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Heffling
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V75Qs-47MJwIt's that time for Heffling's OP of Emotional Dumping!
First up, the wife is doing great. The infection has been totally gone for a month now, and she's recently been feeling brave enough to go swimming. She's lost about 40 lbs since the surgery, and is continuing to slowly lose weight but is entering a plateau. It's finally dawned on her just how little she can eat, so she only makes herself sick about once a week now. She still has trouble with the idea that she can't eat faster to cram more in like she could before the surgery.
I've also started to lose weight again. I stopped for a long time at the ~220lb mark, but since her surgery I've been slowly losing weight. I was briefly sub-200 but that was when I had a stomach bug and was dehydrated. Right now I'm around 205, which considering I peaked at 305 is a huge improvement in 2 years. Recently the heartburn medicine Dexilant came out with a generic version. However, the generic is just about as expensive as the name brand, which just means that my insurance won't cover it. So I'm having to transition to another heartburn medicine and have been having constant heartburn for a week now. I have a doctor's appointment later this afternoon to discuss.
Work wise, from talking to the new engineering manager, I now understand the timeline of his hiring much better. They approached him originally last October, which was right after I was at my lowest point as the acting manager (which was aug/sept of that year). Because we move at a snail's pace to hire, it took until June for him to start.
Speaking of the manager, he just put in his two weeks notice! I expect that I will be asked to once again cover this role, except that this time I'm going to insist that this be accompanied by a promotion.
I cannot recall if I talked much about this here, but last May when my wife was in the hospital, my dad called me about his oldest dog, a 13-14 year old Great Pyrenees named Amber. She has had some health issues and her legs are starting to go out due to her age. My dad has bad ankles, so couldn't properly lift her or make sure she gets her meds even when she doesn't want them. So we agreed to take her. Amber has a strange growth on her rear, but the vet told us that as long as it doesn't seem to cause her any pain or interfere with her ability to use the restroom, we should just leave it as is.
When we got Amber, she weighed ~68 lbs (she should weight at a minimum 80 lbs). She was losing about 1 lb per week, despite everything we were doing to get her to eat. She's a picky eater who likes variety, so we now alternate chicken thighs, meatballs, hot dogs, and the like along with some of her dry food in a bit of broth (from cooking the meats). Usually once we get her started eating, she will finish the bowl or stop when she's full and not before, so the trick is just getting her started. She got down to about 60 lbs, but has stopped losing weight. We may even have gotten her to gain a bit of weight, but haven't felt like taking her to the vet to check (no charge, just lazy).
She also has had a thyroid condition for several years, and when we got her she had almost no undercoat and a very thin top coat. Now she has a full body of fur except around her back skirts, which I don't think will ever grow in.
When we first got Amber, she was in such rough shape we didn't even think we'd have her for 2 months. Now with good food, exercise (almost daily half mile walks), and regular medication and I wouldn't be surprised if we have her for another year.
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Grade school education is a huge part of the formative years of every poster we have in this thread, and we have all had some traumatic experience during that time of our life because it's simply impossible not to over a 12+ year period. That being said, we have several educators in this thread. If they share a bad job experience, please treat it like anyone else in the thread sharing a bad experience at work just to get it off of their chests. It's not an invitation to reminisce about a bad education or poor educator you had in the past. It's disheartening to them both personally and professionally when this happens.
If you want to share positive experiences in education, feel free.
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That being said 6 days after being laid off I have a new job that's paying significantly more for less hours and better benefits...
But my old company has an offer on the table for essentially 4 months salary for me to sign something saying I'll never say anything bad about them
And I really, really want to tell them to go fuck themselves but that's a decent chunk of change I could use to pay of all the debt I currently have.
.but fuck those guys so much.
Ugh
Then, once they go out of business, you can bask in silent schadenfreude and offer a blandly-smug "no comment" (if it ever comes up again).
Yeah, you'll get the absolute last bit of cash they still have for promising something superficial and largely irrelevant.
Thanks Obama Biden!
Pulled the red andon light to stop the line. Nobody came. So she pulled it again to restart the line and pulled the yellow instead. Took them five cars to show up.
Absolutely angry about that.
So they call security and tone out a medrun.
Whoever is training these people since I've left is an idiot. They couldnt comprehend it was in the Paint2 building, so it took them forever to respond. And they forgot to bring the med bag.
Rage. How tf do you do that? Literally step 1 is "grab med bag."
Eventually get to the clinic, get it checked out. She has to come in tomorrow for a followup. Isn't allowed to walk on it, so they call security again to drive her to her car.
Security instead takes her to the turnstiles.
To walk the rest of the way.
LITERALLY. ONE. JOB.
I am a student. It's worse than having a job, because people tell me what to do and I don't get paid.
My partner is...not in the best place. See I got her dream job. Not my exact position, but the company and client I work for, that was her goal. It's what she went to school to do, and I took it. I also now make about 3x as much as she does and do less work. I know she's not mad at me about it, but I know it makes her salty. And all her friends have had positive life events recently, and I know it's getting to her. I just wish I could help.
Other then that...Well I'm beginning to realize that my in person friends that I've known forever are either too busy to really ever talk, or actually suck and are bad friends. And the online friends I've made have their own lives and I feel guilty for wishing I could hang with them more. That's a brain quagmire.
Wait is this the emotions thread or the job thread?
And for no good reason either!
My kids don’t have jobs! They just keep mooching off of me!
Gig thread economy
... looks like I am getting approx. $200 more a paycheck after taxes and deductions. When the merit increase kicks in, that'll give me about another $80.
It's nothing to sneeze at, but... well, it is less than I was hoping for. I guess mentally I was hoping for around $500 more a paycheck. Grass is always greener, I guess.
What, so some other jerk can get rich off of stuff I do?
Pffrrrrt!
That's why you come work in public education; that way you get all the misery of going to work but absolutely nobody is getting rich off your labor.
Because they are the ones making the mistakes, you see.
Today is one of those days.
Best time to make a job thread is when you already have one
That was quick (which is both good and bad).
pro is that my calendar is full so fuck doing other work
con it is emotionally draining having to decide why people shouldn't get a job offer
What in the fuck did they do?
5 minutes later I had a shot and a couple minutes after that I had fresh potato wedges.
All I can tell you is it's very hard to do a good job at work if you're not getting enough sleep, I make it about halfway through the day, and it's like everything falls apart.
I think what I'm doing has value and I do want to get better at it but I'm so tired of dealing with frustration with technology, learning on the job and fatigue.
It's capitalism, man. They probably did some light genocide or child sweatshops, the usual.
It's only genocide if it happens in Genoa, Italy. Otherwise it's sparkling mass murder. (totally stolen joke, also in keeping with capitalism!)
That's awesome! Super congrats to them!
Look after yourselves and each other folks.
Super important person messages me, says something with a system I maintain (used to maintain, eventually) is not working. I verify it looks good. I ask for another test. I see that test process. I then hear nothing back from super important person for 10 minutes.
Well, better than being completely ghosted, I guess.
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should i go in?
ah yes
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