Gear Grinding 9: I Need a Wine!

[dxmnkd316]

There’s a reason AA has been around for so long. For enough people it seems to work. Won’t for everyone, probably won’t for most. But it’s worth a shot if you need the help.

[RaceBoarder]

Flash Sales.

It sucks when you have an item that you know will be put on sale so you wait. But then when the window opens, for one reason or another, you miss it.

Was waiting on a pair of rain bibs from an online retailer. Reg. $449, but they went on closeout last Fall. Been hovering around $399, but this place does random 40%-50% flash sales on their clearance. The e-mails go out around 4pm EST and sale is good till 11:59PM EST. Bibs went on there yesterday, but didn't get around to checking e-mail until now... Just got XXL and XXXL left...

Balls >=(

[Handyman]

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[MinnesotaNorthStar]

Trying to sign up for COBRA since any insurance I sign up for wouldn't start until 11/1 and I'm not keen on driving 15 hours to Minneapolis uninsured...call with our Benefits Center dropped after being on hold for an hour.

[dxmnkd316]

That ain’t going to keep your blood pressure low.

ugh. I’m really sorry MNS. This is a ****ed up system we’ve got here.

[wolverineTrumpet]

My coworker's inability to stop talking really grinds my gears. She's lucky I'm not approving her time (yet). I certainly wouldn't be approving overtime for her to talk to another employee about politics for an hour.

I want a spray bottle to try and train her like a cat. I'll leave it near her desk and anytime she spends more than 5 minutes talking about something not work related, whoever notices can spray her.

My method is going to be micro-managing her and give her a task to do every time she starts rambling, but each time I'm going to think about a spray bottle. *spritz* "bad, no, get to work"

[leswp1]

wT that had me chuckling.

Doing evaluations grinds my gears for a bunch of reasons.

1. The idiots who made the tool made the directions 2 close typed pages long- No one reads 2 pages of directions which leads me to
2. the idiots who do not read the directions. No matter how I try to tell them, they grade themselves in a way that would require them being failed out or needing a written warning. Whutthefvck.
3. the ones who do not read the directions and grade themselves on how they perform in the workplace, not in my Clinical. again whutthefvck?!

I even made them hold up their fingers while I said if you give this (holding up one or two fingers) then you get a written warning. Nope.

The structure of the tool is dumb. they didn't figure out the process until past when I met my students. I had emailed my students saying we would be doing it, reviewed it (again) during class, told them the due date, emailed the due date and told them to upload. After this the faculty posted procedure on Canvas. None of the students read the notice and I had some of them telling me they weren't warned. I cut and pasted the pertinent part and hit reply all for my previous email.

Jeebus. These people think they want to work in hi test areas like ER, ICU. Sure- that will work well. Um the patient is blue. Oh, well you didn't tell me to look and doing something is optional.

GHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[MissThundercat]

Sunday, I was driving for Door Dash. After I made a delivery, a bunch of orders came in that were like $3-$5 each. Couldn't reject them fast enough.

[MissThundercat]

Also... I have an instructor for DU who can't handle being challenged, doesn't know the material, rambled when I asked her a question, and has this look of "cross me and I will grind your soul into paste."

[leswp1]

Gahhhhhhhhhhhhh!
WHy our healthcare system needs fixing. I had an appt today with a specialist. Last yr when I asked they told me I didn't need a referral and then tried to charge me many, many dollars for not having one. It took me months to fix. I am supposed to have a PPO but they make us have a referral anyway.

I asked at my physical for the referral to be processed (back in Sept). They told me the specialist will request the referral. Being suspicious as that worked soooo well last yr I asked. No referral in place. After an hour of calling I find the Specialist has faxed the PCP multiple times with no response and this is a pattern with PCP. The PCP says I have a referral and gives me a number. I call the Specialist back give the number. They will now process correctly. Soooo if I had not spent the last hour calling about I would again have spent a month of calling and more calling to get it fixed.

There is something wrong with a system that requires this much work to get things covered. I can't count the number of hours in the last yr that I spent calling to get things covered that they billed incorrectly, that they processed incorrectly. Last yr they sent me to collections while supposedly putting a hold on my acct because of an error on their part.

Can't imagine what would happen if I had a job that didn't let me call when I needed to. Any other country and I would have just gotten the care. The worry wouldn't be financial but test results.

Don't anticipate this being fixed because the neanderthals spouting bullsh1t about Socialism!1!1!1!!! but jfc this is some kind of stupid. Maybe they are afraid if the fix it they will put the collections, the billers, the advocates out of work? the hospitals will struggle with loss of income when they aren't able to bill incorrectly? The people who keep making more and more coding rules to slow or prevent payment from insurance companies will be out of business? The insurance companies will actually have to pay out for the benefits they are paid for? They think people are bored and want the logistical challenge of spending hours on the phone? No logical reason comes to mind.

It costs our country way to fvcking much to have people not be able to afford medical care. ICU, ER and other emergent treatment is sooo much more expensive.

Phew. I guess my gears are grinding a bit more than I realized

[MissThundercat]

I could never figure out why pro sports players went to the disabled list for blisters. Then one popped on the bottom of my left food, making it incredibly difficult to walk.

[leswp1]

Holy Mother of Pearl!

I have 21 students. They need to submit evaluation forms. I reviewed verbally, sent email and there was an announcement on the platform the Dept uses for the class. After having ZERO students get it right I sent out a checklist and an email requiring the fill out checklist and send that and the 2 documents. Still zero who got it right. FOund out today that most of them converted the doc to PDF so they can't edit it. Do you think anyone would have let me know this? Nahhhh. I had to put a couple of them on the rack to get the reason for this.

[dxmnkd316]

Equipment vendor neglected to tell me my 8,000-kg vessel was going to arrive today. “we’ll give you a ship and arrive date once we get the info”

NOPE, YA DIDN’T

[leswp1]

Equipment vendor neglected to tell me my 8,000-kg vessel was going to arrive today. “we’ll give you a ship and arrive date once we get the info”

NOPE, YA DIDN’T

oh my

[dxmnkd316]

Oh, and my favorite part. The ship weight the told me didn't match the bill of lading OR the actual ship weight. This was a massive ****-up.