Add me to the list. @Nesrie here’s hoping you’re just on vacation and will come rejoin us. We must gather our party before venturing forth!
Same.
I am currently on vacation, but prior I had some… well still have some medical issues. When that was quasi resolved I did continue my break from QT3 for a few reasons, but it started with me not being able to really use my left arm reliably for about a month which made typing difficult enough for work and joyous hobbies… assuming at any given moment I couldn’t type at all.
I appreciate the concern.
Hope that healing continues swiftly, Nesrie. Welcome back!
Ouch, sorry to hear about your troubles Nesrie. Glad to see you once again, and hope your recovery continues and you enjoy your vacation!
Sorry to hear of the troubles, Nesrie. Get well. We miss you but please don’t upset anything you might be doing as part of rehabilitation or similar.
Nice to hear your voice again Nesrie, er, well, you know what I mean. I hope you heal quickly.
Well I am fortunate enough to have a job where I can actually kind of do it with a partial bum arm, just as long as I can quit my second job as professional e-mail reader and responder. It’s been working right, sort of, for about week.
They really don’t know what is wrong with me, and I am not in the mood to give weekly visits for them to figure it out. Between the four folks I visited the problem is probably between my neck and shoulder. As long as I can avoid the needle like piercing pain I had for half that out time, I can at least tolerate the other stuff. Once my family leaves this week I might try one those ultra expensive chairs. A downside of a home office space for primary work is my ergo might not be just right… even though I assumed my dominant side would reveal that not the other one which is… surprisingly enough, needed more than I realized.
If you’re ever really bored, trying tying back your other arm and find out what you actually usually do with it!
Holy crap, hope that’s improving rapidly. Good to hear from ya.
Sorry to hear what you’re going through, but glad to see you back.
So sorry to hear what you’re going through. I’m going to highly suggest you not give up on getting a resolution if it comes back to the level it was or worse you can do permanent damage to the affected nerve or the spine.
Yeah. My sisters have regular appointments with various specialists. It’s probably past time I find a couple myself. Get a new PCP, mine like vanished although I did find out she’s okay. They ruled a collapsed disc early on so that sounds, well good. I imagined having something awful happen to a disc right at your neck is… bad.
Professional email reader… god, is that as horrible as it sounds? Nice to seen you back Nesrie, hope your arm etc. is back to normal soon - what ever you have, does not sound fun.
My SO broke her wrist and needed surgery earlier this year. I can sympathize with someone unable to use an extremity.
haha, it’s an inside joke, mostly, because clients and some co-workers will act like our primary job is to read e-mail. Between the system messages and actual human written emails I get about 1500 e-mails a week, sometimes way more if something is actually going on. I have rules that filter a lot of that out but people who send me an e-mail and then ask if I read it five minutes later… they clearly think my job title includes professional e-mailer. And the systems, I still have to glance at because for some reason one system… I seem to be one of the few that knows what a normal message is and what the holy shit messages look like.
I’m already a blunt person, like for real, not just on online forums. I don’t have different mes. Just me. My e-mails for a few weeks were even shorter. I’m sure they knew something was wrong. I warned my manager at least.
Oh my that sounds awful too!
Don’t you just love coworkers (or worse, people in other areas that you support) who send an email and then call 5 minutes later to see if you read their email? WTF already!
Anyway, good to see you again online, Nesrie, if a bit banged up.
I used to feel bad that I couldn’t keep up. I really did. As I say that I’m sitting on about 725 unread emails and another 200+ alert emails that need weeding through. I know most of those are old since I just got back from training/vacation. But it won’t matter. People just assume you run back to the office (or worse, pull out your phone while on vacation,) and read the entire lengthy history they just copied you on and make decisions or take actions from that. Sometimes I get copied on an email chain 20-30 deep with just a, “Take a look at this issue please,” from the forwarding person.
Nobody has time for that shit.
If you’re a nice person and I like you, I’ll politely ask which email or what date that was on (as I furiously search in the background while on the call with you.) If you’re an asshole that frequently is one of those who copies me on complete bullshit just because you don’t know how to handle it, I will drag that out as long as possible, just so I can be an asshole back at ya.
“You said you sent me an email? When was that?”
“Wait, but was it to me?”
“What was the subject?”
“Was the date you mentioned in your timezone or mine?”
“Have we talked about this before?”
“Aww, damn. I think my auto-archiving moved it. Just tell me what you wanted me to know about.”
They usually then just want to break off the call so they can re-forward the email and avoid more questions. Nobody wants to tell you their issue because they don’t want to do the work digging through 20+ replies to something either.
Oh, it’s far worse when the stop by your desk.
Yes, fuck you Anil, but then again… thanks for giving me an excuse to WFH whenever I feel like it because if anybody asks I’m going to tell them you created a hostile work environment.