Get out of my office, and the office across the hall. WTH? We come in to 2 mice running around the same day? Did someone let them loose? Is there food somewhere? Just moving in?
Signed, It's hard to sit in a skirt with your feet in your chair.
Dear class trip,
I hope you are fun!! DD is so looking forward to it!
Dear DS,
I know you don't want to stay with Mamaw. It's only 2 nights. She will feed you well. However, I realize she will treat you like you are 5 and drag you along to on her 456 errands.
Signed, We will be back Saturday, you had your turn the last 2 years.
Dear DH, So the salary is in the ballpark and they seem like a hot mess - dude, that’s your wheelhouse and admit it, that’s what you love. Please follow up, get on a plane and interview (if you don’t have the “right” tie with you buy one - Brooks Brothers is at the airport and you know it) with the CEO. Move the ball forward so you can work from our city and not travel so much after you get these people straightened out. Two years and no more non-compete — what’s the downside here???
Post by oldbaylover1024 on May 2, 2018 8:30:04 GMT -5
Dear IT Guy,
Thank you so much for upgrading my computer and making an effort to schedule a convenient time with me. I really appreciate it.
However...
I assumed plugging my monitors back in was part of the job. Because I didn't enjoy crawling on the office floor today in my dress and heels. I'm less that pleased.
Signed,
Feeling grungy from the dusty floor that hasn't been properly cleaned in God knows how long
Post by vavavictoria on May 2, 2018 9:15:58 GMT -5
Dear computer,
Please turn on and stop doing the please wait circle.
Sincerely, I do not have time for this shit
Dear interviewers,
Please love me on Friday. I have spent a lot of time and effort preparing my presentation for this interview and I promise I am an awesome employee. Also, please stop making people take personality tests. They suck. Or more specifically, I suck at them and I am much better than the results of this test.
I am so over work... Quit sending out term sheets for deals we can't do and then leaving me to deal with the fall out.
I highly dislike the fact that I'm anticipated to do all the upfront diligence and underwriting for a deal that I'm pretty sure we'll have to decline. And because you KNEW what the business model was when you proposed on the deal AND had copies of their unfunded operating plan, I have to work to find reasons to turn down the deal, when both of those should have been enough.
Signed, Tired of doing work that amounts to nothing.
Post by supertrooper1 on May 2, 2018 10:32:59 GMT -5
Dear work, Thank you for sending me a person that actually knows the job and wants to learn my role. It makes training a new person so much easier. Happy to train when it's a good person
Dear DH, I need help picking out new glasses because I'm indecisive and need help finding something I'll wear daily for the next 2 years. Telling me that Wednesday was the only day you could this week and then telling me last night that you have to mow the yard instead did not make me happy. Signed, Not feeling very important
Dear DH and therapy Your attitude and demeanor last night was back to old therapy DH. Slamming doors, pissed off, abrupt, and mad at the world. So much for the talkative happy DH from the week before. I'm super happy you have paintball tournament this weekend and we have 3 full days of not seeing you. Wife who isn't thrilled you are back to seeing therapy lady
Dear DD I'm so glad you are looking forward to girls weekend. But can we lay off all the things to do just a little. We still have to do all the normal stuff too. Mommy who isn't going to have a chill weekend
supertrooper1, ask random strangers at the eye place for opinions. I go next week and am leaving DH and DD home so I don't have to deal with them. I can see DD picking out pink plastic frames and DH grabbing the most expensive because they would be the best and causing me a giant headache.
Post by covergirl82 on May 2, 2018 10:55:54 GMT -5
Dear coworker who is sick,
Please stay home when you are sick! We all can easily WFH, so it's not like you HAD to come in to the office. We work in a cube farm with low walls, and you sit at one of the desks that is adjacent to mine. I really don't want to get sick.
Post by supertrooper1 on May 2, 2018 11:12:52 GMT -5
186momx, That's a great idea. I took DS with me to my appointment and I regretted it because even though he had my phone with headphones, he wanted to try on all the samples they had. DH would probably spend his time trying to wrangle DS and wouldn't be much help anyway.
Dear DH, This winter was not kind on our fence. It’s gone from generic older fence no one would notice to an eyesore that is falling apart. I got one estimate for a replacement just as shit was hitting the fan with my medical issues. Since I’ve got a lot to deal with already juggling raising two kids, scheduling weekly doctor’s appointment and chemo treatments, and holding down a newish full time job where I am not eligible for any FMLA, you said you would take care of getting more fence estimates.
4 weeks have gone by. You have done 0 work on this. Each time I’ve asked you, you’ve assured me you would take care of it. Now you’ve finally admitted you aren’t going to get around to it and the ball is back in my court. If you weren’t going to do shit, I wish you would have just admitted that a month ago so I could have made some progress by now. Signed, Thanks for nothing
You have really stepped up. Who are you and what have you done with my husband? Whatever it is, if you need help burying the body, I’m in.
Love, Grateful Traveling Wife
Dear Job:
I do love you. I love my company and my work. I think what we do is ultra-important, and I love that I’m a part of it. And I love that I’m an important part of it.
But can we please find a way for me to do it without traveling all the freaking time? I know I can be charming and you guys love to parade me in front of politicians on both sides of the aisle. But can we stop doing it weekly?
Sincerely, Woman Who Two Weeks in a Row Woke Up Not Knowing Which Coast She Was On
Dear child, You are not a super hero. Please stop trying to sneak out of your room at night to go on missions like PJ Mask. You're going to give me a heart attack if I find you out on our lawn in the morning. I really don't want to lock you and your sister into your bedroom and bar the windows, but your 100% devotion to this imaginary game is freaking me out. Thank god we've still been awake each time you've snuck out of your bedroom so far. I hope our "It's against the law for little kids to leave their house" story sticks. Signed, You're giving me gray hair!
saraml13 - is the estimate process something you could delegate? My Dad did those things for me when I had my giant commute and was a single parent of an infant and a 4yo. I can’t remember who but you guys borrow a car - can you also borrow some estimation organization?
You have a ton going on and I hope things improve.
saraml13 - is the estimate process something you could delegate? My Dad did those things for me when I had my giant commute and was a single parent of an infant and a 4yo. I can’t remember who but you guys borrow a car - can you also borrow some estimation organization?
You have a ton going on and I hope things improve.
I do use my parents a lot for things like being there when a contractor comes to do work. But I’ve found it to be more trouble than it’s worth to get them involved in the decision making stage of a project. My mom will ask a millions super detailed, obscure questions about the project, even if they have no impact on getting a basic quote. And my parents have boundary issues and take things like this as an opening to give their very strong, unsolicited opinions. So if I left them with instructions to get an estimate for fence style X, I’d return to find them saying “we were talking to the fence guy and we really think that fence style Y is better (for some really random reason), so we had him quote that.”
Saraml13- you have a quote. If your DH isn’t getting more quotes, assuming you think the first is generally reasonable, it looks to me like you have a winner.
Dear Teachers, It’s not that I don’t think you are great. Well, some of you aren’t, and you know who you are. That’s cool, we all suck at our jobs sometimes. But how much celebrating you do we have to do? No one brings me lunch. I’m not caring for kids? Yeah, but financial services cares for your money so ... I just think monthly parent funded catered lunches, monthly parent funded snacks, gifts for BOY and EOY, gifts for holidays, weeks of gifts...It’s a tad bit excessive. The fact that my FB feed is covered with the art projects and cricut projects other moms are doing is at best annoying. Somewhere we went from appreciation to mandated excess. You’ll get handwritten notes from my kids on whatever random paper they choose, probably in neon gel pen or Sharpie. And that’s it. I’m seriously over it. Take your four months a year off and stop looking for more. More more more! It’s like society has collectively lost their minds. Signed, A parent who has had enough of more
First, please get me home safely. Second, please do it tonight.
Sincerely, First Time Not Packing Extra Undies
Dear Work:
No, I really meant it about not traveling as much. Now, if someone can please explain how I can clone myself so I can be on both coasts simultaneously next week, that would rock.
Sincerely, Uncloned Lawyer
Dear Husband:
I’m sorry I’m traveling so much. I hate it too. Thanks again for stepping up like a boss.
mommyatty - the AA notification that DH’s 9PM flight was cancelled and rebooked to tomorrow afternoon just popped up. Apparently our airport is waaaay backed up. It stormed for two hours. It sucks. Hope you make it home.
mommyatty - the AA notification that DH’s 9PM flight was cancelled and rebooked to tomorrow afternoon just popped up. Apparently our airport is waaaay backed up. It stormed for two hours. It sucks. Hope you make it home.
I know. Frowny face. I may be finding a hotel with a good bar on short notice.
Grow up, you are the one that locked yourself out of the house this morning at 445. Don't be mad at me because I didn't hear my phone, or you banging on the door for 7-8 minutes, since I was sleeping!
Signed, Wifey, who better not keep getting the silent treatment when I get home.