I can understand doing that in your own home, but not in someone else's. If you tell someone, specifically, to put things back where you got them from, and if they don't know where something should go, ask you, they should do as you ask. If they don't follow directions on a regular basis, and continue to put things where they don't belong after you have brought this to their attention numerous times, then you are justified in not having them work for you anymore. Also, let their employer, if they are working for an agency, know why you let them go.

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Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicole Massey via Cookinginthedark" <cookinginthedark@acbradio.org> To: <cookinginthedark@acbradio.org>; "'Ann Smith'" <cradlingarm...@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2015 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [CnD] Frustrations in the kitchen sometimes


Yeah, I fired a housekeeper because she kept putting things where she thought they should go and I couldn't find them. Since then I've trained roommates to find things, and there's always a bit of a learning curve. I can understand it, as before I lost my sight I put things wherever they fit too.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ann Smith via Cookinginthedark
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Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2015 11:38 AM
To: [cookinginthedark@acbradio.org]; Penny Reeder
Subject: Re: [CnD] Frustrations in the kitchen sometimes

Good morning, I was fit to be tied the other day when I could not find
my cookie sheet bake me a pizza. Don't you guys love it when sighted
people move things and don't tell you just were they happen to have
moved it? My home health people are really good about moving things and
not telling me you try to tell them please let me know where you moved
insert item here.
I do that as well, I put the utensils that I'm using very close by or
in the sink. As far as cleaning up any messes in the kitchen I start a
sink full of soapy water, and clean whatever I am using as it's being
used up so that way when I'm through cooking most or all of it is just
about cleaned up and put away.

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> On May 2, 2015, at 11:09 AM, Penny Reeder via Cookinginthedark
<cookinginthedark@acbradio.org> wrote:
>
> Ellen, I agree with you completely! Cranberries are just as bad as
> blueberries, by the way! The absolute worst thing to clean up though
> is pyrex! When a pyrex dish is dropped, it explodes, and there are
> dangerous shards of glass virtually everywhere!
> Penny
>
>> On 5/2/15, Mary Ann via Cookinginthedark
<cookinginthedark@acbradio.org> wrote:
>> I always put my item which I am using at the back of the counter or
>> by the sink. I never leave a container in the middle of the counter.
>> If this does not work put your container which you are using  in a
tray.
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "ellen telker via Cookinginthedark"
>> <cookinginthedark@acbradio.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2015 10:03 AM
>> To: <cookinginthedark@acbradio.org>; "Charles Rivard"
>> <wee1s...@fidnet.com>
>> Subject: Re: [CnD] Frustrations in the kitchen sometimes
>>
>>> I'm really surprised that when this topic was discussed a while
>>> back, nobody mentioned my biggest problem.  That is dropping and/or
>>> knocking things over. I always try to put the lids back on things
>>> when they are not
>>>
>>> actually in use, but I do fear knocking the thing over while I'm
>>> reaching
>>>
>>> for the lid to put back on.  Fortunately, I am not a coffee drinker
>>> so I do not knock mugs over unless they are my reader's when I'm
>>> reaching to hand her something. Sighted people have this problem to
>>> some extent too, because my reader says that from actual experience
>>> the worst things to drop are blueberries.  Isn't it fun to think
you
>>> have them all, and then later when you've forgotten all about them,
>>> you step on one so you have a
>>>
>>> blue spot on the floor and your footwear.  Cherry tomatoes and
>>> grapes are
>>>
>>> second and third in line.  And have you had the pleasure of trying
>>> to clean up spilled salad dressing or oil?  What brings this up is
>>> that this
>>>
>>> morning I knocked over my container of pistachios while I was
>>> nibbling on
>>>
>>> a few.  Well, first I had to put my guide dog in her crate, and my
>>> pet dog
>>>
>>> outside because my guide dog is a lab so she thinks vacuum cleaner
>>> is in her job description.  Then I crawled around for about 15
>>> minutes picking up pistachios.  I actually did very well because
>>> when the dogs were allowed back, I only heard about 8 or 9
crunches.
>>> I hope this gives you all a good laugh because I really don't think
>>> I am the only one who has this problem so I think you can
sympathize
>>> and maybe elaborate on the subject.  And I might as well ask a
>>> question.  If something like a blueberry, pistachio or tomato falls
>>> on the floor but has not been squashed, do you throw it out or do
you wash it of and use it?
>>> Ellen and the animals who like living here because sometimes they
>>> get unexpected snacks
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Charles Rivard via Cookinginthedark"
>>> <cookinginthedark@acbradio.org>
>>> To: <cookinginthedark@acbradio.org>; "Dale"
>>> <cookinginthed...@att.net>
>>> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 10:28 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [CnD] Frustrations in the kitchen sometimes
>>>
>>>
>>>> I really got to razz my sighted Mom once when she put liquid smoke
>>>> into a
>>>>
>>>> double batch of oatmeal raisin cookies instead of vanilla.  Let's
>>>> just say
>>>>
>>>> that they certainly had a unique flavor??
>>>>
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>>>> finished, you! really! are! finished!
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Dale via Cookinginthedark" <cookinginthedark@acbradio.org>
>>>> To: <cookinginthedark@acbradio.org>; "Jeri Milton"
>>>> <jerimil...@gmail.com>
>>>> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 1:12 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [CnD] Frustrations in the kitchen sometimes
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Losing something you just had in your hand a second ago will
drive
>>>>> you crazy!
>>>>> "Where did I put it?" I have asked myself a million times it
seems.
>>>>>
>>>>> It especially gets on my nerves when we have to stop recording a
>>>>> Cooking
>>>>>
>>>>> in the Dark show so I can find what I just had  in my hand...
>>>>>
>>>>> To help me keep my blood pressure down, I have tried to teach
>>>>> myself to
>>>>>
>>>>> put things back where they go after I have used them....
>>>>> I am still trying to teach myself this.
>>>>> Getting better but I did lose the hot sauce today...
>>>>>
>>>>> I have taught myself to lean my cooking utensil, spoon, spatula,
>>>>> tongs,
>>>>>
>>>>> etc, in the sink...
>>>>> actually I lean them in the front left and corner of my sink.
>>>>> That way when I need to grab the utensil, I always know where
they
>>>>> are...
>>>>> Keep on trucking Jerry!
>>>>> Heck, once when I was making a meat loaf, I accidentally added a
>>>>> package
>>>>>
>>>>> of vanilla pudding...I thought it was my bag of onion and
mushroom
>>>>> soup
>>>>>
>>>>> mix...
>>>>> Anyway, that meat loaf was sweet and it was orange! I did not
>>>>> figure out
>>>>>
>>>>> why it was that way until after dinner...my wife still won't let
>>>>> me live
>>>>>
>>>>> that one down ! (grin)
>>>>> Dale
>>>>> Campbell
>>>>> Owner- Cooking In The Dark List
>>>>> Cooking In The Dark Home Cook
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all.
>>>>>> So sometimes when Im cooking, I forget where I set things down
>>>>>> like the
>>>>>>
>>>>>> garlic or a bottle of sauce. The other day I was frying some
corn
>>>>>> taco shells and kept losing the tongs. Sometimes...or most of
the
>>>>>> time the kids will need me for something and I get distracted.
>>>>>> Does this happen to any of you?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jeri
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sent from jeri's iPhone
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