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Gabe1

Gabe1

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betty rose said:
Our grand son is taking driver's ed. in March. He keeps telling us to stay off the road while he is learning. He has a vision problem like mine. I didn't know I only used one eye and things moved....I sideswiped a parked car. It was so awful, not much damage...but why didn't the eye Dr. tell me? I was 16 at the time. After that, I drove...but never enjoyed it.
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We've talked about this before and my kids also have this one dominate eye thing, it is not rare but often children are pegged as learning disabled and poor readers and in reality it is a vision problem. Both of my kids had invisible prisms in their eye glasses that forced them to use both eyes together at the same time. Has his Ophthalmologist ever tried that treatment? The non dominate eye over time became stronger and stronger and eventually neither needed glasses any longer to correct that.
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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Gabe1

Gabe1

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StarWarsGirl said:
I work in an IT department as well...it's still not expected, no matter who you are. I check it so I don't come back to hundreds of unorganized emails, but that's a choice, not a requirement.
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My DS shut his email down and on away for trip. He told his staff if anything was concerning, he needed to know now or act upon to call or text him. It didn't happen. But he did come back to a days worth of emails and voicemails. He oversees 4 full time office staff and part time office and about 250 part time employees. He figures someday something will happen that they will need direction but they handled it.
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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Gabe1 said:
My DS shut his email down and on away for trip. He told his staff if anything was concerning, he needed to know now or act upon to call or text him. It didn't happen. But he did come back to a days worth of emails and voicemails. He oversees 4 full time office staff and part time office and about 250 part time employees. He figures someday something will happen that they will need direction but they handled it.
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Unfortunately, we do not have that luxury to "let someone do it" , I am the only IT tech.. .We are a tiny company.
 
StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
No
Gabe1 said:
A list of required for them to go to a kennel:

Vaccination Requirements for Dogs
• Rabies

• Distemper (DHPP)

• Bordetella Vaccine (Kennel Cough) within the past 6 months

• Negative fecal test result within the past 6 months

• Monthly flea and tick preventative medication


Vaccination Requirements for Cats
Veterinarian certificate indicating the current vaccination proof of:

• Rabies

• Distemper (FVRCP)

• Negative FeLV/FIV (Feline Leukemia/AIDS) Combo Test

• Feline Leukemia (Outdoor Cats)

• Negative fecal test result within the past 6 months

• Monthly flea and tick preventative medication
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Yet another good reason to not put them in a kennel. Seriously, why would either of them need monthly flee and tic medicine? They're INDOOR CATS! Good grief.
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
No
Cesar R M said:
Question: what do you usually do?
are you in charge of the critical infrastructure?
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I'm the primary administrator for our project management software, which includes everything from the storage of our projects to timesheets in the system. So....yes, rather critical. If it goes down, no one can enter their timesheets. But my boss can also handle the system, so she and I just make sure that we're not away at the same time. Even for Thanksgiving, she'll be off Wednesday and Thursday, and I'll be off Thursday and Friday. They can live without us for one day (Thursday).

That's the way it is for everyone in the department: there is always back up. Most of the upper level managers will check their email periodically, but they don't work. Even the VP of IT security doesn't do work while he's away; there's a bunch of other IT security people who can also do the job. He just checks email periodically. When I went to WDW, I just left an away message saying if you need this, contact this person, if you need this, contact this person...yadda yadda. But your run-of-the-mill analysts don't work while they're on vacation. They leave you an away message that they'll respond when they return, and they do. And they just rotate so that there's always someone there as backup. For instance, the two guys who deal with the Office 365 issues alternated who was away over the summer.

It's also one of the benefits of being in a 270 person IT department as well, I guess. There's always backup.
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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StarWarsGirl said:
It's also one of the benefits of being in a 270 person IT department as well, I guess. There's always backup.
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Indeed, its never fun when you're the only one in charge of everything (from Design to deployment and maintenance)
I even do the support for normal members.

I still laugh at my cousin(who is a huge IT for a very important bank) who says that if I was in Texas, I would be earning at least 25k a month.
I unfortunately didn't have the privilege of being born in the same town and state :p
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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donaldtoo said:
Our home has been appraised at 4.5+ times what we paid for it almost 30 years ago...!!!!! :happy:
But, if we sold it where would we live, because everything around us is just as expensive...!!!!!!! :hilarious: ;) :)
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As has mine. 30 years with the CPI is a long span of time given all of our incomes. Lake Travis to ours is lower though a very lovely community that I wouldn't hesitate to live in. My home to the prices in the New York and some of New Jersey is a drop in the bucket. The majority of California, I couldn't trade mine for theirs. It is all relative to overall property value in the demographic. Certain property values have always been higher on the East and West Coast. Neither of ours compare to those high end purchase points. Still we all have risen dramatically over 30 years vs places like Detroit a bargain if one wants to relocate there. No different than our folks 30 years after ownership in most instances.
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
Cesar R M said:
Indeed, its never fun when you're the only one in charge of everything (from Design to deployment and maintenance)
I even do the support for normal members.

I still laugh at my cousin(who is a huge IT for a very important bank) who says that if I was in Texas, I would be earning at least 25k a month.
I unfortunately didn't have the privilege of being born in the same town and state :p
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Keep trying Sir. Most decades the dream is attainable if not in this particular portion of the decade. Hard working, smart immigrants have always been a welcome asset to our land, I know from both of my grandparents who came here and succeeded. Hopefully this too shall pass for you too in the very near future. My Sis is an immigration attorney and she is still processing. The Dream is still alive and she is the living proof it all.
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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Gabe1 said:
My DS shut his email down and on away for trip. He told his staff if anything was concerning, he needed to know now or act upon to call or text him. It didn't happen. But he did come back to a days worth of emails and voicemails. He oversees 4 full time office staff and part time office and about 250 part time employees. He figures someday something will happen that they will need direction but they handled it.
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My dh always gets a couple of phone calls when we go away, but they know he isn't always to pick up and don't complain:joyfull:
 

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