Quarantine and chill and kindness chatty clubhouse: Jump in and join the conversation! All is welcome!

[apirateslifeforme]

apirateslifeforme, sounds like you experienced a lot of discrimination in your jobs.

It was mostly just the bank teller job, honestly. When I think back to how long it took them to decide to hire me after my interview...I really believe that they used me as an example to make a policy against hiring people from the same family. DH had warned me that there was a lot of backstabbing going on there, before I even put in my application. The other tellers - with the exception of the head teller - were absolutely wonderful. I even miss them. They were treated as poorly as I was. I remember one woman being in tears when her doctor called to tell her she needed some kind of intestinal/abdominal surgery ASAP, but our supervisor made her go back and forth with the doctor's office, saying that she had a regular work schedule and she couldn't request time off, she had to have it at a time when she wasn't normally scheduled to work.

I remember one time - I now laugh about this, how ridiculous it was - a young lady that I knew from school came in to get a cashier's check. She was a customer of the bank, so we had her license on file. Because it was over a certain amount, I had to have the supervisor sign it. So we were in her office and she looked up the customer's license, and proceeded to argue with me for at least 20 minutes that the person at the counter "wasn't her." I'm standing there saying yes it is, I went to school with her for a year, I know her, that's her, and the supervisor insisted that it wasn't. Eventually she released the check, but I got written up for it.

The plant job...well, I just don't know what happened there. Maybe it was me getting ill, even though I thought I hid it pretty well. I've just always been suspicious of seeing the job listed like clockwork, every 3 months for a couple of years. Like they couldn't find somebody permanent in that amount of time? Really made me think that it was just a temp job so they didn't have to pay benefits, but they didn't want to say that because then nobody would want it? Who knows...it was just weird.

I've had good jobs. The window distributor was a good job. But they let go 1 person in each department, and I was the lowest one on the totem pole in my department, so bye-bye to me. I really liked the college bookstore. I wish that hadn't been temporary. And I enjoyed working with the HR manager in the medical device company. Unfortunately, they weren't structured so that I could permanently be her assistant. She tried to find something else for me within the company, but it just wasn't meant to be. I didn't have the required engineering experience to really go to another department, so time to move on. I will say, the best job I've ever had is the one I have now, being a mom. It's the most demanding, it doesn't pay very well , I'm not sure day-to-day what my job duties are, but I love it anyway

 

[monkeydawn]

You win this thread today for “most coolest job”! Yes, it it a distinction I just made up.

LOL Thanks. It was a very fun job at times.

 

[AuntieMe3]

Coco was amazing. It was beautifully animated and such a wonderful story. I don't want to get into spoilers too much (I know it's a few years old), but I wanted my mention that our adult daughter is a hospice music therapist, and a lot of her patients have dementia. Well, if you've seen the movie, I think you can....

Love Coco....makes me bawl everytime I watch.

 

[Snowysmom]

My current job is accounts receivable for a travel agency, mainly cruise. Yes, I know a cruise travel agency. Up to now we had been doing well and having good years since the recession of 2009. I have been with this company for over 12 1/2 years. We have had major layoffs due to covid and the cruise line industry. The only people left are those essential for the day to day operation of the company. And our hours have been cut. IT has been trying to say the least.

 

[Nox]

I was a magician while I was going through medical school.

Have also been a chemical engineer for a pharmaceutical manufacturer and a neurosurgery resident.

Going back to school for aerospace engineering this fall. Hopefully. I've been accepted for it, anyway.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Tonight's dinner was an upside down beef shepherd's pie with lots of root vegetables. I sliced a few potatoes paper thin covered them with a little beef broth and then followed it up with the stewed short ribs and veggies. Now the parsnips, celery, potatoes, and celery are finished. Still some fresh carrots and frozen peas to finish off.

An ice cream parfait with a layer of vanilla yougurt and one of mixed berries will be served after the national news ends.

 

[Breezy_Carol]

I hope Tina is taking some time for herself, but I miss the question.

I made spaghetti and salad for dinner. I make a big pot of sauce then just pull it out of the freezer when I want it.

Last night in bed I again remembered the gratitude I wanted to share, so I wrote it down. I had pulled out a knit afghan that my mother knitted for me before I went to college in 1971. My mom died in 2014 at age 92. Not only had she made me the afghan, she taught me to knit. I still knit today. So I am so grateful that she taught me to knit and made me the blanket.

 

[lovemygoofy]

Happy Thursday, and happy Draft Day if you are into NFL. My house is covered in Colts blue around here so I suppose we are into it. I'm not sure if football is going to happen and how it'll look. It's very important to one half of my dynamic duo team as he owns season tickets.

Nothing special to report here. It's been rainy, gloomy day. I've had weather headache all day. I don't get them very often and don't like them. I felt like I struck gold today organizing my little bottles and hair product samples. I found hair masque for my super stressed dried out hair! I have ridiculous crazy curly hair and I don't know if because I'm just wearing it up or hormones. I need a haircut and shedding like crazy and again not sure how much from hormones or haircut. Guess I have to wait and see. So I got my hair masque on AND I even gave myself a half done pedicure. It's amazing how those little things make you feel almost normal again.

This evening we finished watching Tiger King. It might have made me dumber watching it. If you like a train wreck full of crappy people this is the show for you!

Dinner was hodgepodge of leftovers. I'm just lazy today.

Gratitudes:
1. Hair Masque! My poor hair needed it!
2. Toilet Paper delivered! I ordered big bundle from Costco and 36 huge rolls showed up with free delivery! We should be good well into summer.
3. The NFL Draft...it will keep my husband occupied for next 3 days so I don't lol

Peace and safe health to all.

 

[lovemygoofy]

Question of the day: 4/23: Do you enjoy sports?

As I mentioned my husband is season ticket holder to Colts' football. I am Southern girl and raised to know my football. I love college sports but could pass on professional and really I don't have attention span for long games. I also really enjoy ice hockey. I don't even know why as I can't even think about ice skating but it could be the beating snot out of each other. So what about ya'll? Sports?

 

[easyas123]

This evening we finished watching Tiger King. It might have made me dumber watching it. If you like a train wreck full of crappy people this is the show for you!

I haven't seen the show yet - but your description is one of the best (of many!) I've come across!!! Maybe I'll skip it...

We had chicken & veggies over rice, neither terribly interesting or inspired but neither of us were in the mood to make a bigger effort!
I think tomorrow we will order out or make pizza.

Sports? Welp soccer (Man U) and ice hockey (Penguins)are huge with the fellas in our immediate family. I could take or leave it, although we keep talking about making a weekend of it and going to see a game in person.

I'm out of dishwasher soap. TP & paper towels are getting pretty low, everywhere I try to order online to have shipped to me says it will be a 2 weeks (costco) or it's just plain old not available or in stock (target, walmart, jet). I guess I'll need to plan a early morning trip to try to get some of these items soon.

 

[lovemygoofy]

@lovemygoofy that was great work you did! I can imagine how stressful it was, though. Did you have to get away from it? Or did you leave it because Matt was retired from the service? My father was a WWII Army veteran who drove a Sherman tank and came home from Africa ill with a viral illness and severe PTSD. He was involved with the VA forever but there weren't many treatments and supports available back then or even later. It warms my heart to see some of today's veterans with service animals and taking part in Invictus games and such. But I know there are a lot of veterans still out there severely hurting. I worked at the VA myself and love the veterans. And DD had two clinicals there, working on their Psych and Hospice units. She liked it, too. I am an RN currrently working in a Covid ICU.

Pea, God bless you and your daughter and your fellow coworkers for the work you do whether with Covid or not. I have always had most respect for nursing staff and thankless job you all do. I have unfortunately woken up from surgery to throw up on one or two nurses. I felt awful.
To answer your question, I just left the position 4 months ago. It is very stressful and short staffed. I was the the ONLY person doing nothing but dedicated suicide prevention for the Army in Indiana. There is one in every state or major installation. I had support from other offices but their first dedicated job would be something else. I would easily work 60+ hours a week and during the summer I could work 6-9 weeks without a day off because of op tempo. My area was actually the young people, not the war hardened people. I worked trying to keep our young people alive and safe and healthy to serve. It was it's own struggle. I left because I was broken, tired and having to have my 6th surgery in 4 years and was being pressured to come back in less than a month off and I knew I'd need more. I miss it and my coworkers but so glad I'm still out of it at least as much as I am. I still see some people as a favor and I sit on committees but I can sleep knowing my phone isn't going to ring with someone that has a gun or screaming mom to save her son. I'm thinking by end of the year I'll be ready to go back or move into some new aspect of prevention.

 

[lynxstch]

For the first time since covid started..we had take out. Went to Aldi's to get a texas bbq brisket they had on sale, and stopped at Chic Filet drive thru on the way home. Not my favorite, but hubby likes it, and it was convenient
Our Ollies had 33.8 oz bottles of hand sanitizer today. Limit of 5 per customer at $9.99 a bottle. Fancy glass bottle too, lol
Sports, I am a die hard Patriots fan, having been born and raised in MA. While I live in MD now, I still follow the Patriots, and don't care for the Ravens. Hubby is a long time Green Bay Packers fan.
We also like to watch golf,,he's a Tiger fan, I have been a Phil Mickelson fan for a long time, but he's not playing much anymore, so I'll have to find another one to follow

 

[lovemygoofy]

I am a senior software developer for a company that makes school administrative software (registration, gradebook, LMS, HR, etc.). I work on the product that allows school districts to create online forms for parents. I've been in the K-12 administrative software industry for 21 years, and with my current company a little over 3 (technically I've been with the same company the whole 21 years, but it's been bought a few times). I am able to work from home, and have done so since the middle of March. As of right now, we aren't going back into the office until at least June 1.


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The other thing that keeps me busy right now during the shutdown is a complete redesign of my church's website, along with creating a instragram, twitter, and YouTube for the church. Another church member has been putting the worship service together by asking members to record an invocation or scripture reading or song and with the Pastor's sermon. We've also started recording various church members reading children's Bible stories.

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Wheel O' Movies recently gave us Coco and the Emma Watson version of Beauty and the Beast.

Coco was amazing. It was beautifully animated and such a wonderful story. I don't want to get into spoilers too much (I know it's a few years old), but I wanted to mention that our adult daughter is a hospice music therapist, and a lot of her patients have dementia. Well, if you've seen the movie, I think you can understand.

Beauty and the Beast was better than I expected. I am a fan of all of the actors, but I didn't need a remake was necessary. It was still pretty good. I had heard horror stories about Emma Watson's singing, but it was fine. I mean, it's not like Russell Crowe in Les Mis...

I love Coco! I watched it in theater and just cried and cried. I just feel connected to my family watching it. That's super cook about your daughter's job. It makes me laugh when I turn on music in my mom's room at the nursing home and her and her roommate's foot will start tapping on the floor and then I'll hear humming along and then the question of words but sometimes they even know the words.

Regarding your church and moving forward with social media? Have you heard of flocknote? Our church recently started to utilize it and I really like it! It's nice for those that aren't all on social media but likely have email access.

 

[apirateslifeforme]

I am totally NOT a sports fan. Not interested in watching, not coordinated enough to play. I'll deal with ice hockey, though - especially if there's a good fight!

DH likes football, hockey, and soccer. He played the latter 2 from a young age. Loves his Patriots and is devastated that Tom Brady left. Now Gronk is headed to the Bucs as well...DH says they're going to be known as the Tampa Bay Patriots soon.

DS is showing some athletic ability already. Since the age of 2, he was able to keep control of a ball while kicking it around the yard. He played in the town soccer league in the fall and we signed him up for the spring season, which was canceled. He will play again in the fall. He also really likes his gymnastics class. We took him last summer and he LOVED it, so we've kept him going through the fall and winter, up until the quarantine.

So I actually made dinner tonight. It's rare that my mother relinquishes control of the kitchen. She doesn't like fish, which is the reason she let me cook. So DH and I had baked cod topped with cracker crumbs. I melted some butter, mixed it with lemon juice and a little white wine, mixed in crushed Club crackers, and sprinkled it over the fish. I'm just proud of it because when I made it once before, I used WAY too much butter and that's all we could taste. This time I did it just right and it was good!

DS is getting horribly out of control. He really needs to go back to school and play with his friends. He screams so much lately...I just can't get him interested in anything; he just wants to watch Spongebob and jump on the furniture. Tonight he had such a meltdown over wanting Daddy's drum set (which is stacked on shelves in the basement), he went to bed at 6:30. I'm trying so hard to be gentle with him, direct him to other activities, but it's just not happening. I don't know what to do

 

[gwynne]

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[Meriweather]

Not a sports fan here......the kids are into football and I have to listen to it as my eyes glaze over.
I put my time in watching kids sports for years. My dues are paid.

93 degrees here today.......heat advisory for Sunday. We should hit 105!! Too early in the year for that. Turned the AC on a few days ago.

Dinner was ....for me a protein bar, DH had leftover ribs and collard greens.
We had a big lunch. Had Chili's deliver fajitas for lunch. We usually always go out for lunch and a movie on Thursdays, so trying to keep it going the best we can. Watched Onward.......Coco would have been better

 

[Breezy_Carol]

My house is covered in Colts blue around here so I suppose we are into it.

Up until this, I really liked you. LOL Being born and raised in Baltimore and remembering the Colts leaving, it is still a sore subject. I am a Ravens fan now.

Question of the day: 4/23: Do you enjoy sports?

I knew very little about football until DD, then DS joined marching band in high school. Then I started going to games. After that they both went to University of Maryland and were in marching band, so 6 more years of watching the Terps. I continued to follow until they left the ACC for the Big 10. I watched Torrey Smith for his 4 years at Maryland then when he, and my kids graduated, I started seriously watching the Ravens because he was there. Now he is retired so I don't watch as much but am still watching some with DH. While the kids were in college I followed women's basketball.

When they were young, I went to many soccer games and swim meets. When I was in college in upstate NY, I went to a lot of ice hockey games. As far as me playing sports, not so much. LOL

Regarding Tiger King. I watched one episode and realized it was not for me.

Gratitudes:
1. Like I mentioned before, my mom teaching me to knit.
2. WW meeting today.
3. Surviving another day at home.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Question of the day: 4/23: Do you enjoy sports?

As I mentioned my husband is season ticket holder to Colts' football. I am Southern girl and raised to know my football. I love college sports but could pass on professional and really I don't have attention span for long games. I also really enjoy ice hockey. I don't even know why as I can't even think about ice skating but it could be the beating snot out of each other. So what about ya'll? Sports?

I haven't watched sports regularly since Earl the Pearl, Bill Bradley, Clyde Frazier and those dastardly Boston Celtics were the talk.
The ex despised all sports except soccer which really wasn't on TV then so marriage meant I was never a grass widow at least.
The man on the other hand never saw a game played with a ball or puck that wasn't worth watching. For about 10 years we gave "Stupor Bowl" parties that were a big to do with the hotel staff.They ended with his retirement and he now sits in sports bars on the night with whatever friends he can muster up w/o me; he's happy and why so am I .

 

[Kittyblue]

I'm not really into sports at all. I've been to some live local sporting events and I enjoy those, but I will never watch on tv.

 

[fla4fun]

Sports? No. I get really bored watching sports and I don’t enjoy participating. I hated Phys Ed in school. The only units I enjoyed were archery and dance.