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#726 Old 29th Feb 2024 at 7:18 PM
Quote: Originally posted by PANDAQUEEN
But when I saw they left it in the driveway again, there was a part of me screaming on the inside "Aw, for fuck's sakes, Abraham!" I was not happy with the fact that they did that.

If it's anything like the delivery drivers in my country, then they are likely paid pittance and expected to deliver a large number of packages in a very short time. So if they carry the parcel down a long driveway on each house they visit, they likely wouldn't be able to deliver the items they need to in the time they have. A courier I was recently talking to explained to me how he had several hundred packages in his van, and that he had to do that many each day because he was only paid a few pence per item. Doesn't work out as much per hour when you take into account walking to and from the van, and driving around the streets. Plus they are self employed, so pay their own tax and costs and pension. No sick or holiday pay.
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#727 Old 1st Mar 2024 at 1:13 AM Last edited by PANDAQUEEN : 1st Mar 2024 at 1:15 AM. Reason: Clarity and Addendum
I ended up lifting over 100 pounds today total and nearly threw out my back in the process.

Also, I am at a loss trying to figure out why my computer wasn't connected to my phone for audio\video transfer and then it connects. I got grumpy and was like "I am beginning to hate you, Bessie 3..."

I live in the United States and union\regulatory body rules may vary.

Personal Quote: "I like my men like my sodas: tall boys." (Zevia has both 12 and 16 oz options)

(P.S. I'm about 5' (150cm) in height and easily scared)
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#728 Old 4th Mar 2024 at 6:05 PM Last edited by Elynda : 4th Mar 2024 at 9:57 PM.
I broke my bed last night, just by sitting down on it. I had my doubts about the thing when I first saw it, in spite of my brother's assurances, when he helped me assemble it, that he had one just like it and never had any problems. The mattress is supported by wooden slats, rather like they had in P.O.W. camps, although I bet those were of a more robust construction. They'd have to be. with a lot of strapping great soldiers, sailors and airmen sleeping on them. And I, as I may have mentioned before, am a person of, shall we say, rather more modest stature. So if my bed breaks under my weight, how's it supposed to stand up under a full grown adult?

I couldn't even inspect the damage this morning, let alone fix it, since I had a doctor's appointment. "You've got to take care of your health", people keep telling me. Well, getting soaked to the skin, waiting for a bus while it pissed down with rain didn't help matters very much!

When I finally got back. I was able to attempt repairs. I discovered that one of the mid-most slats had snapped and the wooden support had come away from the main frame. The thing had actually been nailed into place, surely screws would have been better!. I had to drill out the nail holes so that I could put some self tapping screws through them, so it should be stronger than before. I Think i made a pretty good job it, except I didn't have any wood to replace the broken slat, so I had to borrow one from the end of the bed. Now I must hope the damned thing stays together, at least until I ca-n afford a new bed!

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#729 Old 5th Mar 2024 at 2:24 PM
I'm getting fed up with my parents doing my chores while I am home. I am trying to prove I can care for this house.

Arggh! What a miserable time to be alive! Can't sit and rest for 15 minutes? For fuck's sakes, Abraham...I can't seem to catch a break!

Abraham? Just some teacher I worked with after graduation. He was irritating.

Personal Quote: "I like my men like my sodas: tall boys." (Zevia has both 12 and 16 oz options)

(P.S. I'm about 5' (150cm) in height and easily scared)
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#730 Old 7th Mar 2024 at 2:30 AM
Heard about the telecommunications outages.

As the granddaughter and daughter of 2 respected telecommunications experts...I had that gut feeling like "Something ain't right".

Personal Quote: "I like my men like my sodas: tall boys." (Zevia has both 12 and 16 oz options)

(P.S. I'm about 5' (150cm) in height and easily scared)
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#731 Old 8th Mar 2024 at 12:14 AM Last edited by simmer22 : 8th Mar 2024 at 3:07 PM.
So much nagging at work (at times I'm convinced certain people treat us like personal servants they can boss around - some people think yanking the call bells means they get first-dibs, within ten seconds rights to whatever they want, and get pissed off if they have to wait a few minutes, but never consider we can't be 10 places at once and that other people might need us too, especially those who can't/don't use the call bell...)

Then stressed from shop to shop and dragged 2 heavy grocery bags home.

And after dinner proceeded to fall asleep and be completely knocked out for 5-6 hours.

Plus it's spider and isopod season again. Those little bastards are everywhere (and for some reason love my room )...
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#732 Old 12th Mar 2024 at 1:36 PM Last edited by simmer22 : 12th Mar 2024 at 3:33 PM.
Work. Again. Or information from work, that is. They can't pull their things together and put out decent information.
- Put the info in the proper channel - it needs to be a separate info blob, and where it belongs. If I stumble across it when I least expect it, and if the info is mixed in with some other random info and not a proper note in itself, I don't know how seriously I'm going to take it, either.
- Put it out in good time. Preferably at least 5 days to a week before (not in random place, and a day before the weekend when the meeting is a tuesday, especially when you're herding cats who mostly rely on the Jungle telegraph and maybe read the info a couple days a week at best - if they even know where/how to read it, because they barely gave us instructions for how to use the programs, just assumed some of us would figure it out and teach the rest, so a couple or so years later there are still people who barely know how to use the sites, like I witnessed only yesterday... ).
- Time, date, place and other info ("This Tuesday" or "Next Friday" is not spesific enough. Date, please! I don't care if you say it is tomorrow, I need you to put a date on it, because if I see it in 3 days I need to know if I've missed it or have to put it on the calendar!)
- Do I have to meet in-person, can I take it over the web, or do I have to be on the meeting at all? (If the info isn't super obvious, I'm going to assume the answer is "no". Also, I really do need to know if it's web-friendly if it's held in a room where web meetings are commonly held. If you don't say anything I am going to assume it could be web-friendly, especially if it's my day off. I'm not showing up if I don't have to, but I'm good with web meetings since those don't take much prep time. I've had too many cancelled meetings on my days off, and I'm sick of spending 2-3 hours on showing up for *nothing*, because nobody says anything if something gets cancelled, of course ).

I mean, come on? How hard can it be?

Quote:
RELEVANT HEADING
Meeting relating to *theme*, Thursday 14. March at 1 PM. Meet at *meeting place*.
Meeting is in-person only (OR) Use *this link* from home.
*Additional relevant info here*


Normally they are able to it, so why is it so difficult the times when they don't?
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#733 Old 18th Mar 2024 at 9:10 AM Last edited by simmer22 : 19th Mar 2024 at 7:12 PM.
The "curse of calm".

Never mention to a health worker who's coming on shift that "the last shift was calm/quiet/peaceful" or any other synonym. It's a curse upon the next shift. You can say it was an okay shift or something similar, but never use the word "calm".

Everything went somewhat fine the first part of the shift. Then the "curse of calm" hit with the force of a nuclear bomb on the last part of the shift 🥴

I mean, I've had worse days at work, but still... Just happy to walk out of there and let someone else deal with it for a few days...

(Got cake when I got home, from a birthday party I couldn't attend - a treat which was sorely needed. I'd rather have been at the birthday party...)
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#734 Old 19th Mar 2024 at 7:00 PM
Quote: Originally posted by simmer22
Never mention to a health worker who's coming on shift that "the last shift was calm/quiet/peaceful" or any other synonym.
I just got a TikTok the other day explaining this exact phenomenon!

DJ. who?
Jään sitä selvittämään, c'mooon!
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#735 Old 19th Mar 2024 at 8:20 PM
Quote: Originally posted by topp
I just got a TikTok the other day explaining this exact phenomenon!


Could be any, although this one is a fave, along with this one - but yeah, this.

Goes for most healthcare staff and emergency personnel.
Theorist
#736 Old 19th Mar 2024 at 8:51 PM
It was neither of those - it was just a first-person perspective of an ER worker that radio'd "what a quiet night tonight" - and not a second later, a very agitated person starts shouting from the other end. The comments explained what's going on currently, my FYP just loves not explaining anything and making me search for an answer myself. Most of the time I can't be bothered though, but this one stuck with me.

DJ. who?
Jään sitä selvittämään, c'mooon!
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#737 Old 19th Mar 2024 at 9:21 PM
Kind of annoyed cos we went out of our way to get 2 nice cakes for a bunch of people that were coming over (we love options). Anyway one of them saw us take the cakes out of the fridge and in a super annoying tone was like "did you know all cakes from that place are stuffed full with gelatin - we dont eat that because its so bad for you!" Understandably mum and dad got a bit upset since like they def asked several times over the last few weeks whether any of them had any dietry requirements and they'd all said no. Also these people didnt even bring flowers or chocolate or anything, like guys come on that's first time dinner guest rule 101.

I guess I'm taking cake with me to work tomorrow
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#738 Old 19th Mar 2024 at 9:55 PM Last edited by simmer22 : 20th Mar 2024 at 5:32 PM.
Quote: Originally posted by topp
It was neither of those - it was just a first-person perspective of an ER worker that radio'd "what a quiet night tonight" - and not a second later, a very agitated person starts shouting from the other end.


I've seen a few different, like this one.

Quote: Originally posted by Noa1500
"did you know all cakes from that place are stuffed full with gelatin - we dont eat that because its so bad for you!"


Unless they're going all vegan or some such, it's not worse than eating meat. Regular non-vegan gelatin is just protein derived from collagen from animals. Can't speak for the cakes, though (but cakes generally aren't health foods anyway :/ ).

Some people are never happy. Maybe next time they should offer to bring the cakes, since they "clearly" know which ones are the best ones, or maybe are willing to bake. There are lots of good reasons why people would buy cakes instead of baking them, or have a favorite place to buy them from, and as a guest there are very few valid reasons for complaining, especially if they've already been asked for dietary restrictions and all that . Valid options are to eat the cakes they're offered and not say anything, or to not eat the cakes and not say anything (nobody is forcing them to eat, and opinions about the bakery can be kept to themselves).
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#739 Old 22nd Mar 2024 at 6:38 PM
@simmer22 Shame cakes aren't health foods because life would be fantastic if they were
But yeah, what we did was perfectly normal so they're clearly the sort that unreasonable. The parentals have decided that they'll never voluntarily invite them anywhere ever again


I orded new glasses like 3 weeks ago. Last week they were like they haven't been made yet but we'll update you soon! And then the email I got like an hour ago was like yeah production operations told us that they've not got the frame in stock (which is wild because I speficially went and ordered my glasses because they were back in stock) and that I have a few options: wait for the unknown, see if they have it in another colour/ change frame, or get my money back. I'm annoyed because I picked this optician instead of my ususal because these people were supposed to do better (and faster) but so far.....
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#740 Old 22nd Mar 2024 at 7:19 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Noa1500
Shame cakes aren't health foods because life would be fantastic if they were


Couldn't agree more

The glasses issue sounds weird, although I'm assuming it works different where you live than here. I've just picked out frames, they order the glass, and I've always assumed they've put the frames I picked to the side with my name on it until the glass arrive (they cut to shape in-store).
Scholar
#741 Old 23rd Mar 2024 at 1:21 AM
Heartbroken, again. I'm so tired of it, I've wanted to be married and settled since I was a teenager. I'm worn out and tired of other people assuming that being single is my choice, when actually I don't like it and want someone to love.

I could understand if I was seeing men I didn't click with, and didn't have the right feelings for. But to fall in love, he loves me back and be happy, then things go wrong, is so painful. As I've gotten older I've had to learn about setting boundaries etc, and not accepting certain behaviours. But sticking to that is so hard, and I'm so sad now.
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#742 Old 25th Mar 2024 at 8:30 PM Last edited by simmer22 : 26th Mar 2024 at 2:59 AM.
In the middle of making dinner, pan was probably a bit too toasty, I put some butter in and then the meat (which was probably a bit too liquidy from some sauce) which hit the heat/fat in the pan a bit too fast, and it splashed up on my arm. So now I've got three long thin (but not too serious) blisters that hurt (I held my arm under runny water for a while, so probably calmed down the worst of it, but still)...

Also quite toast from work, so slept away most of the evening (as per usual after work).
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#743 Old 25th Mar 2024 at 9:34 PM Last edited by PANDAQUEEN : 25th Mar 2024 at 9:35 PM. Reason: Clarity and Addendum
Just have been trying to not let my mother get to me over any debts I owe her and the fact I need food, along with water and equipment to work with.

In short, I am still doing chores like my life depends on it.

Personal Quote: "I like my men like my sodas: tall boys." (Zevia has both 12 and 16 oz options)

(P.S. I'm about 5' (150cm) in height and easily scared)
Scholar
#744 Old Yesterday at 5:22 PM
I've been in Waiting Mode TM all day and I don't know why
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