Good morning everyone.
It’s 59F, dark, and mostly cloudy right now. The forecast calls for mixed clouds and sun with a high temperature of 69F.
FCM, you do have good insurance. My son’s insurance is pretty craptastic. It would have cost him ten grand for an ambulance ride from urgent care to the hospital, ONE BLOCK away. One block! We took him to the ER for admission to the hospital. Thank goodness his appendix hadn’t burst yet, and it wasn’t a necessity to go by ambulance right then and there.
Shoe, I hope things go smoothly for you and G.C.
Nettie, I’m sorry about the Jeep window.
The dogs are scheduled for spay and neuter on Friday after this one. Christ on a cracker, that will be an expensive bill: Buster’s surgery will cost anywhere from 1200 to 1675 dollars, depending on how hard they have to work on finding the hidden testicle. There is also a plus or minus variance on each end of that estimate. Maisie’s will cost around 575 dollars. It just makes more sense to do them both at the same time so we can keep them both calm and they can recover at the same time. I just got done spending over four hundred bucks on their vet visit, and yesterday, I had to put over four hundred dollars down on their procedures. I hope to whomever we’ll be done with vet visits for a while!
I logged into my work computer just before 7:30 a.m. yesterday, and the day contained the usual stuff, along with all the minor annoyances. The MPA was off…again. I had my bi-weekly check-in with both the SD and the Deputy, and we discussed a number of items. I had to bite my tongue a couple of times. Firstly, the SD wants our awards submitted this week, but neither she nor the deputy has done theirs.
On top of that, I sent everyone all the guidance for award submission on 29 July, hoping everyone would be done upon my return. The SD has decided that we’ll finalize award amounts tomorrow at our in-person ELT meeting, thus giving me ONE DAY to finalize all the forms, obtain signatures, complete the submission logs, and submit them to HR and Budget. I put in leave for this coming Friday months ago, but again, I must give up time because no one else is expected to comply with deadlines. I explicitly told them they needed to settle the logs, forms, and amounts before my return. Once again, she overrode me, and it’s just another thing I need to discuss with her before it starts gnawing at my insides. I’m tired of hearing, “But you’re so GOOD at dealing with short deadlines!” How about respecting my time and all the other stuff I must do instead of forcing me to deal with an artificially short deadline because you didn’t enforce MY deadline?
The other thing that steamed me up was a comment about how they didn’t want to ask the MPA to, I don’t know, DO HER JOB because she’s doing so much. The SD talked about how she had spoken to the MPA and how she just had so much going on with work and her personal life that they felt they couldn’t ask her to take on anything more; hint; hint. She talked about a couple of projects in particular, and this time, I said something and pointed out that I had completed them, not the MPA. I let them know, finally, that this is a common issue and why I put in so many hours. Cue uncomfortable silence. I was probably wrong to do that, but they were talking about rewarding her for some of this work, and honestly, stuff just boiled up in me. She’s going to get rewarded for MY WORK? Nuh-uh. No more. It would have been one thing if she had done at least some of the work, but she didn’t. I completed these projects entirely on my own.
Bah, that turned into quite the rant. Sorry about that. Just scroll past if it annoys you (I don’t blame you if it does). But I did SAY something instead of just nodding, smiling, and privately steaming.
I need to feed the pups and put meds in their ears. Wishing you all a peaceful day.
I’m having a cheeseburger(with caramelized onions and Hatch chilies), potato wedges, and an Old Fashioned for dinner.
