Pressing Problems

This has been a bad week for my blood pressure. Every day so far has seemed to be filled with one annoying thing after another. Mainly, the annoyances have come from my day job. For example, I sent a Zoom meeting notice to a number of people, and one person (let's call her Beth) sends me a note that says, "I forwarded your invite to (let's say Joe) since he needs to attend." Beth is Joe's manager. However, Joe was invited to the meeting just as Beth was. I told Beth this and sent her a screen shot of the meeting invite that showed Joe's name right next to hers on the email. She said she didn't realize he had been invited. No apology for her mistake either. She's annoying and I feel like she's the kind of person who just wants to start some shit with me. It's unfortunate because we used to be friendly, but now we barely speak. Whatever. Leave me alone, Beth! Worry about your own unhappy employees and get out of my life!

I keep getting fliers in the mail from some Realtor for the woman who used to live in my apartment. The fliers are addressed to the former resident (let's call her Beth also) Beth or to the Current Resident (me.) Okay, Beth hasn't lived here in almost four years and I'm not interested in this guy's services. The post office keeps leaving this junk mail for Beth in my box. I normally just throw it away, but I want my address removed from this guy's mailing list because I'm sick of getting his mail. His fat little face and beady little eyes are on every single piece of mail he sends and it annoys me. I've contacted his office via mail, email, and phone and asked for my address to be removed, yet the mail keeps coming. What do you have to do to stop the junk? Frustrating. I know there are more pressing problems in the world, but this is pressing to me.  

Every freaking day, there's news about someone getting robbed, stabbed, shot, run over, etc. in Chicago, yet Mayor Lori Lightfoot seems to be in denial about the problems in the city. She's lobbying for the Democrats to have their next convention here. Really? Clean up your house, Lori, before inviting others over for a visit! And when is the police chief going? He should have hit the bricks a long time ago. Lightfoot strikes me as the kind of person who won't admit that changes are needed because her pride is in the way. That's why she turns a blind eye to criticism and refuses to believe that she made a bad choice in selecting the current police chief. I don't even live in Chicago, but I work there, I go there on occasion (not much lately due to crime and the fact that I'm largely working from home), and I'd like to see the city thrive. I want people (myself included) to feel safe while visiting the city and riding public transit. Changes are needed, Lori!