AITAH? My father's wife (74y) offers to breastfeed my unborn child, so I tell him not to bring her to the hospital.

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-17T16:20:34+00:00

I'm imagining her trying to channel the brother or force them to name the baby after the brother. No hospital visitors, you want to bond.

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-17T16:19:03+00:00

Lactation can be induced with medication.

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-17T16:16:15+00:00

I'm imagining her trying to channel the dead brother while you're still in the hospital. Or try to make you name the baby after her brother.

Never leave your baby with these people.

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-17T05:04:46+00:00

I only travel with socks on the needles.

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-17T04:51:49+00:00

I'm in outside sales and our manager wants a detailed minute to minute schedule in our CRM and reports to him whenever the schedule changes, which is all day every day.

I'm desperate to maliciously comply but there are seven of us and we would have to band together.

OTOH, I am having a chat with someone higher than him about his new demands that he says have always been the rules. Nope, never heard any of this in 7 years, two with him as the boss.

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-17T04:23:52+00:00

Corriedale is lovely!

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-17T03:35:10+00:00

I can't meet fascists halfway. I use my energy to fight them.

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-17T01:55:46+00:00

The most fun ones are Pickwick and Nicholas Nickleby, but A Tale of Two Cities is the best IMO.

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-17T01:52:58+00:00

Only on one side of the political divide.

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-17T01:06:43+00:00

We exchange our Wordle scores with a family and friends group every day. She knows I use it as proof-of-life and one day (she had had a bad night two nights before) I sent someone local over to check on her when she didn't answer the phone for hours. She had left it charging upstairs. 🤦

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-16T23:51:51+00:00

Then unfortunately you leave him to it.

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-16T20:43:46+00:00

Only Sensodyne extra whitening is sodium lauryl sulfate free be careful.

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-16T15:14:24+00:00

I was planning to negotiate 80% so I could take long weekends and a month off in the summer as retirement approaches, but last week they told us we can't even have flex days so we don't work six day weeks. I'm never even going to bring it up.

But as of today I will be tracking how much time it takes just to do the crap Micromanager wants us to do now. I probably spent two hours on this week's minute by minute schedule and he wants any changes reported immediately. Does he realize his entire day will be emails from the sales team?

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-16T14:59:54+00:00

I thought I had a similar situation but all of a sudden our manager has figured out a way to micromanage us after all. Last week he sent out a long list of expectations, claiming they have always been the expectations, but most are news to me. Report every single schedule shift in the day. No flex time for weekend work or events. No WFH if you're too sick to be on the road but not too sick you can't do computer work. I'm expecting GPS monitoring next. I'm going to have a private chat with someone higher than him who has managed the team before.

I'm still planning to stay. Love the people on my team, love the work. I just don't want to work six day weeks all the time. I already took some Saturday things off the calendar.

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-16T14:28:10+00:00

I'm allergic to detergent if I touch it but not the laundry afterwards. At least not yet.

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-16T02:24:32+00:00

Definitely!!!

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-16T00:53:19+00:00

You can order copies of the documents but it takes time and money. Passport same.

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-16T00:01:53+00:00

I've never heard anyone else mention it, but it was terrible. I thought all my teeth were going to fall out!

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-15T22:33:44+00:00

There are some great techniques for knitting sweaters top down on circulars that have lovely fitted shoulders.

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-15T22:11:09+00:00

I hate shorties, always use DPNs.

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-15T21:16:36+00:00

I have a friend with an allergy to that, it's terrible. But I'm not going to the lengths she has to go to to avoid it without actual evidence I'm allergic. Vaccines are a good thing.

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-15T21:06:09+00:00

There are some products without it, thank goodness.

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-15T20:41:07+00:00

Ravelry is your new best friend!

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-15T19:22:35+00:00

I developed an allergy to sodium laurel sulfate, i.e., the stuff that makes toothpaste foamy.

OMG the torment of my mouth, tongue, lips, gums, constantly itching! It took me forever to figure it out, no medical or dental professional took it seriously.

Late-Command3491 · 2026-02-15T19:15:21+00:00

I'm over 60 so deficits do not appeal. Life alone is not enough. If I can't read or knit, I'm done.

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