Ever have a nice post all typed out and then sit back and go, yeah can't ask that, too political?
DMs are your friend
No more sweet tea for Freehold unless it is unsweetened.
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Ever have a nice post all typed out and then sit back and go, yeah can't ask that, too political?DMs are your friend
I am your friend.
Especially now.
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Up all night with panic attacks.
Sitting outside urgent care in hopes they'll be willing to give me a placeholder prescription for my anxiety meds until the Drs office is willing to take on a new patient.
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Up all night with panic attacks.
Sitting outside urgent care in hopes they'll be willing to give me a placeholder prescription for my anxiety meds until the Drs office is willing to take on a new patient.
Good luck. One of my technicians deals with panic attacks on a fairly regular basis and needs medication to control them. He has the same problem getting in to see the doctor.
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I get to bail out another crew that told the boss they could build a wall when in fact they could not.
Apparently, I make my job look too easy and it fills other people with a false sense of bravado.
I imagine, if you see a 5'6" hippie doing something with ease that would make anyone assume they'd be able to do it just as easily.
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I just looked out my back window and saw vultures circling right a tthe edge of where the woods meets my actual yard.
Is it bad that my first thought was, "I bet [retired neighbor] is lying dead back there..."
But then the vultures moved on, so he must be fine.
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I just looked out my back window and saw vultures circling right a tthe edge of where the woods meets my actual yard.
Is it bad that my first thought was, "I bet [retired neighbor] is lying dead back there..."
But then the vultures moved on, so he must be fine.
...or they were full...
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Nothing like the end of the quarter to remind you that even though you felt busy, not enough stuff moved through the door.
Ah well, good start to next quarter as the stuff in queue is pretty much done.
I'm always impressed at just how much loan processing occurs "behind closed doors".
I started the loan process a week ago. They've already confirmed my income, my credit, and everything else and we've signed all the disclosures.
Now "it will take around 60 days to process your loan".
Er... what?
I'd love to know what the behind-the-scenes bottleneck is. I'm sure there are dozens, if not hundreds, of people refinancing, but everything seems so automated on my side that I wonder what's happening on their side that takes so much human intervention...
Up all night with panic attacks.
Sitting outside urgent care in hopes they'll be willing to give me a placeholder prescription for my anxiety meds until the Drs office is willing to take on a new patient.
That sucks. I've been there. I wish you all the luck in the world.
In an emergency, if you can get no RX, benadryl helps, some, for me at least. Had a doc give me that tip, once.
New job hired me on the contingency that when Tala got a job, they would work around her schedule. Been there 3 weeks. Got many compliments.
Tala got a job. I told them the days I needed that would be set in stone and never change, to make it easiest for them, asap.
They fired me rather than keep their word. Used the probationary 90 day fire you for any reason excuse.
I'd really like it if I could catch a f$%!ing break.
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Up all night with panic attacks.
Sitting outside urgent care in hopes they'll be willing to give me a placeholder prescription for my anxiety meds until the Drs office is willing to take on a new patient.
That sucks. I've been there. I wish you all the luck in the world.
In an emergency, if you can get no RX, benadryl helps, some, for me at least. Had a doc give me that tip, once.
Good to know, I'll keep that in mind in the future.
Home with 2 weeks worth of meds, should hopefully be long enough to get the docs to finish arranging an appointment for new patient.
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New job hired me on the contingency that when Tala got a job, they would work around her schedule. Been there 3 weeks. Got many compliments.
Tala got a job. I told them the days I needed that would be set in stone and never change, to make it easiest for them, asap.
They fired me rather than keep their word. Used the probationary 90 day fire you for any reason excuse.
I'd really like it if I could catch a f!&$ing break.
Know the feeling. One of my jobs back in college was a short stint working at Safeway, the one schedule requirement I had was that I couldn't work Sundays, as I was on the opposite side of the Phoenix valley all day every Sunday.
Guess what they scheduled me for every. single. week. after the first.
And then they fired me just before my 60-day review because "You just aren't meeting our standards for an employee". Nevermind that I did perfectly fine at the rest of my job, I just kept calling out on Sundays because they kept scheduling me for the one day I said I couldn't make.
Oh well, long term it admittedly worked out better for me as I ended up eventually getting into temp agencies and onto a steady progression of data-entry jobs that eventually led to my last and current extremely stable positions, and didn't get tied up in years of working retail. But at the time it sucked heavily, as I was in similar rather desperate need for a stable job.
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New job hired me on the contingency that when Tala got a job, they would work around her schedule. Been there 3 weeks. Got many compliments.
Tala got a job. I told them the days I needed that would be set in stone and never change, to make it easiest for them, asap.
They fired me rather than keep their word. Used the probationary 90 day fire you for any reason excuse.
I'd really like it if I could catch a f&*#ing break.
Those are the stories that kill me the most:
Employee: I have these things coming up that you should know about, because I want to be open and honest with you.Management: That's fine. We can work around that.
Employee: Those things have come up.
Management: You're fired!
So, I don't know whether it's a California thing, or whether my friends and I have been ridiculously lucky, but we've been fortunate enough to have employers who don't pull that s***. They either hire us or they say, "That won't work for us."
If we're honest with them, they're honest right back.
The worst I've seen was a Target manager who kept assigning my friend work shifts during school, and he had to keep saying, "I have school then," and she'd say, "Oh, yeah," and fix it. But she didn't fire him.
In an extreme example, the guy we last hired said, "Well, I have a monthlong trip planned two months after you plan to hire me."
We told him we'd take a week to discuss whether that worked for us. We discussed it honestly. We finally decided that it would work for us and we hired him anyway.
But if we'd decided it wouldn't work, we would have told him instead of stringing him along. That's just appallingly bad management.
I know it's small consolation when money is tight, but it's pretty obvious you wouldn't have lasted with that employer anyway, because they're the petty tyrant type.
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F+$&.
I'm sorry, man.
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I'm always impressed at just how much loan processing occurs "behind closed doors".
I started the loan process a week ago. They've already confirmed my income, my credit, and everything else and we've signed all the disclosures.
Now "it will take around 60 days to process your loan".
Er... what?
I'd love to know what the behind-the-scenes bottleneck is. I'm sure there are dozens, if not hundreds, of people refinancing, but everything seems so automated on my side that I wonder what's happening on their side that takes so much human intervention...
That is the strangest thing. We're doing the same and have done so multiple times before. It never took more than a week or so after we confirmed we would go ahead.
That is the strangest thing. We're doing the same and have done so multiple times before. It never took more than a week or so after we confirmed we would go ahead.I'm always impressed at just how much loan processing occurs "behind closed doors".
I started the loan process a week ago. They've already confirmed my income, my credit, and everything else and we've signed all the disclosures.
Now "it will take around 60 days to process your loan".
Er... what?
I'd love to know what the behind-the-scenes bottleneck is. I'm sure there are dozens, if not hundreds, of people refinancing, but everything seems so automated on my side that I wonder what's happening on their side that takes so much human intervention...
Possibly a California thing, or possibly an "oversized conforming" thing, or possibly just the ludicrous real estate market in this area causing everyone to be booked solid for months on end.
I suspect that it's the final one: In spite of COVID and a general exodus, Bay Area house prices continue to skyrocket and there's a bidding war on every place that opens up. With property moving that quickly, the banks are probably pretty swamped.
I'm honestly surprised that that $2.4 million place is still listed after 17 days on Zillow. That's how fast houses sell around here. 17 days on the market is an eternity.
EDIT: For example, if you look on Zillow for houses in Albany there are 25 results. If you drop the multi-family homes and apartments you're down to 16 houses. 8 of them are under 30 days, 7 of them are pre-foreclosure, so there's only 1 'real' house over 30 days old in the listings. And from the picture and the square footage, it's grossly overpriced for its neighborhood and may have some issues. If that's the best picture you can get, I really don't want to see the inspector's report...
Sorry to hear about the anxiety, Orthos, my sister has it bad too. :(
And speaking of my sister, she's been cutting herself again, and then rubbing salt in the wounds. (And some of them really are wounds.) So I drove her to a behavioral health clinic on Monday, where she will be for 1 - 2 weeks.
For the first time I sat with her as the hospital staff interviewed her, and it was disturbing. I never knew quite how badly her own head tortures her.
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In better news, I am not officially laid off until the end of Monday, but yesterday I handed in my office keys and laptop, then my boss and I wished each other well.
And so begins the job search...
Yiiiiikes. I thankfully don't have it that bad, I just have paranoia and phantom heart attack scares.
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At the vet with the new puppy for first post adoption checkup. She wants to sniff ALL THE THINGS.
At the vet with the new puppy for first post adoption checkup. She wants to sniff ALL THE THINGS.
I am not a dog person, but I love the little sniffing sound most puppies make.
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I get to bail out another crew that told the boss they could build a wall when in fact they could not.
Apparently, I make my job look too easy and it fills other people with a false sense of bravado.
I imagine, if you see a 5'6" hippie doing something with ease that would make anyone assume they'd be able to do it just as easily.
I got there and they had a huge hole where the wall was supposed to be built, so I got everyone organized and knocked out a wall five feet tall and twelve feet long in about four hours.
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Yay for Puppies!
Boo for self-cutting!
One may help stop the other. No joke, the endorphins and oxytocin from interacting with puppies can help fight the depression your sister has, TS (I assume - cutting usually comes from being so numb pain feels better than current mindset), and having someone helpless to care for can have her get her mind off herself, which helps as well. Just a suggestion, but maybe a surprise gift?
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...or they were full...I just looked out my back window and saw vultures circling right a tthe edge of where the woods meets my actual yard.
Is it bad that my first thought was, "I bet [retired neighbor] is lying dead back there..."
But then the vultures moved on, so he must be fine.
Or he finally rose and shooed them away, possibly consuming or binding to himself one or two in the process.
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I finally figured out how to do the samurai showdown Sunday night, but I'm too tired from working in the cold (in the 50s, every damn day this week) to kick Tiny T-Rex off so I can play videogames.
Friday night I will seize my chance.
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In better news, I am not officially laid off until the end of Monday, but yesterday I handed in my office keys and laptop, then my boss and I wished each other well.
And so begins the job search...
Tell them you can shave an angry bear with a skid loader. I've gotten every job I've applied for since I started adding that to applications.
New job hired me on the contingency that when Tala got a job, they would work around her schedule. Been there 3 weeks. Got many compliments.
Tala got a job. I told them the days I needed that would be set in stone and never change, to make it easiest for them, asap.
They fired me rather than keep their word. Used the probationary 90 day fire you for any reason excuse.
I'd really like it if I could catch a f$~&ing break.
Tell them you can shave an angry bear with a skid loader, for the reasons I already covered with TS but also people are less likely to let you go in Florida if you can also double as a circus sideshow.
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In better news, I am not officially laid off until the end of Monday, but yesterday I handed in my office keys and laptop, then my boss and I wished each other well.
And so begins the job search...
wishing you nothing but the best.
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In better news, I am not officially laid off until the end of Monday, but yesterday I handed in my office keys and laptop, then my boss and I wished each other well.
And so begins the job search...
Good luck TS with both the job hunt and your sister.
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I'm writing a crime noir detective novel. Any feedback on my opening?
"It was a hot, steamy night in the city of Angels, when a leggy blonde walked into my office. She must have had 13, maybe 14 legs. Either way, it was far too many."
I would read that. You might want to work with Quibblemuch on it.
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Today, I'm the closer. Basically I'm going to all these job sites and finishing them.
It's actually a lot more fun than it sounds.
Do you get to take pictures or does someone else do thar behind your finishing work?
Do you get to take pictures or does someone else do thar behind your finishing work?
I always take before and after pictures.
On a similar note....
Does anyone have advice for when a puppy just will not go to sleep? Last night Sophie would not shut up until I let her back outside every 15-30 minutes or so, and only one of those to actually Go; the rest of the times just seemed like she wanted to run circles around the yard or chase things in the grasses along the fenceline.
I ended up putting her in her kennel room for the night so I could sleep, after literally five trips outside and her wanting to go for a sixth by midnight. But I'd like some advice for dealing with this in the future, especially since I'm 99% sure her desire to go out was mostly to resume chasing whatever it was she found or smelled in the grass.
Heh. You're both dealing with babies.
You're going to have to live around their schedules.