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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 1:31 am
Oh great, you just added a new concern, I'm gonna have to change my shower time! How long did it take from start to finish? LOL, honestly I just want it done and quickly because I have painting I want to do and won't do it til the roof is finished.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 3:28 am
War, all you really have to do is let them look on your roof and make sure you get detailed estimates from each one. Then drop them all in Darren's lap and let him worry about selecting the right one. LOL
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 4:15 am
I know how you feel War. Way back when I worked a 4 day work week, and Mom worked five days, she used to have me make calls to various places to inquire for her on my Fridays (since business days were the only days to contact them). They always had questions to counter my/her questions, to which I'd have to say I dunno (making me feel stupid). And to make it worse, when I'd give Mom the info when she came home, she'd always have more questions and ask me, "well, what about...." Like, I was supposed to know she wanted to know that too, regardless of whether she included it in her original questions or not. OK, here's a minor gripe of my own. I love the musical piece Canon in D Major by Pachelbel. But I swear if I have to stay on hold with Earthlink for 45 minutes, listening to an endless loop of them playing that song over and over and over and....(well, you get my drift) many more times, I'm going to go stark raving mad. It was bad enough the first night. But the second time...and the third night...I already hope they haven't ruined the song for me.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 5:33 am
Wargod, they had it done in a day or two. It's amazing how fast they can work if they have a good team. A couple start the tear-off and a couple more come in right behind them and start putting in the new roofing. Since you'll be paying for use of a dumpster anyway it's a great time to get rid of all the junk in the garage or unwanted old furniture. Invite your neighbors to get rid of their junk, too, they'll thank you for it.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 7:52 am
Oh definitely, last year the neighbors rented a dumpster (you have to do it for a month at a time, rather than weeks here) and offered it up to us when they had it so we'll be doing the same. Glad to hear its only a couple days! Not that it matters since it has to be done, but the less time I have someone working on the house the better for me. Who, you've hit on one of my fears, lol. I know that as soon as I talk to these people Darren will pop up with a bunch of questions he didn't think about before they came and will want me to have the answers.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 12:35 pm
My husband just called. He's been without a computer all day because it just won't log on. He called up to the IT people around 9, and 9:30 they called and left a message with one of the support staff - who, ironically, had just gotten in and had no idea his computer wouldn't log on - that they sent an email to him on how to fix the problem. um DUH it won't log in so how can he get the email so he can find out how to fix the problem? He called them, they said we don't care we don't have time to come down and fix it check your email. He walked upstairs, quite unhappy. Same ole same ole - we don't have time to fix it check your email and it will walk you through step by step on how to fix it. He asked for a copy - no. He asked them to send the instructions to somebody else in his office so he could actually read them - no. WHAT PART OF HIS FRIGGEN COMPUTER WON'T START DON'T THEY UNDERSTAND? He's getting frustrated, the veteran's he's seen today have gotten frustrated when he has to say I don't know my computer is down, or go ask somebody else to look up the information for him IF they aren't busy. He didn't think it was funny when I told him he was better off with angry clients than with the psycho kitten I have locked in the bathroom. *L*
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, September 03, 2005 - 4:21 pm
OK..really insignificant gripe in the scheme of things BUT.......LOL....in the midst of everything else, I am in charge of scheduling the volunteers for my neighborhood women's club fall market. Now ALL these that I am calling signed up to help, but now that I sent out the schedule, the emails and phone calls are coming......oh, you mean you want me to WORK that day? not just plan????????? or "you put me at noon, I wanted to work earlier/later" grrrr!!!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, September 19, 2005 - 12:05 am
Venting time! Several months ago, I had a discussion with my neighbors and my sister about doing Build-a-Bear for Kota's party. Since it meant driving out of town we did talk about it several times before deciding on it. We even changed the date of the party twice to accomodate the neighbors, and when the party was finally scheduled we realized my sis would be out of town but it wasn't a prob because her girls would be with us anyways. The minimum for a party is 6 kids, so between Dakota, my two nieces, and the three neighbor kids, we had it. Last week, neighbor lady tells me her hubby says they're not going because gas prices were too high. Well she put her foot down and told him in no uncertain terms they'd commited to going, the party was half paid for, and we were expecting them to go so they would. Friday we went over and let them know that we have to be at the place at 10:45, 15 minutes before the party started. They didn't have another party scheduled til 1, so we'd have two hours for the kids to search the store and do what they had to do. Jump to this morning. We get up at 7, Darren hops in the shower, then I throw the three girls in the tub. While I'm getting them dressed, Caleb showers, then I do. 8:30 we chat with the neighbors and tell them we're leaving because we're going to take the kids to breakfast first. They tell us they're leaving in an hour to get there early. We eat, and head out about 9:30 or so and get there at 10:15. We're sitting in front of Build a Bear by 10:30. 11 am, the party planner comes and introduces herself. We tell her the rest of our party hasn't arrived so we decide to wait til they get there. 11:30, the girls are getting restless, neighbors still aren't there, so I search out the party planner and tell her we might as well get started. 12:00pm, Dakota's pretty upset and I'm ticked thinking Darren, Caleb, and I will have to make the bears because we've already paid for them when the neighbors walk in. At this point, the party planner has to stop Kota and my nieces so she can help the other kids catch up, and then when they do, we have to rush through choosing outfits and the rest of the stuff because by then it's almost 1. To top it off, the neighbor guy was totally grumpy. He didn't want to be there at all and in fact once his kids started working on bears, he took off and we didn't see him again. We waited til about 1:30 for him to show up and had to leave cuz the baby was going nuts. I'm still ticked. I feel horrible for the party planner. Things were set up to run on a very narrow schedule so the kids could make the most of their trip and the poor woman was so busy running back and forth I know she wasn't having fun. It's totally rude to be over an hour late, especially when you know it's a specifically timed event! I feel bad for their kids who really had to rush to get done in time and didn't get the chance to look through everything. The part that really ticks me off is they had plenty of chances to say, wait, we don't want to go. Because we were planning this out of town and wouldn't have room to drive all the kids we didn't even plan the party til asking if they'd be interested in going and driving. Heck if they'd told us this morning they no longer wanted to go, I might have been upset but at least we could have started on time and given the kids their two hours of having fun shopping around the store. Me, Darren, and Caleb (who had no interest in doing this at all, lol) would have had to make bears but we wouldn't have made the girls wait so long and then rushed them through the last hour or the party. The great thing was that the girls had fun, and even though the three neighbor kids were rushed they seemed to have fun too. Their little boy made a batman bear and he was totally cute running around with Batbear. My oldest niece wouldn't let her cat go, and her and Dakota were tucked into bed tonight clutching theirs. Made the frustration worth it.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Friday, September 23, 2005 - 7:57 pm
This is not a big gripe, but I'm getting nothing when I SEARCH General Discussions, so I came in here through the TOPICS. Then when I clicked on the RIGHT NOW thread I got a lot of technical jargon. Don't be throwing that stuff at me! I don't know how to read it. I just wanted to read the Right Now thread! I've had a very long day and Right Now I just want to read the Right Now Thread!
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Friday, September 23, 2005 - 7:58 pm
We're working on the board, Grace. We had a server problem this afternoon and it seems to have screwed up the GD area. Please be patient. 
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Saturday, September 24, 2005 - 6:29 am
Thanks for letting me gripe and for the very quick response.
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Llkoolaid
Member
08-01-2001
| Saturday, September 24, 2005 - 9:14 am
After watching the tv all night and for the last few weeks, all the devestation in New Orleans and now Texas, I have to say, personally I have nothing to complain about and only hope and pray that everything gets back to normal for all those poor folks who have been hit by those storms.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Saturday, September 24, 2005 - 9:17 am
I have alot to gripe about, so much that I can't articulate it and I've now become the queen of avoidance.
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Gradstudent
Member
07-10-2005
| Saturday, September 24, 2005 - 10:17 am
Me too, Mocha.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 9:08 pm
This is sooooo stupid, but it's driving me nuts. I can't go into details, but our principal has been on the war path this year. She's short-tempered, snappy and downright rude in her comments to both students and staff. Most of the time I consider her a friend before I see her as "the boss" (she was a cowork at our school before she was principal, and we share a great many things in common), so I'm trying to understand the behavior. However, the past two days, the lady who directs the plays with me and I have both been chewed out about an issue that was NOT interpreted correctly. We were basically accused of breaking or trying to "work around" some pretty major rules. If you knew myself and this other teacher, you would know how ridiculous that is -- we abide by all the rules and go out of our way to avoid "rocking the boat." We had a meeting this morning about the issue, and it is "resolved" -- I'm still just fuming. I told the principal I felt like she was questioning our integrity when we have never done anything that would be dishonest or sneaky. I think both the principal and I were able to honestly air our feelings and concerns, but I'm wary as to how the rest of the year will go. Hopefully spewing here will help me "let it go" and get back to my job of educating students!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 11:10 pm
Is she by any chance peri-menopausal? Between about the ages of 46 and 51?
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 6:29 am
LOL, Juju, my reaction exactly when I read Teach's post.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 1:26 pm
Not quite -- but I'm not sure -- could be hitting early!! (and something I hadn't thought of) Don't suppose THAT'S a suggestion that would go over well! LOL (But I'm giggling just thinking about it. Thanks !)
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Vixeninvegas
Member
10-07-2002
| Friday, October 28, 2005 - 11:17 am
Hi all - in advance sorry for the "whine / wine" wish I could offer you all some cheese. What would you do? I have worked for this company for 14 months. It is the worst position I have ever had - most days it is all I can do not to quit but I really like my boss & he says he really needs me to stay and be his assistant. I have 26 years in my position (not with this company but as an admin). There are 2 of us "Admins" here in the office. I had been doing all of my work & half of the other admins for the past 10 months because she couldn't handle her job & I was told by our company manager that since I made “so much more than she did” & I was a "senior" admin he needed me to pitch in and "take one for the team" and keep our office afloat. This other admin quit 6 weeks ago and the person who took her place (who is wonderful by the way & handling the entire job responsibility) found an old email that lists the past womans salary and its $3,000 more than I was hired at and $1000 more than I got in my 3 month review. WTF? I didn't want to know... I didn't try to find out but the new girl came to me asking what she should do because she was hired in a "quite a bit less" and feels like she made a rotten deal for herself. I feel totally betrayed by not only our manager but my boss & don't know the correct way to handle it. I hate to quit now because year end bonuses are due out in December & I feel like I have earned every penny of a bonus through my hard work & tears. What would you suggest?
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Terolyn
Member
05-06-2004
| Friday, October 28, 2005 - 11:40 am
I would hold out for until bonus time then send out my resume. If/when I get a good offer I would then meet with my boss and tell him that you found the email, and a new position unless he makes a better offer. I would not feel devious about this since they obviously lied to you.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Friday, October 28, 2005 - 11:42 am
vixen, if the email was from the former other admin, the email could be a lie to make her look good. it wouldn't look good for a company to email an employee their salary information, so that sounds funny. it sounds like your former co-worker was braggin' with nothing to really brag about. and i'd tell the new person that.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Friday, October 28, 2005 - 11:57 am
Vixen, too bad that the new person showed you that email. She should have just deleted it or gone to her boss about it - not to you. I think it might be a good idea for the boss to know that she found it and not you. Who knows, discussing this now instead of holding in your anger may work out for the best. You don't have to quit over this. Definitely remain for the bonus. Easier to find a new job while employed but everyone knows that. Take care of yourself.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, October 28, 2005 - 7:28 pm
How about taking the e-mail to the boss prior to bonus time and seeing what he has to say about it? Maybe you will get a super-dooper bonus out of his guilt.
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Vixeninvegas
Member
10-07-2002
| Monday, October 31, 2005 - 10:25 am
Hey all. Thanks for your words and encouragement. The email was for real - from main office to the old admin. She had taken off so many personal days and exceeded her vacation pay so they were notifying her that her next check would be short the hours over the 5 days we are allotted. I discussed it with our operations manager and he gave me 1/2 day off friday with the advise of 'do not live in the past, she is gone anyway so it is a moot point'. Whatever. I am actively seeking employment elsewhere. I have no desire to stay with a company who thinks so little of my work. This morning he (the operations manager) sent my boss a resume of a administrator. Its time I took the hint and get my butt outta here.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 7:22 am
Wee little gripe.... People who say, 'To make a long story short', way past the point of the running on and on that they've already done. Why, it fairly gets my knickers in a great big bunch.
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