at the moment, it doesn't look it.

Now I've been eating lunch in the company cafeteria for the last several weeks, and the food could be described as not bad, but we have recently had a change of vendors. Where there was once an outside group , it's now provided by one of the organizations many side projects. It's a little weird to work for a company that owns it's own limo service, hotel and yes, cafe and catering business.

So for the last few weeks, the old cooks made pasta dishes and chicken fried steak and burgers and pizza. It was better than cafeteria food, and it was customizable enough where I could do my usual avoidance of vegetables and still get a good meal.

The new group, well, they are a tad fancy. They have choices still, but often they have pannini sandwiches and rack of lamb and such. Their attempt at chicken fried steak had a strange spicy gravy, and more greens than should ever be with such a normally unhealthy meal as deep-fried steak. Grilled salmon, Cumin-Lime chicken, General Gao chicken, they may sound good to you, but they aren't to me.

I'm very unadventurous when it comes to food. Apparently so are my co-workers as they seemed very unsure of the fancy stuff offered. I'll be more than happy with some burgers and fries. Certainly not Sun-Dried Tomato and Arugula and Lemon Grass Beef.

Of course, the Sourpuss is just as bitter and bitchy as always, and I have a hard time listening to her on the phone. She's not insulting - much, but her sort-of oh, you're making my life so damned difficult kind of way she acts is really off putting.

We're getting a new person on my team, though he isn't sitting near me, but he's another one of the many bearish guys that work in the greater office. There's plenty to look at. I guess one of the reasons is the older average age of the people who work here. Where at AIM is was one of the older people, even among the management staff, here I'm more of an average guy.

Still, there's plenty of nice guys around, and many I have no idea what part of the building they work, but I see them every day. Our new guy comes from another division, one that was apparently more difficult, and I know that I should ask him more about it as I need to learn where I can make a career around here.

As for all of those potential bears, I wish I had better gaydar. I guess I just want to find some other people like me here, some people I can relate to and talk to. For a company this large, I'm surprised that there's not a GLBT group, but given that the company is privately held, not publicly traded, I guess there's really no push to create such a group. The company does offer domestic partner benefits, though.

I just want to have all the good looking guys play on my team, just to feel a little less alone in the building. No one's commented on the bear flag, but then again, no one's really been troubled about my partner, either, so maybe it's just a regular workplace.

Still, I'll be happy to watch those hot coworkers go by. It makes having to listen to Sourpuss not quite so bad.