Sorry about the gender, but you have an androgynous “handle”.
Oh, while I’m here, I have to say that staff members who either can’t seem to charge their devices at home and/or forget to bring their chargers to school irritate the hell out of me because they show up in the tech office asking for an “extra” charger as if they grow on trees. There are no extra chargers! It is a one-to-one deal. A device has a charger. If I give out a charger, that means I have a device that doesn’t have one because they f****ed up. Why a person with a post graduate level of education can’t understand this is beyond me.
Where I work we have a great health care policy. That’s wonderful. But we have something called the Heath Reimbursement Money. Um… Ok. It’s between $0 and $500 I think. Nothing substantial. Covers stuff that might not be covered by the doctors office. Whatever.
They used to just deposit that money right into my checking account. That worked fine. It might be $1.89 or $63.45. Whatever. It’s usually a pittance.
But recently they changed over to putting it on what I guess is some sort of debit card. Not only do I NOT want to carry around another CC. I would have to check the balance to use it. And there are apparently only certain businesses I can use it at. It’s Bull Shit. And theft by a thousand cuts.
Myself and a couple of coworkers are leading the charge against this that was sprung on us when we got this stupid debit card.
I feel yer pain. We did th4e same thing, worked from home for how long, and now we have to be in the office THREE days a week. WTF??? So glad I’m retiring in 86 days.
I was supposed to go to the office this past Monday for the first time in two years. My boss had mentioned it a few weeks ago, but I totally forgot! He Teams messaged me “So I take it you’re not coming to the office today?” I was mortified. It turns out he was irritated because someone gave away his office so he was sitting in a cubicle.
At our regular Teams meeting he said he’s going to rethink it about us going into the office because, “It seems they are not ready for us to be here anyway.” His commute is an hour in, and 1-1/2 hours going home.
Driving through my neighborhood yesterday evening, I was irritated at all of the dibs* garbage still in the street. First, the snow was a week ago. Second, it wasn’t even enough snow to make a dibs claim (I didn’t have to dig out my little FWD hatchback). Last, between the rock salt and some warmer weather & rain in the meantime, there’s hardly an snow left in the streets at all.
*After digging out a street parked car following a heavy snow, some people drag cones, chairs, boxes, ironing boards when they into the spot to hold it till they get home again. It is controversial.
Spent my day off doing some housework: decluttering surfaces, laundry, general tidying. Clean counters, nice empty (mostly) kitchen table with a small pile of my husband’s miscellany on one end.
Sigh.
3 packages today for him, one of which is something that needed assembling. The lovely clean table is once again covered in boxes, packing, tools, and bits of whatever he’s putting together.
Wow, that’s basically the only way most companies have been doing it for years. The money that goes towards this comes out of your pay before taxes so most companies want to be sure that it really does go to medical-related expenses.
My guess is your company had an audit done and the auditors recommended this practice.
For years I’ve told my kids “Don’t rely on Google for business hours. Go directly to the business website”
Last weekend my library hold came in. Since all I had with me was my phone, I Googled “library name hours” since that was quicker and saw they were open 10-5. Sure enough, I get there at 1:30 only to see they are open 2-6. That’s what I get for not following my own advice.
Our German Shepherd, Zeb has appointed himself as my guardian. All of my dogs have followed me around, but this guy takes it to the next level. He lies outside the bathroom door until I’m done showering, If I go down to the basement he positions himself at the top of the stairs (he’s afraid to go down ) and would wait there for hours if that was how long I was down there, the minute I get off the couch he’s right behind me, when I’m washing dishes he lays right behind me (so if I step backward, I’ll step on him). So this morning I was trying to get some housework done before I left for work. I vacuumed and mopped the 2nd floor. OMG he was in my way at every turn. I’d try to pull the vacuum cord as I was moving around but he’d be standing on it. I was mopping the stairs as I went down backward and he would be on the next step behind me. I must have said, “move” and “get out of the way” 100 times.
Irritating, but I guess I can’t be mad at the sweet guy.
Some a-hole in our mover’s company is apparently running a side hustle of selling personal information to a moving broker. Not long after we got our estimate from Bekins, we got an email from some company called Allegiance (based in Florida) asking us to verify our moving information. The form had my wife’s name, where we live, where we are going to live, and an approximate move date. The way the email was worded made it sound like they were part of the move. A little checking and a call to Bekins disabused us of that idea. Really pisses me off.
I was scheduled for a massage at Massage Envy next Tuesday, which I was really looking forward to since my back has been bothering me for the past two weeks. Particularly since the appointment I had had two weeks ago had been canceled. When I checked my email this morning there was one telling me that my appointment had been canceled. I called to find out why, and it turns out the masseuse I was supposed to see had left, and they don’t have anyone available to take her appointments. They said they would put me on the waiting list in case any cancellations came up in the next week.
Then later in the day they called to let me know that someone had canceled an appointment for tomorrow, and was I available to come in at 11am? Fortunately, I didn’t have anything planned that couldn’t be put off, so I grabbed it. While I’m there I’m going to verify that the appointments I currently have scheduled for March and April don’t need to be rescheduled.
Now, today’s frustration. I received a text confirming my use of an unknown company for $$$ service to my computer. After much searching, I was able to confirm it was phishing bait. Grrr.
I think it’s a general trait in the breed. Our sweet GSD Kali, a female, followed my gf and kept an eye on her 24/7. If she was out, Kali monitored me.
Our GSD mix Kizzy, a female, has taken over that roll.
Sometimes I think someone just makes up the traffic indications on Google maps. I check it every morning before I set off on my commute, so I can decide to stay on the freeway all the way in to work (if the map shows green on that route), or get off the freeway to take surface streets (if the map shows the freeways as red).
I checked Google maps traffic carefully this morning: green freeways all the way in. So I took the freeway route, and a massive traffic backup slowed me down for the last 1/4 of my commute. It didn’t show at all on the traffic maps.
Feck you Google maps traffic. I’d have gotten in earlier if I had gotten off and taken surface streets.
) and would wait there for hours if that was how long I was down there, the minute I get off the couch he’s right behind me, when I’m washing dishes he lays right behind me (so if I step backward, I’ll step on him). So this morning I was trying to get some housework done before I left for work. I vacuumed and mopped the 2nd floor. OMG he was in my way at every turn. I’d try to pull the vacuum cord as I was moving around but he’d be standing on it. I was mopping the stairs as I went down backward and he would be on the next step behind me. I must have said, “move” and “get out of the way” 100 times.