It's been brutal locally lately. I know four people who lost their jobs starting with the Twitter insanity up to two more in today's cuts at Google. Plus others who have been on edge because they were put on alert to expect rounds of layoffs (even if they haven't been hit). Sending out good thoughts to all of you in tech.
Are they assuming the man is the only golfer and basing it on that? But, also, ew...
Ugh maybe, but my email stated a family of 5 membership. I thought that indicated we would all play.
So: (1) They are assuming you have a husband when you say "family of five" - what if you have a wife? Or it's you and four kids? (2) They only care about his age? Some weird assumption is going into that (only he plays golf, he is the oldest so his age is relevant for the "under 35" discount, or whatever) (3) Even if there are two/three rates depending on age, why can't he just give you all three?
Conversely, is there a chance your sister and Jane will run into each other down the line and she will find out about the offer and be hurt you didn't pass it along? Would working for your sister be a career step up for Jane? (your fear she might leave implies it might be). You are in a tricky situation.
Do you really think your sister would poach your valued employee? If you don’t trust her not to do that, then I wouldn’t bring it up. If you trust her to limit her hours, then yeah, I would bring it up to Jane. I would just make sure she knows you don’t expect her to say yes just because it’s your sister, and that you’re in no way pressuring her.
Honestly kind of
My sister and I are close, but she and her husband, who she works with, have a way of steam rolling things to get what they want.
Another thing to consider: Will this be a healthy work environment for Jane? It might not be, given this (as lemon cupcake said, this could really affect how she feels about working with you).
They created Amazon smile as a marketing strategy to draw in the "support local" types by making Amazon a way to support your local interests. Now that they have pushed enough of those local options out of business, saturated the market and enough people are conditioned to turn first to Amazon, they don't need it any more to bring in customers.
It's not adding enough impact *to their own sales revenue*
OMG. It doesn't even taste like coffee - it tastes like stale, old nasty, coffee remnants.
People who serve tea but don't actually drink tea make the worst tea. Using a coffee urn as a hot water urn for tea. Leaving iced tea in the fridge a few days to get old and funky.
My go to at Starbucks is ice tea, light ice, no added water. They don't make it with coffee urn water.
In my experience, typical “hot water” urns at hotels and conferences (put out for the purpose of making tea) aren’t hot enough to actually steep most kinds of tea. It makes me sad. I’ll sometimes use the coffee maker in the room to heat up water (the kind where there are never loose grounds in the machine), and it usually doesn’t get that coffee taste. I bring my own tea bags. But I wish America was kinder to tea drinkers.
Yes. Mint can sometimes be salvageable at lukewarm if the location really only uses the urn for water (never coffee), but actual tea bags are a complete loss.
Medicine Balls from Starbucks are fantastic. (It’s a hot drink with mint tea, peach tea, honey, and lemonade. I also order an extra pump of mint syrup.) (not coffee, obviously, but really soothing in cold weather.)
I'm going to have to try this next time I have a cold.
Would you be willing to spend the evening there with her, or even go over for the last hour?
Twice I’ve hired young babysitters. In one case, her mom (my coworker) came too and just read a book. It gave the 11 year old great practice with the safety of an adult nearby. Another time the babysitter was older (13?), but her mom came over around bedtime because DS was notoriously awful about sleeping.
I cannot picture my son wanting to babysit, but if he does I would be willing to give up a few evenings to help him figure out the ropes. Good babysitters are hard to find and it can be a lucrative job for teenagers if they want to do it!
This is what I think I'll suggest when she's ready - I'll come after bedtime. Learning curve for her and a little mother / daughter bonding time.
I can't even stand tea made with the hot water from a coffee machine
OMG. It doesn't even taste like coffee - it tastes like stale, old nasty, coffee remnants.
People who serve tea but don't actually drink tea make the worst tea. Using a coffee urn as a hot water urn for tea. Leaving iced tea in the fridge a few days to get old and funky.
My go to at Starbucks is ice tea, light ice, no added water. They don't make it with coffee urn water.
I'm a devout tea drinker.I actually like the taste of coffee ice cream but can't do coffee itself. Coffee messes with my stomach and makes me feel anxious.
I'd say go with something low caffeine, not a dark roast, high milk to coffee ratio. And not too big.
I think you can tell her you got married without doing it in a drama llama way. A short note afterwards - that avoids confusion about it being an invitation without having to spell out that she isn't invited (it'll be obvious).
I have an aunt that sent us her wedding announcement after the fact - no drama in the family and we are all fairly close but she had always vowed not not marry so when she changed her mind (a decade into her serious relationship) she went ahead and did it and told everyone afterwards. no fuss or drama. We were all very happy for her and they are still together 20+ years later so it was the right decision
It sounds like your mom is sad because she is hoping *your* wedding will give *her* a chance to reconnect with your sister. It isn't your job to heal that rift. And your mom is probably overestimating the chance things would go well between the two of them anyway.
ETA: I missed that your sister wants you to write to her. She may have good intentions but it isn't the right answer.
I've check the law - no minimum in CA. I'll have her take the Red Cross babysitting class and then we'll go through these and other criteria and do a gut check to see if it feels right after that. I know this mom will ask again when DD's ready because the little one loves DD.
Another fat finger typo - she's 12, not 11. She's done mother's helper stuff for her aunt and toddler/baby cousins.
She knows the family, house and kid well - it's the 6 year old little sister of one of her best friends who absolutely idolizes her. The big sister and dad will be out of town for the weekend.
It's 5-8. She has an apple watch with phone service. We'd be a short distance away (not walking distance, but could come quickly if called).
In this scenario I'd allow it. But only if I knew I was available to step in if an emergency occurred.
Yeah - I feel like I need to stay on call for the evening. But that's okay.
She is super responsible- people have been asking me to let her babysit their kids since she was 10. She leads the girl scout meetings for her little sibling and is beloved by the kids. She has already made meals for the child when she's over hanging out with the big sister and helped with her bedtime. This is the first time I've considered it outside the family mother's helper role.
My 11 year old would make a fantastic mother's helper, but I'm not sure I'd leave her completely on her own with kids yet.
How old are the kids that your child would be watching? How long would the parents be gone? How far is their home from yours, or at least from an adult that could come in an emergency? Does your child have a cell phone or does the home still have a house line?
Those are all things I'd want to consider before I agreed.
Another fat finger typo - she's 12, not 11. She's done mother's helper stuff for her aunt and toddler/baby cousins.
She knows the family, house and kid well - it's the 6 year old little sister of one of her best friends who absolutely idolizes her. The big sister and dad will be out of town for the weekend.
It's 5-8. She has an apple watch with phone service. We'd be a short distance away (not walking distance, but could come quickly if called).
My 11 year old had been asked to babysit by a friend. How fix you know your kid was old enough to baby mail?
I'm no help but these typos gave me the giggles!
HA! My phone is the worst for auto correct. I kept correcting "tour" to "your" in my texts to DH yesterday and he kept answering "my what?" It was a mess.
I took ‘coast’ to be shorthand for those houses near eroding cliffs, hurricane flooding barrier islands, and other naturally vulnerable places. .
We bought where we did because it isn’t at risk for tidal or mountain runoff flooding. I refused to consider any house built on stilts (to accommodate steep hills, not floods),
There are other nearby neighborhoods built on bayfill landfill (ie. Vulnerable in earthquakes) where the street gutters sometimes reverse during high rain + king tides. 70-80 years ago when they were built, home buyers didn’t think about climate change. But I don’t understand people who choose those to buy there now. It isn’t the dramatic damage of east coast hurricanes, Malibu mansions sliding into the sea, or low lying towns near the Mississippi River that get inundated, but nature is still coming for you.