Random Fail: First World Problems

[Yuri-G]

I'm on the warpath today.


first case: biking before work this morning. there is a part where the bike path and the walking path line up next to each other. most walkers are respectful and remain on the walking side, but some are not. I almost ran over a group of people who had spread out and completely took up both paths, and weren't paying any attention as I came barreling toward them. I yelled out "WATCH OUT!!" and after they dodged me, you know what one of them yelled back? "YOU DONT HAVE TO YELL DUDE, CHILL!"


MOTHERFUCKER.


we have three options here. 1) I swerve to avoid you and/or hard brake, possibly injuring myself and certainly (in the case of a hard brake) damage my bike. given that I'm not in the habit of sacrificing my shit for your shit, especially if you're an idiot, this was never an option. 2) I yell at you and you get out of the fucking bike path and back onto the walking path where all the intelligent, respectful walkers are. 3) I CRASH THE FUCK INTO YOU.


given that I've nixed 1, would you REALLY prefer I forego option 2 and choose option 3? REALLY? this shit is lined by a busy street on one side and a body of water on the other; there is no room to be dodging around people like I might do on other paths. it's always been a testy area and today we saw why. in conclusion: fuck your dumb ass, don't walk four-by-four and clog up the entire bike path you morons. be respectful.




second case: guy calls into us from another department to help with a duplicate charge issue for his customer. I ask him for an ID number, which is basic information that he should have gotten before making the call, he says "I don't have that. can I just bring the customer on?" I say no, can you please check and see if you have any information at all that might help me here. he says hold on a sec, then comes back with the ID number. ah. so you were just being a lazy shit, you didn't want to look for the info. I then ask him where he sees the duplicate charge because I don't see it anywhere, he says "oh I didn't check. can I just bring the customer on?" ah. so you just wanted me to take care of everything without even verifying there was an issue in the first place - i.e. offload the customer and make someone else do your job for you.


I help the customer, but after the call is over I went off on him in a private message. I mean Jesus fuck, you couldn't take literally 15 seconds to verify there was an actual issue before you just dumped the call on another department? god damn, dude.


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fucking hell. I hate human beings sometimes. I swear.

[FNH]

Handcuffed to a poorly raised 19yo at work. Sure wish people would parent their kids properly before they enter the work force.

Supervisors have made him my responsibility to train and I can see why. Kid doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. He either has a learning disability, doesn't care about learning, or figures if he screws up I'll do it for him. Things people learn in a day or two, he is taking weeks to learn and this is basic stuff. Luckily his attendance is shit and they'll probably dump him after his trial period.

He's 19 making $40k/yr with the ability to hit $50k base after his trial period, $90k ceiling with OT. Stupid bastard can't even get to work a couple minutes early to save his job.

[Aksannyi]

Not my fail but I'm confused about one of my coworkers.

She didn't come back yesterday after lunch. No word about it this morning when she came in, so I just shrugged it off, not my business. But again today, she didn't come back from lunch. What the fuck? Both days, the supervisor was like, "Do you know where she is?" Um, no, why would I?

If they don't fire her then I will be amazed. Who the fuck does that?

[Zetanio]

Idiots. Idiots do that.

[Aksannyi]

Fair enough. I've just never seen anything like it, and I've seen a lot of dumb fuckery in my life.

[Karbuncle]

Handcuffed to a poorly raised 19yo at work. Sure wish people would parent their kids properly before they enter the work force.

Supervisors have made him my responsibility to train and I can see why. Kid doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. He either has a learning disability, doesn't care about learning, or figures if he screws up I'll do it for him. Things people learn in a day or two, he is taking weeks to learn and this is basic stuff. Luckily his attendance is shit and they'll probably dump him after his trial period.

He's 19 making $40k/yr with the ability to hit $50k base after his trial period, $90k ceiling with OT. Stupid bastard can't even get to work a couple minutes early to save his job.

Where can I be a barely functional moron and make 40k~90k a year? That hires 19 year olds?

[Blubbartron]

Drugs maybe? Goes to take a lunch break, gets high, can't be bothered to (or simply physically can't) make it back?

[Aksannyi]

Drugs maybe? Goes to take a lunch break, gets high, can't be bothered to (or simply physically can't) make it back?

Actually that makes a lot of sense. She did say that she has some sort of medical issue so I'm wondering if it's something that's been flaring up but still, wouldn't you at least call your workplace and let them know you're not able to come back? I think that's something I would probably do if I got sick over lunch. None of the supervisors seemed to have any idea what happened to her.

[BaneTheBrawler]

man, i've been feeling better lately, but evenings like this remind me just how fucking close i am to being miserable.

i've been tired all fucking week, no matter how well i sleep or how much i eat (these days i get sleepy when im hungry), and i've been bleeding almost constantly. bleeding fucking hurts. i've been in and out of the bathroom fairly often, and it's getting to the point where my ass is sore and that's a whole new level of pain.

on the bright side, my GF is great and i don't feel the pain as much when she's around. Also, infusion is friday, so i should feel better by sunday. thing is, i'm worried my medication is going to be useless soon: i used to be able to go like 8 weeks without a dose, over the years it's whittled down to 3.... which means i might need to find a new one... and unless something new came out in the last few years, there aren't any. i've been on everything. so i could be reverting back to full-time misery in the not too distant future.

which, given the way it affects my state of mind, fucking terrifies me. it shortens my temper by a lot, and i'm mean when i'm short-tempered. i hate it. I can already see the effects just in this week. Flashes of annoyance at things that shouldn't annoy me. I haven't acted on them, but if my meds do stop working, I'm gonna lose it sometime, and what if i blow up at my gf? fucking hell, i felt annoyed at her when we were playing civ v the other day because she made her own decision. what the fuck? that was the whole point of teaching her to play. and then i get annoyed when she does it? fucking stupid, idiotic, petty bullshit. I EVER let that kind of shit show, and it would hurt her. Poison us. Gonna have to explain about all this, but explaining it doesn't really take the hurt away when it happens. I know.

Fuck. Maybe I should see a therapist or something. Should be covered under medicare, right? Dunno what they'd say that could help; I already know how to deal with my anger: not open my goddamn mouth when I lose my temper, wait for the rest of my brain to kick in and tell me what a fucking idiot I am for even getting mad. Maybe, if I do end up like that, I can get a prescription for that, specifically. I hope so. I'm a fucking asshole when I'm sick. I hate it. So much.

Anyway, just kinda venting/organizing my thoughts. Hard to think, tired as fuck and not feeling well. Obviously. Who knows, maybe there's a new treatment in the pipeline I can get in on that will help.

[Byrthnoth]

Obligatory: Hey Bane... why don'tcha cut out gluten? My girlfrehnd Lindah tried it and she felt maaaaahch bettah.



In seriousness though, have you gotten 23andMe'd? If anyone ever develops a true fix for your condition, it's probably going to be through some mix of genetic-understanding and basic health history. 23andMe is essentially the for-profit frontend for a genetics aggregation service. The way that Facebook control social information and LinkedIn controls professional information, 23andMe wants to control genetic information. Though the rest of us should perhaps be wary about giving our unique genetic fingerprint to a tech company run by the Google founder's wife, it may have very real potential to aid research and prevalence in the database is probably going to affect the probability a condition is investigated. It's definitely not a shortterm solution, but it's something.

[Cream Soda]

I'm on the warpath today.


first case: biking before work this morning. there is a part where the bike path and the walking path line up next to each other. most walkers are respectful and remain on the walking side, but some are not. I almost ran over a group of people who had spread out and completely took up both paths, and weren't paying any attention as I came barreling toward them. I yelled out "WATCH OUT!!" and after they dodged me, you know what one of them yelled back? "YOU DONT HAVE TO YELL DUDE, CHILL!"


MOTHERFUCKER.


we have three options here. 1) I swerve to avoid you and/or hard brake, possibly injuring myself and certainly (in the case of a hard brake) damage my bike. given that I'm not in the habit of sacrificing my shit for your shit, especially if you're an idiot, this was never an option. 2) I yell at you and you get out of the fucking bike path and back onto the walking path where all the intelligent, respectful walkers are. 3) I CRASH THE FUCK INTO YOU.


given that I've nixed 1, would you REALLY prefer I forego option 2 and choose option 3? REALLY? this shit is lined by a busy street on one side and a body of water on the other; there is no room to be dodging around people like I might do on other paths. it's always been a testy area and today we saw why. in conclusion: fuck your dumb ass, don't walk four-by-four and clog up the entire bike path you morons. be respectful.




second case: guy calls into us from another department to help with a duplicate charge issue for his customer. I ask him for an ID number, which is basic information that he should have gotten before making the call, he says "I don't have that. can I just bring the customer on?" I say no, can you please check and see if you have any information at all that might help me here. he says hold on a sec, then comes back with the ID number. ah. so you were just being a lazy shit, you didn't want to look for the info. I then ask him where he sees the duplicate charge because I don't see it anywhere, he says "oh I didn't check. can I just bring the customer on?" ah. so you just wanted me to take care of everything without even verifying there was an issue in the first place - i.e. offload the customer and make someone else do your job for you.


I help the customer, but after the call is over I went off on him in a private message. I mean Jesus fuck, you couldn't take literally 15 seconds to verify there was an actual issue before you just dumped the call on another department? god damn, dude.


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fucking hell. I hate human beings sometimes. I swear.

If people are walking in a clearly marked bike path, I make eye contact and proceed to accelerate. I don't have a license plate. I will run your ass down and get back up and ride off like nothing happened.

[Cream Soda]

So I've been doing intermittent fasting for about 3 and a half years now. It's basically fasting longer than the time you're eating, but general IF is anywhere between 14-20 hrs. Anything over 20 is pushing it.

There are a number of benefits to it, but I won't really go into detail there other than mentioning in your eating window, you eat the same amount of calories as you would in a breakfast/lunch/dinner scenario (biggest pet peeve is when ppl ask me why I starve myself lol and I'm like nigga, I eat more food than you do)

So I normally do an 18 hour fast with a 6 hour eating window; but when I'm in the final 3-4 weeks of any diet, I'll move that to a 20hr fast with a 4hr eating window.

My eating window opened tonight at 8, and I didn't get home until 1, and didn't have the food ready until 2. So I basically went 6hrs over. Coupled with the fact that I'm on super low calories at the moment as well (diet, etc.) whooo I felt like shit biking home and going for my run tonight (if I run my obstacle course anything less than 8hrs after I eat, I will regurgitate the fuck out of it).

I was at a smash bros tourney tonight and got out of that at 11, biked 10 miles from there to the park where I run my obstacle course. Then from there it was another 3 miles to home, which got me in the door right at 1.


Protip: for the remainder of this diet, I need to schedule everything else around eating. When I'm already eating low calories, I need to make sure I eat as soon as that window opens

[FNH]

Where can I be a barely functional moron and make 40k~90k a year? That hires 19 year olds?

Manufacturing building materials.

forgot to mention his "dad" works there too. Who is also a barely functional moron.

[Ansems]

About 5 yrs ago I confessed my love for a man thru a sock account on this forum. This forum was the first to know about my coming out cause no body knew me in real life here. I fell in love with my best friend and had the most amazing relationship. We were together for 4 years and those years define me as a person.

To the first and only man I have ever loved on this planet. I cannot perceive that you have passed away. My heart has broken into a million pieces. I thank god everyday that I found love with you because without you I would have never experienced love. Baby, I love you. I'll alway love you til the day that I meet the same sweet fate death divine. #rip Caleb Dakota Warren.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...7c4fdf7211.jpg
The picture above was one of the happiest days of my life and it was with you. I love you so much I can't believe you're gone.
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[Dotsudoku]

sorry for your loss

he looks eerily like Fievel

[Anoat]

One of my coworkers has been mass emailing everyone in our office at least once a week for the last month linking to a Go Fund Me page he has set up to help pay for his wife's cancer treatments. I feel for the guy, but come on, man. Don't bring it to work.

[synistar]

Isn't HR supposed to approve those types of emails before they are sent out? At least that's SOP where I'm at. And I'm confident most of them get rejected except for charity stuff. And most of that is run through the company in the first place.

[Zetanio]

One of my coworkers has been mass emailing everyone in our office at least once a week for the last month linking to a Go Fund Me page he has set up to help pay for his wife's cancer treatments. I feel for the guy, but come on, man. Don't bring it to work.

That's unacceptable imo. Business is business. As Synistar said, go to HR, don't spam your email list.

[Melena]

Exactly as others said. I know both my time at the Sheriff's Office and with Health Care Services, any time there was a tragedy like that, if the employee requested it, HR would send an e-mail asking for any donations (which would be set up through a county sponsored credit union) or donation of sick/vacation time to help with the increased time off the employee would need, but never a damn gofundme.

[zoobernut]

I fucking hate goFundme. Crowd funding shit you should have contingencies for as a normal functioning adult really irritate me. I saw people passing around a goFund me for a dude who needed help paying the vet bill for his cat. Hey asshole if you can't afford a cat don't have one. Or the guy who had a goFundme to help pay for medical bills and rehab after he cut his hand (seriously severing tendons and shit) on a broken bottle while drunk at a bar.

I know there are some legit cases on goFundme but overall the crowd funding thing has gotten out of hand.