Exchanges with People that Make Your Brain Hurt

[LB]

I have one to add.  I'm training in a new job.  Part of that job is distributing 'fill-in-the-blank' wills to those that don't have a full will and testament set up and show those folks how to fill it out so that it is legal in event of their deaths.  My trainer has been steadfastly insisting that the person should sign the document, then take it to a notary to be notarized. 

Last I checked, the notary has to see ID and watch you sign the document in order for it to be notarized and become a legally binding document.

My trainer refuses to believe this and keeps insisting that I have to say it her way. 

You can tell your trainer that at least one (former) notary says she is wrong. 

[Shoo]

I have one to add.  I'm training in a new job.  Part of that job is distributing 'fill-in-the-blank' wills to those that don't have a full will and testament set up and show those folks how to fill it out so that it is legal in event of their deaths.  My trainer has been steadfastly insisting that the person should sign the document, then take it to a notary to be notarized. 

Last I checked, the notary has to see ID and watch you sign the document in order for it to be notarized and become a legally binding document.

My trainer refuses to believe this and keeps insisting that I have to say it her way. 

You can tell your trainer that at least one (former) notary says she is wrong. 

Make that two.

[SheltieMom]

Three. Current, not even former!

[mmswm]

Three. Current, not even former!

Four

[NyaChan]

Not a notary, currently or formerly, but I still know that isn't right.

[southern girl]

Adding my "your trainer is wrong" to the list.  I've been a notary in two states (not one now) and you had to witness the person signing in order to notarize.

[pinkyblue]

Another notary chiming in to say that your trainer has it wrong.  Also, in some states, including mine, wills are not notarized, just signed and then witnessed.  Maybe your trainer is mixing up "witnessing" with "notarizing."

[RegionMom]

The notary must witness the signing in order to notarize that "I legally say that this person signed this document of this day."

Pod to Pinkyblue.

[gramma dishes]

Another notary chiming in to say that your trainer has it wrong.  Also, in some states, including mine, wills are not notarized, just signed and then witnessed.  Maybe your trainer is mixing up "witnessing" with "notarizing."

In my state, even those doing the "witnessing" have to see the person actually sign the will, whether it's notarized or not.

[LazyDaisy]

She needs to get a reason and not let it go. There could be a medical reason that they didn't complete the operation. When my mother had her ovarian cancer surgery that also included a total hysterectomy, the doctor stated up front that she wasn't sure until she got in there to see everything clearly whether or not she would be able to remove anything. 

That's strange: when I had my hysterectomy for cancer this summer, I was told that the surgeon might have to change the TYPE of surgery he would do based on conditions that weren't predictable, but that I was gettin' spayed that day for sure. I can see saying that the doctor wouldn't know if she could remove everything via laproscopic techniques, or perform a vag-hys, but I can't imagine starting surgery and concluding that you couldn't remove the tumor after all.

I don't want to threadjack too much but the ovarian tumor had infiltrated the small intestine and uterus, a second and third tumor in the lymph nodes had completely encircled the vena cava. Tumors can be full of blood vessels and a patient can bleed to death during surgery to remove it or it is just too entwined in other organs for a patient to survive. Luckily my mother pulled through her 10-hour surgery. But if the doctor had come into the waiting room in less than an hour, that would mean they were unable to remove anything without killing her -- as it was, she had 6 pints of blood infused.

[oz diva]

My new boss is rather brain hurty. We got a new staff member. She was employed to do Job A. The next week turns out she's doing Job D.  There was no announcement made, it's apparently just general knowledge now. I don't know how qualified she is for Job D. Neither job was advertised, so I'm assuming they're only for 6 months.

[Adelaide]

I want everyone on Facebook to stop asking me what the unusual words in my statuses mean. You care enough to string "What does word mean?" into a sentence but you don't care enough to google "word definition"?

[Mental Magpie]

I want everyone on Facebook to stop asking me what the unusual words in my statuses mean. You care enough to string "What does word mean?" into a sentence but you don't care enough to google "word definition"?

I absolutely hate that.

[TomatoBunny]

I want everyone on Facebook to stop asking me what the unusual words in my statuses mean. You care enough to string "What does word mean?" into a sentence but you don't care enough to google "word definition"?

I'd be tempted to introduce them to 'Let Me Google That For You'.

What makes my brain hurt is that you don't even really need to go to a search engine in some browsers. I type unknown words into the address bar all the time and the definition just pops up for me, along with 3 dictionary sources.

[P-p-p-penguin]

People do this allll the time at my work. We deal with locations and often need to know which district/county a certain address is in. It's so much easier to type the town into google and get your answer than ask people in office. I don't get it.