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Anon says
Mostly venting. Our office has an imposed a “flexible” three day a week return to office policy, heralded as a gift to employees and working parents. Except it’s not at all flexible and we’re getting beat over the head with it. Have a sick kid? You better be in the office three days. You’re sick? Better be in the office three days. Have a three day meeting at a client site? Better drive to the office just to swipe in so the stats show you were in three days. Planning vacation? It’s unclear if you have to make up those days in the office to keep your stats up. It’s completely ridiculous and so much less flexibility that we had prepandemic. Leadership tells us it has to be this way because some people aren’t complying. What they can’t explain is why they don’t just speak with those people? (Of course the non compliers are likely job shopping as the message has been clear and they evidently have no intention of coming back.) The rest of us are so sick of being threatened and berated with the new policy. We get it. Ugh. Is it like this elsewhere?
anon says
Ugh, this is a terrible way to apply this policy. No, it’s definitely NOT like this everywhere.
Anon says
I’m sorry that’s awful!
Anonymous says
My husband’s job is being like this with very strict rules about when and how you can telework, and it’s causing many people to look for other jobs. I totally agree with the sentiment that supervisors need to speak to the people not complying rather than making things harder on everyone else!
Anonymous says
I hope you’re job searching.
More Sleep Would Be Nice says
No ma’am. This sounds punitive, your gut is right.
Anonymous says
I’ve heard that it’s not like that elsewhere, but my job is closer to yours than the actual flexibility that I hear others have. Doesn’t make it right, and it’s a major sticking point in me deciding whether I want to keep working for this employer (along with some other issues).
Boston Legal Eagle says
This is ridiculous. Even if people are not complying, the question should be, are they still getting the work done? If so, it shouldn’t matter if they’re in office or not, but of course butt-in-seaters don’t see it that way. No, so far, it’s not like that at my workplace.
Anonny says
Ugh, such poor leadership. My company has a strict 3 days in the office requirement, but my manager is relatively understanding when life happens. That being said, I’m still annoyed that they insist on three days in the office – I worked remotely more frequently than that prior to the pandemic, so despite their insistence, this is NOT increased flexibility.
anon says
This sounds crazy. I think what would bother me is how closely tracked you are, and how silly and punitive this sounds. My employer (law firm) is 100% in office, and the receptionist does mark who’s here in the mornings. But nobody tracks the attorneys all that closely. If we’re sick, we can WFH, or we can just call out if we’re too sick to work. If we’re on vacation, we can work remotely and not take the PTO (I did this at the beach this summer), or we can just tell people we’re out of the office (I did this at Disney World this spring). Nobody says anything if I’m out of the office for a client meeting, a long lunch, a doctor’s appointment, a funeral, to meet the cable guy, etc. I don’t need to WFH often, but if I felt like I wasn’t trusted to handle my work and know where I needed to be and when, I’d look for another job.
Anon says
i can’t believe you’re 100% in office. but OP this policy sounds bonkers.
Anon says
When I started practicing law 15 years ago, all the big firms in my city took attendance and I thought it was the weirdest thing. I’m surprised it’s survived.
Anon says
Wow! My Big Law firm was pretty chill about work from home long before the pandemic. I feel like law firms are one of the employers where WFH makes the most sense? Because if you’re billing you’re generating profits for the firm and who cares where you’re located, and if you’re not billing you’re going to get penalized or fired. So it’s sort of self-correcting. Now that I have a non-law job in corporate America I see how people can really abuse it. But I don’t see how you could get away “working” from home and not really working at a law firm.
anon@10:29 says
My boss is old-fashioned and big on in-person collaboration. Both of my bosses were out the first two weeks of September this year, and I and the other associate on our team worked remotely quite a bit. I live 2 minutes from work and have gone with a very low-maintenance look in the office since the pandemic started (shower, get dressed, let my hair air-dry curly, no makeup), so I don’t really mind.
Anonymous says
If a receptionist was taking attendance every day I’d quit. I’m not a child.
Anon says
I agree. I would do the same if I had to ask permission to make a doctor’s appointment during working hours. It’s really important to me that I work somewhere where I’m trusted to manage my workload.
Anonymous says
If a receptionist was taking attendance every day I’d quit. I’m not a child.
Anon says
Taking attendance is so funny – like school. My husband used to be an auditor though and they took attendance. They claimed it was for safety (in the event of an evacuation) but it was definitely to punish people who were late.
GCA says
” if I felt like I wasn’t trusted to handle my work and know where I needed to be and when, I’d look for another job” – this. And wow at how much it varies by industry – I did not realize law firms took attendance!
Anon says
Op here, what kills me about this is that I work in a senior function where we’re expected to always be available. I take calls at 4 AM, 11 PM, on the weekend, and while on vacation. Yet for some reason they are still counting if I swipe my badge three days a week. I can make multimillion dollar decisions for the business but am not trusted that I can decide if I need to be in the office.
Anonymous says
Yeah, this is what would rub me wrong, too. I work a lot outside of work hours, so while I do make an appearance a couple days a week, I don’t sweat it if I need to leave early or decide that it makes more sense to work from home because I have a mid-day appt, or because I don’t think I should be in the office with a cough. I also tell my direct reports if I’m on business travel and will be in a different place, and I don’t check up to see whether they still went in when I was away.
My company officially has a 3 day in the office policy, but practically speaking there are multiple locations and if you’re not in major buildings where there’s a lot of execs (honestly, I don’t think anyone below the CEO cares)…. it’s up to managers to enforce, and enforcement is pretty uneven, as evidenced by the fact that I’ve seen <20 people in the building today, and capacity is 100+. My manager lives in a different state than I do, and so she only knows where I am if I don't have a virtual background up on zoom.
anon@10:29 says
Ha, the receptionist marks down who comes in, and it’s definitely to track who is coming into work, especially support staff who never WFH and are eligible for overtime. (There’s no clock-in or other system that tracks employees’ hours, and they submit their own overtime requests. PTO is also tracked manually, on a spreadsheet.) I don’t care if she marks that I’m here, as long as nobody says anything to me about coming in late, taking a long lunch, leaving early, etc. If I take PTO, I let them know that on my time sheet at the end of the month, but my boss also allows me to exceed my PTO if we’re not busy at the end of the year.
Anon says
I signed up for a trial of The Week Junior for my 2nd grader – he is a decent reader and I think he’d enjoy a kids’ news magazine. He used to love Highlights, and while he loves getting things in the mail, he doesn’t read it anymore and thinks it’s babyish.
Any other periodicals that would be good for younger kids? He’s definitely into sports, so maybe SI Kids if that’s still a thing? He is not a huge reader of books as much as I would love him to be, so this is my next brilliant idea – maybe he’d read magazines instead.
Anonymous says
I loved Zoobooks when I was a kid.
GCA says
I also just signed up for The Week Junior for my 2nd grader! He seems to be more into nonfiction – animal facts, history, that sort of thing. We’ll see how it goes… At that age I also used to just leaf through my grandparents’ National Geographic, too. Those were beautiful.
anon says
National Geographic for Kids was a favorite in our house for a long time. Come to think of it, I should pick it up again for my 2nd grader …
Anon says
The Cricket family of magazines is pretty good. We get Click (science for beginning readers) and Ask (science for mid level readers) in our house and my second/fourth graders love them. 2nd grader is starting to borrow Ask more often, so I’m thinking of leveling them up to Ask and Muse (science for tweens).
We also get Honest History. It’s a little more expensive but the issues are beautiful. DH is a history nut and often the topic of each issue becomes a family-wide topic for dinner several nights while they all talk about little tidbits they found interesting. I now know so much about Mansa Musa, the richest guy in history but a person who I’d never heard about before, and I thought the Native American issue did a much better job teaching that history than I’d ever gotten in school.
Nat Geo Kids was great, but they sort of aged out of that one and I haven’t found a good replacement.
anon. says
Yes, Click and Ask are GREAT – my kids really love them.
Anon says
Restraint collapse…how do you deal with it? My toddler spends 8ish hours at daycare and is a delightful child there. Every few days he will have the world’s worst meltdown on the 10 min drive back home where he’s screaming bloody murder and clawing out of his car seat.
It is really really hard and I have no idea how to deal with it. I’m not very good at ignoring it because I get easily overstimulated (but would assume anyone has difficulty handling his kind of screaming…). Any thoughts?
I come prepared with his favorite snack, water, and songs to keep him content. But it only works on good days. Even snacks cannot stop the screaming.
Allie says
Kids music? The more cloying the better? I’m totally serious. I feel like cloying kids music quiets my kids in the car like nothing else. I turn it off instantly if they get loud.
Anon says
We went through this and as much as I hate to say it, for me the only thing that helped was time. He grew out of it fairly quickly, but ooooof it was not a fun phase.
Anonymous says
+1 but I also agree that it’s worth looking at total sleep. One of my kids is especially sleep-sensitive. He is wonderful as long as he’s well rested, but hoooooboy watch out if he gets tired. He’s almost always saved it for post-pickup, luckily for his teachers. Once we’re home, a combination of food, snuggles and alone time usually holds him off until bath & early bedtime.
Anon says
Does he NEED to scream? Can you turn on a short, raucous song and open the windows and have that be the designated screaming time to get it out of his system?
AwayEmily says
Don’t know if this is a helpful reframing, but sometimes it can be worse if they DON’T melt down. My 4yo is now at the point where if he cries about something right after school, he’s generally fine for the rest of the evening but if he keeps it together then he’s a whiny mess instead. I feel like they really do need to just release all that tension.
anon says
This. If sleep and food seem reasonably handled, the best thing to do is probably to reframe your thinking around this. It sounds like you know this to a point — it’s called “restraint collapse” because it really is a collapse of capacities after a demanding day. Letting that happen is healthy and helpful. And, kindly, it may really benefit you in general to work on reframing to increase your tolerance to screaming. It will help both of you a lot if you can learn not to get activated/frazzled by it, at least for a few minutes. It’s going to happen sometimes — and in some developmental periods it’s going to happen frequently — so working on making it less difficult for you goes a long way.
Anonymous says
We had a ‘going home’ song. I can’t remember what lyrics I made up but it was something to the tune of little star. And really repetitive like ‘we are going home, home, home; we are going home together’. Sang repeatedly on the way home.
Kids were rearfacing so hearing my (badly out of tune) voice seemed to help. When they got older, they used to sing it to each other.
Anon says
Daycare didn’t work for us because of the endless meltdowns. We got an au pair and switched to part time preschool. It was a much better fit for our kid. She napped at home, had lots of downtime, and softer transitions.
Bette says
I have not had this issue personally but a close friend did, and they solved it by building in a 15 minute play break between school and home. Sometimes just playing on the playground at daycare, sometimes stopping at another playground on the way home, but she swore by it. Also the kiddo seemed to grow out of it after a while so if nothing else, remember the best parenting advice: everything is just a phase.
Anon says
Yes was going to suggest the same. My kids old daycare had a big hill outside and the kids would all roll and run down it for 15-20 minutes before leaving. I think it was actually really helpful to have that burst of movement, followed by a snack and maybe a podcast in the car, to transition to home.
Anonymous says
I don’t really have any advice, but my oldest did this and eventually grew out of it. A snack helped somewhat. I also learned not to try to run an errand after picking him up. He’s in kinder now and still watches a tv show after school to unwind. But at 5 1/2 he’s a lovely human being. I remember being really thrown off the first time it happened: I think you’re doing all the right things.
Anon says
The noise cancelling air pods help my sanity a lot. If the screaming is so distracting while you’re driving, maybe a little noise cancelling is actually safer (usually I wouldn’t suggest while driving, but…).
more food and sleep says
I’m sorry—been there, this is such a rough stage. Maybe try experimenting with food? Like, something that will get blood sugar up quickly, like an applesauce pouch before even leaving the classroom?
Or maybe even more food? At one point, I was bringing basically an entire toddler dinner to daycare pickup even though home was super close.
One other thing—how’s sleep through a 24 hour period? My kids hold it together better when they have a very early bedtime and more sleep (and sometimes they even need an even earlier bedtime for awhile to hold it together).
Anon says
My kid started preschool this week, but we are keeping our nanny. We have had her for several years, and she is wonderful. Her job has always included a variety of home related tasks (picking up kid areas, kid laundry, dishes, etc.). My child still naps after lunch and school. Her pay is not being docked for the time that my child is in preschool. Is it reasonable to expect her to do extra (kid related) work around the house during preschool hours? Things like sorting out old clothes, organizing kid closets, etc. I ask because I had asked her to start on such a project, but today after drop off she went to the park where several of her friends work. I think this is the norm? That the other nannies go to the park when their kids are in preschool, and then they go pick up the kids? But, candidly, I’m not really okay with paying for that much time where she isn’t working, especially bc they are still napping.
Anon says
It does not seem unreasonable to me to expect that if you pay nanny for X hours, she would be actually working during that time and not at the park socializing while kid is at preschool. Obviously would be different if she took your kid to the park.
Anon says
this is strange to me, unless this was a one off. we have kids in preschool and kept our nanny, and when they are at school, she does stuff around the house. sometimes she asks me if she can run a personal errand, and i usually say yes, bc i try to be flexible.
Jobs After Litigation? says
Caveat that I haven’t had a nanny since baby was an infant, but because she’s someone you like and want to keep, I would turn a blind eye to an occasional morning “off,” especially if she gets all the tasks done in the afternoon. More than an occasional morning, though, or taking the morning and not getting the project done by the end of her day warrants a conversation with her about your expectations and her scheduling. What conversations did you have when kiddo started preschool? She may have a different idea of what you expect her to be doing during the day.
Anon says
I don’t disagree, but this is day 2 of school for them, so I wish she would have not jumped right to 3 hours off in the park….
I wanted to get expectations off on the right foot, so I walked her through a clothing sorting project while they were in school on Monday. I had told her to work on it while the kids were in school, but that it didn’t need to be done in one day (because, frankly, it is a multi-day project). So on Monday, she went to get new bins for the clothing sorting project and some other odds and ends for the kids. She has shown such great judgment in the past, so I’m torn between feeling like I need to have a conversation with her right away to set expectations, or that this is a one off bad judgment call.
Anon says
oh, and on expectations, when we first mentioned they were starting preschool, we said we would not change her pay, but that she would just help out with more kid tasks around the house. I’m also extra annoyed because she is off on Friday and Monday, so it just feels like a really bad judgment call for her to not come back today to work on a project we discussed on Monday.
Again, she’s shown excellent judgment in the past, so I’m trying not to overreact – but I’m definitely annoyed.
Anne-on says
That sounds odd to me, it’s one thing if she’s going to the park WITH your kid, but no, if she’s solo during the day that means she’s working on other things/running errands for you, not chilling with her friends.
I’d set up a 1:1 meeting to discuss how the set up will be going forward – think of it (and frame it as) her job is now going to change somewhat with your child in school and these are the things you’d like her to work on during school hours. Probably also a good time to discuss how you’ll handle school vacation days/breaks and any other changes you can think of.
NYCer says
Have you clearly communicated your expectations to her that you want her to work in the house every day for the entire time the kids are at school? If not, I think that would be step 1. Maybe she thought that the sorting project was not super urgent and could be done over the next week or so. Longer term, I would be surprised if there are 2-3 hours worth of kid related tasks for her to do every morning during preschool hours, plus what she is already doing during naptime. Even if it is a bit annoying, I think it is normal to expect that there will be some time that you are paying for where she is not “working” working.
FWIW, our nanny works full time too even though our youngest daughter is in preschool 9-12 (and older daughter is in elementary). Some days she does kid tasks around the house, some days she picks up some random groceries for us, and sometimes she gets coffee or sits in the park with other nannies who are in a similar boat.
Anonymous says
Caveat that I don’t have a nanny- but would it be reasonable to give her the option?
Option 1: part time with time off/PTO while kid is in school
Option 2: full time with additional duties
I don’t know how long PK is- if this is like 60 Min/day then I wouldn’t bother.
Anon says
Did you actually tell her that her job duties are changing?
Anon says
Yes, see my comment above.
Jobs After Litigation? says
I’m pretty sure this has been discussed before, but I can’t find the comments. What do people do when they are tired of litigation? What are some legal and non-legal jobs people shift to when they are burned out on litigating? I can sense I’m reaching that point and because I’ve been in my job for a decade, having trouble seeing other options or what transferrable skills I have.
Anon says
I’ve posted this exact question lol and many folks suggested government. I am currently a federal prosecutor which is not a “down shift” but I do think other government jobs offer lower stress but still litigation or lit adjacent opportunities (think like the SEC, or a state AG office or something like that). I’m trying to find an in house job now and can’t even get recruiters to respond to me, and every career coach I’ve tried to hire is too busy. I don’t think law schools sufficienlty explain how much litigation career paths are narrower than corporate career paths.
Anonymous says
Many of my friends have gone in-house at large companies to manage the company’s litigation or to work in a field that is related to their litigation specialty (e.g. privacy litigator becomes privacy attorney in-house). I went to a federal government agency OGC and manage litigation in-house for the agency. There are opportunities in this agency to move to other sections and get more of a well-rounded “in-house” skill set, which I will likely pursue.
Anon says
I’d look for a job as product counsel. They generally advise the business on legal risk related to a product, negotiate some smaller agreements, and manage any disputes or litigation for the product.
Some in house departments separate litigation into a separate group, but it’s possible to find a structure where disputes are only a portion of your work.
Anonymous says
2/3 of my labor relations team at a large national organization are recovering lawyers :)
OP says
I am currently you. I do litigation and some other operations type work in a specialized area of law, so I have some regulatory and business knowledge but no transactional knowledge really. (I have no idea how to do contract review.) Jobs that I have at least gotten a call from a recruiter for include: managing litigation for an insurance company; managing claims for a private company; an in-house role that involved a lot of risk management, responding to incident report, and operations work; an in-house role that hires people to train them to work as general counsels in other areas of the business. These are all companies that provide services in my specialized area of law.
Anon says
I moved from employment law into government – HR and labor management focus. Love it. I still get some of the rush of litigation from dealing the labor negotiations and arbitrations, but much more reasonable hours overall, great benefits, work life balance, etc. etc. It was a pay cut overall, but I make more per hour since I’m not working through all my weekends and holidays any more.
Second booster while pregnant? says
Has anyone got a second covid booster at the same time as their flu shot? Did you have side effects? I’m pregnant and my understanding is that it’s recommended to do both, though my doctor seems kinda meh about it. I’m thoroughly confused.
I didn’t have many side effects with my initial shots, fwiw.
Anonymous says
I decided to space them out even though I was only three weeks out from my due date and wanted to be fully vaccinated before the birth. I had enough of a reaction to the covid booster (not terrible but noticeable) and didn’t want a double whammy in case I reacted to the flu shot as well. I did the booster on a Fri and the flu shot the following Thurs.
CCLA says
I’m not pregnant, but opted to get booster on its own and will get flu shot prob in mid-Oct. Everything I’ve read says it’s a little early for flu shots. The push to double up seems to have to do a lot with trying to catch people who may not be the best at coming back for two different jabs, so better for those ppl to get both now than get zero or only one. Fwiw booster was a few days ago, I had a sore arm and headache with a few chills that evening and slept a ton. Not bad, and pretty similar to past shots for me.
OP says
This is a good idea. Maybe I’ll wait a bit on the flu shot.
Anon says
Re: too early for flu shots, it really depends on your location. There’s substantial flu activity in my area already so I got the flu shot in early Sept. I’m getting the second booster soon. I wanted to space them out a bit and I got a fourth Moderna less than four months ago so I figured I still have some protection from that.
Anon says
I just did both this weekend and I was largely fine. I got them at 11 AM on Saturday and didn’t sleep great that night (some chills and wakefulness). I was fatigued on Sunday but my side effects were very minor compared to previous doses. I got Moderna for my first two and the second dose took me out for multiple days. My first Pfizer booster kept me in bed for the morning after. This booster was Pfizer and I was up with my kids at 7 AM like normal the next day.
TheElms says
Not pregnant, but did get 2nd booster and flu shot at the same time. I got them both late afternoon and it made me incredibly tired within a few hours of getting the shots. I went to bed around 9pm and woke up feeling ok, but incredibly tired and with a scratchy throat. Managed to work and again went to bed around 9pm (normal bedtime is midnight for me). I’m still tired today, scratchy throat is gone. I could be tired because my 6 month old has a cold and was up in the night and possibly I also have her cold also now.
Other context, when I was pregnant with second kid I got my first booster and TDAP on the same day and that was really not good but I think it was mostly the TDAP as I remember that one knocking me out with my first kid as well. I didn’t have any reaction to my Pfizer initial 2-shot series other than a slightly sore arm.
Anon says
i did both at once. some side effects, but manageable, though i am not pregnant.
Boston Legal Eagle says
Also not pregnant but I got both at the same time. That night was a lot of chills/weird sleep, and the next day I was very fatigued and had to lie down several times. Chills too. It felt worse than my first booster, but slightly better than my second Covid shot. Sore arm too. I felt better that night. I got Pfizer for shots 1-2 and booster 1, and the Moderna booster 2. I’d say get them over with if you can take that next day off to rest.
Anne-on says
I did this on Friday – I felt fine day of, felt moderately weird on Saturday, and then felt awful on Sunday (sore arm, swollen lymph nodes, fever, body aches) and back to normal on Monday. Fwiw I have alway shad strong vaccine reactions (and felt covid hard) so I wasn’t surprised. I’d still do them together – one weekend of suffering was better than going through it twice.
Anon says
*Raises hand*
I’m in my second trimester and got both my second Covid booster (Moderna) and my flu shot together at the same time.
Injection site soreness and had some muscle aches last night (which, combined with some stress over a sick cat, kept me from sleeping more than 1-2 hours), so I’m EXHAUSTED today but otherwise fine.
I’m high risk b/c of being over 40 and we did IVF and my maternal fetal medicine doctor said do both at once and do them now.
Bette says
Has anyone found or created a good home inventory system? We have a chest freezer and extra pantry storage in our basement but I struggle with tracking what’s in there so that we consume it in a timely fashion and avoid buying duplicates. How do you all keep track of this stuff?
Anon says
i have a google doc and cross stuff out as i use it.
Anonymous says
I don’t. But I do have “clean out the pantry” weeks, and right now “clean out the freezer” because it needs a repair. I look at all the stuff and meal plan based on what’s there. As part of regular meal planning/shopping list-making, I do a quick check of the places something might be hiding before adding it to the list.
SC says
I’ve tried an inventory a few times but have never been able to maintain it. What’s working for us right now is to dig around in both freezers and the pantry before we meal plan for the week. Each day we cook, we use 1 item that we have no active plans for. Bonus points for using 1 frozen item and 1 pantry item. It becomes a bit of a game. We use Paprika to save online recipes, and EatYourBooks as our cookbook index, so sometimes we search for ingredients there.
We started doing this this spring as hurricane season was approaching. Last year, DH kept buying duplicates all summer, and we lost a lot of food to Hurricane Ida.
Anon says
Ugh, today I am
1) sick myself with some kind of gross chest cold
2) home with a sick kid who apparently vomited profusely in the night (but at least thankfully is not actively sick now) and
3) trying to work because my work has a huge deadline in two weeks that nobody planned for and now it’s a big all hands on deck crisis. What’s that saying? “Poor planning on your part does not constitute a crisis on my part?” or something like that? I would like that tattooed on my forehead please and thank you.
Anonymous says
I hope you feel better soon! This was me a couple weeks ago. I was just back from a week of vacation, sick as a dog with a summer cold, and work was (and continues to be, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future because we’re digesting a giant acquisition) nuts.
Don’t be like me: I tried to power through until I just gave up and took a sick day and literally slept for 18 of 24 hours. I still didn’t really get over it until the long weekend, and then I came back to work after labor day and realized that the entire previous week was a giant mess of brain fog and I didn’t trust any of my work or decisions, so powering through didn’t even do me that much good.
Anonymous says
We got our 3-YO his first Covid vaccine at a Walgreens a few weeks ago, but I wasn’t happy with the provider who gave the shot — he didn’t seem to have any experience with toddlers and it was unpleasant for all of us. I asked our pediatrician’s office if we could get the second shot there, but they are only scheduling vaccines for immunocompromised children right now and told us our best bet is a pharmacy. Do you all have any strategies for making the second shot go better at Walgreens?
Anonymous says
No advice but commiseration. For my 9 year old’s first shot at a city vaccination clinic, the provider actually stopped mid-shot. Like the needle was in his arm, the plunger halfway depressed, and she stopped pushing it for a second. I have no idea why. She also cleaned his arm and then switched to filling out paperwork for 10 minutes, during which his rolled up sleeve started hurting his arm and he kept touching the sanitized skin. He’s old enough that he was fairly stoic, but they did a terrible job. For the second shot we went to a different city site that we had heard through word of mouth was good with kids. So maybe try asking around locally?
Anonymous says
Yes, this is what happened to us! He stuck the needle in, then paused for a second like he was looking for the plunger!
TheElms says
Do you have CVS Minute Clinics where you are that are doing shots? The folks that staff the minute clinics in my areas are nurse practitioners or physician assistants so I think they are a bit better with kids. Vaccines.gov will show you all the places that offer vaccines by age group/type of shot needed. That might give you some more options.
Anon says
How was it bad? My 4 year old has a very difficult time with shots in general and normally has to be basically held down by us. But we didn’t really have a worse experience at a pharmacy vs the doctors office. You could try a state or county health department? The shots there are normally administered by nurses, not pharmacists.
Anonymous says
I would ask around. There are a few pharmacies here that are known for being good with kids. One filter you could use is if they have a private room available. Not that your kid would necessarily need it, but it means they have Protocols for people who need more than just a curtain when they get a vaccine.
My kids didn’t use the private room but we saw kids that did.
EDAnon says
I have gotten five Walgreens Covid shots for 2 kids. It’s so provider specific. I would ask around to see if anyone had a particularly good one. The last person we had was amazing. So fast (which is all we really need!).