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September 2016 Moms
chavezrd2
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Working Mom's Check In 8/16/16
chavezrd2
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Re: Working Mom's Check In 8/16/16
I read a Parenting magazine about working moms balance (or lack thereof), nothing new. It doesn't exist, we carry most of the work home/office even those with spouses. We need paternity leave... bla bla bla. Wish they'd do something about it other than just keep repeating it.
out to pump jacks and rigs and have to
wear all the safety clothing that those
safety jerks make everyone wear
So for the last 3 days our network drives have been down and things were pretty quiet, well they came back online today and it's been nonstop. I don't mind it since it's making the day go but Mylanta I could really go for a nap!
DD has dropped and it's just pressure and pain everywhere. I'm grateful that I am starting to take every Wednesday off starting tomorrow and I hope that DS2s therapist is good with still not having a session tomorrow even though he starts school a week later than everyone else.
We just switched over our timekeeping software for our hours at work and it's a complete clusterf*?! No one in HR even knows what to do or how it works. Very frustrating.
Also, I have a performance review coming due next month and I'm hoping I'm there to have it done because I would like a raise.
I'm getting sick of work for the first time - just getting tired of it. Happy I will be off for some time with baby girl soon.
I also asked for fewer shifts (part time) so that I could rest more, but instead I wound up with a full schedule. My last week of work is busy instead of easy. Not something that anyone could really control, but it would have been nice...
I wish I had gone on leave/quit at the end of July, but we need the money too much.
I have so much to do to be comfortable handing my cases to someone else, and I want to do those things so badly, but I am also so tired. Instead of accomplishing anything yesterday, I spent half the day at the OB and a lot of the rest marathoning Call the Midwife from bed. I am ready to be done with this pregnancy.
@chavezrd2 I believe I might have punched that guy.
FORMER USERNAME: @runningisrad
MrsVoorhees lol, we can swap FRC and steel-toe fashion tips.
+1 zero desire to do anything and SO exhausted all the time. I am really trying to work till baby comes (due date 9/2) but every day is such a struggle to get to work and stay at work. Uncomfortable, tired, snacking all the time and peeing every 2 minutes, and my group is sweet but annoying with the constant "you are you feeling? I can't believe you are still here! how is the baby today??"
womp.
@MrsVoorhees I have steel toed boots, ear protection, a hard hat and a sexy flame retardant suit for certain site inspections of crazy industrial sites I have to do for some of my cases. (I wonder if I could fit into that suit now. Challenge accepted.)
Work hasn't been super busy lately but I still have a fair amount to do and need to get some things in order before handing my cases off to the other attorneys. I stuffed myself into a suit and heels yesterday for a hearing. That was fun. I wish I could declare a certain day my official last day. But alas, I'm only 36 weeks and I need every last one of my PTO days for maternity leave. Hopefully I don't go into labor at work. At least I'm not far from the hospital.
FORMER USERNAME: @runningisrad
yay for PPE! I don't have to wear all of
it much anymore because I took over corporate safety, which doesn't sound like much...but our company has never gone incident free on campus in almost 30 years. One year alone, we had 11 incidents on campus. This year, we are still at zero!!!! Makes me look damn good and I really didn't have anything to do with it because it's all due to our CEO calling corporate out. Haha I'll take that win though!!!
MrsVoorhees I have this debate a lot with friends at work. My company too has had stellar safety this year but I think a lot of it is due to the fact that our pace of work has slowed dramatically - less rigs, smaller drilling programs, less budget to travel so less people on the roads, etc. Of course, those things don't affect corporate - when we want to improve corporate safety we take away everyone's scissors and give them child safety scissors.
:)
Also - I took off yesterday as a sick day/mental healthy day. It was glorious!
Well the official countdown has begun. 10 more shifts left and that will bring me to 39 weeks, if my OB doesn't pull me off work next week like she was hinting at yesterdays appt. It is definitely getting hard with all the physical aspects of the job and standing all day...I swear my feet are now swelling right over the top of my shoes at the end of the day.
I think I do too much at work and push myself more than I should be, but we work as a team in the OR, so anything I dont do has to be picked up by my coworker. Leaves me feeling guilty so I probably do more than I should be. Maybe being forced off a week earlier wouldn't be so bad.
Definitely not helping that Canada has been hotter than Rio this summer, I mean come on! Lol
I guess this is a bonus to working for a tiny company. We're pretty close, and I can literally tell them to f-off if they get sassy with me
Next week starts our two weeks of minimum days, where the kids go home around 12 and we have training. They grouped everyone into two groups. I was put in the second group, which other than me, is composed entirely of newbies. This is because we all have to be trained in this certain protocol, that includes basics for working with students with special needs all the way up to how and when to restrain a student. For obvious reasons, I would not be able to test out on certain skills, so they put me with the newbies, which means my certification will expire, and I will have to re-do the initial 12 hour training. I'm thinking about asking to be switched to the other group, because loosing all of my prep time for several days would pose a serious imposition on my after work family time, as I would probably need to stay pretty late to make up for it. On top of that, I will need to stay late at some point in January to do CPR/First aide certification.
My husband and I have been looking into whose healthcare plan we will add our son to. I chose the more expensive plan because it includes free labor and delivery, the other was 10% after your deductible. I work for a non-profit, so they help with the cost of the employee, but not the cost of any dependents. My husband works for a small business, and they also do not help with the cost of dependents.