Whew it's hot out here! Summer Mini-Rants

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Cort said:
For some reason, those ads are always on the slowest fucking websites
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The websites are probably loading slowly specifically because of these shitty ads. SDMB threads always take a noticeable time to load here at work, where I can't install an ad blocker.

Algher said:
FYI to everyone. A nice D-Cell Maglite is a dangerous item according to TSA. It will be confiscated long after your checked luggage is on its way.
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1.) That's weird. I don't see flashlights anywhere on the list. The only thing I can think of is that it's big enough to use as a bludgeon, maybe? Could you have asked them to point to a thing that said you couldn't take it?

2.) Why the hell did you have a big-ass flashlight in your carry-on luggage? I have a Maglight that takes D batteries--in fact, I just pulled it out last night when my power was out (for 12 hours!)--and those things are fucking substantial.

anya marie said:
I plucked them again last night but i don't keep track of how often i do this, :mad:generally seems to be twice a month
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You can get away with plucking yours only twice a month? Hah! I'll often let mine go when I don't care (at least the under-the-brow part), but ideally I'd need to pluck mine probably once a week.
 
Dr. Drake said:
I think they do this to discourage patrons from lingering at the free coffee refills too long. On a hot day, the first thought is "refreshing!" and then, once people start to shiver, they leave. Or it could be that the people who are working (and moving around) like it cooler than the ones who are just sitting.

My mini-rant: You know, I spend several hours researching and writing a job application. It only takes a few minutes to email me "No way dude u r teh looser" or something. Why would hiring people excuse you from common courtesy? And to those who anounce ahead of time that they won't get back to everyone: posting on your website that you're going to be rude does not make it okay. (Honestly, how hard it is to cut and paste a form email to even a few hundred people? Has no one heard of mail merge?)
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I don't even get that courtesy from the temp agencies looking on my behalf. I get a call from them - "Hey, you're up for a good position!" and that's the last I hear from them. Would it kill them to let me know why I was not accepted? Is there a rumour going around that I have the leprosy? What?
 
You do a lot of equipment installation, then, do you Kaio, that you know how these things work? And you know exactly what everyone had to get done the whole rest of the day? Hrm?
 
Ok, Pain, it has been two weeks now. GET THE FUCK OUT OF ME!

I'm down to three Vicodin and about a dozen Flexiril. No Refills.

It's fucking hot out, and I can't go for a walk in this, because the meds make me feel hot even when I'm not outside. They just make it worse when I'm in the heat. I turn into that guy from the deodorant commercial, only with water running in rivers down my face and the back of my head.

Then on a whole 'nother level, it's my right arm that hurts, and I'm a right handed guy.

And then there's the prospect of a third week ahead being in constant pain and having to deal with the occasional stupid angry irrational customer, for which I have NO patience when I'm in this much pain.

Oh, and because I just completed bankruptcy, I have NO MONEY to take any further medical steps. I blew my small wad of backup cash getting this checked out last Monday.
 
For those of you dealing with stupid antivaxers, I give you this website: www.jennymccarthybodycount.com
 
purplehorseshoe said:
My office-job morning so far:
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She has something in her hands, a plastic food container of some sort, but I'm too polite to do the "watcha go there?" routine, since I don't know if it's for sharing or hers alone for lunch. I don't like when people nose into my food; I try not to nose into other people's food. We get to the office, she practically throws the container down on our break room table, and says (and I quote!): "Here. It's some angle food cake. I don't know if it's any good or not."
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Mmm, angles. That's all right by me.
 
Bosstone said:
I'm picturing you sitting at your desk typing this out while the dink is sitting behind you looking over your shoulder. :cool:
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The dink who stands over my shoulder all the time is a different dink from the one who requested my assistance at quarter-to-time-to-leave.

NinjaChick said:
I'm thinking of making major life change X.
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So, stripping, huh?

P.S. That was only one rant. I want my money back.

descamisado said:
When your life is meaningless and you can't seem to get anywhere and the assholes seem to be winning, words to live by.
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Except that all too often, it's, "They stayed with the company for years, being promoted repeatedly, while anyone competent who made them look bad by comparison was fired."

Wile E said:
Mmm, angles. That's all right by me.
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I like my soft palate intact, thanks.
 
I bit the inside of my mouth last night and now I keep accidentally re-biting the swollen spot. OW!
 
Thanks for walking away from your job without warning, boss. It's a shame you didn't leave right in the middle of the busy season, as that would have really been a giant middle finger to us.
 
Shot From Guns said:
While I might make myself a sammich (and delight in calling it such, repeatedly, because "sammich" is fun to say... sammich sammich sammich), I highly doubt I'd ever order one, unless the menu explicitly designated it as such.
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I prefer sangwiches, myself.
 
Shot From Guns said:
No, but their outfits are. Which is kind of the point.

"To the Beemobile!"
"You mean your Chevy?"
"...Yes."



This person doesn't sound like a friend; she sounds like an entitled bitch. It's an important day for her and her fiance, but that doesn't extend to expecting everyone to reschedule their lives repeatedly on short notice and spend well beyond their means to participate in the ceremony. I'd tell her to get fucked; you may want to simply tender your regrets that your schedule and budget do not allow you to attend, send a nice card, and spend what would have gone towards a gift on a nice bottle of wine to treat yourself to while you ignore any entitled whining from the bride's direction.
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Good grief. Quoting for truth. If they're mad AT YOU after they re-schedule like that, they're no friends. Drinking buddies, maybe. But not friends.
 
Holy fucking shit I fucking hate my fucking job and all my fucking coworkers. Seriously. So Goddamned angry right now. bunch of fucking morons the lot of them.

Yay for mini rants?
 
Chimera said:
Ok, Pain, it has been two weeks now. GET THE FUCK OUT OF ME!
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I was in a similar position when I fucked up my neck really badly a couple of years ago (although they didn't even give me any pain meds, the fuckers), where being in constant pain had me microns away from snapping at everybody constantly, and seeing a massage therapist made a huge difference. I know you said money's tight, but depending on what's injured and how, it could be worth it.
 
Stupid health insurance taking money out of my account, sending it into overdraft, incurring overdraft fees!!!

I barely use insurance anyway. I have paid thousands of dollars into you and only got hundreds of dollars back in cover.

I should've just opened a separate account and paid into that instead.
 
Your summer- our winter:

TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST
SEVERE WEATHER WARNING
for Widespread Damaging Winds with Locally Destructive Gusts.
For people in areas southwest of a line Lancelin to Bremer Bay, including the
Perth metropolitan area, Mandurah, Bunbury, Busselton and Albany.
Issued at 1:10 pm on Sunday 11 July 2010

A deepening low pressure system to the south of the state combined with the
passage of a cold front is likely to cause widespread damaging winds to 100
kilometres per hour that could result in damage to property. In isolated areas
locally destructive gusts in excess of 125 kilometres per hour may cause
significant damage or destruction of property. Severe winds are forecast to
develop in the Southwest district this afternoon and extend to other parts later
this afternoon and tonight. Thunderstorms, hail and local flooding are also
possible.
 
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