You already have a nemesis, msbelle? That seems fast

Listen. I've been there 2 months. Maybe this person will not be a long-time nemesis, but with this current project they are.

They sent over approx 250 forms to me - NOT ELECTRONICALLY, physical forms. They sent old style ones (26 pages) and some new ones (10 pages). Most of the new ones they sent over they also sent with a now unnecessary 2nd form that is 3 more pages.

Some of the forms are single sided, some are double. Most were not stapled, just paper clipped, so some got loose and I've had to try to match things up. They were in NO ORDER, not by department, not alphabetical.

AND the thing that makes me absolutely crazy about them not scanning them in is this. I am not the last signature needed on these docs, they have to get one more department to sign off, so I have to scan all of them in now.

every day I get between 10 and 20 of the electronically that I have to mark as approved and send off for the last approval. I also have to email each employee once the final approval is received, maintain an electric file for all of these and maintain a spreadsheet. This person like tripled the amount of work I have to do one this one thing I am tracking, (I am tracking like 4 other COVID related things and supposed to be starting project management stuff on one project).

Timelies all!

That sounds really aggravating, msbelle.

You've been there two months already? Huh. Nemesis does seem as good a descriptor as any, that's pretty awful. Maybe they are an energy vampire.

I was mostly impressed with your efficiency in getting your nemesis pegged so quickly!

The last half hour of my work day was a department-wide conference call that was supposed to fill us in on some information and express appreciation for us. What it mostly did was piss me off. Trying very hard to let that go so I can actually relax for the weekend, or at least stress about my own shit and not work...

Just got am email from Supervisor asking everyone to have their time sheets in by 3pm today. Except we have an electronic timeclock and I'm not off (therefore can't clock out) until 4:15. SMDH

My email to as of yet unmet nemesis today (becuase today I got at least 50 of these damn things in an envelope) was basically, "Hey, was I not clear before? Is it possible for you to scan these in to me and not send hard copies? Here is my process.....mention having to scan them in. THANKS!"

Just got am email from Supervisor asking everyone to have their time sheets in by 3pm today. Except we have an electronic timeclock and I'm not off (therefore can't clock out) until 4:15. SMDH

That's so silly! I mean, surely your supervisor knows what kind of system you have. At my job we can approve time sheets whenever.

Hey Maria, how are you and EMS!Guy (can't remember what we call him here) holding up? I saw the wackos demonstrating in Harrisburg and thought of you guys.

MedicGuy now. We're hanging on by a thread this week. He had emergency oral surgery and 3 wisdom teeth pulled on Wednesday, my mom has respiratory crud and could only do telehealth, so I drove him to my parents' house last night so he could listen to her lungs since her pulse ox was alarmingly low (chance of COVID-19 is low, but not impossible so we wanted to make sure her lungs were normal shitty, not bilateral interstitial pneumonia shitty), and today his mom was rear-ended so we dealt with that and the ER. All while he's on Vicodin, which means I'm his DD. I'm tired.

Gris, that was a fantastic video! Really glad I can finally put names and faces together.

The other day, as I went to sit on the couch, I said to myself, "I'll just watch something until the boop-boop."

I have lost all the words. I can't describe things to save my life right now.

I boycotted today. Hopefully will get a working work computer tomorrow, but I'm not holding my breath. Haven't decided whether to charge today as sick or admin leave. I WAS sick...of dealing with the bullshit. And the bullshit is grounds for admin leave. And I didn't sleep well. Anyway, not important.

Is important. It's aggravating. You should charge it to whatever code doesn't take something away from you. I hear you on the not sleeping well. Lousy sleep has been the norm for me since the middle of March. It sucks. I'm sorry.

My house is a mess and still have boxes to unpack.

This statement is also true for me. I moved here 6 years ago.

askye, I'm glad your manager is taking it seriously and I'm sorry others are not. It's bullshit that you have to be back at work already.

I teamed up with a friend and we got takeout from a local place: chopped salad, wood-fired pizza with house-made sausage, two manhattans in a plastic bottle, and chocolate-chili pot de creme. We ended up with two pizzas because they messed up the first one. We ate on E's back patio with lots of room between us, and she opened a really nice bottle of red from Paso Robles.

'suela, that sounds AWESOME.

I had a dream last night that one of you people had died and I'm very glad to get online and confirm it's not true!

Ugh, that is a horrible dream. Brains are stupid sometimes.

Congrats on being negative, Laura!

So after weeks and weeks, Husband didn't get the job. Jesus fucking Christ.

I'm sorry, Dana. That sucks.

Toddson, I'm sorry. Has anyone tried unplugging the year and plugging it back in after 30 seconds? We need a hard reset.

Youngest had his first telemedicine visit with his gastroenterologist today. It went well.

So happy to hear that, Cindy!

You already have a nemesis, msbelle? That seems fast

I was gonna say!

Same. You move fast.

Soybeans + bowtie pasta + lemon infused olive oil as a sort of warm salad is pretty delicious, y'all! Lunch is a success.

-t, that sounds yum.

Dana that is horrible about your husband ... stringing have him along and then no job.

Also Maria you and medic guy need life to give you a break.

We did $10,000 in sales not the $100,000. Which makes more sense.

SO BUSY TODAY. We couldn't keep one set of outdoor doors locked per fire code so they were caution taped off and still open and people RIPPED OFF the cation tape and walked in. So someone had to stand guard at the door.

Only about 10 stores open in the mall. People were mostly ok but some got pissed they couldn't get to the mall from our store and the mall only had one set of doors available to use which made it more complicated.

So many people. Most not wearing masks or might as well not wearing masks

But it was ok. Tomorrow the manager is going to do things differently. He said they are anticipating it being months before anything returns to normal and our pricing for sales will change.

Just got am email from Supervisor asking everyone to have their time sheets in by 3pm today. Except we have an electronic timeclock and I'm not off (therefore can't clock out) until 4:15. SMDH

That's so silly! I mean, surely your supervisor knows what kind of system you have. At my job we can approve time sheets whenever.

Of the dozen or so of us under him, 4 of us are not salaried (therefore slaves to the timeclock). He was actually referring to time charge sheets (i.e., charging time to projects, which I don't do in my function) but just didn't state it clearly. It's a quandary - under the last two guys, they kept forgetting that my little sub-department was part of the larger department and kept forgetting to tell us stuff. This guy is good about remembering to include us in his communications, just not so great with clarity so I'm constantly having to ask, "Did you actually mean X, or was it maybe Y?" I suppose it's better to have info that I have to follow up on than when I just never got the info.

Dana, that sucks they put you both through that for nothing.

msbelle, that's one of the things I like about working from home - when I say what I'm really thinking to work colleagues who aren't present, no one is around to judge me. Hopefully, they'll respond to a remote cluesticking.

Maria, that is A LOT. I have no words, other than I wish you (all of you) some well-deserved peace.

askye, good luck. That sounds...complicated.

epic- luckily my stuff isn't too complicated. I show up, go where I'm told, be nice to customers, and do whatever is my assignment for the day (they are rotating things around),go eat lunch in my car, and then at some point go home. And depending where I'm at say "the entrance to the mall is closed, you have to go out the main doors and drive around to the Cheesecake Factory entrance" about 3 dozen times a day