Sorry to hear that Omra. 
Get some rest and then start checking your local retail stores…they start hiring now for the Holiday season. They’d all be part-time jobs but at least it would be something to last to the end of the year or maybe longer.
I freaking lost my ATM card between 9 last night and 7 this morning. I have a feeling that I threw it away when I cleaned some trash out of my car while I was filling up with gas. The bank checked and there wasn’t any additional activity on it (thank God!) and they turned it off. But it’s going to take a week to get a new card and only about 1/2 the places in town will take a check anymore. This is going to suck…
So I woke up this afternoon (about 5 hours after going to sleep) to have my wife tell me she got a speeding ticket in a school zone. There’s $200+ dollars gone, plus the increase in insurance, when I’m working 60+ hours a week between 2 jobs just to make ends meet. Needless to say, going back to sleep was beyond me at that point. So I check my phone and get more great news.
My sister had emailed me telling me that my niece was given 1-3 months to live. She has Smith-McGuiness syndrome, a very rare chromosomal disorder, and she has also had leukemia and major epilepsy among many other problems. She (clinically) has the mind of a toddler even though she is 18. So we have all gotten used to medical problems and gloomy predictions, but we’ve never gotten a timetable before. She is one of my favorite people on this planet and hearing this has all but destroyed me. I’m loathe to go to work tonight because I’m worried with the way things are going today.
Sorry to hear that, Scope. I’ve been lucky with the health of my cousins, but losing relatives is never easy.
This is pretty trivial compared to Scope’s but a minor teh suck moment leaving work today.
I’m working “second shift” (11 AM to 7 PM) and parked next to one of the grass dividers when I got in this morning. When I got back to my car, the sprinklers were on, so I had to go through them to get to my door.
So sorry, Scopehound. My thoughts are with you and your family.
You could try going to court. Don’t deny that it happened, but request leniency due to financial hardship. The judge could reduce or even waive the fines. It’s not a certain win, but it can’t hurt to try.
Needless to say, going back to sleep was beyond me at that point. So I check my phone and get more great news.
My sister had emailed me telling me that my niece was given 1-3 months to live. She has Smith-McGuiness syndrome, a very rare chromosomal disorder, and she has also had leukemia and major epilepsy among many other problems. She (clinically) has the mind of a toddler even though she is 18. So we have all gotten used to medical problems and gloomy predictions, but we’ve never gotten a timetable before. She is one of my favorite people on this planet and hearing this has all but destroyed me. I’m loathe to go to work tonight because I’m worried with the way things are going today.
I’m so sorry. I can’t even imagine.
I’m so sorry to hear that. My condolences to you and your family.
Shite. Wish there were something helpful I could say. Hang in there.
Thank you everyone for your encouragement. I wish I was in a place mentally where I could really appreciate it. Not really sure what I feel at the moment, kind of a mixture of depression, rage, and numbness. We’ve always known that with her medical issues, she was going to have a drastically shorter life expectancy, but I think I’d feel this way if she were 50.
On the bright side, I didn’t get fired last night. I figured that was a real possibility given the way my day played out.
But seriously, thank you. Simple encouragement may not seem like much, but right now it’s enough to keep me moving forward.
Keep moving forward. You are certainly not alone in the world.
-Trey
Very sorry to hear that about your niece. You would feel the same things regardless of her age…what a shock for everyone. I hope that you all get a little extra time with her past the estimate given.
Hang in there Scopehound…and unload here whenever the pressure gets to be too much. We’ll be hear to listen (well read) and support you.
So sorry to hear about your niece. My condolences for what your family is going through.
Was that a Meet the Robinsons reference?
It wasn’t. Here’s my confession…I STILL haven’t seen that movie. I know. I know.
shakes tiny fist
This week has been hard to get through and I apologize if I’ve snapped at anyone here or on Twitter. We are severely short on staff since they’ve cut my department to the bone and everyone has been overworked at my campus. On Monday on of my coworkers lost a family member and went on bereavement leave. I have been covering his shift and mine: opening one campus at 8am and closing my campus at 10pm; 6 hours on, 2 hours off, 6 hours on. I am exausted and cranky. When I get home I can’t sleep. I hate complaining about shit like this, I can usually suck it up and push though it but I cried myself to sleep last night. I feel like I am having a fucking breakdown. I have tomorrow off and I may not get up out of bed at all.
Kirokai, I am so sorry you’ve been getting beaten up. When I read this I really felt like my minor gripes are just that, MINOR. Just know that what is happening at work is temporary and you WILL get through it. If you feel like crying, go right ahead and do it-you will feel better getting all that angst and frustration out!
My work has been stupid. Due to the economy being in the toilet and sinking lower into the septic system on a daily basis, the hospital where I work in the finance department is pushed to the limits. I work in Accounts Payable (which is oxymoronic due to the fact that we don’t actually pay anyone) and for the past 3 years regularly scheduled check runs have ceased. Now, we will only pay vendors when they threaten to shut us off or not provide services. As you can imagine this puts a tremendous amount of stress on the staff of 3 (including myself) trying to keep a hospital functional, all the while Medicare and commercial insurance payments TO hospitals have been reduced to more than half of what they used to be.
Everyday I come home feeling like I’ve been put through the ringer-stressed out, beaten up, frustrated and fed up. I know I’m not alone, and bless my Supervisor because she takes the brunt of the fire. She’s been sick all this week and I honestly think it’s stress related (I am also her backup-so her absense put’s ME on the firing line) something has to give-but somehow we all manage to make it through.
When it comes right down to it, what choice do we all have?
I found my ATM card this morning. In my underwear drawer…
Oh Kirokai, you just hang in there lady. We all have our ups and downs. Cry it out and then go eat a taco and drink some tequila and wear your awesome hats and talk any of us when you need and soon things will smooth themselves out.
Also try drawing more faces on your hands and taking photos. If those make me laugh out loud then surely they’ll make you smile and giggle a little.
Julie gives the best advice.
I feel your pain. When I started here (less than three years ago) I was on a team of five, now I’m the only one left with experience for my products (therefore, I’m effectively always on-call, 24/7 - too bad I’m not ACTUALLY on-call so I could at least get pager pay). I’ve been trying to get the team that I’m now merged into to take some responsibility, but to little avail. Today I found out that we’ll be doing a process exclusively in-house that would have been vendor-assisted (this means my workload just doubled). I’ve taken to squeezing a pillow to death at night; I have a hard time leaving work concerns at work.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH
Eight work days and I’m on vacation for two weeks. Gotta keep my eye on the prize.