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[MikeySaid]

If we really must complain, why don't we keep it in one place.

My COW: Nobody ever has change in this country!!! WTF?

[MO39]

[geaaronson]

Yes, it�s a pet peeve of mine as well. Starbucks has been even better than Superama in keeping change in the drawer. Occasionally the cashiers at Superama have had to ask the gefe for change.

I believe one poster has the solution. He has a huge bowl of change that he keeps in his living room. Perhaps that�s where all the MXan change has gone to-people hoarding it for their smaller purchases.

[Thomcat]

I have a different, work related, complaint. Thank you for providing this space to vent. Let me start out by saying that I am very happy to finally be in Mexico; I love it. Furthermore, I am grateful to my employer for employing me.

Here comes my complaint. I am working my ass offf. Before coming, I was planning on working 25 hours a week, approximately. I came up with this figure, in part, by reading this forum for a long time. This is what people said they worked, more or less. I am teaching 45 hrs a week, and have been for about 6 months, with one day off a week. This is getting OLD! Being a new teacher, that translates to....I'm working all the time, with planning, grading, etc. I really like teaching, but working this much has not been that beneficial, except financially of course. I feel I would learn a lot more about teaching if I worked less.

I had no problems finding jobs, the only problem was that the jobs either offered too much, or not enough work. What ended up happening was I accepted a little too much, which ended up really being quite a bit too much. I can do it, but do I really want to. I really want to stay in Mexico and continiue teaching, but I am beginning to think that unless I find something that allows me to have somewhat of a life, what's the point?

I know my situation is not uncommon, because I know quite a few peole in the same one, with similar opinions. Any suggestions on improving my situation. I currently work for a language school. I have a little experience and a TEFL certificate, in addition to a bacelor's degree. Where are these 25 hr a week jobs, with free Spanish lessons as an added bonus. I rarely heard people complain about working too much on here, which seems odd, because, like I said, I know many people who do.

[Dragonlady]

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[aliaeli]

If we could give out prizes for best/worst complaint of the week, I think that I would have a good chance at winning it.....
I have jumped through all the hoops, cut through all the red tape, paid all the fees to get my permit to marry a Mexican, then gathered together everything I needed to marry at the delegation, many many visits there trying to ensure everything is in order--- and the secretary telling me yes, it is... just show up friday lookin' good.
So that is what I do when she informs me that we don't have the proof of residence (water bill or something similiar) she demands that we leave and come back with it that very day.. she finally accepts, temporarily, an out of date credit card bill that my might-be husband found in the glove compartment of the car. Things just go from bad to worse as she tells us that we have to go to the other side of town to complete more paperwork that must be delivered back to the office the same day (or the following Monday, but we would already be out of town for the honeymoon). So we set off on a wild goose chase after the vows foolishly thinking that we could get this mysterious paperwork completed at this mysterious office somewhere on the other side of town---- things go from worse to hell in a handbasket that I don't even want to get into it........ so skipping over that... nothing got done. We pondered canceling our vacation because the judge threatened to annul the marriage if we didn't turn in the mysterious paperwork by monday. but ultimately we decided that we weren't going to bend over any further for them- and who with a heart would make newlyweds cancel their honeymoon to fill out paperwork? It's insane. We decided that if they cancel/cancelled the marriage we are going to Vegas. They will not be seeing another peso from me. We will find out today if we are married or not.
This mysterious paperwork, I have no idea what they are talking about! I had even gone to my embassy to get the to-do list and it included every single step from getting the permit to marry, to going to the delegation, and the only thing that followed that step was getting the marriage certificate apostillized for use internationally--- and that is not something that has anything to do with the delegation. We hope to get that clarified today as well.
At any rate, my complaint is about the bureaucracy. Nothing new there. But wow, I think I got the absolute worst of it.

[MELEE]

As for the change,
sometime in the past, I posted a sollution to this--the CFMatico--but it's since started despensing bills as well as change.

How about a thread for joys of the week? They removed the topes on the route that the bike race will take on it's way out of my town!!! Driving to work was a tope free joy-(well for one third of the trip anyways)-I wonder if work on replacing them will start just behind the bikers, or if I'll have a couple of days.

[cscx]

How come, when my arms are full of books, etc. for work, people on the Metrobus will offer to hold my things for me, but not offer their seat? This has happened multiple, multiple times!

[Samantha]

You must look young, fit, healthy and perfectly able to stand. That's a kind gesture, to lighten your load as I'm sure they probably don't want to stand up any more than you do. I think the exception would be someone holding a baby.

[Dragonlady]

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[MELEE]

[aliaeli]

Hmm, what's blue and white with a bust of Miguel Hidalgo on one side and the U. of Guanajuato? I actually can't picture what you mean, but have no doubt you are referring to a mordida. Which is about how thick headed we probably were at the delegacion as well if that is what they wanted. No, instead we paid our dues in a currency called misery.
To melee and dragonlady and all the rest: The result is that we are indeed married, and that the judge is an imcompetent fool. Turns out whatever it was she sent us out to do was actually her job and not ours. So huzzah!
Anyone know how to submit complaints about judges in this country?

[Samantha]

I don't get it. Is the missing paperwork for the Judge or for Immigration, and where did you have to go to get whatever it was? I got married to my Mexican here in Mexico and we didn't have anything awful like that happen. He got to do all the footwork though! It all seemed to fall together relatively painlessly but I should note that we did tip the judge AHEAD of time as she waived the blood test, and one other document that was lost in space and would take too long to get. We also got priority over the other 4 groups that were there to do the legal ceremony. This was the recommendation of our friend who is a legal translator who knew the judge, and who stood in for us. Here, a foreigner marrying a Mexican is required to produce someone to translate the vows from Spanish to English, in fact it may be that two foreigners would have the same situation. Let us know how it goes.

P.S. I just got this all typed and see that you have answered part of my initial question. It was for the Judge? Wonder what it was? Congratulations! I hope you have a great honeymoon.

[aliaeli]

Samantha--
Hmm, they really should hang up a sign that says "tips are appreciated" or perhaps a tip jar then, to give me a clue. I did all the footwork bc my husband (hehe, not used to saying that yet) works and I don't.
I am still pretty clueless to what it is exactly. He called and talked to them today and only mentioned it briefly to me today on his break from work. When did you marry? Because when I went the first day they said the blood test nor the witnesses were a requirement anymore at all and there was absolutely no mention of a translator whatsoever. A translator would have been nice, and would have slowed everything down.
I will update what it was once I figure it out myself.
How much did you tip?

[Dragonlady]

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