The Bitching Thread

I have bruises on both of my forearms and on my calves and ankles from sleeping awkwardly on the floor the last couple of days, because I moved into a new semi-furnished apartment and don't yet have a bed. I won't have one until tomorrow, and that's if I'm lucky.

I tried sleeping on the loveseat that came with the apartment, but I'm way too tall and can't get into a comfortable position on it. I got about 3 hours of sleep due to sheer exhaustion before a neck cramp and a leg cramp woke me up. Couldn't get back to sleep until almost 10 am, again from exhaustion, this time on the floor, where I woke up 2 hours later both still tired and very sore.

Life as a whole blows when you can't get good sleep.

Heh. You are hard core. You should have bought some el cheapo air bed. It would have lasted until you get the real bed.

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Originally Posted by complich8

Life as a whole blows when you can't get good sleep.

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This is so true. And we're not talking "I've stayed up for 3 days because I didn't want to go to sleep", I mean "I've wanted to go to sleep properly for 3 days, but haven't been able to." It honestly puts you in a different state of mind.

Anyway, as crappy as all that sounds, I got a hilarious mental image of a giant complich8 trying to squeeze uncomfortably into a normal-person-sized couch. Kraco's right. You should buy an air mattress.

No sleep sux...
I remember going on a casino trip. We left my town at 11am on a thursday, and we arrived at the first casino at 3am of Friday.
I keep wondering why I keep taking this trips if I can't sleep on a damn bus...
Didn't sleep until about 10pm of friday.

Oh... and last sunday... or rather saturday. I went to sleep at 10pm, woke up at 2am, went to the office from 3am to 11am. Kept awake until 5pm where I fell asleep with ps2 controller on hand (:P). Slept 3 hours straight, woke up, had dinner, sleep once more.
I could have gone to sleep earlier, since I left the office at 11am, but knowing me... I would have woken up at about 10pm and wouldn't be able to sleep once more awaiting for monday.

and the irritation-fest continues...

Apparently the 104 pound package that was due to arrive today was just the platform. So now I've got a nice MDF platform for a full-size bed, and the mattress isn't coming till tomorrow. Meaning I've got to wake up early and get several hours of work done before 2 pm or so, so I can be home when the mattress is delivered.

On the bright side, the platform surface has a bit more give than the floor... so it's better than nothing.

Now that I've got the platform, I'm trying to think of ways to better arrange the space in my room, and I can't come up with any that don't involve giving up access to one or both closets.

I sleep on the floors during the summer all the time. I'm pretty much used to it now. I live in an apartment in Chinatown, and my bed's in the living room. We only have one AC in our apartment and that's in my Mom and Sister's Bedroom. During summers with sweltering heat a fan just isn't enough. I'd move my mattress in there but there isn't enough room in that room at all. So I'm forced to sleep on the floor during those hot blazing days. The first summer I had cramps and back aches, and I had like 2 layers of blankets on the floor. I don't know how the Japanese sleep on futon's so well, maybe those are like uber cushioned with like that material astronauts use or somethnig. But I'm pretty much used to it now, sleeping on the floor that is. Currently, it hasn't been a very hot summer (yet).

back in 2003 i slept on the couch in the apartment i was living in for 3-4 months and then got an upgrade to a huge house and what not..... and slept on the floor there ;) didn't mind at all though.

anyhow, on to my bitching...

This guy is totally ignorant, i'm totally leaning toward him having stole this psp he has that he is trying to get me to help him play the video files on the computer... with some kind of sandisk dvr device.... anyhow, he's totally ignorant... he smells bad, and wont stfu and is insisting on upgrading the firmware on this thing he has. He claimed he had some files to play but he only has 5-6 files all of which are 1mb or less and he's trying to tell me that he recorded a tv show or movie and wants to play it and he cant comprehend that there is no movie on the memory stick he has.... but he still wants to upgrade his firmware; so, i finally gave him what he wants and now its still got 35 minutes left to finish copying this firmware file to his mem-stick.

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Originally Posted by bbaucom

so, i finally gave him what he wants and now its still got 35 minutes left to finish copying this firmware file to his mem-stick.

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35 minutes? Surely it couldn't take long even over USB 1.1...

My computer died. The one at home.
Or rather... power supply did. Must buy new one. Cheap, yes. But I don't know if something else got damaged until I replace it. And I wanted to see a Death Note marathon this weekend. Fck...

Oh... and I hate my fucking neighboors. Bitches.

Don't buy a cheap one. It'll just die again.

I've been wading through my own configs and the mess made by trying to port them to redhat all afternoon. I feel like I'm getting nowhere. RHEL 5 doesn't yet have pdflib, and no rhel has apparently ever had a php-pecl-pdflib package.

Also, the maintainer of that package is apparently taking his time. Not that I blame him, given that he's probably not paid for it. Just ... grr! So much crap in my way.

Also, because of my crappy apartment network's setup, I can't reliably reach my home computer from my lab anymore, which means I can't even start up a music stream to listen to while I'm doing all of this crap.

Went out playing basketball yesterday. The long awaited stillunderconstructionblackasphalted-playground is near completion and we played there for a try-out. I ended up losing 3 times in a row cause of good teamwork and leaving the darned place without my cellphone wich had been stolen. Fucking drunk dickweeds...

If I see any of them, I'm gonna shove my black reebok ball so far up their wasted arses that I'll be dunking their brains all over the place. Then I'll steel their money and buy me a new phone and basketball. :mad:

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Originally Posted by RyougaZell

My computer died. The one at home.
Or rather... power supply did. Must buy new one. Cheap, yes. But I don't know if something else got damaged until I replace it. And I wanted to see a Death Note marathon this weekend. Fck...

Oh... and I hate my fucking neighboors. Bitches.

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A somewhat good bitch... I think...

I tried for 3rd day in a row to turn on the computer. It did. Its on. Im currently writing on it.

The thing Im bitching about is... I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL WAS WRONG! or rather what the heck did I manage to fix.... curse it...

So I go to work yesterday like normal and I hear everyone signed their time sheets last friday, I'm like shit now my paycheck is gonna be late. I go to my team leader (I work for a United Way summer program that keeps ghetto rotten kids off the streets, or thats what its supposedly doing) and he tells me that I wasn't on the list. I say how can I not be on the list I need to get paid for the past 3 weeks? He says well I'll try to take care of it SK and make sure you get paid this week. I'm just like WTF because I knew this program was shitty but to not even have an employee on the books at all is ridiculous. So now who knows when I'm going to get paid since its been 3 weeks and I wasn't even on the employee list.

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Originally Posted by SK

So I go to work yesterday...

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See, that's why I don't work! :p

My pants just came out of the dryer and now they smell like burnt glue or something.

I don't know how the fuck I'm gonna get to sleep wearing these.

I might quit I'm pissed off.

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Originally Posted by SK

I might quit I'm pissed off.

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Oops! :eek: You didn't get that idea from me!

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Originally Posted by SK

I might quit I'm pissed off.

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I hope you mean quit these forums...

I hope he means quit his existence. http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/294/emotbuddyna2.gif

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Originally Posted by AssertnFailure

I hope he means quit his existence. http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/294/emotbuddyna2.gif

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Assertn you're a dick.

I quit my job yesterday after 2 and a half days of employment. Fuck that hard labor with a bunch of inbred rednecks bullshit, I'd rather collect unemployment and get paid under the table for my other unreliable job working for my cousin.

more bitfching about my car. Bought it may 18th and some *(*@#$U(*%# hit it while it was parked in front of my house on may 20th. I got the car back around june 20th or so and had various paint defects and what not.... and then had to take it back because the steering was messed up and here they have had the car for another 2 weeks. I have only had the car in my hands for 9 days but am paying to have it insured and paying on it....

The insurance company doesn't want to help me get any money for my car because they are only concerned with getting re-imbursed for the cost of repairs to my car... while if i goto sell the car now im going to lose alot of money. insurance companies suck... i dont have time to file to take the people to court that hit my car because i have a life and work full time during which hours the county clerk is open, it is a complete hassle and i dont even want the car anymore.

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Originally Posted by bbaucom

more bitfching about my car. Bought it may 18th and some *(*@#$U(*%# hit it while it was parked in front of my house on may 20th. I got the car back around june 20th or so and had various paint defects and what not.... and then had to take it back because the steering was messed up and here they have had the car for another 2 weeks. I have only had the car in my hands for 9 days but am paying to have it insured and paying on it....

The insurance company doesn't want to help me get any money for my car because they are only concerned with getting re-imbursed for the cost of repairs to my car... while if i goto sell the car now im going to lose alot of money. insurance companies suck... i dont have time to file to take the people to court that hit my car because i have a life and work full time during which hours the county clerk is open, it is a complete hassle and i dont even want the car anymore.

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Lols.....I don't want to take these people to court cause I have a life.

Seriously dude...if the amount of money you can take from them is greater than the amount of money you'd lose in the process, then what's the problem?

Not sure if this belongs here, or the relationship thread...but its definitely a rant.

So, I'm pretty much fed up with certain elements of socialization that seems to be intrinsic to Korean culture...that of intermingling of native korean people and foreigners. Now, that being said, I'm not placing the blame on all Korean people, cuz i have friends that are indeed korean, and they're ok. However, i just recieved a huge slap in the face that actually has made me angry (and i dont get angry easily). The situation concerns a young lady i met a few weeks ago, and her friends' decision that she shouldn's see me on the sole basis that i'm not korean. Now, if this was an isolated incident, i'd brush it off. But, this is the 3rd time that exact thing has happened to me, and it happens to friends of mine all the time. For instance, my good friend had his girlfriend called a whore because they were in public together...not even holding hands, or making out...just walking. And its especially bad, since im young (mad ageism here), and non-white (double racism!1 yay!!)

Maybe this latest defeat has made me kind of jaded, but i still think that's ridiculous. I know women the world over get in their little groups and like, try to control their firends' lives, and i geuss even guys do it too, and i understand the position that she was put in, but that doesent mean i have to say 'its all good' and smile. Its kinda B.S, honestly, but i suppose thats a cost you pay as a foreigner living in a mostly homogenous, confucian, close-minded society...:confused:

@rockmanj: The solution: don't go out with korean girls.

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@rockmanj: The solution: don't go out with korean girls.

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The solution: don't go out with stupid racist bitches :p

easier said than done...guess i should join the monastery soon...

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Originally Posted by rockmanj

easier said than done...guess i should join the monastery soon...

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What? You live in korea or something?

Is being Korean a race or a nationality? I've always argued that the races are black, white, asian, hispanic, etc., just like on census forms that ask your race.

I'm not attracted to Korean chicks, so I don't think you're missing much if they won't date you. Though I did meet this Korean girl named Soni in Japan and she was hot. She looked high maintenance, but she was nice and a babe.

Its actually both an ethnicity and a nationality, as Korea contains a mostly homogenous population consisting of ethnic Koreans. And, yea I do live in Korea, so thats why i meet so many Korean women, and its hard to find good looking broads that arent Korean. So, its eithet i keep my nose to the grindstone, or just live a celibant and lonley existence... :(

Korean people have "Korean eyes". You can spot them pretty easily.

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Originally Posted by Board of Command

Korean people have "Korean eyes". You can spot them pretty easily.

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You can also tell by the badge they wear that states that they're better than everyone else on the planet -_-

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Originally Posted by rockmanj

You can also tell by the badge they wear that states that they're better than everyone else on the planet -_-

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Ha! So true! No offense to any Korean folks reading this though...

I had a Korean roommate last term. I was cooking dinner when he came up to me and asked if I wanted to try this fruit. "This is Korean Pear," he said. No, it was not Korean Pear. It's called "Ya Pear" and it's a product of China.

http://www.21food.com/userImages/fan...$911144444.jpg

Yea, I'm really not trying to be offensive, but it is true...even with korean people ive met in other countries...but here its magnified by like 20 million. I've actually had someone get angry because I told them the TGI friday's and Bennigan's didnt originate in korea, and neither does green tea.

And then there's also the student that said countries like singapore and the americas make him angry because there are diverse groups of people there. According to him, every country should have the same type of people living in it, and not allow different groups to mix :-\. I think that is possibly one of the worst things i have ever heard.

Sometimes I agree with that other person. If I visit Japan, I want to meet some Japanese, not some Koreans or Caucasians living in Japan. If I visit Italy, I want to meet some Italians, not some people from some other country or culture, unless they're just visiting too. At some point every country will be a heterogeneous mix so there will be no reason to ever leave your own home town. That's kind of saddening to me. I realize it's impossible not to mix and I'm not advocating that, but from a purely romantic point of view, I wish we could preserve more of what makes each country unique.

well, i see your point. but what he was saying that people of other cultures shouldnt interact at all; like everyone should just stay where they are, and if the travel, they shouldnt interact with the people there. the way he puts it, he said if he goes somewhere, no one should talk to him, unless they are serving him in some way. i hope that's not what you are advocating...and i dont think it is, because you said that you want to meet people. he believes that his culture is the best, and to interact with someone of a different culture would be beneath him (almost his exact words).

It's not just HIS culture. It's KOREAN culture.

Ethnocentrism is evident in most any culture

i dont really disagree with that concept, but its kind of different in the case of korean culture...it almost seems like a form of mass overcompensation; remember, not too long ago Koreans werent doing to well, and now their economy has gotten pretty huge. i think its due to them kinda being china and japan's bitch for so long...they're like the middle child that's trying to get mom's attention by detracting from everyone else, but its just kinda annoying.

I agree with that. Korea has only been a "major player" in recent years, so maybe that's why their people feel obligated to support and promote their country in any way possible.

I kinda wish there were some korean people trolling, in order to get some insight; but honestly, it'd probably turn into flaming, like in real life when i ask some korean person about that. Like, usually their main argument in regards to dating is that all foreign men will inevitably treat their korean gf wrong, but then if thats the case, and the men here are so much better to all women (even foreign women) than foreigners, then why are there stories like this :

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/FL22Dg01.html

Seriously, there are literally brothels on every corner in my town...its insane

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Originally Posted by rockmanj

i dont really disagree with that concept, but its kind of different in the case of korean culture...it almost seems like a form of mass overcompensation; remember, not too long ago Koreans werent doing to well, and now their economy has gotten pretty huge. i think its due to them kinda being china and japan's bitch for so long...they're like the middle child that's trying to get mom's attention by detracting from everyone else, but its just kinda annoying.

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Regarding overcompensation, I think it's the opposite with China. Only now are they emerging as a contender for being an important world power. Despite their numbers, and ingenuity as a culture, they were held back for a long time simply because of ethnocentric ideals. That's what my dad says, at least. He's got business in China and has to deal with that same mentality on a day-to-day basis. I guess it does get annoying.

Is there anything keeping you from moving? Does your reason for staying outweigh the shit you're putting up with?

Chinese people are among the most racist in the world. There are very few foreigners in China. Once, there was this black guy walking on our street and my mom called him a "black monster."

yea, its rough everywhere...i guess its true that you fear and loathe what you dont know

Chinese even hate their own. Imagine being 1 among 1 billion, and that's just mainland China. Each other Chinaman is just more competition. Imagine living in Beijing, population 18 million plus 4 million in surrounding districts. It's nutz.

At the moment I have 5000$ locked into my two limited paypal accounts, and I won't get it out until I'm 18.

I can't use paypal to withdraw money earned on the internet to my bank accounts if I make a new paypal either, because they're locked into my two limited ones and you can only use each bank account on one paypal, I've used up both my normal one and my savings one now. When trying to call or contact them they just imply that I was suspected of money laundering and/or funding terrorism.

In addition to that, the WoW gold prices have sunk from 100$/1000gold to 20$/1000gold over the last 4 months, so it's almost not worth selling anymore. And ten of my WoW accounts got banned, so it actually isn't worth selling gold any more, I won't risk buying more accounts, too expensive. This is one bad day for me :mad:

Not even 18 yet and already farming gold on WoW?

What has this world come to?!

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Originally Posted by Board of Command

Not even 18 yet and already farming gold on WoW?

What has this world come to?!

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I'm no chinese farmer -.- I just rented out accounts and acquired some gold on the side.

So how many hours do you have to log into WoW to accumulate $5000?

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Originally Posted by AssertnFailure

So how many hours do you have to log into WoW to accumulate $5000?

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The main thing I did was renting out accounts. Basically I bought about 20(at around 150$ each), and rented them out for 20$/day(4 months ago), and only about 7$ day now recently. I rented them out to the chinese. Sometimes they got banned and I had to buy in new ones but all in all I made profit. And I never farmed for the gold on the side. I've never farmed gold personally. How I got that gold is a secret.

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When trying to call or contact them they just imply that I was suspected of money laundering and/or funding terrorism.

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Originally Posted by Xrlderek

I've never farmed gold personally. How I got that gold is a secret.

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Ah, yes. The stars are aligning now.

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Originally Posted by Xrlderek

I rented them out to the chinese.

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I think you need to watch a little show called 24...if u had, you would know better than to trust them...you're just lucky u werent kidnapped and tortured...yet :p

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Originally Posted by rockmanj

I think you need to watch a little show called 24...if u had, you would know better than to trust them...you're just lucky u werent kidnapped and tortured...yet :p

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Of course I couldn't trust them, they were trying to rip me off every single step of the way. "Someone else got into the account and took the gold, give it back"
"Sorry, the account got banned"(But I got no email, and the password was merely changed)
"Will pay soon but my bosses girlfriend is visiting the office today, so will do tomorrow maybe" (wtf?)
And those constant "hehe~" in the chats piss me off. They say it every second line. Along with lol.

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Originally Posted by excerpt from aimlog

What times are you online?
bbxgames520: everyday stay aim
bbxgames520: hehe~~
bbxgames520: this is my work
bbxgames520: hehe~~
bbxgames520: lol~~
bbxgames520: hehe~~~
bbxgames520: 18hours online everyday, plz contact me if need to
bbxgames520: we can hold over 100 accs, plz get us more and more accs, lets make
great business.
bbxgames520: hehehhe~~
bbxgames520: lol

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"You never had an account, Xrlderek"

"hehehehe~~"

MUHAHAHAHAHA~~

Yeah.

OH NOES!!!...the chinese (BoC~) have spotted us!!!

I owned at least half of Xrlderek's accounts.

For the last few weeks I've been playing FFVII on my PSP and after some frustration, and about 35 hours, I got up to disc 3 with everything I could want to that point. (Ultimate weapons for Cloud, Barret, Vincent, Yuffie (who uses her?) Cait Sith (Same) and I think I got Cid's...other then that, I also got their final limits, and a black chocobo which was currently mating with another one to get my gold.) But of course, during the disc changing, my savefile decides to corrupt it self or something because when I tried playing the next disc, I couldn't find my savefile. I already started over from the end of disc 1 because it was buggy on 3.40OE-A and I used a popsloader to play it on 3.10OE-A. There is no way I'm starting this over again until I forget about it fucking up and stop being pissed. I'm assuming the file is corrupt since it seemingly just disappeared when I changed discs and my other games work.

chaos, that reminds me horribly of what happened to me when I first got Xenogears, years and years ago...

My sister wanted to start her own file. Now, she didn't play that often, and I was already pretty far into Disc 1 when she started. Eventually I got to the end of the game and promptly got my ass whooped by the final boss, because I hadn't developed any of my other party members' gears (I used Fei, Citan and Maria for Gear fights, Fei, Citan and Billy for ground battle)... But my main three also weren't strong enough to take on the fully powered final boss....

Two weeks and many hours of gameplay later, I finally felt I had a good shot at taking him on again. I had gotten some rare engines and weapons for my main group (God praise that Fenrir) and upgraded the supporting guys to a decent level. I save immediately outside of the final boss.

My sister asks if she can play. I'm a little annoyed, because I'm just about to beat the game! but my dad barks that 'i should share' (even if i paid for the PSX and the game myself...) and so I let her go. She opens up her file, runs around the second dungeon for like ten minutes, gets frustrated, goes to the World Map, and SAVES OVER MY FILE! (and, i'll confess, I foolishly hadn't saved a backup for a long itme)

Much cursing and thrashing was had, and I promptly deleted her file in retribution. She started crying and my dad naturally took her side. I wasn't allowed to play for a week. I had to start over from Disc 1, before the second battle against the Knights. A few dozen hours of gameplay lost.

but, hmm, what to bitch about today? How about that almost every job I find that I really want to apply for wants something like 3-5 years of experience at it? Do they expect me to work for free at internships for 5 years before taking a real job? Ugh, so discouraging...

Yeah, it's hard to find entry-level positions out there, except at job fairs. In some fields (like mine) they basically don't exist. I think the trick is to find your first job via networking, and go from there.

All we need is inexperienced DBAs. MS Access anyone? How's that song go, "what the world needs now... is another folk singer... like I need a hole in my head."

I think most employers will give you a shot even if you don't have the 3-5 years experience, as long as you impress them with your energy and eagerness in the interview or have other qualifications on your resume.

Social networking might be a little tough for a bunch of anti-social nutcases like most of the people here. So if you suck at socializing and have little job experience, what do you do?

Get a job as tech support, and wait until you're outsourced?

Start your own business?

Work as a contractor?

A lot of people end up not getting jobs because they have too high standards for themselves. Like, "I won't work for less than 50k" or "I won't work in field X that I'm qualified to work in".

Some people are justified in doing so. For example, me :p. I won't work in fast food, for example, because my skillset is in high enough demand that it'd be stupid to. But if you need to pay the bills, temporarily lowering your standards can satisfy that need while you look for something better.

A lot of people I know who have gotten good jobs spent 6 months to a year after college looking for them while working at really, really shitty places. Like stocking produce at a local Jewel/Osco. It's better than living in your parents' basement and doing the hikkikomori thing until you're 40.

my standards might not be as high as some people, but i have a rough plan and some direction. working at shitty places really does suck. But for people who have bachelor degrees and more, i dont really sympathise much if they cant find a job with their 5,6,7 years invested into college. I'm attending a 2 year college and just recently landed a good entry level position i found via monster.com. MY resume i was working with was a quick 10 minute job i had made for a job fair, and then i added a few things in and bam... the day after i first posted on careerbuilder and monster i had people calling offering me jobs that were paying 4-7$ per hour more than what i was making.

Finding a job can suck, but really if you have a degree it should not take much to go find a job that pays very well. I am planning to make another pay jump at the beginning of 2008, and i will be making $20 or so per hour compared with my average 6.50 per hour i made during the whole year of 2006.

It's hard to accept going down in pay when you're used to a certain income level, but if you're new in the job market, you should expect to start out low on the pay scale and work your way up, and not have too high standards just because you have a degree. I chose experience over a degree, and started out in tech support and made my way up before the market got flooded with degreed IT "professionals". Of course, there are certain times of the year when it's easier to get a job, so working at some crap job for 6 months will help you survive until you get a break.

Jobs huh...
Speaking of them, which btw I had bitched here before... I got a new one.
Its still in the same company, but Im not on IT - Testing anymore. I moved to Process Implementation... so now I will be asking IT to develop things... LOL the irony...
Better payment and several other benefits where given me, which I didn't had before. Best of all... no more working at 3am Sundays :p

Its weird... I graduated college and spent 8 months looking for a job without luck. Now, almost 2 years later technically I've changed jobs 3 times, yet Im still in the same company. Began as external contractor, assigned here. IT hired me. Then I change again...

absurd beyond belief... I'm not even going to dignify that rambling, incoherence with further response. hopefully you'll one day be able to look back on those 'convictions' and laugh at yourself.

My bitching: The DMV. I fucking hate it. Fucking slowest, most time-consuming bureaucratic bullshit, like it comes out of the 1800's... They sent me a brand new driver's license that was valid only for three months, in order to counteract underage drinkng (it's a long story, but the old licenses were easy to tamper with). So I finally went to renew my license today, and it's literally just sitting on line, showing them some documents, and that's it. Why this can't be done another way is absurdly bamboozling

My mom and dad (separately) gave me a "life is hard and then you die" talk yesterday. I should make better grades next semester, to avoid those kind of encounters. I know they care, but I'm tired of hearing about how unhappy I'll be in life.

Also, this response to conquistaDan:

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Similarly, how the hell would you make a reasonably convincing movie with no male actors? How can you claim that there's no value in male musicians? What the hell sort of music do you listen to?

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lol & quoted for truth. Taking into account all my musical preferences, I can only think of about 2 female singers that I actually consider worth listening to.

I've split conquistaDan's post and follow-ups off into a new thread, here:
http://forums.gotwoot.net/showthread.php?t=14923

Back on topic...

I'm a little miffed that the company that said they were going to call me today didn't. I woke up earlier than normal to be ready for them to call... spent all afternoon sleepy because of it.

I'm mad there's this old guy at work who's lazy and doesn't do shit, but makes as much money as the rest of us. Management won't fire him but they constantly complain about how worthless he is and about all the mistakes he makes. To me it wouldn't be an issue if it was just a problem of perception, but he really is worthless. Plus, he's a crusty old "white is right" kind of relic from pre-civil rights days, but he and 2 or 3 other white guys in our department are the fattest, laziness sacks of crap you'll ever not want to meet. But somehow his race is still superior to the others, and he votes Republican and hates immigrants. What a piece of shit.

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I'm mad there's this old guy at work who's lazy and doesn't do shit, but makes as much money as the rest of us. Management won't fire him but they constantly complain about how worthless he is and about all the mistakes he makes. To me it wouldn't be an issue if it was just a problem of perception, but he really is worthless. Plus, he's a crusty old "white is right" kind of relic from pre-civil rights days, but he and 2 or 3 other white guys in our department are the fattest, laziness sacks of crap you'll ever not want to meet. But somehow his race is still superior to the others, and he votes Republican and hates immigrants. What a piece of shit.

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Almost sounds like Creed from 'the Office', y'know besides all the racism and such...

I hate Kanye West. I've never liked him but now I fucking hate him. He makes horrible music and he always sounds retarded when he "sings". But the worst part is that he has besmirched Daft Punk in his new song. And he doesn't even give any credit. Fucking asshole.

brought from the support section to the bitching section... i now am blaming myself for having firefox set to download and install updates automatically. Version 2.0.0.5 updated... and then the next time i went to get on the computer, it doesn't work. I can't get on a web page. I have wasted about an hour all together messing with settings, following to a T the procedures listed on the mozilla forums to correct the problem but it does not work. i have un installed and re installed and even copied an old firefox dir from another computer to this one and it still doesnt work... This is total fucking bullshit
updates are meant to improve, not to cripple something. I'm so pissed that i am forced to use ie, its a shitty browser and i fucking hate it. rant rant rant rant rant, i willl now end it

You get what you pay for with open-source freeware, so don't take it too personal. Maybe you can call the Geek Squad and pay $100/hr for them to try to fix it.

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You get what you pay for with open-source freeware, so don't take it too personal. Maybe you can call the Geek Squad and pay $100/hr for them to try to fix it.

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And by fix it, he means download all your porn onto their external hard drives.

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And by fix it, he means download all your porn onto their external hard drives.

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Are you talking from personal experience?

I used to work at a Best Buy and the prices for tech services were outrageous. $45 to install RAM? $120 to upgrade your harddrive (with data migration). I felt bad for the suckers.

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Are you talking from personal experience?

I used to work at a Best Buy and the prices for tech services were outrageous. $45 to install RAM? $120 to upgrade your harddrive (with data migration). I felt bad for the suckers.

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I'm talking from 3rd party reading / viewing experience.

Rude of you to assume I'd consult geek squad for computer hardware assistance tho >:|

Nah, I was just messing with you by implying you'd rely on an overpriced, conceptually ridiculous service like Geek Squad in order to resolve your basic PC issues.

For some reason I figure anyone and everyone on these forums is also knowledgeable about computers to some degree.

edit: I just checked those links, good reads. The thing is, most people didn't pay for that porn anyway. Keeping dirty pictures of you and your friends on your PC is asking for trouble. That stuff always ends up on the internet.

You can't assume too much...

Too true, but assumptions are like stereotypes, they are all rooted in fact.

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brought from the support section to the bitching section... i now am blaming myself for having firefox set to download and install updates automatically. Version 2.0.0.5 updated... and then the next time i went to get on the computer, it doesn't work. I can't get on a web page. I have wasted about an hour all together messing with settings, following to a T the procedures listed on the mozilla forums to correct the problem but it does not work. i have un installed and re installed and even copied an old firefox dir from another computer to this one and it still doesnt work... This is total fucking bullshit
updates are meant to improve, not to cripple something. I'm so pissed that i am forced to use ie, its a shitty browser and i fucking hate it. rant rant rant rant rant, i willl now end it

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same crap happened to me <_<

@Animeniax: I'm not sure how you see Geek Squad as conceptually ridiculous. Maybe using the service is foolish, but since plenty of people are a) foolish b) lazy or c) lfoolish and lazy, offering services that people with no computer experience whatsoever would find daunting and charging a very high price for them seems like a damn good way to make money.

I'm lazy. If I paid you $50, would you wipe my ass for me?

There you go.

If you start a company that later gets partnered into Best Buy, I think you did something right.

I got 6 people living in a 1 bedroom apartment. I don't think I need to say anymore.

EDIT: Oh yeah, the cable got cut off around 1AM last night.

Orgy much?

if you have 6 people living in an apartment... i dont see why you would be having any utilities cut off... unless they are unable to work for some reason.

well... or if you're living in some outrageously priced area. around here most apartments are between 500-1000 excluding the really swanky ones that are many times more

I'm about 70% done loading a moving van, getting ready to drive somewhere in the neighborhood of 600 miles.

It's precisely the wrong weather to be loading a truck. It's like ... insanely humid.

For bonus points, because I'm moving at the end of July, from the town of a major university in which most landlords do august to july leases, I had to get my larger-than-desired uhaul truck from a place that was a solid 40 minute drive away.

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if you have 6 people living in an apartment... i dont see why you would be having any utilities cut off... unless they are unable to work for some reason.

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well... or if you're living in some outrageously priced area. around here most apartments are between 500-1000 excluding the really swanky ones that are many times more

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I live in a housing project. Its cheap.

Ok so liiieeekk.............

My friend hadn't paid the cell phone bill, so now I can't make calls to people. We're on a family plan. This isn't the first time its happened, and I'm really getting tired of him being so unreliable. I plan to get off his plan, but it kinda goes like this....

He's paying my share of the phone bill; I'm paying for the monthly parking for his car that he left here. (He used to be my roommate, now he lives in NY.)

So, I can get on my own plan
1) ....once I sell his car so I can stop paying for his spot
2) ....once he transfers the title over to me
3) ....once I send the title over to him to transfer it
4) ....once I get the keys to his car from him so I can go get the title out of it
5) ....once he gets the keys from the manufacturer, since he apparently lost them

His car's been sitting in his space since last December........
Right now I'm contemplating plan B, which is to cancel his spot, let them tow it away, and then have him deal with an outrageous fine and/or court order.

He's screwed me over in many other ways moreso than just a late phone bill too...
so unreliable...:mad:

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I'm about 70% done loading a moving van, getting ready to drive somewhere in the neighborhood of 600 miles.

It's precisely the wrong weather to be loading a truck. It's like ... insanely humid.

For bonus points, because I'm moving at the end of July, from the town of a major university in which most landlords do august to july leases, I had to get my larger-than-desired uhaul truck from a place that was a solid 40 minute drive away.

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Yeah I enjoyed moving two mattresses, 2 very small dressers and a tv in a fucking 24 foot Uhaul. You know they have smaller means of transport, greedy assholes.

AssertnFailure : i'm guessing its a newer or nice car if you can get the keys from the manufacturer...

anyhow, my current bitch...

i've been spending way too much money.. so i mailed out my insurance payment which was unusually high because i'd had to add another car to it while my new car was being repaired... it is due tomorrow and then my car payment is not due until the third of august.

I mailed both of them out a couple days ago and this morning has the wonderful realization that i dont have enough money in my bank account to cover them both so i immediately checked my balance and the car payment (257) had already posted... but isn't due until next week and then the insurance (190) is due tomorrow and hadn't posted.

so i rushed from work to this bank which took me 5 minutes to find because there was a no name bank, a chase, a waikovia, and a bank of america at that intersection omfg i had to call and find where they were.

then i couldn't rememmber the pin to my savings debit card because i dont touch that account.. and it wouldn't take my capitol one card in the atm GRRRR so then got it all taken care of inside.

then, i get lost going toward downtown dallas and ended up being 30 minutes late to work.

i thought i was getting paid this week but apparantly im not getting paid until next week and most of that money is already spent :( grrrrrrrrrrrr im not very happy right now.

I was biking home from school today and took a slightly different route because I went to a classmate's dorm first to work on a project. To get from the "dorm area" to the sidewalk, I had to go down a little grass hill. This hill was tiny - maybe 3 m long and not very steep. I went down really slowly because there might have been water at the bottom, since it rained while I was inside. As soon as I reached the bottom of the hill.......................
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.......My bike did a somersault. There was a ditch at the bottom of the hill but I didn't see it because there was a lot of thick grass covering it. I didn't get hurt or anything, but it was not a fun experience. Now I know what it feels like to have your bike flip over. Literally.

Damn, hope you're ok BoC. Your noodle seems ok at least.

My rant is: two nights ago two sand-flies went to town on my body and feasted on my noble blood. I have welts all over my arms, neck, and legs that will soon crust over and then ooze pus for a few days. To top it off, it's 120F outside, and the heat makes the bites even more painful, plus the sweat makes everything itchy and it really sucks. I can't wait to get back to the states where the only things trying to kill you are other people.

Just don't let the scratching fingers run loose. Sand flies can leave scars which take months to heal. I've got friends who still got scars left from survival training a long time ago.

As for BoC, such incidents usually leave bad memories, and I'm sure you'll be much more careful in the future. I had some accidents with roller blades years before, and now I can't imagine risking injuries for some dumb stunts.

Yeah I still have scars from sand fly bites from last year. I like to scratch around the center and avoid the middle, feels good without bursting the pocket. You didn't have trouble with the little bastards? You must not have noble blood like mine (just kidding).

I got fired.

Well that could be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your circumstances. You hated that job anyway, right?

My bitch: my sand fly attacks have entered stage two. The bites are now crusting and some have started excreting, so I put bandages over them, but it looks weird because I have a bunch of bandages on my arms and hands. I also caught two more of those bastards in my room and killed them, but another one got away and I fear it's appetite tonight.

Animeniax where are you?

If you're somewhere in Asia, you can get really useful remedies for bites. I remember I went back to Taiwan last year and I was staying in my Aunt's house and just as luck would have it there was one fly there buzzing around, and whenever I went to sleep I woke up with about 10 bites in the most uncomfortable positions (on my foot, hands, palms, even one on the ear...). Those motherfuckers itched like crazy but I just went to the local drugstore and got some green oil or something and put it on them and they stopped itching. The swelling from the bites didn't go away for about two months though. I even still have the marks, they're little darkened areas on my hands..

Anyway, the people around here need to learn that when the pedestrian light is red, they're not supposed to walk. I mean, this group of people just suddenly appear in the middle of the street, while my light is green and I almost hit them. The funny part was when some driver behind me opened his window to call them all dumbasses.

I'm in the middle east. We Asians have cures for everything besides over-population. Unfortunately I can't get anything around here beyond hydro-cortisone, so I just have to tough it out. I think I've used that green oil before, but I used to rub it on my belly to soothe stomach-aches. I forgot what it's called. Thanks for the suggestion, my yellow brother.

edit: this is the stuff I was talking about: Eagle Brand
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/3655/305bp3.th.jpg
I think it's more for aches and pains, and not for itching, so it's probably not what you're talking about.