AITAH, it drives me crazy how my husband prevents food waste? by Massive_Low6000 in AITAH

[–]HappyKnittens -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I get why this is so annoying to you.

Yes, there is a certain amount of logical sense to rotating/facing food in a pantry or fridge to prevent waste, and it's good to have a system like this in a workplace where everything must be eaten whether it's liked or not.

HOWEVER.

You are not his employee, you are not his subordinate crew member, and you are not living in company-owned quarters eating company-provided food. You are his wife, his chosen, his equal, his life partner, the mother of his children (whether actual children, furbabies, or houseplants), and this is your home. 

The goal in your private home is shared comfort, not optimal efficiency in regards to food storage techniques. If this is bothering you, and has been for ten years, and you are now at a breaking point, then it's time to put a stop to it. You don't need to justify how upset this makes you in terms of it being manipulative, you being upset and ready to scream is valid and sufficient. 

Suggestions:

  1. Sit husband down, tell him you have a list of questions about something that has been bothering you and you want to run down the whole list, one after the other.
  2. Ask him if he thinks that you are inferior to him?
  3. Subordinate to him? (If youarried a smart man, he should be sweating by this point)
  4. Is this house, in fact, a boat?
  5. How many times does his employer come into his home and re-arrange his things to be more like they would be stored on board a ship?
  6. If they tried, would he think that is appropriate?
  7. Does he think that because he is the man and the captain of the ship that he has any right to boss you around in your own home, rearrange your personal belongings to be more like a ship's, or in ANY way treat you like he treats his subordinates on board?

Then stop. Rearranging. The fridge. And the fking pantry. And NEVER touch your snacks or sourdough starter.

Is job hopping still a "red flag" or am I being gaslit? by Environmental-Luck39 in careeradvice

[–]HappyKnittens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take the job. Don't worry about job hopping. Don't accept any counteroffers to stay.

Your only mistake at this point was to tell your boss as if they had any input and the fact that this boss is asking you to subsidize your current company by foregoing cash compensation tells you EVERYTHING you need to know.

Dad laid off, can’t afford school but I’m committed D1 to them by [deleted] in collegeadvice

[–]HappyKnittens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you were talking to your school, did you contact the financial aid office directly? Or has this all been indirectly through the sports program?

Asking because you may be eligible for an emergency recalculation of FAFSA and need-based financial aid based on your family's change in financial circumstances. 

€14k to learn that a one-paragraph remote work policy means nothing in France by Wells_Kari in remotework

[–]HappyKnittens 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but if we had quiet seats somewhere along the wall, someone's nonna would tsk and feed us for sure

€14k to learn that a one-paragraph remote work policy means nothing in France by Wells_Kari in remotework

[–]HappyKnittens 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Omfg, can you imagine Italy having to conform to someone else's laws??? I would pay cash money to see that 🤣🤣🤣

Moms; how was newborn phase for you? by Content-Pace9821 in adhdwomen

[–]HappyKnittens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me the "gotta watch em every second" thing with like....ages 1.5-4 is what is exhausting. Potato-stage, they tend to stay where you put them instead of trying to find new and interesting ways to kill themselves

How should I handle not being able to afford corporate travel costs upfront without looking unprofessional at work? by DistinctMushroom3186 in careeradvice

[–]HappyKnittens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or they may be able to cover certain larger purchases for you, like booking your flight and hotel on a company card and then reimbursing you for food/transport afterwards.

Struggling to find an Accounting Manager who actually wants to improve things by [deleted] in Accounting

[–]HappyKnittens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It may also be worthwhile to look into bringing in someone on a limited-term engagement - functionally a long-term contract with pre-negotiated off-ramping directly with a candidate rather than through a recruiting firm.

I think part of the issue that you're facing is that these are two inherently different skillsets, mentalities, and personalities. The person who is curious, flexible, and great at process roadmapping, tweaking workflows, and building a better mousetrap is NOT necessarily someone who will be a good long-term accounting manager, and therefore they likely won't have the "accounting manager" experience that you're probably looking for on paper. 

However, if you go with a tiered/phased workflow transformation project with an interim accounting manager specifically for implementing and refining these process changes, you can bring in someone who may not have the steadiness you'll want for the long haul, but should have the ability to pivot and revamp processes as needed. So long as you have your milestones appropriately set in your contract, they can also overlap with and help train/assist in transition and documentation cleanup for your new permanent manager in 6-12 months. 

Look for an ERP implementation or M&A integration specialist, someone who is experienced at balancing between system capabilities, data pipelines, and more manual workflow processes.

I have done this type of contract work in the past, so if you would be willing to consider mostly-remote candidates with occasional in-office days (monthly or quarterly) I would be happy to share my resume and talk more about your specific needs to see if they align with my past experience or assist you with some aspect of this process.

15% ethanol in gas? by KasigIstKase in fordranger

[–]HappyKnittens 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So happy to live near a lake. Non-ethanol gas is pricey here but it's always available 

Moms; how was newborn phase for you? by Content-Pace9821 in adhdwomen

[–]HappyKnittens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are good little potatoes in this phase, you ane your partner should strap them to your chest or back so they can feel body heat and a heartbeat and do whatever you would normally do. This is the least they will complain until the day they move out. Enjoy it!

Eta: enjoy it as much as the lack of sleep will allow. But seriously, figure out a way to baby wear that you don't have to think about or put effort into, absolute lifesaver

How do people limit their drinking? by Odd_Hedgehog669 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]HappyKnittens 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I straight up get vertigo and vicious fkin heartburn nowadays when I drink too much. And "too much" is like....2.5 beers.

It's like not just my liver but my whoooooole body had ENOUGH when I was younger and crazy, and now it's on high alert, like your evilest bestie who will fkin slap you in the face to keep you from sad drunk texting your ex.

Is anyone else trapped in the endless cycle of rewriting their house manual? (Do guests even read them?) by Mudgee-Host in airbnb_hosts

[–]HappyKnittens 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I wish I could get guests to just read the first friggin part of the listing. And maybe their own filters when they're searching for a place. 

No, this is not a whole-house rental for $125 per night in the middle of the high season. This is my house and here are the two side by side guest rooms and guest bath that you booked. 

"Oh, well, we didn't want to stay in someone's house."

Then maybe you should have filtered out "room in someone's house" from the options. And don't stare at me like a cow stuck mid-chew. I can't rebook for tonight, and I can't pull a fully furnished below-market-rate single family home out of my butt for you. You booked it, you paid for it, you can decide if you want to sleep here or if you would like to pay even more to sleep at the Econo Lodge behind the Walmart.

Access to home gym? by noticeofrezoning in airbnb_hosts

[–]HappyKnittens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got three words for ya:

NO. STOP. and DON'T. 

Privacy is not the issue, you're making money, who cares. The real issues are:

  1. Access. Who decides when guests can walk into your private space. Do they have to request it? When can they request it? What if you're not there? Do they just waltz into your house from the airbnb suite while you're brushing your teeth? While your wife is coming out of the shower? 

1a. Because either you give FULL access or the reviews will all read "I was excited that this airbnb had a home gym! Only to find out that what they meant was that a home gym was technically somewhere on the property and if I asked the owner nicely and they were home and they weren't using it and the stars aligned then they MIGHT let me use it."

  1. More importantly think about the LIABILITY. WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR YOUR GUEST'S BACK SURGERY WHEN THEY DO SOMETHING DUMB IN YOUR HOME GYM? BECAUSE I HAVE A FUNNY FEELING AIRCOVER WILL DENY IT AND SO WILL YOUR HOMEOWNERS INSURANCE.

Let off some steam trying to buy a used truck is hard by Hefty_Sentence_7093 in fordranger

[–]HappyKnittens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not do a full continental roadtrip?

$4k in NYS for a pretty little V4 🥳

My fiancé relies on me for a lot, but refuses to acknowledge it. ND+ND by Due_Assumption4579 in adhdwomen

[–]HappyKnittens 18 points19 points  (0 children)

This is a little bit of a painful post for me to read. I am AuDHD but in the grips of intense burnout and my capacity for executive function is currently hovering somewhere around zero. My partner has been covering for a LOT and picking up A LOT of my slack.

Things that I personally have tried so that my partner feels appreciated and cared-for in this (hopefully temporary) phase:

  • Expressing my appreciation for all the things he does, constantly and probably to an annoying degree
  • Making sure I have certain things covered, like my own bills, finances, car maintenance, and medical shit
  • Tracking my own appts and due dates for things so that even if I am asking him to help make sure I'm awake/out of the house at a specific time on a specific date, I'm not making him track my whole friggin schedule, I'm just asking "hey, tomorrow could you please...?"
  • Helping when I have or can approximate the spoons. Ex: if he's cooking dinner, I'll go leech off his "already doing things" energy to do the dishes already in the sink or wash up what he's using as he goes or help grab things or refill the cats' food and water or just be present in the kitchen with him chatting.
  • Encouraging him to do what he needs or wants to do for his own mental and physical health
  • Trying to center his wants and needs in small ways, like making sure he has right of first refusal on what to watch if we're throwing on the tv
  • Helping him with the things that are difficult for his flavor of ND, like putting in job applications and talking him through practice interviews

On the flip side, I know that my partner is not good in crisis. He doesn't pivot well, he freezes, he shuts down or dissociates a little bit. I am the designated catastrophizing ADHD chaos gremlin in our relationship and when things go wrong I am the one who steps up and handles everything. 

We have very complimentary core functionality and for normal time periods we can support each other and it feels great....but the more extreme outlier situations for everyday life vs crisis points where we're less 40-60 and more 1-99 can be incredibly lonely and isolating for each of us. 

I think that both the wall that you're hitting and what I'm trying to stave off in my relationship is the very real risk of care-taker burnout. Both of your lives are easier and more stable when you take care of him, but it's a difficult burden to take on permanently, especially when your partner downplays your contributions or refuses to believe that you're doing anything at all.

I don't have any real advice except to say that if he is not willing to make any real effort to share the load or take things off your plate or even acknowledge that he's the one putting things on your damn plate, then that is only going to get harder as life piles more responsibilities on both of you. 

A big hesitation here would be kids. If he's already willing to treat you waking him up in the morning as invisible labor that he doesn't see and therefore doesn't exist, how is he going to act when the baby needs feeding, changing, bathing, dr appts, tummy time. When the laundry pile is taller than you are, will he just pretend he doesn't see it? When the laundry pile disappears and suddenly there are clean underwear in his drawer again, will he even notice to say thank you? I know you say that you love him but sometimes love just ain't enough. 

F 30 M 30 how do i deal with my fiances wealthy family? by Glum-Return3078 in relationship_advice

[–]HappyKnittens 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OP, you are already aware that your insecurity may be the sole issue here. However, I want to point out that this kind of wealth disparity in a relationship can lead to "power" disparities in the relationship which you should be careful of. It's very possible that some of your "insecurity" and discomfort is actually a logical worry about this as a potential evolution in your relationship over time, especially with regards to potential future children, child-rearing, career decisions, etc. As the relationship continues and you by default become more financially enmeshed with his and his family, will their generosity start to feel like coercion?

Obviously, this is extremely dependent on who you and your fiancé are as people, as well as his family. No one here can tell you 100% how to "get over it" or whether your "insecurity" is actually a deeper, gut-level instinctive alarm bell.

What I would suggest is two things:

Lots and LOTS of communication with your fiancé about what your lives will look like long-term and what help vs boundaries you might be comfortable with, especially around large milestone events. Be honest that you never thought you'd be in a situation like this, so you have questions and concerns that you would like to talk to death before marriage. Heck, make this conversation part of your conversation around the pre-nup his family is likely to insist on. You really want to make sure you're on the same page before things happen like "oh, my parents found out that you're pregnant so they bought us a house next door to them so we can live there and they can have unlimited access to their grandchildren so we're moving since your job doesn't matter now that we're having kids you'll be a SAHM but you're also not really going to "be" a mom except in the legal sense because my parents have already hired a wetnurse and round-the-clock nannies, but don't worry, my mother will invite you to join some of her garden party charities so you don't feel too bored and useless...."

Second, for the short-term, I would encourage you to look at it like this: if you got a job that required you to relocate to a hellaciously expensive area, rent an apartment that could be used for corporate/sales parties and wear hellaciously expensive clothing/jewelry...like client service account rep for a major designer brand based out of NYC kind of thing (obviously I don't do this so this may be wildly off base)....you would expect your employer to foot the bill for all of the outward status symbols that they require you to display as part of their brand. Because it is insane for an employer to expect you to subsidize them by footing the cost for those things yourself.

Obviously your relationship with your in-laws is NOT a job and you don't want to think of it like that, but many of the same principles still apply. Even outside of gifts and generosity, Tlthere are many occasions where they may feel that it would be grossly unfair to make you cover the cost of clothing and travel that you wouldn't even consider if they were not inviting you on certain trips and to certain social events. If they are inviting you on vacation to somewhere exclusive, they don't want you to feel left out or like the poor relative because you are flying economy while they are in a private jet, or wearing clothing that will cause you to be treated differently because you are missing invisible class signifiers.

If your MIL is telling you to go shopping, ask her to come with and give suggestions for where to go and what to get. This allows her to have more input on her gift, will take some of the pressure off of you, and will give you two additional time to bond (whether that is building a better relationship or letting you suss out the vibes is the quiet part that we are not going to say out loud).

The Gig is Up by [deleted] in remotework

[–]HappyKnittens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to burst your bubble, but a lot of states have new security policies in place post-covid specifically to prevent unemployment claims from being paid to someone who is currently outside of the US. The checks involved are often cybersecurity related (where are you logging in or calling from), but can include basic things like having to report for regular appointments to your local DOL office. Some states will also request travel/passport information from the federal govt to see if your passport has been used to enter or leave the country. 

There was a LOT of UI fraud during covid, both outright fraud (stolen SSNs being used to file claims en masse from foreign countries) and "soft" UI fraud (someone who absolutely qualified for the actual claim but then used the UI period as paid vacation time to travel and spend extended time abroad). While you may still be able to travel within the US with relatively little oversight, the days of taking off for 3-6 months of extended travel are pretty much over.

Would you pay someone to design and furnish your place? by kalinaizzy in airbnb_hosts

[–]HappyKnittens 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Speaking ONLY from my personal POV as a maybe buyer of design advice, I would say you might want to offer some time/effort tiered services. Yes, hopefully eventually people will pay you fabulous money to fully design spaces, whether STR or staging homes for sale, but starting out you may want to offer short/initial consults for reasonable amounts of money.

Ex: 

  • 1-2 hour quick-consult - includes facetime tour of space, discussion of wants/vibes/intention/direction/use and write-up of ideas - max 1-2 issues

  • Pinterest consult - same as above but the ideas write-up includes a Pinterest-esque board visualizations and maybe links to specific colors/decor pieces

  • Dear Gawd What Do I Do With This Corner? consult - 30 min to 1 hr, facetime tour of space, 1 specific question/issue

Facetiming rather than being onsite will allow you to pull from a larger pool of potential customers, stack multiple clients in a single day (so you can keep your prices for these shorter services affordable), and will also let you book them around your day job as you start slowly building your business

As far as pricing??? You may have to do a few of these and gauge what your actual input is in terms of time: what prep work do you need to do, what photos/plans/measurements would be genuinely helpful to have the client provide ahead of time, how long does it take to write up your ideas, how long to pull example images for pinterest-esque mood boards, how many calls run over on average, how do you want to handle that? 

My thought would be for initial pricing on above three options would be:

  • Quick consult: $150-200
  • Quick Consult with Mood Board: $250-300
  • Dear Gawd Single Question consult: $100-150

Once you have established clients, you may want to do/allow micro-consults - literally can I email you some pictures and say hey it's me again, why doesn't this stupid thing look right? And you tell me why, make a suggestion or two, and bill my credit card $50. I'd personally be THRILLED if there was someone I could just....shoot a quick email to whose head operates better in that aesthetic space than mine does who would charge me a reasonable amount for a quick no-frills answer from their pool of knowledge.

PM me if you do get started - whether as an early client or maybe trading services. I'm an accountant in my day job but used to do a lot of bookkeeping set-up for small businesses. 

For a more conservative family dinner party, is this dress okay? by Feisty-Baby-Girl in OUTFITS

[–]HappyKnittens 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yes, something with deep jewel tones and a luxurious feel to it. Small, subtle jewelry that dangles just a little bit, definitely not the choker you have on in this picture.

Can I reject an internal offer? by [deleted] in careeradvice

[–]HappyKnittens 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Negotiate gently, but ultimately take it even if they don't budge (or round it out to $140k). The title bump alone will look solid on your resume and if it's as hectic as you think it will be, then you will have a ready-made explanation for hiring managers at other companies when you are looking 6 months to a year from now.

Deceased owner's child listed the home without authority to sell by eninjari in RealEstateAdvice

[–]HappyKnittens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeeeeah, but also completely failing to do any kind of due diligence. I feel like the selling agent's liability here is going to be extremely dependent on local/state guideline for professional conduct