twinmomma, DD barely made it through book 4 in 2nd grade. She wasn't emotionally ready to handle the sad and death. I was very surprised she was able to finish all 7. She did cheat and read the epilogue in book 7 and once she realized Harry doesn't "die" she seemed better equipped emotionally to finish reading the series but it was very touch and go at some parts.
My sister brought her the Fantastic Beasts and The Cursed Child books down to read today.
I'm mostly worried about a twin Weasley death. That hits a little too close to home around here.
DS read parts of book 1 of Harry Potter in kindergarten and found it too scary and refuses to go back to it, which makes me so sad. I'm hoping he'll come around when DD starts reading them.
twinmomma, have your girls read either the Wings of Fire or Story Thieves series? We all loved both. DS is also really into the Warrior series (there are like 50+ books so once they are hooked, you can just ride that for a while).
No, haven't done those yet. I will have to look them up! Thankfully my mom shipped us a box of first run samples she got for her school library so that will tide us over for a bit. We were getting dangerously low.
I’ve been reading Harry Potter to DD for about a year now. We’re almost done with Order if the Phoenix. She is obsessed. My mouth is tired. I am dreading the possibility of having to reread to DS.
Post by traveltheworld on May 14, 2020 23:03:13 GMT -5
mae0111, get her into Wings of Fire! You do have to read them in sequence though. Every 5 books is a sequence. Ok I know I'm now repeating myself, but I think it's by far my most favorite series - even more so than Harry Potter. What I love the most is that it teaches really good life lessons. Both DH and I are avid readers and we enjoyed reading the series ourselves. We read them at the same time that DS did and talking about the books with DS has been one of the highlights of our family time together. I'm still amazed at how much it has influenced DS's views on friendship, courage, kindness and what it means to be brave and do the right thing. Outschool has a creative writing camp centered around Wings of Fire. I've signed DS up and both he and I are so excited about it.
DS reads about a book every two days and I try to at least read a small portion of each series that he's into so that I know that the content is appropriate and we have something to talk about, but nothing has topped the enjoyment I've gotten out of reading the Wings of Fire You should read it too! It's a nice light read and just great.
I’ve been reading Harry Potter to DD for about a year now. We’re almost done with Order if the Phoenix. She is obsessed. My mouth is tired. I am dreading the possibility of having to reread to DS.
As someone who took on 2 people's workloads while looking for replacements and still has no replacements for them a year later and now has my headcount taken away... agreed!
I'm not overly concerned about this. I've talked to my boss about the expectations a lot and he's already concerned that it will be too much to add long term. He knows it's a very shitty band aid right now. I'm just still trying to wrap my head around it. I thought this was happening in a couple weeks, not basically overnight, so I've had no time to prep a transition plan.
I lied. I'm concerned now. It's all terrible and my workload is already a mess. Mainly because said employee wiped all her files and notes and a ton of information that I need to be able to pick up where she left off. So I'm starting from scratch for no reason other than she was spiteful and worked very quickly before IT removed her access to things. I've been near tears since last night trying to get a handle on all of this.
I'm not overly concerned about this. I've talked to my boss about the expectations a lot and he's already concerned that it will be too much to add long term. He knows it's a very shitty band aid right now. I'm just still trying to wrap my head around it. I thought this was happening in a couple weeks, not basically overnight, so I've had no time to prep a transition plan.
I lied. I'm concerned now. It's all terrible and my workload is already a mess. Mainly because said employee wiped all her files and notes and a ton of information that I need to be able to pick up where she left off. So I'm starting from scratch for no reason other than she was spiteful and worked very quickly before IT removed her access to things. I've been near tears since last night trying to get a handle on all of this.
Omg. I’m so sorry. How did she get back to her desk??? That’s a big no no!! My old company didn’t even let people back to get their coat or purses - someone had to get them and deliver to the lobby.
mae0111, It was all remote. So she was on the work laptop to do the actual video call about it. They couldn't shut stuff down til that was done. Otherwise same as what you described - no one is allowed anywhere near their desks and we pack up all personal stuff. It sucks so, so much.
I just found out I’m going to lose one person in my group. twinmomma- I was wondering if ethically I should warn him. You’ve just answered the question for me, because he absolutely would do something like that.
mae0111, It was all remote. So she was on the work laptop to do the actual video call about it. They couldn't shut stuff down til that was done. Otherwise same as what you described - no one is allowed anywhere near their desks and we pack up all personal stuff. It sucks so, so much.
Jeez. Of course it was remote. I’m stupid. But even with those calls we’d have IT kill access like a minute before the meeting. People would think huh, weird, WiFi acting up and then the bomb would drop.
Is this the person that you’ve had issues with in the past? I’m hoping this will be short term pain for long term gain??
Post by erinshelley21 on May 15, 2020 10:36:18 GMT -5
twinmomma some people suck. I feel like an old fashioned phone call would have sufficed for letting her go? Maybe that would have shortened the amount of time she had to wipe it clean.
twinmomma , that sucks. If they're worth their salt, your IT department should have redundancies and be able to recover everything she deleted.
Which is what I had to do when we let someone go at my prior company. They did some voodoo and it took them like 5 minutes to recover everything. As a bonus, I also got to read a bunch of really odd rambling things she'd saved in her "personal" (aka on a work computer, so no expectation of privacy) drive. It was... enlightening. I'd been saying for MONTHS she had drug issues, and.. she had drug issues and then some. (ETA: they were all saved as word files with client names and buried in client docs.. so you'd think it was client related, read a few paragraphs, and then BAM! "Let go of liars. Don't be a liar. Stop lying to yourself and stop with doing the shit you do that's killing yourself.")
k3am, We've recovered some. I believe she saved a lot locally to her desktop/computer, not the network, so that's all gone. And mae0111, yes, same person. So I shouldn't be surprised and I fully expected a negative response, but I am surprised at the level of damage she did. I expected more personal retaliation, not something that would burn a reference bridge for her.
twinmomma - I wouldn’t expect that either, so I hope you’re not second guessing anything. My only point was that she’s been a thorn in your side for a while now, and hopefully this will open the door to eventually getting the right person in the door.
Dear baby, since you are obviously super excited to arrive (given my water breaking last night at 36+3), could we maybe get this show on the road? I much prefer the model of my previous 3 kids where we showed up at the hospital 8/9 cm dilated, vs 2 cm with this one.
He’s here! It took a long time to get real contractions going but we managed to avoid interventions. Benjamin Mac is 6 lbs 9 oz and is just barely pre term. My sciatica hasn’t going away yet so my leg is still killing me.