mlana
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Jun 27, 2014 19:58:15 GMT
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Post by mlana on Aug 12, 2019 1:45:35 GMT
LOL I know karma is going to bite me for this, but I am going to Amit I am taking an evil pleasure in it.....
My Workforce All in One printer died Friday was a week ago. It was the worst time for it to die as I needed to scan documents for HR for DH’s new job. Note: I needed to scan for HIS new job...DH was so unconcerned, said we had another printer in the garage, he’d set it up..???when, when would he set it up??!??
I reminded him all last weekend, nope. Every. Day. Last. Week. Nope I finally took a picture of the documents needed and made a .pdf of it to send to his new HR.
This Friday I told him he was going to get that printer set up before he went to bed Sunday or I was going to get upset. NO ONE wants to see Marcy upset, so he agreed he’d get it done by Sunday night. He also needed to get what will be his almost final invoicing done for our company.
I reminded him Sat morning. I reminded him Sat night. I reminded him Sun morning. Nada.
As I was sitting here with our DD he announced his favorite movie in the WORLD is on and we should not disturb him while he watches it and plays a game with his alliance on his phone.
DD left.
I turned off his phone access.
I turned off his Hulu Live access.
Cursing commenced.
It took him a good 10 minutes to figure it out. Roaring ensued.
When he came in where I am all hot and bothered, I just, softly, asked him if my printer was working and were the invoices done.....he backed out of the room, very carefully....
He finished the invoices a few minutes ago and is now working on the printer..very, very quietly.
Like I said, no one wants to upset Marcy. He’s getting off easy and he knows it.
Should I be so happy that he is having to miss his movie to do something he had more than ample opportunity to do for over a week? Probably not, but that’s just how I roll.
Marcy
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pilcas
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Post by pilcas on Aug 12, 2019 1:49:10 GMT
I don’t blame you one bit!
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Post by mom on Aug 12, 2019 1:53:24 GMT
LOL Good for you! If my kids haven't checked in with me once a week like they are supposed to then all I have to do is change the Netflix + Hulu passwords. Suddenly both boys are calling! LOL
And yeah, karma might come back around but I would think this was worth it!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2019 2:05:35 GMT
Live it!
Btw...I can not think of you as Marcy....you are “my Lana”
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Post by freecharlie on Aug 12, 2019 2:20:57 GMT
LOL Good for you! If my kids haven't checked in with me once a week like they are supposed to then all I have to do is change the Netflix + Hulu passwords. Suddenly both boys are calling! LOL And yeah, karma might come back around but I would think this was worth it! that is a great idea. I spam them with emojis
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 12, 2019 2:26:51 GMT
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Post by Basket1lady on Aug 12, 2019 2:36:00 GMT
LOL Good for you! If my kids haven't checked in with me once a week like they are supposed to then all I have to do is change the Netflix + Hulu passwords. Suddenly both boys are calling! LOL And yeah, karma might come back around but I would think this was worth it! that is a great idea. I spam them with emojis Great idea! I cut off the allowance. They signed a contract with us (literally) that says I get proof of life once a week. That’s the price for getting my money. So far, I’ve only had to cut DS off once in 4 years.
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kibblesandbits
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Post by kibblesandbits on Aug 12, 2019 2:41:54 GMT
What is wrong with him that you have to do all his paperwork for him? And submit things for HIS job?
I'm not one for games, and I've given up over-functioning for my NY resolution. What would happen if you suddenly died?
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Mystie
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Jun 25, 2014 19:53:37 GMT
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Post by Mystie on Aug 12, 2019 2:57:37 GMT
I aspire to your level of quietly evil effectiveness. Really! I get SO SICK of nagging my husband.
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Post by nlwilkins on Aug 12, 2019 5:01:30 GMT
Good job, keep it up! Wish that would work for me, but husband is not really into anything but the television and I hesitate to turn it off as there are shows I like to record to watch later. I hate being a nag and when hubby's actions "require" it I get twice as upset.
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seaexplore
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Post by seaexplore on Aug 12, 2019 5:48:30 GMT
Go go go!
I’m also wondering why YOU are doing things for HIS job.
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Post by darkangel090260 on Aug 12, 2019 6:08:48 GMT
I just start doing whatever it is. He gets off his butt and does it. Now printers and other tech stuff Is set up. Do not touch my cord mess.
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RedSquirrelUK
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Aug 2, 2014 13:03:45 GMT
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Aug 12, 2019 8:37:19 GMT
I'm laughing right there with you. The only reason women nag is because men don't get the job done. You go girl!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2019 8:48:11 GMT
way to go Marcy.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Aug 12, 2019 10:31:42 GMT
It's a genius idea but I'm sad you had to do it.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Aug 12, 2019 10:34:31 GMT
What is wrong with him that you have to do all his paperwork for him? And submit things for HIS job? I'm not one for games, and I've given up over-functioning for my NY resolution. What would happen if you suddenly died? I remember you saying this to me when I really needed to hear it. I've been slowly giving it up too. My DH said the other night he invited his family to thanksgiving. I looked at him and said, good luck with that. He was shocked. I told him I'd make one pumpkin pie for my kids.
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Post by mrssmith on Aug 12, 2019 11:44:47 GMT
He could have just as easily taken the pic and turned it in to his HR. I find that pretty irresponsible of him actually! Clearly he knows how to use a phone!
I am sorry to hear you had to take drastic measures, but I am glad you have a working printer (I hope).
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Post by mikklynn on Aug 12, 2019 11:49:45 GMT
I love it.
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kibblesandbits
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Post by kibblesandbits on Aug 12, 2019 13:18:48 GMT
What is wrong with him that you have to do all his paperwork for him? And submit things for HIS job? I'm not one for games, and I've given up over-functioning for my NY resolution. What would happen if you suddenly died? I remember you saying this to me when I really needed to hear it. I've been slowly giving it up too. My DH said the other night he invited his family to thanksgiving. I looked at him and said, good luck with that. He was shocked. I told him I'd make one pumpkin pie for my kids. Impressive! Good for you. And . . . eek - he's already planning Thanksgiving?
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Post by jeremysgirl on Aug 12, 2019 13:52:05 GMT
I remember you saying this to me when I really needed to hear it. I've been slowly giving it up too. My DH said the other night he invited his family to thanksgiving. I looked at him and said, good luck with that. He was shocked. I told him I'd make one pumpkin pie for my kids. Impressive! Good for you. And . . . eek - he's already planning Thanksgiving? It's probably a good thing he started planning. He's got a lot of work to do. LOL!
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 12, 2019 14:01:02 GMT
I'm laughing right there with you. The only reason women nag is because men don't get the job done. You go girl! My husband can run circles around me. When my kids were growing up, I was nonstop. Once they reached high school and could better fend for themselves, I decided to slow down. My husband does watch sports and take naps, but he is the most active guy I know. He'll get up on a Saturday morning at seven and I hear him scrubbing toilets and the bathtub. Nope.
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 12, 2019 14:03:49 GMT
What is wrong with him that you have to do all his paperwork for him? And submit things for HIS job? I'm not one for games, and I've given up over-functioning for my NY resolution. What would happen if you suddenly died? I remember you saying this to me when I really needed to hear it. I've been slowly giving it up too. My DH said the other night he invited his family to thanksgiving. I looked at him and said, good luck with that. He was shocked. I told him I'd make one pumpkin pie for my kids. My husband used to invite his family overnight all of the time. "It wasn't any work." So then I told him I would make dinner the nights we had company, but he had to take care of the grocery shopping, cleaning, laundry and the rest of the meals and he never commented again about it being no work.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 12, 2019 14:15:14 GMT
That rises to a new level of awesome. My DH will pull the same kind of crap, only when push comes to shove he will tell me that I never reminded him, usually when it was something I had talked about repeatedly the entire previous week. Here’s a great example that happened just recently. My friend and I had a garage sale at my house a few weeks ago. She said she had a big table top made out of two doors that we could put outside in the driveway so the good tables wouldn’t get wet. Great, let’s do that. She brought the thing over and it is literally falling apart because it had gotten wet so many times, but we used it anyway for lightweight stuff. After the sale as we’re packing up afterward, it occurred to me that we had two nice hollow core doors at the cabin (like the ones the table top had been made of once ago) that were stuffed in a closet that we weren’t using. We replaced them and DH wanted to chuck them into the dumpster. I convinced him to keep them, thinking I could use one for a craft table for the kids or something. Hmmm. Because I know my DH and how he is with things he considers “his stuff,” I asked him privately that night before mentioning it to my friend what he thought about giving those doors to her to rebuild her table top so she could throw the falling apart thing away, and he said he didn’t care. Great! She wanted to have another sale in a couple weeks at her house and could use them then. We were going to be at the lake the next weekend before her sale and we could bring them home then. Had a whole discussion about it! For the next solid week, we talked about the upcoming sale at friend’s house multiple times. I mentioned at least 2-3 times bringing those doors home in his truck because they wouldn’t fit in my car. That first weekend between sales we had to drive separately because I had to meet with a contractor there, and he forgot to bring them home. The following weekend we were there working on various things and we ended up staying later than expected to have dinner there with the neighbors on Sunday night. As we’re getting ready to load up the truck to come home, I mention grabbing those doors and taking them with us because her sale would be later that same week and he just about flipped his lid. “WHY do you tell me this stuff NOW when it’s 8:00 on Sunday night and I have to work tomorrow?” Really? WTF does that have to do with anything? It would literally take him less than 10 minutes to bring them up from the basement closet and put them in the truck, and my friend’s DH could come get them from our house the next day with his truck! I ended up pulling them both out of the closet and out the patio door by myself, and literally dragging the first one up the hill through the dirt to the truck before he came to help me. (Keep in mind I just spent the last 8 weeks doing PT on my messed up ankle, am seeing a podiatrist again today for my fused toe foot, go to a chiropractor weekly for my back and still need to make an appointment to figure out what is messed up with my clicking shoulder that is making my hand go numb throughout the day. So yeah.) When he quite easily picked up the other door and walked it right up the hill in two minutes... It really ticks me off that if you only ask them once they won’t just do it, but if you ask them more than once you’re automatically a nag. It also drives me nuts that anything I ask him to do for me or my friends is a chore that he will drag his heels on forever, but anything he asks me to do for him or his friends I should get right on that, chop-chop. Grrr. Whatever.
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Post by JustCallMeMommy on Aug 12, 2019 14:38:44 GMT
I don't blame you one bit! I would be extra annoyed because a printer from the garage probably needs a new ink cartridge, and I don't want to figure that out on Sunday night.
It seems that the big issue was scanning though - there are apps that scan, and they do a better job than just taking a picture. I have Scanner Pro on my phone...it might have cost a few bucks. I remember buying it when I saw how nice of a job it did scanning a document at work. Of course, that doesn't help much if you have to print before or after scanning.
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likescarrots
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Post by likescarrots on Aug 12, 2019 15:15:00 GMT
I couldn't really get past the part where you're doing his paperwork, it's not surprising that he's not motivated to get his shit done when you're always doing it for him.
I don't really see this as a win for you, sorry.
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janeinbama
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Post by janeinbama on Aug 12, 2019 15:17:53 GMT
The fact he backed out the door speaks volumes. Brilliant idea 1
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RosieKat
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Post by RosieKat on Aug 12, 2019 18:52:33 GMT
Impressive! Good for you. And . . . eek - he's already planning Thanksgiving? It's probably a good thing he started planning. He's got a lot of work to do. LOL! But now you have the job of narrating for us to give us a Pea thread to live in infamy!
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RedSquirrelUK
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Aug 12, 2019 20:18:10 GMT
I'm laughing right there with you. The only reason women nag is because men don't get the job done. You go girl! My husband can run circles around me. When my kids were growing up, I was nonstop. Once they reached high school and could better fend for themselves, I decided to slow down. My husband does watch sports and take naps, but he is the most active guy I know. He'll get up on a Saturday morning at seven and I hear him scrubbing toilets and the bathtub. Nope. May I borrow him please? Just on a Saturday morning.
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 12, 2019 21:22:13 GMT
My husband can run circles around me. When my kids were growing up, I was nonstop. Once they reached high school and could better fend for themselves, I decided to slow down. My husband does watch sports and take naps, but he is the most active guy I know. He'll get up on a Saturday morning at seven and I hear him scrubbing toilets and the bathtub. Nope. May I borrow him please? Just on a Saturday morning. After cleaning he works out and then goes for a bike ride. Not lending him out!
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Post by pierkiss on Aug 12, 2019 21:40:56 GMT
Impressive! Good for you. And . . . eek - he's already planning Thanksgiving? It's probably a good thing he started planning. He's got a lot of work to do. LOL! We are also planning Thanksgiving right now. My best friend and her fam decided they wanted to come stay with us for the holiday and that week. YAY!! So, we have to! 😁
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