Does That Stuff Keep? and FF Into the 21st Century
Two observations in my 2.5 hours of work last night:
observation #1:
Does That Stuff Keep?
I work with a gal who is breastfeeding her 8month old. Now she's to be commended for sticking with it for 8months, especially since she's working 2 jobs. So there are several 12 hour days in her schedule, where she must pump in assored restrooms for her own comfort and her son's nutrition.
Here's my question--does that stuff keep at ROOM temp?
Twice now I have come into work and in the back staff area there's her discreet black bag with all sorts of pumping paraphenalia--even moms who don't breastfeed know it on sight. And NEXT TO IT is a little container (quite full) with the yellow cap--tell tale sign that the off-white liquid inside is breastmilk. At room temperature. For 4 or more hours.
What I don't get is why she chooses to leave it there on the counter. We have a staff fridge. Each one of us has a locker. Heck, she even has that special black bag, which I'm pretty sure is insulated for that very purpose.
observation#2
Back in the day, I used to keep my senior year school papers on a 5-in floppy disk. My English teacher was very hip, and we had to type everything on the computer (with the spell check turned off). After getting a dot-matrix print out, we'd save it to a disk as well.
Fast Forward to 2005. The kids at the learning center now email their comps to themselves....so if they need a copy somewhere (like at the center) they can just go into their email and print a copy. No two-pocket folder needed. So last night one of the girls needed to print a copy of something. So she went to sign into her email, but was having trouble.
After several frustrating minutes, she said she needed to make a phone call. So she whipped out her cell phone and called HER BOYFRIEND to verify HER password. The password to her email account--the one with all her personal messages and her school work. He talked her through it, but it still wasn't working. Turned out she was mispelling her screen name--it was HottyDevil with a Y, not an IE! Silly girl.
I guess it just demonstrated the short-sighted/innoncence/stupidity of youth. A boy she's probably know for less than a year has access to basically her whole life.
My question is this: will she know how to change her password when the time comes?
observation #1:
Does That Stuff Keep?
I work with a gal who is breastfeeding her 8month old. Now she's to be commended for sticking with it for 8months, especially since she's working 2 jobs. So there are several 12 hour days in her schedule, where she must pump in assored restrooms for her own comfort and her son's nutrition.
Here's my question--does that stuff keep at ROOM temp?
Twice now I have come into work and in the back staff area there's her discreet black bag with all sorts of pumping paraphenalia--even moms who don't breastfeed know it on sight. And NEXT TO IT is a little container (quite full) with the yellow cap--tell tale sign that the off-white liquid inside is breastmilk. At room temperature. For 4 or more hours.
What I don't get is why she chooses to leave it there on the counter. We have a staff fridge. Each one of us has a locker. Heck, she even has that special black bag, which I'm pretty sure is insulated for that very purpose.
observation#2
Back in the day, I used to keep my senior year school papers on a 5-in floppy disk. My English teacher was very hip, and we had to type everything on the computer (with the spell check turned off). After getting a dot-matrix print out, we'd save it to a disk as well.
Fast Forward to 2005. The kids at the learning center now email their comps to themselves....so if they need a copy somewhere (like at the center) they can just go into their email and print a copy. No two-pocket folder needed. So last night one of the girls needed to print a copy of something. So she went to sign into her email, but was having trouble.
After several frustrating minutes, she said she needed to make a phone call. So she whipped out her cell phone and called HER BOYFRIEND to verify HER password. The password to her email account--the one with all her personal messages and her school work. He talked her through it, but it still wasn't working. Turned out she was mispelling her screen name--it was HottyDevil with a Y, not an IE! Silly girl.
I guess it just demonstrated the short-sighted/innoncence/stupidity of youth. A boy she's probably know for less than a year has access to basically her whole life.
My question is this: will she know how to change her password when the time comes?
posted by Mich @ 3:35 PM
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