The Vent Part Quatre

[Sprailenes 47]

I have been reading this thread for a while now, but have waited to contribute until I had a true gripe....

I would just talk to her, otherwise it's just going to continue. She may be only 18 but if she wants to live like an adult it's time she starts acting like one, and that mother - well you obviously know where she gets it from now.

[Canadiandggal 49]

Grrr - I really dislike US Health care insurance!. We just got our new plan for the coming year. - a BCBS PPO. Co-pays for doctors visit increase from $20 to $30; specialists increase from $40 to $60 - and of course my endocrinologist is considered a specialist even though he is the standard doctor for diabetes. Due to the new health legislation preventative medical care and treatment is now covered at 100% with no co-pays, and approved tests (which are fewer) are only covered at 60% - we pay the other 40%. All other treatment we pay 100% of the cost until we meet the deductible of $1000 each and then 40% of the cost until we reach the $2500 additional deductible cap when they will then pay 100%. Since my medication does not have a generic and their 'preferred' medication does not work effectively for me, I now must go with their non-preferred prescription coverage which means they will only cover 40% of the cost - last year it was 50% . The dental and vision plan remain the same - the vision plan is actually pretty good but the dental is again only $1000 a year and between 50% to 80% coverage of treatments except for 2 annual checkups/cleaning which are covered 100% after the $25 deductible and a $15 co pay. At least emergency hospitalization care is covered 100% after $125 co-pay ( although above coverage percentages apply once you are admitted to hospital and no longer in emergency). All this for nearly $400 a month in premiums.

I am so with you, My husband called in today try to find a way to get my son and I on his insurance before the 12th as this is when enrollment ends. I do not Have my ssn yet due to just coming on the 31st. (I cannot get my SSN for a least another week, Only been here 5 business days hehe)

Anyways he somehow gets the lady to add us and she urges us to contact her the moment we get our numbers as she isn't suppose to add dependents without numbers, at the end of the call she tells my husband that the costs are going up as of next month from 180 to 220 dollars bi-weekly, as well as co payments etc, its not that much of a increase but still!! YAY I HAVE INSURANCE NOW!

[Colleens 40]

We recently had new people move into the apartment above us. We NEVER heard the people who lived above us before this point, but the people who have moved in are the heaviest footed people EVER. We hear them clomping around all evening and I can still hear them moving around past midnight when I get up for one of my many bathroom trips!! The worst is the morning when they put shoes on and walk around. Part of the apartments have laminate flooring, so the sound just resonates right through...especially if someone is wearing any sort of heels. We have a lease here until the end of March, so I am really hoping that we can get out and get into a house at that time. I have lived in my own home for the past 15 years so it has been really hard going back to apartment living

[Kimbear 53]

awww Colleens..i know how you feel. hug.. our neighbours are the same way..the guy weighs like half my weight but sounds like an elephant and they get up at 4am make noise til 5:30 and my alarm goes off at 6am. so basically i'm up at 4 every day and they are up til 10pm every night so i'm averaging about 4-5 hours sleep a night.

it's hard for me to fall back asleep once i'm up too and i can't take naps during the day as i get disoriented when i wake up after. its a weird thing i have lol

[Sprailenes 47]

So last year my cousin married this semi-crazy girl - they had a baby about two years prior so I guess he figured he might as well seal the deal. Well it turns out two weeks ago he left her, with their daughter. Apparently she drinks too much and parties too much. Which is true, seems every night is "Girlz Nite" (her spelling, not mine) at her place. But I am her friend on fb and she hasn't mentioned anything at all. In fact she's still having "Girlz Nite" and posting about getting wasted.

She hasn't seen her daughter in two freaking weeks. She doesn't even seem concerned - though I am sure she is but I think she has a serious problem with alcohol so I don't think she can even feel what she is supposed to feel right now. Anyways my cousin is going to go for full custody and I am pretty sure she'll just give it to him. Who knows.

Crazy though - I sort of feel cheated because I went to their wedding and gave them $250.00 and then they go do that a year later.

[Canadiandggal 49]

So last year my cousin married this semi-crazy girl - they had a baby about two years prior so I guess he figured he might as well seal the deal. Well it turns out two weeks ago he left her, with their daughter. Apparently she drinks too much and parties too much. Which is true, seems every night is "Girlz Nite" (her spelling, not mine) at her place. But I am her friend on fb and she hasn't mentioned anything at all. In fact she's still having "Girlz Nite" and posting about getting wasted.

She hasn't seen her daughter in two freaking weeks. She doesn't even seem concerned - though I am sure she is but I think she has a serious problem with alcohol so I don't think she can even feel what she is supposed to feel right now. Anyways my cousin is going to go for full custody and I am pretty sure she'll just give it to him. Who knows.

Crazy though - I sort of feel cheated because I went to their wedding and gave them $250.00 and then they go do that a year later.

Yeah that has to suck , but at least your cousin will have good reasoning and probably get custody without any problems

[Krikit 1,164]

I used to have a very good friend who became a drug abuser and left her husband and two young children. Her husband fell apart and her children were traumatized. But my friend was battling her own traumas so I suppose that was her way of running from a pain she couldn't resolve. Addiction is a horrible thing which can inflict lifelong damage to the abuser and the family. I suppose the child can be considered fortunate in that she is still young and will be "protected" from the abuser. My drug addicted cousin spent time in prison for causing the accidental death of his young son prior to his own recent death from the damage he had inflicted on his own body. Hopefully, the mother can get her act together before it's too late.

[Sprailenes 47]

I don't know she has so many enablers unfortunately. My mother also suspects that she has munchausen.

It's just nuts. My cousin gave up a career in baseball, he had a scholarship at Graceland University and came back, got her pregnant and did what he thought was the right thing. Now he really is doing the right thing.

[brightskte 18]

So while looking for tubes to expand our hamster cages today I stumbled upon a website called hartzkills.org, and couldn't believe what I was seeing.

Never again will I buy anything with the Hartz name on it. I can't believe I didn't know about this sooner.

Edited November 10, 2010 by Kayla*Mathew

[Danu 19]

That was painful to watch Thanks for letting us know!

[Canadiandggal 49]

That was painful to watch Thanks for letting us know!

Yeah I agree I ended up on youtube seeing more like this. I dont have my cats here but I will inform my mom and My dogs will never use any of there products. that is soo SAd

[Marilyn. 340]

grr, so the last time I heard from my brother he said he would probably be leaving on the 15th or 16th to drive down here with my nephew...this was around the 3rd... so last Tuesday I email my SIL to ask what kind of food my nephew likes to eat and I haven't heard back from her yet.. and I know she was online because she posted something on her facebook... I emailed my brother the other day to find out if they are coming or not and I haven't heard back from him either... i have stuff I need to get ready for them coming and I would kind of like to know a few days before they come if they are coming or not..

Edited November 12, 2010 by Marilyn.

[SapphireDreams 71]

grr, so the last time I heard from my brother he said he would probably be leaving on the 15th or 16th to drive down here with my nephew...this was around the 3rd... so last Tuesday I email my SIL to ask what kind of food my nephew likes to eat and I haven't heard back from her yet.. and I know she was online because she posted something on her facebook... I emailed my brother the other day to find out if they are coming or not and I haven't heard back from him either... i have stuff I need to get ready for them coming and I would kind of like to know a few days before they come if they are coming or not..

Why not just give them a call?

[kaya541 1]

There's a girl who works at our office, she's 28, and she has the absolute worst work ethic. She comes in late 19 out of 20 days, never apologizes for it even if it means she has kept everyone waiting for the morning meeting to start. Today she was 10 minutes late, spent the first 45 minutes she was here chatting with another girl in the office, ran a personal errand at 10 to get some food, then at 11:30am called out that she was going into the spare office to take a nap and to let her know when it was 12 for lunch. Then came back from working-out at lunch at 1pm, ate lunch for 1/2 an hour (it's now 1:30) and said she wished she could leave early today to give her dog a bath and go to her boyfriends house. Turns out the boss is leaving at 3pm, so I'm sure she'll be running out the door as soon as he does.

A couple months ago she slept in and never called to let us know she'd be late. Her best friend and boyfriend called looking for her, I tried her cell and she never answered or replied to texts. So we started to get really worried about her. Finally got a hold of her sister who went to her bedroom and woke her up at 11am. She called me and said she'd be right in, then didn't show till 1:30pm.

About 6 months ago I lent her a shirt of mine and have not gotten it back though I asked for it several times. She never apologized for misplacing it and never even mentioned it without me asking about it. I figure she'll show up to work wearing it one day.

This ####### has been going on for nearly two years now and our boss just puts up with it because he's busy in his office chatting away on Yahoo messenger.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Good heavens! I would love to get a paycheck for doing 'nothing' at work and taking care of my personal stuff like that too! What type of office is this that can allow for this type of employee still to have a job? (Hmm, maybe she 'has something' on the boss or the boss' boss and that's why she gets away with this).