The Venting Thread

Ugh I'm sorry . That is the worst. Is it legal to work alone?

I remember when I worked at Timmies on te night shift. The woman who was currently working the night shift worked alone and then health and safety said NO people can not work alone. So I joined night shift. Made sense... I mean what if she fell and cracked her head or something

In Ontario? OHS has no laws about working alone at night in Ontario...

I only know because I work alone at night, and had to look that crap up. :lol-sign:

I'm pretty sure it's legal as long as I'm over 18. I like working alone for the most part, just not when it's late and is getting dark out. Then it gets a little freaky sometimes.

Can you call someone on the office phone and keep them on speaker? That's what I do when I'm alone at work and someone shady walks in...

I like to think the idea of having someone else listening in who knows where you are and can hear them/call the cops if they try anything would deter some.

What kind of work do you do?

Here most stores, ESP gas stations & ice houses have policies (not every one of them does this so I'm not sure if its an "official" law or not) where two ppl are required to work the graveyard shifts.

I work at a pet supply store. It's only open until 9pm so it's not really graveyard but it gets dark earlier here, in the winter here it's dark already at 4-5pm.

I'm also kind of a chicken...

I always worked alone in the convenience store ..it was until 10PM but sometimes people would walk in off the ferrry& just give off the major creeps.

Funny stories from the store:
1. A woman came in& robbed me with a hypodermic needle.
2. A guy came across on the ferry& was just chilling in the store. All of sudden, he confessed that he was wanted for murder& he was tired of running. Called cops, locked in with confessed murderer.

The smoke detector was going off here. I'm in the house alone. I was certain that somebody had broken into the house, and was setting off the smoke detector to get me into the dark hall and murder me. Definitely sent Finn ahead of me.

:rofl1: Yah, I'm totally a chicken.

I totally wish I could just not have a period for like 6 months. I can skip once, but if I skip a second time, I spot for the next 3 weeks so I just don't do it, since it's not worth it. My periods are REALLY REALLY light thanks to bc. ^^

Thank you all so much for your compliments to me regarding the rude comments those women made about my weight. I appreciate it.

I have two vents

I talked to my mom yesterday about her wedding to let her know I'm coming even though she knows I really don't want to come and I'm completely uncomfortable with the whole situation. I don't want anything to do with this new guy or his family. Apparently his parents are overly friendly huggy types and just no. I told my mom that I would appreciate it if they don't do the whole grab me an welcome me into the family thing because I'm not happy about all of this and I'm not wanting to be a part of their family. My mom paused for a minute and said, "I can't guarantee they won't do that Amber. They are super nice people and you will love them." Actually no I won't. So I said, "just tell them I'm sensitive about all this quick change." She did divorce my step dad of over 20 years not too long ago after all. Then she said, "no I will just tell them you aren't a hugging type of person." I actually AM a hugging type of person and that's a big fat lie. She just doesn't want to look bad. **** narcissistic personality.

So I changed the topic to dogs as I usually do. We will be bringing Cricket with us and she has food allergies. My mom free feeds her dog so I asked her if she could possibly not leave food just sitting out at least for the couple days we are there to help keep cricket out of her dog food. She said that was fine. Then I made the mistake of asking what she feeds her dog anyway. She says, "well I was feeding Iams but that was getting way too expensive so I'm not sure what I'm feeding now, but it is more affordable." Wtf??? She feeds a shihtzu or however you spell it. She makes a hell of a lot more money than me and I'm able to feed three decent sized dogs quality food. I don't understand. Her dog is LITTLE!! Not to mention I know her dog tends to have tummy issues and its probably because of what she is feeding.

Tired of being stalked by nosey, self-righteous, self-entitled, insecure bitches.

UTI needs to go away.

I don't like being lied to.

That about sums it all up.

Aviane was horrible when I tried it. I literally felt like I was going crazy. The strange thing is that I do just fine on Alesse, the branded version of Aviane. I decided to try the generic to save money, but decided that my sanity was worth more than saving a few dollars a month.

I'm on Ortho Tri Cyclen Lo, I pay $40/month for it! I want to go on the cheap stuff! Hahaha. Overall I haven't noticed a difference other than nausea when I first started it, but I have gained 50lbs in the last year... I tried googling it to see if it was the BC or not, most sources said no. Anyone else experience weight gain on Ortho?

That's why I am so afraid to try any kind of bc because every kind I have tried has blown me up like a ballon or just made me feel ... Weird like ... Not myself.

I am looking into tubal legation.

Edit: vent no. 2: my phone has been acting weird, I have been having to reboot it a lot. I have had it for over a year & I am not horrible to it, I don't even take it to the barn & if I absolutely have to, then it stays in the truck which is parked in the shade. I am due for an upgrade so it's not a money issue, I just don't want to have to re sync everything :/.

Also I am going to have to start looking for a new truck in a few months ... Ugh not looking forward to running the gauntlet of pushy, sharks called sales people that most of the dealers employ down here :/. Last time I want to carmax xD

My ex-husband is in town. Obviously, this means I should contemplate going out drinking with him. Because...reasons. He still hasn't shipped my stuff to me, and I am assuming since he didn't tell me he was in town he didn't bring it with him.

So. Drinking. Because reasons.

It was a whole lot easier working out puppy pick-up logistics when this was not a Pennsylvania puppy, lesigh. Totally worth it, but lesigh never-the-less.

Dear lord how did I end up with a boyfriend who likes..the country..more than the city!?
What..why..when?? He just dropped this bombshell like what?! He is all wants to have land and tire swings and a porch and stars

... stars.
as in he wants to live THAT FAR AWAY from civilization.

I could faint.
I think living more than a few blocks from downtown is isolation!!

and the worst, scariest part is... for him, I would consider it.

I'm in trouble.
Ugh.

The country is a FABULOUS place... but I could NEVER EVER see you there. XD

Plus, there are no fountains. Where would Merlin swim? Lake water for a city dog? Would he survive? :yikes:

It would be an adjustment, for sure. But the quiet can be very nice. Could you possibly work in the city and live a little bit outside/not in the boonies? That may help you to not feel quite as cut off.

I definitely think it is possible to live in the country and still work in the city.

My parents have ten acres. We can see stars. When there are meteor showers, we can just lay out on our driveway and watch it. No noise from traffic (although we can occasionally hear the interstate).

I'd have much the same thing at my apartment, but I'm surrounded by trees. So less stars and more...trees. -.-

It takes my parents 25 minutes to get into town and I'm literally ten minutes away from Purdue University (not a small college!).

You can have the best of both worlds.

I *love* the country. But I can understand if you grew up in the city how...rural...it might seem. LOL And when my brother was dating a city girl (who was scared to be outside of our house at night because it was DARK and QUIET), we may have hidden behind one of our parked cars and jumped out and scared her.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
I just want a DARK CHOCOLATE MILKY WAY. The MIDNIGHT one. And OMG, NOBODY in my area has it. I've been to three stores and five gas stations and NOT. ONE. HAS. THEM.
WTF!?
I'm about to break my no Wal-Mart rule!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


CHOCOLATE.
O.O