Submitted by ThrowRAnopenope t3_10pl018 in LifeProTips
I work a pretty demanding 9-5 job in tech. I’m having a really hard time doing my job and also finding time to schedule “life” appointments (doctor, dentist, mechanic, etc) let alone actually GO to them. Similar situation for all other life things like taking care of literally anything that requires you to call a business during the week to resolve an issue. How do you all handle balancing this?
Many of the doctors, dentists, etc are also closed on Friday as well as the weekend which limits my time to only M-TR for even going to appointments. I’m starting to feel real stressed as there isn’t enough time in the day to sit on the phone for hours trying to resolve “life issues”, schedule appointments and then actually go to the appointment plus work. What’s worse is that it seems like most places are starting to push the leg work back on the customer, for example: I made an appointment to see my doctor to get a prescription filled. Went to said appointment. Went to the pharmacy and the pharmacy didn’t have my meds. Called doctor and doctor told me I had to call around all other pharmacies to find one that had my meds in stock. Called X number of pharmacies who told me that they couldn’t give me that info and to have the doc call directly. Called doc back to report this to him. Doc still pushed me to figure it out due to staffing shortages. This phone tag ate up 4 hours of my day. Just this. Trying to take care of simple tasks is now taking 3X the time. How do normal people handle this and not get fired for asking off all the time to deal with life?
UPDATE - I am astounded by all the feedback to this post. I can’t thank you enough for all the suggestions, little tidbits of encouragement, and some hilarious comments that at least gave me a much needed giggle. I have a healthy list of actions to put in place to hopefully make things easier. Thank you!!! 🙏🏽