Random Fail: First World Problems

[The Stig]

So I've been slapped with a debuff at work, which is basically to stay silent or not say anything inappropiate. (read last page if you want to know why). I've limited my conversations to work only, or topics relating to common norms.

I've noticed as a side effect this significantly improved my rant/critiscm rating when it comes to writing, resulting in the top manager going down to my manager to ask me to delete one of my posts in our internal Twitter (someone complained of an app. I chimed in and went off on a tangent. I thought, well, it was internal only, so what could possibly go wrong?). And as a result of bottling up, when I go out for lunch or dinner with people at work and/or outside of work, my tone and swearing seems to have gone right through the roof (although I did watch Seasons 14, 15 and 16 of South Park during the last 2 weeks, uncensored (After not watching it for a while, I went and caught myself up with the series)).

Oh, and apparently the client finds it hilarious that I am so quiet. I'm not sure if this is true but that's what a manager I'm friendly with said to me, as it was some "feedback". This somewhat annoyed me but I let it go.

I'm not sure what to do at the moment haha. I'm attempting to channel this energy somewhere by restarting some of my old projects. But it's only working so far.

It seems the only way to get through the day nowadays is to not use my brain and conform/not care about anything. If I try to care then I invoke my inner self and hulk out verbally.

I enjoy my work. I don't see a reason to leave yet. I'm aware I need to be more professional/normal, but you know it's sometimes boring.

[BaneTheBrawler]

Get a hobby. If you pick up video games, you can shout abuse at 12 year olds and not have any serious repercussions.

[AoE]

You wrote all that just to say you got Buzz Killington'd at your job.

To be fair, I hate that feel, bro.

[Melena]

Bleh today the battery cover latch on my work issued cell phone popped off for no reason. 3.5 years and I'm now needing a third phone as the first one the battery would die in under 8 hours and it was just a stupid motorola flip phone.

[Brill Weave]

My work keeps giving us refurbished HTC Androids and they can't figure out why we all need new phones after a few months. We've all offered to pay them the difference to get either a brand new one or a different brand altogether but we aren't allowed since we apparently have a contract with them. I'm on phone #5 in the last 18 months. The guy that sits next to me is on #11.

[Apelila]

Get a hobby. If you pick up video games, you can shout abuse at 12 year olds and not have any serious repercussions.

That's probably the most unintentionally creepy thing about video games I have ever read. Good job.

Also stig: If you think you know who it is just try and get the hell away from them. If it's all the same person, they are taking joy at seeing you be made uncomfortable with no repercussions themselves.
People that self absorbed do not respond unless you fight back, and if you can't fight back then the best thing is to remove yourself from them as best you can.

[Melena]

My work keeps giving us refurbished HTC Androids and they can't figure out why we all need new phones after a few months. We've all offered to pay them the difference to get either a brand new one or a different brand altogether but we aren't allowed since we apparently have a contract with them. I'm on phone #5 in the last 18 months. The guy that sits next to me is on #11.

Yea we used to have Verizon and someone was like oh Sprint is cheaper lets go with them. Of course my job would be substantially easier if they gave me a crackberry or something so I can get my work e-mail on my phone. As is, AT&T wants money to contact an exchange server so fuck that on my personal phone.

[Lucki]

Yea we used to have Verizon and someone was like oh Sprint is cheaper lets go with them. Of course my job would be substantially easier if they gave me a crackberry or something so I can get my work e-mail on my phone. As is, AT&T wants money to contact an exchange server so fuck that on my personal phone.

Maybe it's different with AT&T, but I've never had to purchase an Exchange data plan on either Verizon or Sprint to get work email. I was under the impression that that was only needed if you wanted your wireless provider to host the server, not if your company already hosted it.

[Melena]

Maybe it's different with AT&T, but I've never had to purchase an Exchange data plan on either Verizon or Sprint to get work email. I was under the impression that that was only needed if you wanted your wireless provider to host the server, not if your company already hosted it.

They may have dropped it but when I got my first smart phone shortly before I started my job with the Sheriff's office AT&T wanted ten bucks a month for your phone to hook up to an exchange server unless it was a blackberry. I said fuck that and just use the shitty web browser logon to my email if I need to check something when i'm out of the office now.

[BaneTheBrawler]

That's probably the most unintentionally creepy thing about video games I have ever read. Good job.

Thanks! Apparently, I'm pretty good at being unintentionally creepy. I'm always accidentally photobombing, plus a friend of a friend said (through Facebook chat) I look like a pedophile. I happened to be in the room at the time so I saw it, and the lot of us were planning to go to a movie later that evening. I teased her about it, because it amuses me.

[hey]

My parents' computer has been dead/dying for a while now, so they decided to upgrade. Being completely unable to save any money, they decided to buy their new motherboard first, and wait for their next pay check to get a cpu (to be fair, they got a decent deal on it, but...). No big deal right? Well, it probably wouldn't have been, but then we had no power for 2 weeks, then had shit to buy because of the hurricane, so it ended up being around 3 weeks before they could buy the cpu. Then amazon decides 2 days shipping means don't ship it for 2 days, so it just came yesterday. Whatever, shit happens, right? Well i just put it together, and what do you know? The motherboard was doa.

The last day to rma it was yesterday.

[izembo]

contact amazon, they're normally pretty good about it

[hey]

The motherboard was from newegg. And we did contact them.

[Gadritan]

The motherboard was from newegg. And we did contact them.

And they're still going to allow an exchange ya?

[The Stig]

Also stig: If you think you know who it is just try and get the hell away from them. If it's all the same person, they are taking joy at seeing you be made uncomfortable with no repercussions themselves.
People that self absorbed do not respond unless you fight back, and if you can't fight back then the best thing is to remove yourself from them as best you can.

Aye I relocated somewhat a few seats away from the client crowd. I'm fine, but the "keeping quiet" thing is making my verbal ability significantly more cynical/ruder when I do speak lol (or as I said, South Park might be assisting here). It's like I'm collecting unspent energy.

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More random fail. A portion of my wisdom tooth fell off while eating a Snickers. It's not a filling/crown either, but that tooth has always been significantly "smaller" (underdeveloped?)

Currently booked an appointment for next week to have it checked out. I've got half of it left. Minor/inconvenient pain in the same way as a sensitive tooth at the moment. Can't apply hot/cold stuff near it.

Washing my mouth regularly (not that I don't brush, I brush 3 times a day for the last 4 months since my last dental visit) a bit more to keep the area clean in case something is exposed.

[Brill Weave]

Tell them you're in excruciating pain to the point you can't sleep at night. They will give you Vicodin or whatever the generic knock off is. Then call them back the next day and tell them the Vicodin made you physically ill. They will probably give you Percocets. At least my dentist did when I had to have a root canal. Looking back my dentist is kind of crappy.

[Melena]

Seriously, fuck best buy. I ordered two blu rays that were in stock on cyber monday as gifts for the wife. Tuesday I received an email showing both items shipped. Today checking the tracking from work I find out one of them is back ordered and despite every store in the bay area having it they won't let me pick up in store and can't guarantee i'll have it by christmas. Between that and the warranty fiasco on my galaxy s3 battery I'm starting to see why this company is going belly up.

[NynJa]

My entire province is a fucking random fail with their new government:
http://www.cjad.com/CJADLocalNews/en...tryID=10475943

[The Stig]

Work colleague who owns iPhone 4S but doesn't know about it approached me yesterday asking something.

He downloaded some random game off iTunes for his 2 year old nephew to play:

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/angr...481664999?mt=8

He got billed for £34.99 overnight ($56 US dollar!). He asked me how did it happen..

I played the game for 1 min, then realised it came with in-app purchases, so I quickly looked up the game.

Of all the random buttons the kid could've pushed on a 2x3 grid of 6 buttons, he chose to buy the most expensive shit on there:

Top In App Purchases

• Pocket o' Pennies £1.49
• Purse o' Pounds £2.49
• Box o' Banknotes £1.99
• Briefcase o' Bills £6.99
• Trunk o' Treasure £34.99
• Safe o' Savings £13.99

I turned off "in-app purchases" on his phone, but I think the damage is permanently done.

[NynJa]

I thought it has to confirm in app purchases as well as ask for your password?