Monday Bitchfest 6/6

EmilyE13

I don’t think we’ve done this topic in a bit. 

My bitchfest today is supreme irritation at a work colleague who seems to do everything he can to push tasks to my team. It’s like he has a personal conquest to delegate every single inquiry that comes his way to another group. His predecessor went out of her way to help and find solutions, and he…doesn’t. 🙄

krthouse

DH has decided that today is the day he will upend the apartment to find his passport. He put it down somewhere stupid months ago, has been aware that it's missing, and all of a sudden today he's been going through everything like a maniac trying to find it. I get the feeling, and I absolutely hate that feeling of pulling my hair out to find something, but I'm also so frustrating. His mood all day has been toxic and I had to tell him to slow down and calm down earlier while DS was napping so he wouldn't wake him up. I was in a good mood this morning but I'm feeling so moody now from his energy.

shortstack930

Oh man I am here for this today!

First, my employer decided to cancel all COVID pay as of 6/1 so basically if you get COVID now you have to use your own PTO to cover your absence. Well, of course I test positive for COVID on 6/2 and while everyone else had gotten two paid weeks off to rest, I only get two days because I need to save my days for maternity leave. So I’m still coughing and have hardly any voice, yet I have to go back to work tomorrow and care for pregnant women and babies!

Second, we decided to switch to Google fiber since they just came to our area. Well, I was already annoyed with them because when they started installing stuff in our neighborhood months ago they broke one of our sprinkler heads when they were digging. Well they come out today to lay down some sort of cable to prep for the official installation at the end of the month and the assholes must have sliced through our existing providers cable because now we have no wifi at all. When DH called them they were basically like oh well it can happen, call your current provider. Well our current provider can’t come fix anything until Friday so we are stuck having to use our phones as a hotspot for anything internet related. I’m more angry at the lack of responsibility they’re taking for it rather than the lack of internet. 

krthouse

Oh my gosh @shortstack930 isn't that a MASSIVE liability re your job? If you're working with vulnerable populations like preggos and babies they should absolutely not have you back in until you're negative and fully symptom-free.

shortstack930

@krthouse you would think so right?! Apparently it’s totally fine for me to go back to work as long as it’s been five days since the onset of symptoms and my symptoms are “improving”. Not gone, improving. I know I’d be pissed if someone came in to be my delivery nurse and sounded sick!

EmilyE13

@shortstack930 I can’t believe that’s their policy. Ugh. I hope you feel better. As for Google and your current provider, I would be livid and probably would also be a pest and keep calling until they send someone out.

merostomata

@Shortstack930 omg, I’m so sorry. That is the same policy as my university (a research hospital) and they had my MD boss doing surgeries 5 days after her first positive test, when she was still clearly sick  I really don’t get it. It seems like everyone is getting Covid so the hospitals are just like, oh well, gotta keep making money *shrug* chop chop, back to it providers.

Also, a similar thing happened with our internet with some recent water line construction. So I feel ya. It affected our whole little neighborhood, but luckily they were able to come out after 2 days. No communication, it just came back on at one point. I had an appointment for the following week and THEN they explained what happened. But it did get fixed prior, as they get local alerts to outages, so maybe that’ll happen to you too.

mia80

I'm so stressed about work right now (I work in finance as a Senior Investment Consultant). We are short staffed, and have been basically since covid started. Some of my favourite people have left in the last two years and instead of hiring we've just been asked to take up the slack... which has worked okay since we were all virtual and client meetings were online. BUT now we're starting to get back to in person and there is no plan on how we will start to make time to get to client meetings. And at the same time we've had crazy high analyst turnover, so work quality has gone down and I've found so many errors in client reports.  I've worked here for 15 years (my work anniversary was last month and all I got was a crappy form email) and always felt like this was one of the best places to work in the industry, but I'm starting to feel like it's a sinking ship. I would like to look for another job because I feel like I'm just not being compensated for this stress, but at 20 weeks pregnant it's really not worth it because no one's going to want to hire someone who'll work for less than 4 months and then be off for a year...

Ugghhhhhhhh

Oh, and we're building a house this year and our bank is being so stupid with financing and driving me nuts. Plus we're living in a construction zone and the yard is a mess. AND I'm pregnant, grumpy and tire and my toddler has decided to enter the terrible twos 5 months early!!!

pangolindrome

2/7 students have yet to start on their five-page essay finals (30% of final grade in my high school dual-credit English class). One hasn't even added their name to it yet.

It is due on Thursday and they have today and tomorrow to work on it in class because on Thursday, there is one of the fun end-of-the-year events.

/cue internal screaming

krysnicole1022

Last week I called the nurses line because I felt some pressure and like I had to pee constantly but I didn't have to pee. I was so uncomfortable I was to the point of tears. I told the nurse I have a history of YI and BV (that is unresponsive to antibiotics) and that I was pretty sure one or both of those was the culprit. (Apparently this is a genetic thing and I have no control over it which pisses me off because I'm a very clean person. Anyway) She told me that it was impossible for that to be the cause and that my pelvic muscles were so loose from having so many kids that the baby was probably crushing my bladder. Now that does happen later on but that's a different feeling. With that I literally always had to pee but I could only go a little at a time. She then tells me they can test me for a UTI (which I've never had) but that's all they can do. So I said "screw it" and started treating for a YI and wouldn't you know? The uncomfortable feeling started clearing up the very next day. By day two I was feeling almost 100%. I'm going to finish out all seven days but it's so frustrating to be told "no that can't be it" when I know that it is. 

pangolindrome

Our senior class has pulled the DUMBEST senior prank I've seen in my career. They filled two dryers and a dishwasher with concrete, dropped one in the walkway between two buildings, one in the MIDDLE of the exit from the rear staff parking lot, and one outside the cafeteria. They also stuck a bunch of plastic cutlery and hotdogs on sticks in the front lawn. 

I know it's a limited number of them. I am furious and so are most of the staff. Other students agree that it's not even funny, it's just dumb.

EmilyE13

@pangolindrome is it too late to expel them? I’m all for vengeance. 

pangolindrome

@EmilyE13 I like the way you think! They're going to have to pick all of it up and there is talk about charging their parents for the cost of getting the cement-filled appliances out of here.

krysnicole1022

That's such a dumb prank. 

krthouse

@pangolindrome I find the hotdogs hilarious, but the cement is just destructive. I'm a fan of the classic TPing or filling a room with balloons myself.

fichey

We were supposed to meet with our prospective pediatrician this morning but instead the faucet on our sink decided to explode off. By the time we were able to get water shut off and everything cleaned up the appointment was long over. I hate being late, and the fact that I just ghosted an appointment is embarrassing. I left a voicemail and I just hope they understand and reschedule us. They're the closest office and I really like their policies/things I've heard from our friends with kids, so I'm dying that this is their first impression of me. 

pangolindrome

@fichey I am so sorry that happened! I'm sure they will understand that it was an emergency and you could do nothing about it. It would have been so much worse if it happened when you were gone!

krysnicole1022

We were supposed to go test drive a car today. I told my husband I had a bad feeling about it and confirmed the car was still on site. The drive was about an hour so I was hesitant to even go and look considering gas prices. A couple of days ago it disappeared off the dealership website. I asked about it and they fed me some line that the website was being strange. Now ... I'm really hesitant to spend a lot of money and I had a budget. I had already spoken with the sales person and we had sort of worked out a deal for a price below asking. Yesterday the exact car showed up on a different dealership website...for $3,000 more putting it $2,500 away from a brand new Subaru Ascent. I emailed the new dealership and told them I had confirmation this car was being sold for a lower price yesterday and if they wanted to work with me on that then we would come by. They basically told me to shove it. That car hasn't sold in 6 months and they just upped the price. Good luck with that 

fichey

@pangolindrome Ugh, right? At the very least I'm glad we were home. If I don't hear back from the office I'll just have the husband call lol 

@krysnicole1022 that's absolutely absurd. I don't know why it's so hard for dealerships to just be straightforward about their stock on the lot. My mom went through something similar when she bought her car last year. Dealerships would give the runaround or straight up lie about what they had available, then when she got there pull "oh we just sold that one but how about this instead?" Ugh, hope another car comes around for you!

krysnicole1022

@fichey it's so ridiculous. At that price point I may as well by a new one. Oh and then she tried selling me on a Forester...um...I have an outback. If I needed something that size I would get another Outback because I love it beyond reason. I'll just strap a kid to the roof. 

jennaverhaeghe

The shared cared program. I live in a small town in Alberta, Canada. Yes, we have “free” healthcare (we pay for it in taxes) and the one doctors office & hospital here has a shared care program. This pregnancy for me, there are 7 doctors in the program. So throughout my pregnancy I have to make appointments with all of them. Then on delivery day, who ever is on shift is who delivers you. My daughter was born early last year and there were 5 doctors in the program. And out of the 7 this year, only 3 are OG’s from my first. And these other 4 are all new to me! Never met them. So annoying and impersonal having to meet all these new doctors and tell my history to every bloody one. I’m just crossing my fingers that my delivery doctor is one I like and am comfortable with. 

pangolindrome

@jennaverhaeghe Feeling your frustration there. I have scheduled to see the same health professional for the entirety of my visits, but whichever OB happens to be on shift when the time comes is the one who will help me deliver. I have faith in WHA (Women's Healthcare Associates) and they all seem good, but I definitely don't savor the idea of someone unknown helping me deliver.

mia80

@jennaverhaeghe we have an OB pool for delivery here (Sask). I love my OB, but for my son I was moved to an MFM at 30 Weeks, and I figure the same thing will happen this time. With his delivery, honestly I mostly saw the delivery nurse until it was time to push... So it didn't really matter which OB was there. And then we needed an emergency c-section and I barely noticed the OB doing that!! I feel like I bounced around Drs the whole time, so I didn't really bother me... As long as my son was healthy!

Although it would be nice just to see one Dr!