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Ah... so that metal twirly thing is called a roof vent... LOL!!!!


Guess I sound like a real 'girlie girl' at the moment, don't I? LOL.

But yes, good news.


Peace!

tammy

Report the technician, dear Zoe (peace to you!). NOT because you're a bad person and want him fired but because (1) HE won't ever realize he needs to change his "bedside" manner, which will prove detrimental to his employment someday, and (2) his employer won't ever know they have an employee that needs [further] training/guidence/coaching (which could lead to his being terminated, either way).

I am a firm believer that folks shouldn't be doing jobs they hate if they have to treat the CUSTOMER poorly. So, okay, you don't like your boss/company - treat the BOSS poorly. But the customer is the reason you have a JOB, nitwit!

Report him. Tell them that "he didn't seem to like his job much. Perhaps he could benefit from some additional customer service training/coaching"?

Otherwise, you do him, the company... and other customers who have to deal with his "attitude"... a great disservice.

Peace!

Your servant and a slave of Christ,

Shellama, who has supervised staffs of up to 94 people... and know that OFTEN an employee's (bad) attitude is the result of a LACK of proper training (or even job knowledge), particularly as to how to deal with the unexpected (like lightning strikes that result in probably hundreds of calls and requests for service)...

I so want to complain about the service I got, they screwed up yesterday majority and now are trying to cover up and then I get this technician with an attitude. I just don't do well with complaining, it's so stressful.
We can go with another Internet provider, thats my only trump card lol.

Hello to you all from a very wet North West England. Just home from an annual Autism Show. We have a nephew and a granddaughter on the spectrum, and the show provided some valuable information for us as relatives, and indeed teachers.

Loz x

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Good morning.....


And LOZ, hope that information is very helpful. DRY...over here on the west coast in California. I am seeing fires starting from my old hometown. Sad!

Enjoy your Friday everyone
Justmom

I am SO glad the world if finally learning about autism and how to live with it/a loved one with it, dear Loz (mornin' and peace to you!). My older sister SUFFERED from it - not the condition itself but how folks viewed/treated her. 50+ years ago, children were considered, diagnosed as, and called... "semi-retarded." No, I'm serious. I MY view my sister was BRILLIANT - she knew EVERYTHING... and taught me (and my younger brother) EVERYTHING, from tying our shoes to reading, math history, geography, and more. She was literally a walking encyclopedia of info. And not just trivia but substantial stuff.

Because of her my brother and were "A" students all through school. My sister, on the other hand, never received more than a C-... and mostly D's. I am SURE it was because her teachers feared her because they didn't UNDERSTAND her! And she could get very angry (frighteningly so, sometimes!) when she wasn't understood... or someone was trying to force her to do something she didn't want to do or think was right... or picking on one of us.

Kudos to you dear folks for even TRYING to understand!

Peace to you!

YSSFS of Christ,

Shellama, waving at dear 'Mom (mornin' and peace, luv!) and hoping all is well with everyone back on the homefront...

That's sad to hear Shelby. It was treated similarly here for many many years and perhaps the most major steps forward have been in the last decade really. In the 60s I was an au pair for a while for a London family whose 2 year old son had the condition, although then it was 'new', of course. He could take apart radios and put them back together but couldn't make eye contact at all.

I find it a fascinating condition (if you understand how I mean that?) I spoke to this young author today: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Its-Raining-Cat ... 1849052832
and had a wonderful chat with him about the differences in cognitive thinking between himself as a sufferer and the world around him. He explained that with idioms, they only understand a 'literal' translation of EACH WORD, and have to memorise the social meanings for these phrases. The difference being that 'normal' kids perceive the ridiculousness of an idiom whereas autistic sufferers don't. But then, he told me, we have extraordinary memory capabilities to compensate! A delightful young man, I could've chatted to him all day. My nephew used to be most disruptive at school on Thursdays until we discovered why. My sister used to work in a different office that day which she described to the family as a "madhouse" that would be "the death of her". Ben took it all literally and panicked every Thursday!

Interestingly Shelby, we had a lecture about the evidence now which shows that the majority of girls go undiagnosed, often until adulthood. They present differently to boys, and learn distinct techniques to hide their condition in a subconscious attempt to "fit in"....

Loz x

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Hmmmmm... maybe it runs in my family, dear Loz (peace to you!)... 'cause I used to battle with that myself! Or maybe I just learned to do it from my dear sister. But it took me well into my 30s-40s to LEARN to not take some things, including some idioms, literally. I would think I would have developed past that as a child but I didn't. I didn't take it to the level my sister did, but I did have some difficulty. Even now, I am often told that I am "too literal." And I'm often the last to get the joke (everyone's laughing and I'm still sitting there going, "But wait, I don't understand! WHY is that funny?!").

Ah, well...

I could always make eye contact, though!! 'Specially when some grown up (parent, teacher, neighbor, minister, etc.) was telling a bare-faced lie! I couldn't always tell the subtle ones... but the bare-faced ones? Oh, yeahhh... LOLOLOL!

Peace, dear one!

YSSFS of Christ,

Shellama, who STILL doesn't think "America's Funniest Home Videos" is funny! How can people hurting themselves... sometimes very painfully... be FUNNY??!! THAT... I just don't get. Never will...

Lol at you Shelby...in the lecture there was a lot discussed about the way ASD in girls can be identified. One vital signifier is their ability to mimic voices... intonation, accent, etc. and something they can't help. I am known for the fact that people can tell who I've been speaking to, say in a phone call or at a gathering because I adopt accents so quickly...it gets embarrassing lol. Discussing all this today, it seems that all of us have some of aspects of ASD, actually, just greater and lesser. Interesting thought isn't it? The lecturer posted her Powerpoint of the lecture about girls, on a website, I will see if I can find it and send you the link, I think you'd be fascinated.

Loz x

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Interesting, yes, and helps me make sense of some things in MY life - LOLOLOL!

Peace and thank you for sharing this, dear Loz. I look forward to perusing the website, so please post that information/link when you have it.

YSSFS of Christ,

Shellama

Yay, I am posting from my PC again, just got it back and hooked up. We had to replace the Motherboard, it could have been worse I guess. John had to replace his whole laptop and get a new one and his PC is still there, we have to replace the guts of it too.

Loz that is great about the Autism Show, and that you keep in touch on how to understand it.

Its a cooler day today, rainy and the start of our Canada Day long weekend.

HAPPY CANADA DAY... and peace to all of you... well, you're not "Yanks" I don't think (are you?)... so what's yer nickname... okay, how about Canadian dear ones, for now!

Enjoy and have a wonderful weekend!

Shellama, who wishes she was as adept as dear Zoe (peace, luv!) with those nifty "smilie" icon thing-ies... on her own...

I am a Yank living in Canada, I was born in Detroit. Canadians nickname is Canucks

I borrow the smilies and icons etc from other forums and sites because the ones here don't work lol well a couple do but not many. All you have to do is right click on any picture or smilie on the web and choose properties on the drop down menu and then copy the URL of the pic and paste it here.

Glad you're getting sorted Zoe, sorry that it's costly though.

Never mind the smilies, (totally beyond me), I want to know how on earth people manage to quote things in boxes from posts here and elsewhere seemingly so easily? If I want to quote a part of a post I have to quote the whole, and then delete what I don't need? To do that over and over in one reply is just too arduous, so is there something you all know that I don't? And I'm wondering as I ramble now, if I should start a thread on this and not post it here! Lol.

Loz x

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Loz... highlight the part you want to quote of someone else's text, then copy/paste it into your reply box, then highlight it again, and hit the quote icon (which is right next to the B i and u icons)



If there are multiple little things in a quote though, then it is a matter of quoting the whole thing and deleting little bits OR copy-pasting/quote boxing the individual bits that you want.

And yes, Canadians are Canucks : )


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