Or Carrie is still going round there breaking lockdown rules, and they’re keeping it on the DL.Carrie removed her profile status that she works with her best friend and made her account private and seemed to me not 100% sure that Lydia has removed some of thier pics together mabye??! And she is not mentioning Carrie and Bolly as before especially with training porter etc I think they are not working together anymore have I missed anything? Has anyone noticed ?
Late to the party, however here in avatar solidarity- a bacteria ridden Invisalign!Has anyone got dandruff for a avatar?
If there was inheritance coming to her, it wouldn’t be so soon. It takes a while with those kind of things. Also her grandma is still alive so the estate probably is just passed to her.Not gonna lie, when I saw her spending such an incredible amount of money in such a short timeframe I did wonder if she had somehow gotten her hands on some kind of inheritance...
If there is a bit of money, it will take years!If there was inheritance coming to her, it wouldn’t be so soon. It takes a while with those kind of things. Also her grandma is still alive so the estate probably is just passed to her.
I had a look at Carries linkedin account and it still says she works for LEM online I wouldn't be surprised if their friendship was on the rocks though. It is bound to happen at some point.Carrie removed her profile status that she works with her best friend and made her account private and seemed to me not 100% sure that Lydia has removed some of thier pics together mabye??! And she is not mentioning Carrie and Bolly as before especially with training porter etc I think they are not working together anymore have I missed anything? Has anyone noticed ?
Absolutely bound to happen. My sister is v similar to Lidl - lets face it, we all have come across this type of personality and it doesn’t take medical expertise to identify - she would give up all friendships ultimately because she would detect a perceived criticism and then - poof - friendship over. She ended up isolating herself and her husband from anyone and everyone and then, subsequently, her kids. No contact for her kids with grandparents on either family side and ultimately with no family members on either side. I won’t bang on about it but suffice it to say, the isolation caused her husband to become very ill.I had a look at Carries linkedin account and it still says she works for LEM online I wouldn't be surprised if their friendship was on the rocks though. It is bound to happen at some point.
Wouldn't surprise me if she had someone do her essays for her. Isn't that what she did in school according to one of the first GG threads?I think that’s the reason I assumed she didn’t graduate as well @Oops...
I just don’t understand how a person who has precisely zero idea when it comes to constructing a grammatically correct sentence not only passed the requisite units, but managed to graduate from University?
HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?
When I was studying for both my Applied Biology and Nursing Degrees, if a student’s academic essay was overrun with spelling errors, or just didn’t make sense, it was an automatic fail ... for the essay only, not the lab hurdles or exams for that Unit, and don’t even get me started on using the Harvard Referencing Style both within the essay itself and the Bibliography - truly the stuff of nightmares and I’m considering going back to get my PhD!
You may not have noticed that I’m a little pedantic when it comes to all things grammar related because I hide it so well, but I would lose sleep if I thought I’d forgotten an Oxford comma (one of my regular Unit Chair’s insisted they be used in the Units he taught and it stuck - controversial, I know), and I would proof read every single essay approximately 137 times before I would even think of submitting it.
I used to drive myself around the twist obsessing over the minutiae of everything I wrote, including Facebook posts and Instagram captions.
Oh, who am I kidding, I still do ... I’m just a little more liberal with the use of dashes and ellipsis these days!
ETA: Lab Hurdles is the term used for practical exams, nothing to do with a dog jumping over a piece of sports equipment ... tasks like taking a manual blood pressure, auscultating the heart and lungs and identifying any anomalies, inserting cannulas, administering tube feeds, calculating IV drug doses and programming an infusion pump, demonstrating correct resuscitation technique, and so on and so forth!
Maybe you can't see her profile status because she made the account private? I happened when Lydia was paranoid because of her spy and deleted an assload people on her private Insta, and Carrie did the same.Carrie removed her profile status that she works with her best friend and made her account private and seemed to me not 100% sure that Lydia has removed some of thier pics together mabye??! And she is not mentioning Carrie and Bolly as before especially with training porter etc I think they are not working together anymore have I missed anything? Has anyone noticed ?
Someone I know IRL blocked me recently and their bio seemed to change randomly (and no, I wasn't mentioned in the bio )Maybe you can't see her profile status because she made the account private? I happened when Lydia was paranoid because of her spy and deleted an assload people on her private Insta, and Carrie did the same.
That was me. But this needs some time. There was no time for building up the needed emotions.I remember someone here commenting (possibly around about Christmas time) that changing the dynamics in the office by including more staff working together may easily cause dissent. Maybe that observation was correct and prophetic...I must admit that Office Politics can make some unhappy if it isn’t handled sympathetically. In my own experience who you put in each office and where you seat them can be a very important consideration when you want to achieve the good of all. I remember the post here because it definitely resonated.
Thank you @Oops... your kind words mean a lot.Have only just read this SS! I am SO very sorry - that must have been THE most gruelling time for you. Really. Full marks to your mother for helping you - many wouldn’t. Your compassion shines. I think many of us feel a bit rotten at times vis Lydia and then she goes and does something else that shakes the reality back into us.
I don’t want to jump on the bandwagon over her grandfather because he was definitely lovely but I must say that the one thing most would have not criticised her for taking more time off for was this. Yet she has seemingly carried on as normal. That has surprised me but I really do understand that grief takes people in different ways. One of our graduates at the office absolutely refused the compassionate leave I gave him when his father died for instance. He said it was important for him to remain occupied.
Very good point, well made. It could be Carrie’s friend in the mix altering the dynamic ( #hulahoops gate didn’t help!!) but, really, in all honesty, who employs their best friend? Partner with your friend, maybe, but employ??That was me. But this needs some time. There was no time for building up the needed emotions.
If they really had a fall out, it's more due to the fact that Carries "friend" didn't like Lydia (because he saw right through her) and intervened. Especially for the fact that Carrie is only skin and bones nowadays. Also, Lydia's behaviour during the last year escalated. And now she got a dog, and Carrie seems very passionate about her dog, and she knows Lydia probably the best. Also, their friendships dynamic is odd. (I'm so tired today, and the needed words won't come to my mind, so I have to write around, what I actually try to say)
Thank you for understanding where I was coming from @theredgossiper.I understand why you'd feel that way, but rest assured that you only voiced what many of us are thinking.
I do wonder if buying and acquiring material things is one of her coping mechanisms? I know I went through a phase of ordering A LOT of things to make up for something I thought was missing in my life (I'm well over it now).
Isn’t she contracted by Lydia for her services? I’m guessing Carrie is utilising the self employment grant which states:Or Carrie is still going round there breaking lockdown rules, and they’re keeping it on the DL.
Really @Wophie? I was never on that site, so this is news to me - although I probably shouldn’t be surprised given Lydia’s ineptitude when it comes to all things grammar related.Wouldn't surprise me if she had someone do her essays for her. Isn't that what she did in school according to one of the first GG threads?