u/ComfortableFee2344

I’ve seen underwear in the nurse’s office. I’ve gotten underwear for students from the nurse’s office. Male elementary student comes out of bathroom today and tells me he has pee in his pants. He didn’t pee his pants – I don’t know the full story, understandably – but there is urine in his underwear. He is concerned it will be seen and smell. I do a nurse pass (at like 2:37, when we’re not supposed to submit them after 2:30 anyway; turns out the substitute nurse had left for the day, never even saw the pass), text the only nurse I have the number for, and then ultimately call the secretary. She is very helpful; I tell her I know there are (or at least have been before) pairs of underwear in the nurses office. She tells me the AP will bring them down when she gets out of a meeting. She calls again; the AP said that she didn’t “know anything about that.” I’VE SEEN THE STOCKPILE. HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW WE HAVE CLEAN UNDERWEAR. Maybe it’s been moved, but that wouldn’t be the response then. So, student sent home in wet pants. Will be adding multiple sizes of children’s underwear to my next Walmart order (I don’t even have my own kids).

Edit to add: I went through a total of two UNLOCKED doors to find them, exactly where I knew they’d be. Full tote of them. How humiliating – for so many different reasons.

(Mostly a joke; our (presumably) Mormon salesman was chill.)

My husband and I had a few Vivint systems installed earlier in the month. I am happy with the installation and technology services. Hell, I’m even happy with our sales rep. He was polite, as personable as a salesman can be, and genuinely made me want to ask if he was part of the church before I even was aware Vivint is based in Utah (special interest).

Anyway. Here’s the point. Salespeople do what salespeople do. I knew there’d be some “hidden” fee or something we weren’t fully aware of when signing. The salesman didn’t do a great job explaining our obligation to Vivint versus that to Fortiva, but, tbh, we didn’t read the fine print either. We take responsibility.

What I was unaware of until now, though (because I just sat down to budget next month), was that I was given no admin access to our account. I can see our cameras but do not directly have access to our billing. The credit line is in my husband’s name, so that being the case for Fortiva makes sense. But, for me to show as an “admin” on Vivint’s app but then having zero access to billing online? That’s weird. For the technician to automatically label the house in my husband’s first and last name? That’s weird. For panic alerts to automatically go to him (until I spoke up and asked for them to come to me (I work in town; husband doesn’t))? That’s weird. My job literally just allows me to be more accessible in an emergency or to deal with billing, whatever the case. Why assume everything only goes (and should be named after) him? Call me a crazy feminist, dismantle the patriarchy, whatever – but that’s odd and frustrating. Living in a man’s world :)