G+ Migration Blog

- locked - Can I write to Ask a Manager about my family? We have the person whose way of dealing with stress and priorities is to constantly only work on whatever is most critical, and therefore somehow always has a situation where something is critical. Very effective for reducing stress. Then we have the person who delegates things, only to be unavailable for feedback or input, and/or criticizes every single thing that's done once the end point is reached. And the one who micromanages because they need to be in complete control of everything, even things that they are not in charge of. But no one else ever does anything right, or listens to them, or talks to them. In fact, people are probably conspiring to keep them out of the loop. Then there's the blaming. I would have done things differently, if only other person X had done ... Well X didn't do thing, so I didn't know/couldn't do ... It's always someone else's fault or responsibility. Oh, and the I don...

Documenting for my own sanity. Mom now says she hates the bed and didn't want it anyway and they bought it because Dad wanted it and it was for his back but it turned out it wasn't the bed he had a real back problem. 1. She wanted a new bed. She pushed it while Dad said no. He caved, so yeah, at some point when she pressured him into going and looking he expressed a preference. She wanted a new bed so she could give theirs to her brother. 2. The timing of getting a new bed versus his medical back issues is not consistent with her recollections that the new bed was for Dad's back. 3. It occurs to me that it is possible Dad is sleeping further into the center of the bed than he once did because it is a squishy edged bed that really has no edge and you slide off it, or rather it slides out from under you, unless you are at least 4 inches away from the edge. Which takes out a fair bit of real estate, really, if you both need to be 4 inches closer to the center of the bed. She a...