How Was Your Day/Week?

[Maniakkid25]

Sorry about your loss. I'm guessing it was kinda sudden rather than from an ongoing illness since your mum is away?
Also I forget if you got full time or not but I'm guessing either way you can't use PTO or FMLA or anything to cover the wages from missing shifts?

Still not full-time yet, and I put the Time-Off Request under Bereavement, so we'll see if I get paid for it (probably not). And yeah, he died in his sleep at the ripe old age of 91. So, we always knew it was coming, we just didn't know when. So, it happened now, and like I said, I'm more annoyed than sad. I know I should be grieving and stuff, but I'm just not feeling anything, tbh.

[Mr EliteL]

@Moonface Yeah at least we decided to go that day, as we were considering not exactly that time, but to not try and go every single week to visit him, but now we basically need to now thanks to that mishap. If we were to not go that Monday, who knows what we may have found next time, as he's really limited himself in verbal communication even to us, let alone going out asking a neighbour or some random walk by to ask for help.
Ha, thank goodness your parents did that even if it wasn't their intention as a precaution to not having a key.

@Maniakkid25 My condolences, at least he went peacefully. Hopefully they'll allow that Bereavement pay.

Weather has been Summer like for a few days. Today was again nice and quite hot until the sudden downpour of rain this evening. Stopped for now though.

[Kyng]

Not too bad, really. Only worked four days (due to having a bank holiday on Monday), and didn't have a massive amount to do on those days. Just about enough to keep me occupied without getting bored .

Next week should be a bit more eventful, though, since it's my girlfriend's birthday. I'll be going to see her for four days. I wrapped her presents today: hopefully I've got enough!

[Mr EliteL]

Worked Sunday and celebrated my Mum's birthday at a Turkish restaurant close to us (outside of town), that two of us hadn't been to before, but my sister had done. Was really great and expressed me desire to go there for my birthday too, possibly. I had a soup starter Chicken a la Cream that was delicious.

Visited my Dad Monday with sister, and we all went to see our family friend (the one I play Scrabble with), and that went relatively well.

I was stupidly tired on Tuesday and Wednesday so just rested, and worked today. Doing an extra shift this coming Monday too.

[Moonface]

Sorry about your loss. I'm guessing it was kinda sudden rather than from an ongoing illness since your mum is away?
Also I forget if you got full time or not but I'm guessing either way you can't use PTO or FMLA or anything to cover the wages from missing shifts?

Still not full-time yet, and I put the Time-Off Request under Bereavement, so we'll see if I get paid for it (probably not). And yeah, he died in his sleep at the ripe old age of 91. So, we always knew it was coming, we just didn't know when. So, it happened now, and like I said, I'm more annoyed than sad. I know I should be grieving and stuff, but I'm just not feeling anything, tbh.

Ah, I see. Well, at least he passed away in what I personally think to be the best way possible. As for the feeling anything, maybe it's because of how old he was so you had already been mentally prepping for the inevitable?

Ha, thank goodness your parents did that even if it wasn't their intention as a precaution to not having a key.

Yeah, if my parents didn't habitually leave at least one upstairs window open I don't know what they would have done to get back into the house that time besides breaking open a door or window.

I wrapped her presents today: hopefully I've got enough!

I'd argue the thought behind the gifts is more important than the amount you get someone. Anyway, I hope she likes whatever you got her!


Went out for a walk this morning to cross paths with a neighbor who was seeking help from a domestic abuse situation with her mother. Apparently the mother has been hitting her and threatening her with a knife and shit, and also doesn't speak English which meant we couldn't go talk to her to try and calm her down or anything. Called a nearby shelter which was...honestly a waste of our time and I can't say I was impressed with how the person on the phone was handling the situation, so instead we tried calling the ladies husband but he had called the mother who then came out and... yeah it was just a whole load of drama but everyone went back to their home and hopefully things will be okay for a bit?

[Dragon Lord]

@Dragon Lord: I'm glad something relatively good came up for you and your mum, especially the latter with how long it's been taking for her to get that disability claim approved. I was gonna say she should totally get back pay just for how long it took (even if it wasn't for that very egregious screw-up that you mentioned) but saw she's getting that, so that's good. I don't know if that's the norm but I think any claims for that stuff should have back pay if they take longer than a month.

She will get back pay for the wait. They said in their findings that there is proof that she's been disabled/unable to properly work dating back to August of 2024, but there's a 5 month waiting period on applications, so she won't get back pay for August-December of 2024, but should get it for January 2025-current date when they finally do the final approval (yes, the approval needs to have a final approval), which should be in the next week or two.

Sadly though the good news couldn't stay for long, because not long after that good news came in, our water line burst and is going to be a $10,000+ repair (we're still waiting for it too, been without running water for almost two weeks now). So sadly life couldn't let us just have a break for too long.

On a positive note though, the copy of Pokemon Moon I bought off of eBay arrived and it was indeed a factory sealed, true North American copy of the game, so I'm pretty happy about that. Was kind of worried it would arrive and actually be a UAE copy of the game instead like a majority of listings are.

[Moonface]

Sadly though the good news couldn't stay for long, because not long after that good news came in, our water line burst and is going to be a $10,000+ repair (we're still waiting for it too, been without running water for almost two weeks now). So sadly life couldn't let us just have a break for too long.

On a positive note though, the copy of Pokemon Moon I bought off of eBay arrived and it was indeed a factory sealed, true North American copy of the game, so I'm pretty happy about that. Was kind of worried it would arrive and actually be a UAE copy of the game instead like a majority of listings are.

Oof, fuck. I'm guessing you guys didn't have home insurance from being unable to afford it with the recent money troubles and stuff for it to be covered by that?

What got you to buy a copy of Pokémon Moon in particular? Is it for collection purposes since it's factory sealed or did you buy it with the intent to open and play it?


My day so far has been mixed. Woke up in the night with a migraine that wouldn't piss off so I just decided to get up at 2am since I couldn't sleep anyway, and then when I got to work I had to restock a freezer section that broke down yesterday and got emptied.
A highlight of the day though is the driver in front of me at a red light in a Jeep with a rear window decal that said "GO AROUND! If it was meant to go fast it wouldn't be shaped like a fucking brick!". I love when drivers have decals that have an element of self-aware humor behind them.

[Dragon Lord]

Most insurances won't cover anything outside of the house, so unfortunately that option was out the window before anything else. There was actually an add-on to the insurance we could have gotten when the insurance company changed who they work with, but in usual fashion, they didn't tell anyone about it and of course we only find out about it after we would have needed it. Typical scummy insurance company bullshit.

I got Moon just because I've regained the Pokemon itch and now I'm trying to go back and get the games that I skipped out on (I talked about it briefly in another topic). Full intentions of opening them (already opened Moon), but I don't like buying used games, so I always aim for factory sealed copies out of personal preference.