I don't understand why your management doesn't address this; it would seem they could update their laundry billing. Or at least sell you some quarters.
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I don't understand why your management doesn't address this; it would seem they could update their laundry billing. Or at least sell you some quarters.
Of course! Because updating the “billing” costs nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jane v2.0
Ha Ha Ha I’m just imagining my little condo association now installing card readers into their few laundry machines. Yeah.
That is not an expense I’m willing to pay for, Even though it is a very nice perk of paid laundry facilities. The laundromat I go to occasionally did change from quarters to card readers. That was a marvelous change! The biggest impediment to go in there was having enough quarters. I wouldn’t be surprised if they saw a big uptick in business.
I don’t want my condo assoc. messing with that. However, I do appreciate the heads up from ANM that quarters are hard to get. Looks like I should start a collection of quarters for the few times I use those machines in my condo building next year.
Our machines are paired with a app you download and add money with your credit card. I love it. Most of the old people in the building use quarters.
Why do smoke detector batteries always reach the ‘chirp point’ in the middle of the night and not during the day?
For apartment owners, it's a business expense, and isn't it inevitable? Practically everything is tied into one's phone these days. I'm not sure updating a few laundry machines would cost overmuch, either.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
I don't know... But I try and change mine twice a year daylight savings time and the switch to standard timeQuote:
Originally Posted by jp1
Well Jane, wouldn’t they have to be tied to wifi? How does that work, anyway?Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
I was going to say that my 93 building doesn’t have mod cons like that, but as I think about it there is Wi-Fi in the lobby to run the security system and the laundry area is right off the lobby on the same floor. So maybe it is doable.
We replaced all the smoke detectors a year ago when we bought this place. They all looked really old. The mew ones are all the ten year kind so we shouldn’t need to do anything with them for a while. I thought we had changed both the CO detectors as well, but apparently not the one that started chirping in the middle of the night last night.Quote:
Originally Posted by boss mare
This is a good reminder for me to change out my smoke detectors and CO detectors. I can't remember when they were last installed, so I guess it's time I get new ones.
Our CO detector was actually doing 5 quick chirps. According to the manufacturer website that means ‘time to replace’ because it is 5-7 years old. We have another one downstairs on the wall outside the hallway where the furnace closet is. That’s our only gas appliance inside (hot water heater is also gas but it’s outside so not an issue) so I’m not too worried but I still will order a new CO detector for upstairs.
Another common way for smoke detectors to let you know their sensors have died of old age is by having a false alarm for several minutes, then being quiet for 20-30 minutes and having another false alarm. Very unnerving if you don't know that's what the false alarms mean and you're desperately sniffing around trying to find any hint of smoke or burnt smell. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
Thankfully neither of us were inclined to try and ‘sniff out’ a CO problem in the middle of the night. Both because we know that CO doesn’t smell and because it’s summer we sleep with all the windows wide open and fans in all the windows to cool the house down. The possibility that we were being poisoned with CO was pretty much zero.Quote:
Originally Posted by GeorgeParker
Coworker quitting without giving two weeks notice (really, why not give customary notice? there are jobs that don't deserve it sure, but these folks are nice) All the work dumped on me with no possibility of adequate training nor documentation. I'm kind of resigned that things will go wrong. I mean I'm being put in an impossible situation (though they are understanding).
So sorry, ANM. Glad to hear that they are understanding about it all.Quote:
Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore
Well I hope this doesn’t turn your job super bad. It’s good to hear that your management team seems amenable to you and your work.Quote:
Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore
That’s awful but management does sound reasonable. They are probably worried about losing you too if they act like jerks.
Sorry to hear. More work sucks. However, we don’t know what’s going on with the coworker. I’ve quit jobs that were so miserable, I couldn’t get out of there fast enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore
It could break either way with job becomes bad or not. I mean it *could* become better, more senior people sometimes hoard all the interesting work, and it's been a long time since I've been a senior person at a job, so I've just have to put up with it. But I kind of am now (small dept, small company). I don't know if I will hoard all the interesting work, maybe when I am king equality will reign over the land :) So ... it could get better.
But of course it *could* also be really bad with nightmarish amount of work etc.. It could get real bad and 6 months or a year from now I'm the one looking for work, that could also happen. See my boss and me are the department at this point, they are hiring a new person, but everyone knows you don't get immediate benefit from a new person, over the long term you do, but they have to get up to speed on the company (on the industry even I think), and they haven't even started yet.
It's bad right now though, but that doesn't say much about the long term really. But blah, miserable now. And a lot of knowledge might not be transferred that well and it's specific to this job, it's not something on the internet - searchable knowledge doesn't worry me but job specific stuff ugh, and so some stuff might be starting a bit from scratch and trial and error because of such an incomplete knowledge transfer, reinventing the wheel. Because documentation wasn't made for it. Knowledge transfer or cross training didn't exist until now at the last minute. And now it's way too rushed.
And the only knowledge transfer going on is near all day marathon meetings for stuff I don't have a chance to try pretty much and have never even seen before at that. Oh I've mentioned this, that information can't really be absorbed without trying it out, for all it matters, since we are doing all day marathon meetings, day after day - that's how much it matters what I say. Near all day marathon meetings as a way of conveying knowledge: MEH.
I do get some of this is just because there is no time, 1 week notice. Meanwhile before this, I was training someone on something and made detailed documentation and have had multiple meetings on it and more to come. But neither I am out of there in a week I guess.
Stuff may not go well.
Rant rant rant. Mother in law cannot call or message us to tell us of a problem so we can help handle in a reasonable way and in a reasonable amount of time but has to wait until we visit to create a crisis.
She immediately tells us when we walk in the door that her hearing aid does not work. They are new and require an appointment for diagnosis of problem or we have to sit around and wait in case of an opening.
I ask her when it stopped working and she said 3 days after she got it which was weeks ago. She knew we were busy and did not want to inconvenience us. DUH, what is she doing now making it more of a crisis? She does this over and over.
Sorry about MIL! My neighbor has a mother who plays the “oh I don’t want to bother you “game but the systems she puts into place to solve the problem, whatever it may be, require so much untangling and complexity that he expends three times as much time than he would solving it at the beginning.
Sweetana3, that is frustrating to deal with.
Is there a senior support system in her area that she can contact with a problem or need for service giving her independence rather than leaning on you? Our local agency provides a ride for a modest fee to whatever support is needed - dentist, doctor, medical tests, etc. Not intruding in your situation with MIL but suggesting a possible cause and solution that you could oversee or arrange.
I guess I just have to file this under “Life in St. Louis: “
A Nextdoor thread has residents arguing over the definition of “Active shooter.” Last night a man in the neighborhood next to mine stood in the steeet shooting his rifle. There is video of him doing this. Then, he ran toward a building ? with people in it? with his gun, but apparently ? not shooting?
Active shooter? Or not. What a dilemma! Let us debate that act of tomfoolery endlessly.
oh yeah and after 20 minutes the cops still had not come.
Razz, it really was just a rant.
We see her often to take her to get her groceries but for some reason she has decided that she will ambush us with problems instead of having a rational conversation when something happens. I do expect her to tell us when she needs to go somewhere and I have set boundaries of not scheduling doctor appointments first thing in the morning so I do not have to drive thru rush hour traffic. This set off a huge issue with her. I also do not do window shopping so she needs to know what she needs and have a list before we go shopping since I no longer will just take a day and drive around "shopping".
We order anything special on Amazon and have it delivered and have done this in the past especially last year. All she needs to do is ask. (I guess I am rambling again but she is so irritating to be around right now. The complex has again cancelled all activities and are req. masks due to rise in cases. )
I can understand anyone feeling ambushed, sweetana, under these circumstances.
I L, I am going to guess that you won’t miss how your neighborhood has evolved.
Speaking of neighbors...my rant is that the neighbor behind us has decided to renovate a camper in the alley. Literally hours every day of sandblasting, welding, spray painting, hammering. I guess he doesn't realize how much it is impacting our quality of life. We have to close all the back windows and stay indoors. I have lots of gardening to do back there but it is hard to be around the noise, smell and dust for any length of time. There...got that off my chest.
I just accepted a chairman position in a garden club organization that has 43 standing committees, each with a chairman.
43. And this is not even at the state level.
I think you can imagine how unnecessary is most of the business conducted at their meetings. I did tell the incoming president that I wasn’t going to guarantee my presence at meetings. Fortunately they only have two business meetings a year, plus an annual long drawn out luncheon meeting that goes on and on forever. The luncheons were nice in the years they were held at a country club, but lately they’ve been held at a plain vanilla location.
And the HUGE irony is that the National GardenClub Headquarters building sits on a fabulous site with a wonderful and expensive mid century modern building and—WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO USE THAT BUILDING for most all garden club activities. No flower shows (perfect location!) no luncheons, no special events and only occasional club meetings which are blocked in Covid times.
Insane.
I call it “the palace of garden clubs” where no garden club members or gardeners are allowed to enter. The palace is a quiet, lovely building where no one ever goes except for the office staff.
With all these negatives you posted, why in the world did you accept?Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
This is the only group that trains flower show judges for design and also sponsors many flowers shows. I am all about the Flower Shows and floral designing for shows as you well know.Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
In order for those activities to take place, someone has to do the work. That’s why I draw boundaries around what I’m going to do —may not attend many meetings,—-may not do this, may not do that, etc. but will definitely do my committee job.
It’s funny that I have a big job at the state level and will be out of town doing flower show stuff when this local annual luncheon is held. So I have a really good “excuse “not to attend the annual dull luncheon.
Then, congrats! I'm glad the position will provide you with some enjoyment.
Wanted to replace a broken miniblind I bought at Home Depot. Went there with it and they said it was an irregular size and their miniblind cutter is broken. The next nearest Home Depot doesn't have a miniblind cutter. Tried Lowe's and they don't carry that blind. Went to a further away Home Depot and got lost as streets were closed for a Labor Day parade. Finally saw the store but big SUVs were blocking the entrance. Decided to access the parking lot from an adjacent business, didn't notice a curb, and drove over it. The car appears fine. I get in the store and a very nice woman measures twice and assures me it's a standard size and doesn't need to be cut. I get home and it fits perfectly.
Both at Home Depot and Lowe's all the staff were wearing masks and they had big help wanted signs up. Hmmm - do you think there's any correlation there?
What should have taken 40 minutes took 2 hours and 40 minutes because of incompetence at the first Home Depot and probably turnover of knowledgeable staff due to stupid mask mandates.
Projection. It's not just for movie theatres.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
Just because I have been thinking of a second job this winter but won't take one with a mask mandate doesn't mean other people don't feel the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
Correct me if I am wrong but you have spent the entire pandemic working from home mask free earning a good salary sitting at a computer, not earning low wages standing on your feet and walking around all day while wearing a mask.
Why would you assume that if I had a public facing job that I wouldn’t. care enough about the health and safety of my family to do what I could to avoid bringing covid home to them? Again, that sounds like projection. The majority of us don’t have an irrational hatred of masks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
jp1 - I spent 8 months working 8 - 10 hours a day, in a warehouse, walking 13 -20 miles a night picking merchandise - WITH A MASK ON! It is very doable! ROFLOL. It can and IS being done by a lot of people all over the country WITHOUT the whining and complaining that Yppej does! I now work in a public school - first day is tomorrow, but ALL staff, visitors, and - starting tomorrow- students will be masked. I'm thinking the hundreds of kids will do way less whining than just one Yppej has done/continues to do. I truly believe that, because she doesn't care, she believes nobody else does either, and she can't seem to comprehend that others actually DO care! As has been suggested by the moderators - let it go and don't respond.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
When one week in the supermarket you see half the staff wearing masks and the next week all of them, and you ask the store manager about it, it is not an assumption. I have facts.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
People in my area do care about covid prevention. We have the second best vaccination rate in the country per capita after Vermont. But for some micromanagers nothing is ever good enough.
In my state the minimum age for all types of jobs is above the minimum age for vaccination.
For a few weeks after I was fully vaxxed until mid July I didn’t wear a mask in public either. Then the data started rolling in that showed that delta is infecting a not insignificant number of people who have been vaxxed and that those people could also spread the virus to others. That’s just how science works. I wear a mask when out in public because masks slow the spread of covid in both directions. If I found out that I was infected and had been asymptomatically or pre-symptomatically sharing my germs with random people at the grocery store or wherever without taking basic precautions to limit my harm to others I would be quite upset. There are lots of older people at the store, including some of the cashiers. The thought that I hadn’t done what I easily could to limit the likelihood that I might harm another individual is not one that I would like to have. Obviously a lot of Americans are more of the ‘frail people need to take care of themselves. It’s not my problem so **** ‘em if they catch this from me’ attitude but that isn’t an attitude that I am willing to take. Your mileage may differ.
Frail people do need to take care of themselves by getting vaccinated.
Since I have to keep going back to the Board of Health anyways (since my mask issue is not resolved) I decided to rant to them about the awful job the trash company is doing and I am filing a petition to not allow the subcontractor to bid on future contracts. In the good old days the trash was picked up by municipal employees who were reliable (the good union jobs with pensions always being sought after by many qualified applicants) and they cared about the quality of the work they did because they usually lived in the community they served. This privatization to the lowest bidder regardless of how shoddy the job they do is awful. This sub keeps getting their contract renewed regardless of performance. Enough is enough!