Oh, Sox. WTF is with this agency?
agencies. 3 for certain. DH gets a certain number of calls per year as a benefit/way to keep employees at their desks. They find a sitter who is supposed to be up to the level of home-care. We pay a pretty penny for it. But they find the sitter, which is, IMHO, hella helpful. Except, when it isn't.
Honestly - it is a much better solution than companies complaining/harrassing or firing employees because they have sick kids to take care of. I think that is completely reprehensible and anyone that would fire an employee for taking care of family had best be figuring out how to help those people care for their kids. Or being hit on the head with an anvil. But still. here we are - not perfect solution by far.
I'd tried contracting with an agency on my own - If I'm working the way I am now, I really have to have a resource. That was the first disaster... Iris learned the word 'shutup' and a few other things that still have me sprouting spikes and thunderbolts every time I think about it - that agency wanted to give me a free sitter service if I'd try them again - and all I could say was "it's not like this is the plumbing or something." We haven't had a sitter for non-work reasons since I don't know when.
We were completely spoiled in Baltimore. The sitters were neighbors. And friends and family.
wtf, Sox! If I didn't have work I'd volunteer to sit.
thanks d! that's very sweet. you around? I haz ?s
hmm. newphone doesn't have your info in it. feh.
Every now and then I see something and think, "There
is
a benevolent Diety."
Today? With the
Heh-heh-heh
and the
Mwa-ha-haaaaa
its more like "If there
is
a God, God is a smartass."
Sox, maybe the wee girl should come and stay with us for a bit? Alternately, I will mail you children's cold meds.
I miss everyone! I've been too busy to even lurk. It sucks.
Sox, maybe the wee girl should come and stay with us for a bit?
Mal. Give your mommy her computer back.
Ha!
One of the things for the box is a framed photo of Mal and Iris together. It was intended for Iris. Mal won't give it up.
argh ... as often happens, work is eating me ... worse, eating all my time. To make matters worse, our tech support person (of dubious competence) came in last week, started a process on our mail server, and left it for a week. As a result, my mail was slooooow - I had to delete all the spam that comes in one message at a time, with frequent pauses while Outlook announced that it was trying to connect to the server. I monitor seven (7!) mailboxes ... so we're talking about several thousand spam messages every day (and, no, it doesn't automatically delete the spam in the spam folder).
He was in yesterday and stopped the process, so at least I can delete spam in bunches.
He has, however, disabled the spam filter, so everything is coming in to the main mailboxes.
My boss said I wasn't allowed to hurt him. snarl
