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Oh, and I did even go into the ER once because I couldn't breathe, and you know what they did? They gave me a steroid shot and sent me home. Conspiracy.
That is awful! I would guess you have made it clear you would like them out? I mean, I know there are people who would resist ANY surgery, but if you want them out, why the heck wont they take them out? And what did they mean "You might need them later". For what? Were you going to make earrings?
Wow, 32 days and not a word said to him??!! =0That's just ridiculous! Obviously, the company needs to re-evaluate their business policies. I'm not sure how our FMLA works, but I don't think you can take it multiple times like that.
I work in customer service too and have the same issue with staffing. However, it doesn't affect stats like it does for your office. What pisses me off is that I have a co-worker who has a lot of days off. We already know she will call out the Tuesday of any 3 day weekend and the next day she is due back from vacation without fail. This affects me since I have to fill in for her. Unfortunately, my boss sees it has another PTO to cross off the lists, so she doesn't say anything to her. I wouldn't mind if she just would schedule the day. I don't see what she gets out of lying about it.
LOL... Well apparently, since whatever germs/bacteria/alien invasion causes the tonsillitis gets stopped at the tonsils, they are useful in preventing illness. *blank stare*Yeah. Because being unable to eat or drink for weeks at a time is so much fun! I'd rather be sick in ANY other way. Having my throat swell up like a frog isn't my idea of good disease prevention.
I'll take the earrings, and I'll deal with the consequences of no longer having tonsils to fight all my battles for me. If I die, so be it. At least I'll be able to breathe (you know, until I stop).
Yeah Jackie... I think that my direct supervisor has a lot to do with the No Questions policy with him. She seems to feel that it is not her place to question him about silly little things like doctor's notes and supporting documentation. So she just doesn't. And because she doesn't, nobody else does because it's just her team that's affected, and if she's not complaining it must not be a problem. He's also the type to have a lawyer's number on speed-dial, so anything he sees as being a violation of his rights is grounds for a lawsuit.
I don't really care if he misses every day. I don't like him at all, so when he's not in the office, it's a good day. I just hate having to do his work and my own and have him get away with it. They should just move him to a bigger department so his absence won't make such a difference.
When my tonsils act up (usually a couple of times a year now; used to be more often when I was a child), my ears always hurt, too. In fact, that's usually the first sign of a bad throat with me - my ears hurt!But I consider myself very lucky in comparison to my mother. She had them out, at age four, on the kitchen table! Some guy was going around the neighborhood, taking out tonsils, apparently.
Well, he didn't "get" all of her tonsils, and they grew back. And they didn't grow back very well. She was constantly having throat problems, and she had to have them out again when she was in ninth grade, and missed a lot of school as a result.
*shudder*
weird ppl....................................................
Wow... I've heard of door-to-door salesman, even seen a few myself, but NEVER door-to-door surgeons! Your poor mom!
I've never heard of it happening to anyone else!
Kandice wrote: "Becky, my oldest son had tonsilitis 11 times, and we were told he didn't need them out. The 12th time, we had to call an ambulance because he couldn't breathe. Whoever heard of an emergency tosilec..."Before I was 5 I had tonsillitis and swollen glands every other week during winter and the Docs decided they had to come out.
Then I went to school and was miraculous cured. However my tonsils were so seriously scarred they were indented like golf balls and so large they took up more than half my throat presenting a serious choke hazard (my mother became an expert at infant CPR)
At 15 I starting getting tonsillitis on a fortnightly basis again. My throat and ears were affected and my whole mouth would swell up so that even drinking was problematic.
Finally I had them removed.
The following year I had laryngitis 3 times and lost my voice each time (had never happened before) but my body adapted.
Kandice wrote: "About calling in sick to work. Sometimes, I feel like I should, so no one else gets sick, and like you said, I'll get better faster if I rest, but, it also seems to cause some people to talk. You k..."I also practically never call in sick. At my last job I was home when I fell of the stairs and once when my team leader sent me home because she saw I was feeling too bad and I couldn't talk well...my job was a lot on the phone...
Becky wrote: "Jackie, that's my office's policy too. We don't have "sick days", any days that we're not at work come out of our vacation time. Since I work in customer service though, it's hard to get a day of..."
I am not sure how it is in Ireland but I know that we can be one day of without prove of a doctor but no idea if it goes of my holidays...... then again I have never been too busy with it because I am one of those that goes to work sick. Not because what people would say but just because I feel I should only stay home when I have for instance a bad flu or like about a year and a half ago when I fell of the stairs managed to go to work and had to elave by taxi 15 minutes later and go to hospital. I think that was the one week I had to stay home (and I went to the doctor to be allowed to go to work with cruches after that ecause they wanted me to stay home 3 weeks) and two days because I felt so much like vomiting everyday I came that I was obliged by my team leader to go home and in the end she told me to stay home the thursday, rest a lot and come back on monday...
Jackie wrote: "Wow, 32 days and not a word said to him??!! =0That's just ridiculous! Obviously, the company needs to re-evaluate their business policies. I'm not sure how our FMLA works, but I don't think you c..."
what is fmla?
Fiona wrote: "And we complain about the NHS. Yeesh!"Fiona, I fell off the stairs after beinga year and a half in england. I have to be honest to say that I hadn't registered with any gp yet just ebcause I didn't wanted to go to a doctor in england.... when I had to go to the hospital after falling and the doctor(an indian) find out I wasn't registered, he was soooo angry at me!
FMLA - Family Medical Leave Act. Its supposed to protect people's jobs if they have to be out of work for any period of time due to family medical issues. To prevent their employers from firing them because they're sick, or their kid is sick. Unfortunately, some people take advantage of it. A lot.
Esther, my tonsils are scarred like that too, and they are always a little bit swollen, so I know what you mean. The last time I had tonsillitis, my throat closed to about the width of 1/2 a pea.
damned, I forgot to warm the water for my tea.....now my cup is full, trying to drink abit to put warm water in it but not helping.wow, news of dublin: the countries biggest bank robbery took place in Dublin yesterday. They robbed 7 million euro of the main bank in the city cnetre...where I pass a lot and I am always watching how beautiful it looks. It is huge and a very old building....
one man getting 7 million euros in five bags in a huge bank on one of the msot crowdy points in the centre.......???????
Look at me being so good and not ranting to the lady who was being a COMPLETE BOOK SNOB. Why do people look down on YA Fiction? The "VOCABULARY" isn't challenging? Heaven forbid you should know almost every word in a book! Heaven forbid you should be able to easily understand what you're reading!
And the prose isn't challenging? To me, "challenging prose" means the sentences don't flow and are difficult to understand. Why would you want to read something like that?
Grrr on people who judge and are stuck-up book snobs, and essentially say that what I read isn't worth crap and that I'm unintelligent for reading it.
Ha! I wonder what she'd say if she knew I liked books written in verse? HA!
I wonder what she'd think if she knew I was an engineer? I wonder what she'd do if I challenged her to a calculus tournament... ;)
Yeah, I don't need to have my reading graded these days; I'm well past grade school or even college. (Or, for that matter graduate school. And I gave my brain a break from my grad school reading with romance novels. Are those "better" or "worse" than YA?)
I'm ranting about myself. I'm so inactive at anything that involves communication these days. Its not laziness, just the way I am and I hate it. Any upset or depression and I retreat from people. So stupid... Its times like that you need friends. Rant rant rant.I'm ranting against my ex whom I divorced on Tuesday. After 8.5 years he has to pay child support and yesterday got his lawyer to phone mine to say he wants the order amended so that if my son works at all during the time he is in education, the money stops! No chance.
I'm ranting against my mother who has between 2 weeks and 3 months to live (she has recently-diagnosed lung and bowel cancer, untreatable) and I am flying home with my son to see her tomorrow, maybe to say goodbye. Five thousand miles and two thousand dollars and she doesn't feel strong enough to see me.... I was an abused child but you'd have thought we might all have got over that at this stage in our lives.
Ok, thank you all for the opportunity to allow this really crap member of TTBBC to rant.
Ok,
Wow Petra, with all that going on, I think you have a right to withdraw from people for a while. Who can blame you? I hope that things improve for you soon. You certainly deserve better than the crap you're having to deal with recently. :(
What Becky said.
Susanna wrote: "Yeah, I don't need to have my reading graded these days; I'm well past grade school or even college. (Or, for that matter graduate school. And I gave my brain a break from my grad school reading with romance novels. Are those "better" or "worse" than YA?) ...":) I don't know, but I read those, too. Hey! Why doesn't anyone ever diss romance novels? Why are they always picking on the YA stuff??
Sara wrote: "Look at me being so good and not ranting to the lady who was being a COMPLETE BOOK SNOB. Why do people look down on YA Fiction? The "VOCABULARY" isn't challenging? Heaven forbid you should k..."
Sara, I used to think that about YA too but for myself. I didn't mind othe rpeople reading them, I was glad for them they enjoyed reading them. Not I have started reading now and then one but still almost never. But she shouldn't generalize how she feels about soemthing.
Petra X wrote: "I'm ranting about myself. I'm so inactive at anything that involves communication these days. Its not laziness, just the way I am and I hate it. Any upset or depression and I retreat from people. S..."Petra, I do the same when I feel like that...just retreat from people and have no communication. Luckily I learned to do it less now then when I was a child, but I still ahve my periods of this.
Now that you officially divorced him another thing happened that you can leave more behind.
Sara wrote: "Susanna wrote: "Yeah, I don't need to have my reading graded these days; I'm well past grade school or even college. (Or, for that matter graduate school. And I gave my brain a break from my grad..."I don't like books that are very romantic. There has to be another aspect in it. For isntance mainly crime/detective but it is okay if some romance comes in it. But again, I don't find them less than other books. For my own choice yes, but not in general. So I don't mind if someone says that romance novels are their favourite books. I jsut say I prefer not to read them but can still talk about them.
Jeane -- And that's totally great! Everyone has their own tastes and preferences, which is wonderful! If everyone in the world was just like me, the world would be really really.... crazy and emotional... and just not good. I think people should read whatever makes them happy or fulfilled.My issue is when other people judge and say that certain genres of book are of lesser worth than others. Yes, obviously a romance novel or YA fiction book is probably not going to win the Pulitzer, but that doesn't mean it's worthless. And I don't appreciate people who make generalized remarks without thinking about how their comment will come across. (And they end up coming across as tactless and cutting.)
I try not to offend people with what I say (except for yesterday, apparently), and I expect the same courtesy from others. Are my expectations too high? If you aren't willing to accept people of all different kinds, who read all different types of books, go join a book snob group.
Sara, how fun would it be to crash the Book-Snob Group? I mean, there they'd be, all pretentious and miserable in their smoking jackets and slippers, with their pipes full but unlit, using multi-syllabic compound words and bantering on about which author's work best exemplifies the appropriate use of such and such writing technique or some impossible to understand philosophical ideal.
And then here we'd come, all laughing and happy, reading our Harry Potters and our Twilights or whatever YA book happens to be the "it" thing right now, and they'd glower at us, and we'd wave, and they'd mumble about these "damn whipper-snappers" and grumble about being "on their lawn" or something.
And they'll struggle through "War and Peace" again and again until they're all blue in the face and argue over what was REALLY meant by this word or that phrase until they are all ready to commit mass murder.
And we'd skip off into the sunset, thoroughly enjoying our YA/romance/mystery/non-esoteric, easy to read and easier to enjoy books.
I hope I never end up like that!
Sara wrote: "Jeane -- And that's totally great! Everyone has their own tastes and preferences, which is wonderful! If everyone in the world was just like me, the world would be really really.... crazy and emo..."I think your expectations are normal....
Becky wrote: "Sara, how fun would it be to crash the Book-Snob Group? I mean, there they'd be, all pretentious and miserable in their smoking jackets and slippers, with their pipes full but unlit, using multi-..."
OH MY GOSH. I about died when I read that.... HAHAHAHA!!! WELL SAID!!
Petra,I have been in your place of saying goodbye to family members more times then I care to admit. What you are feeling about withdrawing etc... is so normal. DO NOT be hard on yourself. I wish you all the luck and I will be praying for you and your mom. ((hugs))
I feel like I'm in grey area. Sort of numb. It's a strange feeling.
I went to a store today and saw that they were starting to move away the 'sales' books somewhere else. Here in Sweden, there is an annual book sale in the middle of February. I had seen the list of books that would have their prizes reduced and while many complained that the selection wasn't good, there were loads of books that I wanted to buy.Sad part: Despite the fact that I had saved, I've been short of money due to a trip that I had to make and well...now, due to that shop visit, I realized that it's almost over :( And I haven't bought a single book!
I'm looking at ScriptFrenzy and I'm excited. Gemma Doyle time! :D:D:D
(G)Emma wrote: "I'm looking at ScriptFrenzy and I'm excited. Gemma Doyle time! :D:D:D"Are you going to write a screenplay for AGaTB??
EDIT: Oh, and I TOTALLY know what you mean about being in a gray area. I'm in a total rut in my life, and don't really know how to get out. Well, I do, I just don't have any motivation to....
Well...no. Have you ever seen Lost in Austen? It's sort of going to be like that. Hmm. The grey area makes me think like an author though. So I like it. Sort of.
I saw The Jane Austen Book Club movie at the store yesterday. I only recently read that book, and had no idea it was a movie. Couldn't have been a very good one.
Really? Hmm. Well...my script is going to be a TV script. About a girl who loves TGDT and Gemma is transported to 2009. But instead of them switching places, the girl shows Gemma the 21st century. And instead of Gemma being before AGATB, it's going to be after TSFT. Right after.
I'm planning for the girl's birthday to be the same as Gem's and living in NY.
I like the idea of them turning Lost in Austen into a movie. It's a movie? *goes to IMDB*
I have not seen Lost in Austen, but I've been lost in Austin... does that count? ;) I've added it to my Netflix saved list.My gray area is NOT conducive to thinking like an author. It's only good for pigging out and sleeping a lot.
But I'm guessing you know the plot of it then? Well, I get that too. But the author feeling comes more often.
Kandice wrote: "I saw The Jane Austen Book Club movie at the store yesterday. I only recently read that book, and had no idea it was a movie. Couldn't have been a very good one."Yeah..... it was a bit dull.
(G)Emma wrote: "But I'm guessing you know the plot of it then? Well, I get that too. But the author feeling comes more often. "
I read the blurb on Netflix... does that count as "knowing" the plot?
Yeah, I'd say so. My script is going to be sort of like that. Same premise, with just a few things changing.
Cool! Can't start until April though, right? (I looked up the website...)
Yeah, but I have the girl's backstory in my head. Somewhat.
I need to rant about my husband.He's turning 30 this month, and I've been planning a surprise for him. A few of his closest friends are going to pick him up the Friday before his birthday and take him out.
Well, I was asking him where he wants to go to dinner (just the 2 of us) and he responds: "What I really want is to go out with just my friends that Saturday."
Fine, I understand he wants to go out with his friends, but he wants to do it instead of going out to dinner with me...not in addition to, on another night.
So now I've already planned this as a surprise to him.....but I'm soooo angry right now. The only thing I can think of is to insist that we go out to dinner so that I can keep the surprise and not have him try to make plans on his own. And that's going to make me seem like a witch.
It makes me want to scream!!!
Kristen wrote: "I need to rant about my husband...."I'm trying to think of what I would do if my husband did that.... (He's 28, so he might in a couple of years!) I'd probably yell at him.... or cry. Probably both... Gah! How rude!!
Is there something in particular going on that Saturday that he wants to go to--a game or concert or something that is an only-happening-Saturday type event? or does he just want to "hang out" with the guys?
Can I ask how long you've been married?
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But now, it will probably take much longer to heal and I'll be miserable and miss work and go into debt at the same time probably. It's a conspiracy, I swear! LOL