Post by supertrooper1 on Aug 11, 2021 12:46:59 GMT -5
Dear cousin, Thank you so much for giving us your campsite for next weekend after your plans changed. But I still want to pay you! Signed, Grateful relative
Dear self, You really don't have that much going on and planned. So why do you feel stressed and overbooked? Signed, Take things one at a time
Dear COVID travel world, OMG. I don't think I'm prepared to deal with you. Vaccine requirements, travel restrictions, testing requirements, etc are all making my life a crazy mess as I try to plan this annual work trip. I truly don't know how I'm going to handle coordinating 400 people from all over the country with rules that change what feels like daily. With over six months until the actual travel date, I'm already at panic level 100 and I know it's just going to keep getting worse. Signed, Frantic event planner
Dear guests, I DON'T KNOW. That's my answer to every question you're asking and I need you to just get over it and be understanding and cooperative because I'm working with 1,000 moving targets right now. I cannot give you definite answers on literally anything and you have to be ok with that. Signed, I DON'T KNOW
I hope you have a great first day of school, even though you were less than enthusiastic.
Signed mom.
Dear WP,
It is super sad to go from 2 back to school pictures down to one.
Signed, still not ready for that.
Dear people in my school district,
Just put the mask on your kid!! It is not that bad. The kids really don't gripe nearly as much as the adults. Quit making it hard on the people working to educate and take care of your kids. Plus, the guy who showed up at the mask protest knowing he was Covid positive who is now dodging the Health Department and the school is super helpful to the situation.
Signed, Health worker whose patience ran out last school year.
Dear District Farm Camp DD is having a blast with her fellow gym friends who all go to different schools in the district. But I want to be a fly on the wall or have some way to watch. Collecting eggs from chickens yesterday and DD's chicken actually laid the egg into her hand was photo worthy. Also today is bee keeping and I want to see how cute they are in the kid sized bee suits. Glad she is having fun but want to see what is what Me
Dear Gym Coaches I feel ridiculous stalking your car after practice to get an update on DD. Then when you can't give me an update other than she seemed tired today frustrates me. You just spent 3 hours with her and can't tell me anything. Communicate Please Gym Mom
rere, you can come here to mandated indoor masking. I updated my masks signs at work because the old ones looked ratty. COVID GO AWAY!
And new hire quit..... I knew it wasn't looking good when there was a family emergency last week the morning of the first day. Now again the family emergency has struck the morning of the shift (there are only 2 shifts a week). Then the person says they have to travel and won't be here for 2 weeks, and maybe I should find someone more reliable.
1. I asked pre interview if they can do the shifts 2. I ask in the interview can you do the shifts 3. I give a print out of shifts during the interview 4. I include the shifts in the offer letter
186momx. Our district has a mandate and now the governor issued one state wide, so cue people loosing their minds. I don't think some of these people even have kids in school. They are just ready to protest anything. Then you have the parents say they will send their kids to school without a mask and the schools can't make them wear one. Way to start on a positive note people.
Dear fellow school parents, No, masks have not been mandated at school, but that could change. The school board meets tomorrow to approve the Health and Safety Plan. For the sake of our kids, please accept whatever the board decides and just stop with the online petitions. I don't want any protests or arguments. I wish the school board meeting was still broadcast because I just don't want to deal with all of you if the board doesn't approve the decision you want. Signed, Can we just get back to school already?
Dear mom friend, I love your idea of taking Facebook screenshots of every parent who bitches about their kids having to wear masks and posting them when the school gets shut down due to Covid. Signed, I'll never admit it on Facebook because I don't want to put my politics there, but you have my respect
Dear neighboring school district anti-masking parents, I'm glad that I don't live there. I can't believe you guys paid for a billboard to blast the district and to advertise your online petition. Signed, I'm sorry that my nieces have to deal with you though
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
Dear schedule, Oh. wow. You're looking very, very full with swim team, OT, school, and my return to the office. This is really happening, huh? I know I wanted to get back out into the world but I'm feeling a little panicky given the lack of "stuff" on our calendar for the past year and a half... I don't know if I'm ready to juggle all of this. Did it all have to kick in during the same 2 week span? Yikes, Soon To Be Busy
Pretty sure new hire that quit lied to me about their grandfather dying. Who does that?
I’ve been trying to find an obit and nothing. I need to let it go, but they are not a college student. Old enough to know not to accept a job if they aren’t ready to deal with the pandemic, and don’t have childcare. Why not just say that rather than making up a dead relative?
Post by mustardseed2007 on Aug 12, 2021 7:52:40 GMT -5
waverly, I have realized I have an employee I manage who does this. She has significant anxiety that she takes meds for, but one of her coping mechanisms (IMO as a completely unqualified arm chair psychologist) is to lie about little stuff and occasionally big stuff in stupid ways.
I had one tell me they had a family emergency before an interview. Emergency is probably an exaggeration because what are the odds something really crazy happened 30 minutes before. Then they ghosted in the second attempt. I figured that was anxiety.
Does unemployment factor into this? Where they have to appear to be trying to get a job for unemployment but they aren’t actually ready to go back to work? I thought unemployment had run out from the pandemic but maybe not.
I figure at least with the “death” lie they figure people HAVE to be really nice to them. Like if someone says someone dies you can’t be like well you are lying. And to be clear I don’t know for sure. It’s just that the timing and the way she wrote her note was all like I’m using this as an excuse to quit rather than I’ll be out for a week but I’ll be back in X date.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Aug 12, 2021 9:03:33 GMT -5
waverly, that was a persistent refrain in our company a couple months ago. "When extra unemployment goes away, the people will come back." Well, there is no more extra unemployment in our state, and in our state, unemployment payments last for 26 weeks so people should be coming off it and yet, the shortage persists. And not just a little, a huge amount. So much so that it would have to just be tons and tons of people deciding they are going to milk unemployment somehow beyond a period where it could reasonably be paying their bills.
We are having a terrible time hiring in our industry which is hospitality/retail and it has persisted past the point where unemployment can really be a factor for most people. I think a sizeable percentage of people who were furloughed during the worst part of the beginning of the pandemic have largely left our industry all together.
There was a really interesting podcast episode on the daily about restaurants and some reasons they are having a hard time filling positions that felt really true. That's not your industry but it's a thing that's happening. Everyone is hiring and people have choices.
I work for an engineering company, so not at all retail or hospitality. And we are in an all out war for talent. My old company was laying people off, and now they can’t hire people back. I don’t know exactly what is happening with the labor market but it’s wacky right now. I’ve been in a bidding war for environmental professionals.
Can one of you who is hiring please hire my H? He does not want to go back to corporate software design. We want him to continue being a SAHD as he did during the pandemic this far, but our budget needs a little more money coming in. Looking for 15-20hrs/week at an hourly job and he can’t seem to get hired!
So far he’s been rejected from the public library, the giant grocery store (where he wanted to do in-store shopping but it seems they actually just wanted cashiers), and the local hardware shop where the owner said my H was too old for the registers and too young to work the floor.
I know he doesn’t have recent retail or customer service experience but isn’t the story that there are so many jobs and no one to work them? Cough up a job, universe.
shakinros , I've come to the conclusion that the system is completely broken either that or I am really terrible at this which I probably am not great, but I've been doing this for 12 years and attended training on it, so I should be this bad.
I really really poured over the resumes this time. Didn't make a difference. I looked for someone with previous experience, and thought OK a library person would be great. That person turned out to be totally nuts. Then it became more of a dating numbers game. Like if I interview enough people maybe one of them will work out.
How, do I decide who to interview? I still don't know. Also, not getting many applications here at all. So I go to Indeed which seems to be a history of poor resumes, so that makes it harder. Not sure if it is the format or not, but I need more than 5 applications because it is partially a numbers game, I think.
There seems to be no clear cut difference between applicants who email and those that apply on Indeed. The one that stood me up for the interview was an email applicant. I should have guessed because the person had not updated their resume, which now I see is they were lying. The told the truth when I asked in the interview but the resume technically had a lie on it. When I ask them questions in the interview, they tell me what they think I want to hear, even if I ask those past situational type questions. So since they are trying to put their best foot forward, a lot of it is just not really getting into actually who this person is. Now maybe if I am choosing between 2, I should just make them 2nd interviews maybe... Maybe I should start with phone interviews first to save me and them the trouble of meeting in person.
I don't know, but my point it is it's a black box. And really I don't think we are getting the right people matched up with the right jobs very well at all. DH's advice to me is make my resume 75% of the job that I am looking for to really prove that correlation. But we've both been applying with no luck, but everyone else is moving? And our resumes are way better than I see given to me. DH says everyone is getting tired of recruiters ghosting them, so they ghost people, but I think there is more happening society wise than that.
Post by erinshelley21 on Aug 12, 2021 21:40:39 GMT -5
I don't remember the last time I posted (it's been several weeks maybe?) But am trying to catch up. Again.
shakinros I don't know if school is in person for your area at the moment or not, but would your H want to be a substitute teacher? I know practically every district in my area is begging for substitute teachers.