Vent Your Frustrations • Page 121

Coworkers that don't give a shit, make dumb mistakes, and then just shrug when called out on it. I am often too hard on myself, and struggle with work life balance so I'm not a saint and / or the perfect person to replicate, but I've been given two coworkers who are the absolute opposite, neither of whom lasted in the position (a lot of other things went into it, and no I didn't fire them!).

I won't go into all the details, but I was given veterans of the company whose job is to correct others mistakes, yet they continually made mistakes of their own (dumb dumb stuff like incorrect excel formulas, fat fingering values when importing from one program to another and not spotting obvious omissions). I'd tell the last guy when he screwed up, and he'd fix it and mumble an apology, but not once did he act like he was upset or annoyed at himself for making a mistake. I hate that. I make dumb mistakes and I'm disappointed and I show it and fix it. Not him, similar mistakes over and over until he left and never did he seem to be bothered by it.

I bring it up as I was told not to check the guys work on my team as it was a continuous carousel of checks and a waste of time and they were capable and could pass their work forward unsupervised, and low and behold, he's not here, and there are holes in his work.

I swear if it falls on me for not catching it...

 

Working for a university that will pay for your tuition is sick. Finding out you still have to pay like $1,000 in fees each semester is not sick

 

Ugh sigh. I'm annoyed at wife tonight. So we moved to Charlotte a few months ago and long story short, I'm not happy here. My job is boring. The city is boring. And my job has me working so many bizarre long hours, I haven't seen my friends or family since moving here....so yeah, a little depression as sunk in.

So my wife says "you need to just go see friends and cheer up". Being a good wife she knows I'm a little depressed lonely.

So tonight there was a ska show in Raleigh. 3 hours away but I came up with a fun adventure where me and my dog went together, hopped around bars, went hiking, I see Catch 22, and I have a nice dogcation with my best friend (my dog). Also, my work schedule worked out! Off Friday night and no work until Saturday at 6 pm. I didnt need to do any requests, it just fell this way. And! My wife works all night Friday and Saturday. Even today I was looking forward to it. Made money on my lunch shift and was ready to go

Sigh. Its my wife's time of the month and she wants to hug me. So okay, I feel bad. Periods suck and I feel bad.....but its like, shes going to work in an hour. So now I'm left with nothing to do and another night alone. Its not like I need to be there for her tonight and hug and watch movies together. It's "I need a hug until 7pm...which at that point its too late for you to do anything:

And she doesn't even really realize I'm annoyed. I even bought tickets for the show already ($30).

I'm swallowing my pride and annoyance here but ughhh...

Also! Someone asked if I could work tonight and I said no. Thats $250 down the drain.

So I could've worked, I could've done a much needed mental night to myself,...but its neither.

 

That seems odd? As a fellow period having person, I would never expect my bf to skip out on plans like that to hang with me. And I get pretty bad ones where I have migraines and puke. Does she know that was your plan? Either way, hope you can plan another day like that again soon

 

She was just in a "she needs hugs and love" mode? I mean this wasn't some big concert i planned months ago, it was just something i mentioned last week after i got my work schedule and she said "good idea"!

My hints at being like "aw man" wasn't working. Is seeing a ska band i've seen a dozen times more important than comforting my wife who needs me? Of course not. Like duh. It was just the circumstances of like "comeeee on you're going to work ANYWAYS! haha"

And now i just sat home and watched wrestling all night.

 

Hopefully you can still relax and have a chill night watching wrestling! Glad you were able to be there for her

 

I cannot STAND Hulu. It’s utter trash compared to literally every other streamer I pay for. With how expensive streaming it’s just absurd how bad it is at remembering where you were in a movie if you paused it, it has a terrible ui. Tonight it hit a new low with not even attempting to find the movie I was looking for when I searched for it. I hit the first four letters it had no idea what I was lookin for then of course it’s there. THEN WHEN I PLAYED IT I SWEAR IT CRASHED MY ITERNET.

 

My biggest gripe is Paramount+. That shit takes forever to load the actual selection and even just scrolling through the screens takes forever and is usually 4-5 seconds behind the action so I’m constantly selecting the wrong thing when I forget that and am impatient. Then when the movie/show actually does start it plays at like 35 blurry pixels for the first 5-10 minutes. I don’t have that issue with any other app so it’s not my internet, just the shittiness of the app (although I know others don’t have issue with it so idk).

 

My dad is in the hospital for gastrointestinal bleeding and I'm having conflicting feelings about whether or not I should visit him to give him a piece of my mind. Like, sure, saying to him "why didn't you ever care about me" could be cathartic, but... what would that even accomplish at this point?

 

Sometimes I feel like the parent to my mom and I’m just so fucking tired. She never stops and thinks things through. She just makes spontaneous decisions and then has consequences because of them and I end up having to bail her out bc she has no one else. A few years ago she just randomly decided she didn’t want a house anymore and it was too much responsibility. I told her she would hate an apartment. She’s always lived in a house, has never had to deal with neighbors like that, her house would be paid off in like 10 years and rent was more expensive. Does she listen? No. Sells her house, gets an apartment, absolutely hates it and then buys another house that costs double what her old one did. Who had to help her move? Me. Who had to help her fix up the house? Me. Now she decides to get a dog. Again, I tell her bad idea. I love dogs but my mom is very busy and again not in a great financial position. She of course does not listen. The dog is very sweet but has horrible separation anxiety and has destroyed her house. Curtains torn. Original woodwork from the 50s destroyed. Who does she call? Me of course. I told her the dog might need a medication to calm her when my moms not home. Of course she doesn’t want to go that route bc vets are too expensive!! Maybe don’t get a dog when you can’t afford it!! She calls me 2 days after my grandma died in absolute hysterics that I need to go to her house immediately. I get there and the dog caught a rabbit, killed it and was eating it. Apparently I’m supposed to magically deal with this problem for her. Like I’m grieving!!! Leave me be!! I’m so fucking exhausted. I just want a support system for me for once. My entire life has been helping everyone else and I can’t deal with this anymore! You are the parent. You’re supposed to be responsible for your own shit. I’ve bailed her out financially multiple times when I’m barely making it myself bc she has not saved anything. I love her but I’m done.

 

I have since decided that not going would send way more of a message than anything I could say in person

 

My SO is once again on one and I told him how is poor communicate made me feel and he once again took it the wrong way. Still fails to acknowledge it

 

I know how that feels. Drives me nuts because all I want to do is improve things.

 

I want to start going to this Muay Thai gym and I just can’t afford it.

 

the only thing that's changed after trying the free trial of premium LinkedIn is an influx of scam texts and emails. certainly no interviews

so if you want to be bombarded with those more regularly I'd recommend it

 

Can millennials and Gen z band together and refuse to buy houses until they're reasonably priced? I thought that's what we were all doing by force and not rly our choice because none of us can afford a home, but I keep hearing ppl my age talk about the houses they own like hellloooo I thought we were in this together lol

 

I feel like every second of every minute I’m wishing horrible things on horrible people and goddamit, these things just aren’t coming to fruition.

 

So earlier today in san francisco we stop by a random gas station to buy a type c charger cable, I get out while my girl waits in the car. I go inside and browse to find it, and the store clerk sees me look at the chargers and almost instantly starts being rude, at some point he says I better not have buyers remorse and try to return it. I assume he's joking at first and say don't worry I won't. I patiently wait behind the customer ahead of me and not say anything. Mid way into helping the customer he tells him that he's going to help me because I keep eye fucking him and I can tell he isn't joking by his tone. That's when I blow up on him, I told him I didn't care how long he was going to take to helpa nd was being nice to him. I definitely lost my cool and started cussing at him, and ended not buying the damn charger. It sucks trying to be nice and then being treated like garbage.

 

That's an insane way to talk to a patron that's minding their own business. I'm sorry that happened

 

@Aaron Mook it was, it hella threw me off because I was trying to be polite until I knew he was purposely trying to insult me, super odd. But thanks!

 

I find it so hard to make new friends offline that have similar interests. My girl is kind of over going to concerts, sometimes I wish I had a concert buddy. I went to Rise Against on tuesday solo and felt kind of awkward by myself. Seperate issue but i've been itching to get back into making music but when I do I feel kind of bankrupt creatively.

 

I feel you on this one. It’s been really hard for me to make friends the past few years and sometimes it really sucks.

When I moved to SoCal a few years back, I was able to make friends pretty easily through school and all the jobs I worked. But after graduating and getting my first “real job” it’s become way more difficult.

I’m the youngest guy at my office and everyone else in my company is like 2-3 decades older than me, so that’s out of the question. I had luck befriending some people in a local photography group which was great, but the past year and a half, every meetup they’ve had has been scheduled on a day where I have a prior obligation or plan scheduled, so I haven’t been able to see them for a while.

All my friends I’ve made here have their own busy lives and schedules so I rarely get to see them. All of my best/close friends live out of town or state so I rarely get to see them either.

I don’t have an issue doing things by myself (concerts, outings, errands) and as a matter of fact, I enjoy it. But sometimes it would be nice to have buddies to do stuff with.

 

Bought my first computer in ~10 years, has Windows been this awful?

Haven't had a laptop in a while and needed one as I move towards higher education. I was so excited to pick it up and take it home. Immediately upon booting up I have to sign in to my Microsoft account. Weird. And then I have to opt out of what feels like a million different data monetization schemes. Weird. And then I have to download and install updates after the long winded boot up process before I can even do anything. Weird. Bad user experience. I finally get in just to see my wallpaper being some Lenovo Red Bull ad. Awful. I go to download Chrome just to figure out that my laptop is in S mode, which I assume is a dumb way to force people to open the Microsoft store. Again, weird. No electronic device should have this much in the way of just booting up and using it.

I remember just being able to change some preliminary settings and get into Windows. Now I get data monetization shoved down my throat, Microsoft game pass ads, and a fucking ad on my stock Wallpaper. I'm sorry, but Windows feels cheap now and no longer gives off a premium vibe. What a disappointment. If anyone has any tips to make Windows 11 less intrusive please let me know lol

 

Windows has been a shit show for a while but 11 just sucks.

 

I'm falling apart and idk why. Last two days I've felt so weak and nauseous. But not always. I'll feel completely fine and then like garbage again out of nowhere. A few times in my life I've sorta randomly passed out and it's been the feeling I get right before that happens, sort of shaky and nauseous like my blood sugar is low or something but again, last two days its not continuously. Sometimes this is accompanied by me feeling uncomfortably warm. Because it's not continuous I hesitate to say I'm sick because it comes and goes. But I've thrown up 2 times today. I threw up once earlier today and felt totally fine afterwards and thought I was done with it all. But then like an hour later it hit me again. Whhhhhy

Update: oop i think this may have been withdrawal from effexor