Kind of worried my husband lost his job yesterday.

[honeybunches]

OP, I suggest you do this:

Give your husband a big hug and tell him you cancelled the trip. Do it without telling him, and tell him it's just Disney, of course you don't want to go. You'll go next year when he's back on his feet.

Don't make it seem like a sacrifice at all or that you regret it at all. It's just Disney, and will be there when you're ready, with better and cooler stuff to see.

He's feeling very bad and that he's let you down. Please don't make him feel that way. if you're disappointed, don't let him know. Just say if he argues "don't be silly, sweetie. It's just Disney."

He'll appreciate more than he'll ever be able to say. And you know what? It's just Disney.

This is exactly what I would do. My husband would want to go sell a kidney so we would still be able to go. No way would I want to our more pressure on him. The DH is so much more important than Disney.

 

[TJBerry]

I lost my job 3 weeks before we were supposed to go in June. We called and cancelled our package and got a full refund because of losing the job. The cast member was very nice and helpful. She definitely didn't have to do that.

We are now planning a surprise trip in October for our boys. It's a shorter trip with less amenities but we are still happy to go regardless!

With that being said, I hope you can still make your trip. You need it with the stress of a job loss.

No one needs or deserves a vacation if they don't have the means to pay for it.

 

[Missyrose]

There's no reason to debate back and forth, there is almost no chance the OP was telling a true story.

 

[TJBerry]

There's no reason to debate back and forth, there is almost no chance the OP was telling a true story.

Or going on a trip at all.

 

[ssatterly]

I doubt "Disney math" is much like what you teach in the classroom

I do agree that at a value FD is clearly the better deal. And that at a deluxe the room discount if often a better deal. But the OP is staying at a moderate. If money is an issue, I bet there are ways to eat less expensively enough to make a room discount pay. Of course, that depends on how many people they would be feeding.

We are booked at a value resort

 

[GSUJillybean]

Because the OP lied before about having a child with cancer and asking for donations.

Oh holy crap. In that case, please carry on. I am really sorry.

 

[GSUJillybean]

I can't believe I fell for that. Guess I should have searched instead of looking at post history. I checked her past posts and it seemed plausible.

I did, too!

Come sit in here with me:

 

[Grammy4Lizzy]

Why hasn't the OP answered the question of past behavior?
If this is the poster with the poor behavior on other boards, why is she still here?
Maybe the moderators should look into this.
This is the last time I will spend any time with a thread started by this poser "fake"

 

[ssatterly]

Why hasn't the OP answered the question of past behavior?
If this is the poster with the poor behavior on other boards, why is she still here?
Maybe the moderators should look into this.
This is the last time I will spend any time with a thread started by this poser "fake"

I have answered it in the past when it has come up. And NO I personally did not post that kind of stuff. My kids are healthily and I am glad of that. This things were posted when my ex and I were going thru a divorce and he wanted to have his kind of sick fun with my Disney account. Once I found it out whT he had done I changed my password and have tried to move on.

 

[StitchesGr8Fan]

I have answered it in the past when it has come up. And NO I personally did not post that kind of stuff. My kids are healthily and I am glad of that. This things were posted when my ex and I were going thru a divorce and he wanted to have his kind of sick fun with my Disney account. Once I found it out whT he had done I changed my password and have tried to move on.

So why don't you start fresh with a new user name so you don't have to keep explaining it over and over?

 

[ssatterly]

So why don't you start fresh with a new user name so you don't have to keep explaining it over and over?

Never really thought of it or about doing that. Wouldn't you have to have a totally different email address and other things as well?

 

[StitchesGr8Fan]

Never really thought of it or about doing that. Wouldn't you have to have a totally different email address and other things as well?

Just a new email. You could set one up free on gmail in about a minute.

 

[ssatterly]

Just a new email. You could set one up free on gmail in about a minute.

I may do that when I get home tonight from work. Is anything else needed to do that?

 

[StitchesGr8Fan]

I may do that when I get home tonight from work. Is anything else needed to do that?

Gmail will ask for some identifying info, but they allow you to have multiple accounts with them. I believe the DIS is the same way, because you see people all the time creating new Dis accounts when they want to post about a difficult topic without people recognizing their regular username.

 

[Missyrose]

I have answered it in the past when it has come up. And NO I personally did not post that kind of stuff. My kids are healthily and I am glad of that. This things were posted when my ex and I were going thru a divorce and he wanted to have his kind of sick fun with my Disney account. Once I found it out whT he had done I changed my password and have tried to move on.

The thing I find odd (and that people on various other people on different forums found odd) was that the posts you claim were your ex hacking your account still had your same voice, misspellings, etc. Very, very odd that he'd go to the trouble of copying you down to the letter.

 

[Hrhpd]

Check with the job. Sorry but when i have an opening I need some one to come in and hit the job running. Bottom line rarely is a candidate so exceptional that we can't find another. So if you tell me you've got a vacation planned in a month, I'll thank you and tell you have a nice day. If someone wants to give up a good salary, pension, matching 401k and health benefits for a vacation, in this economy, have at it. Way too many people looking for good jobs for me tohold up my work.
I work for a big fortune 50 company

It's really not about attitude. My company starts out paying 50k to college graduates, we are one of the few that still offers pensions, we match dollar for dollar up to 6%, my employees have Unlimited sick days and we are consistently voted one of the top companies to work for by working moms magazine. So yeah, I'd be worried about someone who would give up an EXCELLENT job because they wanted to play. Only on the dis would this happen.

I don't mean to be snarly but as a hiring person I've heard so many excuses from applicants.
Why not simply wait until after the vacation to job hunt?

I work in the chemical industry so if a Chemist loses his technician for whatever reason, it slows down productivity. If he's on a project that has a deadline then a applicant comes in and then says he can't work (for whatever reason) we do look upon it disfavorably. we're not trying to be hard &^% or dictatorship and we do try to be flexible but as I said my job is to get the best fit for my company.

Ok, I've totally gone OT sorry.

Sorry, late to the party (and continuing the OT), but I had to respond as I have seen this poster post this "great job" information many times.

You say you are in the Chemical Industry. Well, from what you describe, your jobs are not very good and definitely not Excellent for what is available in the industry right now, today, at least not for Chemical Engineers and Chemists.

I have recent experience with this as DS just graduated as a ChemE. We have discussed extensively what his salary expectations should be (although he had a good job offer before he graduated) and what his friends and fellow graduates were seeing. Being the nerd that he is, he has it all graphed out. Average starting salary of all the ChemE's that graduated with him was $72,000. The lowest starting salary was $68,400.

DS is making a bit more than average. He will be getting a raise after 3 months. He was just made lead chemist on a project, so will be getting a an additional raise and bonus.

He has full benefits (excellent health, medical and vision), 401K and regular bonuses. The company is going to pay for his PhD 100%. He also started off with 3 weeks vacation from day 1. Even as the lead chemist, he is free to use his vacation days immediately.

I can tell you that none of his friends would have even considered your position at only $50K and no vacation time. That is well below the average salary nationwide for graduating ChemE's. None of them, at least not the good ones, would have considered your position as a good offer, even in this economy. But then, in this economy, the recruiters were lined up at the door to hire the graduates. Chemical Engineers, along with Petroleum Engineers have the highest recruiting salary of any major right now. The grads had their pick of jobs. In this economy, in this field, it is a buyer's market. The employers were upping their offers to compete to get these kids in the door. Not a single one of his fellow graduates was without a job in their field upon graduation day. And many of them were taking weeks off before they started. DS's company was the one that asked him if he wanted to take a couple of weeks to enjoy the summer before he started. (He declined.)

However, we will be taking a week's vacation to Universal over Christmas and he is going with us. That will be 7 months into the job and his job has already approved it happily.

I am sure it is different for every industry / job, but right now, this summer, the Chemical Industry like the poster in the above quotes (Petroleum, pharmaceuticals, etc) is hiring like crazy. At least they are hiring newly minted college graduates for large sums of money and giving them basically anything they want. Heck, average starting salary for a Petroleum engineer graduate in 2013 is $93,500.

As for the OP, I am declining to engage.

 

[ssatterly]

The thing I find odd (and that people on various other people on different forums found odd) was that the posts you claim were your ex hacking your account still had your same voice, misspellings, etc. Very, very odd that he'd go to the trouble of copying you down to the letter.

He is and was just that type of mean person. As a matter fact he is in jail now due to drugs and not paying child support.

 

[crashbb]

The thing I find odd (and that people on various other people on different forums found odd) was that the posts you claim were your ex hacking your account still had your same voice, misspellings, etc. Very, very odd that he'd go to the trouble of copying you down to the letter.

That and the fact that, in other threads, when asked about her "sick daughter" her first round of defense was "I have no idea what you are talking about, I don't have a sick daughter". If my account were hacked (and I, for some reason didn't change my name) and someone brought up something said during said hacking, my first response wouldn't be to deny it was never said.

 

[ssatterly]

That and the fact that, in other threads, when asked about her "sick daughter" her first round of defense was "I have no idea what you are talking about, I don't have a sick daughter". If my account were hacked (and I, for some reason didn't change my name) and someone brought up something said during said hacking, my first response wouldn't be to deny it was never said.

Yeah your right I don't have a sick dd I just said that. I didn't know what had happened at 1st. And there is no reason in my mind to change my account if I personally did nothing wrong. That would be like running away for no reason.

 

[crashbb]

Yeah your right I don't have a sick dd I just said that. I didn't know what had happened at 1st. And there is no reason in my mind to change my account if I personally did nothing wrong. That would be like running away for no reason.

I know you don't have a sick child and never did (that's about all we can be sure of).

My point was that when people bring it up now (years after the "hacking"), your response was to act like the person questioning you was crazy and that you had never said you had a sick daughter. Since you knew you'd been hacked (and what had been said), wouldn't the "normal" response have been to acknowledge that? Rather than pretend that nothing that like that had ever been posted under your name.