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Kind of an oof of a day.

I was already a little annoyed with how I anticipated the day to go... Our office was essentially double booked, with a class and a test happening at the same time. The tests would normally happen in the classroom, but can't do that if a class is happening, which means those students have to test in the lobby, which is a lot louder and more crowded and not a great testing environment. When I was doing some prep for that yesterday, my manager acted a bit surprised pikachu about it, and mildly complained that the person who schedules the classes should have noticed and prevented that from happening...
... Except I pointed it out to my manager back in June that we were double-booked for this date. At the time no one had signed up for the test, so I asked if we should request it be removed. I got a kind of snarky response about "I'm not sure why you're even worrying about something months away when no one is even signed up for it, it might not even fill. There's no reason to be worried about it."
(I didn't say anything about that, because for the most part things have been pretty chill with my manager recently, and I don't want to cause tension. It ended up not being a huge deal, but still... I tried to prevent this!)

But then when we got in the truck... it wouldn't start. Not even a sad click. Just nothin'. *sigh*

So I called my mom, and she came to the rescue with her little portable jump start pack...

Except it also wouldn't work. We did get *one* tiny partial turn-over, but it drained the whole pack and didn't quite get started.

*sigh again*

So mom rescue x2: she took me to work, while Alex took the jump pack in to charge back up.

I got to work just as people were starting to arrive for the class, so I don't feel *too* terrible. Still, I was about 45 minutes late, which I hate.

Mom rescue x3: she went back and she and Alex did get the truck jumped, then went to go get a new battery.

She had to help us do this not that long ago. I looked back here, and we replaced our battery back in March of last year. So it lasted less than a year and a half, opposed to the 3-5 years that they're expected to last. Though I know we did buy the cheapest battery option available last time, and driving in hot weather is one of the things most likely to wear it down, and this summer has been very hot. (Not a ton of days topping 100, but lots of sustained periods in the upper 90s.) But still!

Turned out when they went to get a new battery, the employee of the auto parts place came out to look at it, and said "well, the battery you have is the wrong size. It's way too small!"

*sigh again*

So maybe it's good that we got a year+ out of a battery that wasn't large enough for the vehicle?

We now allegedly have a correctly-sized battery, and not the cheapest available. This one even actually comes with a warranty. Hopefully we won't be doing this in another year and a half. Wouldn't have been able to get it without mom's help, so very grateful, even though I wish I didn't have to keep asking for help.

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Tomorrow I'm going over to Taylor's to hang out for a couple nights. Looking forward to it!

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What a pain about the battery! Hopefully this one lasts longer. (I didn't know there were different size batteries!)

And I'm boggling over your manager's response to the double booking when you had already brought it up months ago!!! I can see why you wouldn't want to cause tension, but if it was me I would have hurt myself biting my tongue.

I definitely hope this battery lasts longer! (Honestly, I didn't know that either. We bought whichever one was cheapest that the little "find a part" tool told us would fit our truck... apparently that little tool thing was wrong!) Luckily if this battery doesn't last longer, then it has a warranty and we should be able to get it replaced.

Right? I definitely had to bite my tongue at that. I don't want to cause problems, but that kind of thing is so frustrating.

I got a kind of snarky response

AAARGH. >.<

I'm sorry about the stress and aggravation with the battery! Here's hoping this one lasts as long as should. (Or longer! Longer would be okay!)

That sort of inconsistent management thing is so frustrating.

I definitely hope this new battery lasts as long as it should or longer! Luckily if it doesn't, it has a warranty that should replace it.

Ohhhhh heyall no at your manager's response and rather, erm, "convenient" lapse of memory there. >:| Wtf.

I'm also thoroughly annoyed on your behalf about having been sold an improperly sized/too small battery for your vehicle model. I'm also, also sorry it was stressful getting things sorted out while trying to get to/from work but I'm glad it sounds as though it's been resolved and the new, correct battery also has a warranty at the very least.

I genuinely hope hanging out with Taylor has been a great reprieve and respite! ^_^

Those "lapses of memory" are super frustrating. It's not worth an argument about, or starting drama at work, but... ugh, it's deeply annoying to deal with inconsistency like that.

I'm glad we have the proper battery now, and hopefully it will last much better! I am annoyed that the other one was wrong; we used whatever automated tool they had for selecting what part works for a given vehicle, but apparently it was wrong!

Hanging out with Taylor was great! It's always nice to get a couple days to just hang out and not have to do too much, haha.

That sucks. Was the old battery installed/picked out by professionals? You'd think they'd catch that. Hopefully the new one lasts.

Hope you have a good hang out!

It was very annoying. The previous battery we self-installed, and purchased based on one of those automated "put in your car info, and we'll tell you what part you need" tools on their website. (Fairly sure it was Walmart, ha.) So no professionals ever looked at it, but it's frustrating that their "part finder" tool was wrong! I definitely hope this one lasts much better!

Hanging out for a couple days was very good! :)

Oh god, and tools like that are just going to get worse and worse. That sucks.

Right? This was pre-AI boom (or at least early, prior to it being forcibly integrated into everything), and was from a mainstream "reputable" store's website. Those sorts of tools are absolutely going to get worse and worse. Luckily this was just a frustrating thing to have happen, not something outright dangerous.

Yeah, trusting those tools used to be considered reasonable, but a lot of the AI boom is a responsibility-dodge, or an attempt at one.