u/Left-Star2240

There should be a requirement to have employees opt in or out of General group texts.

If there’s a storm and my manager is texting the people scheduled to work to check in that’s one thing.

If a manager decides that an entire area needs to be part of meaningless texts that could easily be addressed by sending a mass email, they should have to obtain permission to add anyone.

Yesterday afternoon, one manager sent the entire team a text asking us to check our email. I was away from the office without email access.

This morning, before business hours, he sent a meaningless text “congratulating” a team member for helping him yesterday. This could have been a FN email.

Each group text results in a chain of “reply alls” that aren’t simply annoying, but will disturb anyone that might be on PTO, on a day off, or on leave.

It should be illegal.

They should not be allowed. If there is something I need to know my manager or colleague should simply contact me through work email or, if urgent, directly through one phone call or text.

Our new manager decided that all of us are now part of a “group text.”

This means that one text results in over 20 responses, most of which are simply an acknowledgment that they’ve received the message. This AM my phone suddenly was vibrating off of my desk with responses as simple as “K” or a reaction to the text chain.

The “reply all” emails are annoying enough. Having my phone blow up because one person decides to send a text message should simply not be allowed.

My mother told me the exact time I was born. I was delivered through a cesarean section, and my mother was awake through the procedure.

When I moved away from home, and as long as she was able to do so, she’d call on my birthday at that exact moment. This included some embarrassing but fun moments at work.

Does anyone else randomly experience nausea surrounding bread?

All I wanted this morning was a BEC on an English Muffin. I cooked the bacon and eggs, had my (current) favorite sliced cheese ready, and toasted the muffins. Suddenly the smell of the muffins made me fill sick. I felt so sick that I couldn’t even eat the eggs or bacon.

This has been going on for a couple of years. I’ll make a sandwich or wrap for lunch, but at lunchtime the bread smells awful. It’s not expired, and I’ve eaten the same thing the day before without incident. I’ve actually taken the meat and cheese out of the sandwich or wrap because I needed to eat. There have been times that I still smelled the bread, and felt too nauseated to eat anything it had touched.

For some reason, sourdough (so far) is usually an exception.

TL,DR: Would seeking an ADHD diagnosis during mid-life be possible/worthwhile.

For age reference I am on the tail end of Gen X. My mother tried to convince my pediatrician that I was hyperactive when I was four years old. My pediatrician assured her I was a perfectly normal four year old. I always thought she was just impatient because she was.

It wasn’t until my late thirties that I considered I might have had such a condition. My father partially joked that, in these times, I probably would have been diagnosed with ADHD or ASD. He shared an anecdote in which a teacher called. I apparently had stared out the window during a test for a good portion of the time allowed, only to explain to the teacher asking why I wasn’t filling out the form that I didn’t have a pencil. I still aced the test, so my parents thought nothing of it.

I was the perfect student that was occasionally accused of daydreaming, that would find shortcuts to pass a test, and spent time in the front row of my algebra class finding a way to have a black background with white numbers using my eyeglass repair kit. (Texas Instruments solar calculator). Other students asked me to make theirs do the same. My favorite game on our first computer was Minesweeper, and I play it without flagging potential mines even now. I now trip over air, but used to descend or climb three floors and travel long hallways while reading a book.

Like my mother. I entered perimenopause younger than doctors found acceptable but had no word for it. I only knew that I suddenly had severe insomnia (waking every other hour despite being exhausted, consistently waking at 3am without the ability to return to sleep) hot flashes, developed digestive issues and hot flashes that made me think my head was going to simply explode.

I was “too young,” despite no longer having regular periods. When I reached my forties doctors were finally willing to acknowledge that having spotting for one day in one year didn’t qualify as a “period.” Now I’m officially menopausal (it’s been well over a year), and the symptoms have only gotten worse since.

I’m questioning my mental and physical health, but seeking a diagnosis for what’s considered a pediatrician’s job is not covered by insurance, and I don’t know that I can afford it. Would it even be worth the cost?

“Dr. Oz” is apparently concerned about declining birth rates. Rather than addressing the reasons people might not want to bring a child into the world, has coined a phrase called “under-babied.”

He claims it describes people with no children or fewer than they would like.

This is simply 🐂💩. I have the exact number of children I want: zero. If people who want children are instead choosing to use contraception (which is the next target) to prevent that possibility, they are doing so for rational reasons. That reason might simply be affordability, but there are many other reasons.

It angers me that US politicians pretending to be concerned about low birth rates aren’t concerned with supporting planned families. There’s an organization they constantly attack that actually supports family planning, and is a major source of women’s health. (Hint: it’s in the name) People like this don’t care that healthy women are required to create healthy babies. If healthcare is inaccessible, nothing is being done to reduce the maternal mortality rate, and programs to help children flourish, even if it’s simply giving them debt free food, are constantly underfunded.

Rather than addressing these problems, they want to ban a medical procedure or essential medication with poorly written laws that leave hospitals waiting on their legal team to determine if they can treat a pregnant patient that is in crisis. Under these laws, I wouldn’t have been born, because my mother might have died during a spontaneous miscarriage. If she’d survived, this administration might have charged her with a crime.

Yet, they seem worried about babies being born to become a part of their supply chain. That’s what their goal is.

This is the fourth Mother’s Day that I haven’t had a mother.

My spouse and I went to his mother’s for the first one. He wanted to see his mom, and I no longer had one. It made sense.

It’s the first Mother’s Day that I didn’t notice the day approaching. Last week my spouse wanted to go to the pharmacy to buy a card and I had to ask him why.