I hate anti vaxxers.

I got called into work and ended up working 10:30 to 9:10 today. Almost a double.

I worked with the New Girl, and that caused problems. She wasnt' at a register near me, but near this other guy J who started when I did. She was using him for help. I tried to help her but she didn't want to hear it.

Actually that's not true, she wanted no help, until she needed help then she wanted me (or J) to leave our customers and help her ASAP.

She was making the same mistakes over and over. Yesterday I tried to show her how to do something and she argued with me that it wasnt' possible without a manager's approval. It was and I know it was, and after arguing she finally let me show her.

Today she was just --shooing me away (literally) from the counter, demanding help and then getting pissy when I tried to stick around and make sure that 1) she didn't need any more assistance and 2) follow up to make sure she understand the procedure.

The straw that broke the camel's back was when I was trying to tell her something that would MAKE HER LIFE EASIER and she turned away from me.

I was bitchy. Then I calmed down and realized I over reacted and I tried to pull her aside to apologize and ask how she would like to go forward with learning and that was like pulling teeth. Then she said "back off and stay out of my way or maybe just back off.

And I just had it, I was tired and hungry and pissy and I went to my supervisor and had my 2nd conversation about how I can't train New Girl because of personality conflicts. I explained that she wants help when she makes a mistake but doesn't ask questions or want follow up feedback or advice. And she's making the same mistakes.

Then my supervisor talked to NG, and I have no idea how that went. But J came up and talked to me and asked what was going on, I told him I just told Jill that I shouldn't give her any direction that should come from someone else. And he said she wasn't listening to him either and making the same mistakes and then acting put out when he didn't drop everything to help her.

Then I went to lunch and worked the rest of my shift at the other position I do.

Sorry this was so long I had to vent. It's frustrating because I know I've made mistakes and I want to make it right but the New Girl doesn't seem to acknowledge that she's made mistakes. She just says, "yeah yeah I know" if you ask her if she understands something. The other day when I asked her if she knew the difference between the rewards card and the credit card she said that the credit card offered 1 YEAR of free financing. Which it totally doesn't and if she told that to a customer and then they found out that they only get 0 interest in certain situations they'd be mad.

I read somewhere one reason pertussis is making a comeback is that the vaccine doesn't last forever. Adults need a booster, but that isn't well known so many don't get it.

Ugh, askye. I had someone who just never really took anything in and every time she was corrected would say "lesson learned!" like that was an end to it. I still twitch when I hear that phrase.

And when you start having a sizable amount of unvaccinated kids, it gets a foothold.

Adults need a booster, but that isn't well known so many don't get it.

Which, hey, *I* didn't know until I got it. Heck, I didn't know the disease still really existed in this country until I got it right when it started the PNW outbreak. So while it's really important to vaccinate your kids, it's also kinda important to vaccinate your adults too.

Yeah, adults need a booster, but if all the kids are getting the vaccine there's nowhere for it to live. But then if they're not it starts hitting everyone.

A friend of mine is mostly blind and partly deaf, because her mom had measles when she was pregnant. Apparently they were super worried my friend would be way worse off than that, but though she's got lots of health problems, luckily her brain is fine.

Mom had quite a few students who lost their hearing due to meningitis when she was teaching.

A friend of mine is mostly blind and partly deaf, because her mom had measles when she was pregnant. Apparently they were super worried my friend would be way worse off than that, but though she's got lots of health problems, luckily her brain is fine.

That sounds more like German measles than regular measles. There was a German measles epidemic in 1964, and just about every deaf school in the country had a much bigger class of kids born in 64-65 than they usually had.

smonster, what's the flu that's running around here? I'm ridiculously sick again and I'm wondering what's going on.

That sounds more like German measles than regular measles. There was a German measles epidemic in 1964, and just about every deaf school in the country had a much bigger class of kids born in 64-65 than they usually had.

I think it was, actually, though this was in 1977.

Family drama today, yay?