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I put the ebook on hold and have been holding for around 15 weeks. I’m next in line and it just occurred to me today it was the ebook not the audiobook. So I search the audiobook… and it has a 20 week wait 😭. Back of the line I guess.

Update: To add salt to the wound, my ebook hold just became ready to borrow 🥲. I may start it since it’s here, but I’m usually a physical or audiobook person to avoid staring at screens all day.

I know there’s those skip the line things, but from what I’ve seen, it tells you when it’s skip the line and this one isn’t labeled as such. I put a Hold on a book 2 days ago and it had a 6 week wait. Somehow I got notified today it was ready. My other libraries had longer waits than 6 weeks.

Does anyone know what happened?

Update: Thanks everyone! Sounds like a perfect storm happened of more copies, local priority, and people suspending holds from the unexpected timing of getting bumped up.

My complex sent out an email yesterday that the key fobs weren’t working and gave us a code to use for the back door in the meantime. This morning I went for my workout, came back, confirmed my fob didn’t work and used the code. The code didn’t work. Went to the office letting them know neither worked and their response was they changed the code.

Why would you change the code less than 12 hrs after telling people about it then not communicate you changed it? I asked what their plan was when people started coming home from work and neither access option works? No response. Keep in mind the office is closed by the time people start coming home so literally, what was the plan?

She does something on her computer, asks to see my fob, tests it out on another door, hands it back, I ask if it’s fixed, she said no so now I’ve just been standing here for 15 mins. She writes my name down on a growing list of other people who probably also already had the same issue. Meanwhile I work from home, have a meeting in 5 minutes, and ask if they can just let me in and I’ll come back. THAT she responded to immediately so I’d get out her face and walked over to let me in. Then I had to ask her when “come back later” was and she had no answer?

Also add the garage where most people park is nowhere near the back door. So people are going to trek to the back door just to discover it also doesn’t work. Had errands to do today that I can’t do because I literally can’t get back in.

Update: Went back down to follow up at 1:30, I was hoping to have a fob ready but she made no progress while I was gone then saw me and immediately was like, oop. After standing another 15 mins or so, she managed to make a new one and practically jumped with glee while telling the other leasing person there. Apparently the tech guy set up a new system but didn’t explain to them how to make new fobs so I was the first one. It was hard to share in their excitement considering that was such an incompetent thing to say. Selfishly, I’m good now. Big picture, they still have no solution to the fact many others are still locked out. They close early Fridays so most won’t be able to do what I just did. And that list I mentioned where they wrote my name down, it’s now 3 pages of names. Those are just the ones who spoke up by midday. There’s still no working code either.

I hate that Available Soon implies some unknown time between now and 14 days. Do I have time to start another book? Who knows. Don’t want to get caught with 2 books due in 14 days or less, so I’ll wait… and wait… and wait. Like imagine you were starving and someone said I’ll feed you between now and 2 weeks, we won’t tell you when, but it’s coming. That’s what this feels like. Some weird hostage situation.

Just need to vent. I’m a traveler but this is my first cruise and it’s a 2 week one to 9 cities. Mentally I thought a cruise was meant to be easy, book a flight and enjoy the cruise. But the logistics of coordinating multicity flights, finding hotels for a day, planning excursions for each city, making it back to watch the onboard entertainment, then planning dinner reservations around those events. It’s overwhelming.

I know once we’re there it’ll be nice because everything will be booked and planned, but getting to that point… 😮‍💨. So far we have a flight there and hotels. No flight back, no excursions, and no dinner reservations. I’ve been saying “I’ll start looking at excursions today” for the past month. I plan to start today after posting this 🥴

I want to start by clarifying that I’m not a jealous money-blocking manager. I do my part to make sure my team is properly compensated and advocate accordingly. This direct report is not one of them.

Our team had very uneven workloads. Some were overworked for years, some were very underworked. This specific report had the lowest volume of work on the team but was still getting paid similarly to the highest volume worker. After some leadership changes, we went through the process of reorganizing the workloads so everyone had even numbers. The overworked got less, the underworked got more.

But this underworked employee who now has the same workload as everyone else, believes he deserves a raise for having “more work than others”. We explained to him repeatedly it’s all evened out and here’s the data showing that. But he consistently hints at raise requests.

I tend to be straightforward with my team and we’re all bonded so he thinks I’m on his side here but I can’t say out loud, you were doing nothing for years and if anything were overpaid, now your pay is accurate with the work. Is there a better way to get this across?

Update: Thanks for the advice everyone. I’ll find ways to be professionally more direct and create gameplans in the future. Sidenote though, the uneven workload was not my doing. I was a victim of the overworked, and once they fired our inattentive manager and supervisor a year ago, 3 of us got promoted. Since we all directly knew the struggles we faced, we took the steps to fix the issues they ignored and grow from there.

This has become a pattern for me. I’m not active on LinkedIn and colleagues will mention “you never accepted my LinkedIn request”. I tell them “I’m not really active on there but know when I start accepting friend requests it’s because I’m job hunting.” They laugh, I laugh, we move on. One day I start mass accepting friend requests, update my profile, add credentials I received. Some months later, 2 weeks notice. They’re shocked. I joke to them, I warned you of the signs when I accepted your friend request 😬

This is getting funny now. How many times can one place close then reopen? 3 rebrands in a year?! The Quay, Tantra, and whatever this new Moonrise place will be are all the same owner, still doing high end Indian food. Guess they’re looking for the rebrand that gets the crowd.

I just need a minute to mourn. I tried it a couple weeks ago and loved it, then today I was all ready to get my order of Citrus Mojo wings… AND ITS GONE ALREADY 😭

Had an international flight from US to Peru. I’ve flown a lot, I’ve flown internationally, I know the drill. This was not the drill.

We all know you can’t bring large liquids into the airport. At TSA they take them. Ok. We went through TSA with no liquids. Once in the airport we bought water because my friend was coughing a lot. $7 for a bottle of water. Now we all know outside liquids are a no, but once in the airport, buy all the liquids you want. This is where people buy duty free alcohol, sodas, water, whatever.

We get to our gate and patiently wait for boarding. They start calling boarding groups. At the entrance of the door to enter the plane, a 2nd set of TSA searches our carry ons and bags a 2nd time. Why? No one knows. In this search, they tell people with unopened, airport-bought liquids that they can’t have them?!?! Now they’re confiscating not only my friend’s $7 water but people’s expensive alcohol they just bought. Of course people are putting up small fights but also you don’t want to end up on the no-fly list over a drink. So we begrudgingly board with everyone mumbling their complaints. I’ve never experienced that before. Feels like some airport Ponzi scheme.

Update:

I haven’t been to many South American countries where the comments say this is common, but I’m seeing countries listed I’ve visited as well.

Maybe my ignorance here is I usually don’t buy/bring drinks from the airport, so this has never been an issue for me if there was a second check. The only reason I noticed it this time was because my friend lost their water.

There really should be some obvious warning saying no drinks on the plane period so people aren’t wasting money doing something that’s normally ok.

Got blood work done

Doctor: So looks like you have low blood sugar

Me: Does that mean I have diabetes?

Doctor: No… you have the opposite of diabetes

Me: ???… which is???

Doctor: Instead of your blood sugar spiking like a diabetic, it drops.

Me: Are there negative affects to that?

Doctor: You may faint if it gets too low

Me: How do I know it’s so low I could faint?

Doctor: You’ll tell. Bit dizzy maybe

Me after the appt in my car: googles what is low blood sugar and discover it’s called hypoglycemia and read the affects of it and what to watch for

I booked an August cruise literally 1-2 months before they changed their booking from “everything’s included” to “pick your tier level for what’s included”.

During my payments I noticed the email confirmations changed phrasing to not have tip included. The original emails included tip. I also see now there’s levels of wifi access instead of just straightforward wifi access. I’m not sure which access I have since I didn’t book under a tier.

With that said I’m sure there’s other things in these tiers I haven’t focused on as much but it will suck if I’m defaulted to the basic level just because I booked before they changed it and really have no say. I’m also anticipating this tip/no tip thing will become an issue while onboard but I’m standing by I paid already.