Dear rude ignoramus:
“See, even Mom-of-Andrew knows that” is not a compelling argument that a particular fact is well known. It isn’t even a compelling argument that said fact should be well known.
I am astoundingly well read. I know obscure and arcane trivia on a plethora of subjects. Do NOT use me to try to shame your companion. I WILL mop up the floor with you.
Sincerely:
Mom-of-Andrew
And you have a Plethora!
My mini rant. I have a slight sore throat and generally feel crappy. I always feel kinda crappy especially since I started an exercise class three times a week. I can’t tell if this is achiness from exercise or if I am getting sick. 
I am cancelling tonight’s exercise class in hopes that I will feel better. (where are the exercise endorphins people keep telling me about?)
People, if your elderly relative/home care patient/neighbor/whatever is so far gone into old age deterioration and/or dementia that they have trouble understanding simple directions, can’t manage the scooter without your hanging onto the steering apparatus with them, need one-on-one supervision to make payment, and can’t remember from minute to minute where they are in the required sequence of events at the grocery check-out… do you HAVE to bring that person to the grocery store?
If you MUST bring them to the grocery store PLEASE supervise this person - don’t allow them smash the scooter into other people, or whack the bag carousel so it injures other people (like your cashier), or get so frustrated the they started moaning and/or crying.
And finally… after both of us have wrestled with this poor, sad, elderly old lady and the little payment screen asks “were you satisfied with the speed of your checkout?” DON’T mutter “no, it was much too slow” and press “no” because there is NOTHING I can do go speed up your “experience” with this ancient, deteriorating as part of the “experience”. But hey, make it a mark against ME that this lady needs help in probably every aspect of her life and YOU have trouble managing the situation. Way to go.
I don’t fear getting old, I fear getting decrepit and being at the mercy of people like that.
God, don’t tell me that. I am lucky I was able to open the voice-mail and hear the message the Clinic sent
I am woe-fully un-techy.
I am gonna find that app though and have a look-see
Would it associated with a particular Hosp/Lab.?
I know my clinic has something called patient-portal you can log on to and make appts. And other things
I have to Pit myself.
Last January, I paid off my Ford Edge, so I could trade it in on a Prius. So far, so good. For the pas couple of weeks, it’s been occurring to me to wonder when I’m going to be getting a registration renewal form from the DMV. But I’ve only been thinking about it when the car is in my garage, or in the parking lot at work, while I’m indoors, and I never remember to check WHEN THE CAR IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME.
Until Saturday. That was when I found out that it’s been expired since last November. I honestly can NOT remember if a renewal notice ever appeared in my mailbox (although I know that doesn’t excuse my lateness). I went online to the DMV website, learned that I had incurred a $108 late penalty, and completed the renewal.
I won’t forget the renewal month again in a hurry.
OK, my health insurance company sorta sucks, so I just assumed if they had an app then they all did. I also tend to assume everyone has a smartphone, since that is true for the people I hang out with.
If you log onto the patient portal, there will probably be a link there for downloading any related app that they have. And if you sign up for email notifications, they’ll probably send you an email asking if you’ve downloaded their app. Or you can call the dr’s office and ask if they have an app. They want you to use the patient portal and/or app; it makes their lives easier, too.
Forget about the app. Go to the website of your clinic, preferably on a computer (at least at first until you’re familiar with how to do it) and access the patient portal. You will probably need to create a login, but after that it’s just as easy as posting here.
Dear Job Seekers:
Do NOT put it on your resume if you don’t know what it is. I am a lab director. I have entry-level lab jobs open. I’m not asking for a lot. A basic science degree which includes a few lab classes in there somewhere, and some common sense. I’m willing to train you on specific techniques and instrumentation. But if you put specific skills on your resume, I am allowed to ask you about them. It’s not a gotcha question. When you put under “Skills” HPLC or GC/MS, and I ask, “So tell me what kinds of HPLC analyses you have done”, looking at me like a deer in the headlights is not impressing me. If you answer “Well, I really just learned about it in school”, and I respond, “OK, tell me what you learned”, replying, “Well, it was a really hard class…and it was a long time ago…” just lost you the job.
I have interviewed maybe a dozen right-out-of-college kids who have all done this. Somewhere they are getting the idea to pump up their resumes by inflating credentials, but for f—'s sake - if you’ve never done it, it is NOT a skill you have! And if you put it on your resume, someone can ask you about it. And if you might get asked about it, Google it so you at least know what the term means!!!
Common sense…fail.
I just returned from the Clinic. Turns out I am slightly anemic. I saw my Doctors PA. He didn’t want to commit to a plan of action, wait for her-highness the Doctor to.return.
He actually said to eat lots of greens. WTF?.
I want to know what’s caused it. Am I leaking blood in my brain or other organ. He pulled out his Iphone, and Googled it right in front of me. Hey, Junior did you go to college and get your degree or not? For crissakes I can Google it.
Needless to say, I am going back next week. Stupid.
@Toxgoddess, story told before.
Got an interview for Research Lab Technician; the chemical work involved novel synthesis of organic compounds. The interview involved the HR manager and the hiring manager. The hiring manager asked about several analytical and separative techniques; I answered truthfully. Eventually he asked about one and I said “I don’t think I’ve even heard about that one, unless I happen to know it by a different name I’ve never done it and never studied it.” He turned to the HR manager with a huge grin and said “I want her!” “But she didn’t know that last one” “Exactly! I just invented it! Everybody else said they knew the thing I made up! I want someone who’s honest, I want her!” The company turned out to be quite crap, but he’s still one of my favorite managers. A while back I checked him out in LinkedIn and was happy to see that he’s been with a different company for going on 20 years, their Research Director for most of that.
Easy? You think it’s easy posting here? What with the sneaking out of work early, the slacking on household duties, not to mention the Carpal Tunnel in my two typoing fingers and the eye strain even through the rose-colored eye patch… and then there’s the emotional price: the thick skin you have to put on, and the maturity you have to jettison. And if you decide to post in the Pit, you really need a good therapist live-chatting in a pop-up window while you’re coping with the “Naah, Naah, I’m Not Quite Trolling” wonks.
See? One post and I’m exhausted… I’m going to go back in a classroom full of hooligans who throw erasers at the prof, and yell swear words at me that I don’t know. It’s easier.
[I think I’ll leave the *‘typoing’* typo in… it’s perfect]
Complain to your doctor about this. Either he didn’t know and had to google it in front of you, or he was being a jerk. A much better answer would have been to ask you to speak to your regular doctor about it, since he’s more familiar with your records.
My wife is anemic. I was just diagnosed with Polycythemia (Elevated Red Blood Cell Count). Anyone know where I can buy a home transfusion kit?
@Nava…that’s hilarious! I would have hired you too. But you clearly knew what you were talking about. It isn’t even the resume-inflation part…I understand why people do that. It’s the not even bothering to research the thing you are claiming to know, so you can at least sound half-way intelligent if asked about it. It seems like such basic common sense. And yet…not common at all.
Common sense is the rarest thing of all.
Oh, don’t worry Doctor will hear from me, I tell you.
This little twerp ask me about my blood sugar, I have been a type 1 diabetic my whole life, There is no reason for him question me about that. THEY left me a message about my blood draw, asked me to come in and then no one there can tell me anything, at this time. Just slight anemia. I realize it’s not immediately life threatening, someone should have been able to tell me that over the phone, instead of scaring the holy crap out of me and exposing me, once again, to the rampant flu virus. I hate stupid clinic, stupid docs, stupid pancreas, stupid life I live. I give up.
Beck, just stress can cause anemia. I occasionally run a little anemic, but it tends to correct itself. Yours could be a great big nothing.
I just got screamed at by a customer. Wow. Usually I can act as a pissed off customer whisperer and calm things down but not this time.