Would You Like To Go Out? Say what?

 

too cute!

I was not expecting to be asked out by someone that I happened to bump into at the grocery store of all places.  We were never bosom buddies or friends for that matter, just acquaintances, and knew each other through a mutual friend and scattered gatherings.  At this point, I am not sure I want to entertain the thought of dating. My self esteem is pretty much shot to hell really after a relationship ended quite abruptly earlier this month.   I'm just leery of putting myself out there.  Its just too early for me right now, my heart wouldn't be in it.  He offered me his number and told me to give him a call if I changed my mind as I kind of shrugged it off jokingly.  He was serious obviously.  I, on the other hand, was making my way to the front register and just wanted to get out of there!  I called my friend and asked her the scoop on this guy, and while she is urging me to at least give him a try, I just ain't feelin' it. Between you and me & the gate post, I'm sure he'll have a date lined up by the weekend, it just won't be me.

just when things are going well...

shit hits the fan once again...

old conversations dug up...not vicious, just truthful and out of worry and concern...

family private conversations not meant to be read by a third party...

because the third party has a 'bipolar disorder' and even though truths were spoken, feelings got hurt.

and taken out of context...



gawd.   F my life.

ugh...

 

back to the grind...where's my coffee?

Listening to an operative note, patient is undergoing a splenectomy.  As I was reading MT has, "He was then passed off the table as a specimen."  haha I'm sure we can relate to feeling like a specimen... however this was dictated as "The spleen was then passed off the table as a specimen..."

same report...MT typed..."There appeared to be some HAIR collecting from the diaphragmatic side..." which was dictated as "air" ...

oh for goodness sakes! that speech recognition engine can sure throw out some doozies, but MT should be catching these boo-boos!

and lets ponder this by the late great George Carlin...Why are hemorrhoids called "hemorrhoids" instead of "asteroids"?

Job Offer?

Well today in my inbox, I was offered a job position with that company out of Iowa. It sure boosted my self-confidence about finding a job in case I would lose my job.  I only applied for this job days ago and didn't even to have to offer a resume.  I'm not sure this is a good thing or a bad thing, but they appear to be reputable; I've done my homework.  

This new job offer is a remote part time position doing MT work, not quality work like I'm doing now, and would require typing word for word documents and/or editing speech recognition documents. I have no experience editing jobs directly from the speech recognition engine not that I couldn't do it per se, but the pay for this type of work seems to be rather skimpy yet demanding more time or so I've been told by those who know. I could probably make about the same amount of money being a door greeter at Wal-Mart part-time.

 Also I have to consider my health as well, being sedentary more hours than the 40 I currently do a week is probably not in my best interest.  My doctor made that very clear to me during my visit this week.  He suggested in fact that I take more frequent breaks, join a gym, just get more exercise! I totally agree with this, as most days my butt feels like its growing roots in this chair! However, if I was offered a government/federal job in this line of work I'd totally take it ... and am looking in that direction too.  I am also inquiring into online classes to educate myself in a totally different field, even though at my age, I'm not sure it would be worthwhile.  

Ooohhh...and rumor has it that our company could be bought out by a bigger US company, one with a better reputation, so things could pan out for the better within the next few months, if I don't get whacked before then.  just sayin...

Yep! Bring It On!

 

its been a grueling day on the workfront.  There are accounts transitioning from another platform to the one we do on a daily basis and today when viewing the report it had 2 dates, one at the very top like a letter spelled out Feburary 27, 2017 and the DATE OF SERVICE filled in as 02/27/2017 under the pt name and birthdate.  Looked rather odd, and since this was a newly transitioned account I thought that perhaps there was a formatting issue when setting this account up on the platform, so I went to who used to be my boss's boss, who is now my new boss, and it brought QA'ing this account to a halt for a little while until somebody consulted somebody and somebody is going to look into it.  So, after much debate and a few hours later I might add...we were told to go ahead and process these reports as is.  Of course I only had 30 more minutes to work so I obliged....so glad this day is over!

There is also another girl, who I know well, that got a bit snippy with me thinking I was telling her what to do...complaining that she doesn't have a supervisor (she fell under another supervisor, my old boss who mans another platform) and pretty much didn't appreciate me consorting with the boss, who actually asked me to have her help on the account.  I understand she is a little frustrated but for criteys sakes when there is work on there, late files and since we have been low on work, my suggestion was to learn a new account, get acquainted, so she wouldn't be out of work.  I called up my old boss and I told her that she needed to do something about this girl, and make sure she understands who her supervisor is going to be and try not to rock the boat.  After all, I'm just looking out for the both of us!

She later apologized to me, but gee willickers doesn't she know that if we don't get our foot in on these new accounts, when it comes time to get whacked, the ones who are more knowledgeable and who can do a variety of accounts are the ones who are going to keep a job!

Where's my glass of whine? ...oh there it is ... good ole Moscato...this one homegrown from a local winery! Its not overly sweet, its delicious!

In my inbox

 

this morning I had an email in my work inbox that says.."hi Vickie, haven't had a chance to talk with you lately, can you please give me a call sometime before noon."  This came from my boss' boss (my boss getting fired last week) so something is up.

This might be the call where I get let go due to production being down, or they want my schedule to change for some reason, or some other kind of bad news.  I don't feel like its gonna be anything good.  So--  I guess by afternoon I will have a update.

Haven't heard back on that Iowa job yet, I may email that guy once again before the day is over.

UPDATE: Well it appears that I've been selected to help on a project on Tuesdays and Wednesdays...which means I am helping to watch Admin for late/nearing TAT files and send alerts to the big boss in addition to my regular QA duties...because she is too busy to watch the system otherwise which is her job really...but hey...if it keeps me in a job for now until I can find something else then fine.

Bills bills and more bills!

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Ugh! enough already. It appears my visit to the specialist is costing me $826.84. That is just for one visit and all the blood work and a urinalysis.  This is AFTER insurance.

Due to the monstrous bills piling up medically to include a $2000 bill to the local hospital, the specialist wanted me to have an ultrasound before my visit today, to which I promptly refused.  I guess insurance is going to dictate my healthcare, both medically and obtaining any medications I might need.  Haven't heard back from HR about my email regarding selection of insurance and the fact that we were not provided a formulary of what we would be paying for prescriptions so we could have selected better options.  Of course better options, more cash, and they're not paying me enough now.

Unfuckinbelievable!

In other news, I did get a reply back about a job offer out of Iowa.  We'll see what happens with that.

Monday ~ What Sunday's Threw Up

 

well, I expected things to be a little slow and they are but its work, no complaints.  My boss got fired last week.  They did opt to let her draw unemployment relenting that 6$ an hour cut in pay job offer; had she declined that job offer she would not even be eligible for unemployment.

I'm here.  I didn't sleep well last night at 12:40 am I was still awake tossed and turned for hours it seemed; oh well.  I'm not tired yet, still running.  Coffee is helping.

Anyway have a great Monday bloggers.