hoosier80

Having a narcissist in the family, Sandoval appears to be one. They are sneaky, love bombing you to get you to do their bidding, think like them, trust only them. It’s like a spiderweb of lies, mind games, passive aggressive tactics, all done slowly, so you don’t really know it’s happening (unless you’ve experienced it before). Their outside face is the popular or social butterfly. The inside face is like a 180. I think Ariana didn’t want to see it or was possibly just exhausted from all of the other stuff that had gone on in her life. Rachel looks dead behind the eyes, no emotion, but she tries to act emotional. She’s the one I wouldn’t want to be around. And at least Lala got her business going in a dent time frame as opposed to the Toms. I hope Tom’s mother didn’t invest all of her funds in that strip mall restaurant.

He’s still going to have to deal with her for the rest of their lives since they have kids together. I see she’s wanting to restore her maiden name. Will the two older girls change their name, too??

I just saw the TMZ article. First, I was thinking for financial reasons, doesn’t look like it? Did she find another guy (wallet)???

I am going to have to see if there’s any way I can retire sooner than I planned. The Dip is still being dense, and grabs any “easy” ticket that comedian for us. I have had multiple tickets I grabbed, only to have her reassign to herself. If you ask, oh I didn’t see that.... it is big as life. She’s def afraid for her job for some reason. Another co-worker has gotten more hyper recently. Constant IM’s today even with the busy indicator at busy, plus my saying I am busy. Then we got a vague reorg email from corporate. It will take at least a year. She was beyond hyper. I have been through at least 7 corporate mergers, so you cannot predict what will happen and worrying doesn’t help. I again said I am busy. On a call now about the reorg email. Nothing for us now. Dip again trying to impress and brown nose. Gag me. I really need to consider an earlier retirement.

I was fuming a few minutes ago. Big renaming for a client and their products. The Dip had one thing to do, of course said oh you have to do your piece before I can do mine. Nope, not connected at all, plus several systems are to be updated Monday. Oh but she had to schedule a meeting to go over it. Tech guy, who trained me years ago, was on the call, backed me 100%. “Oh I guess I was the only one confused.” Yes, we know how to do our jobs. So Dip does her updates and promptly logs out, sending first to me to review. And it is wrong. All she had to do is remove one word or replace a word in each title. Completely erased stuff and added stuff that doesn’t follow the existing pattern. Would have been client facing error. I texted her, saying this isn’t correct. Said not one word to me, probably po’d. Like I wasn’t. Sent back to me with 3 errors still. Co-worker had stuff earlier in the day Dip did that was still wrong after sending back 2x, said I am just going to fix myself. I get it, but she needs to fix her own errors. A lot of people have coddled her or done her work for her for years. I have not in a long time; that gravy train is derailed with me. She had multiple errors all week, saying she’d set up something then, nope oh LOL I guess I didn’t do it. Then I was going to show a co-worker how that naming deal worked and she had logged out. I have stayed online late to help her with stuff, like 1.5 hours extra. Just a tad heated. I am so tired honestly right now, I am in a fk it all mood. Then I was going to the grocery, but no my car battery is dead. So either I get it jumped via my Halo Bolt (didn’t work first time but I was flustered), or plan b is calling AAA. It’s always something.

I was laughing when the business partner said the dynamic duo doesn’t know anything about “this business “. He could not tell that within 15 minutes of meeting them? I am sure he has them involved for name recognition only. Man babies. Schwartz follows Sandoval around like a lost puppy. Sandoval is so delusional. That cover band...the actual musicians seem to be good, while he’s just the most cringey thing ever. The outfits, the hair down on his forehead, trying to act like he’s this huge rock star. Honesly, how would Katie not feel strange about another person in their friend group getting together with her estranged husband. On the other hand, Katie really had to basically tell Schwartz we either get married by xxxx time, or we are done. I don’t think he really wanted to get married. His true love is Sandoval. Eww. There really isn’t anyone to 100% root for in this group, not even really 80%. Like half the time at most, I can empathize with someone. Like Ariana, feel sorry for her, but he’s always been sleazy. What were you thinking??

I think Rachel loves the attention. I went down a rabbit hole after hearing about oh she’s a pageant girl on so many posts, vlogs,etc. I found a website that listed all of the Miss USA CA contestants prior placements along with the last pageant. Rachel’s highest placement was top 10, next highest a top 20. Every other time (since 2012 with some year’s not competing), not a finalist. She had been in the Miss USA CA Miss and the Miss USA Teen competitions. I know I watched a vloggers story about her time in a Miss USA state pageant (not CA). Basically she had been recruited. Most of the Miss USA/Teen state organizations have no local pageants. You pay the $$ or get sponsors to pay, and you can be Miss Blueberry Patch Township 2024. There are two states listed who do have local pageants, Texas and maybe Florida. Definitely not CA. I clicked on the application, which said you have to meet the requirements: age, residency, etc. Sadly, my old butt didn’t qualify (lol). Most of the contestants had a few prior placements listed, not as many as Rachel. There were 1 or 2 who had as many throughout the years listed. It made me sad. Just seems she needs attention, validation, fame so desperately. I really think she’s loving her 15 minutes of fame. I don’t think she’s all that innocent. Does seem a bit like All About Eve. Sandoval saw someone who was willing and jumped at the chance. Has he cheated before? Absolutely. The relationship was probably over, but they have financial reasons maybe that kept them together. I think he was fine with cheating, staying with Ariana, and stringing Rachel along.

I saw the Seattle episode with Rainbow Brite Bee girl. I was like wth, she cannot be real. The house she chose, no way. Plus, I just went on Realtor.com, and there are now nicer 4 bedroom homes in Seattle for lower list prices. Not sure of the areas, but quite a few had just as nice backyards. Then, I did some internet sleuthing. Yeah, she had to be putting on an act. She has worked consistently since graduating from UW (magma cum laude), about 7 or 8 years ago. She is currently a director at one nonprofit, for about two years. None of the positions listed line up with anyone who is so quirky and childlike. Total bs storyline.

So there was an article on an industry blog about our corporation doing cost cutting measures. Bosses boss sent to her directs to send out to us mere peons. My boss, who always seems to be on break, even at WFH, forgot to send us the part that said our division actually is adding stuff, so probably not impacting us. My boss is ok with routine stuff and acting important. She doesn’t bug me as she knows I do a lot of things she’s clueless about. She was hired in/promoted because of who she knew and maybe more than just “knew”. Super chummy with our site head. They have hired a lot of people offshore. I am guessing we’ll have a re-org. Last time, like 10 years ago, offered early retirement packages. I was too far away for Medicare, so turned it down. If they offer it now, it’s a big yes from me. Old offer was close to 1 year of pay, and you could choose your date: 6 months or a year. Waiting on an outside vendor to process some data for one large process I handle quarterly. Watching as the Dip, who still has not retired (almost 72 years old) and who is still clueless, picked up 2 tasks. I am like 99% sure she has no idea what to do. Making bets with myself on when she asks me.

Dolores could have had Frank go to the engagement party as her +1. It’s a weak excuse. I saw someone post online what they had heard was the reason why she wasn’t invited; not sure if I can post it here. The first time I saw Luis, immediately said he’s a scammer, after her money. Tre is a dim bulb, an easy mark. Just coddle and compliment her and you’re golden.

A bit of good news. We are going to full time remote permanently. If we need to, we can go into the office. Plan is to significantly reduce the office space. Yahoo. Now I need to find speedier internet. I am in a large metro area, but this little corner seems to be last to get any updates. Got new laptop and techie said oh keep the old one until you make sure you have everything you need. This after he said he needed more time to configure it. He didn’t have the date or time set up and I went into the office, had to wait 3 to 4 hours on it. Old laptop had some small issues even when on office network. I get home and new one won’t respond timely with any internet app. Co-worker said I use the other vpn app; yeah new laptop doesn’t have it. Tried with old one and it’s much quicker. Cannot access some apps with that as it’s still being updated for all apps to be compliant but it helps. The Dip was sad about no return to the office. Literally the only person. Told she could go in, but she was going for the social aspect, of course. There were maybe 10 people when back in the day 200+.

I am almost to the breaking point. Maybe that’s what management wants. New laptop is in the office and Lazy Ass tells me to make arrangements to pick it up. It has to be configured first, which local desktop guy said he’s working on it. I asked when I could get it after he’s done. Very noncommittal, so I pressed it. No response of course. Every response came from his phone, so he wasn’t online, just like LA. LA is super skinny btw, chain smoker who lives on cigarettes and Red Bull. LA is on vacation next week, so already in vacation mode. One project that was dumped in my lap, told I gave too much data, after being told that’s what they needed. Fine. I now have to condense it to a first grade reading level. Some other shitty project, redesigning a form, which my area uses, landed in my lap. It’s been redesign by committee, resulting in a cluster. I told one person, this is our internal form. That person got all hot and hung up from the call. Person is known for their outbursts and anger issues; saw yesterday they were promoted. If you ask, response is well you know it’s just Jane. Say what? A former employer wrote her up for her (same) attitude, but no, we don’t care now. Anyhow, this form is up to revision 10. People have been randomly updating it. Last one has a laundry list of items, including “used less bold colors”. The bold colors were always used to indicate required fields; the amount of garbage information we have gotten submitted on this form is just mind blowing. I am sure it’s because of the bold or harsh colors. Now LA is getting into my tickets and updating and closing as she sees fit. I am about ready to ask, is this all geared up to get me to quit? The thing is they would be up a creek, as when there’s problem, I am called. I would love to just say well, I quit, effective immediately. Just not financially possible now. I have actually slacked on doing stuff, which is totally not in my character. I may hit up an old boss at another company, but that place is no better tbh. I would just have a little satisfaction in walking out on these clowns.

Well LA told me she put in a request 2 to 3 weeks ago, during a meeting, too. She does crap like that all the time, so I guess management thinks it’s ok. A windows upgrade, which had been running 0% completed) for over a week, dated around the time all of the major problems started, failed and stopped. Laptop is working more normally. Not saying a word. It still sort of froze momentarily in Excel. The two desktop guys, said oh no, that update doesn’t impact a thing. Almost like you silly little woman. The thing that gets me, if Dip or anyone else had these problems, they would have had new equipment ASAP. Because I can work around or troubleshoot on my own, I am penal.

Well I have managed to work on some stuff for anew client. Would have taken me half the time with adequate equipment, but it is done. Going to wait awhile before I send it off. I am going to say laptop is slow. Lazy Ass has had to cover for me; when someone asked if I could do abc because one person is out, I honestly said well depends on what it is, everything is running slow, may take me awhile. Lazy Ass said oh I can do it later. It’s not difficult stuff, but LA typically logs out by 2 pm. She’ll respond to emails via her phone. Like no one can tell that means she’s not working when it says IOS message. Anyhow I was cackling before because LA shot herself in the foot by not getting this laptop ordered for me a month ago. Now she has to stay online and work. Heh, heh.

Well, I would love to just quit right now. I have had issues with my laptop since late January. I notified my totally inept manager (she came into this company as a friend of another manager, just as an associate and I had asked so she’s going to be our manager? Oh nooo. Fast forward 2 years and yeah she is. Zero knowledge, piss poor work ethic, excellent ass kisser). Lazy ass kept saying are you sure not your internet? I had upgraded recently to 4G. Everything else connected works fine. On President’s Day took me until 1pm to get into system. Most took the day off, but stuntmen wanted to catch up. I do all of the difficult processes; one on the team will try to figure stuff out, but the others, including Lazy Ass, just throw it over the wall to another team, even though it could be resolved within our team. So about 3 weeks ago, finally our desktop guy, who never seems busy, said oh come into the office. He reconfigured it. Worked great the rest of the day, then bac to spotty and shitty response or no response. One day I rebooted and shutdown no less than 10 times. I googled and ran whatever diagnostic scans I could. I fixed one background process. I put in a support ticket because a window update that was mandatory would not complete. Yesterday another guy remoted into my laptop. He said not internet. It’s got to be the laptop. He could find no record of this specific laptop at the manufacturer. I said well they don’t want it either. Then he said well new laptop is what you need. Lazy Ass had told me one was on order at least as of last week, and said so during calls with other people. I sent recap of what the guy told me yesterday. What do I get today? Yeah a copy of the order for a new laptop, with today’s date. Lazy Ass caught in a boldface lie. Debating if I call her out on it. Other areas are catching on that she’s in over her head; during a call to remediate a user’s access with another team, she said well I have to drop, need to go get a red bull. The reps and their manager were shocked, and she didn’t return for over an hour. Same stuff where she on the hot seat at her former employer. Unfortunately, I have still about one full year until I am eligible for Medicare. I would pull Social Security even a tad early if I could get Medicare. Insurance even through the exchange is just too expensive. And the due date for new laptop is April 15. Another month of this shit. I am almost like oh well, if I can’t get it to work, then the team and Lazy Ass will have to deal with it. I went and swept up my kitchen floor earlier today. Given that the Dip, who is just as clueless as ever, took a day off because her internet was out (everyone else opts to use phone hotspot for a little in that case, she had no clue what that was or “how to use it”), I will sit and do nothing or stuff around my house. Time to play the lottery again. Oh we did get raises thus year; most got nothing last year, but old manager rated me the highest rating, as a final thank you, and I got a pittance. This year, not much better. I did not even read review from Lazy Ass, as it would piss me off. Betting she did everyone as average. Yet if there’s a problem or meeting where she knows nothing, yeah she calls me (and only me). I think I will treat this as a mini vacation. Sorry can’t get into xxxx, someone else will need to handle it.