A co-worker came up to me and said she had gotten permission to do everything up to watching porn with a client. I am looking forward to some fun stories tomorrow about this new development.
Er... I feel like I’m missing something here.
What type of work do you do?!
Counseling. She is trying out porn therapy for a client who is having issues with it. Mind you, she didn't lead with that. She just happily explained she could discuss pornography in vivid detail with her client. Most of the time what happens in the office is kind of boring. Today it was really funny.
I had to sign a document saying I was chill with watching porn and other stuff that people might find objectionable in the course of my work when I signed on to my current job.
Well things at my work place have been odd for the last two months.
First the good news, after three years I've gotten a 2.3% raise. Still trying to line things up to get a better job because 11.23 is not enough, but that 2.3% hike also carries over if I get promoted. So a tiny bit more incentive to see if I can get the skills needed to get into one of the better tech jobs that's in the works.
Not to the weird stuff. My company is part of WPP, which is a massive advertising company. Early last month, the board for it forced the current CEO Martin Sorrell out. Few weeks later dude turns around and starts up a new company and word is he wants to buy Kantar Media, which several people on WPP wanted to sell off. Well now the allegations that forced him to quite without giving up his retirement package, keeping his majority share of the company and being under an NDA, have come out despite the NDA right before a major shareholder meeting. Essentially the allegations are that he visited a brothel using company money and was a bully. If true, wouldn't be surprising because it's depressingly common with people at the top. Major catches are that the original source was a disgruntled former employee that was terminated and it happened to land in the lap of a board member that wanted Sorrell out. Throw in the timing of all this stuff being rather convenient, an NDA apparently being ignored and Sorrell getting really good terms to stop being the CEO. Also sounds the company is under investigation for securities fraud. So the whole thing could blow up massively.
As we're reaching the first real big deadline I've experienced in our pretty-much-still-just-waterfall shop (which hasn't quite gone to pot, but it's too close for comfort), I'm really curious what the heck an actual agile development cycle looks/feels like. Not sure if there's any way to really find that out without just being a part of one.
It'd be hard to give you the "feeling" but if you have some questions just fire away!
I'm still at the point where I don't know what the right questions to ask are, unfortunately. I learn best by example which doesn't lend well to the situation at hand :P
It's hard to describe as infidel mentioned, but the best way to think of it is this (or not): think of your current process, now take away the bullshit tasks that don't add value. Next, have your goals be tangible outcomes like "reduce wait time by x" or something. Now, you own how that gets done, and you demonstrate progress every few weeks in a vertically sliced fashion (ie functional protos, not just a database later or similar). Based on that, your stakeholders will give yeah or nay on certain factors that may send you back to the drawing board but everyone is totally ok with it.
Beyond that, it gets very team, product and culture specific
As we're reaching the first real big deadline I've experienced in our pretty-much-still-just-waterfall shop (which hasn't quite gone to pot, but it's too close for comfort), I'm really curious what the heck an actual agile development cycle looks/feels like. Not sure if there's any way to really find that out without just being a part of one.
It'd be hard to give you the "feeling" but if you have some questions just fire away!
I'm still at the point where I don't know what the right questions to ask are, unfortunately. I learn best by example which doesn't lend well to the situation at hand :P
It's hard to describe as infidel mentioned, but the best way to think of it is this (or not): think of your current process, now take away the bullshit tasks that don't add value. Next, have your goals be tangible outcomes like "reduce wait time by x" or something. Now, you own how that gets done, and you demonstrate progress every few weeks in a vertically sliced fashion (ie functional protos, not just a database later or similar). Based on that, your stakeholders will give yeah or nay on certain factors that may send you back to the drawing board but everyone is totally ok with it.
Beyond that, it gets very team, product and culture specific
Yeah, the biggest changes that you SHOULD see (assuming stuff about your current team) is that you have better time management in the day to day. Less meetings for people who really don't need to be there. Trying to isolate the team from pointless cruft, keeping everyone tasked and productive. The agile formal conventions have you doing a daily standup. Emphasis on stand, as you shouldn't be wasting anyones time cause they're tired and cranky from standing too long. Quick round of everyone where you simply say "I've got work, working on #23" or "I'm stuck waiting for the QA environment, someone please help?" etc. Otherwise you have once-a-sprint meetings, towards the end you have the review and (maybe) the retrospective, at the start you have the planning meeting where you figure out the next sprint and then get at it. Sprints should be two or three weeks so you repeat this on that cycle.
Any other meetings, people need to really ask everyone if they're necessary and who really needs to be there.
Just cutting out the bullshit timewasters of too many meetings can be enough "agile" to make a team productive, even if they have no fucking clue what else makes Proper Agile. Mostly that involves good process and communication, so that shit doesn't fall apart when you cut out the meetings but realize everyone is terrible at communicating.
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Everyone in the store wished me a happy birthday over the intercom.
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I got a frantic call from my mother-in-law last night begging me to please go into her office today to help out with some things. She's on vacation right now, and her office manager has apparently not been going into work because of a family emergency. This is a problem because there are no other employees - my MiL is a psychiatrist in private practice - and there are a lot of prescription refills and other issues that cannot just sit and wait for her patient population. I've done some work for her in the past and a lot of similar work elsewhere and she apparently had nowhere else to turn. Get a little more info later and it turns out that this was supposed to be the last week for her office manager, who was supposed to be training her replacement (she took a new position elsewhere).
So I was asked to please somehow make this employee who I've never met come into the office to at least give me the key so that I can get in if it seems like she just won't be returning to work. Coordinate with the new hire and either see that employee X trains her within the next two days, or somehow train her myself. Go through 6 days worth of prescription refill requests and route them to a covering physician as needed with all of the info they will need to decide how to handle the refill. And respond to any emails and voicemails that can't wait until Monday.
There were a multitude of faxed prescription refill requests. I honestly don't know how many, well over a hundred. Some were second, third or even fourth requests from pharmacies. 55 new emails. 64 voice mail messages - it apparently hadn't been checked since last Tuesday. I've gone through at least 20 after getting through all of the prescription refills and most important emails, and the last time I checked the voicemail box it was back to 57 messages. Half of them are looking for help with prescription refills or asking if they have been done. I don't have the time to actually answer calls as they come in, since I wouldn't get anything else done. And I'm supposed to be training the next office manager. I already canceled a doctor's appointment for tomorrow and made arrangements to come back for a second full day. Will probably have to come in Thursday too unless employee X decides they can come in one last time. Not sure if that would be a good thing even if they do.
Don't ever let yourself get roped into business with family.
On the bright side, her office is about 5 minutes from Mitsuwa.
Chicken katsu curry, karaage, brown rice and Japanese souffle cheesecake make anything better. Adding an iced matcha drink with lychee ice cream is far too overindulgent, but if I'm going to only eat one meal all day after spending hours apologizing to people I don't know for carelessness that has nothing at all to do with me then it's going to be a meal that makes it all worth it somehow, damn it.
My new job has a support queue backlog on account of not having a developer for a month. My new manager has offered me and the other dev a $1000 bonus each if we can clear it out by the end of the month. It's a nice incentive, but I'm not sure if it's actually possible with one mostly-frontend person and one who's only been here a week. I'm stressing over it a little because it's not just my bonus on the line.
Ah, well; we get it done or we don't, I guess.
Ask for a piecework rate, $25 per ticket cleared (or something that makes sense based on the number of tickets divided into $1,000).
As in, we get paid for whatever we manage to get done by the end of June? Hmm.
Day 2 of block training. This time it was seven hours concerning Correctional Fatigue that was very clearly geared explicitly towards correctional officers and medical staff and then less than an hour on staff suicide prevention that the instructor flew through with nary a pause or much time to reflect.
One more day of this.
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I got a frantic call from my mother-in-law last night begging me to please go into her office today to help out with some things. She's on vacation right now, and her office manager has apparently not been going into work because of a family emergency. This is a problem because there are no other employees - my MiL is a psychiatrist in private practice - and there are a lot of prescription refills and other issues that cannot just sit and wait for her patient population. I've done some work for her in the past and a lot of similar work elsewhere and she apparently had nowhere else to turn. Get a little more info later and it turns out that this was supposed to be the last week for her office manager, who was supposed to be training her replacement (she took a new position elsewhere).
So I was asked to please somehow make this employee who I've never met come into the office to at least give me the key so that I can get in if it seems like she just won't be returning to work. Coordinate with the new hire and either see that employee X trains her within the next two days, or somehow train her myself. Go through 6 days worth of prescription refill requests and route them to a covering physician as needed with all of the info they will need to decide how to handle the refill. And respond to any emails and voicemails that can't wait until Monday.
There were a multitude of faxed prescription refill requests. I honestly don't know how many, well over a hundred. Some were second, third or even fourth requests from pharmacies. 55 new emails. 64 voice mail messages - it apparently hadn't been checked since last Tuesday. I've gone through at least 20 after getting through all of the prescription refills and most important emails, and the last time I checked the voicemail box it was back to 57 messages. Half of them are looking for help with prescription refills or asking if they have been done. I don't have the time to actually answer calls as they come in, since I wouldn't get anything else done. And I'm supposed to be training the next office manager. I already canceled a doctor's appointment for tomorrow and made arrangements to come back for a second full day. Will probably have to come in Thursday too unless employee X decides they can come in one last time. Not sure if that would be a good thing even if they do.
Don't ever let yourself get roped into business with family.
On the bright side, her office is about 5 minutes from Mitsuwa.
Chicken katsu curry, karaage, brown rice and Japanese souffle cheesecake make anything better. Adding an iced matcha drink with lychee ice cream is far too overindulgent, but if I'm going to only eat one meal all day after spending hours apologizing to people I don't know for carelessness that has nothing at all to do with me then it's going to be a meal that makes it all worth it somehow, damn it.
Are you even legally allowed to refill prescriptions?
This really sounds like a situation where she should have cut her holiday short and flown home on the very next available flight...
Teaching English still, but for professionals and corporations. Pay’s a bit better, but the big deal is the change of locale. I’m headed back to Taipei, after making the best of it for about three years in Tainan. Tired of this company and this town, and very excited to be headed back to a city that is more my speed.
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Jacques L'HommeBAH! He was a rank amateur compared to, DR. COLOSSUS!Registered Userregular
Well, my manager sold me down the river. Sent him an email describing how I’ve become the most recent target of the department’s resident harasser and he addresses an email to the harasser and myself asking us to resolve any problems between us.
So, that’s cool. Now I get to go into work and try and work out a dialogue with a person who’s whole schtik is outwardly making good with you then turning around and making your work environment as toxic and unwelcoming as possible.
Great, awesome, thanks manager. Way to be discreet and totally not throw me under the bus.
that is uh
that is not an okay way to handle a harassment complaint
do you have an HR department
If that's what a manager is taught to do in that situation...no, they do not. They may have a department that hires and pays people but they clearly don't have any Human Resources professionals.
Yup, this is 100% on the spot. The harasser in question actually had a run in with HR about a month back for metaphorically firebombing the lives of two other coworkers, and still remains gainfully employed.
Teaching English still, but for professionals and corporations. Pay’s a bit better, but the big deal is the change of locale. I’m headed back to Taipei, after making the best of it for about three years in Tainan. Tired of this company and this town, and very excited to be headed back to a city that is more my speed.
All I know about Taipei is from an episode of The Layover with Anthony Bourdain (RIP)
I assume you spend your life in awesome night markets and eat lots of...I want to say dumplings? They looked like Dim Sum but had soup in them as well.
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Teaching English still, but for professionals and corporations. Pay’s a bit better, but the big deal is the change of locale. I’m headed back to Taipei, after making the best of it for about three years in Tainan. Tired of this company and this town, and very excited to be headed back to a city that is more my speed.
Well now I have an even better reason to visit other than my in-laws!
Teaching English still, but for professionals and corporations. Pay’s a bit better, but the big deal is the change of locale. I’m headed back to Taipei, after making the best of it for about three years in Tainan. Tired of this company and this town, and very excited to be headed back to a city that is more my speed.
All I know about Taipei is from an episode of The Layover with Anthony Bourdain (RIP)
I assume you spend your life in awesome night markets and eat lots of...I want to say dumplings? They looked like Dim Sum but had soup in them as well.
Soup dumplings, yes, there are multitudinous 小籠湯包 establishments, although as food goes Taipei is more of a foreign, fusion, and fancy food town than good old fashioned Taiwanese eats: i’m actually leaving the town best known for great traditional fare, although I don’t really follow the local food blogs so I’m not super familiar with most of that stuff. All my old haunts from 10 years ago still mostly exist in Taipei, though, and the internet has come a long dang way in 10 years. I’m looking forward to getting to know Taipei as well as I knew LA. :P I will still have a few close friends living down here, so I imagine I will come down fairly often.
But I am very much looking forward to not living here any more.
Teaching English still, but for professionals and corporations. Pay’s a bit better, but the big deal is the change of locale. I’m headed back to Taipei, after making the best of it for about three years in Tainan. Tired of this company and this town, and very excited to be headed back to a city that is more my speed.
Well now I have an even better reason to visit other than my in-laws!
You know, eventually.
Bring your appetite, we gon’ eat.
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This morning I noticed grease/oil leaking from the hub of our land cruiser's rear wheel. Which I'm guessing is a buggered seal and we should probably get it fixed asap. Trouble is our other cruiser is currently broken so this is the only one we have to use for drive this afternoon, and we're supposed to be using it to tow the broken one into the mechanics in town tomorrow.
We kind of need to drive it but also don't want to fuck up the bearings or worse. Anyone know how long you can drive with a (mildly) leaky axle seal?
Pic in spoiler
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
As long as there's still oil in the diff, you're fine.
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Technically, that's a full-floating axle, which means the leak there is diff oil that's worked along the axle shaft by capillary action, as the hub is separate, and also likely just grease in the bearings, not oil. As long as you're not about to do 5000 miles of driving non-stop, you can fix it when you have the time.
Job thread how do deal with work anxiety?i know we had stuff several threads ago but i would love a refresher.
There are lots of ways. A lot of people use some form of exercise, like weight lifting, running, or yoga. Others do meditation and breathing exercises. And there's always therapy and medication as well.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
edit: I don't believe in energy and chakras, but do find it useful to find the root of the anxiety, rate my anxiety, tap six beats on my hand, logic why its not a problem, rate, tap, decide on action/why its okay, rate, tap.
Liiya on
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Thanks @chrishallett83 that is reassuring. My colleagues weren't as reassured when I told them I got this information from 'a guy I know on a videogame forum' but I said I trust you know your stuff.
Job thread how do deal with work anxiety?i know we had stuff several threads ago but i would love a refresher.
I think I mentioned recently in this or the love thread that I took up meditation about 2 and a half weeks ago. I try to do 10 or 15 minutes twice a day; whenever I get a chance during the day, and then again right before bed. I've found it surprisingly effective already. Firstly I am sleeping better, which makes a big difference. But also although I still get anxious I find the peaks aren't as high, and my base level is lower. And I feel it a bit more objectively instead of getting caught up in it. I am definitely planning to try and keep the habit up, it's been a decent payback for minimal effort.
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I got a frantic call from my mother-in-law last night begging me to please go into her office today to help out with some things. She's on vacation right now, and her office manager has apparently not been going into work because of a family emergency. This is a problem because there are no other employees - my MiL is a psychiatrist in private practice - and there are a lot of prescription refills and other issues that cannot just sit and wait for her patient population. I've done some work for her in the past and a lot of similar work elsewhere and she apparently had nowhere else to turn. Get a little more info later and it turns out that this was supposed to be the last week for her office manager, who was supposed to be training her replacement (she took a new position elsewhere).
So I was asked to please somehow make this employee who I've never met come into the office to at least give me the key so that I can get in if it seems like she just won't be returning to work. Coordinate with the new hire and either see that employee X trains her within the next two days, or somehow train her myself. Go through 6 days worth of prescription refill requests and route them to a covering physician as needed with all of the info they will need to decide how to handle the refill. And respond to any emails and voicemails that can't wait until Monday.
There were a multitude of faxed prescription refill requests. I honestly don't know how many, well over a hundred. Some were second, third or even fourth requests from pharmacies. 55 new emails. 64 voice mail messages - it apparently hadn't been checked since last Tuesday. I've gone through at least 20 after getting through all of the prescription refills and most important emails, and the last time I checked the voicemail box it was back to 57 messages. Half of them are looking for help with prescription refills or asking if they have been done. I don't have the time to actually answer calls as they come in, since I wouldn't get anything else done. And I'm supposed to be training the next office manager. I already canceled a doctor's appointment for tomorrow and made arrangements to come back for a second full day. Will probably have to come in Thursday too unless employee X decides they can come in one last time. Not sure if that would be a good thing even if they do.
Don't ever let yourself get roped into business with family.
On the bright side, her office is about 5 minutes from Mitsuwa.
Chicken katsu curry, karaage, brown rice and Japanese souffle cheesecake make anything better. Adding an iced matcha drink with lychee ice cream is far too overindulgent, but if I'm going to only eat one meal all day after spending hours apologizing to people I don't know for carelessness that has nothing at all to do with me then it's going to be a meal that makes it all worth it somehow, damn it.
Are you even legally allowed to refill prescriptions?
This really sounds like a situation where she should have cut her holiday short and flown home on the very next available flight...
I had to look up information like the patient's last appointment, next scheduled appointment, and when the medication was last filled if it was a controlled substance. Write it all on the refill request forms and fax them to the office of another psychiatrist who then decided whether or not, and how, to refill them.
There was no need for her to come back early. It was a long day for me but by the time I left everything was caught up. There was more work than she or I had expected, but that was because employee X has clearly not been doing most of her work last week, even before the supposed family emergency. No way for my MiL to know that though - she thought there had been a single missed day of work with yesterday anticipated to be missed day number two. That's not something you fly back early for, especially if you can make arrangements for paperwork to be handled asap.
On stress, I work in an office where I can put in ear buds. I have an app for my phone I bought years ago called Relax Melodies and it's got all sorts of sounds to relax you and you can mix and match them. I like doing rain and peeper frogs. Also it has white noise and vacuum and hair dryer which are awesome if I have a migraine at work.
Notice successfully given, boss was polite and cordial about the whole thing, which made it much easier. I’m sure part of me would have derived some satisfaction from listing the numerous ball drops that led us to this moment, but on the whole I believe a bridge unburnt is the better choice all around.
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What's that? It's only Tuesday? No, fuck you.
Counseling. She is trying out porn therapy for a client who is having issues with it. Mind you, she didn't lead with that. She just happily explained she could discuss pornography in vivid detail with her client. Most of the time what happens in the office is kind of boring. Today it was really funny.
What kind of machine?
First the good news, after three years I've gotten a 2.3% raise. Still trying to line things up to get a better job because 11.23 is not enough, but that 2.3% hike also carries over if I get promoted. So a tiny bit more incentive to see if I can get the skills needed to get into one of the better tech jobs that's in the works.
Not to the weird stuff. My company is part of WPP, which is a massive advertising company. Early last month, the board for it forced the current CEO Martin Sorrell out. Few weeks later dude turns around and starts up a new company and word is he wants to buy Kantar Media, which several people on WPP wanted to sell off. Well now the allegations that forced him to quite without giving up his retirement package, keeping his majority share of the company and being under an NDA, have come out despite the NDA right before a major shareholder meeting. Essentially the allegations are that he visited a brothel using company money and was a bully. If true, wouldn't be surprising because it's depressingly common with people at the top. Major catches are that the original source was a disgruntled former employee that was terminated and it happened to land in the lap of a board member that wanted Sorrell out. Throw in the timing of all this stuff being rather convenient, an NDA apparently being ignored and Sorrell getting really good terms to stop being the CEO. Also sounds the company is under investigation for securities fraud. So the whole thing could blow up massively.
battletag: Millin#1360
Nice chart to figure out how honest a news source is.
It's hard to describe as infidel mentioned, but the best way to think of it is this (or not): think of your current process, now take away the bullshit tasks that don't add value. Next, have your goals be tangible outcomes like "reduce wait time by x" or something. Now, you own how that gets done, and you demonstrate progress every few weeks in a vertically sliced fashion (ie functional protos, not just a database later or similar). Based on that, your stakeholders will give yeah or nay on certain factors that may send you back to the drawing board but everyone is totally ok with it.
Beyond that, it gets very team, product and culture specific
Yeah, the biggest changes that you SHOULD see (assuming stuff about your current team) is that you have better time management in the day to day. Less meetings for people who really don't need to be there. Trying to isolate the team from pointless cruft, keeping everyone tasked and productive. The agile formal conventions have you doing a daily standup. Emphasis on stand, as you shouldn't be wasting anyones time cause they're tired and cranky from standing too long. Quick round of everyone where you simply say "I've got work, working on #23" or "I'm stuck waiting for the QA environment, someone please help?" etc. Otherwise you have once-a-sprint meetings, towards the end you have the review and (maybe) the retrospective, at the start you have the planning meeting where you figure out the next sprint and then get at it. Sprints should be two or three weeks so you repeat this on that cycle.
Any other meetings, people need to really ask everyone if they're necessary and who really needs to be there.
Just cutting out the bullshit timewasters of too many meetings can be enough "agile" to make a team productive, even if they have no fucking clue what else makes Proper Agile. Mostly that involves good process and communication, so that shit doesn't fall apart when you cut out the meetings but realize everyone is terrible at communicating.
If it is, Happy Birthday!!!
Got forbearance on school loans for a year
Had an extra shift offered
Got down hill in time to pick up real fucking Mexican food
Th3 universe will balance it out with 7 alarms tonight
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
On the bright side, her office is about 5 minutes from Mitsuwa.
Chicken katsu curry, karaage, brown rice and Japanese souffle cheesecake make anything better. Adding an iced matcha drink with lychee ice cream is far too overindulgent, but if I'm going to only eat one meal all day after spending hours apologizing to people I don't know for carelessness that has nothing at all to do with me then it's going to be a meal that makes it all worth it somehow, damn it.
As in, we get paid for whatever we manage to get done by the end of June? Hmm.
One more day of this.
Thanks!
Are you even legally allowed to refill prescriptions?
This really sounds like a situation where she should have cut her holiday short and flown home on the very next available flight...
New job.
CONGRATULATIONS
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE JOB IS BUT I AM GOING TO ASSUME IT'S A GOOD THING AND BETTER THAN YOUR CURRENT JOB.
Yup, this is 100% on the spot. The harasser in question actually had a run in with HR about a month back for metaphorically firebombing the lives of two other coworkers, and still remains gainfully employed.
But I appreciate the sentiment all the same, @DisruptedCapitalist.
All I know about Taipei is from an episode of The Layover with Anthony Bourdain (RIP)
I assume you spend your life in awesome night markets and eat lots of...I want to say dumplings? They looked like Dim Sum but had soup in them as well.
Well now I have an even better reason to visit other than my in-laws!
You know, eventually.
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Soup dumplings, yes, there are multitudinous 小籠湯包 establishments, although as food goes Taipei is more of a foreign, fusion, and fancy food town than good old fashioned Taiwanese eats: i’m actually leaving the town best known for great traditional fare, although I don’t really follow the local food blogs so I’m not super familiar with most of that stuff. All my old haunts from 10 years ago still mostly exist in Taipei, though, and the internet has come a long dang way in 10 years. I’m looking forward to getting to know Taipei as well as I knew LA. :P I will still have a few close friends living down here, so I imagine I will come down fairly often.
But I am very much looking forward to not living here any more.
Bring your appetite, we gon’ eat.
We kind of need to drive it but also don't want to fuck up the bearings or worse. Anyone know how long you can drive with a (mildly) leaky axle seal?
Pic in spoiler
There are lots of ways. A lot of people use some form of exercise, like weight lifting, running, or yoga. Others do meditation and breathing exercises. And there's always therapy and medication as well.
I use this:
https://www.healthline.com/health/eft-tapping#treatment
I've found it to be very effective.
edit: I don't believe in energy and chakras, but do find it useful to find the root of the anxiety, rate my anxiety, tap six beats on my hand, logic why its not a problem, rate, tap, decide on action/why its okay, rate, tap.
Satans..... hints.....
Satans..... hints.....
I think I mentioned recently in this or the love thread that I took up meditation about 2 and a half weeks ago. I try to do 10 or 15 minutes twice a day; whenever I get a chance during the day, and then again right before bed. I've found it surprisingly effective already. Firstly I am sleeping better, which makes a big difference. But also although I still get anxious I find the peaks aren't as high, and my base level is lower. And I feel it a bit more objectively instead of getting caught up in it. I am definitely planning to try and keep the habit up, it's been a decent payback for minimal effort.
I had to look up information like the patient's last appointment, next scheduled appointment, and when the medication was last filled if it was a controlled substance. Write it all on the refill request forms and fax them to the office of another psychiatrist who then decided whether or not, and how, to refill them.
There was no need for her to come back early. It was a long day for me but by the time I left everything was caught up. There was more work than she or I had expected, but that was because employee X has clearly not been doing most of her work last week, even before the supposed family emergency. No way for my MiL to know that though - she thought there had been a single missed day of work with yesterday anticipated to be missed day number two. That's not something you fly back early for, especially if you can make arrangements for paperwork to be handled asap.