*Venting Is Allowed About Anything! Do You Have A Gripe,Or An Erk A Bad Itch?

Ok, this is sort of similar to my Pet Peeve thread, but different because it gives us different opportunity to gripe about something.

I immediately thought of something that happened to me today at work. I want to gripe about an attorney where I work who is supposed to give our division legal advice. However, she is so deeply involved in telling us how to do things, that I think she sometimes thinks she actually has the authority to tell us what to do. It is really our place as "the business" to make our own business decisions.

When I called her today to ask for legal advice, she got very loud with me on the phone about the issue we were discussing. It is something she feels passionate about, but for crying out loud, it is not her decision to make!

Each year her boss sends out an email to her "customers" asking for feedback for her annual evaluation and each year I say the same thing, as do others, or so they tell me. But, nothing changes.

She needs to remember that her job is to offer legal advice, and not give direction.

ok...ill join in...grrrrr..... i hate it when your ex-husband has one of his daughters at his home for the first time in about 2 weeks and isnt even home because he needs to supervise a DANCE (not that he COULD have found someone ELSE to cover for him) and go out to dinner with a friend....he is not available...so tells her go stay overnight with a FRIEND. NOW why is it that we switched homes....so he could spend some quality time with his kids?????

THANK YOU PALE!!!!!=) THIS TOO SHALL PASS and I REFUSE to go to bed angry=).

Ok, ok... I have to say it, yup I'm tired of it and I hate it... Driving on the freeways and someone just has to sqeeeeeeeeeeeeze in front of you because they just have to beat you out and get ahead of you and everyone else. Never mind that you are going 8 miles over the speed limit already... yes they have to get on your bumper because your not going 15 miles or 20 miles over the speed limit. Hell just get off the damn freeway you stupid slow blankety-blank! Let me just ride on your bumper cause you ain't speedin' as fast as I am! That'll teach ya!


Cool, calm and collected in Houston....

don't you just hate it when you go out of the house on your day off...a day when you don't have to wear a uniform, or even brush your hair and wear make up...then find that you have to go inside the bank, and not an atm...you get to the teller, and they don't recognize you in all your glory , and ask you if you even have an accou8nt there, furthermore, treat you as if you were from a third world country , just visiting???? C'mon people, I know I cannot uphold the image of looking Movie-Star-Gorgeous all the time...just give me some respect as I am a human too...;)
peace

Pale-Beauty - I had a good laugh when I read your post. It's all so true! I've had that happen several time myself. Maybe what I need to do is to get out of Houston and all the traffic that we have here. It's a mess.

Midge has been here a while...she just hasn't posted as much recently...

My gripe happened last night. I got the same exact response (and one that is completely sexual) twice from the same guy on agelessdating.com. I have an ad up there just to see what happens...and the guy sends me this message twice. Gotta love when someone takes their time to actually put a little soul into their responses. I think this guy just wants ANYONE to respond and he's hoping for a sexual relationship as he thinks that's what all of us "OW" are looking for. ICK! It grossed me out.

Okay... GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

So my ex-husband wanted the kids for the weekend. He lives in Chicago and I live in Dayton, Ohio. He wanted me to meet him half way in Indianapolis (3 hours a piece). Okay it is a bit much to expect someone to drive 12 hours in a 3 day time span so that you can spend about 30 hours of parenting time, but hey... love my kids...hate guilt...so agreed to do it. Left at 5pm on Friday night after working about 8+ hours and drove to Indiana. One kid became sick and refused to go. So ex takes my youngest and heads back to Chicago.

Fast forward to Sunday.... I leave my house a 1pm and about 1 hour into the drive a snow storm develops. I finally reach the meeting place and get my 5 year old. Its literally a blizzard now and I'm really nervous. At 4:30, a half an hour on the road back to Dayton, my car stops. It just STOPS! I have gas, I have oil, I have everything... (including a tv and playstation running off the battery in one of those converters :O)... except a cellphone. So I'm stranded with a 5 year old in a blizzard NOWHERE. I freak. The police eventually come and take us to an exit. Over 2 hours later a tow truck gives us a jump and explains to me that I drained the battery off and not to run the playstation/tv combo. The blizzard has now worsened and we get back on the road. Naturally my sweet baby complains continuously that he is bored in the back seat and I'm very mean for keeping from the TV/playstation combo which he can clearly see sitting next to him!

6 hours later (YEP!)... we finally got home. The roads were beyond horrible and despite running the defrost and heat on full blast the entire way... my windshield kept icing over to the point I could not see!

What a LOUSY night!

Relieved to be home! (and at work this morning ;))

Rebecca