Where did you get these numbers? 2500 kids killed - do they include the thugs and gang bangers getting killed in inner city violence?Quote:
Originally Posted by freshstart
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Where did you get these numbers? 2500 kids killed - do they include the thugs and gang bangers getting killed in inner city violence?Quote:
Originally Posted by freshstart
I'm talking about 60-80 year olds as "Old Timers" the ones who learned from their poppy and grand poppy in the 40s and 50s. A friend's now-ex hubby was the perfect case in point. She's 60 and he had 10 years on her. Good ol' Cajun boy. No trigger or muzzle discipline. Scared the heck out of me, waved a loaded pistol around. I taught my friend the safety rules and how to handle a gun safely.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
Tradd, I do apologize, I try to post the references. http://www.gunviolencearchive.orgQuote:
Originally Posted by Tradd
added kids and teens to age 17
the site has tons of detail and a lot I did not know. But I'm foggy again and do not remember what I read very well, I will re-look tomorrow unless you find it on the site first
I had a couple of old timers, he accidentally shot her in the genitals and it went up her spine so she was paralyzed from the waste down. He was cleaning his gun. THAT HE NEVER USED. He dies. She lived 44 yrs like that. She had to have a catheter for urine, I cannot even describe how hard this was, it took 3 people. Thank God she could not feel it. She lived to 104, died because finally her daughter refused (more like was convinced) to finally have her constant urinary tract infections treated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tradd
We got a young bulldog into rescue, given up by his family because he has a heart murmur.I dont know his prognosis.
But my peeve is this: in this boy's litter 2 others have heart problems.
And the idiot breeder is continuing to breed the parent dogs. Let's put more deformed Bulldogs on the ground, it's exactly what the world needs. Not.
Our rescue group just lost a 4 year old female after Heartworm treatment which cost us around $2,000. She completed her treatment program, went to a rescue event, got overly excited, and died on the spot. That money is hard to come by and if only she would have been given heartworm prevention this pretty girl would have had a normal life. As it is the last two years of her life were not good for her, she was ill.
ugh. People. I don't like them, don't ask me to like them.
if the breeders are doing that it has to be financially rewarding enough to have litters and cast off the deformed ones. Making the breeders sick puppies themselves, disgustingQuote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
that is so sad about the heart worm pup
Fitting rooms without clothes hooks.
Follow up customer service surveys. Straight to the trash can.
Especially the ones that insist that the top grade is the only "passing" grade. Exactly what do they expect the survey to tell them?Quote:
Originally Posted by Williamsmith
lol. I've had exactly the same thought. The salesperson was aggressive enough to get me to put a check in this box. How nice for all of us.
my doctors all participate in my health insurance plan. They just started sending out satisfaction surveys. I fill out the ones for my team of docs and tell them what sets them apart and why in the comment box. I care about them and if this in any small way helps them, I'm happy to do it. It's getting a little onerous as I am getting them for everything, even my mammogram so some I trash. The whole thing, could be pointless, I just have always liked telling someone's boss when an employee really helped. So I am probably not telling the right people. Sigh, now I have to figure that out, maybe I'll photocopy the survey and send it to the person in charge of the healthcare system. Everything else goes in the trash.Quote:
Originally Posted by Williamsmith
oh, I had a really good live chat person on Jet, very helpful. So when a survey came for rating her specifically, I gave her top marks and good comments. They emailed me that I could choose to gift her a coffee, a Jet item or lunch. I chose lunch but asked come on, do you really follow through and give these employees lunch? they said yes. I got a letter from her thanking me for her lunch and some manga drawings she does, lol, IDK if Manga is the right word, but it certainly was not a form letter!
Paying for someone else's stupidity.
At some point in time, in the near future, I expect to be working a bunch more overtime, due to the other full timer, breaking his hand moving something, because he was drunk and it was late at night.
When it hits, I may be on 7, 12 hour days for a few weeks.>:(
are you a 13 yr old child in China roped to a sewing machine, will they give you bathroom breaks? 7 days a week, 12 hrs days for a few weeks, not cool
I'm just a bit disappointed in a "friend." I had a pen pal in London in the 1980s, went to visit her three times, then we had a falling out. Recently we became friends again on social media, and she apologized for her behavior and I for mine. I emailed her last week to ask her about lodgings in London, and would she be willing to meet up for tea/coffee/whatever. Have not heard from her at all. I know she's busy, but I wish she had at least said, "Will have to get back to you on this." Maybe she's feeling awkward. I know I am.
yeah, she could've said she'd chat soon if she is really busy, that was nice of you to try to make a new connection
Kardashian cr*p every time I seem to hit the "news" sites.
I don't get it. Why is she even worth mentioning??Quote:
Originally Posted by ctg492
Oh, it's not just Kim. It's Khloe and Katee and Kharmykl and all the other Ks. And the Jenners who got intertwined with this wagon train. I'm at the point where if I see the syllable Kard my eyes just move on to the next item. At least nowadays you don't hear so much about Paris Hilton...Quote:
Originally Posted by CathyA
I actually read a Kardashian article, IDK why, but she said Kanye wants to name their Christmas (she is having a c-section, thus the supercute Christmas due date) baby, South. I'm out. Wake me when we get to little West West, because I would just deeply need to know that.
Who?
Kim Kardashian and Kayne West named their first baby North. He wants to name the next one South. So North West, South West, etc. I'm really hoping pop culture explodes and they eventually have a little West West
What the general public seems like they are really interested in. Or maybe the media just make me think the rest of the population is interested in.
You may have to get through North North West and South South West first.Quote:
Originally Posted by freshstart
Ok, I know I've used up way too much rant space lately, but Honestly! I call my dr's office with a request: 1. please upgrade my prescription as agreed between my dr. and I, and then 2. please fax said script to pharmacy x at location y. Three hours later I check and there's nothing, I call office and am told they faxed the old (wrong) script to a pharmacy in sierra vista I've never even visited. I take a deep breath and repeat all the info. 45 minutes later i get a call that it's been done. an hour after that I call the pharmacy and they still have nothing. I call the dr's office again and they tell me no, it hasn't been sent yet. And then repeat the name and address of the wrong pharmacy as where they're going to send it. This is an office of six people.
Could I put in a request that minimum wage be lowered to $4 per hour until basic competence is proven?
Let's add in, one script isn't coming due for 2 weeks, I need it now because I'll be overseas in two weeks. This is old lady hormones. You'd think I was begging for morphine syringes. 'You have to call your insurance co.' Ins co after 20 minute hold, no, you have to have the pharmacy put in a request, get it rejected and then have their help desk call for an override. Aargh ... are these people all on drugs?
And the pharmacy portal that asked for all my info so it could transfer my prescriptions took the info nicely, and now it is all gone, they're saying it will "probably" reappear out of thin air. Right. sure it will.
This is a tempest in a teacup, I know, but it's such a shining example of how our modern life makes it impossible to do the simplest thing without some absurd life-consuming screw up. Astonishing, does anyone else feel like they can't so much as blink and have it go right any more?
I hear you, this was one of the biggest PITAs of my job. Someone needs pain meds now, ok, I call, emphasizing how bad the patient feels in detail. 3 hrs, nothing, 4 and 5 hrs, nothing, hour six I actually have held the phone near the patient sobbing and screaming in pain and then kindly say, "it would be great all around, if one of you, any of you, would give this message for the 3rd or 4th time to a nurse or doctor so there is a chance of that sound stopping today? Would you like to feel like that?" Repeatedly explain narc scripts are accepted at our pharmacy but must be done by a certain time, do not send to any other pharmacy, or call me saying I have to pick it up. It is a law that you can fax these scripts, your office does it all the time so what makes you so special that you cannot get this handled, maybe I should speak to the office manager? Then it might get done, or unbelievably, they would close the office and go home not giving a shit about the screaming, sobbing patient. And I would have to punt it to the night nurse, but our pharmacy had closed, and on and on with issues. I worked in a radiation onc office, I know being the receptionist sucks, I honestly could not stand to do that job, but if someone is screaming, staff need to know when to bump up a phone call from routine to emergent, and if they aren't sure how to triage somebody, ask the nurse, don't just ignore it.
if that doc was my primary and the front desk was that bad, I would find another doctor, someone who won't triage my massive MI until after multiple patients with flu, colds and sore throats. You can't triage by who called first. End rant and a part of my job I will not miss!
I won't go into the details but it had to do with a simple request to reorder a script and send it to my local pharmacy. Things got all screwed up. Well, my theory is, "Trustworthy in small things, trustworthy in big things." I drove to the doctors office, asked to see the manager and told him he and the doctor he represents are fired. Went one block away and asked another doctor to take me and my insurance as new patients. Done deal. Vote with your feet. If you don't some day their incompetence might mean your life.
Unfortunately, drugs is a two sided issue. When a script says it needs to be taken with food, IT NEEDS TO BE TAKEN WITH FOOD. One boss ended up in the hospital for low blood sugar (taking medicine on a empty stomach, repeatedly). Wish they would both choose to listen to their doc's advice.
I suppose since I'm 65 now, from now on I will get tons of junk mail, asking me to choose them for my Medicare Part B and D during the Fall until open enrollment is over. And crap magazines keep coming, even though I have "opted out". It all fills a grocery sack in no time, and then I drive it to recycling. Oh.......and since I bought a new car a couple months ago, I'm getting all sorts of junk mail from companies saying "Hey......heard you bought a new Honda! How about some insurance???"
It really IRKS me that they are cutting down trees for this crap!!
I understand totally. When I turned 45, AARP sent out an invite to the magazine, sent junk mail and called me all the time, WTH? I kept saying that I was 45. I finally found some master number and said they were depressing me, stop the AARP crap, give me 10 yrs and maybe then we can talk.
and now, since being listed in some giant book of disabled people, I'm getting all that medicare stuff, too. When you have to be on SSDI for 2 yrs before getting that and I have over 14 months til my hearing, so that's 3 yrs. What a waste of money, time and resources.
I sort mail over the recycling bin.
Over the years I've hired many handymen (have yet to find a handywoman, but that's another thread). Why is it that every handyman has this seemingly-pathological need to cr@p the bed?
I've hired guys who are recommended but don't return phone calls. Or show up late, without explanation, for estimates. Or show up once and do good work and require the services of the CIA to find them again when you have more work for them.
Today I have a handyman at my mom's place. I've hired him several times in the past and he's done very good work. Our first conversation on-site was about an entry door that is out of square and drafty. I told him I didn't know if it needed shimming or weatherstripping or anything up to and including a new door (that's why I'm asking for his opinion). I know The Right Fix may not be cheap. But I got lots of chin rubbing and hemming and hawing about having to line up help and order doors and how this is a warm-weather project (it'll be 55-60 degrees today). And a bid for the job that has me calling window & door installers because it sure sounds like an "I don't want to do this job" price.
My mom also has one of those IKEA-style DIY medicine cabinets she wants built and attached to the wall. I get that this is not a fun project -- I could have done it but knew it would have taken me all day and likely would have included a few sharp words. The handyman is mumbling and fumbling about the "hundreds" of pieces in the box (hyperbole much?) and the large-ish bag of undifferentiated cam locks and screw covers which will require time to sort out (and hope were packed in sufficient quantity). Nobody was paying me to get it done; I'm paying him by the hour.
So what's the deal? Why not just swallow hard and let me know that it likely will take several hours to get this all sorted out and together and hooked onto the wall? Why leave me feeling like he's doing me a favor by getting paid for this task? Or is it that he lacks the guts (or the respect for me) to tell me flat out that he doesn't want some or all of these projects? From my business, I understand there are some jobs which you don't want to (or can't) take on. But he seems like one more handyman who does good work at a fair price who behaves in such a way that I'll think twice (or forget entirely) about calling him next time. Why is this so endemic?
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Originally Posted by SteveinMN
I had a mower like that once. He complained every single time he came to mow. I was very thankful when I could take over the job again. Just dreaded him pulling into our driveway.
DH, retired handyman, regularly did not return calls. I hate that. Whenever I got one of these calls for a new customer I would suggest that perhaps, if DH didn't call back soon, they should try someone else. Then they would ask if I had any suggestions and of course the other guys I know who are good are also too busy to take on little jobs or new customers.
its a legitimate beef.
and then the "complaining." DH does some of that in that he talks it through what he will have to do on a job and I have come to the realization that is his "process" for working through the job in his head,to arrive at a price. Sort of. I tell him that people don't care to know what he has to do, what pieces he has to buy, etc.
Steve--
today the " ikea problem" came up here because our neighbor wants DH to put together an IKEA cabinet and she will pay him, of course. He started reciting the IKEA lament about a many pieces, missing parts, questionable instructions, yadda. It was kind of funny because we had just been talking about the issue here.
so I pinned down DH about why this seems to be such an issue and he said it's because he can't estimate how much time it will take to put together this IKEA stuff. I asked why that mattered since he was being paid By the hour. He said that it is impossible to,plan his day if he's working on one of those IKEA build things. Now that he is retired that's not a big thing, but for people who have several customers who want them right away as well as an close estimate of the cost, it's not good.
DH has put together several IKEA kitchens and he doesn't mind those.
Thanks, IL. I certainly can understand how difficult it can be to estimate something one hasn't done many times before. In this case, the handyman said he'd planned to be there all day. Maybe it was just a reflexive habit.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
For what it's worth, he got the cabinet in (very nice job; there were a few spanners in the works for that task) and the exterior-lights installation done. And then went home without calling me to write his check. He'll be back for sure to do more work (my mom has a list she wants done for herself) though I have two door installers coming on Monday to give me estimates for the back entry.
A "peeve" on Thanksgiving is not a good thing, but it's one we've discussed before: Apostrophes everywhere whether needed or not. The latest was in an obit I happened on which described the deceased woman's "three son's" Oy.
Apparently the papers are running obits exactly as submitted because I've seen typos and misspellings before, but this is a new one.
For what it's worth, most of the larger papers here have farmed out obituaries to a third party -- often the same one. So mistakes in their listings seemingly will propogate among many papers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lainey
I have often thought being a proofreader might not be too bad but it appears these days nobody really cares if there are some misspellings. So there are probably no jobs.
Yes I agree the papers probably eliminated the proofreader positions, but it seems it would be a kindness for the person taking the information to do simple editing in an obit which is a permanent record.
Saw another one story today where someone was describing their "parent's" I give up.
Steve.......about the handymen..........I think that's what a lot of men do, when they can't hold down a "real" job.......or don't have the skill. I had a handy-man type build a shed for me once. What a mess. I ended up having to hire a "real" builder to fix it all. Maybe it would be better to call certain service groups (builders, electricians, plumbers, etc) and ask if anyone there does side jobs??