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Going slow, which isn't a bad thing.

Been playing at-work counselor, as a few co-workers have been involved in a monster of a project. Not because the project is crazy (putting on a ~120 person event); they've/we've done this many times before, even far larger events. But because the volunteers advising us on this event think they're fully in-charge of the event. They've been making insane and inane demands of my co-workers, yet don't want to put in any of the real work. The event is in 3 weeks, we're losing tons of money on this event, and it's been one of the most chaotic event preps I've seen, yet the volunteer committee continues to demand changes and additions.

Since I'm not attending this event, I've only been helping on a few smaller, behind-the-scenes things: logistics and event AV. Which means I don't interact with these volunteers. But my co-workers do and they're being driven to the brink. I wish I could help in some way, but unfortunately, it's not my place to smack the volunteers (as much as I wish I could). The best I can do is make sure my small parts come together and be someone they can vent to. It'll all come together as it always done, it's just that all this negative energy and even vitriol isn't necessary.

Financially, my brother and I found out that a place that we lived at literally 2 years ago sent a bill we supposedly owed, to collections! For 2 yrs, they never contacted us saying we still owed them some money. Even though they had our email addresses, phone numbers, and even new addresses! And it recently hit out credit reports. I don't think we owed them any money in the first place, so now I gotta get in touch with these asshat apartment managers (seriously, the place was so mismanaged -- like 6-7 property managers within 5yrs) and figure out wtf is going on. It's* super great* that this popped up now as I'm potentially looking for a new apartment in a couple months. Sigh.