WWYD? Ugh. On Good Friday my company closed at 3pm. I have to enter my hours in an online system where you can punch or enter the hours later. It is annoying, because I'm full time and it's the same unless I take PTO which is entered and approved beforehand. So I worked until much later than 3 that Friday and was rushing to get to packing for my vacation and when I went in to put my end time as 3pm I put AM instead. I ended up getting 10.5 hours of overtime in my check. My manager couldn't fix it so I contacted HR and the person had to figure out what to do. I just got an email saying she was able to deduct 10.5 hours from this week. Do I need to point out that overtime is paid more? They should figure out that it has to be deducted at the OT rate, right? I already feel like a pain in the ass.
I wouldn’t mention it. I would assume HR knows this and if you point it out it would come off as condescending. If they did somehow overlook this, you can mention it after the fact or since you said you worked until much later than 3 anyway keep it as your OT payment. Whichever you feel more comfortable with.
tacokick, I don't see why your primary doesn't send in the prescription. I can understand a doctor saying hey I didn't examen you, so I can't prescribe, but then the primary should send it.
I think I will ask if she will write a new one. I had chosen her to do the renewal authorization from the portal (we had discussed this at my visit) but that’s clearly not what happened!
I asked the scheduler if that was the issue with the gynecologist and was told it wasn’t which added to the confusion. They were truly the most circular conversations I’ve had in years. Multiple phone calls over hours and nothing resolved.
As the one who does 100% of grocery shopping and meal planning at our house, I can say that grocery shopping is a rubber ball in our home. I have a deep freezer and an overstocked pantry (including a shelf in the basement). If it’s shelf/freezer stable and something we eat, I probably have an extra at the house. I could feed our family for long time if we were flexible on what we were eating. It’s a combo of how I was raised, anxiety, and living in a snowy area, I think. (I’m not a peeper planning for the end of the world, I just like to have extras so I can buy when it’s on sale and never need to make a last minute trip to the store.) I always dream of cutting down on what we have, but then things just fill back up. If the world ends, head to my house…I’ve got food! My neighbors know I’m a good person to call if they’re short something for a recipe.
That said, I realize this is not common. There’s a 90+% chance that this guy just has no clue and it’s only a rubber ball because his wife deals with it.
I just answered a call from Women's Healthcare of our city name only to have a confusing conversation with a receptionist who wanted to make an appointment for my 13YO son. After some careful questioning on both parts, it was clarified that she was actually calling from our dentist's office and my caller ID was wrong.
I just answered a call from Women's Healthcare of our city name only to have a confusing conversation with a receptionist who wanted to make an appointment for my 13YO son. After some careful questioning on both parts, it was clarified that she was actually calling from our dentist's office and my caller ID was wrong.
My 16 year old got their wisdom teeth removed this morning, and H got a hilarious video of them in the car coming home asking if the surgeon had also removed their tongue, and telling their teeth that they were sorry. There was also a long stretch where they were waving at the camera and then complained to H that they couldn't stop moving their arm, lol.
This is truly random but stuck in my head. Some big level guy at my job sent out a newsletter talking about priorities in life and the rubber vs glass ball analogy. In it he said grocery shopping is a rubber ball, it's ok to get dropped, going to the gym is a glass ball and dropping a day will have major consequences in the future. I was so annoyed like obviously you have no hand in the running of your household if thats where you think the priorities are. It also had a picture of his family and he had a few kids, because I could see being single and grocery shopping isn't top of the list for priority you can always figure out food for yourself. But when you have kids I feel like having food they will eat around is a bigger deal? Idk or maybe I'm just burnt out grocery shopping and meal planning and wish it was something I could drop with few consequences.
This reminds me of a conversation I had with a bro-type husband who was feeling very full of himself and talking trash about his wife. He was going on & on about how he goes to the gym every morning and about how critical it is to health (with examples - because this isn’t common knowledge?). He kept boasting how much HE SUPPORTS HIS WIFE but she just doesn’t go before work ‘like him’. I usually let this stuff go, but he basically wanted a pat on the back and a gold star, & since I knew his wife and liked her, I indulged my snarkier side.
I asked him - “What days?” He was all, “What? What do you mean?” I asked, “What days do you get your kids ready for school and put them on the bus so she can go to the gym before work?” He just stared at me. So, I said, “When you go to the gym every morning before work, your wife takes care of the kids and gets them to school. If you both went to the gym before work, your kids would be home alone, right?” That’s when he started to stutter. I wasn’t sure if this never occurred to him or if he was still trying to spin this great big tale about ‘what a great guy he was’ & how I was misunderstanding the whole thing. So, I repeated, “So, what days do you get the kids ready for school so your wife can go to the gym before work? Because you support her going, right? For her health.”
Re: litter boxes. My cat is very picky about the box and will not go if she thinks it's too dirty. Her idea of "too dirty" and mine are vastly different. It took me years to figure out a system that works both for her desire for clean litter and my complete inability to scoop daily. Two rubbermaid totes with holes cut out of one side to walk through, one in the upstairs bathroom one downstairs. Litter is the Dr Elisies (i think that's the brand, Dr. E-Something at least) senior crystal litter. The type that is silica bits, the "senior" is much finer than the regular, more like sand or salt. I use a dog poop bag to scoop solids as soon as I notice them, which is usually twice a day, one is always first thing in the morning. Swirl around the litter every few days with a scooper. Change it about once a month, more often if it's two cats, you can tell when it needs changing cause it starts to look yellow (ew) and my cat will refuse to use it. I don't notice any smell from the urine, but TBF it's my house and I may be nose blind to it. I can not scoop urine clumps with clumping litter, I will avoid it like the plague and never do it. And I hate cleaning the clay litter out. So this is a great system that works well for us. Oh and I'll periodically spray the boxes with enzyme cleaner, too, litter and all.
DS (first year in college) didn't have a lot of plans this weekend and so it brings up my anxiety about his social anxiety. I need to remember we are different people, he didn't sound bummed about not having plans and he did go to the gym, play his intramural sports and worked his job as a sports referee. Last weekend he talked about plans with friends.
This sounds like a lot of plans to me. Way more than I do now or in college on the weekends.
This is truly random but stuck in my head. Some big level guy at my job sent out a newsletter talking about priorities in life and the rubber vs glass ball analogy. In it he said grocery shopping is a rubber ball, it's ok to get dropped, going to the gym is a glass ball and dropping a day will have major consequences in the future. I was so annoyed like obviously you have no hand in the running of your household if thats where you think the priorities are. It also had a picture of his family and he had a few kids, because I could see being single and grocery shopping isn't top of the list for priority you can always figure out food for yourself. But when you have kids I feel like having food they will eat around is a bigger deal? Idk or maybe I'm just burnt out grocery shopping and meal planning and wish it was something I could drop with few consequences.
This reminds me of a conversation I had with a bro-type husband who was feeling very full of himself and talking trash about his wife. He was going on & on about how he goes to the gym every morning and about how critical it is to health (with examples - because this isn’t common knowledge?). He kept boasting how much HE SUPPORTS HIS WIFE but she just doesn’t go before work ‘like him’. I usually let this stuff go, but he basically wanted a pat on the back and a gold star, & since I knew his wife and liked her, I indulged my snarkier side.
I asked him - “What days?” He was all, “What? What do you mean?” I asked, “What days do you get your kids ready for school and put them on the bus so she can go to the gym before work?” He just stared at me. So, I said, “When you go to the gym every morning before work, your wife takes care of the kids and gets them to school. If you both went to the gym before work, your kids would be home alone, right?” That’s when he started to stutter. I wasn’t sure if this never occurred to him or if he was still trying to spin this great big tale about ‘what a great guy he was’ & how I was misunderstanding the whole thing. So, I repeated, “So, what days do you get the kids ready for school so your wife can go to the gym before work? Because you support her going, right? For her health.”
I want to like this ten million times 🥳 *loud applause*
I got yearly blood work done yesterday and received the results this morning. They're not great. High bad cholesterol, low good cholesterol, low carbon dioxide, and elevated glucose (back in pre-diabetes range).
You'd think I'd start planning a better diet and more exercise.
All I can think about is cheesy/salty fried food and ice cream.
Post by lilypad1126 on Apr 10, 2024 21:29:14 GMT -5
tacokick, ooh I feel your pain with this. I saw my doc for a physical in January. At the time I didn’t need prescription renewals, but I knew I’d need them in April. So I asked him if he could send them in then (back in January) or if I had to wait til April. He said he could try sending them in January but usually it worked better to wait. Fine.
April rolls around and I message him through the portal that i need my renewals and remind him I was just there in January. Some random person in the office (not him, not a doc, and not a nurse as far as I could figure out) wrote me back and was like like, “you MUST come in for a visit if you want your prescriptions.” So I wrote back, and I admit I was not as pleasant as usual, but I basically said “you’re wrong. Dr. R told me I could message him this way to get renewals. PLEASE ask him directly about this.” I then left for a work trip and thought, welp, hopefully I don’t get fired as a patience.
Lo and behold I got a call from my actual doctor yesterday who apologized profusely for his staff and told me called in my renewals.
I get that doctors get a lot of messages. And I get that some questions don’t actually need their attention. But it should have been very clear in my chart that I was there like 8 weeks ago, these are maintenance meds at the lowest possible dose, and there was no need for me to come back. Other than that they wanted to charge my insurance again, I’m sure.
Post by expectantsteelerfan on Apr 11, 2024 7:00:11 GMT -5
tacokick, I hope it works out for you, but I see my primary care for a LOT of issues and I'd say her office is pretty patient-friendly (as in, they respond quickly to messages through the app, are good about sending refills as long as I've been seen in the past year, etc.), but there are a few meds my primary care won't prescribe for me even though I see her regularly, and my BCP is one of them. I don't know if it's a demand of my insurance or the health system my primary Dr. works for, but I am required to have an annual 'well woman' exam even if I'm not due for a pap or anything else by an OBGYN to keep my rx for BCP, and this appt. must be separate from my annual physical.
expectantsteelerfan, it's the same for me. I've always had a separate OB/GYN and had to do well woman appointments to get my BCP. I don't think my PCP has ever prescribed that for me. I'm also in PA (I believe you are?) and that seems more common here? I always see posters here from other states talking about their PCP doing their paps and stuff and I don't know anyone who does that around here.
WWYD? Ugh. On Good Friday my company closed at 3pm. I have to enter my hours in an online system where you can punch or enter the hours later. It is annoying, because I'm full time and it's the same unless I take PTO which is entered and approved beforehand. So I worked until much later than 3 that Friday and was rushing to get to packing for my vacation and when I went in to put my end time as 3pm I put AM instead. I ended up getting 10.5 hours of overtime in my check. My manager couldn't fix it so I contacted HR and the person had to figure out what to do. I just got an email saying she was able to deduct 10.5 hours from this week. Do I need to point out that overtime is paid more? They should figure out that it has to be deducted at the OT rate, right? I already feel like a pain in the ass.
I wouldn’t mention it. I would assume HR knows this and if you point it out it would come off as condescending. If they did somehow overlook this, you can mention it after the fact or since you said you worked until much later than 3 anyway keep it as your OT payment. Whichever you feel more comfortable with.
Thank you!! I felt like it would come off that way. That she would either fell like, yes, I know how to do my job or, PIA just take it and don't make it more complicated. I just never want anyone to feel like I'm trying to get over either. I thanked her dmfor fixing it and I'll leave it at that.
DS (first year in college) didn't have a lot of plans this weekend and so it brings up my anxiety about his social anxiety. I need to remember we are different people, he didn't sound bummed about not having plans and he did go to the gym, play his intramural sports and worked his job as a sports referee. Last weekend he talked about plans with friends.
This sounds like a lot of plans to me. Way more than I do now or in college on the weekends.
expectantsteelerfan, it's the same for me. I've always had a separate OB/GYN and had to do well woman appointments to get my BCP. I don't think my PCP has ever prescribed that for me. I'm also in PA (I believe you are?) and that seems more common here? I always see posters here from other states talking about their PCP doing their paps and stuff and I don't know anyone who does that around here.
I wonder if this is a difference between family medicine and internal medicine? When I saw an internal medicine doctor as my PCP they didn’t do well woman appointments. Now that I see a family med doctor they do. Same state (not PA).
lilypad1126 Isn’t it awful? I had talked to my primary about her doing the renewal of the prescription and that’s what made it so puzzling why the scheduling woman called from a different office.
You’d think they’d check your chart before calling and save some back and forth and guessing.
tacokick, I hope it works out for you, but I see my primary care for a LOT of issues and I'd say her office is pretty patient-friendly (as in, they respond quickly to messages through the app, are good about sending refills as long as I've been seen in the past year, etc.), but there are a few meds my primary care won't prescribe for me even though I see her regularly, and my BCP is one of them. I don't know if it's a demand of my insurance or the health system my primary Dr. works for, but I am required to have an annual 'well woman' exam even if I'm not due for a pap or anything else by an OBGYN to keep my rx for BCP, and this appt. must be separate from my annual physical.
That is interesting! I had asked the scheduler if it was an issue like that and she said no but she also didn’t seem to understand I had a physical 3 weeks ago. But I was just guessing and didn’t know if could be an insurance issue or practice policy. Now that you bring it up, I’ll see if I can find some details about that. Thanks!