Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent
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@Kestrel said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:
I know this is not the place for politics but I’m just going to say it’s making me cry, and I guess more context isn’t needed than that.
The world’s a miserable, annoying place sometimes and quite frankly I’m at the point where I have to ask people “do we want another 40 years of this bullshit?”
I’m 45 years old and I’ve been witnessing the same crooks in charge and the same failed approaches to policy my entire adult life. At some point I have to step back and ask if people who support these failures really believe that this is going to be the year said bullshit works.
^ Apologies for the vague language but I tried to convey my frustration at people and things with a complete lack of specifics.
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@Kestrel it’s devastating.
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I’m still sick and I start my new job tomorrow. Yay~
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The person writing up our home study texted me once with a single additional question about my husband. She has emailed him three times asking additional questions about me.
I am feeling paranoid on top of the anxiety I already have about being good enough to be a foster parent.
I’m sure it is fine and she is trying to do her best to write the best narrative possible about us, and hubs was just sparse with details during the in person interview.
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yells something about teenagers while pulling her hair in fistfuls
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@Cobalt said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:
yells something about teenagers while pulling her hair in fistfuls
I really just want to scream at the top of my lungs, but I can’t. What kind of person sprays mace in a house full of people with asthma, covid lung damage, and COPD?
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@junipersky Just popping in after a long absence to check in on how you’re doing and offer support. Having been there, how you’re feeling is totally normal even if I know that won’t help lessen the anxiety.
Also, this won’t help lessen the anxiety either, but the fact you’re worrying is a sign you are definitely good enough to be a foster parent. What a friend told me that helped a lot was “The bad parents never stop to worry about if they’re doing a good job or not.” Best of luck and sending you all the positive vibes.
You got this!
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@Cobalt Ack! What the hell? I was hoping your recovery was going well, but that definitely doesn’t help!
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@junipersky AHHH! That’s so exciting! I know we don’t know each other, but if you want to reach out to vent/celebrate/ramble feel free. It is an exciting, exhausting but fantastic journey. I wish you all the best!
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@SockMonkey said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:
@Cobalt Ack! What the hell? I was hoping your recovery was going well, but that definitely doesn’t help!
Teenagers are stupid.
Meanwhile, my father in law was already sick. He’s now been hospitalized because he has an infection they can’t find and his single kidney is not working at capacity because of dehydration.
And unless I’m granted an exemption by the HR department I’ll lose my job if I miss anymore work between now and the 20th.
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@Cobalt
hugsI’m so sorry. Sending you all the virtual hugs and support. I wish I could tell you to stick it to work, but I know and hate that it doesn’t work that way.
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@SockMonkey also, today in training (for stuff I already know), we’re observing each other take calls… and the person taking calls right now has the most grating voice and is stumbling so bad but I am not allowed to give feedback. Only our mentor can.
….and I know more than the mentor.
grind teeth
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@junipersky I’m sitting here doing my best not to correct our mentor. But ugh. So hard.
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@Cobalt I worked at a job once where I was Marketing Assistant. The Marketing Director? I had to show her how to add an image to an email. As well as how to add a column to an excel spreadsheet. As well as how to copy paste using ctrl c and v. She made 5x my salary. Oh and 25% of the time when she started addressing me she called me the wrong name.
Pouring a shot of espresso for you today. I too feel your pain.
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@SockMonkey said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:
As well as how to copy paste using ctrl c and v.
What I find really interesting is that I think my generation (I’m a millennial in my mid-30s) would associate this sort of tech ignorance with Baby Boomers.
Except I find that so many new college grads (so I guess Gen Z? early 20s) on my team – also don’t know about these keyboard shortcuts. I have watched them right click on so many things to select copy and paste. I cannot even fathom doing things that way when we work so much with spreadsheets.
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@Roz I think (I could be wrong) it’s because a lot of these new grads are much more used to mobile technology.
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I’ve noticed that too.
I think a lot of Gen Zers didn’t actually grow up on computers like we did. They grew up largely with ipads/tablets and smart phones. So they’re more familiar with the touch screens rather than traditional computers and so didn’t really learn the short cuts and stuff that come with frequent computer use.
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@Roz My kid hunt and pecks on her laptop keyboard, but can text at the speed of light so I believe it!
