In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Got a good dose of fog for this night. Can't see across the river.
Edit: Just looked out and at 11:20pm I can see across the river some again. Fog's clearing.
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Aaah, the joys of laundry day.
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Quote:Seems kind of weird. How old is the baby? Maybe they don't want to expose it to germs?
Originally posted by Brenda:
My landlady and her family don't seem to want to answer the door when they have the baby in their arms. Oh dear. What they think someone is going to snatch the kid?
Quote:We had several very long-term child-minders and I mostly stayed out of their business. What they ate and what they wore was no business of mine. The only time I got involved was when they asked me to, or when their personal life grossly interfered with their work. Heck, we even put up one of our nannies and her two kids for a few months when her druggie husband made off with the rent money and they wound up getting evicted. It's kind of hard not to comment, I could have given her an earful about the mistakes I thought she was making with her life but ... not my business.
My boss and her husband have comments about me lately. She doesn't like the way I dress, i.e. wearing jeans. He doesn't seem to like what I eat when I am there late on Thursday and I bring my own food. They are mostly vegetarian ...
I DID convince one nanny to set aside $5 every paycheck into a rainy-day fund ... even paid her interest. It was so painless that she even forgot it was there, until one day she needed to buy a car and discovered that she had $1000 saved up. Wasn't THAT a happy day for her!
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Quote:Hey! C'mon over here, I have TONS to do!
Told my brotha's at work that my fat pasty ass needs some sunlight and some yard work. Can't come soon enough.
How was the return back to work, SIX? Uneventful? Did management charge you with PTO, change your schedule ... or was the place even open???
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Quote:Seems kind of weird. How old is the baby? Maybe they don't want to expose it to germs?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
My landlady and her family don't seem to want to answer the door when they have the baby in their arms. Oh dear. What they think someone is going to snatch the kid?
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Over six months. I'm not even in the kid's face when I am talking to them. My feeling and it is just a feeling is the baby is an excuse now not to answer the door. They shout through the door to me when I knock then I shout back, then they answer the door.Quote:We had several very long-term child-minders and I mostly stayed out of their business. What they ate and what they wore was no business of mine. The only time I got involved was when they asked me to, or when their personal life grossly interfered with their work. Heck, we even put up one of our nannies and her two kids for a few months when her druggie husband made off with the rent money and they wound up getting evicted. It's kind of hard not to comment, I could have given her an earful about the mistakes I thought she was making with her life but ... not my business.
My boss and her husband have comments about me lately. She doesn't like the way I dress, i.e. wearing jeans. He doesn't seem to like what I eat when I am there late on Thursday and I bring my own food. They are mostly vegetarian ...
I DID convince one nanny to set aside $5 every paycheck into a rainy-day fund ... even paid her interest. It was so painless that she even forgot it was there, until one day she needed to buy a car and discovered that she had $1000 saved up. Wasn't THAT a happy day for her!
Helping someone is one thing and that was great you could do that for your nanny.
But with these people this is just criticism for the heck of it. To them I do everything in my personal life wrong.
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Hey! C'mon over here, I have TONS to do!
Told my brotha's at work that my fat pasty ass needs some sunlight and some yard work. Can't come soon enough.
How was the return back to work, SIX? Uneventful? Did management charge you with PTO, change your schedule ... or was the place even open???
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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Everybody was fine. :)
I actually called in about a half hour after I said I might to check in on them. Only 3 people showed up that night and they were all sent home about an hour before I called.
No absences given out to anybody. :)
My team lead was just promoted to a manager too. It's a very rare event that the same person would be allowed to manage in the store they worked in, but because my old manager just got fired and they're scrambling, it looks like she's going to get the job. Even more unbelievable is that she won't have to go to another store for her manager training. She's just going to have to go to days for 2 or 3 months before she comes back as manager.
It's hard to believe that it was just 2 or 3 months ago that she was asking me what I thought she should do when she got the offer for lead.
She told me that I could use PTO or work extra days. My choice. :)
Looks like the other girl from days is going to stay on as night shift team lead. There's word that they're thinking about 2 leads on nights from now on too (unfortunately, I think this might be because they're paying her the bare minimum for the management job as opposed to previous managers who were't rookies).
Not sure if I'd want it, but it would be nice to be asked. Either way, I get along great with our new manager and team lead and they're always happy to see me come in that door. As long as they don't go back on their decision to get rid of the night shift, I should have a pretty great time at work for the foreseeable future. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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It turns out that I'm on the short list of those being considered for the 2nd team lead. At least among the night crew, it's only between me and the guy who just stepped down from it a few months back. He's really not interested in it, and is only going to take it if they offer him 3 bucks more than the job pays this time around. He told me he's already told his wife he's not going to take it again though. She was the one who convinced him to step down since they never got to see each other.
It might be a tough sell for me though, since I can't drive the forklift. Far too much pain. I still think I probably don't want the job, but I'm still trying to sell it to them as it's the only way they're going to get me in there helping them out full time. The chances that I'd ever have to work a night where my manager, the 1st team lead and both forklift drivers in receiving all didn't show up on the exact same night is about 1 in a million, so I really don't need to be able to drive one. I could pull just about anything from one side of the store to the other, I just can't put it up in the steel or take it down.
I'd really miss my long vacations every other week though. The only way I'd take this is if I was largely able to do the same job I always do, get my workout, and maybe be able to have some input on how to streamline some practices and have some minor authority on the nights that I was covering for one or both of the others.
I'd just let everybody know that I'm not their boss, and I'm here to support our manager. I'm just going to keep lifting all of the heavy stuff so they don't have to. We're all adults. Just do your job and keep your area neat. Don't give anybody higher up a reason to get pissy with me and we're golden. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Alright Jack. That is fantastic. :) Hope you get the position.
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Hope there is enough hot water around here for me to be able to wash my hair properly. Sometimes I can't get all the soap out.
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