Once, many years ago now, in the late 1990s, when I was in year seven in school (13 years old), I felt sick before school, as I often did. Without me or her thinking twice about it, my mum gave me some raw garlic to chew on, which was very common in our family whenever somebody felt ill. It was t...
yeah, although my coworker, who was tested positive and ordered to come back after 2 weeks home quarantine and declared cured by the ministry of health without a second test, has showed symptoms again after being at work for 2 days
and he sat about a meter away from me for both of those days
who still has to work (no wfh) and go to other people's workplaces to fix hardware issues now that both the other people who could do it are out. No masks or PPE at this job either and I can't buy any because nobody's selling them anywhere
Unless you're sneezing, masks won't help you. The countries where they're making them mandatory are doing it so people with slight cold symptoms or e.g. hayfever won't sneeze/exhale droplets all over... even then they apparently won't stop everything :| (That's what they tell us).
Gloves are nice, but if used well, they don't offer much over handwashing after you've visited each workplace...
I understand most of that stuff can make you feel safer, but it doesn't actually make your work much safer
Yeah, it's hard. My mom works with elderly/fragile people too. She's constantly reminding us that if we bring things home to her, she might take it who knows where...
So even a random walk becomes stressful if others don't move out of the way enough.
and I get to go outside and bike because I live in a small backwater and seeing someone out on the fields is really uncommon during the weekend and certainly not in the forest paths
That sounds lovely! I'm planning to go walking tonight and tomorrow again too, so I can skip Sa, Su and Mon... Because of Easter I think it's going to be way too busy.
Kinda weird, as soon as the sun comes out, a lot of people that don't otherwise seem to exercise are suddenly walking the same paths as me :/
As far as I'm concerned, we can go back to less sun and lower temps, so those people stay inside and the streets are safer :)
I have a three day weekend, not fancying using up a PTO day in these circumstances ;)
I am usually a quiet person who can't think of things to say when I meet people. I notice a pattern that when I don't initiate small talk with people for a couple of times, when I meet them again and I say hi to them they start to ignore me.
Why is that and what I can do to improve the situatio...
Basically, interactions with mom have been crap for a while. Now with all this, she keeps making elephants out of mosquito's, and I can't find a way to give my opinion on even small things or get her out of my hair...
So I was aiming for some sort of neutral 'when living together and tensions getting higher, how to prevent little things setting of a nuclear bomb type sermon/rant'... but I can't get the last part neutral enough.
@Magisch Yeah... I compared this on Discord with having a stone in your shoe and a bench just a few meters away... I chose to walk along until that bench, because it's easier to take of your shoe there and get rid of the stone... My apartment is the bench, it's almost finished, I'm almost there...
Yeah, one part that doesn't work there is that she insists on coming along on most of my walks and eating together. And otherwise complaining that I spend too much time in my room :|
My stepmom used to do that and my dad kinda condoned it. When I got diagnosed with ASD after moving out he's since expressed regret of what he made me go through
@Tinkeringbell it seems like she has a different vision of what your life should be like
you have to decide then if your relationship to her staying positive is worth making those changes to your life, and if not, how you clearly communicate that
So for now it's just walk on eggshells, avoid mom, avoid setting her off, and if she does, just remain quiet (which sets her off about me remaining quiet, but it's better than answering her when there's no right answer)
At some point, somewhere, you'll have to set adult boundaries with your mom. It sounds like she thinks she has way more agency over your life then she actually does.
@Magisch I don't know. She claims she's not trying to control me, but to have a relationship where I tell her stuff and we do fun things together. I'm not interested in that, she gossips/twists words and her ideas of fun aren't mine. She knows that.
The end goal is probably to just co-exist like you do with the strangers at the supermarket these days... 1.5m between us and no chit-chat
My hiring manager(He is India, I am Thai/Chinese) keep repeating mistakes. Many software engineers here resign very frequent. Rumor says technical team like me has high turn over rate because of him
For example:
Project delay
Error prunes
Production crash
No testcases
Bad approach
Code is so ti...
@Tinkeringbell Meanwhile they have reminded us that they expect all of us to make up the 15 minutes we have to leave before the next shift starts later in the year
(But only do it if you feel like you might be able to handle the office politics that might come with a big company, depends on your manager but some are worse than others at making you to through trainings and being a semi-manager instead of programmer)
I am currently working on an idea to start a social platform to provide support for mental health. Along with many features, there's one thought to make moderated chat rooms, where people can connect with those in similar situations in real-time, and thus are able to vent, talk about, and expres...
I am usually a quiet person who can't think of things to say when I meet people. I notice a pattern that when I don't initiate small talk with people for a couple of times, when I meet them again and I say hi to them they start to ignore me.
Why is that and what I can do to improve the situatio...
My hiring manager(He is India, I am Thai/Chinese) keep repeating mistakes. Many software engineers here resign very frequent. Rumor says technical team like me has high turn over rate because of him
For example:
Project delay
Error prunes
Production crash
No testcases
Bad approach
Code is so ti...
