Have A Good Old Moan....

I was thinking about it but the one I'm currently taking hasn't given me any other problems apart from the spots. I'm afraid switching to a different pill will give me worse side effects.

I'm going through some issues with my BC too. I'm on Depo which I hate. I was on it before and after a year it felt like my bones were  so weak + they just hurt all the time, plus the 40 lbs I gained somehow, which I'm sure added to the bone pain type feeling. I got Mirena after that but got pregnant on it, thank God everything was okay, I had no side effects from it at all though except for not having a period which I didn't mind at all. I don't want to go back on it because I'm afraid I could get pregnant again, I don't want the pill because it makes me break out and gain weight, I really just want to get a tubal ligation but really cannot afford it. I just got a thing in the mail yesterday though saying I need to pick an insurance off Medicaid (like I had before), I have NO clue how this came about but I think I may actually have insurance again from the state! When I went to get my depo shot yesterday they didn't charge me + they ALWAYS make you pay first. I didn't say anything about it + got the letter in the mail on my way home...need to call to see what is going on, praying that something changed + I have insurance again!

I'm on Depo as well, I really don't like it 🙁 I feel spotty and bloated all the time.

I don't like my job as it is but I think my hormones are rearing an ugly head and I've nearly shouted at my direct boss like 3 times and I've only been here about 3 hours, and I also hate hate hate, like actually despise our contracts manager and he started talking just now about some nonsense or other and I nearly blurted out 'why do you have to talk?!' which was meant to be in my head...I think I'm going to need my own room soon!

when I was pregnant with my first Son, I started to absolutely hate a guy at work with a vengeance,  looking back Ive now no idea why !  but I did, I couldn't even look at him some days...  LOL  - poor bloke.. everything he did just rubbed me up the wrong way..  just his face used to drive me insane  LOL.

Hehe I'd love to only hate him through pregnancy but it's started about a month after I started here and I've been here 2 years 😉 He had a day off on Monday and declared that he had chicken pox so I asked to work in a separate office so I didn't risk catching it, then by the end of the day I asked him outright if he had it because it had made my job really difficult without half the software I needed and he said no. I could have shot him.

My boss is lovely, I've just been tired and uncomfortable where I've gotten so blimmin fat and I was really concentrating on something then he chased me for things that weren't urgent that day and I was just getting frustrated, not necessarily with him, just the day in general!

Lily, Is there another mentor that you can get help from or ask the one that is supposed to be helping you to assign someone that has the time to help you get through the program successfully. Is there a list of questions you can leave with the person to answer? Has anyone had this happen at this company.  Oddly enough I got a grant from a program last on my list of interests! then I got assigned a mentor that I had gone into her class a minute late and walked out maybe 2 minutes in, because I knew I wasn't going to want to be taught by that person. So two years later SHE became my mentor and I wonder if she remembered me leaving her class hehe. I excelled in what I was doing and she had to leave the second year and I actually cried.  *ott*
I felt like that icon in doing a subject that really went opposite of my spirit at the time.
Anyways, I wish there was someway for you to get the information you need. You are top priority and getting through this no matter what is most important. Don't give up. 

Have had to deal with several horrible customers at work this past week and it is really starting to get to me. My colleagues have all been really good at helping me but I every time I encounter something nasty/rude etc I feel like it really dampens my spirits and I can't help but think about what happened over and over and I get so down just knowing how horrible some people in the world can be even though I try to think of the nice people as well. Being treated that way when all you have done is be nice to everyone is, as I am sure many of you have experienced, very disheartening and it just gets to me more and more every time and I am struggling to shake it off. I am generally good at dealing with people at the time but it is the after effect it has on me that I end up taking home.

Lily, Is there another mentor that you can get help from or ask the one that is supposed to be helping you to assign someone that has the time to help you get through the program successfully. Is there a list of questions you can leave with the person to answer? Has anyone had this happen at this company.  Oddly enough I got a grant from a program last on my list of interests! then I got assigned a mentor that I had gone into her class a minute late and walked out maybe 2 minutes in, because I knew I wasn't going to want to be taught by that person. So two years later SHE became my mentor and I wonder if she remembered me leaving her class hehe. I excelled in what I was doing and she had to leave the second year and I actually cried.  *ott*
I felt like that icon in doing a subject that really went opposite of my spirit at the time.
Anyways, I wish there was someway for you to get the information you need. You are top priority and getting through this no matter what is most important. Don't give up. 

Thanks, and thanks to Intemp as well! The information I need is not anywhere on the Net, it's mostly factory intern stuff,  names of persons I need to ask,  the permit to take photos in the factory, and some decisions to be made that only he can decide. So I can't get that from someone else. I don't have to present the project, it's basically about planning a 2-week seminar about engines from our company, and I have to create the info-material while having had no clue about it myself.
I found out why he has no time - he's starting at another position in April so yay we're getting a new boss then 🙂 and he's involved in that new position already. So I know there will be an end.
Also I got a date from him to talk about it and maybe hopefully get my answers, it's next week friday. Although I believe he's gonna let the project I'm working on run dry (or how do you say it?). If he still says he has no time then I will ask him to get another project assigned meanwhile. 
Until then, I started doing some uni stuff, and started learning java because in my next project in summer I might be needing it. Nothing to write into my project report, but at least I'm doing something useful.

gemz: Some people are just dumb assholes. it's easier said than done but try not thinking about them too much. It's good being a better person than them, keep your head high and don't let them mess with your thoughts.

@gemz there are always going to be mean, nasty rude people out there. Some people are just miserable and misery loves company. Sometimes bringing others down makes them feel better about themselves and it's sad. I cannot imagine being nasty to people all the time, and to people that have been nothing but nice and friendly to you. It really must be exhausting and a poor way to live. Just be grateful that you aren't one of those people. When I encounter people like that I just cut it off as they must some sort of issues going on that make them that way + hope that one day their life gets better so they can treat people kindly and with respect and not start drama/nastiness over absolutely nothing.

I just want to do normal things, like go shopping with my friend for a couple of hours, without having to have a two hour recovery nap afterwards. Getting a bit bored if being knackered now.

@gemz there are always going to be mean, nasty rude people out there. Some people are just miserable and misery loves company. Sometimes bringing others down makes them feel better about themselves and it's sad. I cannot imagine being nasty to people all the time, and to people that have been nothing but nice and friendly to you. It really must be exhausting and a poor way to live. Just be grateful that you aren't one of those people. When I encounter people like that I just cut it off as they must some sort of issues going on that make them that way + hope that one day their life gets better so they can treat people kindly and with respect and not start drama/nastiness over absolutely nothing.

Well, it's a little much to say that these are miserable people. I think almost everyone is miserable sometimes, even if you don't realise it. I've just seen an unfortunate exchange on another forum where someone totally misread what another was trying to explain and took it badly. I've seen the same thing in real life and I'm sure we all have. Someone normally totally reasonable will have a moments madness, even anger.

When I used to work in a shop, I'd be cheeky and stick my tongue out at their back which would make me smile to myself and so I felt better! If they're on the phone, even better! Really go to town with the gestures and they have no idea lol I used to have the other people in the shop in fits of laughter when I add a swine on the phone 😀

Brush it off as them having a bad day, don't let them make your day bad too 🙂

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Have had to deal with several horrible customers at work this past week and it is really starting to get to me. My colleagues have all been really good at helping me but I every time I encounter something nasty/rude etc I feel like it really dampens my spirits and I can't help but think about what happened over and over and I get so down just knowing how horrible some people in the world can be even though I try to think of the nice people as well. Being treated that way when all you have done is be nice to everyone is, as I am sure many of you have experienced, very disheartening and it just gets to me more and more every time and I am struggling to shake it off. I am generally good at dealing with people at the time but it is the after effect it has on me that I end up taking home.

this is honestly why I think everyone should do one weeks work experience in a shop every year!! I'm not sure where it is where you work, but it will get easier to deal with these people over time. I used to get really shaky and unnerved when people shouted at me (I'm an assistant manager for a phone company, if someone's phone breaks it is actually like taking their life). Now I literally don't say anything back to them. As soon as they shout at me I stop what im doing (usually fixing something, checking their account, looking through bills) and just stop. If I'm fixing the phone i pop it all back together and just wait, with their notes i log off, and with their bills i pop them all back in order and place them back into the envelope. I let them have their rant, and remind them that they are in our shop, and we won't be spoken to that way. They do often get embarrassed and pipe down, but i have had to escort so many people out the store and press panic alarms to alert the pokice a fair few times too.
basically, just don't respond. saying nothing says SO much more than trying to remember what you can and can't say, what your company policy is etc and gives you time to think and for them to calm down. then when they go you can rant about them for 3 hours haha! or even cry! I cried after the last horrid person came in, it was totally my body going mental as my adrenaline was sky high (I had to call the police as he wouldn't leave the shop and threatened to hit me etc) and my body went into a massive come down when he left! stupid fart that he was!!! sorry for the long post but I can totally relate like janine and im sure pippa will have a few stories like this too! The general public are weird xx

@gemz there are always going to be mean, nasty rude people out there. Some people are just miserable and misery loves company. Sometimes bringing others down makes them feel better about themselves and it's sad. I cannot imagine being nasty to people all the time, and to people that have been nothing but nice and friendly to you. It really must be exhausting and a poor way to live. Just be grateful that you aren't one of those people. When I encounter people like that I just cut it off as they must some sort of issues going on that make them that way + hope that one day their life gets better so they can treat people kindly and with respect and not start drama/nastiness over absolutely nothing.

Well, it's a little much to say that these are miserable people. I think almost everyone is miserable sometimes, even if you don't realise it. I've just seen an unfortunate exchange on another forum where someone totally misread what another was trying to explain and took it badly. I've seen the same thing in real life and I'm sure we all have. Someone normally totally reasonable will have a moments madness, even anger.

When I used to work in a shop, I'd be cheeky and stick my tongue out at their back which would make me smile to myself and so I felt better! If they're on the phone, even better! Really go to town with the gestures and they have no idea lol I used to have the other people in the shop in fits of laughter when I add a swine on the phone 😀

Brush it off as them having a bad day, don't let them make your day bad too 🙂

I used to work in customer services, so I would get a LOT of abuse over the phone from people who were angry at whatever situation they were in.  I'm sure they were perfectly reasonable people the majority of the time, but some of them were just having a bad day.  I did the gestures thing, too--only at my computer screen while they were talking, lol.  While they're ranting, just take a deep breath and, like Meeshy said, just try to think about how you're going to react.  Politely and firmly remind them that you're not there to be abused, and you have every right to stop serving them if they won't stop (most companies have policies to protect their employees from abuse).  If they don't stop, then tell them you can't help them any further and get your manager.

couldn't get my tattoo today because the receptionist messed up my appointment. Have to go back next Saturday.

Some people are just miserable though. When I was a server there were a couple people, that every time they came in they were just nasty. I happened to see one at a store down the street treating the saleswoman the exact same! Im mot saying everyone that complains or is rude is a miserable person, but some just are + are tough to deal with but I actually feel sorry for them. It must be exhausting being in that kind of a mood all the time + I just think they must have bigger problems than I do that drive them to be so bittet and mean to people that don't deserve it + they don't even know. Anyway, I know it's hard sometimes but really, try not to take it personally. Chances are they're pissed or upset about something else going on in their life + just took it out on you. If you weren't working that day it would have been taken out on whoever else was there assisting them.