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Deaf Puppy Learns Sign Language {Lemondrop}

Jan 24th 2009 11:58PM Not all that special. All my dogs know hand signals... dogs respond better to hand signals than to voice commands, it's a proven fact. Dogs are all into body language. Cute puppy though. :)

With Child? Watch Out in the Workplace {Lemondrop}

Nov 14th 2008 2:08PM I certainly have! When I was pregnant with my first child, I was promised that I was going to be promoted to a level 2 technician... I told them I was pregnant shortly after, and suddenly all these "new" qualification procedures started showing up, to avoid promoting me. I passed the qualification requirements and they still refused to promote me. Then I started having horrible morning sickness and I was unable to work at all some days, and the other days it was really hard to talk on the phone, so I asked that I do chat work instead. Instead of understanding that I had a problem with this morning sickness, they wouldn't promote me and continued to insist that I make the goals that i had been making before I was sick. And on the phone only.

When I finally complained, they stuck to the "well, you've been missing work and so we can't promote you" thing and "we'd have to demote you for missing work, even if we did", but there was another tech 2 that was sick all the time and was out many days of the week that still retained his tech 2 status. It was bullcrap and it made me so mad. Finally they did promote me... shortly before I gave birth. I missed out on a lot of extra money from that and it was very ridiculous. I should have pursued it, but they kept insisting that it wasn't because I was pregnant. I no longer work there, but I wish I had done something sooner.