The Vent

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

hehehe

the first time I read "pee Tests", I thought pregnancy test

guess I've got baby on the brain!

AND NO WE'RE NOT PREGNANT NOR ARE WE TRYING!!

=)

If you change your mind be sure to post a video and some pics here.

I've taken a few pee tests in my time, apparently I'm a 60 year-old post-menopausal woman with osteoporosis.

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

Here's a partial look.

Have a giggle:

What else are ya gonna do...but the best under the circumstances.

Ha!

All I can think about when I look at that shower curtain is

"Meet George Jetson..."

Holy Pictures of Matchstick Men, all I can say is Mingusmellowtastic. I've seen this before, I think I was using paint thinner in an unventilated area at the time. Actually it looks like the opening of Rocky and Bullwinkle, it even has a sunflower.

Edited May 22, 2008 by IR5FORMUMSIE

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

I wouldn't do any illegal substances in that bathroom if I were you..

not that you do any....

=) but just in case!!!

I believe you, honestly I do.

BTW, use some of those wonderful bug killers in your apartment without proper ventilation and you'll see all sorts of things. Seriously be careful, organophosphate poisoning sucks, been there done that. I was lucky, only got diaphoresis (excessive sweating). The same stuff that they use in nerve gas is the same stuff that is used in insecticides. Kind of makes you think, doesn't it.

[SpiritAlight 1]

Mumsie, you are sick sick man.

I love it!

If any of you find yourselves in the Chicago area, do come by for a grand tour of the facilities.

You will be required to wear dark sunglasses before entering. B)

I'm not quite done with it yet.

Oh yeah, and some bubble making apparatus!

Edited May 23, 2008 by SpiritAlight

[Marilyn. 340]

argh, hubby's new job isn't looking so rosy... he thinks he might be getting fired...

I guess they fired another guy they hired recently because the guy lied on his resume and he didn't pass his drug test so now the boss has turned his attention to my hubby.. (the boss isn't actually the guy who interviewed him)... hubby thinks the owner is wondering why they hired him when he doesn't have a lot of experience... thing is they knew that off the bat and said they would give him about a months training but now they are hinting around that they are going to send him out on his own soon, hubby thinks today...

it seems like they expect him to be an expert after only 2 weeks

my hubby has been super excited about this job but all last night and this morning he was so unhappy

Edited May 23, 2008 by MarilynP

[SpiritAlight 1]

argh, hubby's new job isn't looking so rosy... he thinks he might be getting fired...

I guess they fired another guy they hired recently because the guy lied on his resume and he didn't pass his drug test so now the boss has turned his attention to my hubby.. (the boss isn't actually the guy who interviewed him)... hubby thinks the owner is wondering why they hired him when he doesn't have a lot of experience... thing is they knew that off the bat and said they would give him about a months training but now they are hinting around that they are going to send him out on his own soon, hubby thinks today...

it seems like they expect him to be an expert after only 2 weeks

my hubby has been super excited about this job but all last night and this morning he was so unhappy

Awww that sucks!

Sorry to hear about this MarilynP.

[L_n_O 3]

aww that's so sad...

tell him we all are really thinking about him here..

[Marilyn. 340]

thanks guys and gals....

on Wednesday they called hubby up and told him to not to come into work because everyone was out on service calls already.. he did work yesterday and today they called him again and told him not to come in because of the weather and they said everyone was out on service calls already...

what really sucks is that we are going to be a couple hundred dollars short on our next pay check.

they just need to come out and say if they want to keep him around or not so he can look for something else...

[L_n_O 3]

honey, I think you should throw his resume out there again now anyway

I hate companies that are run by spineless twits!

they've got 3 months to bullsh!t him around, I'm sure.. so maybe hubby should get out sooner than later if they're behaving so juvenile. Think about what if they yanked his chain for another 2 more months to eventually fire him and buy then, you two would be in a very bad financial place..

[Marilyn. 340]

we are already in a semi-bad financial state and this isn't helping.... yeah maybe I will suggest to my hubby that he should look around for another job...

he was so thrilled to get this job... I feel so bad for him....

[Necrotica 0]

argh, hubby's new job isn't looking so rosy... he thinks he might be getting fired...

I guess they fired another guy they hired recently because the guy lied on his resume and he didn't pass his drug test so now the boss has turned his attention to my hubby.. (the boss isn't actually the guy who interviewed him)... hubby thinks the owner is wondering why they hired him when he doesn't have a lot of experience... thing is they knew that off the bat and said they would give him about a months training but now they are hinting around that they are going to send him out on his own soon, hubby thinks today...

it seems like they expect him to be an expert after only 2 weeks

my hubby has been super excited about this job but all last night and this morning he was so unhappy

That really, really sucks. I'm sorry this is happening to the two of you. Réjean just went through this recently, which is one of the many reasons why I came here so distraught the other night.

[Marilyn. 340]

I am just getting tired of this... things start to look up for us and then blam we are knocked back down

[L_n_O 3]

The longer he stays there, the unhappier he'll continue to be and the more uncertain you will be financially..

I think he should start looking immediately. He deserves to work for someone who wants him to come to work.. and he should be happy waking up to it every morning..

Your job is a huge part of your day to day happiness and too many people get stuck in jobs they hate, where their bosses treat them like ####### and behave like the employees should be innately honored by management for letting them work there

[Marilyn. 340]

its just weird because it seemed to be going so good and now this week it has totally changed

Edited May 23, 2008 by MarilynP

[Necrotica 0]

I have a lot to vent about. This may or may not be split up into different posts; I don't know yet. This is long.

I guess I'll start at the beginning...

I have a lot of disabilities. I'm autistic (high-functioning), I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, severe depression (which was in remission before all this ####### started happening), other mental issues (condensed for the sake of brevity), a back deformity that has the capability of causing me so much pain that I can't even walk, and some mystery joint pain in my fingers which makes using my right hand very painful (a couple of doctors are giving me conflicting diagnoses regarding that). Despite all of this, I had worked in my current job doing Medicare customer service for almost a year... until this past March.

I was doing ok at work for the most part until they started training me to do other things. The stress of this combined with my disabilities and the fact that they would make no accommodations whatsoever for me even though they could have led to me having a series of breakdowns until I finally had a massive one that has rendered me completely unable to work. So far, these two months off have been unpaid. My short-term disability claim has not gone through yet, and part of me doubts that it will be approved, anyway.

Only a few days before this final breakdown happened, Réjean got his first job here in the USA. It was a WONDERFUL job that he enjoyed very much and that paid well. Well enough to where it was enough to pay the bills and have a little left over despite me not working. Not long after he got this job, though, his car's transmission went out. He had bought this car with last year's Canada tax return for $800 off of Craigslist (never, ever again), and it didn't even last a month. Because of this, we had to finance a car in order for us to even be able to get another one because we had no money saved up to buy another one outright. This has resulted in an extra $280 or so a month in expenses (including the additional insurance). At that point, we were barely making it...

Then Réjean got fired.

It was very unexpected. We thought everything was going great. The employer's reason for letting him go was that he "didn't have the skills they needed". What the hell; he's been a woodworker for 16 years and can do the job from start to finish! The only exception to this was that he has never done residential woodworking before, only commercial. But still, they knew this when they hired him! Couldn't they have at least given him a LITTLE training?

He managed to get another job only two days later... for $8/hour. For the past three weeks or so, both of us has been living on $8 an hour. We've missed two bills already and rent is due no later than the 5th of the month.

This is why I had such issues the other night. Nothing was progressing. We were still waiting on our economic stimulus check or my tax return so that we could pay rent, still waiting on employers that Réjean has interviewed with to get a better job, still waiting on a lot of things to come through to make our situation better. Plus my car requires about $500 worth of repairs or more that there's no way we can afford at this point.

Just yesterday, Réjean got an offer for that better job. It pays less than his original one, but it is better than $8/hour and is a little bit closer. Plus it deals with commercial woodworking instead of residential. I also got a call from my new Vocational Rehabilitation counselor and got an appointment set up for June 3rd to help get me back into the system to get some job assistance, and just today, we got my US tax return so we can pay rent. Things are FINALLY starting to look up.

Still upset about my disabilities, though... but that's a rant for another time.

Edited May 23, 2008 by Necrotica