Oh. My. God. You guys...I regularly deal with huge autocad files and sometimes printing them to PDF and then printing those PDFs is damn near impossible. We've been dealing with this one drawing for over 2 months. Just today, I found an option to not have it save so much information in the pdf and things print like a charm now. SO MANY HEADACHES WERE HAD OVER THIS. last time we got one set to print then ended up using the copier to make the other 10 copies of the package we needed. It was nuts.
My dd found a YouTube channel where they only have videos of barbie and friends having babies! It is her favorite now but creeps me the eff out. I asked dh to please take it off but apparently she keeps finding it and he doesn't always catch it when he's in charge of screen time. Maybe I am just being mean but it is extremely creepy to have barbie miming child birth.
@sassypants2010 We had to get rid of YT on the iPad because DS kept watching adult men doing voices playing with toys and it was freaking creepy. We eventually decided he only gets Netflix.
My WTF is someone I eat lunch with sometimes in a group setting showed up all-out crying because she's having a wedding and one of her friends called to say she's newly pregnant and won't be able to make it. She told us this friend said that they were TTC but didn't mean to get pregnant at this time and that it was a miscalculation... I think it's really telling that her friend felt the need to lie to her (ain't nobody TTC and planning around weddings). Nothing but eye-rolls from me. It makes me really not want to join these people anymore as they were all being sympathetic and acting like she wasn't a crazy bridezilla for expecting people to plan their life and death decisions around the party she's throwing herself to celebrate her relationship.
@craftywitch I sympathize with the pregnant friend. If it's your first tri, then you're exhausted and nauseous. If it's the 3rd, then you're huge, uncomfortable, and exhausted. Unless the wedding is during the brief (possibly nonexistant) "glow" then the pregnant friend is totally justified in not wanting to go.
@craftywitch Have you tried the YTKids app? You can create a profile for your son and choose an age range and it only offers up channels and videos that are within that category... Still lots of choice for videos, but a bit more control.
@kper82 I haven't- thanks I'll have to see what turns up with that!
@noxacanthus Her friend lives out of state and the wedding will be right around her due date. Like if this friend MUST be there, feel free to change the wedding date rather than thinking someone should change a baby's conception...
@craftywitch@sassypants2010 +1 for YouTube kids. DS stilL gets into some weird shit but it’s way less than regular and it’s very easy to block channels and individual videos
@craftywitch I hate it when people act their wedding should be the most important thing in everyone's life.
My WTF is for some reason I can't get TB website to load more than half the time. Also my neighbor behind me thinks it's perfectly acceptable to let their little dog bark nonstop outside. I was enjoying the sunshine with my dogs and after 20 minutes of listening to this dog bark without stopping at all we all went back inside. My older dog barked twice and then gave the fence a dirty look.
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@craftywitch Yeah, just no. I can't imagine travelling that far close to the due date. I'm nervous enough about travelling for christmas and that will only be 34-35ish weeks. Maybe she can frame it to the bride as "I'm worried about going into labor at the wedding and ruining a day that should be all about you"?
@craftywitch could be worse... have you seen this story? Assuming it’s not fake... a bride solicited $30k in donations for her wedding, canceled, kept the $$$ for a “pre-honeymoon” and continued asking for gifts. I’m not 100% convinced it’s not an internet hoax... but an excellent story nonetheless.
@leksil my mom thinks putting registry info on an invitation isn’t proper, nor are those “honeyfund” registries. I think she’d keel over in horror if that was her daughter!
@celticknotfire TB is acting up for me, too! Sorry your neighbor's dog is being annoying! We have some beagles that live down the road and the owners leave them out way too long and they're constantly barking at everything.
@um_thor I really hope that's an internet hoax. Absolutely horrifying. If someone I know did something like that they'd be excommunicated for sure. Keep the $50 and good luck completely rebuilding your support system because I'm out!
This morning’s WTF brought to you by another train ride...
So everyone is super bundled up on the train this morning and it’s way crowded, so I wasn’t going to wait for someone to get up for me (they may think I’m just big under my coat). So this happened:
Me (to nearest seated man): “I’m pregnant and I need not to fall. Do you mind letting me take your seat?”
Him: (stares at me a good many seconds, clearly weighing how to respond and considering a ‘no’ response, then begrudgingly gets up)
F*%# it. People can think I’m rude. I’m keeping my lil dude safe.
ETA: my husband’s text response when I told him 😂 —
My WTF for today deals with another manager. So I'm a manager of two teams, he's a manager of one. But all of our teams work towards the same goal so if we hit it - our company does a luncheon. I'm not sure how I ended up with doing it but I take everyone's food orders, set the food up, clean up - NOT ONCE does he ever help or offer to help. Every single damn time that the food is "ready" but I'm still setting up he will stand there - with a plate for me to have everything together. Today we had Red Robin and he's standing there and going through all of the orders trying to find his and I'm like "I HAVE A SHEET HERE WITH EVERYONE'S ORDERS, you got a cibatta chicken with chedder... the red wrappers are sandwiches with buns and white wrappers are lettuce wraps. It will say what bread and cheese on the label". So he's going through ALL of them still and I'm like "YOU HAVE A RED WRAPPER". He's like "so red wrappers are chicken?" And I repeat myself... "NO". So then he goes back to the white wrappers again. Like bro, listen and you wouldn't have to ruin everyone's food. And then I go to clean up and his team is still there and offered to help clean up which was sweet. And the one woman was like "He will probably make us clock out for helping" and I was like "just tell him that I ok'ed it". LIKE WTF.
@brookert615 That’s so crappy. Is there an opportunity for you to just stop doing the work and let him step up? Or to have a candid conversation like “thus far these have played out like XYZ. I want a more equitable division of labor. Let’s divide the tasks in half. Which are you taking?”
@um_thor That's a really good idea! I mean when I'm on maternity leave he will have to... a part of me might just leave him high and dry to figure it out for himself lol.
@brookert615 I say F people who slack like that. I’m your peer, not your servant. Either we make this sh*t equal or I do none of it... but my team isn’t going to suffer either, so we better sort this out. (I also think my attitude from the train has lingered into the day LOL)
@brookert615 +1 confronting him with the division of labor! Nothing pisses me off more than women doing thankless tasks in the workplace while men are free to ignore them.
I had to email our office manager telling her that the fridge clean out sign up sheet has only women's names on it and that I will not be volunteering until every man in our office has taken a turn. She sent out an email but no man has ever volunteered and we're a solid 50/50 as a department. I also refuse to get up and answer when people are knocking on our shared office door (3 women, 5 men- who do you think always gets up to answer the door?). So much nope to all of that! Birthdays, holiday parties, cleaning anything communal ever... nope nope nope.
@craftywitch Thanks so much! And that's so frustrating!!! I just don't understand it. Some men will go above and beyond... then others are just pieces of garbage and make the rest look bad!
@brookert615 so ridiculous! next time one of these events comes up, shoot him an email and say, “Hey Bob, we all agreed on Restaurant this time. When time should we plan to meet in the room?”
@brookert615 I am so sorry your coworker is being a douche canoe like that. I second what @um_thor suggested about talking to him. If he still does nothing then maybe it's time to get passive aggressive and just not do anything for his team.
Re: WTF Wednesday
You guys...I regularly deal with huge autocad files and sometimes printing them to PDF and then printing those PDFs is damn near impossible. We've been dealing with this one drawing for over 2 months.
Just today, I found an option to not have it save so much information in the pdf and things print like a charm now.
SO MANY HEADACHES WERE HAD OVER THIS. last time we got one set to print then ended up using the copier to make the other 10 copies of the package we needed. It was nuts.
@sassypants2010 That is so weird!
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My WTF is someone I eat lunch with sometimes in a group setting showed up all-out crying because she's having a wedding and one of her friends called to say she's newly pregnant and won't be able to make it. She told us this friend said that they were TTC but didn't mean to get pregnant at this time and that it was a miscalculation... I think it's really telling that her friend felt the need to lie to her (ain't nobody TTC and planning around weddings). Nothing but eye-rolls from me. It makes me really not want to join these people anymore as they were all being sympathetic and acting like she wasn't a crazy bridezilla for expecting people to plan their life and death decisions around the party she's throwing herself to celebrate her relationship.
Diagnosed with PCOS & Hashimoto's
@craftywitch Ugh! What is it about weddings that seem to create bridezillas? Her poor friend.
@noxacanthus Her friend lives out of state and the wedding will be right around her due date. Like if this friend MUST be there, feel free to change the wedding date rather than thinking someone should change a baby's conception...
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Diagnosed with PCOS & Hashimoto's
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My WTF for today deals with another manager. So I'm a manager of two teams, he's a manager of one. But all of our teams work towards the same goal so if we hit it - our company does a luncheon. I'm not sure how I ended up with doing it but I take everyone's food orders, set the food up, clean up - NOT ONCE does he ever help or offer to help. Every single damn time that the food is "ready" but I'm still setting up he will stand there - with a plate for me to have everything together. Today we had Red Robin and he's standing there and going through all of the orders trying to find his and I'm like "I HAVE A SHEET HERE WITH EVERYONE'S ORDERS, you got a cibatta chicken with chedder... the red wrappers are sandwiches with buns and white wrappers are lettuce wraps. It will say what bread and cheese on the label". So he's going through ALL of them still and I'm like "YOU HAVE A RED WRAPPER". He's like "so red wrappers are chicken?" And I repeat myself... "NO". So then he goes back to the white wrappers again. Like bro, listen and you wouldn't have to ruin everyone's food. And then I go to clean up and his team is still there and offered to help clean up which was sweet. And the one woman was like "He will probably make us clock out for helping" and I was like "just tell him that I ok'ed it". LIKE WTF.
Diagnosed with PCOS & Hashimoto's
Diagnosed with PCOS & Hashimoto's
I had to email our office manager telling her that the fridge clean out sign up sheet has only women's names on it and that I will not be volunteering until every man in our office has taken a turn. She sent out an email but no man has ever volunteered and we're a solid 50/50 as a department. I also refuse to get up and answer when people are knocking on our shared office door (3 women, 5 men- who do you think always gets up to answer the door?). So much nope to all of that! Birthdays, holiday parties, cleaning anything communal ever... nope nope nope.
Diagnosed with PCOS & Hashimoto's
Diagnosed with PCOS & Hashimoto's
@um_thor Sorry that guy was a jerk on the train.
Diagnosed with PCOS & Hashimoto's