Continuation of "Spoon Theory".
When I was disconnected from my call to benefits, I had to use our employee app. The app sucks. It's so bad that I find myself fondly recalling AOL c. 1998. The app is seriously that bad.
It took me 20 minutes to realize that the benefits folks did not provide their phone number. Not anywhere. And that feels like a big middle finger to the employee. So I used their web chat option. And hit another dead end. They also could not provide me with anything until 7-10 days after their systems update.
I gave up. I talked to my former supervisor, who suggested I call HR one more time and ask for a copy of my resignation letter. It's better than nothing. I said I would, but not that day. I could no longer use my nice-person-customer-service-voice.
So then I did some laundry. My husband and I both do laundry but that day, he tweaked his back. I know that kind of pain all too well so I said I would handle the one load he needed. In the process of doing this, I discovered that, due to my spine issues, I can no longer reach up as well as usual. So wen I reached up to remove a hanger from the bar, I couldn't lift it enough to remove it and ended up pulling the entire bar down. With all of the clean clothes that had been hanging on it.
I just stood there and sobbed. I was completely out of spoons. I had nothing left.
Husband came to the garage, told me it was okay, that he loved me, and he cleaned up my mess. I appreciated the help, the gesture, the love, and the reassurance. But it's not okay. I hate the changes in my body and my abilities. And I was beginning to think that the entire day could just be thrown in a dumpster and lit on fire.
But the day wasn't over.
The one other thing that went very wrong was our computers. I had ordered us 2 reasonably decent laptops. They were supposed to be delivered by 9 pm that night. By about 7 pm, I was pretty sure we weren't going to get them. But I also knew I was feeling discouraged and my outlook was negative, so maybe I was wrong.
I bought the laptops from Best Buy. They contract with Roadie for delivery. Roadie is akin to services like Door Dash. People sign up to deliver for them. They use the app to delivery gigs, sign up on them, and do the deliveries.
The guy who signed up for our delivery had "something come up". So he didn't do the delivery. But he also didn't open the app and press a button to detach himself from the delivery so that someone else could deliver it.
And Best Buy didn't notice or care that an order that was supposed to be picked up was not. Which is why I just cancelled the order the next day.
SO THEN I bought a reasonable desktop that was cheap. I get it home, hook it up, and it was a straight up nightmare. I have never run into the issues that I experienced with this system. The WiFi on it was so bad that I was getting download speeds of 4 mbps - as a comparison, the WiFi on my laptop will get 160 mbps download. I made sure to run the speed test on both systems at the same exact time to ensure I wasn't just experiencing a hiccup.
But then I ran a game that isn't massive and the desktop's GPU was at 100% usage, constantly. There is no way it should have been 100% usage. But the scary part is that the core temperature was 69 degrees celsius. That's nearly 160 degrees farhenheit. So yeah, that is also being returned.
Back to the drawing board on computers!
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