After not getting sick the whole school year my son started to come down with something on the last day of school 🙄 took him to the doc yesterday and he has walking pneumonia. My poor baby. He's supposed to start swimming lessons this afternoon too and he'll be missing the first class. Booooo 👎 Also desperately want to comfort him but not get sick myself
My TW is a coworker I have on one of my PT jobs.. one of my roles is to review certain aspects of his work and help him understand where he may have been off-track (super vague, I know). I'll send him messages about stuff, and he won't reply, then later will just say "signing off for the day" or something like that. I am super nice about everything that I correct him on and I really am just trying to help... not to mention its my job to do that! At least acknowledge that you understand or ask me for further clarification if you don't. It's getting really frustrating.
My TW is the director of my sons daycare. They are not the best at communication (to which I have complained in the past) yesterday his teacher for the past year informed me it would be her last day. She had meant to talk to me earlier, I saw the director this morning and she did not even try to discuss with me what was going on and why the classroom had changed. I fired off an email after I got to work because I knew I would flip shit on her standing in the hallway with my already crying toddler. He maybe a child but I would like to have discussed this with him prior, to my understanding, even the school is not telling them about the change. They have had more turnover recently which (in my opinion) means the staff isn't being properly cared for.
We've been talking about switching for a while but everywhere has such long wait lists
@creamcheeseplease ugh that would frustrate me so much!! I have a coworker like that who just doesn't respond and then I have to track them down and ask them directly. I really hate working with people!! lol
@bmmims that would have set me off too to be told at the very last minute! I hope that place improves or you can find a new one where the communication is difficult.
My TW is my eternal TW. My CEO is a real piece of shit and is constantly belittling me. Yesterday, after I tried sticking up for myself and saying I couldn’t do 3 huge projects at once, he asked why I couldn’t find the time at home at night to do more work. Seemed genuinely confused that I wasn’t willing to go home and work more.
He’s a shit person but what also bugged me is that no one else said anything. They all just kept quiet. So he said since I wasn’t available I was not going to be on the team. 😤 he’s a shitty, shitty human.
I can’t wait until I quit after the baby. The way he treats me is unreal. I’ve been documenting all these things in case it gets really serious.
My TW is a coworker. I work in a relatively small law firm (under 50 employees) and the head of the firm is SUPER generous with things like time off, personal emergencies, and things like that. He let me leave for every single fertility appointment I had and take as much time off as I needed when my father and MIL both passed away within a month of one another. Some people take advantage of this. Cue this coworker. She has an excuse for everything and, when confronted about her behavior, immediately starts ugly crying. Did I mention she's a grown woman in her later 30s with a 10-year-old son? So she's about a decade older than me and she acts about a decade younger. Need someone to take a turn staying late on a Friday? Guarantee her son will "have something going on." She gets a night off from her son? Guarantee she won't be in the next day because she partied, but she'll provide some other excuse. If she happens to stumble in, she'll likely be hungover. Her cigarette breaks are 45 minutes at least 4 times a day and she waltzes in after me every day and leaves before me... I am so freaking sick of it. Here I am, a high risk pregnant woman, working my butt off to get myself and the rest of the office in great shape for when I go on maternity leave and possibly early bedrest (I am a very integral piece in my department) and she slacks off with no shame. What time she doesn't spend on smoke breaks is usually spent complaining about her workload or others in the office. I take no vacation time and never any unplanned time unless it is an absolute emergency... I can't wait to see her face when she finds out I'm being set up to work from home both before and after the baby arrives (only 1 of 2 people in our entire firm allowed to work solely from home). ✌ out TW! Karma sucks! Maybe you shouldn't be such a toxic person.
@alwayseloquent I will never understand WHY someone can get away with taking longer breaks because they smoke. Like I'm sorry I chose not to have a bad habit and only get my normal 10-15 minute break twice per shift... (not totally bashing smokers, in case anyone here is. Just confused by that). Also, your coworker sounds like she needs to be kicked in the shin. Ugh, people are the worst.
@angieeeeee it always makes me think of Kelly from "The Office": "Why do smokers get to take breaks all the time? If I want to go outside once an hour then I'll just take up smoking. I don't care." Lol I paraphrase, but you get the idea. I think there's a respectful way to do it and an abusive way to do it. She is clearly the latter. She gets too comfortable and tries to get away with as much as she can, then she gets reprimanded, cries and makes a scene, then they back off because she improves for a week... it is a vicious cycle and I can't wait for it to become even more glaringly obvious when I am not there to pick up all the messes.
@alwayseloquent a girl I worked with at my old job took up smoking for the extra breaks...and cause she was working the overnight shift and would get bored, so to pass the time she'd go outside and smoke.
Re: Twat Waffle Tuesday 7/2
@mc0303 your CEO and his comments could go here!!
My TW is a coworker I have on one of my PT jobs.. one of my roles is to review certain aspects of his work and help him understand where he may have been off-track (super vague, I know). I'll send him messages about stuff, and he won't reply, then later will just say "signing off for the day" or something like that. I am super nice about everything that I correct him on and I really am just trying to help... not to mention its my job to do that! At least acknowledge that you understand or ask me for further clarification if you don't. It's getting really frustrating.
We've been talking about switching for a while but everywhere has such long wait lists
@bmmims that would have set me off too to be told at the very last minute! I hope that place improves or you can find a new one where the communication is difficult.
My TW is my eternal TW. My CEO is a real piece of shit and is constantly belittling me. Yesterday, after I tried sticking up for myself and saying I couldn’t do 3 huge projects at once, he asked why I couldn’t find the time at home at night to do more work. Seemed genuinely confused that I wasn’t willing to go home and work more.
He’s a shit person but what also bugged me is that no one else said anything. They all just kept quiet. So he said since I wasn’t available I was not going to be on the team. 😤 he’s a shitty, shitty human.
I can’t wait until I quit after the baby. The way he treats me is unreal. I’ve been documenting all these things in case it gets really serious.