u/mrRoboPapa

I checked the TBS page for what's covered under the dental plan and it does say "oral surgery and general anaesthesia" but I just wanted to see if anyone can confirm this covers the nitrous.

My kid is getting a filling tomorrow and we elected to get the nitrous because she'd lose her shit at getting a needle and someone told me today it might not be covered but I'm guessing they meant under the provincial program here. She needs to get the filling so she'll be getting the nitrous regardless but if it isn't covered, I just wanted to prepare myself a bit. TIA!

I work for the federal public service in Canada. It's a decent job with decent pay and benefits. But I started in July 2020 right at the beginning of the pandemic. I worked from home right from the beginning. A few years ago, they told us we were going back but then within a month gave us in IT an exemption for "retention purposes." About a year later we're told we'll be going to work in the office a minimum 3 days per week. As of last week we are now up to 4 days per week. I am exhausted.

I have 3 small kids, a wife, and hardly a social life. I am constantly exhausted, I feel like I'm never getting ahead anymore, and I feel like nobody cares. My job can be done completely remotely and in fact, it was done better when it was that way. People on my team at work complain but they're quiet about it and won't fight for remote work. I'm the only one who is vocal about it and they laugh at me, especially when I tell them I am trying to contact my local Member of Parliament to get somewhere on this issue and actually doing stuff to try and fight this issue.

I am really struggling with adapting to this situation. It feels like nobody cares. Fuel is almost $2/L again, my commute is almost an hour one way, and honestly, I don't like the people I'm surrounded with every day. I had a great routine where I got to go to the gym at lunch and can't do that now in the office because memberships are pricey and I don't want to pay for 2. My MP did, in fact, respond to me a couple of times: once with a copy/paste response and the next to basically tell me he didn't care. Yeah, I could go get another job but that's another issue altogether because where I am at, employers offer people like myself with 5+ years of experience HALF of the wage I make now.

This is a non-issue for a lot of people, I know. People usually tell me to "suck it up" or "we did this before the pandemic" but I never had to. Fuel in January 2020 was also $1.11/L (almost half of what it is now) and you could buy a large bag of chips and a can of pop with a $5 bill. When I worked remotely, I had more energy to do thing with my family. Now I barely have the energy to cook supper when I get home. I try to work up the energy to go to the gym in the evenings but between the crowd in the gym and my physical and mental exhaustion, it's insanely difficult. So my health is actually affected by this too.

I've tried to find hobbies at lunch time but the people I'm surrounded by are nothing like me. I find it so weird that I work in IT and no one around me is what you'd think: I recently started talking about Star Wars with a colleague and he told me he's never watched it and has no interest. I also recently started playing Magic: The Gathering and another IT guy barely knew what it was. Don't even get me started on talking about what we like to watch on TV because I like Game of Thrones and these people don't watch that.

This past winter I also made an effort to find a new team but (and I normally don't fall for conspiracies or any of that crap) I'm now convinced I am somehow being blacklisted. I had talked to an old supervisor about going back to the team in a new role and that conversation all but disappeared. Not long after that, another old manager reached out about a new role and when I went to sign my letter of offer, I was told that the funding was pulled at the very last second. I was also in contact regularly with another team I wanted to be back on and they basically cut contact with me as well indicating that future opportunities were gone.

I'm so fucking tired. I hate my job but there is no alternative. I made decisions based on the promise that we would be working remotely forever and now I'm in debt and have little "fun money" to spend and even when I do, I have no time to go do the things I like.

Thanks for listening.

Hi folks! I'm a 33 year old nerd (translated to "child at heart") and my 9 year old is starting to develop an interest in more of the things like this that I'm interested in. She's recently started collecting Pokemon cards so I promised her I'd teach her how to play the Pokemon TCG. That being said, I also told her we'd learn more games like TCGs and the Digimon TCG (2020) is at the top of my list to learn with her after that.

My question: are there any starter decks out there that may be more beginner-friendly than others? Or are there any other routes I should be looking for us to get started?

My daughter has issues with what is called her "working memory" as a side effect of cancer treatment she had when she was a baby. As a result, she has trouble with some short-term memory stuff but things that require strategy (i.e. math, problem-solving) are difficult for her and I am always looking at new ways to help work that muscle and get her to practice strategizing. So what better way than to learn TCGs!

Thanks for any and all help, everyone. Really appreciate it!