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Oh, just wait for the people Replying-All… to criticize others for hitting Reply All.
This is way beyond “Golly, I’m annoyed!”. This should immediately trigger you to physically stand in the accounting office, with a nasty email from a higher-up, until they pay you.
And if that doesn’t work, use the media… or, it’s cheap to file a motion in Small Claims Court, and that tends to scare them into suddenly figuring out a way to pay you immediately: “No, don’t sue us (or go to the media)! Ummm, look, we do have a few thousand in petty cash…”
As a freelance designer who’s been stiffed, I can tell you that getting a notice from Small Claims Court does wonders for shaking loose money that the client “just doesn’t have right now so sorry maybe next year”.
ETA: At LEAST email everyone about the problem, with cc’s to all bosses. It is highly illegal.
Not a lecture, but did you look into filing a claim against the store’s liability insurance (or the store, if they don’t have insurance)?
I have, I was waiting until my doctors appointment to see if he had any thoughts on my recovery before contacting a lawyer. He said I probably will not ever go back to where I was. No I will have to quantify what money I am out and contact the lawyer to see if I have a worthwhile case.
I just read an article on bent Apple iPad Pros, just a week after I handled one in the store and grumbled at how uselessly and unnecessarily thin it was.
Apple, why is that year after year you are always crowing about how thin your products are?
Surely nobody wants to carry an inch-thick brick phone in their pocket, but it seems that device thinness had achieved and surpassed that goal a decade ago.
No, I don’t want to sacrifice battery life for a thinner device.
No, I don’t want to pay $$$ more for a a thinner device.
No, I don’t want to lose my headphone jack for a thinner device.
No, I don’t want to lose robustness for a thinner device.
Who is demanding thinness?
Nbd, they’re all going for folding phones now.
This past spring, Jeanette died after a sudden decline. She’d had health issues for years. Jim was distraught. Within a month of her death, their daughter died after a lifetime of substance abuse. Jim was a complete wreck.
Jim and Jeanette were friends of my folks for years, and they’d been unofficially adopted into our family, sharing holidays and vacations and get-togethers with us. So even after his tragic losses, Jim continued to join in our events. He and my sister became casino buddies. He was invited to be with us for Christmas.
Yesterday, Jim was taken to the hospital - bleeding in the brain. According to my sister, all they can do is make him comfortable. His only sibling flew in last night - he’ll handle all the arrangements.
What really makes me angry at all of this - Jeanette and her sister inherited some property and her sister dragged out the sale of it till early this year. Jeanette’s share was just under $800K. She and Jim could have done so much if her sister hadn’t wasted all those years farting around. They loved to travel, and maybe they could have afforded specialized care for Jeanette. Maybe they could have parlayed it into a few more years together. Instead, Jim will die with no heirs.
I’ll miss our adopted family. I’ll try to let go of the anger…
Anyone have any advice on how to stop feeling so impossibly fucking lonely?
So my furnace was being grumpy and only kicking on about 40% of the times it was asked. I had a service come over and fix it. He did something and killed my Nest thermostat.
He did, at least, put in a cheapo dumb thermostat, so I’ve got heat in December in upstate NY. But I’m likely out a service call and a new Nest.
That’s basically what I did. I even said, “If I don’t get paid by X date, I’m done.”
And now they’ve actually paid my outstanding invoices. And, surprisingly, it looks like they may be giving me a pretty damn big bonus, the same bonus they’re giving their regular employees in recognition of the hard work to make the big deal go through. I didn’t expect that, and they certainly didn’t need to give it to me, since I’m not a “real” employee. I’ve also let them know that I’m leaving towards the end of January, so the bonus is a pretty big surprise.
It’ll go a long way towards paying off my car… which is good, since I found out that I have to pay it off or I won’t be able to take it with me when I move.
I had a mysterious rash pop up on my hands and arms on Sunday. I went to the urgent care and they said “dunno what the hell that is” and said if it got worse to go to the doctor. The next day the rash had spread to my legs and I had a sore throat. I went to the doctor and they said “dunno what the hell that is” and did a throat culture to see if it was strep or an allergic reaction. The culture was negative so it was an allergic reaction. Best guess is that it might have been a dryer sheet from my roommates’ laundry that got mixed in with mine. Dryer sheets have always made me itchy. The rash is a new and unwanted twist.
So that’s under control now with Benadryl and cortisone cream. Then today I realize that what I thought was Benadryl Brain was actually a sinus infection. That explains the sore throat. So now I have to go back to the doctor to get that treated. Fuckin’ body. One issue at a time, please!
Another not-terribly serious mini-rant:
None of my students, enrolled in one the most competitive universities in the country, can construct a frickin’ bibliography. There are guides! Online resources! Helpful librarians! We discussed the issue at length in class!
But no. They just wing it.
(I’ve been grading all day. I’m cranky.)
Kidney disease sucks! I go to dialysis three times a week, and it usually goes pretty smoothly, except I feel a little tired and draggy when I’m done. Yesterday I had a rough time. I passed out about three hours into it. I came to to find an oxygen cannula in my nose, techs rubbing my head with wet paper towels, and a nurse checking my blood sugar. I was sweating and clammy, and I puked several times. My blood sugar was only 55. The nurse gave me glucose and a Glucerna shake and wouldn’t let me leave until my sugar reading was over 100. Finally, it got up to 99 about an hour later, and they let me get up and go home. I still felt crappy and went to bed for about four hours after I got home. I didn’t start feeling OK again until after I had some breakfast this morning. I’ve never passed out before in more than three months of dialysis, not have I ever vomited. I hope it goes better tomorrow. I’d put kidney disease at #3 in the list of diseases I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy, right behind cancer and heart disease.
My little Yorkie (4lbs) ate a half or more of a chocolate cupcake my granddaughter left on the seat of a chair. I didn’t see her leave it. I’m usually more careful. Yorkie puked 3 times. I’m pretty sure it all came up, + paper. I’m currently spoon feeding her water. I am a afraid of her dehydrating after all the puking. I mean 3 times doesn’t sound like much til you realize the cupcake was bigger than her head. I could run to Vet ER, practically in another state (Texarkana). I’d rather not. I think I’m just gonna watch her tonight. I hope I’m deciding right. Ugh!! I really hate these things.
I am alone alot. I don’t generally categorize myself as ‘lonely’. But I feel your pain. I try to keep busy, mostly. I do have veg-out days where I verge on catatonic. I have pets that require my attention, everyday. That helps. If you’re feeling really lonely, pm me. We can visit. 
In Firenze for the holidays, yeah us, but these bloody florentines do not as a whole, pick up after their dogs…shit shit.shit. Also fuckers with the drones at Gatwick. Luckily we got out before…
There are full on wizards that make the bibliography for you. There are scholarly sites that will simply give you the bibliography. I’ve wished those existed when I was a kid.
I had to do it based on just the worksheet the teacher gave us. There’s no excuse for getting it wrong now.
FairyChatMom, I’m sorry about your friend.
Beck, is your doggie better?
So I am now in the radiation+oral chemo part of my treatment. Lucky me, 1 week on xeloda gave me diarrhea so bad that after 3 days I was dehyrdrated enough to be checked into the hospital for a week [5 bags a day, they were trying to pour saline into me faster than i could shit it out … wasn’t working til they give me pretty much overdose levels of immodium plus a nifty drug with atropine.] Got sprung last friday, restarted the xeloda on a lower dose so it has only taken me a full week for the runs to start up again instead of 3 days like before.
Sheesh - hope i don’t end up inpatient again … but at least they will continue the radiation when I am in patient. Since the runs restarted this morning at roughtly 6 am I have been drinking about a liter an hour with a potassium tab, lemon juice dosing the water with a pinch of salt. I hate to go to gatorade, the damned stuff may rehydrate me, but one 8 oz glass can pop me from 100 to 180-200 mg/dl.
And what, they have to rename the radiation dosing ‘greys’ to not scare people off? So I am getting 46 gray which I know happen to be 4600 rd … though they were freaked out when I brought along one of my self reading dosimeters snicker They don’t seem to know what to do with someone who is trackig their own lifetime exposure …
I wholeheartedly agree!
We’re having issues with my blood pressure. After dialysis I basically need to jog in place for a minute to get it above 100/60. They won’t release me until it is.
Now, to ME, logic would say let’s review my medications.
Nope! The nephrologist says I’m good.
I leave dialysis and am supposed to take… blood pressure meds. A small dose, granted, but still. I do, and am asleep in under an hour. So I quit taking the after dialysis dose.