Finally Friday!

charlotte989875 · August 2024

Well I got a job offer. It’s decent, the money is fine, I just have to decide if it’s the right move. There are no big red flags and the people seem great- the work just isn’t that exciting. Or at least won’t be for a year or two. So I’m taking the weekend to decide.

VarunaTT · August 2024

I know this sounds dumb AF, but I think I'm struggling with dealing with no stress. I'm just so used to having a stressful job that my nervous system is freaking out at the new normal. It's a good problem to have, but it's annoying me.

No big plans for the weekend. Trying to see Deadpool on Sunday again. Also, it's time to play "clean out the kitchen" again. I saw someone say they used ChatGP to type in what they had at home and it came up with receipes using those items, so I'm going to try that.

MyNameIsNot · August 2024

Congrats, @charlotte989875! Even if you decide not to take it, it's nice to be wanted.

I don't really know what this weekend is going to bring; it kind of depends on the weather. I'm hoping we can go downtown and walk the belt line tomorrow morning if the rain holds off. Maybe we'll hang around at the brewery or something tomorrow afternoon if it's stormy. Sunday will be an early gym class and then maybe a hike with a friend if it's not too gross out. I kind of want to take the paddle boards out Sunday, but the river is always gross right after a storm, especially when it hasn't rained in weeks.

Casadena · August 2024

@VarunaTT that's not dumb at all! It's such a strange feeling to be content, even-keeled, not in fight-or-flight constantly when that's what you're used to!

@charlotte989875 congrats on the offer and good luck deciding!

I'm golfing with some colleagues this afternoon and am really looking forward to it! IL's are babysitting tomorrow night while H and I have dinner with friends, and G has a playdate Sunday afternoon with his 2 best buddies from school. Should be a fun (very social!) weekend.

levioosa · August 2024

All I desperately want in life is a boring job where I show up, do my bit, and then leave to immediately let all work thoughts leave my body the second my shift is done. I definitely chose the wrong career for that to be a top desire. lol. I totally understand people who like something that's more fast paced or needs constant changes, but I am exhausted. I wish data entry paid more because the happiest I ever was at a job was my last job where I did a mix of that with background management (I didn't have to do any of the actual disciplining with employees), scheduling, SOP creation and telephone triaging. Plus my manager was amazing. If I had made a little more and it had been closer, I probably would have never left.

Choosing change and a new opportunity is hard. Hugs for everyone trying to weigh out their pros and cons for new job opportunities.

VarunaTT · August 2024

@levioosa IDK if you'd be interested, but you'd be highly qualified to be a nurse paralegal. Most of the time, all they do is summarize medical records for the other paralegals and look for failure in standard of care for an analysis for the attorneys (for plaintiffs, I have no idea what they do for defense). They were always paid very well. Depending on the firm, you might not even have a caseload and have to act as a paralegal, just the nurse part. It does get boring though.

VarunaTT · August 2024

Also, tomorrow is Harley Quinn Hamilton's Gotcha Day. This morning I made coffee and put on my Mirrorball album, and sang and danced with her to Ice Cream. She tolerated it, as she does much of my shennanigans. Probably one of the best decisions I've made for myself in years was getting this little furball of joy, irritation, love, and purrs.

ETA: I'm googling cat cakes.

levioosa · August 2024

VarunaTT said:

@levioosa IDK if you'd be interested, but you'd be highly qualified to be a nurse paralegal. Most of the time, all they do is summarize medical records for the other paralegals and look for failure in standard of care for an analysis for the attorneys (for plaintiffs, I have no idea what they do for defense). They were always paid very well. Depending on the firm, you might not even have a caseload and have to act as a paralegal, just the nurse part. It does get boring though.

Thanks for the suggestion. For a brief moment I thought about going back to school for a law degree to hit healthcare from that angle, but law school seemed wayyyy too daunting. I'm barely committed to getting a PhD (eventually) and I know law school is a whole beast unto itself. That seems much more palatable and attainable.

banana468 · August 2024

I used "suck it" in a work call today so there's that.

mrsconn23 · August 2024

I've worked way too hard on Friday morning when my boss and director are out. I'm also so annoyed and about to take up some causes that may have me dying on some hills, but we just do stupid, stupid things sometimes. I'd like someone to explain to me in crayon, as if I'm five, why I'm incorrect because what I understand and what I'm being told are two very different things.

I'm leaving in a few to meet a friend for lunch. So at least there's that.

I'm hoping to relax some this weekend. I'm also want to squeeze in a pedicure.

Good luck in your decision-making @charlotte989875!!

Happy Harley day @VarunaTT

I've said way worse on calls @banana468. LOL

Have a great weekend everyone!

banana468 · August 2024

@mrsconn23 I'm salty about a situation that I'm in and how it was handled. I am dealing with a sales manager who I've known for over 20 years who dumped the resolution to a situation in my lap the way a daft husband just tells the wife to prepare for a crowd for dinner on no notice with little understanding of what was involved. I'm sure my emails were terse but I didn't care. We're in a situation right now with some long days that were due to other issues so this was asking me to take on extra bandwidth that no one has and clearly wasn't communicated well with our customer.

We're getting through it but I'm displeased.

short+sassy · August 2024

@charlotte989875, good luck with your decision!

@levioosa, I hear you! My job has varying levels of stress. But it's set hours and I don't do any work at home...unless it's a WFH day, of course! Lol. There's a good bit of higher level stuff I need to do. But also spend at least half my time doing data entry in Excel. There are things I don't like. But overall, I like the work well enough and I'm good at it. So I've stayed, even though I know I could have increased my salary if I had job-hopped more.

I paid my Amex card off! For the last few years, I've had the balance on a special "pay it" plan they offer. Which essentially makes large purchases I choose work more like a small/medium term loan. They charge a monthly "fee", instead of interest. But the monthly fee worked out to be an 8-9% interest rate (before rates went up) over the life of the term.

Oh, but wait. You can make that "interest rate" even better if you pay the transaction off early. They don't charge the monthly fees in advance and they remain the same for the life of the term. As soon as that transaction is paid off, the monthly fee stops.

I still had about 8 months left on my purchases under this offer. But since I've paid about 80% of the original debt off, my monthly fee was now about 10% of the total balance left. Heck no! Now it's a much better financial choice to pay it off. It also opens up my budget because I no longer have to account for that large minimum payment. Though of course that is in exchange for a chunk out of my checking account, lol.

So freeing to get a loan-ish debt paid off!

Casadena · August 2024

@levioosa you could eventually look into working for insurance companies also (i know, I know, it's like working for the devil a little bit) but health insurers are always looking for case managers and analysts specifically with nursing backgrounds/advanced degrees. Very corporate, but easily left behind at the end of the day.

ILoveBeachMusic · August 2024

Congratulations @charlotte989875. It great to have options and to be wanted. Happy Gotcha Day to Harley @VarunaTT.

The fund raiser was ok last night. It needs to be amped up a bit. I'm still contemplating resigning from the board. I need to make up my mind this weekend because I know I'm going to get the re-up call next week. I want to do something that has me actually doing something other than writing a check or asking others for money. I don't mind having a financial obligation to an organization but I also want to do something.

Part of my book club went on a walk this morning. It was really nice. We walked in an area I had biked before but had never walked. We are going to try to do it at least once a week weather permitting. We are trying to surround our friend who lost her son with support. Indy has really done a great job with bike/walking/green space so we have lots of choices.

DS2 is coming home this evening. We are going out for Mexican. Tomorrow we are going to see Deadpool and Wolverine. He also has a birthday party for a friend (the real reason he is coming home). I'm so glad he lives close enough that he can come home for a weekend.

short+sassy · August 2024

banana468 said:

@mrsconn23 I'm salty about a situation that I'm in and how it was handled. I am dealing with a sales manager who I've known for over 20 years who dumped the resolution to a situation in my lap the way a daft husband just tells the wife to prepare for a crowd for dinner on no notice with little understanding of what was involved. I'm sure my emails were terse but I didn't care. We're in a situation right now with some long days that were due to other issues so this was asking me to take on extra bandwidth that no one has and clearly wasn't communicated well with our customer.

We're getting through it but I'm displeased.

Office gossip! The client manager I support is usually a pleasant, mild-mannered guy. He has an enormous amount of work on his plate and works a lot of hours, but despite that is usually easy going.

We were in a big Teams meeting a couple weeks ago. About 20 people on the call. There was a discussion about how to handle a problem. He wasn't agreeing with two other people. To be fair, the issue is more under his purview. He testily said something like, "Fine! If you don't want to listen to the person (him) who already has experience with this, then do what you want. I'm done!" And hung up on everybody! I was shocked. It was so out of character for him.

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Earlier this week, I spent about an hour very carefully wording and rewording a reply e-mail because I was SO ANGRY. The e-mail was sent by a newer person who is taking over some of the work the guy above is doing. He is putting together an official documents, processes, and procedures for our department.

I wasn't mad at him. This poor guy (M) had asked me to do what should have been an uneventful task, but he had no idea the hornet's nest it opened. He had asked me to look over the attachments related to my portion. He rightfully assumed I had created the documents, because he knows I am the one who wrote the instructional manual. I assumed the same thing. Until I opened the attachments.

Some MF'er (I don't know who), who has never prepared a steel package in their life, had RE-WRITTEN some of MY instructions on how to prepare one. Including a portion that had been taken out and made into a second document and was the other attachment.

M replied back quickly and asked if we could schedule a Teams call. I was not surprised, lol. He said I should change the documents to whatever I think is best. I especially appreciated him acknowledging why I was upset and that it didn't make sense to him either that my instructions were changed, since I am the only expert on this process.

I suspect M knows who wrote it because he knows who sent him those attachments. But he didn't share that with me, which is probably just as well, lmao. I have my suspicions. Weirdly enough, the person I suspect sent me a Teams message two days later asking if we could talk for a few (I don't usually work with him). I was thinking, "Oh shit. Was it him and now he wants to talk to me about the kerfluffle and the instruction differences?" But no, it was on a totally different subject. Phew!

short+sassy · August 2024

One more work rant, lol.

As previously mentioned, I've been training a new person which I'm annoyed about anyway because it's not really necessary. At first, things were going fairly well. But he doesn't take notes and is repeatedly making the same mistakes. It's driving me up the wall to have to repeat things over and over again.

He's also not that computer savvy, so it takes him a long time to do simple things like cutting and pasting a document name. Or if there is a computer glitch, how to do something a slightly different way. It doesn't help that the database I use is very touchy and things need to be done a very particular way. Which I have told him ad nauseum, but see first paragraph.

He's already made two big mistakes today and that was before lunch because he doesn't listen and it's exhausting. Which is really what prompted this post because the aggravation is fresh.

To give a little credit, he does the Excel work well which is the bulk of time I spend on things. It's rarely perfect, but then I can spend 10-15 minutes double-checking it and fixing the mistakes. Instead of taking 1-2 hours to do it myself. In my perfect world, that is all he would do and it would be really helpful! But they want me to teach him everything I do. To be blunt, I don't think he's capable of that even with all the training in the world. He doesn't have the right skill set for some of those things.

levioosa · August 2024

We're all in it with work this morning. We had a spicy group meeting where someone cried and I told admin they were destroying morale and asking for things that are impossible to achieve, so there's that. lol.

MyNameIsNot · August 2024

@short+sassy - Training is one of my favorite parts of being remote. When I had to train my backfill a couple of years ago, we did everything over Teams and I recorded all of it. Every time she'd come back and ask me something that I knew we'd already been over, I'd ask her which recordings she'd searched for it. It was awesome - she quit asking me to repeat things pretty quickly.

VarunaTT · August 2024

@MyNameIsNot That is one thing I really loved about my remote training is that (even though I do take notes) I could go back and check various recordings and not have to bother anyone. It paid off as well, b/c my supervisor commented that I had good question that she knew weren't in the training. But really, it just meant talking to other people less.

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