I am still hung up on
Posted By: ginny on 2007-07-09
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I made a sign and hung up (sm)
It was just construction paper; one side was red, the other green. The red side had a simple smiley face with closed eyes and a headset on, the word 'STOP' in big letters, and 'mommy's working' below it. The green side had a smiley face with open eyes, no headset, and the word GO, and 'mommy can stop to talk' on it. I put it on a string and hung it on a tack so all I had to do was reach up and flip it back and forth.
I did it as much for me as for them. I was fussing at them sometimes, when they had no way to know if I was merely checking email or working, and I felt bad. So when they see the red sign, they know somebody better be bleeding if they interrupt me! (j/k!) It actually worked pretty well, even before the youngest could read, because he knew which color was "go" and which one was "stop."
We have a bowl in the kitchen for "free snacks" and I try to keep it filled with apples, raisins, bags of goldfish crackers, and the like, and keep juice boxes and popsicles ready to hand in the fridge. I also try to either buy paper cups or make sure the dishes are kept up so they can get water as needed. Most interruptions tended to center around wanting a snack, so it takes a lot of stress of all of us if they know what they can have w/o asking.
Telemarketer just abruptly hung up on me. (sm)
I first informed her I was on the no-call list and she kept trying to say (in a very strong accent) that she was not selling anything. When I asked if she was located in India (as the accent suggested) and that I was totally against offshoring she hung up before I could get the whole sentence out.
Sorry people have to make a living that way, but I am so fed up with our country giving jobs and money to other countries while our unemployment numbers and welfare numbers skyrocket. I know, I know, some people here won't do those jobs, but then again I bet some would.
I do hope Obama tries to do something about offshoring as he indicated he would.
Not that, but just y'day hung up on my VERY Indian phone comp. rep., in India!, as I
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