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ravena_kade) wrote2025-07-15 09:32 pm
ravena_kade) wrote2025-07-15 09:32 pm(no subject)
Last week when the boss was in she mentioned that she loved training and that we should send her an email saying what we would like. Yeah. On Friday I sent the email saying that acknoledged that she did not have time to read my documentation (I dont understand why she can't read 3 pages of f'ng screen shots and strait forward directions) so I would like to continue writing and then talk about it with her. That way I could control the training so I can process.
Yesterday she comes in and pulls up a chair. Rudi is in so he can hear...and is my witness. She asks me why I want to rewrite documentation when the old bookkeeper left notes. I said I have 2 reasons. One because they are shit (yes I said that) without concepts and two because I want you to know what I understand for concepts... and when you do we can either elaborate or correct and I will be a bookkeeper instead of a business operations person trying to complete tasks. I am very comfortable with procedures as I have been writing them for almost 30 years. How much clearer could I be? She said no.
I know I do not have a poker face. I know she saw my eyes go dead. I said okay.
She then pulled me into her office to watch her do a quarterly report for the government. This is training to her. Show once then you're an expert. While she trains she has loud dance music playing and she drums with her hands. If this was back in my insurance days I would have taken a pair of scissors to the speaker cord.
While I has doing the dance musing training session a friend texted me to say hi. I responded after with a sorry the boss is getting up my nose today. He asked for more info so I told him. The advice is just the coast, do the best I can... and it's the bosses loss. I get it. I do, but now I am in a situation where I can't get the training I need and I get grief if I ask for questions.
Right now my plan is to get rid of debt. Get my finances in order (I have been trying, but its harder with the lower pay) If this doesn't get better by the time I am 62 just look for retail where I can get benefits (Trader Joes comes to mind). Quit at 65 when I can get medicare (if it exists) and do something I like. Should something happen to Dad I would just quit.
Funny thing at work today. The new girl started today. She is bored already. They had her taking some video classes because she has never worked in a bank before. She was zoning out. I caught her staring at me 3 times. I waved at her ;-P. After lunch she had another class. She stopped it and came over and said that she wanted to watch me work. I told her that my functions were not anything she would need to know and that I was busy (I was) She wouldn't let it go. Hmmmm... She said it would be good for the future. I said true, but it's a little fast considering your've only been here for 5 hours. I have to wonder if the boss said anything to her about maybe doing bookkeeper work. I gave her a brief description and said that she could talk to the boss about it but I really recommend that you get back to what your trainer has assigned you.
Yesterday she comes in and pulls up a chair. Rudi is in so he can hear...and is my witness. She asks me why I want to rewrite documentation when the old bookkeeper left notes. I said I have 2 reasons. One because they are shit (yes I said that) without concepts and two because I want you to know what I understand for concepts... and when you do we can either elaborate or correct and I will be a bookkeeper instead of a business operations person trying to complete tasks. I am very comfortable with procedures as I have been writing them for almost 30 years. How much clearer could I be? She said no.
I know I do not have a poker face. I know she saw my eyes go dead. I said okay.
She then pulled me into her office to watch her do a quarterly report for the government. This is training to her. Show once then you're an expert. While she trains she has loud dance music playing and she drums with her hands. If this was back in my insurance days I would have taken a pair of scissors to the speaker cord.
While I has doing the dance musing training session a friend texted me to say hi. I responded after with a sorry the boss is getting up my nose today. He asked for more info so I told him. The advice is just the coast, do the best I can... and it's the bosses loss. I get it. I do, but now I am in a situation where I can't get the training I need and I get grief if I ask for questions.
Right now my plan is to get rid of debt. Get my finances in order (I have been trying, but its harder with the lower pay) If this doesn't get better by the time I am 62 just look for retail where I can get benefits (Trader Joes comes to mind). Quit at 65 when I can get medicare (if it exists) and do something I like. Should something happen to Dad I would just quit.
Funny thing at work today. The new girl started today. She is bored already. They had her taking some video classes because she has never worked in a bank before. She was zoning out. I caught her staring at me 3 times. I waved at her ;-P. After lunch she had another class. She stopped it and came over and said that she wanted to watch me work. I told her that my functions were not anything she would need to know and that I was busy (I was) She wouldn't let it go. Hmmmm... She said it would be good for the future. I said true, but it's a little fast considering your've only been here for 5 hours. I have to wonder if the boss said anything to her about maybe doing bookkeeper work. I gave her a brief description and said that she could talk to the boss about it but I really recommend that you get back to what your trainer has assigned you.
ravena_kade (ravena_kade) wrote2025-07-13 08:11 pm
ravena_kade) wrote2025-07-13 08:11 pm(no subject)
This weekend was an almost all chores.
I needed to run errands with Dad, but he decided to be gone 4 hours for breakfast and threw my schedule out the window. He needed to go to Walmart , but where we were there around noon it took 45 minutes to check out. I was not amused. Then we get home I have to feed him lunch. I didn't get the chores until after 2. Again, not happy.
My plan was to set the deck up. I asked him to do some things to it 3 weeks ago, but he did nothing. 2 weeks ago I went to Home Depot and asked him to pick out paint for the table because he said it needed paint to seal it. We get there and he tells me it doesn't need to be done. I finally have time to deal with the deck and he starts that it needs to be painted. I was mad. He was getting in my way. He wanted the table painted. I told him he should have done it 2 weeks ago... he kept getting in my way. I yelled that I didn't have f'ing time for this. The neighors heard.. Then he's telling me that I washing the deck wrong. He just got on my nerves. Then I went to float in the spa and he wanted to come in. Okay. The problem was that he was covered in lotion so he left a slick in the spa... I wanted to strangle him...
The only reason why I did not is that all of a sudden the yard was filled with a dozen Monarch Butterflies. They bring me joy. I told him that he was saved by the butterflies.
The deck is frustrating because it needs to be washed. The engineered material is no maintainance as in painting, but it collects algae and dirt. It took me 2 days to do it. I got up at 6am today and went out when he went to breakfast today for another 4 hours. I am literally swabbing the deck at dawn while he does nothing at the house.
I needed to run errands with Dad, but he decided to be gone 4 hours for breakfast and threw my schedule out the window. He needed to go to Walmart , but where we were there around noon it took 45 minutes to check out. I was not amused. Then we get home I have to feed him lunch. I didn't get the chores until after 2. Again, not happy.
My plan was to set the deck up. I asked him to do some things to it 3 weeks ago, but he did nothing. 2 weeks ago I went to Home Depot and asked him to pick out paint for the table because he said it needed paint to seal it. We get there and he tells me it doesn't need to be done. I finally have time to deal with the deck and he starts that it needs to be painted. I was mad. He was getting in my way. He wanted the table painted. I told him he should have done it 2 weeks ago... he kept getting in my way. I yelled that I didn't have f'ing time for this. The neighors heard.. Then he's telling me that I washing the deck wrong. He just got on my nerves. Then I went to float in the spa and he wanted to come in. Okay. The problem was that he was covered in lotion so he left a slick in the spa... I wanted to strangle him...
The only reason why I did not is that all of a sudden the yard was filled with a dozen Monarch Butterflies. They bring me joy. I told him that he was saved by the butterflies.
The deck is frustrating because it needs to be washed. The engineered material is no maintainance as in painting, but it collects algae and dirt. It took me 2 days to do it. I got up at 6am today and went out when he went to breakfast today for another 4 hours. I am literally swabbing the deck at dawn while he does nothing at the house.
ravena_kade (ravena_kade) wrote2025-07-10 07:54 pm
ravena_kade) wrote2025-07-10 07:54 pmFamily.
It gets weirder...
So Auntie went to the hospital the same day as Stroke cousin came back from rehab. Auntie cam home the next day.
Saturday Cancer cousin with the spinal surgery was cleared to drive again... Yay.
Sunday stroke cousin has a phone call appointment with a doctor about sores she sees in her mouth. The doctor thinks she brought and infection/ virus home from the rehab. Great. She should quarantine. She doesn't.
Monday cancer cousin doesn't feel great. Tuesday she has Chemo and then the rest of the week they are retrieving stem cells to save for when the cancer stops allowing her body to make proper white blood cells (most people with her cancer only live 5 to 10 years... there is no cure or remission). She has caught what ever crud stroke cousin brought home from rehab. Her Chemo and stem cell procedures have all been cancelled and she has to quarantine for maybe 2 weeks.
The family is very stressed and upset. They have seen a Therapist (the sisters, not my 96 Aunt). The therapist says that stroke cousins should not live with them if she is not going to try and fit in with the family.
Oh boy
So Auntie went to the hospital the same day as Stroke cousin came back from rehab. Auntie cam home the next day.
Saturday Cancer cousin with the spinal surgery was cleared to drive again... Yay.
Sunday stroke cousin has a phone call appointment with a doctor about sores she sees in her mouth. The doctor thinks she brought and infection/ virus home from the rehab. Great. She should quarantine. She doesn't.
Monday cancer cousin doesn't feel great. Tuesday she has Chemo and then the rest of the week they are retrieving stem cells to save for when the cancer stops allowing her body to make proper white blood cells (most people with her cancer only live 5 to 10 years... there is no cure or remission). She has caught what ever crud stroke cousin brought home from rehab. Her Chemo and stem cell procedures have all been cancelled and she has to quarantine for maybe 2 weeks.
The family is very stressed and upset. They have seen a Therapist (the sisters, not my 96 Aunt). The therapist says that stroke cousins should not live with them if she is not going to try and fit in with the family.
Oh boy
ravena_kade (ravena_kade) wrote2025-07-10 07:23 pm
ravena_kade) wrote2025-07-10 07:23 pm(no subject)
Happy tomorrow is Friday.
Work is ....work.....
Yesterday the boss had another interview for a temp. This young woman showed up 10 minutes before the interview and really aced the interview. The tellers like her. That boss thinks she is super. The boss came over to me and told me that the interviewee was only 24 years old but she was going to hire her. Sure. Great.
I said she sounds like a good fit with the others and being young means she may not have any baggage. She has a degree in economics and no banking experience, but is eager to learn and wants to start ASAP.
The boss then said that she thought she could train her as bookkeeper. I gave a look...hopefully it was an "aroo?" look and not a WTF look. She said that she didn't think she had anyone that could be bookkeeper when I retire. She doesn't think Rudi can do it. I said that Rudi is capable of doing it, but it is not his strength... like my strength is business operations Rudi's is customer service (He is so good with people I think he should be social role model or leader) and he would not thrive being isolated from people. She said that she really needs to think long term. I said I understood... and I agree because the credit union doesn't pay enough for an experienced bookkeeper. An experienced bookkeeper makes $36 to $40 an hour. I am not criticizing, just stating facts. When I feel I have earned the raise I will ask point blank for it. I promise. (I want to work on being remote Fridays this fall).
Not sure if I shot myself in the foot or not, but I am not wrong. And she needs to train me before she can train others. I also brought up the fact that while I have written documentation she has had it over a month and not reviewed any of it. I told her after her vacation we need to get back to concepts. I set up a follow up via email ... Put it in writing so I have document that she is not doing her part.
The stupid part is that my Boss thinks a 24 year old will stay here 5 to 8 years when raises don't happen. How is this young person supposed to make rent and pay back her college loan. I am her for my Dad...I have the same bills and responsibility as my boss, but she is making 100 grand more a year than I am. This young girl will leave in 2 years.
Work is ....work.....
Yesterday the boss had another interview for a temp. This young woman showed up 10 minutes before the interview and really aced the interview. The tellers like her. That boss thinks she is super. The boss came over to me and told me that the interviewee was only 24 years old but she was going to hire her. Sure. Great.
I said she sounds like a good fit with the others and being young means she may not have any baggage. She has a degree in economics and no banking experience, but is eager to learn and wants to start ASAP.
The boss then said that she thought she could train her as bookkeeper. I gave a look...hopefully it was an "aroo?" look and not a WTF look. She said that she didn't think she had anyone that could be bookkeeper when I retire. She doesn't think Rudi can do it. I said that Rudi is capable of doing it, but it is not his strength... like my strength is business operations Rudi's is customer service (He is so good with people I think he should be social role model or leader) and he would not thrive being isolated from people. She said that she really needs to think long term. I said I understood... and I agree because the credit union doesn't pay enough for an experienced bookkeeper. An experienced bookkeeper makes $36 to $40 an hour. I am not criticizing, just stating facts. When I feel I have earned the raise I will ask point blank for it. I promise. (I want to work on being remote Fridays this fall).
Not sure if I shot myself in the foot or not, but I am not wrong. And she needs to train me before she can train others. I also brought up the fact that while I have written documentation she has had it over a month and not reviewed any of it. I told her after her vacation we need to get back to concepts. I set up a follow up via email ... Put it in writing so I have document that she is not doing her part.
The stupid part is that my Boss thinks a 24 year old will stay here 5 to 8 years when raises don't happen. How is this young person supposed to make rent and pay back her college loan. I am her for my Dad...I have the same bills and responsibility as my boss, but she is making 100 grand more a year than I am. This young girl will leave in 2 years.
ravena_kade (ravena_kade) wrote2025-07-07 10:14 pm
ravena_kade) wrote2025-07-07 10:14 pm(no subject)
Friday morning I record a call that the cousins were having people over. I made overnight pulled pork so I had something to bring. We get there and cancer cousin is asleep. Stroke cousin is in Chair in the living room, lead cousin was at the hospital with the Mother and the last cousin was so stressed out she was practically twitching. Lead cousin left at 10 AM and stroke cousin had had 5 accidents. Last cousin standing had been changing adult diapers for and hour and a half and cleaning up leaks...she was fit to be tied. I suggested that she go upstairs and I could take care of things for an hour. I set up food and chatted with stroke cousin. At 1 PM the widow and kids and grand kids of the passed away cousin came in. The. young girls helped me set up more food.
Lead cousin comes home from the hospital and we all eat. Stroke cousin wanted to be waited on, but I know that her PT people say she needs to get things herself. She is capable. She just doesn't want to. There were words. 30 minutes later lead cousin gets a call that they are discharging my aunt so she has to go back to the hospital. I went with her to help...and to escape ;-)
Got home around 4:30 and headed into the garden for a few hours.
Saturday was a beach day at Cranes in Ipswich/. Yay. There were signs saying that sharks were spotted, but I did not see any. I wanted to. Spent 2 hours on the beach. The only wild found were 2 large lion's mane jelly fish. The beach was crowded where the lifeguards were, but pretty quiet a mile down the sand.
Sunday was spend in the garden and then floating in my spa/blow up pool. It was HOT, but the water was refreshing.
Today was work and more yard chores. I hope to be caught up with all of the yard stuff this week.
Lead cousin comes home from the hospital and we all eat. Stroke cousin wanted to be waited on, but I know that her PT people say she needs to get things herself. She is capable. She just doesn't want to. There were words. 30 minutes later lead cousin gets a call that they are discharging my aunt so she has to go back to the hospital. I went with her to help...and to escape ;-)
Got home around 4:30 and headed into the garden for a few hours.
Saturday was a beach day at Cranes in Ipswich/. Yay. There were signs saying that sharks were spotted, but I did not see any. I wanted to. Spent 2 hours on the beach. The only wild found were 2 large lion's mane jelly fish. The beach was crowded where the lifeguards were, but pretty quiet a mile down the sand.
Sunday was spend in the garden and then floating in my spa/blow up pool. It was HOT, but the water was refreshing.
Today was work and more yard chores. I hope to be caught up with all of the yard stuff this week.
ravena_kade (ravena_kade) wrote2025-07-03 10:33 pm
ravena_kade) wrote2025-07-03 10:33 pm(no subject)
Today Stroke cousin was released from rehab and sent back to her sisters' house. They said they could not handle her. There are only 2 of them and they are not strong so they can't lift her out of bed so she can make it to the bathroom. It takes 4 rehab staff to do it. It is hard to get 4 staff people together on one patient. PT says that stroke cousin is capable of getting up from bed...they worked on that in PT...but she does not want to. Oh boy. She was due to be released at 1 pm.
At 11 AM I get a call from lead sister. She is driving. They think my Aunt had a small stroke. Cancer cousin is in the ambulance with my Aunt. In the ambulance my aunt seemed fine. She was talking and could move her hands and feet. She knew all her kids names and even that the oldest son had died in January. They are keeping the aunt at the hospital and will run tests on her
Dad wanted to go over to the cousins tomorrow. I planned on making salad, potato salad and pulled pork. I told the cousins to text and tell me what is going on and if they want to be alone I will keep Dad home. No word and it is almost 11PM. I would have liked to make plans for the morning. Looks like I will garden and see what happens. The pulled pork freezes well.
At 11 AM I get a call from lead sister. She is driving. They think my Aunt had a small stroke. Cancer cousin is in the ambulance with my Aunt. In the ambulance my aunt seemed fine. She was talking and could move her hands and feet. She knew all her kids names and even that the oldest son had died in January. They are keeping the aunt at the hospital and will run tests on her
Dad wanted to go over to the cousins tomorrow. I planned on making salad, potato salad and pulled pork. I told the cousins to text and tell me what is going on and if they want to be alone I will keep Dad home. No word and it is almost 11PM. I would have liked to make plans for the morning. Looks like I will garden and see what happens. The pulled pork freezes well.