Pet Peeve Friday

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Let's vent a bit. I'm having trouble readjusting to reality after a wonderful Spring Break and am finding my patience wearing down a little quicker than the school year.

I'll start:

Cell phone voice mail that's either not set up or is full. I don't get people that do this... How are you not accessible when you're away from your kids in case of emergency? :facepalm:

Specializes in School Nurse.
My oldest son, who is a computer programmer, gave me a trick to creating (and remembering) those horrible passwords that require everything under the sun. Think of a word or phrase from your favorite movie or book. If its long, use only the first initials. Then replace an O with a "zero" or an E with a "3". For special characters, use * for an O or $ for an S. Examples:

"Live long and Prosper" = Liv3l*ng&Pr*sp3r

"May the odds be ever in your favor" = Mt*b3iyf

I memorized mine without too much trouble and I'm horrible at remembering passwords!

Wow!!!!!!

I will give that a try next month when the password expires. :wtf:

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I just realized it's not Friday!!! :roflmao: But we don't have school tomorrow, so it's like a Friday for me.

Yeah, I thought . . . maybe you were in a different time zone over the ocean somewhere! :lol2:

Ditto, the system is so secure it forces you to write it down somewhere!! I'd have an easier time remembering the Bill of Rights than that conglomeration of codes/user names/passwords.

I hate passwords too. I have to change my computer password monthly for access to my desktop at work. Then the program I use for charting has two passwords and you have to change those every 90 days. So yeah, I have a notepad with my passwords and I cross out the old ones and write down the new ones with the date I changed them. This notepad is in my desk drawer (last one down on the left).

So . . . security is key, right? ;)

(Don't even get me started on when I worked in two different departments in the same hospital with two different charting systems and 4 passwords to remember). :sarcastic:

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Specializes in ED, School Nurse.

I use the first letters of a phrase from a song.

For example:

You Can Tell By The Way I Use My Walk (thank you Bee Gees!!)

Yctbtwiumw

Then I throw some numbers at the end and my favorite character if needed.

I even use an obscure song that only a few people know, which makes it even harder to figure out.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Community Health, School Health.

We don't have landlines here at my school so all staff carry a company cell phone. We have ONE landline which is the front desk, upstairs from my office. My favorite is when I call a parent and it goes to voicemail and then they call back immediately to the main landline number without listening to my message. They tell the secretary "someone called my number from school". Of course the secretary has no idea who called or why/. Drives me nuts.

The other one is when they call or send texts after hours. I have never answered the phone if I am not on duty, but I have gotten calls and texts on weekends :no: I have an outgoing voice mail that specifies when I will check messages and to not leave any important info but they still do it.

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Specializes in School Nursing.
Oh, my yes!!!! Then to add to that the other numbers on their forms do not work or they are fighting with each other so you can't call them.

I also have a couple of kids whose parents will not speak to each other so if little Johnny gets sick or hurt I have to call both sets of parents because God forbid they talk to each other. OR I have to ask Johnny which parent he goes home to after school on this particular day because that is the parent that I call.

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The Texas Immunization registry has updated their web site. Now along with username they want an organization code, well fine they provided that, but the password area was insane (maybe for me). Could not be a word from the dictionary or a slang word; could not be similar to any other password you have had before; along with capital letter and special character. I use tining mostly as a username - first three letters of my first name and first three letters of my maiden name - tried to use it as part of the password and NOOOOOOO rejected - it was considered a word in the dictionary and/or slang word. WTH? Are people using tining as a slang word (and what does it mean)? How am I supposed to remember a password that does not relate to my life????? My bank does not even require this much randomness. It took me 45 minutes to wrestle with this site to get an acceptable password (had to go to a password generator), and let me say the site is super lame and not user friendly like it used to be. And for security purposes it is written down on a post-it under my laptop if anyone wants it.

I feel your pain!!! It took me 30-40 minutes too. I was about to pull my hair out........

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Specializes in School Nursing, Pediatrics.

Yes, it is Friday here as well today! Thankfully!

We are in the middle of state testing and my principal has been OUT OF CONTROL! I wish we could just pass out ativan to all the staff until this testing is over, everyone is on edge!

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Specializes in School Nursing.
Yes, it is Friday here as well today! Thankfully!

We are in the middle of state testing and my principal has been OUT OF CONTROL! I wish we could just pass out ativan to all the staff until this testing is over, everyone is on edge!

Our schools start testing next week. I'm hoping that means the health office will be quiet and I can catch up on stuff!

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The Texas Immunization registry has updated their web site. Now along with username they want an organization code, well fine they provided that, but the password area was insane (maybe for me). Could not be a word from the dictionary or a slang word; could not be similar to any other password you have had before; along with capital letter and special character. I use tining mostly as a username - first three letters of my first name and first three letters of my maiden name - tried to use it as part of the password and NOOOOOOO rejected - it was considered a word in the dictionary and/or slang word. WTH? Are people using tining as a slang word (and what does it mean)? How am I supposed to remember a password that does not relate to my life????? My bank does not even require this much randomness. It took me 45 minutes to wrestle with this site to get an acceptable password (had to go to a password generator), and let me say the site is super lame and not user friendly like it used to be. And for security purposes it is written down on a post-it under my laptop if anyone wants it.

Seriously though...this is all true! I'm waiting to see exactly how much better its supposed to be than the one it replaced...so far all I've gotten was an elevated BP and the desire to toss my computer across the room....GIVE ME BACK MY OLD IMMTRAC!!!

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Specializes in Telemetry, Gastroenterology, School Nrs.

Parents with shared custody getting super angry when you call the wrong one to pick up the little vomiting snowflake. How the heck am I supposed to know that it's not your day?!?!?!?!

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Specializes in Telemetry, Gastroenterology, School Nrs.

Oh and BethG73, you do realize it's only Thursday, right?? :inlove: (I guess it is our Friday, since we are out for the Holiday tomorrow!)

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I just realized it's not Friday!!! :roflmao: But we don't have school tomorrow, so it's like a Friday for me.

Haha I didn't even realize that from the OP but in my opinion, Thursday makes a better Friday than Friday does! :yes:

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