Phone Scammers

I’m in a crabby mood, people. A very crabby mood. First, I had to make myself extremely unpleasant to the bosses who tried to take away our lab under the slogan of “we are doing it for your own good.”

Obviously, nobody comes out and says, “we want to take the lab away.” A phone scammer doesn’t lead with, “I’m calling to swindle you out of your money.” A less jaded, more innocent person would swallow the hook and end up minus a lab. But I’m as jaded as it gets, so I pushed back.

Phone scammers usually proceed to try to scare and humiliate you if you don’t respond to the initial line of attack. That’s exactly what the bosses did, letting me know what a loser and disappointment I am. However, I grew up with a mother who was disappointed by the fact and every consequence of my existence, which cured me from the need to please anyone.

I saved the lab for the next two years, after which it’s out of my hands because I no longer will head the department.

Then, to top it all off, we were told that the university is abandoning Zoom and switching to MS Teams which I detest.

So I’m mega crabby. Does anybody have any good news to get me out of this funk?