I'm so glad it's Friday

[lahdeedah]

Sept 17, 2021 17:23:33 GMT -6 tgrimes said:

Sept 17, 2021 16:47:31 GMT -6 lahdeedah said:

Got a message that they were trying to dispatch a bus for M after he was supposed to be picked up. So I scooped up my neighbor and we went and got the kids from school. No way I’m letting him just sit around school after a long day when I can pick him up. Ridiculous. He also had a haircut scheduled for 530, so yeah I couldn’t afford to wait on the bus either.

MH and M are at the barbershop and will be picking up dinner. It was wet and cloudy out so now I’m in a lazy mood and will be useless the rest of the night.

What’s the deal with the busses?

County has been short 100 drivers since the beginning of the year. We had an issue the first week of school, but then nothing else the rest of last month. Since coming back from Labor Day holiday, our bus route has been fucked. I don’t know what happened to our driver, but it’s late picking up in the morning and afternoon- whole different bus. My neighbor and I carpool the kids in the morning so they are in class on time. The afternoon bus has been dropping off only 20 minutes late, so we haven’t had to pick up yet. Then this happened today, so if it doesn’t improve we may have to just carpool in the afternoon, too.

ETA: I’m sure they have drivers out on quarantine now, too so they are probably really short. So much could be avoided if they just mandate masks. 😒

[guster]

I'm sorry that they dragged you around on this, mwhip. I hope you
can figure out a way to make it work at your current job. Is there room for growth there? Another position or department you could move to eventually?

[lahdeedah]

Always bad timing. guster I hope he remains negative.

mwhip So frustrating. I hope you can find a way to make it more of what you want, but if nothing has improved in a month or so, keep your eyes peeled for something better.

[wedding]

There was a positive in one of the other 2nd grade classes. C isn’t marked a close contact but they do all have recess together so it is concerning and I don’t know who it is. C said he is scared 😟. I hate that they have to worry about this stuff.

[trtlcrzy]

lahdeedah what a mess. I hope they get it figured out quickly.

mwhip that’s so frustrating. I hope you can make the new job a better situation.

[mwhip]

Sept 17, 2021 18:11:40 GMT -6 guster said:

I'm sorry that they dragged you around on this, mwhip. I hope you
can figure out a way to make it work at your current job. Is there room for growth there? Another position or department you could move to eventually?

When I talked to my boss about my concerns, he told me he hired me because of my experience and when the lady I work with leaves, he wants me to take her position. But she's 3 years out from retirement and I dont think she will retire then. She has never been married, no kids, and this job is her life. She is forced to use her PTO because she doesn't even take days off.

So other than that, no, there isn't room for growth. And part of what I dislike about the company is their weird structure.

[mwhip]

Sept 17, 2021 18:55:15 GMT -6 wedding said:

There was a positive in one of the other 2nd grade classes. C isn’t marked a close contact but they do all have recess together so it is concerning and I don’t know who it is. C said he is scared 😟. I hate that they have to worry about this stuff.

Has he noticed anyone out sick? Thats how we knew who the kid in Evies class was that was positive.

And he sat 2 away from Evie. All the precautions the school has in place though, no other kids im her class got sick. So stay optimistic!

[trtlcrzy]

I am so annoyed with this bachelorette party. I can’t wait for this, and the whole wedding, to be over. I just found out that this Airbnb the other girl booked was $1200. So now people that are only coming for 1 night still have to pay $135, which I feel is steep. I wish they wouldn’t have just booked it without discussing the cost options. It would have been much cheaper to do a few hotel rooms. I have a very bad poker face so I know this other girl will be able to read how I feel about her on my face. I fully plan to avoid her the whole time.

[klong11]

Signed Cadence up for an after school art program, but just got word that they had to cancel because Cadence was the only one to sign up. The school is trying to go paperless and wouldn't let a flyer go out in Monday folders so no one knew about it unless the scrolled to the bottom of the PTA email and clicked the link, which clearly not a lot of parents do.
So I told them to just hold her credit and sign her up for the next one. Cadence is really disappointed.

[klong11]

Drunk H and Cadence are putting together our new couch and watching Neverending Story. Yes, we just watched it last week. Apparently, they are going to watch it over and over so that it really is Neverending.

I've quietly retired to the back room until it's time for me to come and fix what they've done wrong.

[guster]

Sept 17, 2021 18:55:15 GMT -6 wedding said:

There was a positive in one of the other 2nd grade classes. C isn’t marked a close contact but they do all have recess together so it is concerning and I don’t know who it is. C said he is scared 😟. I hate that they have to worry about this stuff.

I'm really sorry. This is so frustrating. I would have guessed that the whole class at recess, running around together and unmasked for 15+ minutes would deem them all close contacts .

[guster]

Sept 17, 2021 19:03:58 GMT -6 mwhip said:

Sept 17, 2021 18:11:40 GMT -6 guster said:

I'm sorry that they dragged you around on this, mwhip. I hope you
can figure out a way to make it work at your current job. Is there room for growth there? Another position or department you could move to eventually?

When I talked to my boss about my concerns, he told me he hired me because of my experience and when the lady I work with leaves, he wants me to take her position. But she's 3 years out from retirement and I dont think she will retire then. She has never been married, no kids, and this job is her life. She is forced to use her PTO because she doesn't even take days off.

So other than that, no, there isn't room for growth. And part of what I dislike about the company is their weird structure.

Ugh, that sounds hard and annoying. I'm sorry!

[peachsmama]

Sept 17, 2021 19:06:00 GMT -6 trtlcrzy said:

I am so annoyed with this bachelorette party. I can’t wait for this, and the whole wedding, to be over. I just found out that this Airbnb the other girl booked was $1200. So now people that are only coming for 1 night still have to pay $135, which I feel is steep. I wish they wouldn’t have just booked it without discussing the cost options. It would have been much cheaper to do a few hotel rooms. I have a very bad poker face so I know this other girl will be able to read how I feel about her on my face. I fully plan to avoid her the whole time.

That was me at SIL's. This girl begged to be a bridesmaid and then picked a fight with the bride every chance she got. I was texting another bridesmaid my snide comments all night.

[chrisy01]

We just had a small earthquake. E was still up and told her toys to stop moving and Dexter freaked out but otherwise not much to report on it from my house. C now has to stay at work for an additional hour to make sure there are no after shocks. He didn’t even feel it (his store is quite a bit away.

[chrisy01]

I’m going to apologize in advance for how long this is.

Not so fun story from work:

Backstory

Last year this lady we will call her K, tried to get me fired. She said I didn’t pay some bills but I did. It was just on a 60 day pay period due to the pandemic instead of 45 days. And I had proof. She never once talked to me about them after I handed them off to her. Also when I was trying to explain to K how it was she told me she knew more about paying bills then me. We are not on the same smaller team but we report to the same director. She told the director after she failed to get me fired that those particular bills were to messed up and gave them back to me.

This week:

So now I’m on a temporary assignment working on special projects and while we still are not on the same small team again we are still report to the same director but now we sit in neighboring cubicles. It’s our end of fiscal. She told everyone on the greater team she can’t do any more ordering because of end of fiscal and she doesn’t have the bandwidth. All she does is ordering and bill paying. I do projects and maintain 3 programs plus ordering and bill paying. One of our directors favorites asked me to help her order something if I had the bandwidth. I told her yes because it only takes a few minutes. I did it and she was so happy and next week it will be here so I can close it out before the end of fiscal this month. She told the director what happened. He has now asked my two direct leaders (my normal and my TA) how much work has been on my plate and my hours for the last 6 months and asked her direct leader for the same thing. I know she did 12 hours each day this week. We are hourly so it’s a pretty big deal. I’m hoping this either leads to a promotion for me or the bills she gave to me goes back to her so I can focus on other things. However I’m scared he’s going to let her go and her work is given to me.

[mwhip]

Oh man chrisy01 that situation sounds messy. Anyway you could ask your director for a meeting and just sit down and talk things out? Get in front of it? I would be worried about the additional workload too.

[chrisy01]

Sept 18, 2021 6:42:48 GMT -6 mwhip said:

Oh man chrisy01 that situation sounds messy. Anyway you could ask your director for a meeting and just sit down and talk things out? Get in front of it? I would be worried about the additional workload too.

I’ve talked with him about the situation in the past (right after he gave me back the bills). He still had it in his mind that she was the best purchaser ever etc (she kisses his a** all the time) and that I could learn from her). I really think his bubble of her has broken and now all the issues with her that he’s ignore is now something he cares about. I got a text an hour or so after I went to bed last night from another person on the team about an issue he had with her a year ago as well along with his most recent one. Neither of us what her to be fired but happy someone is calling out her BS.

[mwhip]

Sept 18, 2021 6:47:40 GMT -6 chrisy01 said:

Sept 18, 2021 6:42:48 GMT -6 mwhip said:

Oh man chrisy01 that situation sounds messy. Anyway you could ask your director for a meeting and just sit down and talk things out? Get in front of it? I would be worried about the additional workload too.

I’ve talked with him about the situation in the past (right after he gave me back the bills). He still had it in his mind that she was the best purchaser ever etc (she kisses his a** all the time) and that I could learn from her). I really think his bubble of her has broken and now all the issues with her that he’s ignore is now something he cares about. I got a text an hour or so after I went to bed last night from another person on the team about an issue he had with her a year ago as well along with his most recent one. Neither of us what her to be fired but happy someone is calling out her BS.

At least he sees the issues. She sounds like someone not fun to work with. And her issues don't sound trainable. But I hope it doesn't effect your work load because that isn't fair.

[wedding]

Sept 17, 2021 19:05:42 GMT -6 mwhip said:

Sept 17, 2021 18:55:15 GMT -6 wedding said:

There was a positive in one of the other 2nd grade classes. C isn’t marked a close contact but they do all have recess together so it is concerning and I don’t know who it is. C said he is scared 😟. I hate that they have to worry about this stuff.

Has he noticed anyone out sick? Thats how we knew who the kid in Evies class was that was positive.

And he sat 2 away from Evie. All the precautions the school has in place though, no other kids im her class got sick. So stay optimistic!

I was going to ask but he started getting anxious. My neighbor works at the school so I’m going to ask her for the scoop.

[chrisy01]

Sept 18, 2021 7:33:04 GMT -6 mwhip said:

Sept 18, 2021 6:47:40 GMT -6 chrisy01 said:

I’ve talked with him about the situation in the past (right after he gave me back the bills). He still had it in his mind that she was the best purchaser ever etc (she kisses his a** all the time) and that I could learn from her). I really think his bubble of her has broken and now all the issues with her that he’s ignore is now something he cares about. I got a text an hour or so after I went to bed last night from another person on the team about an issue he had with her a year ago as well along with his most recent one. Neither of us what her to be fired but happy someone is calling out her BS.

At least he sees the issues. She sounds like someone not fun to work with. And her issues don't sound trainable. But I hope it doesn't effect your work load because that isn't fair.

She “talked” to me a few weeks ago because she herd me talking to someone in accounts payable and that we should be opening tickets not calling them directly. I had a ticket open and was just calling to discuss it versus back and forth emails. I didn’t even tell her that because she’s “always right” and the “queen of SAP”.

[mwhip]

Sept 18, 2021 11:43:19 GMT -6 chrisy01 said:

Sept 18, 2021 7:33:04 GMT -6 mwhip said:

At least he sees the issues. She sounds like someone not fun to work with. And her issues don't sound trainable. But I hope it doesn't effect your work load because that isn't fair.

She “talked” to me a few weeks ago because she herd me talking to someone in accounts payable and that we should be opening tickets not calling them directly. I had a ticket open and was just calling to discuss it versus back and forth emails. I didn’t even tell her that because she’s “always right” and the “queen of SAP”.

This bitch just needs to mind her business and do her job! No wonder she needs help with her workload when she's involving herself in everything else.

Reminds me a bit of the lady I work with.

[tgrimes]

chrisy01 K sucks.