Vent Your Frustrations • Page 122

I am so mad rn. I went in for my last workers comp visit (it’s been 6 months), only to be told by the receptionist that they need a claim number and my work never filed the claim! WTF! And if they didn’t have it today they’re going to bill me for all my visits. Of course my work is closed at this hour and the lady that handles it phone went straight to voice mail. I asked why I wasn’t notified before and the receptionist said she’s just finding out and it’s in the chart notes.

 

The freeway entrance by my office that I use to get home from work is closed off because of construction and it’s completely fucked up my commute home. Instead of it just being a straight shot, my drive home is now just a complete crapshoot that varies day-by-day and all depends on which way maps tells me is the fastest.

My drive home today took over an hour and was all surface street. Sometimes I have to take a completely different route. Sometimes I have to do weird backtracking and get on a different freeway. But no matter what, it takes forever to get home. All because my freeway entrance is closed for the foreseeable future.

Sometimes I resent myself for moving to a large metro area with a complete lack of public transit

 

Our main exit by our house was closed off and on over the last 3 months and it’s annoying af. Worst of all we could get off at an earlier exit but sometimes durning the day and even at night our exit IS open. Yet there are never any sings warning of it so if it’s indeed closed and we risk passing the exit that before it we risk going to the longer way home exit after.

 

Something like this happened to me. In and off exit closures. There’s a lot of construction and even to where they added permanent barricades some lanes and if you don’t get in the right lane you have no chance of getting over for miles and can’t exit at the exit you want. Sometimes I know about road closures. A couple of weeks ago I was coming home from visiting a friend and I ended up on a different highway that I don’t take home. I’m guessing my gps routed me there and I didn’t know about it

 

A bunch of ants got to my cats rx food! I keep it in an air tight food grade cambrio container but it wasn’t large enough for the entire bag so I kept the remainder in the cabinet. I went to check to make sure the food was unharmed and there was ants in it!! That shit is $70!

 

Screwed up my shoulder blade and have a really bad spasm. The pain is unreal. Just took a pretty high dose of Prednisone - I've never taken it before and have heard mixed reviews lol hope it doesn't cause issues for me. I already have a high heart rate and am prediabetic and I guess Prednisone fucks with heart pressure and blood sugar levels

 

I am almost to the point between jobs in the terrible job market where I have burned through much of my savings, and am very close to having to withdraw money from my 401K to pay rent..

I am gonna give it another week or so, but I just figured out some of the logistics of it today. Would have to do a partial withdraw and with the rest going into a new IRA, so I can get a minimum tax bracket and early withdraw penalty. I have almost 18k in there, but will only take out less than 10k.

 

I'm really sorry to hear, dude. Wishing you well and hope that good things happen for you soon

 

I will never understand how smoke detectors work in terms of why they never shut the fuck up even when the goddamn battery is removed. If it still chirps and ruins your hearing with the battery removed what the fuck does the battery do???????

Knock on wood I think I finally got them both to stop after replacing the batteries in each and putzing with it and slamming the test/reset button a bunch.

I feel like I have the worst luck with dying smoke detectors and I become Phoebe from Friends eternally.

My most insane situation was when I was house sitting at my parents and the dogs were freaking out and I ended up literally cutting the damn wires for BOTH smoke detectors in the basement and THEN finding out that it was the carbon monoxide detector that was beeping lol. Why they have both of those beep with the same annoying sound also makes no sense to me.

 

Today was the only day this week I had to work from the office, which of course was the day an expensive package was delivered, which was of course was stolen by the time I got home. And it’s not like it was outside, it was delivered inside the building in an area where you need a key to get in

I fucking hate that not everyone in my apartment building can be respectful enough to not take other people’s shit. Like what the fuck kind of neighbour are you to do that?

 

Always feel bad when I see stuff like that happening because, knock on wood, it has never happened to me. Never realized how common it was.

 

thats crappy.

knock on everyones door, read their body language and when you know who did it, pop em

 

Work is threatening to force me to go down to part time, which means I would lose all my PTO, 401k, etc. And it is because of reasons that are not even my fault!! We are paid based on production. Every day we have a production report that shows how many hours we actually produced. I'm scheduled full time, so 40 hours a week. The problem is my production hours are basically never even close to that. But the reason is bc there is never enough work!! I cannot produce anything if there is no work available for me to produce!! So even though I am working my shift, bc I'm not producing 40 hours worth of work (literally no one is!!! because there isn't enough work to do!!!), I might be dropped to part time. I really, really don't want to lose my PTO. This is the first job in my life where I've actually gotten PTO. and when you are part time here you cannot take ANY unpaid time off. I'm trying to work out a solution with my boss but the whole thing is absolute BS. If I'm working my shift, I should not be punished. Like I'm supposed to be working rn but there is no work available. And tomorrow is a holiday so guess what, it will be slow again tomorrow!!

 

Productivity (especially in medical and therapy fields) is such bs

 

I truly can’t win lol My mortgage got sold again last year. I got my escrow analysis from the new company. They require 2 months of escrow as a cushion. Every other lender I’ve had (it’s been sold like 4 times) has not required this. As long as I have enough in the account to pay taxes/insurance it’s been good. So naturally since it’s never been required before, I don’t have that much in my account. On top of that my taxes/insurance both went up. So now they say I owe them almost $800 or my mortgage payment is going up almost $70 a month. I’m trying to get out of using escrow and pay everything myself to get out of needing the ridiculous cushion but I’m almost positive they are going to deny my request bc I’m still paying PMI. So if I get denied there goes my entire tax return plus the money I put aside that I got for Christmas and I will yet again have no savings. I feel like I’m never going to get ahead at this point!!

 

i don't think the coach at the mma gym i go to really likes me that much. he doesn't not like me, but the vibes are just not there.

 

I’m so tired of being burnt out

 

Feel you and it's hard to job search when you're burned out so you can't make it better

 

inbetween jobs. Haven't been able to find remote work (got rid of my car because it wasn't worth keeping it during pandemic and I thought WFH would be forever) Burned through my savings the past 10 months or so. Just today had to cash out my 401k early to buy me 6 more months at least. At least I did this early in the year so if I get a job soon I have a year to save to pay off the taxes and penalties.

I was originally just going to take about half out, but with how uncertain everything is right now I just said fuck it take all it out now while it's there incase Trump and Musk crash everything.

 

Basically my predicament

 

Apparently this fuckin department has enough money for another fuckin management position but nothing for my fuckin minuscule raise request

 

sucks, i hear ya chief

 

This department has the ability to give a senior position and raise, the former which might violate the union agreement because senior positions require interviews and open job postings, but no money to fucking raise we all agreed i deserved to threee years agooooo?!??

 

All my boomer uncles told me that gallbladder surgery was cake and that they were like putting up drywall or installing sprinklers the next day. Fuckin liars.

 

Bootlicker reddit didn't help. My newest job fuxked me over so badly and they're still finding ways to ruin my life.

Quick recap!

- new job interview January 10th. They offer "full time benefits" and "you make a ton of money". Also, bar manager says theyre flexible with hours and scheduling. I had a bunch of other job offers at the same time but I pick this one because that all sounds great!

- after 8 full days of training and an entire week after that filled with non/disinformation, my first schedule comes out and I only have 3 shifts and they're all terrible so essentially after wasting 19 days training i realized I'm only gonna be making $500/wk and no benefits.

- i ask "whats up" and they say those are the only shifts available and idk why someone "else" told you otherwise. Im annoyed! Obviously but I decide to make it work. I get a 2nd crappy job to supplement, I pick up every dropped shift, and work essetnsily 7 days a week.

- fast forward to last week. I'm fired. They realize they don't need me and old employees are coming back....they say "sorry". Wow. It's not over

- im Obviously pissed. In the group chat I say "fuck you guys for wasting my time" and write a Google review (nothing bad i just say the drinks are too expensive...the review is deleted Obviously). A little immature? Sure but they really really wasted my time and bankrupted me, I dont think that's THAT bad what I did?

- today I go to pick up my last paycheck. The gm brings me into the office and YELLS at me. Says how dare I wrote what I wrote and if you ever come to this bar again I'll call the cops!! And he called me other job and said "I'm a bad bartender and unstable". And!!!! I'm pretty sure they shorted me.on my last paycheck


What in the flying fuck!!! I've been bartending for 13 years, have tons of references, and mostly good experiences, so this is a big what the fuck to me. If they called my other job that's called BLACKLISTIN and is illegal.

Im a little shaken up. Ive never been treated or yelled at like that. Reddit says "you sound immature and deserve it" and "you must not be a good bartender" and its like go to helll! I didn't do anything to be treated like I was while working there and the worst thing I did was say "fuck you" once? Gtfo. Finding a job in Charlotte has been awful! So hard.