Alison

Finder of information. Solver of mysteries. Fixer of staplers. Patron saints: Bunny Watson and Nancy Drew. Academic library. Essential caregiver. 📚🕵🏻‍♀️🐱👵

[Alison @Lib_Techie]

@FullLaneFemme Not everyone has a car.

[Alison @Lib_Techie]

@MTonai62045 @Mubarak_mubious Or you do go to the doctor and your brushed off and told it’s anxiety or stress. Repeat that for months. End up in the ER where they thankfully take it seriously and finally get results a year after symptoms started.

[Alison @Lib_Techie]

@cibc Non-promotional materials. Made a complaint about service and was told I’d be communicated with via mail NOT email. Guess what? They sent me a freaking email. 🙄

[Alison @Lib_Techie]

Ask to not get any emails from @cibc getting more so call. Person says they can’t do it. I say again I don’t want any emails from the bank so person responds saying they can’t close my bank accounts. What? I ask to speak to someone else and am told they can’t transfer calls /1

[Alison @Lib_Techie]

Ask again still they can’t transfer calls. Ask for a supervisor at least twice and am told they can’t continue the conversation and hang up.

I call back explain to the person why I’m calling they immediately say they can ensure I don’t get emails.

What is going on?

[Alison @Lib_Techie]

Got to love someone saying that you need to wear masks on planes because there is so much illness right now. Supposedly wore it on the first flight didn’t bother on the second.

WOW!

They have a very vulnerable person they are the sole caregiver for.

[Alison @Lib_Techie]

Do you are complaining that your nephew visited people knowing they were sick and got you and your family sick. Even mentioned they didn’t bother to mask.

You show up to work sick with a nasty sounding cough. No mask.

Coworkers obviously don’t matter.

[Alison @Lib_Techie]

Today saw an influencer who has been sick since before Christmas and wondering aloud why everyone is sick with the ‘mystery’ illness.

They post today that the whole family who is sick went out to dinner and then bowling.

Never occurs to them they are spreading what they got.

[Alison @Lib_Techie]

Just watched someone on instagram explain why they have a fever and cough - they drove in bad winter weather with terrible road conditions.

That is stressful but it won’t make you sick. The mental gymnastics people do to try to explain their illness and make it ‘mysterious’.

[Alison @Lib_Techie]

@cibc Had to call back within 2 hours and speak to the 7th. Should be resolved in 7 to 10 business days. 🙄

[Alison @Lib_Techie]

@cibc 6 people to do 2 simple things with telephone banking including getting sent to the wrong department then getting disconnected because I was on hold too long.

[Alison @Lib_Techie]

Bad enough when teens give up friends when they get boyfriends but it’s pathetic when you are a 50+ year old.

[Alison @Lib_Techie]

Friend who lives hours away would regularly check up on when she was going through various didficult health and life event things the last few years.

Almost 2 months ago messaged her when I went to the hospital. Got a response the next day - nothing since.

[Alison @Lib_Techie]

They responded and I’m even more bitter now.

I checked in with them regularly when I was going through difficult times and they would check in on me.

But now she’s blissfully happy with a new boyfriend and he’s all that matters.

[Alison @Lib_Techie]

You are not well but go to multiple Christmas gatherings, visit someone sick in hospital. All these included elderly people with multiple health issues.

You pause the fact you wore a mask into and out of the hospital but not when visiting the ill person.

WTF?

[Alison @Lib_Techie]

You have been posting for days talking with a very clear cough that is new. Talking about the parent you are a caregiver for in the middle of winter now has allergies. Now you realize they have a cold and you have no idea where they got it. Your parent never leaves the house.

[Alison @Lib_Techie]

@chantz_y Currently sitting in an ER that has reminders on the walls to wear masks properly. The only other person I saw wearing a mask was wearing a blue medical mask hanging off their nose. I’m wearing a N95.

[Alison @Lib_Techie]

Signs posted around the ER reminding people to wear masks properly. I’ve only seen one other person wearing a mask and it was hanging off their nose.

Me in a properly fitted N95. The only one.

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