http://www.kitchenbathdesign.com/print/Kitchen-and-Bath-Design-News/Tips-for-Female-Designers-Navigating-the-Jobsite-/2$4796
This article was written by a former boss of mine in a construction company. Funny, I worked there as a project manager (btw I am female) and he wrote an article telling women how to navigate a construction site without actually ASKING A WOMAN.
If that's not sexism, what is?
Aaaaccckkk. Let's name sexism and stop being embarrassed to state that it still exists!
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Adding new blog
I'm very excited to add http://margotmagowan.wordpress.com/ to the list of blogs I follow. Her blog is called Reelgirl and it's goal is to name the problem of sexism and to let us all know that it still exists. She's saying eloquently what I've been thinking far less coherently, and believing that I live in a post-feminist world, when sexism is still a horrible problem.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Checking in with GQueues
Tried out this new "to do"/task organizer mentioned in Lifehacker. A quick use gives it a thumbs up. Really user friendly for adding projects and tasks below projects. Integrates well with Google. I'm excited about it.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
The incompetence clusterf**k
Well, here's what I've been up to:
Still going off the Zoloft. The first 150 mg/day were easy. That last 50 mg a day are a bitch. After a couple of days of going without I get nauseated, hot, cold, dizzy. I get the electric zaps. I feel like shit. So I take 50 mg at night, feel better the next day.
So, it hasn't been easy, but I don't feel depressed. I have been quite anxious, however. Edgy and quick to anger. I've been able to quash the irritability for the most part, but when confronted with idiot customer service, I will, on occasion, lose it.
Incident #1: While I was on Zoloft, I also took trazodone as a sleep aid. However, my physician friends have told me that Ambien (generic Zolpidem) is a much more effective medication. So I say ok, and have a 6 month prescription for it. On the second month, I put it on an auto-refill schedule at Target. Never received a call from Target at the time the 3rd refill should have been ready. That's happened before and been no big thing, but it retrospect I should have paid attention to the lack of a call.
Went to fill on Sunday. Was informed that it had not been filled because my insurance wouldn't approve (even though it had paid for the last two doses). Who is my insurance? Aetna is my health insurance, but they contract prescriptions to Medco. I was upset at Target for not letting my know they couldn't fill it until Sunday afternoon when I finally went in. Angry with insurance for not filling it.
Neither Target or Medco were any help and here is why they didn't fill it - I found out after spending quite a long time on customer service and hearing a lot of bullshit - they only pay for two out of every three months of my prescription. Why? To save money and curtail abuse per Medco. What abuse I don't know and they didn't explain. How was I supposed to know that they wouldn't pay for the third month? Well, I was supposed to call them when I got a new prescription, apparently to find out if there was any new way they had thought of to screw me.
Anyway, very frustrating.
Incident number 2: All children's Motrin voluntarily recalled by McNeil Consumer and Specialty Pharmeceuticals (subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson). I read the FDA complaint and it made me want to vomit - filters with holes, hoods with holes, dirty laboratories, holes in ceiling above mixing tanks, bacterial contamination of ingredients, failure to mix ingredients, nasty nasty nasty. What is wrong with people? These are medications for INFANTS. It seems to me that if there is a way for humans to act stupid, they will.
So I look in my cabinets, and guess what - I have FOUR bottles of recalled Children's Motrin in my medicine cabinet. One of which is half full because my children have been sick over the last couple of weeks. Just FABULOUS!
As you can probably tell, I'M IN A MOOD!!!
And don't get me started on Amazon Seller Central customer service. Worse than useless. Not giving me no help, actually telling me things that are wrong and make things worse! Aaaccckkkk.
Maybe I do need antidepressants just to put up with basic human stupidity and laziness. And not of the front line people. This is all a reflection of management laziness and hubris. Poor management leads to poor results. Why do we put up with this shit? Are we all sheep?
Still going off the Zoloft. The first 150 mg/day were easy. That last 50 mg a day are a bitch. After a couple of days of going without I get nauseated, hot, cold, dizzy. I get the electric zaps. I feel like shit. So I take 50 mg at night, feel better the next day.
So, it hasn't been easy, but I don't feel depressed. I have been quite anxious, however. Edgy and quick to anger. I've been able to quash the irritability for the most part, but when confronted with idiot customer service, I will, on occasion, lose it.
Incident #1: While I was on Zoloft, I also took trazodone as a sleep aid. However, my physician friends have told me that Ambien (generic Zolpidem) is a much more effective medication. So I say ok, and have a 6 month prescription for it. On the second month, I put it on an auto-refill schedule at Target. Never received a call from Target at the time the 3rd refill should have been ready. That's happened before and been no big thing, but it retrospect I should have paid attention to the lack of a call.
Went to fill on Sunday. Was informed that it had not been filled because my insurance wouldn't approve (even though it had paid for the last two doses). Who is my insurance? Aetna is my health insurance, but they contract prescriptions to Medco. I was upset at Target for not letting my know they couldn't fill it until Sunday afternoon when I finally went in. Angry with insurance for not filling it.
Neither Target or Medco were any help and here is why they didn't fill it - I found out after spending quite a long time on customer service and hearing a lot of bullshit - they only pay for two out of every three months of my prescription. Why? To save money and curtail abuse per Medco. What abuse I don't know and they didn't explain. How was I supposed to know that they wouldn't pay for the third month? Well, I was supposed to call them when I got a new prescription, apparently to find out if there was any new way they had thought of to screw me.
Anyway, very frustrating.
Incident number 2: All children's Motrin voluntarily recalled by McNeil Consumer and Specialty Pharmeceuticals (subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson). I read the FDA complaint and it made me want to vomit - filters with holes, hoods with holes, dirty laboratories, holes in ceiling above mixing tanks, bacterial contamination of ingredients, failure to mix ingredients, nasty nasty nasty. What is wrong with people? These are medications for INFANTS. It seems to me that if there is a way for humans to act stupid, they will.
So I look in my cabinets, and guess what - I have FOUR bottles of recalled Children's Motrin in my medicine cabinet. One of which is half full because my children have been sick over the last couple of weeks. Just FABULOUS!
As you can probably tell, I'M IN A MOOD!!!
And don't get me started on Amazon Seller Central customer service. Worse than useless. Not giving me no help, actually telling me things that are wrong and make things worse! Aaaccckkkk.
Maybe I do need antidepressants just to put up with basic human stupidity and laziness. And not of the front line people. This is all a reflection of management laziness and hubris. Poor management leads to poor results. Why do we put up with this shit? Are we all sheep?
Friday, March 26, 2010
Still Anonymous
Well, in the past month I've gone from 200 mg Zoloft a day to zero. I feel great. I have much more energy and do not feel at all depressed. I do feel much more prone to anxiety attacks. However, I realize that a lot of my anxiety is associated with the fear of not being able to sleep. Since I have Ambien available, I don't fear sleeplessness. So I feel less anxious.
Overall, it's been a great move, and I've lost about 4 pounds. Something I could not do on the Zoloft.
Overall, it's been a great move, and I've lost about 4 pounds. Something I could not do on the Zoloft.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
I remain anonymous
I've been on antidepressants for about nine years. A couple of months ago I decided I wanted to stop. I've gained A LOT of weight and it seems like no matter how much I exercise and how little I eat, I never lose weight. So, I decided to try life without antidepressants - my theory being that the antidepressants are the cause of my weight gain/lack of weight loss.
And let me tell you, when I started taking them I was "put a gun to my head" depressed.
So I'll update every once in a while to let you know how it's going. I'm down to 50 mg Zoloft now, and I was on 200 mg a day to start.
So far I've noticed that I am not getting depressed, but I've definitely been having anxiety attacks. Not horrible, but my husband tells me when I'm entering an attack with "my crazy is talking." The sane (and crazy) part of my head understands that.
And let me tell you, when I started taking them I was "put a gun to my head" depressed.
So I'll update every once in a while to let you know how it's going. I'm down to 50 mg Zoloft now, and I was on 200 mg a day to start.
So far I've noticed that I am not getting depressed, but I've definitely been having anxiety attacks. Not horrible, but my husband tells me when I'm entering an attack with "my crazy is talking." The sane (and crazy) part of my head understands that.
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