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Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People
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In other news, I think I might be about to jeopardise my relationship with health care providers again.
I'm going to call today to see if I can see a dietician again sooner. I cannot go on like this even one more week. Can eat nothing just fine, but I cannot go on like this. I'm gong loopy. I know this is gong to cause issues where they say I'm self sabotaging or have metal health issues but so be it. i feel utterly convinced that what are doing is wrong for me with this food issue. Things have only been worse since they started tampering really. I'll try something else but I cannot do this. I'd rather have help than try and work something out alone, but this doesn't feel like help.
I'm not sad about this, I am a little nervous though.0 -
A few months later I casually ask how they got on with the project. They've done nothing further. So I roll up my sleeves and get it done. Target date is 31/12. I get it done in mid-Nov. However, because I stated a target date of 31/10 I'm the Arsenal despite the fact that I only set that date to get the laggards in our operations teams to actually do some work so we had a decent chance of completion before the end of the year. The fact that I made the company an extra $82,250 by pushing this through early has been missed entirely because I'm an Arsenal for not doing it by 31/10.
None of that bothers me. What bothers me is that all the failures that couldn't get this in and who missed their cost savings targets by a country mile are getting the plaudits and I'm the one who's a bit useless.
Hmmm, I'm no good as a company politician. I think I'd go and have a heart to heart with your boss about this. Tell it to him from your POV. But, I'm no good as a company politician.
Edit: And I'd certainly look around for jobs elsewhere. The Bahstards!
No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
lostinrates wrote: »In other news, I think I might be about to jeopardise my relationship with health care providers again.
I'm going to call today to see if I can see a dietician again sooner. I cannot go on like this even one more week. Can eat nothing just fine, but I cannot go on like this. I'm gong loopy. I know this is gong to cause issues where they say I'm self sabotaging or have metal health issues but so be it. i feel utterly convinced that what are doing is wrong for me with this food issue. Things have only been worse since they started tampering really. I'll try something else but I cannot do this. I'd rather have help than try and work something out alone, but this doesn't feel like help.
I'm not sad about this, I am a little nervous though.
Do you mean the same dietician, or a different one? If I was feeling the way you describe, I'd be on here asking for advice about how to go about asking for a second opinion.
Sorry you are feeling so pants about it. Let us know how you get on with asking for another consultation.
Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
Do you mean the same dietician, or a different one? If I was feeling the way you describe, I'd be on here asking for advice about how to go about asking for a second opinion.
Sorry you are feeling so pants about it. Let us know how you get on with asking for another consultation.
I don't know.. I'm going to try and get to see anyone on a Friday or a Monday so DH can come with me though. 
I need someone to consider the whole situation. Just because I have this big problem doesn't change the fact I am a woman with pcos for who white bread is a really bad idea.
All I really want ATM is raw veg, veg juice and weirdly, salty stuff like fish eggs. ( I could have fish eggs actually).
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Isn't there some saying about not sweating the small stuff and compared to what you went through in the last few years this would definitely appear to be on the 'small stuff' end of the spectrum. However I am also something of an expert on how the rational mind is not very effective at overcoming a counter-productive emotional anxiety.
Funnily enough on reading Zags linked piece words like Marxist didatic and eventual rise of the proletariat did come to my mind too - clearly we have both been brainwashed by the same capitalist conspiracy.I think....0 -
15 years ago I was sent out on £100-200k projects, where my time was charged at £750/day, I felt unappreciated as I would go (packed) for 3 days and not be able to return for 3 weeks (unexpected/never knew when the end would be) ... and I was put into grotty/cheap hotels and being paid £100/day....project that would make $500,000 for his company. ... Feeling unappreciated (or being unappreciated) increases stress at work.
Once that particular contract finished, they gave me another one away from home... and I quit.
That wasn't the deal I'd been offered at interview, I was specifically told "we like to get all the staff back in this county for Fridays", indicating a good life/work balance. Trouble was, they took on a guy with a kid - and then kept him close to the office so he could see his family and abandoned me 400 miles from home alone for weeks on end.
Family friendly employers and employees who expect/demand to be kept close to home, aren't single friendly.0 -
DD has been going out with a young man now for a month. He's a lovely guy, charming and intelligent. BUT, he was badly injured in a car accident 10 years ago, with some neural damage, and loss of use of his right side.
Should she be getting involved with him, and what would you advise her?No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
DD has been going out with a young man now for a month. He's a lovely guy, charming and intelligent. BUT, he was badly injured in a car accident 10 years ago, with some neural damage, and loss of use of his right side.
Should she be getting involved with him, and what would you advise her?
I'd be keeping out of it.. Its opinion and advice from dh's family about his relationship with me that has impaired his relationship with them somewhat. 0 -
DD has been going out with a young man now for a month. He's a lovely guy, charming and intelligent. BUT, he was badly injured in a car accident 10 years ago, with some neural damage, and loss of use of his right side.
Should she be getting involved with him, and what would you advise her?
I would advise her to take things slowly, and not to make any decisions about anything in a hurry. At some point during my last 10 years of roller coaster life, a very wise man (who was my boss's boss at the time) gave that advice to me, and summed it up by telling me that
Having said that, the rest of the answer depends on the details:A hurried decision is usually a bad decision.
How old is she? How old is he?
Does the relationship seem to be getting serious?
How bad is the neural damage? What effects does it have?
How disabling is the loss of use of his right side?
Encourage her to think about those things, and then let her make her own mind up about her own life.
ETA I don't mean "think about those things" as a euphemism for "get put off by those things" but literally "think about what effect these things will have going forwards, and whether the whole package deal is what she wants or not" without prejudice as to the answer.
FWIW, I'd much rather my daughter was with somebody like that than with somebody who was irresponsible or unkind or something along those lines.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
Are they telling you what you can't eat, rather than what you can? You only need a half hour sit down with a so called 'professional' to be able to bash out a suitable/workable meal plan and food list.lostinrates wrote: »... dietician ... self sabotaging ....
That's the trouble with many 'professionals', they don't really help as they seem to assume their clients have as much knowledge as they have and can interpret what they say correctly.
Go bash them with a pie box!0
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