If there's one thing russians have right with driving (let's face it, those driving fails on youtube from there show they don't have much right) and really, really hope catches on here is the popularity of car cams. Yes, I know it's because of *problems* with the justice system over there but damn, there isn't a day that goes by now that I wish I had one. Now getting cut off, fine. Happens. Getting cut off by someone blasting through a stop sign? Regularly? Yeah, that needs to stop. Having to dodge cars driving on the wrong side of the road because somehow three vehicles parked within 10' of a stop sign is another favorite of mine.
In this episode of 'Things That Piss Me Off'.........
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Ah, the lovely bus stop, where rational thinking goes out the door. As much as I hate to I think it's time to get the state police involved (no local where I am).
As I approach the T where I wish to make a left turn I turn on the ol' signal. There's some people w/kids walking in the road so I proceed slowly until I get to the street where I wish to turn. It's a good day so that means there's a car parked after the stop sign on the street I'm turning on, adding visibility for what normally are SUV's. So I slowly execute my 90 degree turn and oh no! Some lady screams at me to wait so she can open the cupcake's door because the bus is coming (she's parked at the stop sign). Granted she left the driver's side door open so she could open the kid's door (also driver's side), left that one open too so there was really no way I could have seen the kid had it decided to run across traffic but damn woman! You don't get to break traffic rules willy nilly because you haz kid. One cheevo I'd like to get in life is never running anybody over but you're making it real hard.
Oddly enough the bus stop I go to drop the kid off has everyone parking a very respectful distance from the stop sign there (10' is required, 25' is what's done) and everyone respects vehicle traffic first. And it's a block* away.
If nothing else I really should get the car a cam.
*Not city so a block is where you have an intersection but kinda I guess? In this case 5 minutes on foot between the two.
As I approach the T where I wish to make a left turn I turn on the ol' signal. There's some people w/kids walking in the road so I proceed slowly until I get to the street where I wish to turn. It's a good day so that means there's a car parked after the stop sign on the street I'm turning on, adding visibility for what normally are SUV's. So I slowly execute my 90 degree turn and oh no! Some lady screams at me to wait so she can open the cupcake's door because the bus is coming (she's parked at the stop sign). Granted she left the driver's side door open so she could open the kid's door (also driver's side), left that one open too so there was really no way I could have seen the kid had it decided to run across traffic but damn woman! You don't get to break traffic rules willy nilly because you haz kid. One cheevo I'd like to get in life is never running anybody over but you're making it real hard.
Oddly enough the bus stop I go to drop the kid off has everyone parking a very respectful distance from the stop sign there (10' is required, 25' is what's done) and everyone respects vehicle traffic first. And it's a block* away.
If nothing else I really should get the car a cam.
*Not city so a block is where you have an intersection but kinda I guess? In this case 5 minutes on foot between the two.
Cutting through a parking lot to avoid a red light is considered evading a traffic signal. Never a cop around when you need one...
FFS. I got a refund from Wayfair as UPS failed to deliver for the fourth day in a row . UPS were told to return the package. That was on Friday.
It showed up on my door at lunch time. :facepalm:
[edit] to be fair to them, Wayfair have told me I can keep the item (it's a $500 media console) for free.
When my wife had my christmas Weber delivered years ago (not ordered from Wayfair) it was supposed to be shipped by UPS or Fed Ex or one of those guys. Turns out they subcontract out the work to independent couriers for some of those large and heavy items and it showed up by some guy in a rental van. He said it's actually a pretty good gig for him with pick and choose jobs and all. Heck of a nice guy too.
So I shot the courier in the head and headed off to vegas with the platinum chip.
-Benny.
"I'll take handwritten checks for, wait what was the amount again? $15.47? Handwritten checks for $15.47 Alex"
The answer is "The year is 2018"
"Um, who should I write the check out to?"
"Oh I'm sorry. The correct response was why are you writing a check. Why, why. That's what the judges were looking for."
You may have thought the year was 2018 but all DMV facilities exist in a parallel universe that started 20 years after ours. That's why everything is so outdated there. I wouldn't be surprised if they had to run your card over the carbon paper for you to sign while calling the CC company for an authorization number. But if they do then do they ask for your license when you pay by CC for your licence?
Right click on the tab and select mute site. Works like a champ and is persistent i.e. that site will always be muted until you decide otherwise. It is wonderful.
Okay, I got into a car accident with you two weeks ago because you a) completely ran (not rolled through) the stop sign and b) did so while making a left turn. Why did you feel the need to *almost* do it again at the same place, same time? Sorry you had to slam on your breaks but damn man. Stop sign. Stop. It's the first and only word on the sign.
Flooded roads aren't quite the same thing as flash flooding. Still you got a push alert so it had to have been a big risk in your area. I wish the push alerts could differentiate between where I am (home or elsewhere) and when the alarm on the phone is going off. If I'm home and the alarm is set two hours from now don't send me an OMGWTF amber alert. I can't tell you where the dark gray four door car is with the missing kid.
On that note has anyone gotten one of those OMGWTF alerts when driving?
On that note has anyone gotten one of those OMGWTF alerts when driving?
This one was a doozie. While parked awaiting the bus the local garbage truck decided to make a right turn with all the grace of a soccer mom in a oversized SUV coming *this* close to sideswiping me. They actually had to backup to complete the turn. That didn't bother me. What did is they made the turn so they could back down a primary road for a 150 yards rather than make a left and, you know, follow the rules of road. Then did the middle of the road thing so when the school bus did get there it couldn't make the turn. The cherry on top was finding garbage cans strewn about in the road and watching them fling them willy nilly. First time I've ever called and complained about them.
I have the greatest respect for people who work in the elements from cart pushers to garbage collectors and everyone in between but damn man, there a difference between a bad day and just being stupid on the road.
For those who remember my last bus stop adventure (got the deductible back two days ago BTW) guess what happened today? Went to a school function and an acquaintance gave me some homebrew beer as we left. Sweet!
I have the greatest respect for people who work in the elements from cart pushers to garbage collectors and everyone in between but damn man, there a difference between a bad day and just being stupid on the road.
For those who remember my last bus stop adventure (got the deductible back two days ago BTW) guess what happened today? Went to a school function and an acquaintance gave me some homebrew beer as we left. Sweet!
Must be the day for professional drivers being unprofessional.
About a month ago I had an incident with the garbage collection folks where they *almost* hit my parked car while I was waiting at a school bus stop, only to then go in reverse down the road quite a ways just to pick up two stops instead of, you know, turning the other way and driving correctly. So I called, was promised a call from the stupidvisor and such. Never got the call but they seemed to have cleaned up their act. I really don't care for lip service so I was fine to let it go. Fast forward to today and they did the turn/back up yet again. Ugh! I called again but have a feeling it's going to result in nothing. So when I see it the next time I'll have to whip out the phone and head down to the police to press charges with the video. I hope it doesn't get to that point but going in reverse down a primary road in any vehicle is never a good idea, let alone for a commercial vehicle with a huge blind spot like that.
About a month ago I had an incident with the garbage collection folks where they *almost* hit my parked car while I was waiting at a school bus stop, only to then go in reverse down the road quite a ways just to pick up two stops instead of, you know, turning the other way and driving correctly. So I called, was promised a call from the stupidvisor and such. Never got the call but they seemed to have cleaned up their act. I really don't care for lip service so I was fine to let it go. Fast forward to today and they did the turn/back up yet again. Ugh! I called again but have a feeling it's going to result in nothing. So when I see it the next time I'll have to whip out the phone and head down to the police to press charges with the video. I hope it doesn't get to that point but going in reverse down a primary road in any vehicle is never a good idea, let alone for a commercial vehicle with a huge blind spot like that.
In my yout I did some cashiering and was pretty darn good at it so I've always thought the people having issues with self checkout just never did it as a teen job. What I really dislike is the mobile "scan and bag as you go" they offer. There's no way you can scan a UPC with your phone as quick as the good old red laser scanner so the shoppers using it take forever, are oblivious, and are just plain mucking up the works. Thankfully mobile scan & go seems to be on the downtrend. Now if curbside pickup would just go away....
My gripe about curbside/click & collect was about the fact that the impersonal shoppers block up the isles en mass when I'm trying to shop. This is really noticeable when I'm trying to grab a few things before I have to get to the bus stop to grab the kid and other people want to pick up their orders after they get the kid from the bus stop.
Now from a corporate side of things C&C is a defensive measure against Amazon and actually plays into their hands since the B&M are getting people used to the idea. That's not to say buying some things from Amazon or online in general is bad. Certain items fit well from purchasing sight unseen. Bulk and/or recurring purchases work really well this way. Nor is it to say some functions of the store shouldn't be made order in advance with the interwebs or a kiosk. This is especially true for the deli/appy counter. A high margin (really high) that I'd skip and just buy some prepackaged stuff if not for the wife wanting it from the counter. 5-10 minutes of my trip are just waiting there for the 30 seconds it takes them to slice what I want.
Go by the "puff" factor over date. Whenever bacteria start to multiply in things like milk, OJ/juice, cryovac sealed meats and all sorts of stuff the package will "puff". You want to avoid those.
I had the same thing happen when we were acquired and the parent company had a strict password policy they pushed down to everything. Every.Thing. You had to change them every 30 days, had to have upper,lower,numeric and special characters, at least 8 but no more than 16 characters in length. And couldn't match the previous 6 passwords. So I did what everybody else did and used the same password for everything since I had to reset them all at the same time. Well, almost everybody. Some were even more inventive and just kept changing the passwords 6 times so they could cyle their password to the old one again. Others though MMM-YYYY was a pretty good way to keep track :facepalm:
Oh, in my case is was @ that threw one login out of whack.
So the great garbage truck saga continues...
Yet again the garbage truck decides to hook a right only to back down the road to save time. So this time I call the township rather than the waste collection company since that didn't do any good the last few times we spoke. The very nice woman told me she's get in contact with them and let me know what they said. Only once I hung up did I realize I never told her my name nor any of my contact information. Hmmm. Like the scene in the equalizer movie ("Your hands wouldn't look like that if you were really working the power lines").
So I pondered. Do I let the civil servant have a day or so to get back to me giving them the benefit of the doubt? Or do I call the trash people again. I decided while a "wait and see" approach was the polite thing the last few times and *that* didn't work. That and they'll be back tomorrow so one more day of potentially dangerous behavior so I call yet again. Before then I do some research and yes, you can travel in reverse on any public road whenever you want but it's an automatic reckless driving charge should you be involved in an accident in my state anyway. In other words you're always, always at fault big time with massive points attached.
<Sigh>
So I call the rubbish folks and they're remarkably forthright it was wrong and won't be done again, that it's going up the chain, etc. Overall I felt pretty good about the call. But dear reader that wouldn't be a reason to post in the PO thread now would it?
So, that call I made to the township did in fact make it to the dumps r us haulers and I did receive a call later from one of their "safety" managers. Let me preface this with I've known of bunch of them from the "just shoot me you're so boring. And an absolute idiot" to the wannabe HR busybody, to those who really do care and engage the subject in an intelligent and engaging manner. So I talk with the guy and explain what everyone should know regardless of what they drive - reverse is the riskiest thing you can do in a vehicle short of being blindfolded (since you are sort of). He agrees and yes there's another way they could go but if they do that's and extra 15 minutes on their route. Safety manager says risk is worth it to save 15 minutes. "No I didn't!" Yes, yes you did.
So now trying to just get the problem resolved of needlessly driving a fully loaded 30 ton vehicle in reverse I offered to share his number with the other parents at said bus stop to they can talk to him about what they see so he can make an informed decision without relying on my perceptions alone. Guy balked so fast it wasn't even funny. Icing on the cake was this guy was a "supervisor" last week and is now a "safety" manager. Didn't realize it until I saw the numbers I called were the same.
Grrr. If it wasn't for the object lesson I'm teaching the kids at the bus stop I'll be honest and say I'm tempted to be petty and mess with the walking colostomy bags. But I left behind that long ago. Still....
Yet again the garbage truck decides to hook a right only to back down the road to save time. So this time I call the township rather than the waste collection company since that didn't do any good the last few times we spoke. The very nice woman told me she's get in contact with them and let me know what they said. Only once I hung up did I realize I never told her my name nor any of my contact information. Hmmm. Like the scene in the equalizer movie ("Your hands wouldn't look like that if you were really working the power lines").
So I pondered. Do I let the civil servant have a day or so to get back to me giving them the benefit of the doubt? Or do I call the trash people again. I decided while a "wait and see" approach was the polite thing the last few times and *that* didn't work. That and they'll be back tomorrow so one more day of potentially dangerous behavior so I call yet again. Before then I do some research and yes, you can travel in reverse on any public road whenever you want but it's an automatic reckless driving charge should you be involved in an accident in my state anyway. In other words you're always, always at fault big time with massive points attached.
<Sigh>
So I call the rubbish folks and they're remarkably forthright it was wrong and won't be done again, that it's going up the chain, etc. Overall I felt pretty good about the call. But dear reader that wouldn't be a reason to post in the PO thread now would it?
So, that call I made to the township did in fact make it to the dumps r us haulers and I did receive a call later from one of their "safety" managers. Let me preface this with I've known of bunch of them from the "just shoot me you're so boring. And an absolute idiot" to the wannabe HR busybody, to those who really do care and engage the subject in an intelligent and engaging manner. So I talk with the guy and explain what everyone should know regardless of what they drive - reverse is the riskiest thing you can do in a vehicle short of being blindfolded (since you are sort of). He agrees and yes there's another way they could go but if they do that's and extra 15 minutes on their route. Safety manager says risk is worth it to save 15 minutes. "No I didn't!" Yes, yes you did.
So now trying to just get the problem resolved of needlessly driving a fully loaded 30 ton vehicle in reverse I offered to share his number with the other parents at said bus stop to they can talk to him about what they see so he can make an informed decision without relying on my perceptions alone. Guy balked so fast it wasn't even funny. Icing on the cake was this guy was a "supervisor" last week and is now a "safety" manager. Didn't realize it until I saw the numbers I called were the same.
Grrr. If it wasn't for the object lesson I'm teaching the kids at the bus stop I'll be honest and say I'm tempted to be petty and mess with the walking colostomy bags. But I left behind that long ago. Still....
It's too early to tell but I suspect they'll just come later so I won't see them do it. The people who live on the street where they back up will have to fight that battle should it come to that.
I wish we had a local police department at times like these. At other times everyone's pretty "live and let live" and are fine with breaking a law here or there like fireworks or walking around drinking a beer, being a little loud, stuff like that. I'd have to contact the the Sheriff's office or the state police to get them to address it and they generally only come out for real emergencies. As a result any and all traffic rules are routinely ignored. We actually have a problem with people passing stopped school busses if you can believe it.
As for nextdoor it's not really an option for me. I'm not a tin foil hat wearing type person but I don't particularly care for their privacy policy. I can always use twitter to contact the company next since that always seems to get results when calling doesn't - as unfortunate as that is.
As for nextdoor it's not really an option for me. I'm not a tin foil hat wearing type person but I don't particularly care for their privacy policy. I can always use twitter to contact the company next since that always seems to get results when calling doesn't - as unfortunate as that is.
That was probably the homeowners. Mine was exactly the same way when the home inspector did the walkthrough with me. He mentioned he saw it a lot but prefered it over the other alternative: something like furniture obscuring it or hanging a picture over it <zzzzaaapp>. Without a basement the boxes tend to turn up in rooms that aren't a utility room regrettably. And by design they do stick out.
Websites that require you to pick a password, but don't tell you the security requirements until AFTER you hit submit, and clear all the form data when it does.
Oh I'm sorry, there needs to be a character. Fill everything out again.
And your PIN can't be your DOB. Start over!
I hate PIN as a password. It lends itself to users making weak passwords such as (others') birthdays or 123123. The employee facing side of HR systems seems especially prone to this. For added measure make the PIN expire after 60 days.
Using twitter to register a complaint that is taken more seriously than, I dunno, multiple phone calls. In my little phantasy world I've always valued face to face<phone calls/written letters<e-mails<twiffing. Stupid I have to go to this length. Grrrrrr.
If it's not public where everyone can see it, it doesn't matter because it can be swept under the rug.
I like to think it's because the "digital" whatever departments are the hottest trend and have more clout yet they (the digits) know they really aren't doing much. So they jump on any and all opportunities to keep the myth going.
While I like to think that there's no arguing with results. Everytime I have an issue and I can't get someone to address it one tweet and BAM! they're on it. It's actually the only reason I have tweeter account.
Check to see the laws in your area about feeding wildlife. I know in my state feeding bear is strictly prohibited, not sure about raccoons. But nobody likes them either. Dumping food on the side of the road seems like littering/creating a public nuisance type thing.
I don't like raccoons. I had one that got into my chimney. When I went to make a fire I discovered it, then it decided to give birth in said chimney. Now I can kill an animal without remorse but just couldn't do the baby raccoon by fire thing. So my den smelled like piss all winter and I couldn't use the fireplace. As an added bonus mama june decided that my deck was the best place to hang out with the things so now in the spring I couldn't go out on the deck without having a ticked off raccoon hissing at me at random times. After making a nice long smokey fire and then getting the chimney cleaned and capped I haven't seen a raccoon around here again.
So using the twiffer thing to deal with the issue I have been having has produced mixed results. On the plus side the supervisor was apparently caught in a bald-faced lie and the 30 ton vehicle actually has a warning alarm when backing up now. Plus they seem to not be taking risks by not backing up when they don't have to. On the flip side I never did get my call back from supervisor nor a response from my tweeter buddy. Disappointing as a simple "We're addressing it please give us time" would have been something.
The rep I was twiting with said they had spoken with the supervisor-type person and that they (supervisor) had spoken with me and addressed the situation. The problem was while they had indeed spoken with me it was two weeks prior and the no, the situation was discussed but not addressed and still this was two weeks ago. That was the lie.
Re: the alarm. During that conversation two weeks ago I did also point out that in addition to going in reverse when not absolutely necessary the vehicle was lacking the warning alarm when said vehicle was backing up. DOT would love to know about that one. If you do anything with CDL drivers the DOT audits are *brutal* and one thing they look for are the daily write ups of the trucks - repair requests. Considering you, as a CDL driver, are required to do a pre trip inspection at the start of every shift you (should) know if something isn't working. It's pretty onerous compared to just starting your car and taking off. Actually it's just pretty onerous. But for good reason. Most likely the driver didn't like the backup alarm and pulled the fuse *just enough* that it lost contact.
So the saga takes another twist. Turns out the route manager, his boss, and a town official will be there this week and I'm invited to watch driving on the wrong side of the road in the wrong direction rubbish truck with them to determine if it's "safe". I have no idea why since it doesn't pass the "would you do it if a cop was right there?" test. On a better note one of the kids I just know from the bus stop told me he'd be there when I mentioned it. That should make it uncomfortable for them to say the least.
But why do I need to bring this up to them? Really people. Don't drive in reverse when you don't have to. Ugh!
Yea...that's always fun.
So the saga takes another twist. Turns out the route manager, his boss, and a town official will be there this week and I'm invited to watch driving on the wrong side of the road in the wrong direction rubbish truck with them to determine if it's "safe". I have no idea why since it doesn't pass the "would you do it if a cop was right there?" test. On a better note one of the kids I just know from the bus stop told me he'd be there when I mentioned it. That should make it uncomfortable for them to say the least.
But why do I need to bring this up to them? Really people. Don't drive in reverse when you don't have to. Ugh!
Well, since you have a time and place... call up the local station and invite a cop to come by! Or at least park right there and witness it. Definitely include "there are kids present", that might actually get them to show up.
Oh, and make sure to video it. And give the kid a phone/video capture to take it from his perspective. And get them to show it to his mom.
Yeah, about that. My police barracks is about 30 minutes away but takes an hour to two to get here if not an emergency as we rely on the state for our LE. They've also scheduled it later than the time I know they usually come so I just suspect it's more of a "check the box" thing. It might just be a bluff too to get me to shut up since I've been invited to to stand out there with them and have a face to face. Oddly some people are more than happy to call or use the interwebs but when you need to stand up and be counted just....don't. Guessing that's what they're counting on. Some battles are worth fighting.
And the saga continues.
So I met with the route supervisor, some other guy who claimed to have something to do with safety or regional or something, and as a bonus the two wastes (*collectors) themselves. Unfortunately the one guy who's equally irked at the shenanigans couldn't make it nor the township official. Anyway the drivers are jerks, the taping of said truck backing up was staged, lied through their teeth, and the garbage men unfortunately met the stereotype many people have of them. As an added bonus they didn't bring their normal truck and brought the biggest they could to show how hard it was to make a right hand turn. Which was kind of funny since they couldn't navigate the route later on. But essentially a dog and pony show.
On the plus side I did get to talk with my daughter about civic duty, never saying anything behind someone's' back you're not prepared to say to their faces, why you don't repeat hearsay, and the next steps to take. So while it's not my fight until the fall I've told her, based on what they've said and what they said they will do we can always go to a town council meeting, she can call the mayor, or write a letter to our congressman. Visit him/her even.
So I met with the route supervisor, some other guy who claimed to have something to do with safety or regional or something, and as a bonus the two wastes (*collectors) themselves. Unfortunately the one guy who's equally irked at the shenanigans couldn't make it nor the township official. Anyway the drivers are jerks, the taping of said truck backing up was staged, lied through their teeth, and the garbage men unfortunately met the stereotype many people have of them. As an added bonus they didn't bring their normal truck and brought the biggest they could to show how hard it was to make a right hand turn. Which was kind of funny since they couldn't navigate the route later on. But essentially a dog and pony show.
On the plus side I did get to talk with my daughter about civic duty, never saying anything behind someone's' back you're not prepared to say to their faces, why you don't repeat hearsay, and the next steps to take. So while it's not my fight until the fall I've told her, based on what they've said and what they said they will do we can always go to a town council meeting, she can call the mayor, or write a letter to our congressman. Visit him/her even.
Grab a percolator? Granted you'll probably get some grinds in the bottom and you have to throw in on the stove but no fear of scaling or the pump to stop working.
Are places that sell postage stamps going the way of pay phones? Doing a quick weekend trip and trying to send a post card to a nephew. It’s Sunday, so no post offices open. Try hotel front desk. Nope, but they give a few suggestions. First convenience store, nope, but a couple other suggestions. Second store, nope, but maybe Rite Aid. Rite Aid, yup! No wait, every cash register is empty of them.
Supermarket/grocery store. In my neck of the woods many have them.
Anybody get a rash under their fitness tracker? Kid gets a vicious one that I just think is a fungus and talcum powder would fix.
I know the type. I had a coworker who was house hunting and would run houses he was interested at looking at by me to get my thoughts. One house he was super excited to go look at and I agreed - it was exactly what he wanted and a perfect fit, really (what he wanted and what he thought he wanted were very different sometimes). Anyway, Monday rolls around and I ask him how it went. Turns out he found out the houses to the side were owned by tradesmen. Very successful tradesmen but he didn't want an electrician on one side and a GC on the other. So he didn't put an offer in just because of that. Even though those houses were twice the price/size as the one he was looking at.
I was tempted to remind him about the monkeys on the ladder but decided it was a lost cause.
I was tempted to remind him about the monkeys on the ladder but decided it was a lost cause.
Yeah, it really was a worlds colliding moment. His nationality/culture had tradesmen in a lower bracket than the white collar/pencil pushers. It was illuminating for me to say the least. I'm grateful for being honestly exposed to the viewpoint but wrote him off for any contact outside of work.
Grr. Just got back from the orthodontist's office, kid had a broken wire. That's not too terrible as evidently they just do that from time to time based on the laid back attitude from the office. When gets me is both my daughter and my wife knew about it last night and neglected to mention it until the kiddo told me in the afternoon. There are no spare parts in orthodontic work people! So all that stuff I wanted to do today that I slated for the afternoon isn't going to get done after all. Had I'd known I'd have gotten a start on things earlier to get 'em done.
Ahhh, deep breath. Exhale. At least appointments like this don't cost me anything, the ortho said her teeth are moving along nicely, all good things in the end.
Ahhh, deep breath. Exhale. At least appointments like this don't cost me anything, the ortho said her teeth are moving along nicely, all good things in the end.
I always place the items on the belt the way I'd like them bagged. When I was a cashier many,many years ago one of my pet peaves was people who "wanted all the cold stuff together" but threw it all over the place. Sure, I'll put it all together but how am I supposed to know you placed the ice cream at the end of your groceries under the four packs of "sanitary napkins"?
Personally my belt placement is: Fresh meat-=>cold cuts/refrigerated stuff-=>frozen-=>dry goods-=>paper products-=>poison (cleaners/anything "scented" and the such)-=>fresh fruits/veggies-=>the fragiles like chips and eggs. If there's bulk like cat litter, paper towels, or toilet paper I hoist them up to be scanned. Generally it works well and I don't to ask them to do anything different.
Personally my belt placement is: Fresh meat-=>cold cuts/refrigerated stuff-=>frozen-=>dry goods-=>paper products-=>poison (cleaners/anything "scented" and the such)-=>fresh fruits/veggies-=>the fragiles like chips and eggs. If there's bulk like cat litter, paper towels, or toilet paper I hoist them up to be scanned. Generally it works well and I don't to ask them to do anything different.
The whole food allergy thing in schools always has me conflicted.
On the one hand yes, no child should die from an allergic reaction. When in my home I always, always accommodate and safeguard to the best of my ability kids who are there with a known allergy. Japanese snacks are put away since I don't know what's in them.
On the other hand it goes too far and has lasting effects on the development of kids' dietary habits in school. I've seen that first hand like you've seen the allergy threat. It's not just nuts - seafood is eliminated, snacks for school parties had to be pre packaged junk food, and I had one parent try to ban milk because her kid was allergic. As in really allergic anaphylactic shock not lactose intolerant. While I doubted her (seemed like a munchausen by proxy parent) it was real, and the kid really did have it so yes, I was wrong there. Not that the kid was harmed just didn't know it was a thing since it was a casual dinner and he had to have a bunless hot dog while the rest of the kids were having pizza.
Calling nuts toxic is wrong as is threatening people with violence. I get where you're coming from. I really do. The kid has a handicap through no fault of their own and nuts can kill him/her. That's it in a nutshell. Still nuts are good to eat and PBJ's are a good lunch.
You keep bringing up SCOTUS ruling but the one you mentioned doesn't say anything about allergies per se. Unless there was another Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District?
If that's the one all the ruling said was provide a reasonable education plan for the individual (IAP) or pay to send the kid elsewhere. Or don't get federal funds. What happened with the family was the school plan was inadequate and private school had a better plan that actually worked so they asked them to 1) follow the private school plan/make a better plan for the autistic child or 2) pay for the private school. School didn't want to, got ran up to the SCOTUS and *bam* the ruling.
In my town there's one kid who they ship out to the tune of 100k/year and a few others they pay out 10k/20k for what I imagine is either special bussing (wheel/power chair) or out of district tuition.
Everyone should check out your city/town/hamlet's board of education meetings minutes, you really should. It's very eye opening hence why I know the school district spends 150k/year for three students. Thankfully they don't give any indication who they are so none of that first/last initial stuff. Student 82.
But the discussion about the ruling and law are best reserved for the soapbox. Make a thread and I'll comment once or twice before it suds up. It's the soapbox after all.
If that's the one all the ruling said was provide a reasonable education plan for the individual (IAP) or pay to send the kid elsewhere. Or don't get federal funds. What happened with the family was the school plan was inadequate and private school had a better plan that actually worked so they asked them to 1) follow the private school plan/make a better plan for the autistic child or 2) pay for the private school. School didn't want to, got ran up to the SCOTUS and *bam* the ruling.
In my town there's one kid who they ship out to the tune of 100k/year and a few others they pay out 10k/20k for what I imagine is either special bussing (wheel/power chair) or out of district tuition.
Everyone should check out your city/town/hamlet's board of education meetings minutes, you really should. It's very eye opening hence why I know the school district spends 150k/year for three students. Thankfully they don't give any indication who they are so none of that first/last initial stuff. Student 82.
But the discussion about the ruling and law are best reserved for the soapbox. Make a thread and I'll comment once or twice before it suds up. It's the soapbox after all.
Again, it relates directly and only to if the locality or state receives federal funds from the IDEA act. Outside of that the school isn't bound by that decision whatsoever. And personally I think the "states make the rules but feds hold the funds" is a the federal government workaround over the states even though the states have the right. BAC levels and max speed limits come to mind too. Each state can set them but if you don't follow what the feds say no soup for you (highway transportation funds). But again SB.
We are debating. You don't want to bring it to the SB (not that I blame you but it is the place) so will you at least consider making another thread? At the very least we're not mucking up this thread for peanuts and the rest of the lounge can complain about stuff. I know you're a determined soldier doing what's right for your family. I wouldn't do any differently which is why we are at loggerheads in this, shall we call it, discusion?
If not for me and all the others who get ticked off, for Burt Reynolds. He'd want it. Sally Field might dress up as the flying nun and visit you in your dreams. Whether that's her young self or a female version of that dude who chose unwisely in Indiana Jones 3 I don't know. But there's always Gidget.....
Ah, the blamer. Gotta love those. There was a tale of one in my office who's computer up and died. Nothing unusual about that. It was that a coworker of hers was was in a relationship with an IT person and expected *them* to contact IS/IT for a fix (we had on site fully in house IT there). For two weeks. Come into work. Stare at blank screen, take calls, go home after eight hours. From what I'm told the showdown was pretty epic when it came to a head.
My personal experience with a blamer used IS/IT as a crutch whenever the race/gender/sympathy cards wouldn't work. As in "I never got the email" routine. Luckily the local guy was *more* than willing to help when I asked.
"Okay, logged in at 9:07, went to x,y,z sites and stopped typing at 10:16 am."
"No activity for 20 minutes after that"
"Fired up email. Read and responded to external emails. Three got caught in the filter for language. Deleted your email without opening."
"Helpdesk call logged from her about e-mail down for the three emails."
"No, you can't use that language from company accounts. Here's the other 5 times you asked about it and our company policy. Please read, sign and return by xx/yy/zz for the sixth time"
Off the record of course.
Knowing this when the boss asked why I never sent <email> I did the forwarded the original email thing. When he was ready to go to war with IS/IT for being the problem I gently told him he may not like what that revealed. Lucky for him he did, unlucky for him his solution was:
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My personal experience with a blamer used IS/IT as a crutch whenever the race/gender/sympathy cards wouldn't work. As in "I never got the email" routine. Luckily the local guy was *more* than willing to help when I asked.
"Okay, logged in at 9:07, went to x,y,z sites and stopped typing at 10:16 am."
"No activity for 20 minutes after that"
"Fired up email. Read and responded to external emails. Three got caught in the filter for language. Deleted your email without opening."
"Helpdesk call logged from her about e-mail down for the three emails."
"No, you can't use that language from company accounts. Here's the other 5 times you asked about it and our company policy. Please read, sign and return by xx/yy/zz for the sixth time"
Off the record of course.
Knowing this when the boss asked why I never sent <email> I did the forwarded the original email thing. When he was ready to go to war with IS/IT for being the problem I gently told him he may not like what that revealed. Lucky for him he did, unlucky for him his solution was:
Just copy me on everything you send to her. From the man who has too many emails already.
It wasn't actual that. It was definitively identifying the coworker as a blamer. Once that was established it made everyone's life easier (I wasn't the only one they did that to). Even the boss if you can believe it. She would have been kicked to the curb but she ticked too many of the boxes for protected class to be worth the effort (gender/minority/disability).
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