I'm sorry to hear that, lisah.

I know I've mentioned that CJ does ride alongs with the fire department, typically with the med team. He came home late Saturday after a shift and didn't want to talk about his last call.

Today he finally shared - it was a response to a 4 year old who had drowned in a local lake. Seven EMTs worked on the kid in the back of the ambulance while CJ helped the driver navigate to the hospital. He had been in the lake for 30 minutes before he was found and was declared dead at the hospital.

My heart breaks for the family. And for my kid, having to witness that. But knowing he wants to go into emergency services, this is just the first. It sucks but knowing how passionate he is about wanting to help people and do what he can to prevent such tragic endings helps.

Oh man, poor kid and poor CJ and poor EMTs. That's gotta be hard.

Sara, people are losing accrued vacation time?? That is so not on. Damn. No chance you can get some similar but differently-contracted position?

I am hungry and want to go eat but am waiting on people to make updates or meet with me. But I'm worried maybe they went to lunch and didn't tell me. Ugh.

Meara - one benefit of summer vacation and me working from home - I can get CJ to bring me lunch. I still end up eating/working but at least I'm not hungry.

Oh, that's rough, Suzi.

That's a vendor that I'm firing later this year (we are not renewing a contract for software. And yes, they know

They are also the company that was fired from the project I'm on last year. I thought their business model was taking government money and either notdoing the work or doing terrible work and asking for additional money to fix their screwups. I didn't realize it was private industry they were doing this to as well.

And what they are doing to their employees is just appalling, sara.

Lisa, my deepest condolences to you and Bob.

Sara, I will be happy to smite the lot of them tomorrow. That's bullshit, plain and simple. I'm sorry you're getting screwed.

Legacy accruals we won't lose until we used them up, ( of course that burns first) but after that, the accrual zeros at the beginning of every year. And they're trying to impose mandatory vacation days- specific ones regardless of site schedules. Compared with our sites 5 wks/ yr, some insane cap of 3 or 4 months..

There is talk of insurrection to get a buyout.

Again, not uncommon in the industry, but diverging drastically from our main contract.

I'm sorry, Lisa.

Sarameg, that sucks. I worked for a lousy company that held my organization's contract a while ago. We managed to get our organization bought out by another, better company. I hope you get a similar (or better) resolution soon.