People who've earned my disdain today -- irl

Tuesdays they cut the grass and run the leaf blower across the street, it never takes less than 3 hours 4 them to finish and it's continuous. They started at 6:30 this morning.

On Wednesdays, the association will have the same thing done on our side of the street, so we get to do it all again.

New guy at work is a big time urinal talker. Not a fan of UTs in general. I find it way too bold for some slightly above entry level new hire to try & chat me up about my weekend while I'm taking a piss.

Guy sounds like a fucking monster.

Contact HR.

Jesus, Nick. Does he turn his head when he does it or does he at least have the decency to stare at the wall?

He doesn't do a full head turn. More like an angle with an upward tilt.

i rather work with a hands-free urinal user than a UT

We have a guy in our office who rests his head against the wall above the urinal as though he can't muster the strength to just use his own body strength to remain upright while relieving himself. Its so fucking weird. He is also a UT, so yeah he's a dude you wanna avoid being in the restroom at the same time as, natch.

Another day, another robocall from a telemarketer trying to sell me a cruise while spoofing fake numbers on my caller ID. I don't pick these calls up. They never stop coming, I get two or three every day. I wanted to see what might happen if I got through to a real operator, so I got past the fake operator/recording that talks to you when you answer the call and got patched through to an actual person.

I asked what company he worked for, got a "I'm sorry, you're breaking up, I can't understand you" response several times. Tried to get the call back on track by going along with it, "okay, how about now? let's hear about this cruise!" Then I asked how they got my number and the dude went with a "I just told you," reply like another three times. Have you ever been gaslighted like this in a one-on-one conversation? It's really something.

I was surprised how fast my willingness to engage with this person in the meconium shitbath that I knew was waiting for me had so quickly dried up, I simply can't do this even if I try to psyche myself up for it in advance. I was fired up and ready to destroy this dude, but that's not who I am and that's why nothing good will ever come from these misguided efforts and why even the meaningless satisfaction of giving them the pushback they deserve will always elude me. Once it was obvious to him that I wasn't interested, and it became obvious to myself that they weren't going to give me any of the information that they ought to be legally required to divulge when asked for, he finally offered to take my number off their list and I was "yeah, you do that" or something and he was like "okay, all you had to do was ask, we're both adults!"

No, I'm not taking his word for it. I am, however, left to ponder the possibility that, if it's not too inconvenient for them to do so, they may retaliate by doing something with whatever information of mine it is that they've got. It's awesome how they don't even have to float that as a threat and it's a scenario they still have on their side.

It's insane that it's 2017 and these people can't be tracked down, that both the telecom industry and law enforcement just impotently shrug over the impossible problem of tracing these calls over the very systems that they built and monitor to a personally invasive degree. The shared disdain against robocalls and the opportunists who buy and trade our personal information in running them is like the only thing that everyone in this country can agree on anymore, tracking down these people and making an example out of them would seem to be an obvious top priority and a quick way to build public trust and good PR but somehow that's lost on our best and brightest.

tl;dr

When's the cruise and where are you going?

undo wrote:Tuesdays they cut the grass and run the leaf blower across the street, it never takes less than 3 hours 4 them to finish and it's continuous. They started at 6:30 this morning.

On Wednesdays, the association will have the same thing done on our side of the street, so we get to do it all again.

Today they got on the roof with a bunch of equipment and supplies at 7:10 and started cleaning out the gutters.

Right outside the window where my stressed out and sick partner was maybe getting the first good night of sleep she’d had in maybe a week.

I got called off from work this morning, I should be looking forward to a free day but I am in a very poor mood right now. I shouldn’t have watched that video of the racist on the train.

Lately I’ve come to regret to regret most of these types of posts but I just need to vent about it because I don’t know.

I have been on the phone all morning/afternoon with healthcare.gov/state of Illinois/Aetna/Meridian Health. It is exasperating, none of them can help me and tell me exactly what to do, each of them points me somewhere else.

I cannot possibly begin to describe how insane and broken this whole process is. I mean either that's the case or I've just got full on dementia and don't even know it

Nah, it ain't you. I think it was last year that I totaled up my time spent on the phone trying to take care of that stuff. It was more than 400 minutes.

The only thing more annoying than watching people board airplanes is watching tedious ass motherfuckers in the salad bar line. Am I right?!?!

I went on Craigslist to find some free moving boxes. Wtf everyone is selling their used boxes now? Fuck this country

Try a liquor store.

Duff... wrote:Try a liquor store.

A solid answer for almost any life problem.

All the trees, streetlights and road signs on our streets have yellow ribbons tied around them. Not really ribbons but yellow caution tape. Even the posts outside the front door of our building. These will surely fester and rot or eventually fall off and get blown into the ponds down the block if I don't circle the neighborhood and remove them all myself.

Is this to support the troops?

Seriously, please tell me if I'm going too far but are there forces at work who want to keep the day off but redefine Labor Day as another military holiday and continue to gut the meaning behind it?

I was talking to someone about this and it wasn't long before they went into the "Actually, I don't really like labor unions, they're pretty corrupt you know"-meme that someone brilliant got into everyone's heads and no one can even remember where they heard it.

"Well, my grandma said that the union screwed my grandpa out of a bunch of money." Don't know what to tell you!

Usually ribbons around a tree in the suburbs signify a recent local tragedy. Like the girl down the block has cancer or someone killed themselves. It’s like the trending thing.

Idk but I’m sick of the anti union garbage. As corrupt as some of them can be they have taken much less from the workers than corporations or politicians. My job would pay $11 an hour if it wasn’t for organized labor.

https://www.aei.org/publication/happy-capital-day-3/

Is that real?

I just woke up

I mean, it’s a real Koch-backed think tank trying to make it a real thing.

coyote wrote:Usually ribbons around a tree in the suburbs signify a recent local tragedy. Like the girl down the block has cancer or someone killed themselves. It’s like the trending thing.

Well this just happened less than a mile away, I wouldn't have even known if I hadn't gone looking after reading your reply.

I celebrated Labor Day by ripping the Roskam sign out of my neighbors front yard and throwing it in my recycling bin.

That's not very respectful. Where do you draw the line?