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Lmao I just watched that one! Season 6 is fantastic for the banter and one liners. I’m watching the episode where Rose is dating The Cheeseman and Blanche finds out her great grandmother is Jewish. ”Well, I’ll be damned. The black guy is prejudice!” “Wow, you find out you’re a Jew with a dilemma and these Rabbis just start coming out of the woodwork!”

With that level of enmeshment, I was shocked he said anything at all tbh. Barb is clearly unstable and it’s gonna take a while to “fix” the mess that is Peter because of it. She reminds me so much of my MIL, I’m actually twitching. My heart hurts for Peter and Madi. Even if he had stuck it out with Hannah Ann, Barb would have drove her crazy. She’s the type to wear her wedding dress to her son’s wedding 100%.

As a woman with a crazy MIL, I sympathize so much with Madi. My husband wouldn’t put his foot down with his family for the longest. It took couples counseling before he told them where to shove it. We’ve been much happier. I hope Peter will do the same, even if he doesn’t stay with Madi.

You’re the perfect person to critique it then. The training we’re doing is platform based. Basically holding a “needs” conversation (like at account opening or an account review), finding a need and capitalizing on it. It’s all about selling, the products, what the right product is for the client, don’t act like this, don’t do that, etc. when I first got into banking, it was kind of a shell shock which is why I’m trying to be patient, but I think the facilitator might be over complicating it just a tad and making it even more confusing. You can tell she is losing her patience and getting frustrated. Another thing that I hate is peer to peer critiquing. None of these people are going to be honest with each other and no one is going to get better when you’re conversation is completely awful but your peers are telling you it’s amazing. For example, roleplaying as a banker and another roleplaying as the customer. When I was going through training with my former company, I made a girl cry because I said she should be more inquisitive. If I’m handed a list of things to bring up as a customer and you miss every single one, I don’t know what to tell you. No one wants to hear any type of constructive criticism. It’s not easy, I know, but if they’ve been up here for 2 full weeks and can’t even piece together a framing/positioning statement, I don’t know what to tell them. That part is the easiest part of the entire conversation and they’re not even understanding that. I just don’t get it.

I’m with y’all, I was trying really hard to not cause a scene, but one of the other “students” did it before I could. She definitely had the inferior attitude and you can’t really “challenge” her because she’s the lead. She has a very dominating personality. I did tell her to keep an open mind and watch the doc Hot Coffee though, which went over about as well as you can imagine. I know that I’ll get to “review” the training program, and I intend on unleashing all holy hell on the entire experience. The first handful of classes were very small (6 people) but we still fell behind because there were 2 people who didn’t understand even a little bit of what was going on. You’d think a 6 person class would mean things would go quicker, but nope. Then when I went to my class last week, we had 20+ people. And it has remained 20+ since. (Apparently people hired since September are in a “pilot” program where the training is much more extensive and serious than the training I am being provided. I just missed that cutoff, thank god.) They did an introduction (where everyone said their name, time with the company, location and their favorite hobby /eye roll) which took almost an hour and a half. That was an hour and a half lost right off the bat. i think the whole thing is a freaking joke. I’m thankful to have experience in my field, but for the people coming in blind, they don’t know ANYTHING. They’d learn far more actually being in their locations than they will in the courses. To me, the courses should be providing an outline/idea. They cannot honestly believe these people are going to go back to their branches and jump right in and not miss a beat. The people in the class aren’t even close to understanding what in the hell is going on, and theyve been here for two straight weeks. Never mind that the large class is killing my drive time. Getting out ten minutes late delays me getting home about 30 minutes because traffic gets crappier by the minute. /rant over lol

I need somebody to tell me whether I’m being too sensitive or not. I started my new job back in July and I’m still doing some training for it. These are classroom type trainings that are held off site away from the branches. I’ve had some issues with the facilitator. She’s a nice person, but she can’t control the room. The amount of times we go off topic to talk about things that are not related to banking is constant. I’m traveling 2 and a half hours each way for this crap, and the constant banter about movies, tv shows, books, etc has been ridiculous. I’ve driven up there I wanna say 8 times so far, and I’ve got 3 more to go, but each and every time, something holds us up and it’s mostly the off topic discussions. Sometimes off topic things happen and sometimes it can make it fun, but when you’re waking up at 4:30 to leave the house by 5:30 when the rest of the class doesn’t have to leave their house til 7-8, it can kind of put you in a mood. I can live with the OT garbage, but this woman repeatedly uses us as her soapbox audience. Perfect example was today. I forget what we were talking about, but it lead to the McDonalds coffee situation that happened several years ago. She said “how does someone not understand that coffee is hot? I have no respect for that woman for suing for emotional distress. Being burned gives you emotional distress? Get out of here. No respect.” And she said it with this tone like she was personally effected by the situation. Now, I couldn’t give a shit less about the situation itself, but the way she said “being burned gives you emotional distress?” Like that old woman had really severe burns on her thighs, I’d be surprised if she wasn’t emotionally distraught. For all we know, there could be burn victims in the class, and to basically hear from this woman that being burned isn’t traumatic just makes me shake my head Idk I’m probably being sensitive. It was just amazing to hear somebody who won’t shut up about professionalism in the workplace spew her nonsense. You know damn well she wouldn’t say that to a customer, just because we’re on the same “team” shouldn’t mean anything. She probably meant the lawsuit portion was bullshit, and she’s fully entitled to that opinion, but to say it’s not traumatizing just took it a step too far imo. Like I said, I might be overly sensitive. I’m exhausted and sick of all this driving, and I might just be acting dumb.

I probably should have added that we’ve lived together for the past 3 years, haha. He usually has no problems when it comes to going to different stores and such, it’s only recently that he’s started doing this where we have to have a “reason” or “game plan” for going somewhere. Maybe we’re just not meant to shop together. He’s never reacted like this; he’s usually the one that’s more impulsive and is down for doing things on the fly. When we first started dating, he was all impulse. “Well let’s just go do X” with no rhyme or reason whereas I liked things to be planned out. We’ve been together for 4 years, so maybe we’ve rubbed off on each other and we’re switching roles now. I have no idea.

So my fiancé and I just bought a house. We tried to be prepared before move in, but of course, you notice things you need or want once you have everything else set up. One of those was an ottoman for our couch. We didn’t opt for a love seat or anything like that as the living room is kind of small, and the previous owners seemed to have way too much furniture in there, making it feel even smaller. Eventually we’re gonna get some accent chairs, but we don’t have visitors very often and the dining room is open to the living room, so we could always sit in there if we need extra seating for the time being. On friday, I told my fiancé I was gonna go to the neighboring county to price some ottomans, some other things we need, etc. I invited him to come along if he wished. Our county and the neighboring county is separated by a very long bridge that only has two lanes; one going south and one going north. Neighboring county is super busy (has a naval base [and the majority of people who work on it live in our county because it’s cheaper], every store you could think, etc) always a lot of traffic, and despite being 20 minutes from our house, it could still take you 45 minutes to get over there or come back depending on traffic. He’s well aware that when I go over there, I hit every store I can to prevent going back for a while. So he comes with me. On the way over, he asked what’s the purpose. Uh, an ottoman, pricing stuff for the back yard, couple other minor things, getting out of the house for a bit, etc. We’re over there for an hour and a half, hit three stores and I mentioned I’d like to go to a clothing store so I can check their clearance racks for a new job I’m starting. Well, he’s not interested in going there. He’d rather go home. There’s no need for him to come to the store with me, why can’t I just do that without him, we’re in his car so we’re going home. Well, I had every intention on coming here without you. I extended the invitation, you said yes. I told him that next time he won’t be getting an invite and I’ll just do what I want. He said he wouldn’t have come had he known we wouldn’t just be going to the furniture stores, that’s why he asked the purpose of the trip. He continues on and on about how I’m so insistent on getting everything out of the way in one day when it’s not necessary, every time were in neighboring county I stop everywhere. Because I hate coming over here and I want to get everything out of the way so I don’t have to come back! He knows this! This is the second time he’s done this to me in 2 weeks, and we have to keep going back over there because apparently an hour and a half is our cutoff mark and we have to look for certain items and only those certain items. He’s not even allowed to tell me that it’s about money (or being apprehensive about all these new bills we have) either because on the way home, we stopped at a thrift store where he spent 340 dollars on a coffee table and two end tables. We already have end tables, all we needed was an ottoman. And I’d never pay that much for 3 tables. Not to mention, there are still things that we actually NEED The whole thing is still grating me. Would have been cheaper and less annoying had he just stayed at home. Lesson learned.

After dealing with a psychotic verbally abusive manger for the past 8 months, I’m finally getting out. I tried making it work with the company because I’ve been here for over a year, but after being told if I attempted to transfer to a different branch, she would make sure to give me a bad reference, I found a new job at a different company, with much better hours. Putting my notice in was like a huge weight lifted off of my shoulders. I have 11 more shifts left and then I’m out of here. I intend on writing a very long email to HR letting them know how awful my current manager is, what a stench she is on their company, and how psychologically tormenting the past 9 months have been for my teammates and myself. I hope they take it seriously.

I’m currently watching an episode about a Minnesota couple, and the husband is dead set on not being too far away from a hockey rink and also wants to build one in his backyard. Also, he keeps going on about how important it is to get a newer house because the WiFi will flow better through the house. I’m a hockey nut myself, but this guy is driving me crazy. His wife seems normal, and I have no idea what the hell she sees in him. He’s not quirky, just an annoying butthole of a human being. All I can do is pray for her. No idea how she puts up with him.

I am way behind you guys it seems, lol. Season 9. My mom was obsessed with this show, so when Hulu added it, I had to see what all the fuss was about :) But I just wanted to say LockDown might be the best episode of any hospital/doctor series I have ever seen. Dr. Carter taking complete control of the situation and risking his own health was tremendous tv. And then the follow up, Chaos Theory, was also excellent. Great television. Was thoroughly entertained for two hours.

Guys, I need some help. So, we didn't get our schedule for December until November 30th. Our new manager hates when people are scheduled off on Fridays and Mondays. I look at the schedule and not only am I working 8 straight days (with no OT because different pay periods, woo) but I was given off this Friday. Will be my first day off in 8 days. I asked my supervisor, dude who made the schedule, if the manager knew I was scheduled off that day and if it was going to be an issue. He said no, she has seen the schedule, she is aware. I went ahead and made myself a doctor's appointment for that morning. Well, my manager sent an email out today and has made a mandatory meeting this fucking Friday right at the time of my doctor's appointment. I already know they're not going to be able to take me later, and if I reschedule it'll probably take weeks. Truthfully, it's just a check up, not a big deal, but I don't feel like I should have to come in on my day off because she chose to do this at the last minute; especially after working 8 straight days. Should I I just tell her to kick rocks? Idk if I can get written up for this or not (probably), but this is the second time in 2 months she's asked me to come in for a meeting on my day off. I did it the first time, but I just really don't want to do this again. What's the point of having a schedule if I can't make appointments or plans?

I’m watching In A Bed of Rose’s and my god is Blanche on point in this episode. The way she tells her stories is hysterical. “Totally dead, ma’am! Crunch crunch” and the “and you’re the sister” tale from Dallas, or one of those soaps, they’re all the same.

Lmao the “don’t give her any cake” line kills me every time. The one daughter who was all about Charlie’s finance was such a twat. It became pretty evident when granddaughter Charlie was talking about how rich he was that the only good things her mother told her about him was that he had money. Not caring, loving, fun, just that he was rich. Kinda sickened me tbh.

Dorothy was an idiot when it came to men in general. The amount of times she would blurt out random things to men (like for example Jake: “Your chest!” Or something of that nature). So much second hand embarrassment. She had no idea how to talk to people she was attracted to and would act like a nervous teenager. So embarrassing. But the Gloria/Stan episodes make me twitch. Gloria was an egotistical narcissist and Stan was a scumbag. And Sophia, who showed her ass all throughout the series, really showed her true colors in that one. I wouldn’t blame Dorothy if she had chosen to never talk to anyone of them again The way I interpreted The Judge Doug and why he was on the A list was he would clear Blanche’s traffic tickets. She said she hadn’t paid one in six months. Somethings always in it for her even when it seems like there isn’t lol. Not sure why Dorothy would be into him tho; I wouldn’t want to be with someone who’s screwed my roommate who I consider a family member, you know?

Thank y’all so much for the kind words! I’m not really expecting a retribution from them; I just thought rescue groups were great because you have confidence that they’re giving you a healthy animal. Like I said, I love Pipes and I intend on doing anything and everything for her. It was just so upsetting to hear that she’s probably been in so much pain since I got her and I had no idea. Here’s the sickly girl being a little love bug.

Alright, guys, I'm about to go on the rant of a fucking lifetime. I also need advice. So it's coming up on a month of Piper's adoption. Piper has become much more trusting of us, so I was able to look in her ears. Disgusting. My mom helped me clean them out, but there was still some gunk, I was gonna order some ear meds from the internet until the next day, Friday, I noticed she was walking with a slight limp. She seemed to be able to put some weight on her back leg, but not much. I gave her the weekend just to see if she maybe pulled a muscle, she was still playing like a crazy kitty, getting to her litter box and food bowl, and all that, but yesterday she was still limping. I took her to my vet today to be looked at, and my god, the problems that this cat has. My vet was able to tell me, without even doing x rays and just by feeling her leg, that she has luxating patella. It's basically where the knee cap pops out of place/moves out of its normal location. They did x rays to confirm there was no fractures and everything was okay with her hips and what not. Everything is fine there. Also, Piper has a heart murmur. Piper felt a little bloated to my vet, and wants a stool sample because she thinks she might have parasites. Vet also think she might have another hernia (the rescue group I adopted her from said she had a surgery for a hernia at the same time they did her spay, so around mid September. I'm wondering if it's possible that this surgery was botched because I've heard many horror stories about the vet they took her to to get this done). Piper was running a fever that my vet thinks is from a bite (she could not identify the source of where a bite was, but that's her thought process). Guys, my cats haven't been around each other. Nibbler is indoor/outdoor, spends the majority of her time outside babysitting the neighbor's kids, comes in and sleeps in my mom's office when it's cold or too hot. We keep her separate from the dogs because she's made it clear she hates them. So if Nibbler didn't bite Piper, she must have been bitten before she even came into my care. So Piper has likely had a fever since before she even came into my care, which would explain her sluggish first month with us. Oh, and I was told that Piper's stitches were dissolvable and the ones that weren't dissolvable were removed. Guess who found a stitch in Piper's stomach today? Ear infection was confirmed as well. The vet wanted to gag when she saw what she did in the little ear magnifier thing. I can't BELIEVE those people read me the riot act about everything health related in animals and then give someone a cat in this condition! A possibility of parasites? That's putting the health of our other animals at risk! Never mind the fact she has a fever from a possible bite, and god only knows how long she's had that. A heart murmur? Was never told about it! A fucking STITCH LEFT IN HER BELLY? What the fuck?! A messed up knee?! ALL of these things were probably presented before they allowed her to number 1, let me adopt her, and number 2, allow her to be around other cats when she was with the rescue group! How can they not only put her well being at risk, but the well being of the other animals they have in their rescue as well? Guys, I am so unbelievably pissed. It's been almost thirty days since her adoption and I'm considering contacting the motherfuckers at that shitty rescue and giving them the what's up. Good or bad idea? I love Piper very much and I will go broke doing whatever I need to do to get her healthy. I'm just so completely devastated that she's basically been sick all this time! I thought maybe she was just one of those cats that sleeps a lot and had random bouts of energy, I thought everything was fine :( I feel like such a bad mother, and I don't think my vet was looking at me too highly, either.

Thank you, this is very insightful! I completely understand that there are just so many animals that need rescuing and there's just not many people to do it. I'm not trying to bash them, though I can see why it would come off that way, mostly just ranting, lol. The experience was just frustrating and very different than what I have encountered in the past from other rescue groups that my family has adopted from. I know they love the kitties and just want stable, loving homes for them. Yeah, I'm starting to think she's much older than what I was told originally, lol. They told me 12 weeks 2 weeks ago, and then when I got her paperwork, their vet had her listed at 6 months. Age ain't nothing but a number, this cat has me wrapped around her paw. For no reason, she just came up and head butted me and rubbed her face against mine. I think she likes me, guys :3

You worded this much better than I could, lol. No problems in asking those questions to military people (we have a Naval base in our area, so at least 40% of the people here are transplants), I just feel like they were way too accusatory, you know what I mean? No tact. There are ways to ask the tougher questions without being shitty. Yeah, I think some of the groups definitely look at dogs as legitimate children. It's one thing for an owner to refer to them as their child or furbaby or what have you (I'm definitely mommy to my cats) and they do require somewhat similar care, but I'm not about to stop working to become a stay at home parent to a dog, lol. That's like saying every family should have a stay at home parent. Sometimes, it's not feasible. But I assume that's the "picture perfect" family some of these group want. You'd think if the dog was going to a good home with good people that are going to give it the best care they possibly can that they would be thrilled. One less mouth to feed for a day, then you can start fostering a new dog and find a home for that one! You're saving more lives!V I don't know. Like I said, it should be rewarding to all involved for many different reasons.

These are actual shortages. I don't know how they are still employed here. I just had the worst end to the day. We have another new person (well, he's been around for quite a few weeks now) and he still didn't have a teller drawer. We got him one today, we were trying to get the other teller off so he could get on (which didn't happen til 7pm, a half hour before we close) and a regular customer (who is so difficult) came in and I kind of whispered to my new manager that she is annoying and complicated, so we move her over to me. In the midst of this, this customer mentions how she was given an extra $700.00 the last time she was here and brought it back and gave it back to the teller. This obviously raises alarm bells, new manager starts questioning her, the customer is starting to feel interrogated, that conversation ends, I begin the transaction. In the middle of this long and complicated transaction that she always does when she comes in, another customer walks up, wants something complicated, instead of going to get my supervisor to help the new guy do it, she tells the customer that they're gonna wait for me to be done with the client I am currently with. I ask, "Can supervisor not help?" I meant this as "Is he busy? Can you grab him to help new guy?" This woman has been harping that our customer service survey scores are completely garbage, and wait time is a huge part of it. I was thinking of not only my own customer service scores because if I'm doing the transaction, that's gonna fall on me, but the branch as a whole because I'm sick on being in the red on our scores. All hell breaks loose with this comment. The customer asked for one of our free tote bags, my manager comes up and says "No, you can have a pen and that's it" (that's gonna fall on me in the survey department!) Then she brings me to the back and starts berating me for my "disrespectful comment". I ask her to explain. She says the "Can coworker not help?" line was "disrespectful". I tell her it wasn't meant to be disrespectful, I respect the hell out of you, I'm worried about our scores, I don't want our customers waiting for long periods of time when it can be avoided. She said "But you shouldn't say that in front of a customer! Had you said "Manager, can supervisor come help?" that would have been much much better." I apologized AGAIN for my wording, say again it was never meant to be disrespectful. And then she starts going off that "I took it as you're tired of me and wanted to disrespect me!" I started to get defensive at this point because this woman, who I really do respect, is berating me and going the fuck off. Guys, I did every fucking thing on this woman's list today, and more, with a fucking smile on my face. She worked me like a dog and I was fine with it! I apologize AGAIN and say that there's serious miscommunication here. I was feeling really awful at this point because I get along with this woman swimmingly, and I was feeling hella attacked and like a punching bag because she's quickly realizing that she bit off far far more than she can chew with this branch and the general dysfunction that is here. I'm a sensitive person and when someone I'm good with feels hurt by something I say it makes me feel awful, so me being me, I start to cry, and then she more or less berates me for that. I get it, this branch is a shitshow, we are A LOT busier than the branch you were previously at, you can't hack it here, you have little to no idea how to fix the issues, you have The Dolt being a dolt, you have The Idiot being an idiot, you can't tell your ass from your face right now, but it gives you no reason to treat me like your personal punching bag. I'm doing everything I can for you, for the branch, for my coworkers, we are a team. My priority is making sure this branch runs successfully and with little to no issues, and that I can make it out of here alive because come January, I am getting the fuck out. She left, we left it on decent terms, she admitted she might be overreacting, I admitted my wording was poor, and that was the end of it. My supervisor knew something was wrong with me, and being the good guy that he is, walked me to my car to make sure I didn't feel alone. I told him what happened and he said "That is fucked. Langway, you are not disrespectful. Not in the least. It wasn't a disrespectful comment to make, you were worried about the survey. We are lucky to have you here. You are amazing. I am so sorry your day had to end that way." I don't think he realized how much I needed to hear those words because now I'm tearing up just thinking about them. That's all I want is to feel appreciated. When I started here, I was thrust into a situation where we had 3 employees, 1 manager, 2 branches, one that had to be open everyday and one that had to be open at least for 20 hours per week. I had to learn everything on the fly and there were no ifs, ands, or buts. I've had to deal with some of the most inept people I have ever had to work with, get screamed at by customers for following policy, and various other things in the 9 months I have been here. No one has ever said to me "We are lucky to have you." in any job I've ever worked. Christ, today has been a roller coaster.

Thanks! Yeah, we've always had very pleasurable experiences with rescues. Every animal (minus the turtle and my other cat-- the turtle was a baby and was out walking around in the snow so we brought him in expecting to release him when it got warmer, but he's content so we kept him, and my other cat was feral and arrived at our doorstep one day, lol) These people though. My god, when I went to their little event at my local pet store, they were hella questioning people. Like this lady who was married to a military guy and they were hitting her with non stop questions like well what if he goes overseas? What if you have to move out of the country? What are you gonna do? Are you just gonna give your pets up? It was like an interrogation and completely insane accusations. I get it -- you want the cats to have forever homes, but it's supposed to be a fun experience for everyone. You've met your goal; someone wants to adopt this cat you've worked with and helped, that should make you happy. Plus, she mentioned something to me like "yeah we let this lady adopt 2 of our kittens and she's keeping them in her finished basement and goes down to visit and spend time with them and we want our cats to have free roam of the house" like yeah, I agree, but just because that lady is doing that doesn't mean every person you meet is going to. Plus, who knows, maybe she spends the majority of her time in the basement, I don't know. Or maybe she lives in the basement and is too embarrassed to say that and the people upstairs don't want the cats up there. No different than an apartment. Thank you! We were told 12 weeks, but then her paperwork says 6 months. Probably somewhere in the middle if I had to guess. Piper wasn't even up for adoption. They brought her to get used to the events and she was so badly socialized (she was feral) that she was scratching and biting anyone who tried to do anything with her, and were hella surprised that I wanted her (she didn't act that way with my boyfriend and I, lol. Still hasn't in fact. She'll hiss, but she doesn't go nuts. She scared the fuck out of our 150lbs lab/mastiff when she hissed at him tho lol poor guy, he just wants to be friends! He still can't look in her general direction rofl) I'm all for rescue groups, but I was really rubbed the wrong way when she mentioned that she would keep Piper in a cage and bring her out here and there. I get it -- she's feral and poorly socialized, you're easing her in, but you keep talking about how busy you are with x, y, and z and you have all these other feral foster cats, are you really giving them each the individual attention they deserve to become loving adoptable pets? In just one week, Piper has gone from "oh no a human, I'm gonna pretend I'm paralyzed after I hiss" to actively acknowledging someone is around and is interested in them. I don't know, maybe I'm being judgmental. I know how hard it is to domesticate just one feral, never mind 5 or 6 at a time, but I feel really lucky we've got Piper because our consistent and constant efforts are paying off. She's a wonderful cat.

Same when I worked at Staples. They were never strict about not sharing registers, so if someone pops on your drawer and makes a twenty dollar fuck up, that's on both of the cashiers. I guess the issue was that we haven't had a manager in over a month, and Dolt had a really bad September as far as her drawer goes. However, the other idiot was short or over a ton while we had a manager, so that's on him for not reprimanding that employee. These people don't even bat an eyelash when they have a difference. I was spazzing the other day over 10 cents and spent a half hour looking for it (I did find it eventually though.) The Dolt was short another $600 or so last week, I believe, so that's put her over a thousand difference wise, so she might get automatic probation, or possibly even fired. Our new manager takes no shit and does everything by the book, so good luck to the idiots I work with.

I adopted a kitten recently: We've named her Piper :3 My god, the adoption process for her was crazy. We've been through various rescue groups for all the animals we've ever had and the process is usually not headache inducing, but my god, these people. So condescending and just downright rude about everything. My mom doesn't use the vet I use for my cat, so the rescue lady made this really crappy accusation that we don't vaccinate our dogs. Lady, you didn't ask for the dogs vet, you asked for my cat's vet. I told you in person that we use different vets, and if you needed the other vets phone number and you said you were only worried about my cat. Don't go around making accusations. I talked to her in person once, and then on the phone about a 4 times in a 2 day span in which she just repeated herself constantly. Yeah, she's not allowed outside, yeah, first ingredient in her food should be meat, yeah, yearly vet visits, I got it. I've had cats, dogs, fucking rabbits even, all my life, we are not stupid people. I know they're just making sure we know what we're doing, but I heard you the first 3 times, do we really have to go through it over and over? But Piper is such a sweetie. She was feral til about a month ago, so she's still adapting to house cat life, but is doing amazingly. She'll let you hold her and love on her without a problem; I find her purring all of the time. She doesn't mind being passed around human to human. She's loving all of the attention. She still doesn't "get" playing though, if that makes sense. I mean, she'll move her paw to get the toy, but then just kind of slowly put her paw down on it, lol. Doesn't seem interested in the laser pointer either, unfortunately. Aw well. She is so damn pretty tho.

So we had our branch meeting on Friday. New manager said an "ex employee" (as if we don't know) wrote a very long, lengthy email detailing how the branch is a cesspool of drama/gossip. Tbh I don't think our branch has any more drama or gossip than any other workplace (as seen just in this thread, lol) but whatever. Apparently so many shots were fired and this email was so damning that our manager had second thoughts about running our branch, but decided she would take it in stride. She said "no more drama, gossip, whatever". She also said that this ex employee "feared for her livelihood and losing her job" ROFL. Well, yeah, you should be when you don't do anything and sit at your desk doing your damn school work all day and do no work. She also mentioned "always having to look over her shoulder" I guess she the gist was that she was feeling harassed? She didn't go into actual specifics about what the email entailed though, which was kind of a bummer. I mean, if you're gonna come in and already have an opinion of us, shouldn't we at least get a chance to defend ourselves if anything specific was mentioned? She kept saying "I don't know if it's true" but you said specifically that you didn't think you could come to our branch, so clearly you believe the email, but whatever. Bygones. She also said this ex employee put in her two weeks notice, she usually doesn't ask about why someone is quitting, but was told by her boss to figure it out (if none of you have ever cared previously, why now?), and she was told by ex employee that it was a personal thing, manager asked what could she do to get her to stay, ex employee said change her hours, so that's what they did. We were not given a reason why they decided to do this for her (I guess technically we are not really owed an explanation, so I understand). Then she quit officially, and then manager got that email and was gobsmacked. Then today I found out from our supervisor (who was also CC'd on that email) that the email wasn't bazooka type shots, just pistol ones, and it was more or less all targeted towards The Dolt that I had posted about before (the one with the money orders and all that shit). No names were mentioned but "it was obviously about The Dolt" The Dolt and ex employee have beef because The Dolt is a dolt, number 1, and number 2, is constantly sticking her nose where it doesn't belong, and number 3, has no fucking filter and just says whatever springs to mind. The Dolt took it to the higher ups a few weeks ago that ex employee was constantly late and taking 2 hour lunch breaks and nothing was being done about it. I can understand that, it frustrated the hell out of me too, but I took it to my supervisor and I let it go because I did my part. I'm not gonna harp on it; I'm going to focus on myself (I say this while reporting drama to the internet rofl I'm sorry, I just have to get this out; I try not to talk about work with anybody because this is a small town and I ain't playing he said/she said games) The Dolt called the higher ups about the schedule (the whole 9-5:30 thing), I assume on Monday morning when the new schedule came out, citing unfairness and bending over backwards for someone who doesn't do anything except sit on her butt and collect a paycheck (apparently this is verbatim, but idk). Somehow, ex employee caught wind of this (I'm assuming my supervisor was the leak) and decided just to quit that day, and send an email where she said, verbatim, "There are certain individuals that work here that think I'm receiving a better treatment because of everything you guys did for me" Yeah, well, no shit? You kinda just said it yourself. Lol, you're working non-traditional and you don't have to stay later than 5:30, while the rest of us are staying til 8pm every night, you get bonus days off that the rest of us don't get. If it were reversed, she would be pissed. But tbh I can leave this branch in January and with the career path I'm going, I kinda have to to beef up my resume (new manager seems to really like me, so I'm hoping I can get her to approve me for a transfer sooner rather than later). My supervisor gave me the gist and wouldn't let me see the email, the bastard, but said it was clearly aimed and fired at The Dolt and as far as he knew, ex employee never had an issue with me. I liked her as a person, but my god, was she a pain to work with. Sucks we had to have an entire meeting about this when no names were mentioned, no specifics were gone over, and it's all her experience which was a tumultuous one in the few months she was here. I feel badly that she felt harassed by The Dolt. Since we're speaking of The Dolt, since she got here she alone is a whopping -$800.00 on teller differences. Apparently she's getting a write up for that. Finally. Same with the other idiot who is -$900.00 since he got here. Idiots. All of them.

I completely agree. In this case, though, it screwed over the chick who started the same day she did because she wasn't offered to use her days early, or get extra days, for that matter. When she first started , she told me she had a vacation planned but was too afraid to say anything in the interview/when she was hired because she was afraid she wouldn't get the job. She didn't tell them until a month before her vacation. That's a good theory, but in my first month there, we lost 3 people in 3 consecutive weeks and they didn't offer them anything to stay. One was an absolutely incredible employee who I still believe they should have at least offered more money to. We had a girl leave in late July and she wasn't offered anything either. They have no problems letting the door hit people on the way out, even in dire circumstances where we're left with 2 employees, so I don't know why they'd all of a sudden be bending over backwards to keep her here when her numbers were awful and she provided nothing to the team. Her being gone is the same with her being here, basically.