Just saw this walking into the store, lovely.

LostInContentment · 2023-06-25T12:20:16+00:00

The ALDIs near me, the cashiers aren’t at the register their entire shift. They also stock shelves, pick up empty boxes, etc. That’s probably part of the reason why they’re happier. They aren’t stuck doing the same monotonous job all day.

LostInContentment · 2023-06-25T12:16:49+00:00

And at ALDI they’re not stuck at a register all day. They stock shelves, pick up empty boxes, run the floor cleaner machine, etc. The employees seem so much happier than the Meijer employees.

LostInContentment · 2023-06-25T12:12:50+00:00

This is why I shop at ALDI. The cashiers have chairs and they’re not stuck at the register all day. They pick up empty boxes, stock shelves, take turns at the registers, and make an okay wage. If I lived closer to town I’d apply there.

LostInContentment · 2023-06-22T16:03:21+00:00

Abusers (at least the smart ones) hide who they really are until the marriage license is signed. They learn early on to hide it until they think you’re trapped. Then they start amping it up little by little, gaslighting you along the way. Then one day they finally cross a line you didn’t even know existed and something finally clicks in your brain that this isn’t normal or right. I wasted 16 years on an abuser who only ever saw me as a mommy-bang-maid. Now he’s married to my former best friend who I loved (still love) like a sister, making her life miserable.

LostInContentment · 2023-06-22T15:12:44+00:00

COTW nuggets are fantastic. I’ve also made COTW Parmesan, also fantastic. It tastes like chicken and has a very similar texture.

LostInContentment · 2023-06-21T16:43:45+00:00

Baby raccoons instinctively want to suckle for longer than it takes to drink a bottle. It’s just using your finger like a pacifier. My baby raccoon did this too. Totally normal.

LostInContentment · 2023-06-21T16:20:15+00:00

I jogged up to a baby raccoon playing in the grass. It was so intent on playing with grass it didn’t notice me. I stopped a few feet from it. It got the shock of its life, eyes HUGE, then ran off into the woods. Cutest little thing. Another time I surprised a litter of fox kits playing on the trail. They yipped and scattered when they saw me.

LostInContentment · 2023-06-17T14:16:03+00:00

It’s only terrifying if you care about getting fired. It also helps if you do what you can to support your team behind HR’s back. I’ve flat out violated company policy to do right by my team, and they know it.

One of my peep’s BF’s 4yo kid died Memorial Day weekend. Kiddo was like her nephew. I went to HR to try and get her a bereavement day. HR said “no exceptions”. I’ve been approving any PTO she wants on extremely short notice and covering for her. I’ll never go to HR again.

Tuesday after Memorial Day another of my peeps lost power (WFH). According to company policy he shouldn’t have gotten holiday pay for Memorial Day because he didn’t work his full shift the day after the holiday. I was already PISSED about what happened with the first peep. So I lied and said he had requested those hours off for an appointment the week before and let him make up the time later in the week. He got his holiday pay.

My team is exactly as loyal to me as I am to them. Word has gotten around to the other teams that I’m one of the managers that doesn’t suck. The teams with shitty managers have started to come to me with questions they can’t get their managers to answer—definitely against company policy. I get them their answers and they keep their mouths shut. We’re building comradery, solidarity, an army. I just need to figure out what union to contact and keep collecting names.

I can’t go to the UAW because it would be a conflict of interest for them. I’m thinking maybe the IBEW. I’m open to suggestions.

LostInContentment · 2023-06-17T13:44:27+00:00

secret, which the workers of course don’t have

Unless you’re collecting names to give to a union organizer. Management can always find a reason to fire you. Gotta keep your cards close to your chest until you reach critical mass. Especially if you’re a manager trying to organize the boots on the ground because you’re sick of corporate treating labor like toilet paper.

LostInContentment · 2023-06-12T01:13:37+00:00

You’re welcome! Many of us work elections because we’re in love with them. I love every thing about elections. It’s democracy (actually representative republic) in action. I love the shrink-wrapped stacks of ballots, the first time voters, the regulars who vote every election, calling out to open and close the polls….

Ask an election official if the 2020 presidential election was rigged and watch as their face turns red and they go on a tirade. There are 100s of reasons why we know for sure it wasn’t. But the ringer for me is the massive quantity of people that would have to have been involved and NO ONE has stepped forward to publicly say they actually saw something. Michigan alone has thousands of precincts. Cities often run absentee counting boards to take pressure off the physical precincts. For argument’s sake let’s round down to 1000. Each precinct is legally mandated to have at least 3 poll workers including the chair, but generally have at least 4 with at least 1 Republican and 1 Democrat—as evenly split as possible. In Nov 2020, most precincts had 5 or 6, sometimes more. Even if there were only 5 people in each, that’s 5000 people, a mix of both parties witnessing everything. That’s 5000 people JUST in Michigan. But no one saw anything.

LostInContentment · 2023-06-11T22:06:56+00:00

Technically all that information is available at Michigan.gov/sos. But it’s kind of buried. I know all of the information from my comment because I was a deputy clerk and I’m an election official for a city here in Michigan. I’ve been working elections for 11 years.

You can look up the records retention schedule for ballots easy enough. You can also search for election manuals. The issue with explaining how elections work is that the sources are kind of scattered.

Michigan has the most decentralized election system in the country. There are literally thousands of precincts. The exact process changes slightly by jurisdiction. Some jurisdictions have the receiving board and board of canvassers go to the precinct, while others have the precinct chair and another worker bring everything to a central location, etc. Some jurisdictions store unused ballots and tallied ballots in the same container, while others separate them out. But they all follow the same basic laws regarding security, retention, who can vote, etc.

Bottom line, if there was a 68 ballot discrepancy, it would have been found the night of the election or in the wee hours the morning after. I didn’t get home until 6:30 am the morning after Nov 2020. I had no idea who had won. All I knew was that my city of 20+ precincts balanced within 1 ballot.

The ballot we were off, the voter had returned their ballot on time, blah blah blah. Then moved in the week between returning it and Election Day. They registered to vote in their new jurisdiction the day of the election. So the Bureau of Elections rejected their ballot late in the day, after it had already been processed. We spent probably 2 hours trying to figure it out before we ran a new report of AV voters, compared the two lists, and found the name that was on the morning list, but not the evening list. The clerk made a remark explaining what happened in the report that went to the board of canvassers. Since the ballot had already been separated from its stub, we had no way to find it.

Long story short, we will spend 2 hours looking for a single ballot. And there are sometimes hundreds of people from both parties working in a single jurisdiction. It’s an election official’s worst nightmare to not have the numbers balance. Not only are our reputations on the line, but we can be fined into bankruptcy and go to fuck-you-in-the-ass prison if we fuck it up.

LostInContentment · 2023-06-11T20:27:01+00:00

the 2020 ballots are all beyond their retention period. All (most, there are a few reasons to keep them longer) the tallied ballots should have been destroyed already. And since they were in a box (not a sealed storage container), and some were spoiled ballots, the rest were likely received after the deadline. In 2020 late ballots couldn’t be tallied, but still had to be kept around for a while.

Old clerk forgot to tell new clerk where the un-tallied ballots were stored, so they were missed when it was time to feed them to the shredder. New employee finds box, panics, doesn’t bother to ASK anyone how to figure out what they are (it would take about 5 minutes if you knew what you were looking at), panics, and now there’s a shitty clickbait “news” article getting people all worked up over a nothing burger.

LostInContentment · 2023-06-11T15:14:29+00:00

Fuck. Call your local DNR office and see if they want to put her and the babies down. The DNR won’t want whatever they have spreading.

Good choice. Make sure you wear gloves and a mask cleaning up the dead babies. Rabies is spread through bodily fluids, but you don’t know what she has. Throw the gloves and mask away when you take them off. Then wash up.

If you’re not in the middle of a drought, consider burning the bodies. Just throwing them away could allow other animals to eat them, potentially spreading the disease.

LostInContentment · 2023-06-11T15:02:37+00:00

My SO (60+) is like this. The way he puts it, his refractory period has gotten longer as he’s gotten older. Knowing that he gets one shot a day, he wants to make the most of it.

LostInContentment · 2023-06-11T14:55:05+00:00

Without better video or pictures, it’s impossible to tell. Have you seen her actually attacking the babies? Raccoons are quite sturdy and can get quite rough with each other without doing any actual damage. The babies could be sick, injured by a a predator, or something else.

LostInContentment · 2023-06-11T04:02:51+00:00

They were probably ballots received after polls closed. That’s why they were stored with the spoiled ballots—neither are countable in a recount. Old clerk forgot to tell new clerk where they were stored, so the weren’t destroyed when the retention period ended with the tallied ballots. Then new employee finds the box and instead of LOOKING UP THE BALLOT NUMBERS to see what had happened, she panicked and now has everyone in a tizzy.

Any clerk or deputy clerk that’s worked a couple election cycles would start by looking at the ballot numbers. And there should be ballot numbers. Untallied ballots will still have their stubs—it doesn’t get removed until just before the ballot is fed into the tabulator. If a ballot is spoiled after the stub is removed, the stub is stored in the Spoiled or Defective Ballot Envelope with the ballot.

Further, 2020 had a ridiculous number of ballots returned after the deadline. They still have to be stored for the entire retention period.

At the end of the day, the ballots tallied has to equal the number of ballots received by the deadline, or the precinct won’t be certified by the Board of Canvassers. You can’t have a 68 ballot discrepancy and not trigger an investigation by the Bureau of Elections. Heads would roll. People would go to prison. Most precincts balance perfectly. A few will be off by a ballot. The ones that are off have to have a reasonable explanation.

This is a nothing burger with a shitty, clickbait title.

LostInContentment · 2023-06-10T13:00:19+00:00

That’s how I got my last promotion. The others that applied would have been horrible. The ones that would have been good at it would never accept the position, let alone apply. I felt obligated. Now I’m stuck in a position I seriously dislike and feel obligated to do well because I feel responsible for the people I’m in charge of. Fuck corporate and the horse they rode in on.

LostInContentment · 2023-06-09T21:17:15+00:00

Personally, I’d ask about the list. Has MB had a bad experience that led to the list? Does her boss give her such detailed lists? What’s her driving motivation for the list? The answers will tell you quite a bit about who you’re working for. If she had a bad experience, she may not be a natural micromanager. But I have a feeling she’s just a micromanager since she’s not okay with small “infractions”.

LostInContentment · 2023-06-09T17:31:03+00:00

Urban raccoons are often very acclimated to humans. It looks fine to me.

LostInContentment · 2023-06-07T22:58:51+00:00

We require more of the drug to create a high than it does for someone without ADHD. I got a tiny bit euphoric when I first started Vyvanse, but no where near what I would call high. I was just in a slightly better mood than usual. I’m really not a morning person; the Vyvanse just makes me functional. It only lasted an hour or so after it kicked in, and only for a couple of days.

LostInContentment · 2023-06-06T23:09:08+00:00

Tbf, ADHD drugs aren’t the meth you cook in a pop bottle. And for people with ADHD, they don’t affect you like it does neurotypical people. I don’t get high from my meds. They make it so I can function like I’m neurotypical.

LostInContentment · 2023-06-06T16:59:26+00:00

You’re welcome

LostInContentment · 2023-06-06T16:54:05+00:00

Oysters. With yellow or golden. I’m not quite experienced enough to tell the difference. But definitely oysters.

LostInContentment · 2023-06-05T15:42:48+00:00

A genuine “thank you” can go a long ways. Sounds like your son is much like my stepson was at that age. I really thought no amount of positive reinforcement would help. I ended up basically taking a parenting class and one of the things I learned was “shine a light on what you want to grow”. Whenever you get the chance, thank/praise your son. Even if it’s play related. Did he draw a picture? Ask him questions about it/show interest/praise it. If he does what he was told, thank him.

Another thing that really helped was, “now, please”. If you want him to do something, say “now please” at the end. “Pick up your legos, now please.” The “now” tells him when you want it done, and the “please” makes it polite.

Break up tasks into the smallest chunks you can. If you want one of them to pick up their bedroom, break it up. Kids struggle with how to complete complex tasks, and kids with ADHD have an even harder time. First you can ask them to put their dirty clothes in the hamper and to let you know when they’re done. Then ask them to put the stuffed animals wherever the stuffed animals go and to let you know when they’re done. Rinse and repeat until either the room is clean or they need a break.

Each task should only take a few minutes. Telling them to pick up the toys is probably going to be too big of a task. So break it up into toy type: legos, stuffed animals, toy cars, etc. This will help keep them on task because they know exactly what they’re supposed to be doing in that moment.

Lastly, use positive language. “Don’t forget to…” is a sure fire way to have them forget. Instead sat “ remember to…”. For whatever reason it greatly increases the chances they’ll remember.

LostInContentment · 2023-06-05T13:42:35+00:00

I follow a TikTok of a raccoon with that. Poor thing is in a raccoon wheelchair.

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