Please skip over this post if you want some Monday cheeriness. I'm sure that the smile I have plastered on my face will take effect later in the day, but for now, I'm just generally annoyed but trying not to show it as I could very well walk out of this office at this moment and not come back. Period.
1) My other designer is sick again. SERIOUSLY. Stay at home. Another coworker just asked if he thought he had the flu and he said, "I don't know, maybe..." What the crap?!?!?! Buddy, I'm pregnant. Big pregnant and I've managed to ward off all kinds of office nastiness for 9 dog-gone months with the exception of 2 of the nasty colds you all have been passing around. Sheesh, cut me some slack. If you don't want to stay home, then call me and I'll stay at home. I do not have sympathy on the sick when they are always sick and continue to come into the office to let people know about their sickness. That's rude.
2) My HR lady I believe derives some sort of perverse pleasure of delivering not so great maternity leave news. Um, sorry Roz, it's 6 weeks not 12. Um, Roz I was thinking that you would work up until the time you deliver, you've been doing so well (tah-heee, no maam). Um, Roz I know the whole maternity leave is unpaid and all (so the company's getting by like a fat cat), but you're going to owe the company money to keep up with your supplemental insurance premiums. Are you kidding me?
3) My grandmother randomly sends a message thru my father that "Her number hasn't changed and I need to call and check on her". Um well, (and this is totally disrespectful) the phone goes two ways. When we do talk, I'm calling you. When we do communicate, it's me sending you cards and sonogram pics, and updates (to which you never respond so I only assume you get them b/c you've lived in the same house all my life). I do not complain on my missed birthday and the lack of enthusiasm shown on your end about my life in general. I get it, I'm not your favorite. Geez, don't get me started on how irate it makes me when ANYONE hits me with the "Why haven't I talked to you in so long" line. My ultimate pet-peev. And trust if this line is what you greet me with when I do call or we do speak, then I WILL NOT be making the effort again. Really.
4) It kind of drives me bonkers (okay, no need to be sweet now right)... It gets under my skin when someone I don't talk to on a regular basis leaves me a msg that says, "Hey, give me a call back at XXX-XXXX, whenever you get this message." Um nope. I like to know what things are in regards to. I'm not a phone person. I only get on to talk about nothing in particular with my good friends, my mom and sister. Everyone else, um sorry, I gotta know the reason for the call. I have my guard up like that. If you don't want anything in particular, tell me that. If it's an emergency, it's in your best interest to tell me that also, if not I can promise that I will not call. I figure that you'll call and either catch me or leave me a real message if it's important. I believe that to be universal phone etiquette.
5) I'm not a dramatic person. Please stop trying to make my life dramatic. If one more person asks me how I'm doing and when I respond with "We're doing well thanks" and they respond with "Just wait until your feet swell, or you start having contractions, or some other ailment" then I may just punch them in the face. I'm fine. Stop eagerly anticipating the time when I won't be fine. Chances are you won't know. Also, to ask me when you see me, "Still not in labor yet, hahaha" is getting pretty old. How foolish would I be to increase the discomfort of labor to come in and talk to your silly behind.
6) And this is just petty, but well, I'm putting it all out there. I hate when people put gum in my trash can without putting it in a tissue first. That's just gross.
*****End Rant*****
Happy Monday (or at least let's try and keep a facade of a Happy Monday)! ;-)
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8 comments:
I totally agree with #6 as there is gum in my trash now.. I don't chew gum so I know it isn't mine. Nasty..
#1 is even worse. Spray Lysol. I have a can in my office right now for the same reason.
I hope your day gets better. I just knew that my question would be a the top of this list. Im not going to ask anymore. I hope your day gets better.
LOL! Nope Tricey, you're good. No worries you're on my "good friends" list so you can pretty much come at me with anything, but it's safe to assume that no matter what I sound like I'm not in labor unless I say so. ;-)
Get out of my head as I'm soooo going to Dollar General to get lysol in just a sec. I was trying to be nice, but shoot, if you're bold enough to bring the germs, I'm going to have to be bold enough to spray you down.
Okay it is just plain obnoxious to come around people when you are sick,pregnant and unpregnant alike. Just plain rude people. I would literally walk up to him and spray Lysol all over!! It's like when parents send their kids to school after they have already thrown up at home. Um WHY??? Just so they can spread that nasty virus to as many people they can? Some people!!
I feel your vents girl. I had a weekend of Some Peoples myself :) Hope your day gets better!
What is it with people wanting to work through sick days? They're there for a reason, use them!
What the heck kind of a maternity policy is that? That's ridiculous.
Sorry about the rude pregnancy comments. I got "How far along are you?" "37 weeks" "Oh! Well, you're not going to make it!" comments a lot. Like I looked so humongously big that I couldn't possibly go full term. What kind of comment IS that? I hate the "just wait" comments too.
Sorry Monday started out so crummy, and sorry you still have a bit to go. Tell that HR girl you want the maternity leave policy written down on paper and signed so there are no more changes. She can't make it up as you go...
LOL girl that is too funny!! Your ranting just made my Monday! You're better than me...I've already warned the people I work with that they better not touch me when I'm pregnant and they better not ask me any stupidly obvious questions!! I'll probably be going off on people right around the time I find out I'm pregnant...I'm just going to blame it all on the pregnancy hormones!!
Oh yeah, I've been hit with the you must pay your portion of insurance while you are out to continue your premiums. I, didn't exactly pay our corporate office all that i was supposed when I was out for 6 months with my ankle fusion in 2004, I'm sure they have that marked down somewhere so they can collect when I quit.
Most offices only give you 6 weeks, but if your office has 50+ people ( I think), then you can qualify for up to 12 weeks of FMLA which will protect your job position while you are out. A girl I work with only got 6 weeks for her c-section with Labcorp but she held out until 8.
In the US, maternity leave is not a right, nor is it mandated that employers pay us for giving birth like they do in Sweden & Russia. Employers usually follow the 6 week vaginal or 8 week c-section rule, but that's at the employers discretion. The office I work in, one of the girls had to come back at 4 weeks because the office doesn't have enough people to for her to qualify for FMLA & she didn't have any sick/vacation time to cover.
Dang Girly!!! I called last week, don't know if I left a message b/c I know you don't like to talk. But I couldn't help but to feel the jab. Anyhow, you are funny. I had to take two happy pills b/c my super started fussing at me early this morning. Hope your Monday gets better too.
What is funny about this rant is that I can actually hear you sayong all of this:)
What is the deal with everyone coming into offices sick?? I dont get that? You have sick days...use them. I agree about the lysol. You cant afford to be sick now. You have made it way too far.
And you know I am so with you on the phone calls and the staying in touch stuff.
Hope Tuesday is better and remember this is your last week....Hang in there! Love you
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