Maybe I should not have, but it was really bothering me. I spoke to a supervisor and told her how the agent messed up the travel plans and argued with my husband at the time and then in the end, told my husband that he had to swallow the cost for their mistakes. I told her that my husband completely cancelled the interview and that the whole situation was embarrassing with my husband having to go back and forth between HR and travel agency to try to fix the mistakes of the agent. To top it off, husband told the first agent that he thought the agent had the dates wrong but the agent argued with him that the dates were correct. Then in the end, my husband gets told by a second agent at the agency that he has to swallow the costs for the wrong travel dates or to fix everything. This just left a bad taste in his mouth that this is what working for the company will be like. He dealt with so much frustration and embarrassment over it, he just lost all interest in that company at that point. The supervisor at the travel agency apologized and offered to fix everything and said the first agent should not have argued about the dates with my husband and the second agent should not have tried to make my husband pay for it. I had to tell her that it was too late to fix anything as my husband had completely cancelled the interview now. I just felt she needed to know how badly her employees screwed this up. I feel frustrated that we are back to square one on employment. I know that that particular company might have been awful to work for anyway, but husband should have had the chance to see for himself and finish things out. I could barely sleep last night over this and now I have a headache.

Before my husband started interviewing in the PNW, I thought it would be great up there. But then we started looking at cost of living and it turned in to something awful and anxiety inducing. Add in the fact that I like warm rain, but not cold rain. I guess I had not realized it was so cold there. Where we live now, we are far enough out from the city that we do not deal with tons of traffic, we know people and they know us, and the cost of living is not too horrible. That being said, I would like to try maybe a suburb of Chicago? Again, something I know nothing about. Or perhaps Colorado? Another place I know nothing about. I loved SoCal when I lived there, but I was young and single and career focused and in to having a very active young social life. Now I am just family oriented.

I have always said "Maybe Could" LOL..I didn't know there was anything wrong with it.

He emailed them and turned down the job. They then emailed him and asked him to please come out anyway. He didn't answer yet and the hiring manager called him to discuss it with him. They offered to pay for the additional costs after all. He said no, thank you. They kept asking if this was about the travel issue and he said no. I wish he would have told them it was about the travel issue because they should know for the future hiring people.

That is what I think. I think the travel agency messed up, they need to swallow this.

The agency chose to book it like this on their own. I do not know if they would have allowed my husband to book the flights on his own.

Husband has an in-person job interview in another state in a few days. We would love to relocate, but that particular part of the country was not one of the areas we had in mind. I tried to be open minded, but as I researched cost of living, including housing costs, it became flustering. Then I said that I guess if he makes X more a year, then we could do it. Husband says he does not think they will offer him X more a year. I felt bad about it then because it seems as if this is just going to be a bad move. Now, the travel agency booked his travel for the interview and they made a mistake. Not kidding. They booked him to fly out Saturday morning and apparently, could not get flights out to return Monday night, so they switched it to Tuesday morning. My husband was unsure if this was ok because he was certain the company said they would only pay for 2 nights. He emailed HR at that company and they said my husband has to pay for the third night. My husband called the travel agency back and told them that they made a mistake and need to switch it to be 2 nights. They say they will not change it unless my husband pays them $200 for a change fee. To top it off, this is a huge company, think online retailer we all know. Yet, they make my husband pay everything up front for the travel and they reimburse him. What if my husband does not take the job? It is sounding more and more like this job might not even pay enough anyway. I would love for us to relocate, but not to a HCOL area like that. I think this is a huge huge sign that my husband should not go. He is thinking the same thing. Please advise. I am so torn! He is considering cancelling the interview. Based on how the company is handling the travel, we are not feeling a high level of confidence for what it would be like to work there or how they will actually handle the relocation.

He simply likes high school for the school, not the socializing. That is okay too.

Instead of a toy, add money for a college fund. Can we still buy savings bonds?

I love the Radio Flyer walker wagon. My children have never used any of their ride on toys.

The current generation is generation Z. My kids are loving it. There are actually statistics on each generation. Things are looking good for gen Z.

I wouldn't be able to fix myself. He tore out ducts and put in defective/inferior, not agreed upon products.

I am depressed. I also have MTHFR. Deplin helps a lot. But it's not on my insurance. I have been just paying for it. With my husband laid off, I saw there was L-Methyl Folate at the Sprouts store. Do you think it would be worth trying? It is less expensive.

I always make my own basket up of goodies. I let them know in advance though, so they can purchase less food at Christmas. For grandma, I have to ship, so I order her k-cups and paper plates and napkins for when she has company.

Yes, I have all that. Plus paperwork from the city that he did not have proper permits. I have all my ducks in a row.

Already filed with the boards, licensing boards. One other thing, the dollar amount we agreed to pay for the work if it were done correctly was less than what he charged our card, by $2000.

seeing the lawyer Tuesday.

This was through Chase. We disputed the charge. We sent in all the information to prove that the charge was fraudulant and the work was not done or delivered on, what work was done was done wrong, and the guy was not even licensed. It has been 4 months. Last night, the credit card calls us to tell us that they have decided to put the charge back on our card. That was $9800!!! To top it off, we are supposed to move next month. So even though we can take the guy to court, we won't live here so it will be very costly to take the guy to court if we have to fly back to do it. And no guarantee we would win. We have already started paying to fix what that guy did wrong. We have 2nd and 3rd opinions that the guy did not install the equipment agreed upon and that he installed what he did install wrong so it is not working. We live in the south but put up without central air on half the house for August and through the fall while we waited for the credit card dispute to finish. I thought once 2 months passed, we were in the clear. Now it is 4 months and we clearly are not in the clear. My husband says that we should pay off all the credit card except that one charge and then ditch the card. We already called and closed the account. I do not have a moral issue with ditching the card because this was a fraudulant charge and the credit card company knew this. But I think for such a high amount, they will pursue us. Therefore, we have no choice but to spend the money with the lawyer to go after the guy. Husband is laid off right now so this is an extremely harsh reality. We have excellent credit, both of us are in the 775 range. What do you think?

Abusers typically have family and friends who love them, that is part of why they get away with it. Chances are that some of these people who loved him were his victims too. Regardless of who else loves him, I think child molesters should be castrated. They cannot really be rehabilitated and they will always re-offend. Castration and hormone therapy can make it so that the offender might be able to function in society without as much risk to other people. Why sympathize with a child molester? That is why they are so able to re-offend. You all were so angry when Brock Turner got a slap on the wrist. Sounds like this guy had way more victims who were way more innocent. Child molesters are a completely different breed and way more dangerous.

GIS is a major too.

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This Thanksgiving, the turkey was not ready until after dinner. My cute little daughter looks at dinner when we decided to go forward sans turkey and says "wait! Something is missing! The chicken is missing!" ha ha ha ha ha!