Randomalia (56/365)
Feb. 25th, 2021 07:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
white_hartToday involved two and a half hours of interviews, plus five other meetings. I was basically in Teams meetings solidly from 9:30 to 12:30 and then again from 1:30 to 5:15, apart from a half-hour window at 3:30. During which I ate cake and tried to make some headway with the two "really sorry this is such short notice, but do you have time to comment on this today?" emails that had popped into my inbox. (Yes, I could have said "no, I don't have time", but that would have meant (a) losing the chance to feed in to a process that will have a significant impact on me and my team and (b) risking the head of department sending inaccurate information in her termly newsletter.)
It also appears that I now count as senior enough staff that someone has set up a random gmail account with the display name set as my name to send spearphishing emails to people I work with. It felt a bit ridiculous and overly self-important sending an email to the entire Faculty mailing list warning them about this (and giving some more general guidance about spearphishing), but people *do* actually read my emails so it's probably worth warning them.
I had also spotted (thanks tonineveh_uk posting about the same thing a few weeks ago) that my driving licence had expired in December, and finally got around to doing the online renewal at the weekend. The new licence arrived today, with the same photo as the old one (so why do the photocards expire after 10 years, anyway?) and a big Brexity Union Jack instead of the old EU flag. Ugh. It's enough to make me never want to drive again.
It also appears that I now count as senior enough staff that someone has set up a random gmail account with the display name set as my name to send spearphishing emails to people I work with. It felt a bit ridiculous and overly self-important sending an email to the entire Faculty mailing list warning them about this (and giving some more general guidance about spearphishing), but people *do* actually read my emails so it's probably worth warning them.
I had also spotted (thanks to
nineveh_uk posting about the same thing a few weeks ago) that my driving licence had expired in December, and finally got around to doing the online renewal at the weekend. The new licence arrived today, with the same photo as the old one (so why do the photocards expire after 10 years, anyway?) and a big Brexity Union Jack instead of the old EU flag. Ugh. It's enough to make me never want to drive again.
