u/DoorKnock922

Just a heads up that if your kid was having football practice yesterday evening (Aug 18) at Prairie View Middle School, those coaches made absolutely no effort to get the kids off the field when the lightning started. I believe there was also a severe thunderstorm warning in place at the time.

There was more than 10 minutes of lightning before the rain started, and not until then did the coaches begin to clear the field.

I'm all for toughening kids up having them out in various weather, but lightning?? I would think they would have a policy on that. It's one of those things where they wait til something tragic happens and then say "There's no way we could have possibly predicted this."

*Edit: I looked up the Sun Prairie Schools policy, and the policy is to immediately go to shelter at the FIRST thunder or lightning. Definitely not what took place yesterday.

I'm having major surgery in October. I've needed it for a long time and I'm finally getting it done. What I'm finding frustrating is that friends and family disagree with my surgeon's schedule for recovery, and are quite vocal about it. I'm tired of politely deflecting it.

Surgeon requires 6 weeks off work even though I have a desk job = I'm having people tell me that's insane and there's no reason to take more than a week off (including a family member who had a similar surgery 20 years ago and went back to work in a week).
Surgeon requires MINIMUM 8 weeks before I'm cleared to start running again = friends laughing at me, telling me I'll be out running in 2 weeks.

I've been just deflecting it - "We'll see how things go, and if I'm feeling well after a short time, I'll check with the surgeon to see if I can go back to work sooner!" or "The surgeon filled out the disability form and wrote 6 weeks, so my employer can't have me back before then due to liability, so it's unfortunately completely out of my hands" and stuff like that.

The other scorching burn here is that the same friends who encourage someone to overdo it after surgery will also blame that person if they have a complication! We have another friend in the group who has had at least 4 major medical procedures fail, and it's clearly because she doesn't follow the recovery plan, yet our friends don't seem to see any correlation between their attitude and the lack of taking recovery seriously. They just say "Well she shouldn't have been out shoveling snow so soon after knee surgery" when they were the ones who cheered her on when she told us she was going to shovel snow.

I just wish there was a way to have a broader conversation about this - to explain to people that encouraging someone to shortcut their recovery is really unhelpful and rude - but even if I say the slightest little thing about it maybe not being appropriate for them to say these things, they get defensive and tell people I'm rude because they were only trying to help and I'm not being gracious.

SIGH.

Hi y'all, proud owner of an Alcatel 4051S with Verizon. 43 years old and have been in flip phones since I was 16.

It's time for a new one soon (chipped pieces of plastic are falling off my current phone). Living in the US and only need to use it in the US.

The Light Flip looks fun, looks like it has everything I need, but I'm concerned about it being new/untested. Can probably stretch the current phone til April if I just stop dropping it on concrete.

Question is: why aren't we all just buying Jitterbugs? I realize they're Grandma phones, but does the Light Flip have anything the Jitterbug doesn't? Other than the "cool" factor? (Which is legit.)

Seems like the Jitterbug is around the same price or possibly even cheaper. Is one of them better than the other for group texting? (Already living without RCS texting but I know some phones are worse than others.) Does anyone know of any videos that actually show the screen of either phone with a group text so I can see if it looks better or worse than my current situation?

If anyone has any insight on this, it would be helpful, thanks!

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Hi! Does anyone know what's going on behind Prairie View Middle School in the marsh/wetland area behind the football/lacrosse practice fields? I don't know whether it's city-owned property or owned by the school district.

Last fall they cut down all the trees, and they've mowed as much of the prairie as they can a couple times, and they seem to be digging a drainage ditch. I live right next to there and I've always enjoyed the wildlife in that area so I'm sad to see it go 😞 But I've also noticed that the marsh/wetland has gotten so large that they can often only have 1 practice field now, so it's understandable if they are trying to reroute the water.

Neighbors are curious - what's the goal with that land?

Hi, I'm hoping someone can help with some insight on this. I like to complete most or all of my 401k early in the year so I can then save up for next year's Roth and enjoy some extra money the rest of the year.

On May 1, which was a payday, I adjusted my 401k contribution from 50% to 6%. While the fine print says to allow 1-2 pay periods for this to take effect, I've never seen it take that long at this company in 4 years.

Shortly after that, we received an email that our company is switching payroll providers and there would be a lockdown on any changes starting June 1, but I didn't worry since I already made my change May 1.

May 15 paycheck was still taking 50% out of my paycheck for my 401k. Technically within the fine print of 1-2 pay periods, so I let it go.

May 29 paycheck was STILL at 50%. Not cool. I called the 401k provider and was told my company has not deposited anything in my 401k since April 22. So for 2 paychecks, they've been taking 50% when they should have been taking 6%, and they're not even putting it in my 401k!

I asked HR for an accounting of where that money is going and to confirm my next check will be correct, and they were very dismissive. I checked with coworkers, and while no one had made a change to their withholding percentage, they did all find that the company hadn't deposited in their 401k's since April 22.

Is there any way to fight this? If the company over-withholds one more paycheck, I'll be in a tax mess for over-contributing to my 401k for the year. What can I do if that happens??