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Post by Pink Cashmere on Jul 2, 2024 19:13:26 GMT -5
We can roll over one year of vacation a year. I ended up doing that since Covid. When you are stuck in your house with your kids, and school is shut down for a year..there's like no way to vacation. Taking PTO, but staying in the same small house with the same people in your face 24/7. No. I'd argue what's the point. Now, my workload is such that I really can't afford to take time off. I totalled up my work, I'm now doing 6x time work I did when I started. Sure, some of it is due to better technology over the past 2 decades.... I wish I was joking that it's not worth working 12 hour days at my dayjob a week prior to my vacation or the week after taking 5 days off. The scramble to make up the work-completely negates the vacation. If I need change of scenery, that is easily accomplished by working in a different venue. I worked evenings and weekends, for 13 years, while I was a single parent raising my children. During those years, I scheduled a week of vacation whenever their spring break from school was, and another 2 weeks during the summer. Being able to be at home with them was a big deal to me, because it wasn’t an every day thing. I looked forward to summer breaks from school, just as much as children do, because that meant I had more time with my children. We stayed up late many nights, running around in the backyard (with me telling them to be quiet because it was late at night) or just hangin out in the house late at night watching tv, playing music and dancing, playing games, whatever. Because I didn’t have to be at work until the next afternoon. And I’d still often be upset leaving hime for work in the middle of the day, because our life was so out of tune with the rest of the world and I hated that for my children. Just a different perspective, because I was always happy to be at home with my children besides late evenings and nights, whenever I could. But I get it that if that was my norm, I might have needed a break lol.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Jul 2, 2024 19:40:05 GMT -5
Dinner was so good. The first corn has just come off. It's from a small town south of us and it was fresh. I also made BLT's, they were really good, just to early for the fresh tomatoes.
I'm glad we were able to get some before we leave, I will sure miss that for sure.
I'm going to finish cleaning out the entertainment center this evening. Cleaned out the drawers and cabinet in the living room. Now I need to take the glass shelves out and pack them between packing material in one of the big boxex. I have been packing essentials but now will go back and start working on finalizing the place up here a room at a time.
I see a lot of people in Washington have whole house gennies, will find out if we need one where we are moving. We have a free standing 8 KW one, which does a decent job but it does made noise.
Need to start the d/w and likely need to wash another load of clothing.
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Post by azucena on Jul 2, 2024 20:31:27 GMT -5
Drama - proud of you for defending yourself and rooting for you to land a better job!
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Post by azucena on Jul 2, 2024 20:39:00 GMT -5
Apparently one of my rec league women's softball teammates repeatedly "coaching" me where and how to play left field in our last game of the season when we were down by 12 points to a ream literally half our age was my breaking point. I had words to say to her after the third inning of her crap.
I know 50% of it stemmed from dd11 trauma dumping on me at therapy an hour before the game and another 40% of it was dealing with constant incompetence at work. 10% of it is all the ongoing extra work involved in hoping bonus teen. Her tooth debacle now needs an oral surgeon for which I don't have medicaid info, medical proxy, etc from her mom. And her mom is also holding her soc sec card and birth cert hostage and only answering my texts and now her own daughters with "she can just come home". Teen needs soc sec card for new job she got all on her own starting next week and needs birth cert to get her driver's permit.
Just had myself a long overdue cry on my deck bc for once stp weather is fab in july.
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Post by giramomma on Jul 2, 2024 20:59:05 GMT -5
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Post by andi9899 on Jul 2, 2024 21:07:34 GMT -5
There are fireworks happening. One cat has taken to the basement for cover. It is 5:44 PM. It's not even close to being dark. I came home a 7:30 and immediately took Macy out. She doesn't do loud noises so the fireworks along with the thunder of an incoming storm was a big nope for her. I took her again after it rained and still no. She just kept trying to get back inside. Last night she did the same thing. I woke up to poop in the living room. She held the pee, so she seemed to pee forever this morning. I love 7/4, but also hate it at the same time.
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Jul 2, 2024 21:27:43 GMT -5
I have to get up at 3:45am tomorrow. I am not even remotely happy about that.
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Post by andi9899 on Jul 2, 2024 21:38:44 GMT -5
I just don't have time most of the time. I'm the only transportation AM in our office. The other ones don't know anything about trucking. Can a non trucking AM and producer limp through it while I'm gone? Yes. But how many mistakes am I gonna have to clean up when I come back? Plus, just one day off usually produces at least 100 unread emails to wade through when I get back. It's almost not worth it. Even though I mostly hate my job, one of the perks is making decent money while not having any responsibility besides doing my job when I am there. Early in my career, I use to worry about things getting done if I’m not there to do my job, but years of being told how expendable I am and having that beat into my head, made me realize that it was true. Years ago, after a coworker with over 30 years of service DIED on the clock, in a stall in a restroom where he’d gone to try to get himself together because he wasn’t feeling well a manager said, in reference to his death, that the job is going to go on, even if we die. That was SO fucked up to me and made me SO mad, because how could you even say something like that, even if that’s how you think?! But it was indeed said, and I will never forget that that is how us peons are viewed. So if I take some scheduled time off or am too sick to go to work (or my children were really sick when they were minors), it stopped being a concern years ago, about how me taking off work when I schedule it or really need to even if it’s not scheduled ahead of time, affects my workplace. Even if I die, they won’t skip a beat, so why would I not choose to keep myself ALIVE and HEALTHY, over my damn job? But there is also the thing where I am so expendable that I can be off work for legitimate reasons and whenever I do go back, whether it’s after days, weeks, or even months, there are not mountains of work piled up, waiting for me to deal with. So me being so easily replaced because I am so unimportant and have so little value, works both ways as far as I am concerned, and makes my decisions to take care of me first when I need to choose, not even really be a question, or a decision to wrestle with. That makes me sad. I don't mean this to be a bragplaint, I really don't. Where I work now since I am specialized and I am a bit of a yes man, I'm constantly praised. My manager, my producers, the customers all love me. I'm constantly being told that I'm doing a good job and I'm crushing it. That's great and does a lot for me. However, it also puts a lot of pressure on me to perform. I'm constantly worried about letting people down or screwing something up. Outside of work, as T1 says "I think I'm the best thing to ever come out of Wyandotte County." Professionally I am constantly thinking that I'm getting fired. I'm the most and least confident person at the same time.
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Post by finnime on Jul 3, 2024 2:13:21 GMT -5
Good morning, introspective invisipeeps of Y Ma'am, invested in your worlds in a thousand ways and determined to improve them. Welcome to Wednesday, in the U.S. Independence Day eve. I hope your day includes no untimely fireworks to bother your pets but does include, as you prefer, an adult beverage or a thirst-quenching perfectly ripe cold melon. Today is DD's second day of work in which she will get more training. She's happy with this job. She reports that staff are relaxed and committed; patients are clean and comfortable, and the policies they reviewed yesterday are sensible. I'm glad. I applaud your taking the risk to improve things at work, NomoreDramaQ1015. Now keep looking for another position when you're able. Take care of yourself. You, too, azucena; take care of yourself. You are moving mountains and that is a very long hard effort. We've only had a momentary blip in power since we moved here two years ago. In Maryland we went through several long outages including one that lasted eight days and another that went on for five days. There were a number of greater than one day outages, too. Those situations improved as trees were cut back and removed. Because it didn't happen more than once in a several years time span, we did not invest in a generator. Our neigbors did, though. Noisy contraptions. We had a dog that was apt to howl at the sound of sirens. On the fourth night of one outage she heard a siren in the middle of the night and let out one eerie howl after another. The next day we moved to a hotel for a break. Then there was Snowmagedden, during which we lost power for three days, long enough for the house to get quite chilly. At one point DS, I think 11 at the time, asked me how long we could survive. We kept warm by shoveling and by eating hot dogs from the nearby 7-Eleven. Here now at the very start of July it's warm and sunny. From yesterday, "Good morning, starshine, the earth says hello!" ![Early July sunrise](https://i.imgur.com/4nM0pJW.jpeg)
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Post by Opti on Jul 3, 2024 4:00:40 GMT -5
Apparently one of my rec league women's softball teammates repeatedly "coaching" me where and how to play left field in our last game of the season when we were down by 12 points to a ream literally half our age was my breaking point. I had words to say to her after the third inning of her crap. I know 50% of it stemmed from dd11 trauma dumping on me at therapy an hour before the game and another 40% of it was dealing with constant incompetence at work. 10% of it is all the ongoing extra work involved in hoping bonus teen. Her tooth debacle now needs an oral surgeon for which I don't have medicaid info, medical proxy, etc from her mom. And her mom is also holding her soc sec card and birth cert hostage and only answering my texts and now her own daughters with "she can just come home". Teen needs soc sec card for new job she got all on her own starting next week and needs birth cert to get her driver's permit. Just had myself a long overdue cry on my deck bc for once stp weather is fab in july. Dos the rec league teammate have an official standing in the league like captain or founder/organizer? Sorry about the pressure. It is hard sometimes to be a woman even on the easiest day let alone at certain times. I hope you, teen, dd11 et al feel better now than you did on July 2.
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Post by azucena on Jul 3, 2024 6:31:20 GMT -5
Any suggestions for Android app for to do lists? Even better if lists can be shared and have recurring weekly items.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Jul 3, 2024 6:31:47 GMT -5
I am tired, hubs said I need to slow down. I just can't to much to do.
Going to dentist this morning, DD appointment at 9 mine not till 11:30 so I have to wait. She is getting a filling today or possibly an extraction. It's a far back tooth and is cracked with a huge filling.
So makeup on and go shortly. Later all.
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Post by azucena on Jul 3, 2024 6:41:55 GMT -5
I am tired, hubs said I need to slow down. I just can't to much to do. Going to dentist this morning, DD appointment at 9 mine not till 11:30 so I have to wait. She is getting a filling today or possibly an extraction. It's a far back tooth and is cracked with a huge filling. So makeup on and go shortly. Later all. I'm worried about you. I remember you talking about a renter who had a teen/young adult you helped from time to time. Hire her for $20/hour to help with this move. I'm also going to speak out of turn and say you're not downsizing nearly enough. Why put your limited energy into moving so much stuff if you know in your heart that you need to downsize for new space and your own sanity. For example, a few comments ago you mentioned random things that DIL wants including dolls. No, just no. You already complain that her house is stuffed too. You really need to be harsh about this move and what you take. Yes, you own nice things that you're proud of and you've spent good money on. BUT that money is gone and those things can benefit the less fortunate and I guarantee you won't miss them and you'll feel so much lighter. And yes you could bring lots of useful things to your beloved DS but he's a middle-aged man with a great job and financial stability. At the end of the day I'm 100% positive that he'd choose your health and happiness over hand me down tools even if they are the best brand ever. Hope you read this with love bc that's why I'm speaking up.
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Post by giramomma on Jul 3, 2024 6:53:30 GMT -5
I couldn't sleep again last night. I will happy when this all resolves. Today is the day I talk to the supervisor.
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Post by geenamercile on Jul 3, 2024 7:12:24 GMT -5
Today I am going to take A's daughter and her friend who is staying with us shopping after picking up the rental van. I am going to see if the girls want to come out and take them all to lunch, but we will see if they want too. I still wonder if I should have used some of my inheritance to get a 3 row suv, instead of the fun car we are restoring. Then I wouldn't have to rent a van for this trip, but A was right we wouldn't have driven it that often, specially now that the oldest does have her license. And his daughter should be able to get it when she turns 18 this year as well.
I do really hope we get the thunderstorms tomorrow evening to wet everything down so we can do fireworks.
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Post by gs11rmb on Jul 3, 2024 7:23:28 GMT -5
NomoreDramaQ1015 I don't necessarily think that it's a bad idea to involve HR. You'll now have a paper trail and, after sitting through a lot of discrimination training, it seems as if retaliation is worse than the actual offence. Most HR departments want to avoid being sued and allowing retaliation is a good way to have that happen. Cutting her loose is an easier way to make sure retaliation doesn't happen. Employees are disposable. Leadership, not so much. The higher up you are the more egregious your conduct has to be to get you fired. Peons are always the first to go. I had a manager from hell and I invoked HR. She intensified the bullying until I snapped one day and yelled at her. I was promptly fired. Her problem was that I was basically running that team and hid most of her incompetence. Once I was gone, stuff started falling apart. Employees started quitting right and left. It still took 20 employees quitting citing her as the reason why before she got fired. The only time you should complain about your boss is in an exit interview. I think we have very different employers. I have witnessed some things where I work that are upsetting and think they were not handled 'justly' by HR but at the same time I really don't think anybody would be fired for making a complaint. They are very conscious of avoiding even the appearance of retaliation. In fact, I do know of a situation where a complaint was lodged against someone at the top (who has since left) and the complainant was moved into another department and stayed on for a number of years.
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Post by chiver78 on Jul 3, 2024 7:23:32 GMT -5
a fly just landed in my coffee. ![](https://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff155/JiminiChristmas/ymamsmiles/yeahright.png) I hope that's not indicative of how the rest of the day is going to be. it's far too early to pour some wine. lol...
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Jul 3, 2024 7:40:22 GMT -5
Been in the office since 5am. ![](https://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff155/JiminiChristmas/ymamsmiles/coffee.gif) Carrot is halfway to Chicago and I'm on my 2nd cup of coffee. Glad tomorrow is a holiday! I could take Friday off too, but I think I'll come in. Production is shut down and it will be DEAD in the office+, so why blow a vacation day when I can just chill out here when it's nice and quiet? I think the chances of getting a summer vacation in with the kids is about zero this year unless it's just a long weekend somewhere as they are both so booked up and hopefully DS will have a job soon. They're both gone the week of the 22nd, so I took off and am going to take a road trip to North Dakota to visit my cousins there for a few days.
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Post by andi9899 on Jul 3, 2024 7:41:31 GMT -5
Cutting her loose is an easier way to make sure retaliation doesn't happen. Employees are disposable. Leadership, not so much. The higher up you are the more egregious your conduct has to be to get you fired. Peons are always the first to go. I had a manager from hell and I invoked HR. She intensified the bullying until I snapped one day and yelled at her. I was promptly fired. Her problem was that I was basically running that team and hid most of her incompetence. Once I was gone, stuff started falling apart. Employees started quitting right and left. It still took 20 employees quitting citing her as the reason why before she got fired. The only time you should complain about your boss is in an exit interview. I think we have very different employers. I have witnessed some things where I work that are upsetting and think they were not handled 'justly' by HR but at the same time I really don't think anybody would be fired for making a complaint. They are very conscious of avoiding even the appearance of retaliation. In fact, I do know of a situation where a complaint was lodged against someone at the top (who has since left) and the complainant was moved into another department and stayed on for a number of years. That's great, but not all employers work that way Drama's employer is not the warm and fuzzy type. They are the keep your head down and shut up or you're fired type. I hope she doesn't lose her job, but I wouldn't be surprised if she did.
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Post by andi9899 on Jul 3, 2024 7:46:35 GMT -5
I hate dealing with Progressive. It's far too early for the foolishness. I'm logging off at 3:00 and not thinking about this job until next week.
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Post by daisylu on Jul 3, 2024 7:56:31 GMT -5
Slept until alarm sounded, which is rare, and then fell back to sleep for an hour, which is extremely rare. Have a project meeting in 5 minutes and really need my brain to defog. Don't think it is going to happen.
I also plan to unplug at 3 for the rest of the week. Maybe at 2.
ETA - Really need to consider hiring someone to help around the house until DH is fully functional.
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Post by andi9899 on Jul 3, 2024 8:01:34 GMT -5
Also next week I get to give a crash course in trucking to some people so they know why I ask for the things I do. I had a certificate rep that didn't understand and she got very flustered when she didn't understand why I wanted her to do things a certain way. I replaced her and now I get to teach the replacement the method to my madness. She'll also probably get to understand why nobody wants to deal with truckers.
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Post by soupandstew on Jul 3, 2024 8:02:29 GMT -5
Are you sure? That seems an awful lot. I know bupkes about generators so I actually went and checked my power bill and that is more than 5x* what I use in an entire month. There is a reason my power bill is ridiculously low. Not only am I in a tiny pocket of low electric cost but I also use not all that much. They are sized by their maximum output-what you need to run whatever items you want to use during an outage. Ours is 16KW which will run the central air conditioning in a small-ish house (we have 1300 sq ft), along with lights, fridge, fans and everything else. Homes without central AC could use a smaller one perhaps, like Chiver.
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Post by gs11rmb on Jul 3, 2024 8:07:19 GMT -5
azucena can you help bonus teen apply for a replacement SSN card and birth certificate?
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Post by chiver78 on Jul 3, 2024 8:11:33 GMT -5
Are you sure? That seems an awful lot. I know bupkes about generators so I actually went and checked my power bill and that is more than 5x* what I use in an entire month. There is a reason my power bill is ridiculously low. Not only am I in a tiny pocket of low electric cost but I also use not all that much. They are sized by their maximum output-what you need to run whatever items you want to use during an outage. Ours is 16KW which will run the central air conditioning in a small-ish house (we have 1300 sq ft), along with lights, fridge, fans and everything else. Homes without central AC could use a smaller one perhaps, like Chiver. I also have central air, which really only gets used around this time of year to drown out the fireworks for LD. but otherwise, yes. max output, and this house includes a ton of extras that use electricity like all of the excessive recessed lighting, smart outlets, night lights, etc. it was actually a rude surprise to discover that the outlets on the kitchen island aren't included in what the generator powers while running.
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Post by azucena on Jul 3, 2024 8:25:43 GMT -5
I couldn't sleep again last night. I will happy when this all resolves. Today is the day I talk to the supervisor. Good luck and keep us posted.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jul 3, 2024 8:37:04 GMT -5
I think we have very different employers. I have witnessed some things where I work that are upsetting and think they were not handled 'justly' by HR but at the same time I really don't think anybody would be fired for making a complaint. They are very conscious of avoiding even the appearance of retaliation. In fact, I do know of a situation where a complaint was lodged against someone at the top (who has since left) and the complainant was moved into another department and stayed on for a number of years. That's great, but not all employers work that way Drama's employer is not the warm and fuzzy type. They are the keep your head down and shut up or you're fired type. I hope she doesn't lose her job, but I wouldn't be surprised if she did. My department is but we don't have a department HR. We have a corporate HR. While we have our own assigned person that person follows corporate rules not whatever rules it is we seem to make up down here. So we'll see. I have been instructed that if things get worse down here after a mediation meeting I am to go straight back to HR. She was really good about walking me through everything because I told her I never had issues at the university like this. My last company didn't have an HR department we had an "HR" lady who was really bad at her job you couldn't trust anything you said not to get back to people.
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Post by azucena on Jul 3, 2024 8:59:11 GMT -5
Cutting her loose is an easier way to make sure retaliation doesn't happen. Employees are disposable. Leadership, not so much. The higher up you are the more egregious your conduct has to be to get you fired. Peons are always the first to go. I had a manager from hell and I invoked HR. She intensified the bullying until I snapped one day and yelled at her. I was promptly fired. Her problem was that I was basically running that team and hid most of her incompetence. Once I was gone, stuff started falling apart. Employees started quitting right and left. It still took 20 employees quitting citing her as the reason why before she got fired. The only time you should complain about your boss is in an exit interview. I think we have very different employers. I have witnessed some things where I work that are upsetting and think they were not handled 'justly' by HR but at the same time I really don't think anybody would be fired for making a complaint. They are very conscious of avoiding even the appearance of retaliation. In fact, I do know of a situation where a complaint was lodged against someone at the top (who has since left) and the complainant was moved into another department and stayed on for a number of years. FWIW this has been my experience with HR as well. My company generally treats employees very, very well. I'm 90% sure that I managed to remain anonymous when I reported the affair couple fall of 2022. My current day-to-day work struggles are mostly due to incompetent boss and other leadership.
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Post by daisylu on Jul 3, 2024 9:02:22 GMT -5
azucena can you help bonus teen apply for a replacement SSN card and birth certificate? IME only parents/legal guardians can get a replacement SSN card of a minor. Likely the same with BC.
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Post by daisylu on Jul 3, 2024 9:05:38 GMT -5
They are sized by their maximum output-what you need to run whatever items you want to use during an outage. Ours is 16KW which will run the central air conditioning in a small-ish house (we have 1300 sq ft), along with lights, fridge, fans and everything else. Homes without central AC could use a smaller one perhaps, like Chiver. I also have central air, which really only gets used around this time of year to drown out the fireworks for LD. but otherwise, yes. max output, and this house includes a ton of extras that use electricity like all of the excessive recessed lighting, smart outlets, night lights, etc. it was actually a rude surprise to discover that the outlets on the kitchen island aren't included in what the generator powers while running. So weird. You would think that would be a priority for having a generator.
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