TW Tuesday 11. 1

dmontgo · November 2016

Didn't see this thread started yet!
Who's being a twat today?

LinziLoo09 · November 2016

I haven't had a twat today, but I have SEVERAL from yesterday who deserve shout outs. Usually DH does our grocery shopping, but I hit the store on my way home. Parking was terrible, so first, I wait for like 4 minutes so this woman (in a fancy little expensive matching jumpsuit, yes I'm going to judge you) takes her precious time loading groceries in the car. I don't expect people to rush for me, but she was almost purposely being slow. While I wait, a guy walks past my car and jumps into another car ahead, so I'm like "okay, I'll grab this one." But a complete b!t$# in a mini cooper squeezes past my car on the right side (not even the correct side) to FIRST block the woman I had been waiting on in her space and then nab the other space out from under me. And then she has the audacity to just hang out in her car, so I don't even have the opportunity to cuss her out on her rudeness, like a good American.

When I'm ready to pay for my food inside, I walk up to an active line with its register light on, and I immediately get a snarky "we closed!" from both the cashier and bagger. Don't mind the super pregnant woman or do me any favors, girls! So I walk down to another line, and a woman walks up to forage in one of the coolers that separate the registers while I get in line. 30 seconds later, I hear an annoyed "UGH" from behind me. Apparently this idiot thinks have cut her non-existent place in line. As the last remaining polite person in the grocery store, I say, "Oh I didn't know you were in line". And I step aside to let her pass me and my measly 5 items. And instead of politely refusing the clearly uncomfortable pregnant woman, she moves on up ahead of me. And to my credit, I didn't stab her, which I believe was fully within my legal right at the time.

But seriously, I'm done grocery shopping. Forever. Those people suck.

Kacie209 · November 2016

Not necessarily a TW moment, but is just rather frustrating with one of my co-workers and new responsibilities I will have. Which, would be fine and dandy if I wasn't going out on vacation/leave in 10 days!

I started my position at the end of August, so it's ony been a couple months. I was hired to do some back-end testing with what the department does, but also to become a back-up to another gal for the things she does. Well, in the 2 months that I have been here, I have not done a ton of this gal's stuff on my own, as she seems Type A about it all and just shows me. Well, I am a learner by doing. So yeah, it's great that she shows me and I take notes but anytime I have asked if I could do it, she's already replied to an email that it's been done. OK, thanks.

Well, she put her 2 weeks in last week and her last day is November 7, so next Monday. I guess we also have a new girl starting that same day and she'll get trained on some of this same stuff too, especially since I am going on vacation/leave starting November 17. So, I am supposed to be training this new gal during my time left on this stuff that I actually have NO idea how to do. Which really annoys me because I would rather be somewhat more in the know of these things before training someone on what to do, when I still don't know.

My manager is aware of this and is beng reat with helping me get through it all but sort of sucks. Such bad timing. Like, you couldn't wait to leave a little longer? I guess it's personal reasons and not the job and I get it... you need a change and the time was now. So frustrating.

Edit: I typed this in notepad since sometimes the site is slow for me and how fast I type... and completely missed the beginning, which is the point!

dmontgo · November 2016

My twats are from Monday, but who cares because they are completely twatastic. Sorry to the Bumpies I've already mentioned this to!

This past weekend we sold, donated, or threw away the remaining stuff that was in our house that was hit by trees. We made some decent money to help with the upcoming holidays, and by the end of the day Sunday, we were giving things away, even unopened, nice things. We had rented two dumpster bags to throw out trash, and on Sunday it was clear people had been rifling through it, because they left shit everywhere.

Yesterday was the last day to clean and return the keys, and when we pulled up to the house, a man in a BUSINESS SUIT and a BMW is rifling through our trash and had thrown shit all over our yard! He hadnt seen us pull up, so DH surprised him. The man's answer was "Oh, I was on lunch break..." DH said, " GREAT, that means you have time to help pick up our yard and bring this bag back to the curb!"

The man did, surprisingly, but as they were cleaning up, a woman who we gave a TON of stuff to drove up asking about some cake pans she saw the other day and wanted to know where they were ( she was not affected by the hurricane). DH said that they are gone, and she looks at the trash and asks if they are in there. DH says no, but she has the audacity to ask if he could open up the bag so she can go through it. DH told her that we already gave her a ton of stuff, so she needs to go home-- we are cleaning so we can go home. She proceeds to tell him that yeah, trees fell on our house, but it's not that bad. He told her to fuck off and let us know whenever she is forcibly displaced from her home like we were so we can tell her it's "not that bad."

We cleaned the house quickly ( I vacuumed between sit spells) and poured the cleaning chemicals on the rest of the trash to deter people from going through it anymore. It was literally trash and nothing valuable or anything we could have donated.

I'm not as upset as I was yesterday, but right now I am hating people. I wish people were more caring about others, but that's the way of the world. We gave away so much and people were acting like we owed them a favor. We even gave away the bedroom set. I guess right now I feel like why do I even bother being kind to others when people are so shitty and love it when misfortune happens to others. Sigh.

princesslockness · November 2016

My TW is a toss up between this prodromal labor(time able contrax that aren't changing my cervix) and E.

Its day 6 of unproductive 4-5 minute apart, 60-90 second long uncomfortable contractions. All because E isn't quite situated correctly.

At this point doc says if I cant get her to readjust, he will have to physically push her back so she can hopefully get positioned right.

kbduke · November 2016

@LinziLoo09 and @dmontgo why are people so awful lately? It seems like common courtesy and being polite are nonexistent anymore.

My TW is this pregnancy. It's kicking my butt today. I was up all last night with reflux and it was like nothing I've ever experienced before. So today on top of being exhausted I've been super congested and just got a massive nose bleed. Ugh I just want to lay on the couch and cry (I'm sure all the hormones have something to do with it).

Sorry for the vent, but I feel like you ladies are the only ones that understand how hard this can be.

l9i · November 2016

Mine is with a contractor that's been working on a project with me. The project has been implemented and we are finishing up. Everyone agrees this contractor is just milking his time to stay longer and is becoming more and more of a PITA to deal with even though he already was. He needs to be gone, like yesterday. Yesterday we discovered two minor, very manageable issues. The first he wasn't included and it was resolved quickly between the people supporting after he's gone. Once he found this out he threw a huge hissy fit over not being included.

And for the irony of his hissy fit... The second came my way to resolve. I troubleshooted the issue and it fell to another team to fix it on their server. Until they do so we have have a work around, but it's out of my control. I communicated this. Apparently, this wasn't good enough so he starts talking to the other team that we need to resolve this "huge issue" even though it's already in progress, creating confusion in the group that is attempting to fix it. All while including my boss that he is fixing it, making it a bigger deal than what it is, and not including me on communications. So going around my back. He is causing more issues than it's worth keeping him on anymore. At least my boss responded back "L9I is working on it, told you that, and you need to work through her."

LinziLoo09 · November 2016

@dmontgo How ridiculous! That's crazy that people would be so inconsiderate, particularly with all you've been through. We have a few local homeless guys who will go through our trash periodically, but they ALWAYS pick up after themselves. We have little cordial exchanges when I'm leaving the house, and they (without prompting) always promise to tidy up. (Plus they're super nice in general, so we always try to leave them donuts and things in clean spaces when we can). It's ridiculous that your neighbors wouldn't extend you any courtesy!

dmontgo · November 2016

@LinziLoo09 I would have preferred that the people going through our trash were homeless. At least I would know that they needed to. Did not expect our own neighbors, who have homes and nice cars, who also saw what happened to our house, to be going through our trash and expecting a ton of handouts. I don't mind at all giving to the needy or volunteering to help those in dire straits -- I'm glad we could help a lot of people! But my neighbors? People that aren't truly in need and weren't affected by the hurricane besides rain? The lack of empathy and respect for others greatly disturbed me. I went home and cried because I felt angry and sad.

I'm sorry that those people were so rude to you yesterday. It seems like fewer people each day have manners or common courtesy for their fellow human. I just need a herd of puppies, chocolate, and a million dollars. I don't ask for much lol.

brittnic86 · November 2016

This pregnancy. I'm so over it. I was so uncomfortable and my back hurt last night, so I cried. I tried to get to sleep for 5 hours, but I kept coughing, peeing, and having acid reflux come out my nose. I got maybe 3 hours of sleep. I'm so uncomfortable at work. And I got knocked over twice by my own dogs just trying to hand out candy to kids last night. I'm done being pregnant. I have full term size and weight equivalent of babies in me. I'm over it.

princesslockness · November 2016

@brittnic86 You aren't alone. The end is coming, and hopefully it comes quickly.

phoenix870509 · November 2016

Work is a TW. First my boss emails me today and asks if my last day is November 30 and leave starts December 1. We've discussed this a million times. I remind him I start my leave when I go into labor. I don't want to put a date on it and be forced out, because what if Squish is late? I have about 3 weeks leave and that's it, so you better believe every one of those days is going to be when that baby is on their way or here. We agreed to tell HR 12/9 was the start of leave as that is my due date, but he has my back. I hope...

Second I get an email from my boss telling me we have a complaint from one of our clients. Great. Apparently the complaint was about ME! The person said they spoke to me and I was rude and hung up on them. Da fuq? I haven't actually spoken to any of this clients contacts in DAYS! So I tell my boss it's a mistake, I have never spoken to this contact. Yet there is my name, spelled correctly (which is a huge feat) and this person saying they talked to me. Come to learn they probably got the spelling of my name from an email I sent their colleague on another issue. And then I find out its one of my agents who either gave my name or used my name. Either way, I am not happy because now I look bad in front of the client I just took over from my counterpart. Again my boss has my back on this, as I am 100% certain I have never spoken with this contact, and is talking to the agent. I do not tolerate my agents being rude to contacts.

gowenc · November 2016

Today has been a doozy - I don't even know where to start. Work is definitely a TW. We're understaffed and it's my job to tell people who are already overstretched that they have to take on new projects. Yay for being the bad guy.

Also, my six year old nephew is having serious health and mental health issues, and has had a few violent outbursts recently targeting my youngest nephew, who is 20 months. It's really scary, and although they have an idea of what might be going on, getting in to see specialists has been very difficult. My sister is at breaking point, her other kids are totally freaked out, and my heart is just breaking for them. He was such a sweet kid but has started having so many problems, it's like aliens abducted him or something. I feel so helpless. They live 10 hours away so I can't even hug her.

yellingbanana · November 2016

Damn @LinziLoo09 and @dmontgo I'm not sure how you two didn't just absolutely lose your sh*t. Good job not stabbing anyone, both of you!!!

Alright. I'm going to go there. My TW is politics. I used to be so into it. I researched, I argued, I stood up for my beliefs. But it's gone off on such a deep, dark road that I can't even let my 10 yr old DD watch the news (she wants to learn more about it). But there is too much that is inappropriate for her age, I can't let her watch. We talk about it still, but I cannot wait for it to be done. It needs to be done now. Is it done yet???

BabyRobbinsAdventure · November 2016

BH is my TW.
Last night BH woke me up at a stupid hour of the night. So of course my mind was freaking out like "wait, is this real or just my body practicing?" So then I start over thinking every movement and feeling I had. So panicked me couldn't sleep, which meant DH was awake with me. To top it off he flew out of town at 6 this morning for work and will be gone until late Friday.. so now I'm scared to go lay down in fear that I'll be up all night thinking about going into labor while DH is not here.

kattyc-2 · November 2016

Today's TW is the coworker who sits across from me. She insists on calling other coworkers from her office, and having the conversation on speaker. Not coworkers across the building, or at another location, coworkers IN THE OFFICE RIGHT NEXT TO HER. If I can get my pregnant butt up and out of my chair to have a conversation with someone there is no reason she can't do the same. She is topping the list of what I will miss the least about work while I am out!

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