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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/19/2008 1:52:30 PM   
KatMack


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Status: offline 		We just got back from our Cub Scout family campout. I'm exhausted!!! So glad that I don't have to work tomorrow. I'll need the day to get everything packed away and do all the laundry from this weekend.

Yolanda, haven't gotten too far with the group idea yet. It looks like I'll have to wait until March to get it started. We do Upward Basketball at our church and they dominate the gym everyday of the week, except Sunday and Wednesday and for some reason the church wants to use it those days .

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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/20/2008 4:11:06 AM   
McGuinessMagee


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Status: offline 		MBee, I'm feeling your pain over people who just don't do things right now.

There is a certain part of my job which has to be done before this other person should do a part of their job. If they do their part first our office doesn't get paid for what I do and, not only that, the funds made available have to come out of our bottom line rather than being accessed through the government funding.

Normally it is not an issue because I can do what I need to immediately whereas this other person does not normally see people until they've been with us 12 weeks.

Sometimes though what I need to do has to be commenced at the 12 week mark. I put a marker in the computer system to let this other person (and myself) know that I need to do this after a certain date.

This person regularly just ignores the marker and sets his appts before mine, meaning I either have to reschedule his appts to a later date or, if I miss what he has done until after he has seen the appt, skip doing the appt I should have altogether (which means that people are missing out on $300 which should be available to them).

I have talked to this person over the phone about it, I have talked to them face to face, I have now (today) written them a very clear email (and verified with someone else who works in that dept that the email was clear and not able to be misinterpreted). I am one more messed up appt away from going to my manager over it.

Kylie

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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/20/2008 7:52:09 AM   
momma_bee

 

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Status: offline 		Kylie - I hope that your email works - did you copy higher ups or are you letting it work it's way out?

My situation? The contractor and I talked on Thursday and he said about how I nag him every day and how the Maintenence guys (so-n-so) don't come to the meeting. I finally told him that I was charged with running the meeting in their stead and when I finally had to tell them that the contractor was blowing it off, it just made me look bad and as for actually nagging the guy - he makes coffee twice a day and if the pot in our office is empty I would go to his building - I was using 'nagging' as an excuse to be there. "going over to the trailer to see what he is doing" Someone is in the next office so I'd say "Where are my reports? Isn't keeping me happy the best use of your time"???

I thought it was clearly joking, he didn't see it that way so, no more trailer coffee for me... He said 'you come in every day a couple times a day and you ask for reports and you know I'm elsewhere' and I pointed at my cup and said 'do you think that was to justify going over for THIS?' and he got that, anyhow.

And, I need a week off of work. I have about 6 things that need done at the house immediately that do not have to do with Scouts and we had scouts all weekend, Monday and Tuesday, and BigBee wants to run again this weekend. I don't know what to do. And, I can't do them tonight, DeeDee is leading a badge tomorrow and I promised I'd help her.
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/20/2008 9:50:48 PM   
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Nicole,
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Nicole - what a nice article!! You set up the restaurant from scratch every night?? Wow! *faints*


Oh, it is so worth it!! I really do transform the whole place.

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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/21/2008 3:36:01 AM   
McGuinessMagee


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did you copy higher ups or are you letting it work it's way out?


I CCed the other person who works in that dept and I've kept the email I sent on file. If I need to I will bring it to our manager's attention. I hope I don't need to, but I'm not willing to have my position messed with just so that a co-worker who isn't doing their job doesn't get upset.

I have KPIs with my job. Sometimes they can be really frustrating. One of my KPIs is to keep a particular list below 700 clients. The only problem with that is that I have no control of the flow of people onto that list, just the number of people I can remove from it (and I don't have control of when that can happen except by keeping an eye on their status).

I have worked very hard to get this list down (it was over 900 when I started at the beginning of the year). Last week I finally got it down to 680. This afternoon I was looking at the list again and it's had a new dump bringing it to 703. AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!

Kylie

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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/21/2008 7:38:16 AM   
momma_bee

 

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Status: offline 		Can you chart any trends to see how many people you get each time? (hard to word the question without having direct knowledge of your day-to-day work)

It just seems to me that if the dump happens once a week, month, quarter and you see how many you usually get, you can plan to remove x+10 names to make room for the next 'dump'

I assume that you don't want to just remove any old name and therefore just can't pull out the oldest 50 every month. And, of course, if they add names whenever, you can't find trends.

I think I know that you deal with employment (or job training) and stuff like that can be seasonal.
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/21/2008 8:30:24 AM   
McGuinessMagee


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Status: offline 		The biggest issue with it right now is that with the downturn in the economy we're getting a higher influx of clients than we normally would. Over the past couple of months the number of people I see per day has almost doubled.

That means that the list I'm talking about is currently growing exponentially, whereas it will take 3 months for those who are currently coming in to move onto the next level of help. Therefore the only way to keep it managable is to really stay on top of it and make sure that every person on it should actually be there (that means either they shouldn't be being looked after by another part of the office or reached a stage where they no longer need our services).

Kylie

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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/21/2008 9:41:53 AM   
momma_bee

 

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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/21/2008 4:58:37 PM   
McGuinessMagee


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Status: offline 		Yep, I'm totally capable of micro-managing 700+ people.

Kylie

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There really are positives in every situation
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/21/2008 5:36:38 PM   
Mrs.Wifey


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ORIGINAL: McGuinessMagee

Yep, I'm totally capable of micro-managing 700+ people.

Kylie


And I thought having one kid was bad

So... what qualifies a person for a mental health day? Does a raging migraine and a big exam for which one needs to study combined with a crabby baby count?

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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/21/2008 5:38:11 PM   
McGuinessMagee


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So... what qualifies a person for a mental health day?


As of two months ago we don't get mental health days.

Kylie

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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/22/2008 7:48:13 AM   
momma_bee

 

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Status: offline 		That is a sick day...

Sick of the headache
sick of studying
sick of crabbiness
sick of work
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/22/2008 9:12:56 AM   
Mrs.Wifey


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Status: offline 		Hahaha. I went to work, and luckily it wasn't one of the super stressed out managers who was closing. I needed to go though, someone else had already called out and I would have really left my coworkers hanging. Darn that good work ethic.

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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/22/2008 9:28:22 AM   
momma_bee

 

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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/22/2008 5:10:39 PM   
McGuinessMagee


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Darn that good work ethic.


LOL

Earlier this year we had a really bad virus go through our workplace, laid people off for 3 - 7 days. Our office usually has a staff of 21 people. One day during that time we had 7 staff members in.

Kylie

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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/22/2008 6:23:57 PM   
daughter_of_faith

 

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ORIGINAL: momma_bee

I'd stay at home, but I'm too sick of the mess there.


LOL...isn't that the truth sometimes?

SO I'm slowly coming back around to posting some. Mostly cuz I miss y'all SO much. Wow...it's crazy windy here today. I'm so tired at the moment. We had our grand opening at my school last night. Today and tomorrow are parent teacher conferences. So yep, I am still here at school. I have to stay in case parents come as the conferences are really open-ended. Only one set has shown up so far. Maybe I'll have some more.

At least I have y'all to keep me company.
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/22/2008 6:54:52 PM   
momma_bee

 

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Status: offline 		Ha - and everyone is at home.

I'm torqued at BigBee's teacher. He read a collection of short stories to take an AR4 test - and was required to get x points and chose accordingly. The system is not running yet, so he had to fill out a booklet, answering questions about the book. Character, plot, summary. How do you do that with 14 stories? He was doing everyone and she was complaining about how long it took and he explained why and she was upset that she explained on Friday what he should do and he feels she didn't and she didn't repeat the instructions.

So, did he do what she wanted or what he THOUGHT she wanted. KWIM?
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/22/2008 9:33:09 PM   
daughter_of_faith

 

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Status: offline 		In our defense, teachers usually DO explain things. Sometimes a miscommunication occurs just like it does between two adults though.

Have you ever told your child to do something and he or she did the exact opposite? I know I have with my DS (5). Happens all the time....

Sorry to hear that she (the teacher) got upset about the situation. My guess is she was upset that the system isn't running, not that your DS read so much. If she was upset about that...that's a problem.

I know I've been upset a few times in the past couple of months because the technology isn't working properly in my classroom. It's a brand new building so some of the equipment is not hooked up properly yet.
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/22/2008 9:58:01 PM   
Mrs.Wifey


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So, did he do what she wanted or what he THOUGHT she wanted. KWIM?


That's rough. My parents have had the same problem with one of my sister's teachers this year. My sister refers to the teacher as "spawn of satan" It was bad enough that they ended up getting her transfered out of the teacher's class. I know I had a certain teacher who was the same way...

How old is your son?

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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/23/2008 6:59:15 AM   
momma_bee

 

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Status: offline 		He is 14. And, he only does the opposite on a daily basis, so not that often...

And, it was probably the frustration with the system talking, now that you mentioned it.

EDITED: to delete a particularily annoying post.

The next time I think taking off of work is a good idea, remind me about today....

< Message edited by momma_bee -- 10/24/2008 9:42:24 AM >
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/25/2008 11:44:27 PM   
McGuinessMagee


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Status: offline 		I had time off work Friday morning to talk to the school about J blowing up one of the computers there.

Got back to work to find that the person supposed to pick up the papers and mail when I'm not there had done so.... BUT!!!!

She hadn't cut out the stuff from the newspapers which she was supposed to and when I went to use the photocopier, there was the mail sitting next to it, never having been given to those it related to.

I know we all work to our level of competence and sometimes you just have to work with people who don't get it, but I really don't understand what's hard about cutting stuff out of a newspaper, photocopying it and putting it in three rooms, and handing out the mail.

I'm really struggling at work with not getting into the groove of gossiping about the younger admin staff (3 people). They just don't seem to get 'work ethic'. They take days off constantly and when they are at work they don't do their job fully.

I had to bite my tongue the other day when someone else in the office commented that a particular member of the admin was very obviously job hunting and that she hoped he got a new job soon because she needed the person doing her admin to move into his position (meaning she'd prefer to be without admin rather than have to work with this person), because I could so empathise with where she was coming from.

Kylie

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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/26/2008 9:03:41 AM   
momma_bee

 

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Status: offline 		So, when will we get the story of the exploding computer?

I fear I have fallen into that groove myself. I try like heck to pull myself out of it, but then it seems like no one sees me doing anything. I'm at the end of the hall and when I'm working it looks like I'm hiding. So, I print jobs to a network printer and when I go out, I find myself walking into conversations that make it look like I'm only there to gossip.

But talking has always been my struggle.
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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/26/2008 5:01:59 PM   
McGuinessMagee


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Status: offline 		J stuck a pen in the back of the computer a friend of his was working on during English and flicked the computer from 240V to 120V, effectively doubling the amount of electricity running through it. He melted the motherboard on that computer and blew the fuse connecting the computers on that row, which shut down half the classroom for a day.

Kylie

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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/26/2008 9:20:18 PM   
KatMack


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Status: offline 		Wow. I thought you meant a figurative exploding of the computer!

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RE: Working (outside the home) Wives/Moms Support Thread - 10/29/2008 7:46:27 AM   
McGuinessMagee


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Status: offline 		Yeah! J never has done things by half.

When he was about 4yo he decided to clean up his bath toys really quickly by vacuuming them up.

I had a difficult client today, not in the nasty, difficult kind of way. She had a lot going on in her life and I just found it really heartbreaking listening to her. I needed a hug from dh when I got home.

Kylie

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