theredhead77

I've been in my new role for 7 months (can you believe it?!) and as I've gone about my trainings and meeting everyone i've said to direct all communications / questions regarding the department I'm running to me and stop sending them to the person who had been helping out before I took the position. This other person is very good at their job; however, I'm changing things up and need to be point. This week someone [who knows better] emailed this other person about a complicated set-up. This person sent the account manager information, prematurely. Now the account manager is upset that we can't accommodate the set-up because the customer isn't actually our customer - we act as a third party. Had he come to me first I could have prevented his headache. Hell, had she sent it to me and not answered the account managers question I could have prevented the headache. Then today a different account manager else sent someone else a set-up request - the whole thing should have come to me. I set up the person because they said everything was accurate. Wrong. Customer calls, they don't have access to their locations, random people have access to the wrong locations and they can't buy the products the account manager said they would be and their pricing is wrong. If people just send me the info, like they are supposed to, all these headache and poor customer experiences could be avoided!

My Costco gas peeves are people who flat out refuse to leap-frog and insist on tandem entry / exit, people who carelessly pull up to their pump and make it nearly impossible to do the leap-frog and people who leave their doors open, making it impossible to leap-frog. I've gone up to people and told them the pump in front was open. Sure, if the person in front of you finishes at the same time, tandem but don't be sitting around waiting when the other person is obviously pumping gas.

This was my thought - former manager was 'over' the non producer but couldn't terminate them so they just get passed around. The employee thinks their amazing and managers get stuck with a lackluster employee.

I hate clutter. My mom has hoarding tendencies but I've been able to get her to purge as time goes by. The worst was the garage, full of empty cardboard boxes of all sizes, from Amazon, petmeds, etc... that she kept just-in-case. I'm not talking about a couple boxes, or a stack of boxes that were broken down. Before I moved I went over there and just started breaking them down and throwing them out. When she came out I told her I'd buy them new ones (they can afford to, but it's the point) and kept breaking them down and taking them to the recycle bin. My dad was fine with this and I told her I was moving across the country and could no longer mentally deal with the fire hazard in their garage. Over Thanksgiving I purged the crap out of the kitchen and scrubbed the refrigerator. My dad 'approved' everything I was tossing. There was coffee from our family trip to HI, 20 years ago and a frozen slice of birthday cake from my dads birthday 5 years ago. When I go back this summer I'm going to purge the crap out of under the sink - that's full of empty butter dishes and cracked lids. She has a bajillion Tupperware containers to use. I finally convinced my mom to stop bringing me knickknacks from vacation. I prefer unique edible treats, or something like a small magnet.

@BookWoman56 I'm so sorry for your loss. I hope sharing your sisters plans and your plans get others, besides @emma675 to do some planning. @Quof I think that service already exists on some level but you should start your own business!

I want to go see these two trouncing through a field.

I doubt I have anything new or revolutionary to suggest. When I moved from my 1bd in CA to my 2bd in GA I thought I'd have so much more storage. Nope, turns out the 1bd had a ton of closet space and everything I had neatly organized there is taking up two closets in CA. The one nice thing are the cabinets and closet doors all leave space between the door and the shelf, so I can use Command hooks to hang things on the inside of the doors. I also bought stand alone shelf + drawers for some cabinets. I also love clothes and the hardest part of me is getting rid of clothes that are super cute and I might wear 'some day'. What I ended up doing was trying on everything in batches. T-shirts / tops / sweaters one day, pants another day, etc... and doing the traditional keep, trash, donate but I also added a 'home wardrobe' pile for things you'll never wear outside the house. Anything that didn't look super cute that day was inspected and placed in a pile. I was ruthless with the donate pile and left the box for a month before getting rid of it. I didn't miss anything. Trash was anything with a non-discrete hole in it (discrete holes could go into the home wardrobe pile). I ended up getting rid of a lot more than I thought I would. I even looked at my socks and underwear. Like I said, I doubt I have anything revolutionary and I understand you don't want to get rid of things - the combing through the wardrobe thing was a huge help and really freed up mental space every time I went to find something to wear.

I did not coin that phrase.

So I Googled iTunes Gift Card scam and the third suggested completion was 'online dating' https://support.apple.com/itunes-gift-card-scams https://www.romancescam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=109586

People typically quit managers, not companies.

What if.... Andrea is turns out to be the [previously non-existent] child Dan and Roseanne gave up for adoption before Darlene was born? It could be discovered during all the surrogacy testing. Just a random thought that floated through my head. I can't wait until next week.

Totally digging it. Tough kid; I'm going to miss him.

Feels like my favorite pair of [acid wash] jeans that almostfit. John Goodman is a national treasure. Killed off the most interesting character. Ha!

You'd be surprised how loud a small cat can seem to the downstairs neighbors. Same thing with a small dog. It sounds like the owners are aware and are hopefully working with the dog. Hopefully he'll settle down soon and they don't feel obligated or pressured to return him to the shelter if it's taking longer than they had hoped to get him comfortable in his new home :( Going from a loud, crazy, chaotic shelter where one spends most of their time in a tiny cage, to a quiet home where one has space to move about must be so scary. Especially if the pup had hoomans before and was abandoned at said shelter. I hate people sometimes. Try a different brand. I've had good luck with LD https://www.ldproducts.com (and they're remanufactured in California)

Who is technically responsible for her training? What is the official expected training period? Is she being trained a few hours here and a few hours there or was there a block of time where training was provided? What kind of official coaching is provided during and after training? Is there a probationary period? Are you her immediate or dotted line supervisor? If you're not, why are you in charge of assigning her work?

I went to the doctor last Thursday, doctor wrote a short-term prescription and sent it to the mail-order pharmacy instead of Costco, like I asked. So I've been waiting all fucking weekend for my prescription to show up. Who knows how much it will cost (Costco has the super cheap generics) and they better have not turned it into a maintenance medication. I'm already super pissed about this.

It was nice knowing you @AgentRXS. Over the weekend I saw two medium sized kittens and mom cat. I guess the woman who was caring for the mom cat never got her fixed. I am going to have to find a feral organization to see if they can come trap, fix and release the kitties. I am a super HSP (highly sensitive person) when it comes to animals and it's highly distressing that the mom kitty (or her mom) probably had a home and hooman only to be dumped when they moved.

It's a moot point to me since like I said earlier, I suspend reality when watching TV. I'm not hyper focused on time stamps or how long the case and trial would really take since it's all wrapped up in an hour. That's my UO, YMMV

I've never noticed time jump time stamps on any flavor of L&O.

I'm fairly certain the catcat will hate the Roomba but I desperately need something to get under the bed, under the couch and get the floating cat hair on a daily basis. I have seen "those" videos and don't intend to run it while I'm not home.

If they did each episode would be months or years long.

Then your reasons are different than my post about strong women being bashed... ...and the rabid Ziva hate that derailed every episode thread is one of the reasons I stayed away from the NCIS forums.

I'm so glad this topic is being discussed! The amount of hate towards certain women (Gabby, Starbuck, Ziva, Wonder-freeking-Woman) because they are more than competent at their job - they excel or are the best at what they do, drives me crazy. Also: it's fiction, suspend reality for a bit and enjoy the ride. Which brings me to my table of one - when I watch a TV show, I suspend reality for a bit. There's no way Jack Bauer could have got from the Burbank airport to the LA Harbor in 30 minutes in the middle of the day. Or a L&O case be investigated, and tried in 60 minutes, or everything in SciFi, etc...

I find toys in my bed too. Usually they're accompanied by the kitten-cat nosing them under my hand and/or pawing me in the face so I wake up to play with him. Speaking of - the kitten-cat is currently mewing his little head off so I go look (I'm such a sucker). He's on my bed with his ball wanting me to throw it. I really try not to associate my bed with playtime but he's so cute!

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