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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Speaking of I convinced the nurse at my doctor's office to get a flu shot from now on by reminding her that she isn't getting the flu shot for her. She should be getting it for me and people like me, with compromised immune systems.

    So yay for that, at least.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • Drake ChambersDrake Chambers Lay out my formal shorts. Registered User regular
    Fuck people who get mad when you use sick time.

    No really, they can get super fucked.

    There's a culture in American government in particular that holds people with large unused sick balances in high esteem. You occasionally see articles hailing heroes who have accrued thousands of hours of sick leave.

    I wish they wouldn't do that.

  • Drake ChambersDrake Chambers Lay out my formal shorts. Registered User regular
    Speaking of I convinced the nurse at my doctor's office to get a flu shot from now on by reminding her that she isn't getting the flu shot for her. She should be getting it for me and people like me, with compromised immune systems.

    So yay for that, at least.

    Hooray that you convinced someone to get a flu shot. Really disappointed that the person you had to convince was a goddamn nurse.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Fuck people who get mad when you use sick time.

    No really, they can get super fucked.

    There's a culture in American government in particular that holds people with large unused sick balances in high esteem. You occasionally see articles hailing heroes who have accrued thousands of hours of sick leave.

    I wish they wouldn't do that.

    That kind of shit is just plain discriminatory to people with chronic health issues!

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Speaking of I convinced the nurse at my doctor's office to get a flu shot from now on by reminding her that she isn't getting the flu shot for her. She should be getting it for me and people like me, with compromised immune systems.

    So yay for that, at least.

    I still can't believe I have to argue with nurses and PAs about this on the regular.

    These are people who should fucking know better.

    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
  • KaplarKaplar On Google MapsRegistered User regular
    I get 12 days of sick time each year. I was told they're noticing a pattern of me requesting time off almost once a week.
    Last week, my wife had some issues after a surgery so I tried to take the day off to take care of her but was told that I needed to come in. So I came in an hour and a half late.
    The week before that was her actual surgery so I had requested in advance and had gotten approval for a day off to take care of her.
    The week before that, I requested and got approved to leave an hour early to turn in my rental car before the place closed. I can't control the rental place's hours. I can't control that my car needed to be put into the shop.

    I offer to take other people's weekend shifts during those weeks. Even when they decline, I'm still at 40+ hours/week. This is also the same management that wants me to "fail in order to succeed" instead of giving me assistance when needed. I'm willing to fail and learn when it comes to my personal life but not when it comes to other people's finances.

  • SmurphSmurph Registered User regular
    TheStig wrote: »
    What bank, in the year of our lord 2019 doesn't have online banking?

    More apt question is, "What person in 2019 doesn't use online banking?"

    Answer: "The person that holds their hand over the speaker phone to protect sensitive information."

    This is the kind of person that when you send them an email, they print it up and read the print out at their desk.

    Computers are the enemy!

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    I don't use sick leave because I can't afford the doctor for the most part

  • KaplarKaplar On Google MapsRegistered User regular
    Xaquin wrote: »
    I don't use sick leave because I can't afford the doctor for the most part

    Does your sick time require a doctor's note? Sometimes just taking the day off and getting some rest does wonders.

  • Drake ChambersDrake Chambers Lay out my formal shorts. Registered User regular
    On topic with being disappointed in people, I'm still a bit shaken from a discovery yesterday afternoon that an old friend of mine from high school has become an off-the-charts QAnon nutjob. His Facebook posts are all graphics of how the liberal, globalist "Luciferians" have the goal of destroying society but that God has given us Trump (one of the "White Hats") in order to cleanse the Satanic liberals from the earth. Also sovereign citizen advice on how to liberate yourself from the indentured servitude that the Foreign-Owned Corporate Government imposes via driver's licenses.

    This guy was a bit odd in high school but he was a friend. I spent the night at his house a few times. Just... ugh.

  • PerrsunPerrsun Registered User regular
    I applied for a new job recently. For a position in as an information specialist (doing things like managing content on the MY HR site)

    I had gone through the first round of interviews right before Xmas, and then this week they said “you’re into the next round, here’s a writing exercise so we can see how you’d handle this situation.”

    It’s weird, because every other time I’ve applied for a job it’s been out of necessity. Either I was unemployed, or I hated my existing job so much that I had to find a change.

    This may be the first time where I’ve been happy with what I’m doing, but still decided “yeah, here’s a chance to move up, I’m gonna try”

    I don’t know when they’ll announce results for the writing test, but no matter what happens, I’m feeling good.

  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    Speaking of I convinced the nurse at my doctor's office to get a flu shot from now on by reminding her that she isn't getting the flu shot for her. She should be getting it for me and people like me, with compromised immune systems.

    So yay for that, at least.

    I got a flu shot just for you, too, Will! I thin I did it for a red panda, too, maybe, it was in October.

  • jgeisjgeis Registered User regular
    The guy in the stall next to me in the office bathroom is definitely eating while doing his business and it is skeeving me out more than it normally would because he's making very loud chewing sounds.

  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    Speaking of I convinced the nurse at my doctor's office to get a flu shot from now on by reminding her that she isn't getting the flu shot for her. She should be getting it for me and people like me, with compromised immune systems.

    So yay for that, at least.

    I still can't believe I have to argue with nurses and PAs about this on the regular.

    These are people who should fucking know better.

    I thought most medical practices required their staff members to get them. All of them up here do at least.

    The fuck is wrong with people?

    WiiU: Windrunner ; Guild Wars 2: Shadowfire.3940 ; PSN: Bradcopter
  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    Speaking of I convinced the nurse at my doctor's office to get a flu shot from now on by reminding her that she isn't getting the flu shot for her. She should be getting it for me and people like me, with compromised immune systems.

    So yay for that, at least.

    Fuck people who don't get the flu shot. "Oh it's only 30% effective and I'll feel all run down." If this was a video game you'd be jumping through so many hoops to get that 30% disease resist.

    bnet: TheStig#1787 Steam: TheStig
  • KaplarKaplar On Google MapsRegistered User regular
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    Speaking of I convinced the nurse at my doctor's office to get a flu shot from now on by reminding her that she isn't getting the flu shot for her. She should be getting it for me and people like me, with compromised immune systems.

    So yay for that, at least.

    I still can't believe I have to argue with nurses and PAs about this on the regular.

    These are people who should fucking know better.

    I thought most medical practices required their staff members to get them. All of them up here do at least.

    The fuck is wrong with people?

    I've had a nurse actively discourage me from getting a flu shot a couple years ago while I was in the hospital. In January I think. Reasoning was that "If you were going to get the flu, then you'd have gotten it by now".

  • Drake ChambersDrake Chambers Lay out my formal shorts. Registered User regular
    Dammit. I've ruined my wife's day and, by extension, my own, at least until the mail arrives.

    I subscribe to that service that lets you see what mail you're supposed to get that day before it gets to your mailbox. I saw something addressed to my wife from the court system. It is almost certainly a photo-enforced traffic ticket, but I texted her anyway to ask if she was expecting anything.

    She was not, and now she's incredibly stressed because she doesn't know what it is. She suggested that in the future I shouldn't mention something like that since we won't know until the mail arrives and until then she'll just worry about it.

    I'm sure whatever it is won't be a big deal. I don't care about a traffic ticket but now I've got this sick-to-my-stomach feeling from worrying by proxy. Gah.

  • StragintStragint Do Not Gift Always DeclinesRegistered User regular
    edited January 2019
    Moriveth wrote: »
    I am pretty grateful that my office offers a overall pretty generous sick leave program (I get 10 days sick time). Plus they've never questioned me when I have called in sick, which is good!

    I do need to take less sick days, though, since sometimes I just feel minorly crappy in the mornings and then I feel better as the days go on, and in that case I'm just like "Well I could have saved that day for when I'm ACTUALLY sick"

    I do this too and I always regret taking the whole day.

    Edit: speaking of which I used 8 of my remaining 46 hours of sick time today. I'm feeling very much in no mental state to be at work and I've decided my new years resolution which will start Monday is to start seeing a therapist (I was gonna get it setup for today but apparently my doctor forgot to give me the paperwork) and work this easy collections job for fat stacks and pay off my credit card debt.

    Stragint on
    PSN: Reaper_Stragint, Steam: DoublePitstoChesty
    What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak

    I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    TheStig wrote: »
    Speaking of I convinced the nurse at my doctor's office to get a flu shot from now on by reminding her that she isn't getting the flu shot for her. She should be getting it for me and people like me, with compromised immune systems.

    So yay for that, at least.

    Fuck people who don't get the flu shot. "Oh it's only 30% effective and I'll feel all run down." If this was a video game you'd be jumping through so many hoops to get that 30% disease resist.

    Fuck thats good reasoning....I might steal this

  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    Someone came into work ill yesterday with a cold.

    Guess who has a cold today!

  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    jgeis wrote: »
    The guy in the stall next to me in the office bathroom is definitely eating while doing his business and it is skeeving me out more than it normally would because he's making very loud chewing sounds.

    I think Gwynyth has advocated for the benefits of anal chewing, so Goop reader?

  • StragintStragint Do Not Gift Always DeclinesRegistered User regular
    I feel really bad at work because I feel like my apathetic/negative attitude is rubbing off on the 1 person who also works nights with me. There used to be a third person and the two of them talked a lot but the third person went to a new dept and now it is just us.

    We don't really talk, no common interests but I don't want my garbage attitude impacting others. I am going to also start heavily working on my outward attitude.

    PSN: Reaper_Stragint, Steam: DoublePitstoChesty
    What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak

    I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
  • KaplarKaplar On Google MapsRegistered User regular
    Dammit. I've ruined my wife's day and, by extension, my own, at least until the mail arrives.

    I subscribe to that service that lets you see what mail you're supposed to get that day before it gets to your mailbox. I saw something addressed to my wife from the court system. It is almost certainly a photo-enforced traffic ticket, but I texted her anyway to ask if she was expecting anything.

    She was not, and now she's incredibly stressed because she doesn't know what it is. She suggested that in the future I shouldn't mention something like that since we won't know until the mail arrives and until then she'll just worry about it.

    I'm sure whatever it is won't be a big deal. I don't care about a traffic ticket but now I've got this sick-to-my-stomach feeling from worrying by proxy. Gah.

    Personally, I feel like that subscription would add nothing but stress.

  • ThroThro pgroome@penny-arcade.com Registered User regular
    jgeis wrote: »
    The guy in the stall next to me in the office bathroom is definitely eating while doing his business and it is skeeving me out more than it normally would because he's making very loud chewing sounds.

    I think Gwynyth has advocated for the benefits of anal chewing, so Goop reader?

    Only way to know for sure is if they also answered a phone call at the same time.


    I'd like to go ahead and thank all of the coworkers who go out of their way to uphold the social contract that we all should be so unobtrusive in the bathroom that we can each pretend to be alone.

  • Drake ChambersDrake Chambers Lay out my formal shorts. Registered User regular
    Kaplar wrote: »
    Dammit. I've ruined my wife's day and, by extension, my own, at least until the mail arrives.

    I subscribe to that service that lets you see what mail you're supposed to get that day before it gets to your mailbox. I saw something addressed to my wife from the court system. It is almost certainly a photo-enforced traffic ticket, but I texted her anyway to ask if she was expecting anything.

    She was not, and now she's incredibly stressed because she doesn't know what it is. She suggested that in the future I shouldn't mention something like that since we won't know until the mail arrives and until then she'll just worry about it.

    I'm sure whatever it is won't be a big deal. I don't care about a traffic ticket but now I've got this sick-to-my-stomach feeling from worrying by proxy. Gah.

    Personally, I feel like that subscription would add nothing but stress.

    Ha! Now I've made it worse. I thought more about it and considered it could also be jury duty, so I let her know. That just set her off more because I previously had her convinced I somehow knew it would be a traffic ticket, which was not my intent.

    I'ma stop texting for awhile now. :(

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Next up: "Or it could be summons to court for a murder you didn't commit, but you have no way of proving that you didn't!"

  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    Kaplar wrote: »
    Dammit. I've ruined my wife's day and, by extension, my own, at least until the mail arrives.

    I subscribe to that service that lets you see what mail you're supposed to get that day before it gets to your mailbox. I saw something addressed to my wife from the court system. It is almost certainly a photo-enforced traffic ticket, but I texted her anyway to ask if she was expecting anything.

    She was not, and now she's incredibly stressed because she doesn't know what it is. She suggested that in the future I shouldn't mention something like that since we won't know until the mail arrives and until then she'll just worry about it.

    I'm sure whatever it is won't be a big deal. I don't care about a traffic ticket but now I've got this sick-to-my-stomach feeling from worrying by proxy. Gah.

    Personally, I feel like that subscription would add nothing but stress.

    It's occasionally useful, like when I was desperately waiting for the title of my wrecked car to show up so I could get paid by my insurer and get a new car it was invaluable.

    It does require a fair amount of zen for other stuff though.

    Nod. Get treat. PSN: Quippish
  • Drake ChambersDrake Chambers Lay out my formal shorts. Registered User regular
    Moriveth wrote: »
    Next up: "Or it could be summons to court for a murder you didn't commit, but you have no way of proving that you didn't!"

    For my part at least I can confirm it's not an actual case filed with criminal or civil court, so we're golden there.

    She's since acknowledged that she knows it wasn't my intent to stress her out and accepted an apology so I think I can sit a little more comfortably for the rest of the day.

  • BobbleBobble Registered User regular
    She's legally changing her name to "xXx420BlazeItQueenxXx" and wanted to surprise you.

  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    Kaplar wrote: »
    Dammit. I've ruined my wife's day and, by extension, my own, at least until the mail arrives.

    I subscribe to that service that lets you see what mail you're supposed to get that day before it gets to your mailbox. I saw something addressed to my wife from the court system. It is almost certainly a photo-enforced traffic ticket, but I texted her anyway to ask if she was expecting anything.

    She was not, and now she's incredibly stressed because she doesn't know what it is. She suggested that in the future I shouldn't mention something like that since we won't know until the mail arrives and until then she'll just worry about it.

    I'm sure whatever it is won't be a big deal. I don't care about a traffic ticket but now I've got this sick-to-my-stomach feeling from worrying by proxy. Gah.

    Personally, I feel like that subscription would add nothing but stress.

    It's occasionally useful, like when I was desperately waiting for the title of my wrecked car to show up so I could get paid by my insurer and get a new car it was invaluable.

    It does require a fair amount of zen for other stuff though.

    But it doesn't get it to you any faster

  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    Kaplar wrote: »
    Dammit. I've ruined my wife's day and, by extension, my own, at least until the mail arrives.

    I subscribe to that service that lets you see what mail you're supposed to get that day before it gets to your mailbox. I saw something addressed to my wife from the court system. It is almost certainly a photo-enforced traffic ticket, but I texted her anyway to ask if she was expecting anything.

    She was not, and now she's incredibly stressed because she doesn't know what it is. She suggested that in the future I shouldn't mention something like that since we won't know until the mail arrives and until then she'll just worry about it.

    I'm sure whatever it is won't be a big deal. I don't care about a traffic ticket but now I've got this sick-to-my-stomach feeling from worrying by proxy. Gah.

    Personally, I feel like that subscription would add nothing but stress.

    It's occasionally useful, like when I was desperately waiting for the title of my wrecked car to show up so I could get paid by my insurer and get a new car it was invaluable.

    It does require a fair amount of zen for other stuff though.

    But it doesn't get it to you any faster

    No, but it means I know to leave work an hour early so I can go get it and give it to the insurance agent before they close for the weekend.

    Nod. Get treat. PSN: Quippish
  • Drake ChambersDrake Chambers Lay out my formal shorts. Registered User regular
    It's jury duty! Which is a whole different can of worms. She's a stay-at-home mom and we can't really make daycare work, so we'll keep fingers crossed that she can be excused. Otherwise I'll be taking unanticipated leave in February to hang out with my kids, which wouldn't be our favored plan but would be kind of awesome at the same time.

  • mcpmcp Registered User regular
    I just spent more time than I'd like to admit trying to figure out why some files had a time stamp 5 days from now: 1/9/2018

    It's 2019 :redface:

  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    Just take the kids with you to court

    bnet: TheStig#1787 Steam: TheStig
  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Hell yeah, kid court

  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    Also check your state's laws. Apparently full time caregivers of kids under 5 are exempt in California. Children over 5 however should have full time jobs and be able to care for themselves.

    bnet: TheStig#1787 Steam: TheStig
  • Drake ChambersDrake Chambers Lay out my formal shorts. Registered User regular
    TheStig wrote: »
    Just take the kids with you to court

    Excerpt of that transcript:

    D: So, on the date in question, did you witness my client -

    J(C): Strawberry granola bar!

    J4: How do you ask?

    J(C): May I have a strawberry granola bar please?

  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    Objection!

  • Drake ChambersDrake Chambers Lay out my formal shorts. Registered User regular
    Sustained. The court recognizes that the juror's child has already had a granola bar and holds that if he is still hungry he may have apple slices instead.

  • Drake ChambersDrake Chambers Lay out my formal shorts. Registered User regular
    TheStig wrote: »
    Also check your state's laws. Apparently full time caregivers of kids under 5 are exempt in California. Children over 5 however should have full time jobs and be able to care for themselves.

    Yeah, it looks like she could probably be excused. She might even choose to do it - breaking up the boundless time continuum of stay-at-home-mom existence might be welcome, even for something like jury duty. Either way it'll be fine. Crisis averted and we're back to our regular Friday afternoon positive selves.

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