Unsocial Media
The Crooked Toad
03 April 2026
Hotel coffeemakers
The article states the coffeemakers aren't sanitized between stays. I wonder if any of the other items mentioned above are?
People are sick.
02 April 2026
Friction
Multi-culturalism causes friction. If I can't understand them, can they really understand me? My father is participating in duopa treatment for parkinsons. They have an ambassador program. I called to be "partnered" with an ambassador. A representative called from duopa and left a message. I read the text and the representative's name was Ashrafi. Without listening to the message I called back. Ashrafi is an indian woman with a thick accent. Nevermind. I hung up. Like this is the most qualified woman to match volunteer ambassadors to perspective clients with a toll free number? Is she here on a H1b visa?
I don't want to struggle to understand an indian woman on the phone in america. Unnecessary friction created by not having people proficient in the english language. I wonder if she drives a tesla with a New Driver Please be Kind sticker. Have you ever called Amazon and had the pleasure of speaking with an indian asshole attempting to provide customer service reading from a script stretching a rubberband as they speak as an anchor to the training they've received to emulate american dialogue norms that goes contrary to their native language - the sounds, cadence, pronunciation, etc?
Maybe this is why most companies have online chat to talk to a customer service agent. So it is not evident we are speaking to a foreigner in another country while conducting business in america to reduce costs.
SMH
What kind of shit is this?
https://youtu.be/MgJRnCNLW_I?si=DXqnQv77m0TcAGiZ
01 April 2026
Pratt & Whitney
Pratt screwed the pooch with metal defects in the production process. They acted way too lazily to address or compensate for their defects. A colossal leadership failure.
31 March 2026
Terrible
29 March 2026
First in a longtime
Im thankful to laying in bed pain free. Amazed, actually. I figure it was just Father Time creeping in.
I guess he decided to go knock on someone else's door tonight.
Thankful also that I'm getting my life back together. As stated last week, I'm taking back my life starting with my health.
And a little piece of trivia from the life of KB - this year I've eaten more than 20 pounds of apples. I got my haircut back to the tried and true image. The shortest it's been since my mom's rapid decline and death.
It's nice to see progress in such a short period of time of making the decision to get back to my roots and go back to what works and who I am.
H1b
27 March 2026
Familiy dysfunction
Every family dysfunction has boiled over since my dad elected to move to skilled nursing. And what I'm learning is he's the problem. Communication has been strained with him and the care team. He is behaving inappropriately. He tries to be in control of things when he is incapable. And he gets irritated when people lose patience with him.
For example - he's having surgery next week. The care team had questions about post op care. He attempts to get information from a doctors office and then he attempts to send it to everyone else. He sends a half written message to everyone at 0900. I call him at 1100 and ask him if the rest of the message is coming. He says he sent it. I didn't receive anything. I then ask if he can just tell me the information. He says 'no - hold your horses.' And 45 minutes later he sends a partial message with no information.
A member of his care team calls me out of frustration and lack of communication. They asked him to share the information and he said no. Like WTH? How is anyone supposed to help him when he is gatekeeping all the information and refuses to communicate. Or tries to communicate and cant? He has to do it his way. Regardless of how inefficient it is. No one has time to way nearly 3 hours for communication started at 0900. And once again, that leaves me to pick up the pieces and smooth over his dysfunction with the people that are trying to take care of him.
It's like he thinks he has something to prove.... that he's not a decrepit old man and he's "still got it" with how the tries to present himself. All he's doing is looking more incompetent with every delayed or half baked message. Then when he gets irritable with people trying to help him, he's making it worse. Now he's looking stubborn and pig headed. Especially when he's holding things up trying to make himself look like he's still capable. While he is capable, he never learned that sometimes you just have to check the box and get it done. It doesn't have to be perfect. It needs to be completed in a timely manner. Perfection is overrated.
He's the hub of information. He controls when, who gets and what information is distributed. To people who are trying to help him that need information to plan. Unbelievable. So now it's figuring out how to work around him for his own good.
Why do elderly people have to be so darn stubborn!?!? To be independent? To make it look like they are in control of their life? To prove they're capable? I get it. The thing is the world doesn't move at the speed of an elderly person. It moves at it's speed while he's moving in slow motion. The rest of us are living in the real world trying to get things done. Not only in our lives, but in his too. Step aside and let us help you before you alienate everyone trying to help. Elderly people are like old cars. They're tired, worn and persnickety. It takes a special driver to tend to their needs.
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