We have to do that every week here as well. I hate it
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Only if in-network, after the 1st of the year! 
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Right? It’s so fucking stupid, particularly now. There ARE no big wins right now, other than “I didn’t get covid, I am not curled into a fetal position due to crippling depression, I am more or less a functional adult who’s getting the bare minimum done.” Those all seem like pretty big fucking wins to me.
What really pisses me off is that we only have to do it because they got rid of all our managers. The managers used to do this.
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I’ve been getting angry at my mom when she refuses to drop certain subjects? I try to avoid it, not respond, then tell her to cut it out and then she keeps bringing it up until I blow up at her? Dang. 
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I’m nearly at this point with my mom. Trying to be nice got me stuck on the phone with her for an extra half hour the other day. It was an extremely long half hour.
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Yes, that makes sense. But, I have to say, there’s not a chance I’d fill one of those out during intake with a new therapist. I warm up SLOWWWWWWWWLY. I still have yet to even shed tears with a therapist. Like I said, SLOWLY. Ha.
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If y’all figure this out, let me know. I’ve been literally just going fully silent while my father goes ON AND ON sometimes about the same thing we spoke about last time we spoke.
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My cat smells like incense and although it smells nice she really shouldn’t smell like amber and sandalwood, because that stuff is kept where she can’t get to it. Why, cat, why?!
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One of the dogs dug up the cat litter box. Gross.
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whatever I did to my knee really dislikes hot baths
it is cold outside, and I like hot baths
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I really hope I don’t get laid off in the pre-announced February lay-offs, because I love how my company treats people so much (barring the 4 months of anxiety about pre-announced lay-offs).
We got the opposite of this. Instead it was “we understand with the pandemic, and people needing flexibility for caregiving and work at home schedules, and therefore doing a timesheet to the nearest quarter hour is stressing people out. Until the new year, we won’t have anymore timesheets. Just report your time out of office that was not made up through flex time to your manager, so your accruals can be properly updated.”
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Agree. Even if @mountainmustache29 filled out the form, at this point, can they just shred it?
That form seems SO inappropriate, and very retraumatizing. I can’t imagine continuing a therapy relationship with someone using that tool, unless you show up to the first appt without it and they are completely understanding of why.
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I work in an office full of Republicans, so guess who I get to hear about all day today? 
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Oh no. Was the injury recent and maybe in need of an ice pack instead? Not that it sounds fun to apply an ice pack when it’s already cold.
I had my appointment yesterday, and when my therapist thanked me for sending over the form I told her how much it sucked to fill out, and how I wish I had drawn a boundary and not filled it out. She was so sorry, she said she should have known and not asked me to do it because I told her in the first session that I don’t like to journal or write things out and find that very difficult. She seemed to be really understanding/apologetic, I just wish I had put my foot down sooner because it seems like she would have been totally ok if I hadn’t wanted to do the form at all
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I’m glad your appt went well at least.
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Bed is warm and filled with snuggly pup yet I am expected to be on camera for a meeting in 14 minutes.
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It is so odd - the C-level execs were all “we understand you need flexibility and might need to work odd schedules” but then the bean counters are like “why is there time on your timesheet that’s not billed to a project? Whipcrack!”
What kills me is that the answer to that question is, “because we were having 2 or 3 all-hands meetings per week of 1 hour per meeting, and we’re not allowed to bill those to projects.”
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My mother in law just got officially laid off, after being furloughed since April or so 
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injury was beginning July and worsened end of July. It is better now than in August or Sept, but still preventing regular stair descents or the types of walks we used to do on the regular.
In Sept I was taking a bath and then doing an ice pack, but it is different when it is 20C than when it is 4C outside.
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