Tuesday?

[k3am]

rere, I'm an awful traffic driver. The #1 reason I took this job was because it was essentially identical to my prior job but at a new company and the commute was exactly the same. I can look out the window and see my old building.

It feels like such a silly thing to be annoyed at, because at the end of the day, this job/company has a lot more pro's than I'd originally expected or imagined, but man. I'm really hoping it doesn't pan out.

[sdlaura]

2chatter luckily I’ve never dealt with facial stitches before. Do I have to go down to the children’s hospital for regular stitches or will my Pediatrics practice handle this sort of thing? We’re seeing the doctor who founded the practice 40 years ago so hopefully he’ll have good advice.

I just left my meeting less than 20 min ago and my plane is currently pulling away from the gate (I made it). I love the San Jose airport - I know you can appreciate that as well k3am!

[k3am]

sdlaura that's impressive. Do you do Clear and TSA Precheck?

I am really spoiled with SJC. I'm always disappointed at most airports.

[sdlaura]

k3am I have precheck. I don’t understand why everyone doesn’t have it, even if they only fly once a year.

We don’t have Clear yet at my home airport in San Diego, so I haven’t gotten it yet. Apparently it’s coming soon, so then I’ll see whether it makes sense.

[ilovelucyvv]

Hi I haven’t been around much lately, mostly lurking. Im out of town this week spending my evenings doing some solo shopping. Tomorrow night I have a phone date with one of my friends.

Starting next week im going to be leading a second team for 5 months which is going to take me to a 10 to 1 ratio. What ive been doing is managing people managing customer relationships so this translates to a ton of customers.

[waverly]

Apr 23, 2019 17:22:41 GMT -5 sdlaura said:

2chatter luckily I’ve never dealt with facial stitches before. Do I have to go down to the children’s hospital for regular stitches or will my Pediatrics practice handle this sort of thing? We’re seeing the doctor who founded the practice 40 years ago so hopefully he’ll have good advice.

I just left my meeting less than 20 min ago and my plane is currently pulling away from the gate (I made it). I love the San Jose airport - I know you can appreciate that as well k3am!

I tried to get the glue at the pedi but he decided the hole (in her forehead) was too big and he sent us to the Children’s hospital for stitches. She does have a small scar.

[sdlaura]

Just saw the pedi. He said we could split it open and stitch and the scar was likely to be smaller. But he said given that he’s a boy and it’s on his eyebrow and splitting it open would be traumatic, he recommended just letting it heal. We’re getting some prescription antibiotic ointment now.

[2chatter]

That is great news!! Eyebrows are the best place - DS has a scar there too and you totally cannot see it.

If you ever need to know again — here, there’s a mobile plastics service that will meet you at the ER. Here urgent cares and pediatricians don’t do stitches. The main/closest Children’s hospital doesn’t have plastics and won’t call them. We learned the hard way and now have the plastics concierge service saved in our phones and all emergency forms direct to the slightly further children’s hospital as they have all specialties and don’t force you to wait for admission to see them.

[sdlaura]

I had no idea that type of service existed, 2chatter! I looked it up and there is a high-volume plastic surgery division at our children’s hospital. I expect we’ll need their services at some point

[mae0111]

There is a plastics group at our local ER as well. We love one surgeon in particular. (Yes, we have a favorite. Clumsy kids.)

Last time we went, DD2 had split open her chin. The residents fought hard to stitch it themselves, and I was very “unreasonable”. I dug in my heels and requested Dr. Awesome. They kept saying there was NO WAY he was coming for that. He was stitching her up 5 mins later. So even if they are available, the ER docs might fight you on seeing them. Sometimes they want the practice.

k3am - I had that commute for years. 14 miles, easily 1h 10m to 1.5 hrs each way if I commuted alone, 45-50 mins if I had a passenger and could use the carpool lane. If I was alone, it was nice to have some quiet before I got home to the dinner/bath/bedtime madness. But I burned out after a while.

[sandandsea]

Apr 23, 2019 17:02:04 GMT -5 k3am said:

rere, I'm an awful traffic driver. The #1 reason I took this job was because it was essentially identical to my prior job but at a new company and the commute was exactly the same. I can look out the window and see my old building.

It feels like such a silly thing to be annoyed at, because at the end of the day, this job/company has a lot more pro's than I'd originally expected or imagined, but man. I'm really hoping it doesn't pan out.

I’d be mad about it too. I wouldn’t want to go any further.

[2chatter]

DH is in the same boat k3am. It will mean he won’t be home for dinner, and sometimes bedtime on a normal day. The extra 45 minutes kill that. They move in mid June and I am dreading it.

[mustardseed2007]

k3am, maybe if it does happen you could alter your hours or even work days to help a little? I know you deal with clients though so...

[mellym]

We just promoted three people in my department. I'm not their direct supervisor but I oversee the department. Do I get them a gift or anything?

[covergirl82]

mellym, usually we just send out a recognition/congratulations email for promotions. They should be receiving a pay increase for the promotion, so a gift seems a little redundant to me. But I also work for a non-profit, so we are more lean on things like that.

[k3am]

Apr 24, 2019 9:13:41 GMT -5 mustardseed2007 said:

k3am , maybe if it does happen you could alter your hours or even work days to help a little? I know you deal with clients though so...

It's a definite possibility. The majority of my portfolio is east coast, so working 6:30-3:30 would be fine. But getting out of bed at that hour... yikes. I could probably include some WFH days on a regular basis, but I suck at working from home. I just don't have the focus/mindset/motivation for it.

It is VERY early stages, but we're all speculating, and since we're a small department, we also may try to push to work out of a branch rather than HQ - the only one that has the space is further away but reverse commute, so the actual time on the road would be the same as what I have today.

I know we have a LOT of people here who have much longer commutes, but they all signed up for the job knowing what the commute would be. I don't envy the people in charge of planning our move - there is no way they can please everyone. Or even most everyone.

[soccermama]

I'm here too (newbie but long-time off/on lurker). Work has definitely been slow for me so I've been gbcn lots, lol.

[mommyatty]

I had to make a power move yesterday at work and I’m still pushed off about it because it was with someone I consider friend-adjacent. (Like we could be friends and are normally strong allies.)

Here’s the long story. I support our engineering and design groups, getting building permits from various federal agencies. The design group did a shit job estimating a new project, like to the tune of being $250 MILLION off the mark. They are changing the design, but instead of owning up to their mistake, they want to say the reason they can’t build it for the original price is because I can’t permit it. Bullshit. So I sat in our CEO’s office while he questioned, in a nutshell, why I didn’t have the balls to push back on this. I do. I have told everyone I am happy to push to permit the original design.

So yesterday I met with all the folks at federal agencies and got them the ability to build their original design. Plus I sent an email to my VP and theirs indicating that their old design was NOT the price they advertised to our CEO. So now they can stop blaming me for their $250 million fuck up and take some effing responsibility for their own actions.

[mustardseed2007]

mommyatty, those jerks! Something happened here last year on a smaller scale. we were not in the line of fire but someone on the build team was and it was not their fault at all.

[traveltheworld]

mommyatty, wow. That's a big f*ck up from your design team. And everyone always blames the lawyers I'm glad you stood up for yourself!