Twatwaffle Tuesday 11/10

nerdymama15 · November 2015

Let's hear them ladies. Who or what is the twatwaffle right now?
I'll post mine later when I have a chance to. Sneaking this post in as it is.

emma+karen · November 2015

I was waiting for this thread to start! Where to begin?

- The tight-a$$ed board member who complained to my principal about the "messy state" of my desk. Yes, it's the library, but it's also MY WORKSPACE. And I can organize it however the F I want, you old crow! Just because you fricking meet here once night a month doesn't give you the right to dictate how I organize the desk where I sit EVERY DAM DAY!

- Our vice-principal (and now teachers) who think they can just send me kids whenever they freaking want. Any kids who don't have a place to go because of an "adjusted schedule" (which we have like, every other freaking day lately--so many GD assemblies I can't even anymore), a Jehovah's Witness who can't read "A Christmas Carol" (whose teacher didn't bother to give him, like, an alternate assignment or anything, just sent him to me with NO WORK to do). THERE'S A SCHEDULE, PEOPLE! I have CLASSES in here! What do you think I do all day, kick my feet up and eat bon-bons?

GAH! I went from absolutely loving my job to HATING it in a matter of weeks. WTH people?

laurenmdrn16 · November 2015

Oooh @emma+karen I am so feeling you. I have had it up to here (I am gesturing above my head) with the ridiculousness that is co-workers at a school.

The toughest part is trying to convey that their "crisis" is not necessarily my #1 priority. I also have the feeling that teachers will send kids to the nurse's office just because they want them dismissed and then get all huffy when I surprisingly won't dismiss a perfectly healthy child. Hey, I have return-to-class ratios I need to keep up! Not every kid who sniffles needs to be sent home, just because they are bugging you in class. I frequently go from loving to hating working in a school and realized after talking with a friend who just quit her job as a reading specialist/tutor that the times I hate my job have nothing to do with the kids, or even the parents...it is all the other adults I work with. GAH indeed!

ETA: And if I get interrupted during my lunch break one more time, I swear I am going to snap! I can finally eat so don't you dare take that away from me! I have made it perfectly clear that I eat lunch from 12:00 to 12:25 every freakin day. I am still in my office and available for EMERGENCIES...and no, if a kid falls and gets a teeny tiny scrape that is barely bleeding, that is NOT an emergency. Grrrrr!

Bluejay3030 · November 2015

This time my H gets the award. Whenever he goes to the grocery store instead of me he comes home with the moldy fruit. Like seriously, at least every other time. I'm like common man, how hard is it to sneak a quick peek in the box before you pick up the strawberries

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Edit: haha, I just realized I typed "common man" instead of "come on, man". I guess that works, too

missnc77 · November 2015

My boss and hormones.

As soon as I turn on work email, everything that could go wrong is going wrong. Our director is out on vacation for two weeks (of course), and I just had a phone conversation with my immediate boss who is confused and frustrated, making me confused and frustrated, and I just start sobbing. And now that I'm finally off the phone, I'm still sobbing. I have so much work to do, but I have the afternoon off to go take pictures at my husband's work (air force stuff), and now I'm just all stressed out, puffy eyed, and a hormonal mess. I want to curl up in a ball and just cry. I just hear my work email pinging in the background with new emails, and I want to run away.

yogahh · November 2015

Bluejay3030 said:

This time my H gets the award. Whenever he goes to the grocery store instead of me he comes home with the moldy fruit. Like seriously, at least every other time. I'm like common man, how hard is it to sneak a quick peek in the box before you pick up the strawberries .

And....now I want strawberries....

That1didntcount · November 2015

@missnc77 I feel ya, that work email ping is just too much sometimes. Take a deep breath, it will get better, sometimes the hormones make it hard to look beyond the mess. . .

dsmith211 · November 2015

Pretty much everyone at work. This one guy keeps talking about how he missed work all week last week bc he was SOOOO sick and that he's still not 100 percent. Seriously, they give us days to work from home for reasons like this. Not to mention, people around me keep coughing and sneezing and I'm sitting over at my desk with the Lysol wipes and hand sanitizer trying to avoid it. I don't want to get sick. I swear if I do I'm going to beat someone. I already had a cold earlier on in the pregnancy and I don't want to deal with this again.

My midwife said to wait till 14 weeks for me to get my flu shot but I'm half tempted to call and ask if I can get it now with people at my work getting sick like this. I know a few days is probably not going to make that much of a difference but I think it would make me feel better.

Also, that same sick guy is a jerk. DH and I work at the same place (same floor, everything... We don't actually see each other but if he's having a conversation I can hear it). He brings me food everyday, to my desk so I don't have to get up, brings me snacks, just cutesy type stuff. Someone on my team commented on how he was the best husband ever bc he does all this stuff for me. It made me smile, bc he really is pretty awesome. Then what does jerk face do? He goes and says 'No, I'm the best husband bc I don't make my wife have to work all the time and I buy her nice things and do this and that... Blah blah blah'. This was not joking either, he was completely serious about it. I just laughed. No one said you were a crappy husband dude. No need to go and put someone else down. Not to mention my husband doesn't 'make' me work. I choose to work bc I enjoy what I do. Obviously bc I spent 7 years of my life in school and an astronomical amount of money on my education to get my job.

LadySamLady · November 2015

First floor neighbors who treat our building laundry room like a laundromat! In less than a minute after my laundry stopped they took my clean, wet clothes out of the washer and put them on top of folding table and started putting their clothes in both machines even though I was clearly doing multiple loads. In a small building you don't do that, you wait your turn. Then after my first loads were done drying (they were blankets and so took double time) I went to put my subsequent load in the dryer and they told me that they were waiting to use it. I was like, "oh, I thought you were using the right one and I'm using this one" and they made this whole big deal about how they had dinner reservations in an hour. He was like "I've been standing here for 15 minutes waiting for you to come back down to get your stuff out" - which I don't care about because he made that dumb choice, he could have noted the time on the dryer and came back when it was done. I told them what I thought but let them carry on with their rude ways - if someone else is in the middle of doing laundry I would never take their clothes out of the washer - I don't touch my neighbors clothes, period and if I'm in there at the same time as someone else I combine loads and use one dryer because of common effing courtesy. My husband was mortified that I got a little confrontational but I do not feel bad, don't mess with a pregnant woman's laundry!

wsgjmw1 · November 2015

My FIL has brought up weight gain TWICE now. He nonchalantly starts talking about pregnant weight gain and if my doctors have talked to me about it with me. I know he cares about me but its annoying and makes me feel self conscious. I had a check up today and I have only gained 4 pounds in my first trimester, which means I am in the normal range. I just wish he and other people would be more sensitive with the weight subject.

jessiedee13 · November 2015

The little boy I baby sit. As awful as that is. I'm glad his grandma came to pick him up today. First thing he did when he got here was dump the diaper bag on the floor (which he isn't allowed to play with). Then he kicked my son. Got out every toy in the play room and refused to put them away. Time out does nothing for that kid. He actually finds it funny, but since that's my only option for him that's what I do. Once we finally got the toy room clean, he thought it would be cool to spit his ENTIRE cup of RED juice all over my WHITE carpet!...back in time out so I can cool off and clean the carpet. At lunch he stuck his hands in the ketchup and smeared it on the walls and carpet...idk what got into him today but he better be over it by tomorrow. Cuz I'm losing my mind over it!

yogahh · November 2015

adySamLady said:

First floor neighbors who treat our building laundry room like a laundromat! In less than a minute after my laundry stopped they took my clean, wet clothes out of the washer and put them on top of folding table and started putting their clothes in both machines even though I was clearly doing multiple loads. In a small building you don't do that, you wait your turn. Then after my first loads were done drying (they were blankets and so took double time) I went to put my subsequent load in the dryer and they told me that they were waiting to use it. I was like, "oh, I thought you were using the right one and I'm using this one" and they made this whole big deal about how they had dinner reservations in an hour. He was like "I've been standing here for 15 minutes waiting for you to come back down to get your stuff out" - which I don't care about because he made that dumb choice, he could have noted the time on the dryer and came back when it was done. I told them what I thought but let them carry on with their rude ways - if someone else is in the middle of doing laundry I would never take their clothes out of the washer - I don't touch my neighbors clothes, period and if I'm in there at the same time as someone else I combine loads and use one dryer because of common effing courtesy. My husband was mortified that I got a little confrontational but I do not feel bad, don't mess with a pregnant woman's laundry!

I cant stop thinking about that classic episode of Friends when Rachel does laundry for the 1st time and encounters this frightening lady

doozer1345 · November 2015

A "close friend" of mine is at a conference and called me the other night (drunk) and said someone wanted to talk to me. She put the person on the phone and I quickly realized it was my ex fiance (who screwed me over in every way possible and had broken my heart so bad that I literally fell apart and didn't pick up the pieces for 2 years). She then proceeded to tell me I'm his one, I'm the one that got away, he still loves me, I have such an effect on him, etc. She also told me that she told him all about my life (about DD and the fact I'm pg now etc). I haven't seen or heard from him in 8-9 years and definitely strived to keep it that way. I was so upset I started having cramps that lasted 2 hours.

kbrands7 · November 2015

Single men and women at work who called in sick for our professional development day and have spent the last week talking about how they were so glad they had "sick days to burn" so that they didn't have to sit through meetings. Really, I'm jealous because I've been hoarding mine for years for 2 maternity leaves and I still will probably only end up with 2 paid weeks this time because I've needed extra appointments that they haven't been able to schedule after my workday. My school doesn't have flex time or anything for appointments, so if it's not first thing or last thing where I could take a 1/2 day, I'm forced to take a full day. I really hate feeling jealous.

LadySamLady · November 2015

@yogahh ahaha! i guess i'm that lady!!

Scottwswife · November 2015

My co-teacher. She requested all last week off to schedule a minor surgery. Didn't confirm it was approved...it wasn't. Took the time off anyway. Surgery was on Thursday. Had to go home early yesterday and today because she was in so much pain. Now why would you schedule something on Thursday and expect to be up and running on Monday? Our whole wing has been inconvenienced for almost 2 weeks. And did I mention she rolls in half an hour late every day? Seriously, girly, get your isht together and do your job. It's not that hard to get up and leave the house half an hour earlier. And maybe skip the Starbucks drive through if you're already running late. Did I mention how minor the surgery was? She got a mole removed. I know it hurts, but suck it up, Buttercup! Either be at work and be ON or stay home and stop half-assing it. Thanks, I needed that.

khochanadel · November 2015

@missnc77 mine over buys produce (came home with 9 tomatoes. Who uses 9 tomatoes in a week?) Then complains when we have all this food that goes bad. Effing duh.

nerdymama15 · November 2015

Scottwswife said:

My co-teacher. She requested all last week off to schedule a minor surgery. Didn't confirm it was approved...it wasn't. Took the time off anyway. Surgery was on Thursday. Had to go home early yesterday and today because she was in so much pain. Now why would you schedule something on Thursday and expect to be up and running on Monday? Our whole wing has been inconvenienced for almost 2 weeks. And did I mention she rolls in half an hour late every day? Seriously, girly, get your isht together and do your job. It's not that hard to get up and leave the house half an hour earlier. And maybe skip the Starbucks drive through if you're already running late. Did I mention how minor the surgery was? She got a mole removed. I know it hurts, but suck it up, Buttercup! Either be at work and be ON or stay home and stop half-assing it. Thanks, I needed that.

A mole? Seriously? Are you for real? A mole? What is this lady's pain tolerance level? What does she do when she gets a paper cut, get stitches? I mean really? I've had several removed and it was uncomfortable for a day at the most, and it did not keep me from functioning. I know other people that have had moles removed and it did not keep them from functioning either.

nerdymama15 · November 2015

Finally able to get on here and add mine. My twatwaffle nomination for the day, has to be my father-in-law.   I'm not even sure where to begin. All the stuff involving him could probably be xp to the problematic parents thread, but I have not gotten to that yet. I could probably write a book with a few hundred pages of the stuff he does that really grates my nerves. Don't get me wrong, he is a nice man most of the time. But on the other hand, he is super manipulative. He manipulated my husband so bad a month or so ago, that my husband cried. This had been building and building. Just to give you an idea, he is super needy and expects my husband to drop everything and do whatever he needs when he needs it or he will put him on a massive guilt trip. However, the man is perfectly capable of doing things himself, but he won't.   But that is a story for another day.
My beef with him right now is one of his three dogs was very sick and should have been put down weeks ago. He refused to believe the vet that there was a blockage in the dog's airway. He swore up and down if he could get him to the other vet's office across town and get an ultrasound that the dog could be fixed. (The man refuses to drive; he can drive, he just refuses to. Expects others to cart him around). Nevermind that the dog was 16 years old and obese from where he fed him McChicken sandwiches every day for a few years. The blockage was actually from fat pressing down on his airway. I don't think he has put two and two together yet and figured out that he made him fat. The dog was having trouble breathing for three weeks. Finally, today after the dog had a really bad spell and was halfway unconscious in the floor and barely breathing, he decided it was time to put him to sleep. I'm sorry, I know it is hard to lose a pet. I really do. We have had to put quite a few down ourselves. But I do NOT believe in making an animal suffer just b/c you want to be selfish.   I know that the next thing that will happen is he will probably blame my husband for not taking him across town to the emergency vet to get an ultrasound on the dog. I know he will blame my husband. He seriously believes that the dog could have been saved if he could have just gotten an ultrasound. Nevermind the fact that he would have to have been sedated for it and the regular vet has already said he would die if sedated.    Okay that is thing one with the father in law.

Reason number 2 that he is a twatwaffle.
I don't like the way he uses my husband. When my husband and him go out every week to eat (now it is one day a week, before he expected him to go out like four days a week and would keep him out til like 9pm or so) I don't go. The man really grates my nerves because of how he treats my husband and I know me and my big mouth would probably say something. For the most part I can tolerate him if I have to, however, now that I'm pregnant and hormonal, all bets are off. So the other day he told my husband that he thought that I did not like him and he was worried that when the baby came that I would not let him see the baby. Like seriously? WTF? Yes, I do not like him b/c of the way he treats my husband, but that does not mean I'm going to keep him from seeing his grandchild. I mean seriously! I'm seriously not a cold hearted bitch. Now I know we will NOT be going to his house with the baby b/c he lets the dogs pee on towels laid out in the floor. He had three, as of today he is down to two. They pee everywhere else too. The house stinks. That is another issue. He claims he can't take the dogs out b/c he is not physically able. We are talking about tiny chihuahuas for starters.   And when we went to the ymca with him, he was playing basketball (not a game, but just shooting the ball and RUNNING after the ball), yet he is not able to walk a dog? Puhlease!!!!!!!! Yeah so we will not be bringing the baby to his house. Will be happy to meet him somewhere with the baby, or him even come up here.

Like I said, I could write a book on him. There is a LOT more. I could go on and on and on.

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