That is what’s done, but it’s not a “just because” scenario. If your ex isn’t okay with you transferring your parental rights to another parent, it’s not something you can just make happen by calling the Family Court staff.
The Pope would have to sleep in the Popemobile, down the street at the rest stop! (Unless one of my RC guests wanted to room with the pontiff…)
God. You dumbfucks spent the whole weekend emailing about a “problem” that isn’t actually a “problem”, it’s just that NONE of you numbnuts understand the goddamn fucking software. You made the programmers track down nonexistent bugs ON THE WEEKEND and now you get to bill god knows how many hours to the already-financially-failing company JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE LAZY DUMBASSES.
Also, programmers, learn this lesson in self-preservation: fucking copy me on these conversations on Saturday morning, and the issue will cease to exist on Saturday morning.
Oh, never mind. I’m going on maternity leave in less than a month and never coming back.
Fuck.
Screw my boss who called me at 7:30 am on on a holiday Monday to ask for some numbers from a report. Thanks for waking me up, asshole.
My co-worker got a call a few weeks ago:
Them: "You have to fix this, now! The screen reads “Employees Only.”
Him: “Are you employed here?”
Them: “Uhm…yes?”
Him: “I think it’s okay to use then.”
I was looking at it like Joe* and Mary* are divorced and have one kid. Mary remarries and wants her new husband to adopt the kid. Joe hates Mary and isn’t all that invested in the kid, so he tells his attorney “sure, that way I won’t ever have to talk to that &*%$#@!!! again”.
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- not their real names
- not their real names
That would work. However, those are not the calls I get. I receive the “S/He’s late paying, I want to terminate his/her rights!” or “S/He never sees the kid, so I want him/her to terminate their rights!” Those don’t work. And, our agency doesn’t deal with TPR’s anyways…
Oh my god. We just decided not to spend time investigating the literature on a question… because no one could POSSIBLY have asked the question before now.
No, indeed, no one has ever in the history of linguistics thought about this basic grammatical precept. Ever.
Welcome to the monkey house. Imagine how many hours they get to bill while they do “original research” on English grammar.
Ah! Those seem incredibly stupid if for no other reason than terminating the rights would probably lead to less payment and fewer visits… 
This scenario has happened far too many times in the last week:
Me: Okay and now I just need a credit card number to hold the reservation.
Idiot: It’s a Visa/Mastercard/Discover/Amex. long pause Do you need the number?
Me: in a businesslike yet withering tone Yes.
thinking: No, I’ll just look through the phone and get the number off the card that way. :rolleyes:
Also, assistant manager, why is Dumbass still working for us? She has used her mother’s stroke as an excuse to totally fuck off of work for an entire week and then to barely register that she was at work for the following week. I understand the crisis, truly I do, but when she refuses to call to let us know when or if she’s coming back–forcing the general manager to call her, which put him in a real good mood, let me assure you–and then decides that she’s going to call in from West Virginia yesterday to let us in North Carolina know she won’t be in to work her shift tonight…honestly, people here have been fired for less. She’s more than used up her good graces. Why are you keeping her recent behavior from general manager? I know it’s a hard position to hire for*, but we could get someone so much better than her. You know that if/when the general manager finds out what she’s been doing that he’s going to fire her immediately and you will be raked over several barbecue pits worth of coals. Also, you’re starting to piss off the regular overnight auditor and that’s not something you want to do. Just fire Dumbass, hire someone halfway competent, and all will be well in Whoville.
*third shift four nights a week with one second shift day
I have two days worth of work each week - so why am I being asked to come in for three days each week? I was supposed to be doing some extra data entry, but in the four weeks that I’ve been working an extra day, you haven’t managed to get me a sign in so I can use the computer that’s sitting on my desk (and no one else’s sign in will work), so I can’t do that. I spend today basically making puppies; I get paid by the hour, sure, but my time is valuable to ME; there were other things I could have done today that I would have enjoyed a lot more than trying to look busy for eight hours.
And my foot started hurting, to go with the sore back, shoulder, elbow, wrist, and knees.
Making puppies?
Could I see you do that, please?
What are you, some kind of pervert?
My aunt eventually wanted to terminate her ex-husband’s parental rights because they woul not lead to less payment (he wasn’t paying) or fewer visits (he wasn’t visiting, having eventually stopped after less than a dozen visits during which he had not fed either child at all), and it would make it simpler to roll over people asking for his signature where the kids were involved. I understand that having people ask for “her father’s signature” on the day-trip permit for a daughter who hadn’t seen said relative in three years got tiresome.
Cat Whisperer, wouldn’t it make more sense to make kittens? Or do you just whisper to them once made?
That makes sense. Duly noted!
I am assuming this bit of sexism was before single mothers were common?
If streaming is against the rules, why don’t they just block it? That’s what they do here.
We actually charge deposits, SpazCat. We have to make this very very clear to some people. Those who’ve stayed at a lot of resort-type properties usually find this perfectly normal and in fact I had a woman who cancelled this morning for a stay starting tonight who was relieved that we were only keeping one night of her stay, not charging her for the entire thing! But people who’ve never stayed at a place like ours are often shocked by the whole idea of a deposit. Hey, we’re off the beaten path, we are a full resort with bunches of things to do, people plan trips here years in advance. Don’t blame me for your company deciding to have its conference here instead of some nice hotel in a city with a 24-hour cancellation policy!
I actually like my job fine. It would be helpful if people would listen, though. Very helpful.
Hard shift to hire for? I wish I were in the right state: I’d jump at that shift! And I have hotel experience to boot.
Okay, Mr. Room 301 Crazy Person: I sincerely apologize that you had to change rooms because your TV wasn’t working. We are having issues with a service changeover from our provider, and my colleague explained that to you, apologized, and upgraded your room. I understand that you found that inconvenient, and I wish it hadn’t happened, but that doesn’t give you the right to treat me like crap all night because you’re unhappy with Comcast. Hell, I’m unhappy with Comcast, too, because I’ve had them out at my house twice in two weeks (for the same issue we’re having here at the hotel,) but I still understand that their hourly peons are dealing with issues over which they have no control - just like I am!
And whiterabbit, I completely understand: When I started in the hotel racket, I worked the front desk at a property that catered to business travelers. Our bread and butter was people who slept in hotel rooms more often than they slept in their own beds. Understandably, most of those guests were in-house on weekdays, and they were predictable: We knew who needed extra pillows, who wanted Room 123 Sunday through Thursday, whose dry cleaning to deliver to their rooms before check-in (they’d drop off their business wear for the cleaners to pick up on Thursday or Friday, instead of having to trek it back home to Phoenix or Seattle or Charlotte and bring it back.)
Weekends, however, could be a nightmare: We referred to those guests as our amateur travellers. On a Monday, I could easily check in 80 rooms by myself. On Friday, it was all two very professional CSRs could do to keep up with the weirdness of the guests checking into 40 or 50 rooms, and they were often shocked by our unreasonable rules… Things like “No, really, your children MUST be accompanied by an adult in the pool/fitness center/restaurant.” Or “No ma’am, it’s against fire code for you to set up a hot plate and electric frying pan in your room. You have a microwave, but we can’t allow you to set up another cooking impliment.” Or “I understand that Hotel Brand Y provides you with a free continental breakfast, but we do not… Because we don’t… No sir, I don’t happen to have Conrad’s/Paris’/Nicki’s phone number… Would you like to speak to a manager?” And don’t even get me started on the downtown hotels that I helped manage. Tourists are just plain weird! (“Whaddaya mean, I have to pay for parking?!” “Can you introduce me to Paula Deen/Lady Chablis/Jim Williams/Forrest Gump?” “Can’t you do anything about those cobblestones? They’re dangerous!” “Why can’t I buy a fifth of Jim Beam from the bar at 4 am? You have the keys, don’t you?! I’ll pay you triple!” “Hey baby, wanna come party in my room?”)