Sounds like you should call your state labor department. You should (at least) be paid 4 hours at minimum wage. They had you working for free.
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Sounds like you should call your state labor department. You should (at least) be paid 4 hours at minimum wage. They had you working for free.
Been there and done that - wait until you spend a day and a tank of gas to find out they are selling a franchise or worse, they want you to volunteer and work for free!Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
Frugal-one, I walked out and didn't provide free labor, but if I had I certainly would have taken your advice. They sounded iffy on the phone but a woman in my networking group was recruiting for them so I thought they had some legitimacy. Next time I should trust my instincts.
Ouch 19Sandy! I thought a third of a tank of gas was bad enough.
It is has been a long while since I was on unemployment, but they loved sending us to weird job listings just to see if we would put up with some of the nonsense. If you didn't follow the guidelines, then you got into trouble. You also had to prove that it was nonsense by tape recording or collecting documents. A lot people would get fed up with the whole process and just give up the money from unemployment. This was when the economy was bad everywhere and there were hundreds of people in meetings that used to be for one person only.
It never fails that I drive around doing Friday errand and forget to mail a time-sensitive letter. Got to back out in the cold and drizzle!
I don't think I'll ever get used to having to dispose of dead pack rats. The body count in little Chez SzQ is rising as of late. Spring mating season is upon us here in the high desert.
Can I have a pet peeve for myself and others? Just being honest. I get really upset about bad drivers, the ones that cause grid lock really piss me off. You are in the city! That means you need to wait for space even if the light is green.
And yesterday I cut someone off in traffic. I am usually so good about it, I have not excuses. So now I am the driver to be yelled at, I mean who actually is a good driver all the time, and you have to learn from it.
Wishy washy organizations. I cancelled a free seminar I really wanted to attend because I was called to a third interview, which I was told was for the lone finalist, and could only be held at a particular time due to the schedule of the chief executive. Got an email at 6:30 AM he can't make it but come in anyways. So I met instead with someone I already met before, who apologized for a wasted trip, and passed me off to another person who I had also already met with. That person said now they don't know what they want to do with the position. You couldn't have told me this over the phone?
All I can think of is Sammy, Frank, and Dean!Quote:
Originally Posted by SiouzQ.
Probably said this a time or two before: Cashier's that could give a rat's a** that I spent my hard earned money in their store. Isn't that why they have a job???
To give a rat's ...?Quote:
Originally Posted by BikingLady
Or to take your money.
Really depends on the job description.
I wish I could remember who it was (thinking Sean Lock or Jimmy Carr) that said, people shouldn't have to be chipper when doing menial jobs. We know they hate the job, the same way they know they hate it.
The library lost a book that I returned to their bookdrop. I am waiting to hear if I have to pay for it since there is no record of it coming back to them.
HOA rant. Got a letter stating my house needs to be repainted and I have 90 days to do it. Apparently they've missed the fact that we've already started: whole house has been pressure washed, and one side (prominent and entirely visible to the street) has been hand-scraped and primed and caulked. 11 labor hours to date. Painting to commence this weekend. But now I have to take precious minutes of my life to formally respond to their notice. Sheesh.
The library cannot find the book and says I have to call the library they think they sent it to.
Lainey, I would just ignore them and take a picture when finished. Sure is irritating. Our Historic Preservation Dept. is about as irritating and oblivious.
If you have 90 days can't you simply ignore the letter and proceed as planned?
I had also forgotten that you need prior permission - Yes, even if you are painting it the same color! but the latest news is "all's well that ends well" because my SO went into the HOA office today and got them to agree that our current color is the equivalent of a color scheme that's already approved, so we are good to go once we turn in the form on Monday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tammy
and yes, I am wary of getting into a fight with my HOA because a) they do have the regulations on their side and b) they will fine you and put a lien on your house which will have to be paid if you ever want to sell it. So, exterior paint is not the hill I'm choosing to die on at this point, although it is definitely an irritating business.
my car was hit, while parked in our parking lot at our apartment. I parked it one night and came back in the morning to a scrape on the rear driver's side. The car parked next to it was not the car that hit it. Of course I am going through the 'am I crazy' phase where I am analyzing the scrape, thinking about where I drove, imagining that I can figure out what happened, and occassionally thinking that somehow I didn't notice that I hit something. The car had perfect body with 200,000 miles on it.
Too bad Zoe Girl, and with everything else you are dealing with.
In the grand scheme of things this is not a big deal but it is annoying.
My plant society that is dying has a person, no make that two or three people, who seem to be obsessed with physical objects. One of them rounded up the old "library" of books about our plants. The library was in the hands of someone who quit our group years ago and she had been trying to get someone to come and take it. So, the savior of the library is so pleased with herself and is now presenting it as a problem I have to solve, what do we do with the library? I told her you – –you! -- May do whatever you like with it. We brainstormed a couple of ideas but her desire that it be preserved and handed off to an entity in entirety is utterly unrealistic. The " library" is just a bunch of society quarterlies and a handful of books, it is not an important collection.
Then there are the carvings. Someone, long dead, liked to carve and gave away several carvings of our flower. Now those carvings are ending up in my house. There is another one
I am expected to drive across town to fetch. At least these may have a chance of disappearing at the auction of our convention.
There are other mundane things we spend ridiculous amounts of time talking about. Ugh. Our organization will be disbanded by December 1, I keep telling me self only 7 more months.
You have become the "somebody" or "someone" that needs to do this thing, or fix the problem and on and one. I am seeing it more and more all around me.
It is annoying for sure. But then it dawns on me--these people are actually incapable of dealing with the "stuff " which is why we have so much of it. So I guess I am happy that I am whole, hardy, and capable of making things happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetana3
We have not lately been graced with the presence of the person who vaguely promises to present ideas of saving our plant society. I told her last summer that we would need to have a concrete plan from her for the Board to consider by November 2016. Didn't happen. I am quite certain that should she reappear she will share with us all of her sadz about disbanding our organization and plead "can't something be done???!!!" Meanwhile some of us have actually been doing some things.
Did you add the word librarian at the end of that sentence?Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lily
Every few months this same man, young enough to be my son, tries to hit on me and any other woman he sees in the grocery store. He is not there on a regular basis. His line is always, "I like your hair." He has struck me as somewhat developmentally disabled so I have just tried to ignore him but today he snuck up behind me when I was in the checkout line and when I did not respond mumbled, "Bitch" at me then quickly walked away. This creeped me out.
My pet peeve lately: My office is probably 80% Millennials. I do like them..very much for the most part. But they have a very annoying habit---every one of them---of starting all their conversations with, "So... blah, blah, blah." It's almost as annoying as the ubiquitous "like." It seems like a prelude to every sentence or thought, as if they need that crutch to begin to articulate their thought. Or they're just being cool. I dunno.
Do people do that in your worlds?
No, but the younger workers say "balls" whenever they are frustrated.
Ticks, ugg they are bad and it is so early.
There is a deer in our city park one block away from my house.
I swear, if this creature eats my lilies, this year of the national lily conventin here, I will--I dont know. might as well get a place in the country then, or in suburbia on the edge and have 1plus acres on one parcel. The ONE thing I am safe from here is deer. I put up with gunshots and car cloutings and other crime from the two legged variety of criminal in order to be free of the big 4 legged variety.
Deer, I hear you. Few neighbors feed them here, I tell these kind hearted people that they are feeding someones dinner come fall. And this keeps the herd in our neighborhood to graze on my gardens!
Aaarg!
dh hit a cut in the road last night and split both front tires. He is fine, so I am trying to just be grateful for that, but now we have a huge bill for tow, new tires, and rental car. In the quarter when he has a temporary pay cut, my job is ending for the summer (which we planned on, but it means no chance of picks up extra for subbing for a while) and our dd is coming home to live so added food and electric.
Also, the brakes went out on my car (the plan is that this car is supposed to last me at least another year until we get dd2 out if school) so I am driving the bad gas milage farm truck until dh can fix them.
this is probably going to delay the dry walling of the addition significantly.
There should be a better tire. Years ago one was advertised driving over spikes and resealing itself but somehow that never seemed to come to fruition in real life.
Had to contact Verizon 4 times and spend over 2 hours to get a simple replacement remote control. The people in their offshored call centers are in way over their heads, so I resorted to social media, which got me Americans in departments that refused to talk to each other. And this is supposedly a communications company! This is a good case of the things I own owning me.
Run Flats is what they are called, they do come on high end cars:( That's all hubby will run with his many miles of driving.
Time for a rant. I have two today.
shopping: ugh, I dont want to answer a shit ton of questions at time of purchase. Just take my money and shut up. No I dont want a rewards card. No, I do not want to give you my freekin email address. Stop asking me how
I want my receipt, give it to me in paper because how can you email it to me, I didnt give you my email address???
stuff more stuff the stuff rolls in associated with garden clubs: As a "thank you" for a judging assignment i received a gift bag with the ubiquitous candle plus some lotion plus some lavender cream. More little thingamajigs to use up. Then another thank you bag came, with another set of small thinamajigs. Then I learned that each of us will receive a mixed tape (actually, a CD) from a flower show, an audio track of music played at the show. Ummm. I dont want this.No one asked if I wanted one. Someoneis burning these, someone is using precious life energy to make this crap. No, just cut it out. If I want music I will buy it, and why does anyone think their compilation is a set I would want?
ugh. I love my flower show peeps and I love the creative work we do in having shows and setting up designs for critique. But I do not want the attendant CRAP!
And then we had a meeting about another flower event and we had quite a long discussion, during which I got crabbier and crabbier, about keeping people hydrated while they toured the Botanical gardens. The person in charge of the tour planned to buy water in Plastic bottles and keep them in a cooler on the bus. Ok, whatever, Eye roll. But then a person who is the ultimate consumer said that we should buy permenant water bottles with our logo, would be great because then "you can recycle it and use it again..." and on and on. Yes, buying more cheap crap from China is exactly what we should be doing to litter the earth and force attendees to take home yet another stupid thing they dont want. At our meeting I made her take the three tote bags We had received at the previous flower show event. She wants bags! Well, she will get them from me,
I hate them.
tl;dr Iris hates useless objects foisted on her!
I gained a lot of wt when I got sick. well, first I lost 70 lbs in 2 mos but quickly gained that and more back. I am limited in exercising to 5 min spurts on a reclining bike. 5 mins seems so little, I don't bother, but if I did it 6 times that would be 30 mins of exercise. I eat way too many carbs, I hate to cook. I've tried to cut back and keep failing. So today I had it, I have to change. I'm going to do slim fast because I have 3 cans of it in the house. But I also got an email from Good Rx that talked about drugs that work for more than one thing. There was a drug listed for wt loss. I saw my doctor and we're going to try it. I'm also now diabetic with an A1c of 6.1. My dad is a brittle diabetic, I don't want to go down that path. I'm angry at myself for wanting a wt loss drug but I'm going to try it.
With all your healthh problems and the limitations of your lifestyle (elderly parents) I applaud you getting whatever help you need in the form of a pill.Quote:
Originally Posted by freshstart
Your limitation in exercise is pretty tough for a weight loss regime. So, I hope this works!
i know that I cant lose weight without stepping up exercise.
thanks, IL
I've seen it reported that exercise is only 20% of weight loss. Gary Taubes thinks it only makes one hungry. It's good for muscle-building and/or cardiovascular health, but not really necessary to lose weight. As far as diabetes goes, Dr. Richard K Bernstein wrote the book on that. Good luck!
Oh, I know one doesn't burn that many calories just from a bit of daily exercise, but I think it probably pushes my metabolism to work a little harder overall. Plus, I feel much better which leads to eating the right things. It's more of a psychological boost than a physiological boost for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
Yeah--I'm all for exercise, even though I don't do any. It's always nice to get some fresh air and make some vitamin D.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies