Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff
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I tend to get infuriatingly low tips at times. 10% may seem like a good tip for a delivery driver because they're "not waiting on me like a waiter would", but that doesn't take into account that I am using my own car and have to pay for my gas, oil changes, tires, brakes, etc.
Yes, I get mileage reimbursement but it's to cover gas and it does not cover the rest of the wear and tear on my car.
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While I do put a tip on the app, I also give the driver $10 in cash on top of it (more if its a large order). I shopped/delivered for instacart in the early days and after their tip theft and hiding tips so they could use that factored in to their offer of pay per job (when the customer has 3 days to zero out the tip!) I just do not trust gig companies to pay their delivery drivers or shoppers and prefer that they get the $$ directly from me so I know the company isn't stealing.
That being said though I usually just do store pickup for groceries now. Instacart executives are scum of the earth so I avoid grocery delivery if at all possible.
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@mietze I would do pickup, but it would mean having to deal with the part I hate most about going for groceries.... the traffic. I don't care about the shopping trip itself, I actually enjoy wandering the store. But quite frankly... traffic, and how people behave on the road, has gotten so, SO much worse since COVID restrictions. Its like people forgot how to drive. And I just have no patience for that shit anymore.
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@mietze said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
I shopped/delivered for instacart in the early days and after their tip theft and hiding tips so they could use that factored in to their offer of pay per job (when the customer has 3 days to zero out the tip!) I just do not trust gig companies to pay their delivery drivers or shoppers and prefer that they get the $$ directly from me so I know the company isn't stealing.
I have worked for Pizza Hut, Papa John's, Domino's, Uber Eats, and GrubHub. Of all of them, Papa John's was the absolutely most shady. I would work 50+hrs a week and somehow still only have $150/paycheck.
I'm not entirely sure how they did it because the way the paystubs were presented they were incredibly hard to read. The Domino's I work at now actually pays the best in terms of hourly. I get full minimum wage on and off the road, everywhere else it was $4.25/hr while on the road.
Of course GrubHub and UberEats you don't really get an hourly wage, you just get a bonus if your runs end up meaning you would make less than minimum wage, iirc.
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@cobalt I worked for Papa John's and Domino's. DEF. Agree. Papa John's was shady about the way they handled payroll. Dom's paid better, as a whole.
One didn't allow the 5'4" female delivery driver to carry pepper spray on her keychain until she was attacked. The other one never even batted an eye.
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Domino's has really been making a comeback the past 5-10 years. They nearly went under in the late 90's/early 00's because Papa John's was the new hotness and EVERYONE wanted the new hotness. But they stepped up their game and pulled it out. And thank God for it. They've treated their employees better than pretty much any chain I can think of.
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@too-old-for-this I want to try their new dip stuff.
And I admit, their thin crust let me eat pizza as a diabetic. -
I do dom's for pizza when I have to do chain pizza and not my actual favorite pizza.
But I fully admit that pizza hut gets more of my regular business just for that garlic chicken alfredo I could likely make on my own but can't be arsed to.
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@macha I live for Domino's thin crust as someone who is trying to count carbs. So I definitely understand.
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I hate Papa John's business practices but love their pizza so much I suspect the conflict I feel is a sign of genuine addiction. I am glad Dominos exists, because it's a good substitute.
EDIT: "Eat at Dominos, it's a good methadone for Papa John's addiction." Dominos should fire me to write ads for them.
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So I had to PTO some time this morning, because my Glucose monitor kept screaming at me in the middle of the night that my sugars were so low I was going to dieeeeeeee. My ol' finger stick monitor was like "Nah, dude, you're fine."
Add in incredible pain I don't know where it came from, and yeah, I needed some extra sleep.
I logged in, and they're denying my Medical Accommodation request, despite the letter saying I should be allowed to wear a gaming headset as it is what is comfortable for me, from my PCP. Why? because she didn't specifically mention the fibromyalgia, because they already KNOW I HAVE IT from medical accommodation letters I gave my supervisor back when I first started working there.
I want to cry. I want to quit.
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@macha said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
I logged in, and they're denying my Medical Accommodation request, despite the letter saying I should be allowed to wear a gaming headset as it is what is comfortable for me, from my PCP. Why? because she didn't specifically mention the fibromyalgia, because they already KNOW I HAVE IT from medical accommodation letters I gave my supervisor back when I first started working there.
Frankly, the only reason I don't wear a gaming headset at work is because I'm too cheap to get one.
What, do they want you to use a specific kind of headset for some reason? I don't get it. Let people use whatever the fuck gear they want.
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@ganymede They don't want to provide me with anything other than this super cheap headset. I'm still trying to figure out if I /can/ wear something different, or not (A straight answer is clearly impossible).
Someone here was actually kind enough to help me get a headset I can wear, even if part of me really just wants to kick work in the nuts, and make them provide me one - after I had to pay more to upgrade my internet, and replace my old laptop because they didn't furnish anything when we went to WFH. My supervisor sure got a new laptop though, and a new Iphone.
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@ganymede It was in the office, I was there for 6 weeks before the county office building shut it all down (I work for a company contracted by the state dept of health, to help with the county Medicaid enrollees).
I have been WFH ever since. Had to replace the laptop, upgrade the internet so roommate and I could both WFH. Had to change up my cellphone plan, because former roommates were 'worried' I'd use all the data ( I make calls, nothing else for work, but.. whatever). They sent me a cheap ass headset that's less comfortable than the 10 buck bluetooth one I bought from five below.
But I now need to beg my PCP to fill out THEIR accommodation form, because her letter didn't 'give enough detail'. And they SOMEHOW have no record of my medical conditions, though I gave my supervisor a medical accommodation letter for Fibro and my Ankylosing back when I fucking started.
ETA: So they recently dumped thousands of cases on me to review for a dept I have no training with. And told me to prioritize that, over my actual job. Now I'm being told I have to do the three attempts on the 10 days (Meaning I have ten days to enroll them in their choice of managed care plan, or they get auto assigned, and that looks bad for us.), do the cases dumped on me, AND do another project. So I straight up asked my boss: What order do you want me to do them in? (Because I am sick of working my ass off, and then being yelled at for not doing enough of X while clearing Y off my plate)
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@macha ...have you considered arson
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My son will be ten next month, and every time he's in more pain than produced by like a simple scratch he releases the loudest, most ear-piercing shriek he physically can. It is fucking awful, it hurts like hell if you're remotely near him, and it takes everything in me not to yell or get upset when he does it. He is not neurotypical, but he's ten, and after years of trying to explain to him in every way I can think of how not appropriate it is to scream like that, trying positive reinforcement, trying consequences, trying everything under the sun, my patience with it is just gone. I don't know what to do anymore.
I have always been extremely empathetic whenever he gets hurt and have never tried to tell him it's not ok just to be upset or cry or anything like that when he's in pain, and I am as attentive as he lets me be when something happens (usually he wants space immediately after he gets hurt), but the screaming is so over the top. It doesn't help that it seems like an overreaction to me, but I just don't get it and am feeling really frustrated and anxious.
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@wizz Sounds like that's the way he handles pain as a child.
My son will be 10 next month too and he shrieks in an ear piercing and horrible way that drive me insane. It hurts ears. Truly hurts. My eldest son did this as well but puberty fixed, lol. Now he only screeches at bees but he is not neurotypical.
The social aspects of this screech I have corrected and is getting better. I couldn't imagine trying to correct or make sense of the pain reaction. Especially that young as it is part of his natural defensive reaction. And while it may seem overblown for my situation how he deals with those situations is tolerable and I hope the maturation process will resolve it.
Seems like it should be an uncommon situation even if overblown or more frequent. I just (no judgment) in my world wouldn't aggressively seek to change or push that natural emotional reaction out the door. Their minds are still young and fragile.
That said I feel like a jerk for even responding.
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@macha said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Had to replace the laptop, upgrade the internet so roommate and I could both WFH.
Sounds like a company expense and a reasonable accommodation.
Had to change up my cellphone plan, because former roommates were 'worried' I'd use all the data ( I make calls, nothing else for work, but.. whatever).
Sounds like a company expense and a reasonable accommodation.
They sent me a cheap ass headset that's less comfortable than the 10 buck bluetooth one I bought from five below.
Sounds like a company expense and a reasonable accommodation.
I mean, your HR and accountants understand that all of these expenses could have been covered with the PPP money and expensed out? If not, you should tell them to go talk to actual tax professionals. Paying business expenses and writing them off minimizes taxes and will probably raise your productivity as your employees work comfortably at home. It's not like you asked for a company car which is also a business expense.
I'm sorry you work with stupid people.
@wizz said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
I have always been extremely empathetic whenever he gets hurt and have never tried to tell him it's not ok just to be upset or cry or anything like that when he's in pain, and I am as attentive as he lets me be when something happens (usually he wants space immediately after he gets hurt), but the screaming is so over the top.
Obviously, I am not the most empathetic person in the world, but I have told my kids, one of whom is neuroatypical, that it is okay to be upset and cry, but that the best thing to do is to try not to make a scene about it. When they do, I hit the casually-downplay button. But if they shrug it off, I hit the reward-heavily button. This has helped prepare my daughter for shots, which she hates.
I don't know you or your kid, but maybe you could flip the script that way. Let him scream and cry it out at a distance, but reward toughing it out. I know how awful that sounds but my kids' speech pathologists say that this is an okay way to re-program my kids' brains.
