I would think you would need to know pretty much whatever there is to be known, sumi. Hope the appointment go well.

I am still feeling like everything that is going on is being told to me on a need to know basis.

Some doctors can be like this thinking we won't understand the complexities. I read medical reports constantly so I just request my records so I can look at everything myself as everything isn't included in portal access, although usually the notes which have info are in there.

As much as I enjoy my coffee I don't do cold coffee, or coffee ice cream, or even coffee candies. They just don't taste right to me. Maybe because I don't do sugar as a general rule.

So sorry to hear that, Consuela. How awful.

In a completely different arena - I bought a canned nitro brew yesterday. I think I'll need to order one live to truly get the effect, though. Or visit Jessica in her office.

Finally going to be getting some relief for an intermittently annoying internal suture, which was periodically poking out through a tiny hole that never healed fully because of said suture... I slacked on following up, though I did go in a couple times about it before I really figured it out, but pandemic and all. More painful when it isn't poking through, because then it's just a stabby needle in my abdomen trying to poke through. Anyway, surgeon tried to grab and pull to trim it off yesterday, but he couldn't get a hold of it in the office with a grubby thing, so they're going to do a super low-key slice and remove sometime in the next month. But it has to be at the surgery center. Anyway, relief will be good. It's a minor annoyance all things considered, but even little stabby pain is not good.

Consuela , I'm sorry to hear about that. I hope he is found.

I hope it was a grabby thing, and not a grubby thing.

Eeep, my thought too, dcp. Agree that any stabby pain is not a good thing.

I had a decent day at work, not many others were. We keep getting orders for things we never had in the store. 1 person ordered 5 pillows and we got that order, even though we haven't had any of those since pre Covid. And there were about 60 swimsuits we never got that we are also getting orders for.

And supposedly there are some allowances being made but it seems we keep getting enough orders that even the variance we've been allowed doesnt' help when there are the normal amount of things we can't find. We need to have our completion rate be in the low 90s but we can't get to that with the amount of stuff we never got and with the sales being what they are etc. Plus even though there is a lot being done to make the store look nice it's a lot of surface stuff --like putting clothes back on hangers that customers leave all over or making sure the hangers haven't popped out of one side of a top. Rather than taking the time to make sure that things are in the right place. Because that takes time and people we don't have.

I also found out our staff is about 1/3 of what it was pre pandemic (although we did have some layoffs right before the pandemic)but we are doing more in sales than pre pandemic. And, of course, it's hard to fill positions. The HR manager was saying she had 6 interviews scheduled but only 2 people showed up.

Things are kind of going back to normal- the ice machine has been plugged in but has to make sure it works before we have ice again!

And people are losing their minds over rules that aren't new but are being enforced because everyone got lax. Like no food or drink (except water in a clear spill proof container) anywhere except the breakrooms or your locker. Because people have been eating and drinking in front of customers. Not just snacks, like full meals right in front of customers. So people are upset about that but it makes sense.

Also we are supposed to only have clear bags and those have to be stored in our lockers not in the stock rooms, etc. People have been taking their regular purses and lunchbags and stashing them in stockrooms or having their purses under the counter at the registers and of course a few people have had things go missing. This rule is company wide policy, previously we could have clear bags on the salesfloor but now we can't unless we are off the clock.

That sounds pretty darn annoying, JenP! Hope fixing it goes well.

And, ugh, askye, none of that sounds good.

A client just told me I'm "fantastic" at my job. *preens*

Yay for Dana props!