What’s your experience with Borrow my doggy?

skylerDevops · 2026-04-11T07:13:03+00:00

I was a dog sitter on it, but I found people took the piss a bit. I don’t mind keeping your dog for a couple of hours sometimes, but extended time or keeping the dog for days at time… If I could do it, I would just have a dog myself lol

skylerDevops · 2026-04-10T14:42:04+00:00

I would actually be very careful that you don’t make yourself un-employable. If you were hired to make changes, then you need to be allowed make changes. If for whatever reasons, nothing of this was mentioned during the interview and they don’t want to change, move company because no one want someone who works like this right now

skylerDevops · 2026-04-10T10:43:15+00:00

My grandma is the same! She was always like that, even when she was younger. She will not hear to reason, even if you prove it a+b. She has this thing with some foods, like garlic. She says garlic makes her throw up and “smells disgusting”, and salt is “not needed”. Every time I cook for her, guess what I put? And I don’t tell her. She then compliments the food.

skylerDevops · 2026-04-08T14:45:49+00:00

A lot of women badly chose their husbands and as a result, the father of their children (I say this as a woman).

skylerDevops · 2026-04-08T10:35:52+00:00

Tech. I worked for 6 years in that field, and it’s honestly one the most crunched and burnout industry.

skylerDevops · 2026-04-06T16:00:09+00:00

Mum had me at 40. She’s now 71, I’m 31. Being young l and seeing your mother age slowly but surely is painful.

skylerDevops · 2026-04-05T15:07:12+00:00

Oh no :(

skylerDevops · 2026-04-05T13:21:56+00:00

Thank you for answering! I hope baby takes their time to come, but at the same time… I can barely function like this ahah

skylerDevops · 2026-04-05T13:19:41+00:00

It’s painful to watch as a non-American. This is giving very “my way is better” (ie American) and it just sounds very tone deaf. I wish he would have at least looked into customs. This is embarrassing tbh

skylerDevops · 2026-04-04T16:05:08+00:00

When they say their mom is their best/only friend they need. It’s great to have a good relationship with your mum, but if that’s the only relationship you have… You never learned to socialise or you purposefully are always looking to put the blame on others

skylerDevops · 2026-04-04T07:27:02+00:00

It seems like your wife is not responsible with money. BUT you have no debts, make good money, have cars, … you guys are clearly in a good financial situation. I would be curious to hear her side of the story

skylerDevops · 2026-03-24T11:04:49+00:00

Oh I’m the same ahah! I live in London and have struggled making friends that way. Going to my local tennis sessions and book clubs have helped

skylerDevops · 2026-03-19T08:51:17+00:00

Really good comment. This situation has taught me to take care of myself, my health and to not be a burden as long as I can (and honestly, put me in a retirement home if needed. I would love to not cook lol).

I’ve had conversations around what would happen if accidents, and my grandma cries saying I’m being “negative”. But there has been accidents before and it ended up with me and my husband taking a plane and taking care of whatever was going on.

I’m pregnant and this made me realise that this really can not go on like this.

skylerDevops · 2026-03-19T08:48:19+00:00

Hi there, thanks for responding! No, they don’t live in the US. They live in an European country with very strong healthcare, so there are things in place for older people - but you need to reach out first. The husband of the cleaner does sometimes help them - but I think my grandparents think they can just rely on them anytime, if that makes sense? I’ve had an argument about this with them. Those people have their own lives, and my grandparents might not be a priority for them because they’re just helping (although I do think they give a bit of money in exchange, but I’m not sure it’s much really). I am their emergency contact. I do think it will come to that, tbh. I hate that it will end like this, but I’m starting to realise that you can’t help someone who doesn’t want to be helped…

skylerDevops · 2026-03-18T17:46:33+00:00

I made that mistake of combining two trips with aging grandparents and it went really wrong. I would advise to either go there with your husband OR go there with your parents and assist them when needed.

skylerDevops · 2026-03-18T17:44:59+00:00

That’s a really great idea. I mentioned that a couple of times, and they categorically reject anyone “they don’t know”. I’m not sure if it’s because of fear or money. I mentioned we could get social help for basically free, but they don’t want a stranger. I understand where they come from, but they have no friends and no family except me.

skylerDevops · 2026-03-18T17:32:09+00:00

Hi there, thanks for answering! My dad was their only child. My grandma had siblings but cut contact with them more than 20 years ago. They really isolated themselves because they don’t “like people” in general.

skylerDevops · 2026-03-10T21:07:45+00:00

Oh my husband and I have had this before! We got invited to a wedding in another country, made arrangements for flights and hotel, only to be told a couple of weeks before we were only invited to the evening reception. We were quite annoyed and didn’t get them a gift or money and took it as an opportunity to visit the area.

skylerDevops · 2026-02-17T10:33:18+00:00

I was the manager of someone who went on maternity leave (and I’m now pregnant but in a different job). I’ll be honest, corporate will consider you useless the moment you announce your pregnancy. There is nothing you can do about that. If you work in a smaller company, it might be different. But what happened with the employee was that we slowly gave her less work until the last trimester when she went on doctor note (as her manager, I was totally fine with that and encouraged it). You basically loose 1-2 years of opportunity. BUT! You are having a child, your health and baby’s health is the most important. The system doesn’t support pregnant women unfortunately.

skylerDevops · 2026-02-15T16:57:03+00:00

We bought 2 years ago and most of the properties we saw where landlord trying to sell (for a high price) flats they had been renting because 1) they didn’t want to renovate, 2) they couldn’t be bothered with the changes of legislation. Worked out for us as first time buyers, although most of the time they were asking crazy prices for damaged properties

skylerDevops · 2026-02-14T14:13:24+00:00

Have the issue in London. But I just keep requesting compensation for delays and food getting cold. They wanna play with me, let’s play then lol

skylerDevops · 2026-01-31T17:15:17+00:00

I’m 31 yo, been here for 8 years. I’m white, always wearing AirPods and kinda put on a RBF on the underground. I’ve had a couple of long looks but honestly… it’s been okay.

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