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-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 31-May-2015 06:53 <=-

 NB>> Well, I suppose with better income outside of that job, you have a lot
 NB>> less hide in the issuer... ;)  And, I suppose also that if he hasn't
 NB>> improved any since, others will probably do the complaining up the
 NB>> scale... :)
 DAG> Yeah from the amount of uproar that was going on at that dude over
 DAG> just the few weeks he's either learned by his trial through fire or
 DAG> else he's ended up well known in those corporate circles.  The dude was
 DAG> a nice enough guy; I don't hold anything against him, really, but there
 DAG> are just certain skills that you need to have if you're going to be in
 DAG> management.  Being able to generate schedules for your employees is
 DAG> kind of one of those baseline ones, or at least having access to
 DAG> somebody who is good enough at it that you can delegate that task to.

For sure... Had he had any management experience previously...?  One can
hope that by now he's learned how to do the basics... or that they've
figured out that he isn't going to work out...
 
 NB>> Seeing the people without any "feet" makes one less grumpy about not
 NB>> having "shoes"...  ;)  Years ago, I was an income maintenance worker for
 NB>> DSS... one does learn to appreciate what one does have, as well as learn
 NB>> more compassion for those with a lot less...  :)
 DAG> You know you're very right about that part.  If I could handle the
 DAG> cut in pay, it'd be nice again sometimes to go back to my former job as
 DAG> an intake specialist, helping out those in desperate need of cash
 DAG> grants.  It really does give a person a much better perspective. 

Having had the experience, it's something that you can call up in memory
to remind you of the perspective... volunteering in similar settings can
do the same thing... :)

 DAG> It's so easy to fall into the whining trap about problems that are so
 DAG> utterly petty, even in the first world, let alone when compared with
 DAG> some of the issues that are going on in 2nd and 3rd world countries.

Perspective's a good thing to have...  :)
 
 NB>> Reinforcement that you are doing your job, and doing it well..  :)
 DAG> Always a wonderful thing to have, especially when you're a person as
 DAG> plagued by insecurity and doubt as much as I usually am.  It seems to
 DAG> be that much stronger where it's a sect of my life in which I'm
 DAG> responsible for a young/ innocent, also.  I suppose that's normal, but
 DAG> I know that I've always had a much greater amount of insecurity than
 DAG> most others, partially due to my abusive upbringing.  I'm just glad
 DAG> that I'm getting better at dealing with those things now.

True, insecurities are often magnified when what you do is going to
affect others as well as yourself...  On the other hand, sometimes it's
easier to see that things are working out properly after all when you
can see the effects outside of yourself...  :)  And as you see that you
are doing fine, that can help quell the insecurities...  :)
 
 NB>> It seemed to have been helpful... she had very little delirium, which is
 NB>> a major risk especially for the elderly in a stressful environment...
 NB>> and she is improving steadily now that she is home.  She had to have
 NB>> emergency bowel surgery, fortunately not worst-case scenario, and the
 NB>> surgeon was quite happy with how she progressed afterwards... Maybe now
 NB>> she won't keep having some of the bowel issues she was having...
 DAG> I am very glad to hear that things progressed well afterwards. 
 DAG> Bowel issues are just no fun at all, either.  I really hope that the
 DAG> surgery has the intended effects for her.  Updates would be
 DAG> appreciated.  :)  Even without them, though, wishing the best from
 DAG> here! 

Thank you for the well wishings...  :)  She's continuing to do better,
growing stronger and able to do more things independently again... we
still have to be there just in case, and for the stabilizing hold now
and then... so I'm still taking some shifts of care coverage.  When she
went for her followup visit to the surgeon to get the staples removed,
he was quite pleased with her progress, and pronounced it a success.  

 DAG> Gotta have RL taking precedence.  Otherwise you end up like some of
 DAG> the people that I know IRL around here that have huge clusters of life
 DAG> tangled up in knots while they're busy putting out reams and reams of
 DAG> content on tumblr, diaspora, twitter, and god knows where else.  ;) 

I pretty much draw the line at Fidonet (and similar, smaller nets) and
the bbsing...  I don't have the time or energy to keep up with all that
web stuff, this takes quite enough time as it is, thank you... ;)  I
have a sister that lets Facebook and similar take valuable sleeping
time, and in her case, she really needs the sleep to be able to function
without meltdowns... 

 DAG> Who cares if you've got a good net persona when the one that you're
 DAG> stuck in 'for reals' in your rotting porksuit can't even find a clean
 DAG> pair of clothes to put on.  ;) More soon, I'm gonna see if I can't
 DAG> bust through a little more of this today. 

Yeah... and I'm finally getting back to messagings, myself, today... ;)
One just has to balance it all... ;)

ttyl      neb

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