Thank you so much!!!
For those of you who were referred here via a redditor....
- Thread starter amynurse
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Nope. No clue. But the one that posted below you showed me how. Thanks for the intel!
Oh yeah, sorry. It was for Tesa.
I didn't get here directly from amynurse's generosity, but do want to send out some love and appreciation. I like the vibe here--happy to see that lack of self initiative is not really tolerated. That's half my day at work--did you even try to google it before wasting my time with that question? My RS is eager to switch to a new study protocol, plenty of conceptualization left to do yet. But yeah, thanks for the empathy for compounders left out to bloat!
moonpies4misfits
Research Enthusiast
I think that is also why I get frustrated lol. Worked at a high volume IT help desk for end users for a number of years and the calls I'd get for the most basic stuff
So many of those calls were me just reading off the instructions to them that they already had access to.
The amount of times my company's IT has been rendered speechless by 'I've already restarted the program, and when that didn't work I restarted the computer....'I think that is also why I get frustrated lol. Worked at a high volume IT help desk for end users for a number of years and the calls I'd get for the most basic stuff
And then tell me to do it again because they don't believe me.
moonpies4misfits
Research Enthusiast
I can go on about that too. Not all help desks are useful, the internal IT at my company was and still is absolutely useless
I would send them step by step instructions on what exactly I needed that I couldn't do myself because I dont have admin credentials and they still fudged it up.But you would be surprised at the sheer number of people who think putting their laptop to sleep is the same as a restart, or they don't know how to properly close a program. I never bothered asking if they restarted, I'd just check their uptime (I'd remote on immediately after answering the call) and I can tell you that at least 60% of the time when someone told me they restarted their uptime was actually like 20 days... So the people like that are the reason IT doesn't believe you lol.
Edit to add: There's also a HIGH turnover when it comes to end user support compared to other aspects of the IT field. A lot of the time they have no idea what they're doing and don't last, which sucks for the end users.
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This, definitely this too. And then have to escalate after 20 mins of the things I've already tried.
Im 100% always going to try to fix something before asking anyone for help, especially before calling IT!I think that is also why I get frustrated lol. Worked at a high volume IT help desk for end users for a number of years and the calls I'd get for the most basic stuff
I'm more of a lurker in other forums. Far from any kind of SME, but quickly get nearly infuriated... "what do the lines on the plastic thing attached to the needle mean?" "I injected an hour late, am I gonna die?" Yes. Yes you are bc u definitely should not be in this field!
moonpies4misfits
Research Enthusiast
I worked at Home Depot in the garden dept back in the day and 80% of the time a customer asked me a question about a weed killer or insect spray, they just wanted me to read the label for them
Customer: Picks up a bottle of clearly labeled poison ivy killer... "Can I use this for poison ivy?!"
Working in a pharmacy as a teenager way back in the day was great too. "How many of these can I take?"I worked at Home Depot in the garden dept back in the day and 80% of the time a customer asked me a question about a weed killer or insect spray, they just wanted me to read the label for them
Customer: Picks up a bottle of clearly labeled poison ivy killer... "Can I use this for poison ivy?!"
I was a minimum wage cashier, the pharmacist was right there, should you take acetaminophen OTC at all if you can't even figure out who to ask?
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YoYoFat
Senior Member
Who are you using for HRT? My doctor isn’t great and need to go telehealth.
amynurse
New_Member
Midi
YoYoFat
Senior Member
GenX forum lover here, too. I haven’t been on one in ages, it’s so…. nostalgic.I found my own way here as well. It wasn't hard. I'm a Gen X'er and grew up on forums, so I just googled "GLP forum" and voila, here I am
YoYoFat
Senior Member
I met two of my lifelong friends in an AOL chat room, was the maid of honor in one guy’s wedding!It is now AOL Instant Messenger, but it will do!
YoYoFat
Senior Member
Thanks. That’s who I was considering. I have an HMO, so I’d have to be cash pay for the visit, but the bloodwork and meds would be covered by insurance. I figured I’d use MIDI for as long as necessary and then persuade by PCP to pick up the care.
amynurse
New_Member
It's a good company, especially if your insurance will pick up some of the extras.
esgorham
New Member
i’m so sorry you got banned. but i’m definitely so grateful you did it. it’s very much appreciated!! with myself AND two young adult daughters on the meds it will be impossible to purchase after the first of the year. our insurance company has decided the purchase price will no longer be applied to our deductible (which is already a ridiculously large amount). so thank you!!Just wanted to let y'all know that I caught a reddit ban for sharing this forum link in PMs last night. So, I am unable to respond to messages over there. I feel so bad that people are thinking I'm ignoring them.
No good deed goes unpunished, amiright?
Anyway, enjoy this wonderful forum...I'm so glad this place exists for us
