I also feel your points about wishing your parents took better care of your health when you were younger.

I think the only reason I ever saw the dr. as a child was b/c my father made my mother take me.

Then, after he died, she started playing this little game where she supposedly couldn't afford to take me,(funny, as she was making bank on all 3 of her kids SSI checks, my father's money from the state and her own job which for someone with no money, she retired miraculously early), or magically I wasn't insured or it wasn't the right day.

Which would be why I have had ovarian cysts for about a decade and why my sisters and I have a whole host of undiagnosed anxiety disorders.

This is exactly what I need.

To people who don't bother to read that I was having problems with the sites messenger system despite the fact it was in LARGE RED bold words on all my listings, and were trying to get a hold of me only though the system even tho I wasn't getting any of the messages. And now, have left be negative feedbacks yet they are the retards to cant take 2 seconds to READ that they had to EMAIL ME, and get mad at me because I diddnt respond. I can understand because I diddnt respond, but I diddnt respond because I wasnt getting the messges in the first place! (This problem is fixed as of todayn btw, I was getting fed up with it)

To the companies who wont hire me because im physically disabled.

to my former employer- VONS- for firing me because I have a motor skills disability and cant move or think very fast, and then blatantly lie about it to the rest of the world when questioned about it.

to some of my suppliers who are SO POSED to hold items that I have for auction, but when they sell here I get a notice when I come in to pay for them that you sold my stuff I had on hold! FUCK YOU and do your job!

All right, there's a kajillion things I could post about right now, but I'll only hit this one very sore topic as I can hold off no more...

A big to the guys who were supposed to show on a Friday to start work tearing out the driveway, laying a new one and laying a new cement stoop and walkway. And were supposed to show up again on Saturday after the general contractor called them about Friday's no-show. Would be nice to have that four day weekend back so the hubby and I could get away and not leave Mom home alone with the workmen.

And another to the same crew for laying a beautiful driveway but not finishing the edges so it looked like someone just tore off the edges leaving tons of macadam in the trashed lawn. (The guys were finishing the edging and the crew chief called them off it to quit for the day, planning to not finish the edges.)

Once again, to the same crew for tearing apart a 40 year old retaining wall between the driveway and side-walk-to-be to use the rocks as support to hold the cement boards in place while it hardened, and of course the rocks now have cement crudding them up. My mom always thought that was one of the nicest little things on the property. They didn't plan on rebuilding it, but after much complaint they did a lousy job at putting the rocks back--both visually and structurally, we'll have to re-do it once the driveway & sidewalk work is all hardened up. (Really, who tears down a retaining wall to hold up boards for a project where you knew you would need supports and had 2 extra days of not showing up to get them???)

Another for suggesting that when the driveway & walkway are finished we could hire them to landscape and fix the rock wall they deconstructed. Oh, and also to landscape the rest of the yard. I'd rather have a dust bowl and some weeds then pay you for anything ever again, thank you very much.

Another for giving us a hard time about wanting them to fix the cracked off corners of the steps (come on, there's only four steps and two have huge chunks missing) and holes in the new cement walk they poured. (Which they tried to blame on the general contractor, though Mom pointed it out to me before the contractor even came by...)

Once again, to the same crew chief for complaining that he will have to pay for the supplies to fix the front stoop they poured because as it is now, if you pour water on it (you know, like when it rains) it leaves a puddle in the center nearly a 1/4 inch deep.

When we explain that my senior citizen mother will be using that door all winter here in NY, and she'll be stepping out onto an ice patch that wasn't there on the last stoop of 40 years, the crew chief complains about fixing it and asks "what did the general contractor say I needed to do?", forcing us to tell him repeatedly that it needed to be corrected. Well, we told the general contractor that it needed to be fixed the day before. The general contractor told my mother to go out a while and he'd come talk to the crew chief about the problems we had with the work. What the crew chief didn't realize was that I was still home and listening, so I know he was told to fix it.

So one more , because the crew chief was trying to get us to say he didn't have to fix it so he could tell that to the general contractor and get the rest of his pay which is being withheld until the railings are installed--it'll be two weeks before the stoop will be cured enough to do that. (We don't exactly trust him to come back and do it without holding off the money.)

Now to write it all out in a more business like manner for the BBB... such crap.

(((hugs))) I know my husband can relate. If you have the time & inclination, definitely do some research on the ADA & speak w/ an employment lawyer.

Goto-- have you taken plenty of pics of their errors?

To the technician who had no idea what he was supposed to be doing and managed to disconnect the phone at work after dicking around for an hour.

To IT for not logging my initial call, so when I followed up, it was after business hours so the technician couldn't be dispatched back to the store. Esp. the guy that actually ARGUED with me about who took my initial call. (So now we may not have service again until Monday.)

To the electrician who is 2 weeks late.

To Verizon for making your employees useless for answering simple questions in a timely manner with absolutely no problem-solving skills AND for this evening's outage.

Yes, pictures galore. (Gotta love digital cameras!) and on that note...

to whichever one told the lie today--the general contractor called and said that the crew chief told him the job is finished and that the stoop is fixed and railings installed. Um, I think we would have noticed wet cement in front of the front door. So who made up the lie that it was finished? Ugh.

BlueDream--I hope your technical issues get cleared up soon. (How can an electrician be two weeks late?)

Our company contracts the work out to someone in our area and foots the bill.

It would seem people are lazy as fuck here.

So they generally don't follow-up unless we complain that no one has come to do any of the work we requested.

(Also, everyone that they have sent out for phone, DSL and or computer work in general has been utterly useless for the past year.)


Maybe they come from the same place as the person who lied about the cement being dry....

to the ant that stung/bit(I don't know which, it was a carpenter ant so it could have bitten me!) me UNDER THE LEFT BOOB in the SHOWER. WTF?!

to my uterus. I am just biding the years til I can have you ripped out. Then we'll see who's boss.