Ashley did not get the promotion. I was wrong though, they promoted a woman who already works for the company.
They told Ashley that she’s perfect for the job, since she’s already doing it?, but that she’s lacking in experience managing “big” teams.
Interestingly enough the woman they are promoting is a branch manager who also has never managed big teams. She’s also completely ignorant of the systems and tasks that Ashley currently handles.
Ashley of course is pissed off, and now has decided to stop working the 90 hours a week. And is no longer available after her clock out time of 5pm. She’s already looking for other work. Has applied at several places etc.
She’s also looking into a discrimination case, she believes she has a case. I’m not saying she does, but I feel like it’s not going to pan out the way she wants. She’s upset and lashing out and is stuck in what she ‘deserves’, yeah that’s not how the world works.
I told her that she needs to make sure she has a job before she rage quits. She’s still talking about us buying a house and such but I don’t know how she expects that to happen if she quits. Oh well not much I can do about it now. We’ll burn that bridge when we get there.
Last week on Monday the power went out in the downtown area, including my work. Due to the power loss, our HVAC system went out and needed a tech to come out and fix it. They finally came out on Wed morning. But the IT room stayed at a smooth comfortable 85 degrees. Ever sweat sitting still in a dark room? Not ideal.
I decided to work from home on Thursday, since we had Friday off. I barely did anything on Thursday, mostly played Mechwarrior and ignored most of the stuf I was supposed to do. Putting it off till Monday.
A year or two ago Ashley added her sister to my phone plan. I was not happy about it, and she’s never ever paid me anything for the privilege. I went that day and removed Ashley as an authorized user on my plan. Not going to wait and find out her or her sister added something to my plan.
Monday night I get a call from T-Mobile. Kasey, Ashley’s sister was at the store trying to get her sim card changed. Since she’s not an authorized user she has to call me and ask about it. Then started to complain that she’s not an authorized user, why the fuck would you be?
Regardless, I give permission to change out her sim card to the guy at the T-Mobile store. Remind him and her that she’s not allowed to purchase anything on my account, she will have to pay with her own money for whatever she wants.
5 minutes later, my phone notifies me that my sim card has been disabled and I can only make emergency calls now. No text messages no phone calls.
6 minutes later, i get an email letting me know that they have successfully deactivated the Sim related to my phone number and activated another one.
0 to 1000 anger instantly.
1. This is exactly why you are not allowed to make changes on my phone plan. That you don’t pay for.
2. My phone is critical to all of my work things. I’m on call and now no one can call me. I also have to get a MFA push to my phone to log into my computer. And once in my computer there’s several dozen admin logins I can’t use without my phone. I’m effectively dead in the water.
I can not call anyone to get it fixed, not even T-mobile. I attempted to fix it on their website, but the PIN code I set up wasn’t working. It’s fine they can just send a text message to my phone to verify..... I had to borrow my daughter’s phone to call T-mobile. After arguing with the AI, then a person for about an hour, they refused to help me because I couldn’t be verified with the PIN number and they couldn’t text me or call me to give me a code to verify myself.
“YOU FUCKING DISABLED MY SIM CARD!”
Fine, I now have to drive to a T-mobile store to have someone fix it. Of course I just moved to the area and have no idea where this store is located. I had to write down the directions, like old school map quest, since my gps probably wont’ work. After I finished writing the instructions down, i put the address in my phone and… gps works. :|
It took the lady at T-mobile less than 5 mins to fix it, and she explained that the other person at the store probably wasn’t paying attention and scanned the wrong barcode and disabled the wrong sim. Great wonderful. Fire him? I don’t know who this is but moving forward no one will do anything on my account without me being there.
After all that, Kasey didn’t get her phone to work. I told Ashley that Kasey can drive the 2 hours to come up to me and we can go to the store together and get it fixed. Kasey wanted to meet halfway. I told her to fuck herself.
I told her Friday afternoon or Sunday after 5pm are the only times I have.
Didn’t hear back from her until 6pm on Sunday. She’s decided that she’s going to get her own phone plan, since I’m unwilling to buy her a new phone. And she’s sorry she’s going to mess up my plan by leaving.
Kid, I have 4 lines on my phone it costs me 130 dollars a month, and since I use my phone for work I get a 100 a month stipend. So I keep the phone lines in case Seth or Dakota want a line.
You leaving does nothing for me.
She’s going to spectrum, because she already has an account with them, for her cable. Also she can get whatever phone she wants and not some ‘hand me down’. So there’s no need for me to drive down and meet her.
Okay well, I wasn’t going to drive and meet you, and you leaving my plan doesn’t matter to me. Bye.
If I cared a little I would ask her how she plans on paying for this phone she clearly ‘deserves’ when she hasn’t paid a phone bill in over a year? She doesn’t’ have heat or AC in her house. Her care broke down and her grandfather had to get her a new one.
Kasey fully expects her sister to pay for this and fix the problem. Ashley expects me to step in and fix it.
Yeah good luck with that.
A side effect of having to go to this T-mobile store, I found a new Kroger. Where we live I’ve found 1 Kroger to go to already and… it’s ghetto as hell. I went looking for cucumbers, they had 3. The 3 police at the front insisted on checking my bag. This kroger is 14 mins away, I discovered it on my way to work. There’s also a walmart about 15 mins away slightly better, but it also has a dispensary near it so we go there.
This new Kroger, though. Also 14 -15 mins away. Is in a very white neighborhood. Some stark differences.
- There are no police at the front entrance ‘harassing’ people.
- The diaper aisle doesn’t have security walls all around it, with 1 entrance to keep people from stealing.... diapers.
- They have a cheese bar.
- They have a sushi bar.
Both 15 mins away but the difference is amazing.
Seth has got a new job, he hates it but he needs to pay his bills. So he hasn’t been around much. Dakota will be leaving at the end of this month, I think. But she wanted to see Seth at least once, he works nights and doesn’t really want to drive an hour to say hi. Which I get.
So instead we did a combo of ashley’s birthday and him saying hi to dakota again.
We went to Seoul the Korean BBQ hotpot place, closer to where he lived, but an hour drive for me.
We ate and had fun, seth and I ate alot of food, as you do.
Then we went to half priced books. Since it was close. Seth got a few things that I paid for, I know he’s broke. And it’s hard for me to say no to buying books for entertainment.
He didn’t use to read at all, most I could get him to read were comic books, or manga. Which i figured was better than nothing.
In his mid teens he started reading “The Warriors” something about cat people? or cats? I don’t know. He liked it though. Recently Dakota has gotten into it too. So… good?
Most of the holiday was spend doing nothing. I made some pickles, not nearly as hard as I thought it would be, but these are just refrigerator ones, they won’t last more than a few weeks. But that’s plenty of time for me. I made a few mistakes on the first batch. The recipe called for 1 cup of fresh dill (sprigs). I didn’t have fresh dill but I had dill weed. Per the interwebs, if you are using a dry spice, you cut the amount by 1/3. So 1/3 a cup of dill weed.
That seems like a lot. So i double and triple checked, and yes. You only need 1/3. well I’m making 3x the amount. So 1/3 cup of dill weed to each of the jars.... That’s soo much dill though.
Sure enough after they were made, the pickles were.... ‘furry’ with dill. So much god damn dill. I was able to eat a few. but the dill was overpowering. So I strained out the dill as much as i could but the damage was done the cucumbers were just too much and i had to toss them all.
After even more research. I missed the fact that Dill sprigs are not the same as fresh dill. I should have used 1/8 of a teaspoon. Which is no where near 1/3 a cup.
So after correcting that ‘error’ I made 2 more quart jars on Friday and they turned out fine. The recipe my brother gave me isn’t bad at all, it says ‘spicy’ but they aren’t really. and now that I’m an ‘expert’ on them I can tweak the recipe some and maybe make them actually spicy. But honestly they are pretty good already.
https://snappygourmet.com/spicy-pickle-recipe/#wprm-recipe-container-10244
There’s the recipe for those of you who are interested.
There is one thing I will add to this, you can use any size cucumbers, but put them in ice water for about 30 minutes before you slice them. They become firmer/crisper.
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