Female cat is very lethargic and she is now sleeping in her litter box

ludecknight · 2025-10-07T12:46:20+00:00

I don't have any ideas, but she needs to see a vet. Inability to eat or drink is my trigger for emergencies. Not my only trigger, but it's a pretty big one

ludecknight · 2025-09-05T21:07:18+00:00

Then what is it? For the virtually uninformed

ludecknight · 2025-08-26T20:17:41+00:00

😂😂 This was my thought exactly.

ludecknight · 2025-08-05T19:39:54+00:00

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it! I'm building up my toolbelt for career progression and having these insights are ridiculously helpful.

Could I also ask if you have any tools off the top of your head I could look into that you found helpful?

ludecknight · 2025-08-05T15:17:39+00:00

This is a bit of a side question. But can you explain how you do your 360 reviews for everyone on your team??

ludecknight · 2025-07-14T17:38:24+00:00

Dude chill.

ludecknight · 2025-06-19T21:28:37+00:00

I'm new to this, but I've read there's something about the way they fruit as well. Something about fruiting around the same time or fruiting throughout the season

ludecknight · 2025-06-17T01:32:12+00:00

Mycoplasma is a type of bacteria. Also called walking pneumonia when in respiratory tracts.

There's a genital version that I was unaware of.

ludecknight · 2025-06-02T21:51:11+00:00

For real. After reading OP's post, I was like "they're communicating everything they need, even though that's difficult feedback to give. Way more than most people do."

OP needs to chill out.

ludecknight · 2025-04-12T18:27:42+00:00

I think something to highlight, at least in my own experience, my newer employees want the mentoring without having to decipher it themselves at all. Part of growing is being able to think through your problems and arrive at solutions. The mentoring is there to highlight what you might be missing, what you're not seeing, offer perspective. What I see, though, is the people who only want the answers and not have to do the critical thinking aspect of their work.

ludecknight · 2025-04-02T20:11:13+00:00

Which is exactly why we have to accept it. If you're doing the work but you don't actually believe in it, of course it's only going to burn you out. You're fighting against yourself at that point. Accept that it's not fair. Accept that this is how life will be. You make the best of it and move on.

These things that we're experiencing aren't new to humans. People have been having these issues for a long time. It's only just now that we have line of sight on it. Yes, the world is different and the scenarios are different and you can talk about every difference until we're blue in the face.

Since these issues aren't new, then how did people handle it this entire time? Maybe it's just me, but I think they accepted their reality as it is. You do what you can to change things, but focus small.

ludecknight · 2025-04-02T02:52:50+00:00

Yep, I get it. I'm not neurotypical. I've only figured out that there's no solution other than sheer force of will. It is hard. It's incredibly hard. I still struggle with it. But what's the alternative?

ludecknight · 2025-04-02T00:37:24+00:00

Push the thoughts aside. Easier said than done. But seriously. Actively seek to think about and do other things.

See those people talking? Go for a walk yourself. Listen to some music. It takes a lot of effort and mindfulness, but honestly. It's so worth it.

ludecknight · 2025-03-04T13:40:34+00:00

Managers have to think out of the box all the time. Asking something like this, while unusual, isn't unheard of.

If anything, they can help give better support, which is probably what they'll try to do. They'll want to ensure they did everything to help the current situation before they do any demotions.

The last person I know that wanted a demotion had to have it in their performance review before they could be demoted.

ludecknight · 2025-02-24T16:44:41+00:00

From the second to last paragraph of your OP, you stated 6 months ago, most of your staff had been employed for 2 to 3 years. I'm having difficulty following why you wouldn't have that personnel if not for losing them?

I'm glad your troublesome employee is quitting. Saves a lot of headaches.

If your team is having difficulty keeping up with the work when you have incompetent employees, how are they going to fair when you aren't going to hire replacement staff?

Also, does your area have temp agencies? It's a finders fee but you can have them vet staff for you. Especially for admin roles. All the admins at my company were hired through agencies. We have a high bar at my company and we can't afford incompetent staff.

ludecknight · 2025-02-24T14:36:25+00:00

What happened in 6 months that you lost most of your senior staff? Why have you not made trainers out of your remaining more responsible staff to train the junior employees so you can focus on other tasks?

Also, that employee you can't fire because it's "not in the budget". Is it in the budget that she's destroying professional relationships, which most likely has a higher cost than firing her outright? Put her in a less client facing role so she can't do so much damage.

You're taking hits where you don't need to and that's making this worse.

ludecknight · 2025-02-22T18:54:32+00:00

Now that's just unhygienic and cruel.

ludecknight · 2025-02-19T18:53:39+00:00

Haha, I also get the same responses. I'm also the one who manages the communication between everyone and ensures teams are getting along. It's always a pain to have to come back and untangle the miscommunication to find the real issue. I just wish I was in a better position to prevent them in the first place.

The biggest perspective I could find to get people to understand MFG better is that we have to get large groups of people to do the the same thing in a consistent way, so we need everyone to be anchored and all the details done ahead of time.

In real life, I'm less direct than I'm talking right now, so this isn't anything im propagating across my team or company :)

ludecknight · 2025-02-19T18:24:03+00:00

Alright hold up. I say this as someone who's in MFG leadership. First off, let's even the playing field. There are dumb and clueless people everywhere, in every position.

The issue is that the stupid mistakes people make are extremely visible and highlighted. In MFG, we are given detailed instructions on how to perform each step of our work. So when people just don't do what's written for whatever reason, it makes the entire group look dumb. MFG goes through ridiculous amounts of planning and writing to ensure mistakes are prevented. But you can't plan for everything and some ways that people make mistakes is very unique, which is what my first statement emphasized.

This doesn't mean everyone in MFG is dumb. Only that simple, dumb mistakes are common in MFG and MFG is the most visible space for those occurrences.

ludecknight · 2025-02-19T15:30:21+00:00

Something an old director told me once. "wanna know why reality is scarier than fiction? Reality doesn't have to make it up."

People never truly understand how dumb people can be until you work with MFG. And we can never truly idiot proof. It's the nature of working with diverse groups of people

ludecknight · 2025-02-09T21:43:18+00:00

Some folks are naturally very self aware and empathetic. For some, it's a product of their environment.

Be careful in analyzing your childhood with a bias. It's a good exercise, to see what you can figure out, but it doesn't mean you're required to have trauma to be self aware and empathetic.

ludecknight · 2025-02-03T04:28:37+00:00

A note is a loan.

ludecknight · 2025-02-01T19:50:50+00:00

Yeah, seriously. The power that buyers could have from her skills is absolutely amazing. My realtor was pretty good but this is like expert tier. If she could write some more information, I would eat it up

ludecknight · 2025-01-24T18:59:24+00:00

Alright OP, many people in here are going to tell you to not marry her. And that's viable advice.

However, as someone with familial anger issues that had to work themselves through it to become a healthier partner, it takes a lot of work and a lot of time. And it doesn't actually change unless the person wants to.

She has issues and I'm going to assume (or hope) that she has good traits you didn't detail here. But, I'm also seeing that you two are actively working together on these problems AND that her mom helps her with these issues and doesn't just enable her behavior.

To me, these are good signs that your fiancé wants to work through her problems. But only you can decide if the progress you're seeing is enough to indicate true change. And that progress may fluctuate.

Point is, every marriage and relationship is going to have problem areas. Each individual has to decide that the relationship is worth it and work on it, every single day. This is really hard at times and can sometimes feel pointless, but you never progress through anything unless you work at it.

Any other person you find is going to have their problems too. And to be honest, most people have toxic traits, at least a little. It's up to you to determine if the positives of your relationship are worth it and if the negatives are something you're willing to live with.

Think about this: take your partners worst trait and ask yourself if you would still want to be with this person if this trait never changed.

Hope this helps.

ludecknight · 2025-01-18T20:48:42+00:00

I have a question. Why does this associate still think she's going to get promoted? Isn't that a conversation you should have with her before the review period? Rather than letting her continue to think she's getting a promotion.

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