By Andrea Menzies
I am not injured, but the school I was working at had a real gun lock down today. I thought it was a drill as there are so many yet the guns were real. Teaching is somewhat simple and nice until it really is not in scary ways.
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https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/meadowbrook-high-school-lockdown-oct-11-2024
By Andrea Menzies
It is an adjustment of sails sort of a week. You can choose how you handle things sometimes.
By Andrea Menzies
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My medical grade insomnia started when I was raped and beaten at the military base called Fort Lee in Virginia in 2005 by military men. Why did they try to deploy me when I had not completed basic training or AIT they wanted to isolate a victim? Yes. Years worth of going to doctors did nothing to help the rape trauma, and doctors tried to dump horrible medication into my body with disgusting side effects which I would not need if I was not raped and beaten on a military base. It is a big part of why I hate Virginia with all my soul. It is also why I never date co-workers at all in my life now. Today a co-worker asked me. “What is wrong?” I wanted to say. “I have horrible nightmares as a rape victim and my family is forcing me to live in Virginia where it happened, and this is not making it any better.” What I said was. “I could not sleep great last night.” Another irony is my family have forced me to leave all my Texas and Louisiana friends behind to live in the area of Virginia where I was raped and beaten, and would be constantly reminded of being raped and beaten. Know that if a co-worker does not want to talk about her health problems at work she is not legally obligated to talk about them. Instead try harder to avoid situation where politicians allow rapists to flourish as Biden needed to change the laws on reporting rape in the military, and new politicians are threatening to roll back these protections in future years. Extremely relevant in an election year.
Also note they did not change the rules because of one or two people. They changed the rules because the complaints were really common- place.
By Andrea Menzies
Happy Birthday well wishes to Alexandria Menzies on her birthday today. The party is on Friday so I will post the photos after that day.
By Andrea Menzies
Work day on the way. Yep still working for Amazon. They work with trucks as the sign says.
By Andrea Menzies
Good news Chesterfield County Schools hired me back as a teacher! There was a pay and department location dispute, but it was resolved without issue and I am again a day teacher. In addition I am also employed by Amazon on a night shift job as I passed all physicals and drug and alcohol tests for many projects in 2022 and 2024. They drug and alcohol test at Amazon for all employment constantly, and I am still employed there. At last my bills are getting paid for the year just in time to buy a birthday gift for my daughter in full time school named Alexandria. It is her birthday this week in September. I wish I did not need two jobs to buy my daughter a gift, but it is what it is.
By Andrea Menzies
Woot! I made it to 30 thousand steps on Fitbit working for Amazon on Wednesday. I used to struggle to get to 10 thousand a day when doing teaching work. I had to take a break from teaching as they did not pay me 800 dollars of pay at Chesterfield Schools for work I did while trying to force me to become a bus driver, and my relatives have helped me contact lawyers on that issue. Meanwhile I have resumes out at other locations that use my completed University degree. Amazon heavily tested me for drugs and alcohol and I didn’t fail any of the tests, and so it is a good reference to have as abusive ex-employers and ex-boyfriends lately have tried to lie about my personal life.
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By Andrea Menzies
I hurt my ankle badly on the job last week, and it is my new plan to wear tall boots at work. Several online articles agree that tall boots provide better ankle support and prevent sprains better than low top shoes, and I have the ankles that need them. I had already bought tall work boots yet was going to wait until winter to wear them. I will sweat all summer to avoid a repeat on ankle crap. I could not do one tenth of the fun things I had planned for the weekend as ankle pain got in the way. I even got offered free concert tickets from online chat friends, and ankle pain mixed with hail and flooding got in the way of going there.
By Andrea Menzies
Thousands of flights were cancelled due to a national computer crash, and my mom’s flight to California was one. She saved up all year to see her grandkids special birthday parties in California and Washington. She was going to be gone until Monday, but she had to come back days early due to an emergency flight rescheduling. She has to skip many activities. I had to watch her dogs, and my gosh I have never seen tiny dogs poop so much. We have no cats, and are not cat ladies. I will be glad to give her that responsibility back quickly today.
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