Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent

Cobalt

yells something about teenagers while pulling her hair in fistfuls

Cobalt

@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?

SockMonkey

@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!

SockMonkey

@Cobalt Ack! What the hell? I was hoping your recovery was going well, but that definitely doesn’t help!

junipersky

@SockMonkey

Thank you! We sign the paper on Friday to approve the home study!

SockMonkey

@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!

Cobalt

@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.

SockMonkey

@Cobalt hugs

I’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.

Cobalt

@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

junipersky

@Cobalt

I feeeeellllll this.

@SockMonkey
Thank you!

Cobalt

@junipersky I’m sitting here doing my best not to correct our mentor. But ugh. So hard.

SockMonkey

@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.

facepalm

Roz

@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.

Snackness

@Roz I think (I could be wrong) it’s because a lot of these new grads are much more used to mobile technology.

Raeras

@Roz

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.

SockMonkey

@Roz My kid hunt and pecks on her laptop keyboard, but can text at the speed of light so I believe it!

Roz

Yeah it’s absolutely a mobile thing. I grew up on desktop computers starting when I was like five or six, and I’ll do just about anything to keep my hands on the keyboard and not have to move one to a mouse.

Faraday

@Raeras said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:

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.

Yeah also so many things are cloud-native apps and abstractions that they miss out on things that kids of the 80’s/90’s would consider basic tech skills. My youngest has learned a lot of that only because they’re into mods for games. Both my kids have even resisted their (required) typing classes because they don’t see a huge need for it.

Roz

lol man, we had a typing class when i was in eighth grade, and i was already a way better and faster typist than the teacher at that point

Muscle Car

@Roz I once set up my action-PVP MMO keyboard layout such that I only had to use the mouse to click on quest objects. All my movement was on my numkeys. I felt your post in my bones, fam.