I am going back to work

[baymule]

You're gonna be ok, Bay.

Thanks. I'm ok now. I am too upbeat and positive to let anything get me down. Everything is a learning experience.

 

[Daisy]

Better to look after your own health and home at this uncertain time. Its great to have others outside of the situation to talk it through with Goodluck for the next couple weeks.

 

[CrealCritter]

bassackwards <--- can I use that word? It really needs to become part of my regular vocabulary!

 

[CrealCritter]

I got called in this morning ON MY DAY OFF because the administrator needed me to fill out a W-4. I've been there 3 weeks and she just now realizes I need to fill out a W-4? Then she hands me a ream of paper, most of which has been copied so many times that it was a faint shade of gray, for the most part unreadable. It was all sorts of stuff. There were 2 pages I was to initial each sentence or two, describing how I have received, read and understand a myriad of rules, laws, HIPPA, employee handbook and so on, that I haven't received, read and durn sure don't understand what I've never even got. I initialed all of them, getting madder and more disgusted by the minute. I filled out all of it, even though I had already filled out the first 3 pages when I was hired. I handed it back to her and gave 2 weeks notice.

I have never, ever, in my whole life worked for such a disorganized, rawhide, bassackwards outfit like this. The office is a series of tables, all covered with stacks of papers, it is a mess. Training was vastly inadequate, there is no training program. I'll finish out my two weeks. I'm not saying anything about what a crappy place it is, that's their problem, not mine.

On the financial side, I flipped several of the credit cards to 0% accounts and consolidated them. I paid off the smaller ones. so we are in pretty good shape right now. We'll be ok.

Thanks y'all for letting me rant. I

Are you my wife's secret twin sister?

 

[Hinotori]

You did the right thing. No one needs to put up with that crap

 

[flowerbug]

your story about the paperwork being copied so many times it was nearly illegible and gray reminded me of one time i almost took a job working for an operation which worked out of a trailer calling people to try to sell them aluminum siding.

the script we had to read through was copied and hand written over with so many corrections that it was hard to read. i accepted the job and then after driving back to where i was staying with my sister i called them back and said i couldn't do it. a few days later i hopped the bus back to MI and worked for the family business the rest of that summer. that was the last summer i had to do that.

 

[baymule]

bassackwards <--- can I use that word? It really needs to become part of my regular vocabulary!

You sure can. I’ve used that for most of my life.

 

[Hinotori]

My husband has used bassackwards as long as Ive known him. A lot of the Navy people I know did. It was a common phrase but I don't know who it started with in our group. I assumed it was a mostly southern way of cursing without cursing. I didn't grow up hearing it in eastern Oregon. Just after I was stationed in Virginia Beach.

Now I'm going to ask him about it tomorrow. He's from West Virginia but spent time visiting family in Texas as well as a kid. He was also stationed down there for his first command.

I find word etymology and origins interesting.

 

[wyoDreamer]

We us bassackward all the time here in Northeastern Wisconsin, lol. I have been saying it since I was a kid. Well, It may be regional because I remember my friends in college all got a kick out of it too.

 

[Lazy Gardener]

That word is a "thing" here. But... I would not use it in "polite" society.