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  1. I can’t wait for this. Just have to subscribe to Max once it comes out.
  2. I talked to the hotel about the incidentals hold. They said it takes 2-5 business days for them to release it. I hope for my sake it’s closer to two than five and I don’t have any emergencies before my next payday on Friday. Until then I am out of luck unfortunately and my next paycheck will immediately go towards utility bills and payment for my car inspection. This has been so disheartening. Like I know my company doesn’t want to be on the hook if someone who works for us smokes in the room or does major damage otherwise, but trust me there was barely anything in my room I could take except a water bottle or two. Google taught me a lot about how pretty much all hotels do this now so I guess if I am still here next year and take this trip again I will make sure I have a credit card cleared as much as possible.
  3. I feel like the least they could have done was say how much the hotel holds for incidentals. They made it sound like this easy breezy thing everyone knows about but I don’t travel a lot even for leisure so it’s not like I know this stuff inside and out. My mom explained it to me and said how this is normal practice these days and the hold should go away within a day or two. But of course that’s if my bank decides to let go of it that easy once the hotel removes the charge. I don’t blame my company for the fact that I screwed up my credit for a variety of reasons and so not having access to cards is really my fault. That’s fine. I am owning my mistake there. It’s just a matter of the position this put me in until payday. I have an invoice for some freelance work out too (done for a separate company of course) but that invoice is still being processed and the company has until May to pay me for it. So there is no chance I see that money tomorrow or Wednesday to put me at ease either.
  4. I am having such a stressful night. I am away for a work event tomorrow and live a few hours away from the event site so I requested a hotel room for tonight. We were told we would have to present a credit card for incidentals but the amount of the hold was not specified. I am trying to rebuild my credit so I don’t have a lot of credit available and am struggling to get bills paid down, find ways to earn extra money, etc. I was able to use my debit but come to find out the hold was over $200 and it has drained my checking account to under $50. I had to use what little I had on my credit card to buy dinner and a gas card so I could buy gas on the way home tomorrow. Now I am scared that the hold won’t drop off my bank in the next day or two and I don’t get paid until Friday so this will no doubt affect payments I had outstanding. I mean it’s not as if I can return birthday gifts I bought and already gave because this hold from the hotel may make my account negative. I am trying to get my phone bill payment reversed right now so I don’t run my account dry until this hold is removed. I really wish my company would have said how much the hold was going to be so I could have come up with the payment for my credit card and had room. Now I will be feeling stressed the day of the event tomorrow and won’t be focused at all. And it’s pretty much a nonstop event where I have to spend time with my team even for lunch and on breaks so I may not have time to call my bank and explain the situation if my account runs into the negative. I just have to hope the hold comes off ASAP after I check out tomorrow morning. I can’t say enough how stressful and potentially embarrassing this is for me. If I am still with this company next year and still having financial issues or can’t get enough credit freed up, I will probably have to just decline the conference even though attendance is “strongly encouraged.” I can’t be in this situation again.
  5. I’m at a family gathering today and it’s OK so far. My cousin and his wife brought their new baby (who is precious) and my niece is here too. I will just never like these big 20-person gatherings so I do the best I can. I have no choice but to go since it seems like the whole family shows up for Palm Sunday dinner. My grandmother does kind of irritate me, which is going to send me bad karma for life because she is in her early 90s so I have to be nice to her. But she keeps nagging me about “why don’t you have anything in your China cabinet?” (It’s not really my cabinet as it was there when I moved in.) and asking what else I need in my house. I’ve been on my own for nearly four years, I have no desire to have fine China even for decoration (and I don’t want to entertain random family members either) and I just wish I could say “hey Grandma, thank you but I really like to make my own decorating choices/don’t want China/etc.” I’m in my late 30s so it’s tiring to have interference of why I don’t do this or that with my house or to have an older relative play with my hair. Easter in my family is more about going to Mass and other Holy Week Masses/Good Friday service. My siblings don’t come back since they are here for Palm Sunday so my mom and stepdad and I go to a brunch buffet after we go to our respective churches for Mass. Then after brunch we just relax at home. It’s how I wish Christmas could be, but I think at this point I’d have to relocate from my family to make that tradition happen for myself. I imagine my family won’t change until some of the older people are gone, and maybe not even then. (I am starting to ponder relocating/moving somewhere else but that’s not going to happen really soon; I’m looking at it as more of a long-term idea. Maybe in the next 2-3 years.)
  6. Two of my worst bosses ever were women. One was the wife of the owner of a law firm I worked for (small firm) and it seemed like after a while she started to prefer the firm’s intern who was related to the old receptionist and was harsher on my work. Although I had a good female boss in my old job too. My supervisor now is a male, and he’s great. For a call center supervisor he is pretty hands off and laid back if you’re doing a good job and he doesn’t have to discuss a lot of issues with you. I have an interview on Wednesday at the college that rejected me for a job several months ago, but this time, the interview is in a different department (marketing and communications). One of the people on the hiring committee posted the role on LinkedIn and I reached out to her and we had a brief chat about the job but I didn’t expect to get picked for an interview. So at least I won’t be going in as a total stranger to her. I’m feeling a bit bummed because my old seasonal job did not hire me back. I don’t know why. I’m wondering if they either thought I was too far away from them (a 45 minute drive) or misunderstood my availability. It’s with a baseball team and I said I am free on weekends and holidays the majority of the time, although one interviewer did seem to think I said I wasn’t available on weekends ever and I had to clarify that at the job fair. My old boss (who is no longer with the team, unfortunately) seemed to like me. There has been a lot of turnover since I worked there so I only know maybe less than five people in the front office now. I am not going to ask for feedback or anything though. It’s a $10 an hour seasonal job where the “interviews” are five minutes long. I’ll save my feedback requests for the career-level jobs and just find a different way to make extra money. I’ve lost interest in local sports anyway even as a hobby/fan because of the costs and what you get for the experience anymore.
  7. So I ended up going on Reddit with two weeks left of Lent. But I did not sign into my account or post and only viewed threads in the browser version. Not bad for breaking my promise although wish I had made it all the way. I did learn with regards to fandom that it is ultimately best to just talk to people who share my opinions or are at least more open minded or not as emotionally attached to a show or a character. I will try not to let it bother me as much that I don’t feel welcome in larger groups, although it probably will always sting a little. But then again, I’ve accepted some people just want echo chambers, not discussion. And I’m not really all that eager to post in my subs at the moment anyway. When I do log back into my account, I’ll get back in touch with some old fandom friends who I know like me and clean out my subs a little. In the meantime, the TPS light came on in my car and I tried to fill my tires up in the dark and the cold to not much avail, as the light is still on. I am going to run it over to a gas station tomorrow that also has a garage to have them put air in it. I think I have successfully filled my own tires one time and have struggled every other time since. So I end up just going to the pros. Seriously. Seeing the TPS light always gives me anxiety until I can get my tires filled properly.
  8. I’m with you. It seemed out of character for her to marry someone on a whim in Vegas, much less someone like Chuck who she barely knew. And then she has a child with him with a ridiculous name. I’m still not over them naming him Cosmo! (Although I know this was to write in Sherry Stringfield’s real life pregnancy.) Not to worry, Chuck eventually moved to New York and changed his name to Declan to become a lieutenant in the NYPD and bust illegal gambling and sex trafficking rings, and he met up with Cynthia while he was there. (If you know, you know…)
  9. Well. I did go on the interview. I feel like based on some of the questions they were asking and the scope of the role (I would be their first ever trainer and their current training is a bit of a hodgepodge so they asked me for a 30/60/90 plan, so I did my best to answer the question but I feel like my response was not that impressive) that I might be underqualified. I mostly only have experience from a certificate program I did in 2022 (which I realize isn’t real experience although it did teach me training principles and how to design and evaluate training) and at my current job running some trainings. I have experience editing training content but wasn’t learner-facing in that position. They still have some interviews to do this week so I will know next week if I made the next round. If I don’t, I won’t be too disappointed since it seems like they want someone more experienced. At the same time, who knows? Maybe I will have impressed them since I don’t know what the rest of the candidate pool looks like. My plan remains the same: I still want out of the call center but will only leave for the right opportunity. As my current company is a good place to work for and I would be happy to stay if I could get out of customer service, I am still keeping my eye open for eventual options there but also still searching externally.
  10. Stay tuned for the episode where he gets chased by an army tank! Because this show hadn’t gone downhill enough already.
  11. I just watched the episode where Abby goes to Richard to get a loan to go back to medical school and she recoils when she hears a baby crying and looks annoyed that Richard has a wife and child. (How many signs can I count that Abby herself should have never had a baby? Let’s discuss when I get to S12!) So anyway, at the point of Freefall, she is a med student in the ER again, and earlier in the episode she was questioning Coburn’s approach to treatment of an HIV-positive woman who I believe either was pregnant or wanted to be. Because it’s a great idea for a med student to question an OB attending who’s also the head of the department. There’s also the point where Morris just stands there during a mass casualty event and doesn’t do squat to help out. And no one knowing or caring where Romano is.
  12. Yes. I think I will still go. Sometimes I’m just not sure how much stock to put in Glassdoor reviews. I feel like some reviews could be applied to any company on the planet, plus you have to wonder which ones are fake/HR manufactured or real. I think the best thing to do is keep my ears open for anything that seems like a red flag. I had an interview for a paralegal job in January and got ghosted, but then I know they said in the interview that even a paralegal could be expected to talk to clients after hours…and looking back I was kind of relieved I didn’t get that job if clients could call me at night when I wasn’t even the lawyer. I looked up the person who’s interviewing me tomorrow and she’s been with the company for three years, so clearly not everyone thinks it’s the worst job in the world.
  13. What would you do if you were interviewing with a company and saw they had bad Glassdoor ratings? I have a second round job interview tomorrow for a job that is more in line with my career goals. (So, not a call center rep. It is a customer service trainer, so much closer to my goal to work in learning and development or HR.) I was excited about the job when I applied for it and after the phone screen, but today I went to Glassdoor to get the job description (since it was taken down from the company website but I Googled the company name and the name of the position to find it) and saw the company has a 2.7 rating. Out of 230 ratings. ☹️ Since I was excited about the job I was really bummed to see that this is apparently a terrible place to work and you should run away and management has no idea what they’re doing, plus there have been layoffs. If you saw this, would you still want to go to the interview? I thought about cancelling when I saw the rating but realize that might be a bit reactionary and I should probably look at the reviews to see what teams the employees were on, what they were complaining about, etc. and listen for red flags in the interview. I really don’t know if I actually want to cancel since the job sounds like a potentially good fit and would get me out of the call center but I also am hesitant knowing their reviews are overall so bad and part of me thinks that many unhappy people can’t be wrong. (Although my current employer, for what it’s worth, has a 3.3 rating on Glassdoor so it’s not as if we have all glowing reviews from happy employees either.) It’s a disappointment so I’m not really sure what the best outcome/decision would be.
  14. I have been slowing down in my watch a bIt and am not as into the show as I was a year or two ago, but I’m picking up some S10 episodes. And I forgot about how it seemed like the entire hospital read the Dear Abby letter. It was a pretty hilarious subplot, and we got another great Romano quote: Neela: “I imagine it’s private.” Romano: “You’re probably right. What’s it say?” I feel like I want to hate watch Freefall in a few episodes. Just to mark the time this show jumped the shark and went down in literal flames. I liked the hockey game plot only because S14 was otherwise miserable and depressing and it brought some much-needed levity and something else to focus on besides trauma porn.
  15. I started Brothers and Sisters a few weeks ago, largely to see Sally Field as a TV lead. I wouldn’t say it’s my top favorite (right now my new obsession since losing some interest in ER is 9-1-1), but I really do enjoy the family dynamics and hearing about the father’s skeletons and misdeeds. I also want to see Roseanne from start to finish now that it’s on Peacock but I watch it on TVLand sometimes. My favorite episode is the one where she goes to Bingo because I too have played Bingo in Catholic churches and that episode is one of the most realistic things I’ve seen on comedy TV. 😂
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