Deeper Thoughts & Inner Weirdom 2

[stols001]

Yep that's accurate, some stuff is on hold. A lot of the tiny towns near the reservations are a mess, frankly because NA tribes tend to have poor health treatment and terrible health outcomes. I'm not so super worried quite yet, I am applying for many things and stuff, but IHS is still open, they reopened a supervisory position which I would rather enjoy and am qualified for, so I could get hired, but it's gonna take time to get from A--Z. I am applying other places, hell South Dakota is ON the list. It is not HIGH on the list, but it' s there. I'm ruling out Alaska due to the photoperiod.

Anna

ETA: You can't generalize about one tribe to another let alone intra-tribe. One of my favorite things about the reservation I worked on is like one house, you'd enter and the mom be a blind diabetic and you seriously would think about napalm or at least vicks vapo rub etc., and well, two doors down would be a lovely family who valued education and the dad was a doctor and the mom a lawyer and they were freaking out about their kid trying MJ. LOL, actually I think my favorite thing was dealing with 2 sovereign nations with competing rules, obligations and whatnot. You could have parents of kids where the dad had an AZ state CPS worker and the mom's was tribal and it got so complicated sometimes you just wanted to off AT LEAST someone, often yourself.

 

[runamok]

Sad to say, Anna, but I think all of us at one time or another have had an a hole boss or supervisor. toward the end of my military career it got so bad in the unit I was in that after applying for a transfer 4 times and having my paperwork mysteriously disappeared I started drinking a quart of beer before 1st formation. I didn't even worry about getting an article 15 because that would have given me a chance to take my grievance to the company commander. So when it time to re-up I flat out told the retention office what he could do with the papers. And then desert storm blew in with me down to 22 days left, and they "stop gapped" me. 7 more damn months in hell. And my ex girlfriend wondered why I never filed for VA. Benefits? I wouldn't believe a word they said if they told me to take 2 aspirin and call in the morning. Here I was going to be encouraging and turned it into a rant. Sorry about that. Good luck.

 

[stols001]

'S'okay. I do not enter the VA wide eyed and innocent, I have volunteered for them before. The only nice thing ARE the vets, but sometimes you do what you got to do and the right place and position would probably work, I think. Although I vastly prefer IHS I mean, I have had plenty of dealings with them, they're fine. I just want someplace calm and the IHS is so.

I also have plenty of time really, but if I don't start applying I will never go anywhere. So yeah there is that.

VA stuff is ridiculously overtaxed, and so many places won't take it although I heard there was that "golden ticket' thing or whatever it was, where they were so overtaxed they were just letting folks um, choose a PCP regardless and stuff. DOUGLAS falls under the Tucson VA which to me is complete insanity.

If it were just my boss....That would be one thing. The whole admin staff are just jerks. Like, they have this whole system to intimidate you, I should have known when I got a weird vibe of the CEO during the interview, it was just everyone else was nice. I keep wanting to email CEO and head of pedes (who seems to have achieved that position by being "married to him" as far as I can tell) "So what have YOU, personally given up as you furlough people left and right. Did you cut your own salaries and get rid of the nanny?" That's not a healthy question to ask. I am FAR from the only person seeking other work. It's been like a Steven King novel from the start of COVID and I am not DOWN for that. Oh, I could demand a change in supervisor but I think the whole company thinks I want to sue them. Even my sister thinks I have a great case, and said if I got organized with all of it, I could probably find a lawyer to take it on contingency but as far as I'm concerned, (and my sis agrees) that's plunging yourself into an abyss of madness for three years. There are so many things I could report to the EEOC. I don't think I will though, it's just not worth it to me.

I have had bad bosses and you can manage THAT. But when the whole institutional culture is so freaky? It's bad juju man, it surely is. My dictation software appeared OVER 60 days past the "LAST reasonable time frame," for my ADA request. I was STILL getting censured for my notes regardless and my supervisor told me to shut up about it, for example. I was just like Jesus H and that was a more NEUTRAL example.

It sucked I am so happy to be gone. Sorry for rambling no more about work.

Anna

 

[stols001]

LOL funny pics never lets me down:

Anna

 

[Nermal]

And my ex girlfriend wondered why I never filed for VA. Benefits? I wouldn't believe a word they said if they told me to take 2 aspirin and call in the morning.

I can understand how you feel, but I offer one bit of advice: hang on to your DD 214 just in case.

 

[stols001]

5 applications so far (waiting on my dang transcripts.) One is, ah, advancing. Gosh, it was kind of a neat ;position and G12 which is about as high as *I* reasonably want to go otherwise I would be (badly probably) trying to run whole positions. IDK. It's good only in the sense I know I am in the right bracket for my exp/education.

However, uh, IDK Indiana. It's COLD up there.

Anna

 

[ENAUD]

5 applications so far (waiting on my dang transcripts.) One is, ah, advancing. Gosh, it was kind of a neat ;position and G12 which is about as high as *I* reasonably want to go otherwise I would be (badly probably) trying to run whole positions. IDK. It's good only in the sense I know I am in the right bracket for my exp/education.

However, uh, IDK Indiana. It's COLD up there.

Anna

Any job is better than unemployed with no benefits and homeless...All the best of luck to you in this time Anna...

 

[stols001]

It's gonna be okay I guess... Now 4/5 applications have moved me to advancing which means "You are among the highest qualified for this position your resume has been provided to the hiring manager."

So I finally wormed out of the husband where he could tolerate going. He was all afreak. I was like, um, dood, listen I had to start somewhere, so I started with due dates. Plus, I don't have to take the first job that is offered, but the more interviews I do the better, most likely I will come to understand these strange agencies....

It took a freakout to get the info out of him, that is how he gest. Thank you @ENAUD , I hope it goes well too, my last position is leaving me feeling a wee bit on the small side although I KNOW it is THEM not ME man I am one of five on the behavioral health team who have left that desolate place. Some of em like WALKED off the job etc.

Anna

 

[FringeChief68]

 

[AstroTurf]

Joe Biden approves this post!!!

 

[FringeChief68]

 

[stols001]

I have no clue what this is and if it has meaning to someone. But especially with the unknown factor, it makes me kinda happy:

I mean WHUT I must know what this references someone HELP. LOL.

Anna

 

[stols001]

The second one is one of my favorite cartoons and well... IDK. Guess we'll see. That second one, well, I read a study that like, the "average American" commits a felony a day. I am far from "average." I like to think there was a church dedicated to my "misdeeds" of many law abiding citizens, to even things out for me. How lucky I am to never have gotten in trouble for my misdeeds.

LOL

Anna

 

[AstroTurf]

I have no clue what this is and if it has meaning to someone. But especially with the unknown factor, it makes me kinda happy:

I mean WHUT I must know what this references someone HELP. LOL.

Anna

AnNa in Wonderland...

drink me!!!

 

[AstroTurf]

AnNa in Wonderland...

drink me!!!

 

[AstroTurf]

encore for aNnA...

LOLz

 

[stols001]

Disability employees just need to die, if you ask me. Not the actual disability part, but like holy goodness lady what don't you get about telemedicine and here is the information I can give you. I gave her everything I could dude. Then she was like okay well I will give this to your claims manager on Monday. It's a CANADIAN company so it's all new to me. I almost expected her to tell me to "Bear up" and whatever, and like get my .... in gear. So she told me to have a nice day and I told her it would be a thrill and yes, I would try to get better and also, enjoy eating my ramen over the weekend and like, that was PATENTLY a lie. But I think they should have disability kiosks dude, where they like let you put your card in and it dispenses cash.

NOT REALLY. But I don't get how I go to work under the circumstances. I sound like a hateful commie. I am gong to have to explain to my doctor he will need to document longer far longer it is CANDADA. He is the king of the two word scrawl.
Anna

 

[stols001]

LOL I think the "Go ask Alice" songs referred to that SIMPLY TERRIBLE and PATENTLY FALSE "anonymous" book (clearly written by a very untalented member of MADD) where Alice, the lovely high school student experiments with drugs and then dies.

Well I can't remember maybe she goes to rehab I can't remember that is how BAD it was. Reading that sucker, every page, it made me want to take more drugs because I was like, "That would improve this reading experience."

Heck, I probably DID. That's why I can't remember the ending .I hope she died.

As a fictional person but NOTHING about that "memoir" was reality based, dude.

Anna

 

[ENAUD]

LOL I think the "Go ask Alice" songs referred to that SIMPLY TERRIBLE and PATENTLY FALSE "anonymous" book (clearly written by a very untalented member of MADD) where Alice, the lovely high school student experiments with drugs and then dies.

Well I can't remember maybe she goes to rehab I can't remember that is how BAD it was. Reading that sucker, every page, it made me want to take more drugs because I was like, "That would improve this reading experience."

Heck, I probably DID. That's why I can't remember the ending .I hope she died.

As a fictional person but NOTHING about that "memoir" was reality based, dude.

Anna

Try reading "A hero ain't nothin' but a sandwich",

 

[stols001]

I read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, I did not find its smug aphorisms to be at all a way to read a life.

Also, I read, (if you can even call it that' Jonothon Livingstone Seagull. You give that a SHOT and see if you can like, um, Not TOSS it against a wall several times, it is THAT AWFUL.

That was early in my "spiritual texts" reading though, dude, and maybe the Seagull book is better than the Old Testament, dude. Because, well, uh, like honestly? That is ONE vengeful God dude. I don't think God should bet against Satan although if he does, he should CERTAINLY lose. Satan woulda had me at cattle dyng and full body boils let alone my family.

I like them, I am accustomed to them and if I prayed up a STORM well holy goodness MY WORD I mean..... WOW, If I woke up with a new spouse beside me I would just DIE. Of fright if nothing else, and did he have to redo all the childrearing that would have made me SUPER mad, it's expensive and taxing.

ALSO that whole Noah bit COME ON I do not believe there was ONE righteous family left on earth I mean come on God that is just not doing your job RIGHT.

I found out Lebanon is like 1 hour away from my in laws. LOL there is something to be said for returning to their roots. I told him they could visit once a month but like OMG his SISTER. Bless her heart (for I am about to say horrible things) but her last bipolar freak out psychosis, she BIT HER KID. I might kill myself if I did that. Additionally, she has a husband with mild MR (don't aske me) and like he .........es, somewhat surreptitiously, and like it's NO GOOD. I'm not going to EVEN go into the grandchild and what is happening there . But it SUCKS.

Heh, the husband put up with my family long enough. I told him I was mature enough to a) slam the door in his sister's face if she showed up, and b) tolerate or even elicit all the racist, awful comments I could from his parents .I think its funny now, when I make fun of alphabet soup and other things of that nature.

I think it's just a part of getting old, disdaining our youngers. Except for the ones on HORMONES (I disagree with it only because I have witnessed it enough) HAVE at it.

Anna