The Bitching Thread

So, for the 2nd week in a row, my paycheck has a $200 deduction on it listed as "med125"

the only thing I can think of is that I added my wife to my medical insurance at the beginning of the month.... but @ $400/ month I'd be better off not having insurance and just keeping cash in a box or something... seriously, what good is insurance if you pay 100x's more in than you will ever get out of it

edit : What is happening is that my company is covering $440 or something like that per month for my insurance. Which is why I was only paying $40/month before for insurance... for some reason adding my wife jumps the plan to $850+ / month and i have to cover the extra $400 which I can't afford to do because my expenses are about to drastically increase....

If you're not really getting much out of it, and won't be tempted to spend that extra bit of cash you'd have on hand, it's probably better then to keep it safe or invest it, depending on how much you want to monitor it. If the idea is still to keep that money ready for when you need it, a an investment that you can quickly liquidate would be ideal.

Yeah $400/mo for insurance is a ripoff....but considering that medical bills can go even into the $millions, I'd say its possible to get your money's worth...

new bitch for today...

I asked a timewarner CSR if they were really going to cancel HDNet in my area, they assured me that the texas region was not going to be affected by this change. So, I assumed I'd been told the truth until this morning when I tried to playback something from my DVR and it has a message just saying that they've discontinued that channel... but, they have added other HD channels.. as if i watch the channel because it's in HD and not because of it's programming.

I'm pretty pissed because I watch HDNet alot. They show alot of MMA coverage and I generally have 3-5 hours recorded per week from HDNet> I have to wait until july when I move so I can get verizon FiOS! WOOT for FiOS

Bought a novelty card game (Gloom) online, and it came with 109 cards...out of 110. The irony alone is punishment enough, but waiting 1-2 months for a replacement from Amazon is going to be worse.

The missing card is key to playing the game, since it is one of the character cards.

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Originally Posted by Ryllharu

Bought a novelty card game (Gloom) online, and it came with 109 cards...out of 110. The irony alone is punishment enough, but waiting 1-2 months for a replacement from Amazon is going to be worse.

The missing card is key to playing the game, since it is one of the character cards.

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Just draw up the missing card on a piece of paper and add it to the deck. Or if stealthiness is required, use a spare garbage card and write in the missing card's information on it and insert it in the deck.

Don't you hate it when people get mad at you for very little reasons? My brother got mad at me because I didn't do something for him. Seriously?

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Originally Posted by Nadouku

Don't you hate it when people get mad at you for very little reasons? My brother got mad at me because I didn't do something for him. Seriously?

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That would depend on what he asked you to do, and if you promised to oblige.

My bitch:

I've been having funny bowel motions for like the last....month?

It was weird before, and only happened on Monday mornings. Now it's almost daily. It makes me feel like shit :(

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That would depend on what he asked you to do, and if you promised to oblige.

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I don't ever promise him anything because he's a very lazy bastard that can't get up to do his own share of the work. This time around, he asked me to bike to some store that was literally 30 minutes away... and it was raining... and he wanted a lot of stuff that I probably can't manage to carry on a bike (even with a backpack).

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I don't ever promised him anything because he's a very lazy bastard who can't get up to do his own share of the work. This time around, he asked me to bike to some store that was literally 30 minutes away... and it was raining... and he wanted a lot of stuff that I probably can't manage to carry on a bike (even with a backpack).

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No sympathy for him then.

I know the feeling Nad, it happens to me usually 3 to 4 times per week.

I am furiously enraged.

For some reason, there's always women hair on me. This happens on a consistent basis. I never ever find mens' hair on my clothes or in my food. I only find women strands of hair on my clothes and food. I do not hang around with women that much, nor do I have a girlfriend yet these strands have a natural affinity to my clothes and my meals.

I am at my breaking point because just now, I found a gigantic stand of hair in my hamburger, God damn it!

My bitch:
we went out (me and two friends) to a coffee place, and aside from from drinks, we order a plate of cookies.

the plate has five cookies.

5. that doesn't work out,. you can't divide it among three people. heck, you can't even divide it among two people equally. what's the freckin' point of giving five cookies in the cookie plate?

so we had to order another cookie, as if that shit wasn't overpriced already. bunch of money digging hoes.

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Originally Posted by Death BOO Z

My bitch:
we went out (me and two friends) to a coffee place, and aside from from drinks, we order a plate of cookies.

the plate has five cookies.

5. that doesn't work out,. you can't divide it among three people. heck, you can't even divide it among two people equally. what's the freckin' point of giving five cookies in the cookie plate?

so we had to order another cookie, as if that shit wasn't overpriced already. bunch of money digging hoes.

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That's a pretty bitchy thing to bitch about. One cookie? *Insert racist joke about your people here*.

I'm so fucking clumsy. I can't go ten minutes without knocking something over. Then when I turn around to clean up the mess I just made, I knock over something else. I feel like I'm a character in a damn sitcom.

You're not alone, buddy. :p

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Originally Posted by Animeniax

That's a pretty bitchy thing to bitch about. One cookie? *Insert racist joke about your people here*.

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It's a matter of principal, you can't share five cookies for three people, you can't share five cookies with even two people.

It's like the time when I had my birthday in a bar, and the waiter brought us a cake, and then billed us for it. we can't complain, because we ate the cake, but goddammit, the shit was expensive, and we didn't order it.

as for the allegations that my so called 'cheapness' has any relation to my ethnic background, I'll let you guys be the judge of that.

I won't confuse you with currencies, so we'll say that the cookie plate (five cookies) cost 100%. the single cookie costs 42% of that. and they don't allow you to choose the type of cookie you want (half the cookies are filler cookies, the kind you won't eat even if they were free).

Buy 5 for 52.4% off? That's some extreme bulk-buying discount you got there. Guy must have given you 2 free cookies cuz you appreciated them so much.

Polish post office is like DMV in USA...hell on earth.

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Originally Posted by Xelbair

Polish post office is like DMV in USA...hell on earth.

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You have to find the offices that are out of the way to avoid the mess. The extra drive is worth not having to wait in line, get poor service, and hating life. Post offices in the US aren't much better, except the one I go to where the clerks are fast, friendly, and efficient.

Looking at it internationally, Australian Post rocks! :D Insurance is for valuables and the paranoid. I don't think I've ever bothered.

Last is none other than Italy.

I was woken up at 6 am this morning, by my mom shouting and flailing, pretending she was someone who would intend to murder me.

I forgot to lock the door before I went to bed last night. I still put on the burglar alarm, but that wasn't enough for my mom not to decide to teach me a lesson. I was more confused than scared, however.

Still couldn't get back to sleep after that...

That's one awesome mum. :)

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Originally Posted by XanBcoo

I was woken up at 6 am this morning, by my mom shouting and flailing, pretending she was someone who would intend to murder me.

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So are you out in the real world yet Xan, or still in school?

I'm pissed. After spending 30 minutes pulling the Tuniq Tower HSF from my last PC and shipping it home, I found out as I tried to install it on my new system that I forgot to save the metal X backing plate that goes on the back side of the motherboard. So now this $60 HSF is useless, and I don't even have the stock cooler for my Q6600. Any ideas where to get replacement parts for this cooler? The Tuniq/Sunbeam site is useless.

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So are you out in the real world yet Xan, or still in school?

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I'm in the real world, but I'm back in Houston right now. Job hunting will probably be easier here than in Austin, but I think I'm gonna go back after a few months. It really is a much nicer city...

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That's one awesome mum.

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I certainly didn't think so this morning. Only time will tell if it was worth nearly giving me a heart attack.

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I'm in the real world, but I'm back in Houston right now. Job hunting will probably be easier here than in Austin, but I think I'm gonna go back after a few months. It really is a much nicer city...

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I'll be moving to Austin in another month or so. I was readmitted and registered for courses today (not really the right thread for this news but oh well). Still looking for a house there. Any recommendations about areas would be appreciated.

I was just reminded of why I don't send many emails at work...

People are idiots and like to forward emails to people that are not involved in what I'm emailing them about. If i wanted to CC people into my email, I would do do when I sent it.

If I send you an email asking you something, you should reply to me, not forward it on and ask the Vice President of the company, who then forwards the email to my supervisor, and CC's me... how retarded is that? I originate the email and wind up as a CC after it goes to 5 people, when it was meant to be and A B conversation, C D E and F had nothing to fucking do with it!

Sleep deprivation + exam stress = 3 x 750ml bowls of rice.

Now I feel like I'm pregnant :(

Try eating a greenish banana, a big handful of peanuts, and down it all with a beer.

Instant suffering.

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Got caught in a traffic jam on a fairly light-traffic highway. Got to the end of it...and there was nothing. It was dead stop for about 20-30 minutes, so it wouldn't have been time to clean up completely whatever the hell the problem was. The DOT didn't even notify anyone, so it occurred fairly quickly as well. I wouldn't have been so irritated by it if it actually was something.

My only consolation is the huge stream of people who got off at the exit about a 1/4 mile (1/5 km) before the traffic jam ended around a curve in the highway. They probably took an extra hour to get home when it only took me that extra half hour.

the latest adventure in my series of "places I go to and then they rip me even more out of my hard earned cash and money: the tales of going out and the lessons learn from it: return to that crappy place" (working title, when I publish it, the title will be less mysterious and more forward to the point, so it wouldn't confuse the audience).

A friend of mine got a day off from the army today, so he called and said we should meet up, since he won't be around the weekend. it's a weekday, so we've decided to start early, and avoid drawing it into the late night hours (he needs to go back tomorrow, and I have to work). we went to a bar that we used to frequent a few months ago, before we deleted it from the routine due to crappy service.

we got there, it was still empty, and then the waitress said we can't sit wherever we want, because the tables are reserved (when we left, the place was still empty, god dammit). so, we ordered ourselves a drink, I chose a new drink, and asked for a half size. then she says that we deserve a chaser to go with that.
in this point I thought it was pretty nice, order a half size and get a chaser? it's a sweet deal, why not. and for the heck of it, we ordered a Nachos plate, which is actually a bag of doritos and some dip to go with it (the dish costs as much as five doritos bags, actually, but then again, you shouldn't be surprised if you get ass-raped if you go to turkey).

when my drink arrived, it turned out to be a 1/3 glass, not a half. it could have been nice to tell me that this specific drink comes only in that size, so that's one.

a bit later, we get the bill. those chasers we thought were with the drink? full charge on them. we should've known better than to come to that place, stinky pile of shit-waitresses, it was just like last time, when one of the guys had a birthday, and after we flashed an I.D (to prove it was his b-day), they brought us an ice-cream cake, and then put it on the tab.

if she would've said that we can take them chasers for half the price, we would've considered it and might have taken them anyways, and maybe not. but crap, when she says "you deserve a chaser with", it implies it free, right?


this was the last time go there, for real.

Edit: and I mean it this time.

When you decide it's the last time to go to some place, it's usually better to try to stick to it for real unless something really serious changed like a new owner, name, and complete remodeling. Things just don't change simply because a year or two went by.

I got pulled over for speeding today.

When the cop came to my window it made me realize there is something about a middle aged man with braces that I cannot take seriously.

all of these people that live in my apartments picked the area that is in front of the stairs that lead to my apartment to hang out and grill I guess for the entire summer... they've been out there daily since memorial day and it's just getting annoying to have a bunch of people hanging out, smoking and drinking beer in front of my steps when i come home and leave.

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Originally Posted by itadakimasu

all of these people that live in my apartments picked the area that is in front of the stairs that lead to my apartment to hang out and grill I guess for the entire summer... they've been out there daily since memorial day and it's just getting annoying to have a bunch of people hanging out, smoking and drinking beer in front of my steps when i come home and leave.

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Make sure you shake your fist at them when they're not looking, that'll show 'em.

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Originally Posted by itadakimasu

all of these people that live in my apartments picked the area that is in front of the stairs that lead to my apartment to hang out and grill I guess for the entire summer... they've been out there daily since memorial day and it's just getting annoying to have a bunch of people hanging out, smoking and drinking beer in front of my steps when i come home and leave.

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Stink-bombs or bird seed will make the area less appealing for them to hang out at.

You should go to the host of the party and ask them politely to reduce the amount of barbecues they have (like maybe three times a week).

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Originally Posted by enkoujin

You should go to the host of the party and ask them politely to reduce the amount of barbecues they have (like maybe three times a week).

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That won't work, people are dicks. He'll start barbecuing twice a day if you ask him nice.

Just put bird seed all over the area. The pigeons will come and leave shit everywhere, and it will be less appealing for the annoying barbecuers.

this won't work - one family haves barbecue every day and they give those damned tubes used at match to their(maybe 6-7 years old) children. very noisy.

stink bombs would be epic ^^

I'm moving soon so I won't have to put up with it much longer, but I just really hate walking through a crowd of people to go home or leave home, and then when I leave I worry that they're taking note that nobody is home and possibly thinking of robbing me.

If you're moving soon you have all the more reason to assault your neighbors with stench and bird feces.

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Originally Posted by samsonlonghair

If you're moving soon you have all the more reason to assault your neighbors with stench and bird feces.

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Exactly. Get that bag of bird seed ready for when you move out.

Haha, yeah. With any luck it will also attract some rats in addition to the birds!

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Haha, yeah. With any luck it will also attract some rats in addition to the birds!

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And the rats will attract some snakes. It's a vicious cycle.

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Originally Posted by Animeniax

And the rats will attract some snakes.

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Which will in turn attract gorillas, which simply freeze to death in the winter.

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Originally Posted by Ryllharu

Which will in turn attract gorillas, which simply freeze to death in the winter.

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Not sure why you think snakes attract gorillas. You'd have a bigger problem with mongooses and birds of prey joining the party after snakes enter the picture.

The whole sequence is a variation on a quote from an old Simpson's episode. Bart raises two eggs from a nest where he killed the mother bird, and predatory lizards hatch from the eggs instead. They start to eat all the pigeons in Springfield, and the following exchange occurs:

Skinner: Well, I was wrong; the lizards are a godsend.
Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?
Skinner: No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?
Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.

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Originally Posted by Ryllharu

The whole sequence is a variation on a quote from an old Simpson's episode. Bart raises two eggs from a nest where he killed the mother bird, and predatory lizards hatch from the eggs instead. They start to eat all the pigeons in Springfield, and the following exchange occurs:

Skinner: Well, I was wrong; the lizards are a godsend.
Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?
Skinner: No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?
Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.

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Ahh I see. Sorry to doubt you, or the wisdom of the Simpsons.

For making a Simpsons reference, and making the internet a less oppressive place to while away our worthless lives, I present Ryllharu with this scented candle.

This thread is going the way of the Ne-Ne if y'all don't get back on topic.

I'm going back to university and trying to re-learn C programming before I start classes in the Fall, as it's been a few years since I last worked with it.

I'm getting stuck on very basic programming exercises in the first chapter of the book. I don't know what my problem is, whether it's my poor logical thought processes, lack of knowledge of program structures and commands, or just a mental block from the last time I tried to learn C programming and it's now a psychological block to me ever learning this material.

Since I'm going for a Comp Sci degree, it concerns me a lot that I can't get the hang of programming.

a girl who was with me in the army came by the store toady, so I said hello.

I haven't seen such a look of 'get out of my life' since I've tried talking to an Ex of mine..


(alternative version)
I haven't seen such hatred and disgust in someone's eye since I've seen my reflection in the mirror.

I have a odd job today upgrading hard drives for a doctors office. Sounds easy, right? One problem: This doctors office uses a lot of expensive, proprietary software. The software vendors won't give them the discs. This means I can't just format the new drives because I don't have the software they need.

So I turn to Norton Ghost. For some reason I've had error after error after error. DriveImageXML and Clonezilla are giving me similar problems. Maybe it's because these PCs are taiwanese cheapos.

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Originally Posted by Death BOO Z

a girl who was with me in the army came by the store toady, so I said hello.

I haven't seen such a look of 'get out of my life' since I've tried talking to an Ex of mine..


(alternative version)
I haven't seen such hatred and disgust in someone's eye since I've seen my reflection in the mirror.

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Is she hot? I've seen this powerpoint presentation that's made the rounds on the internet showing all these hot chicks in the Israeli army.

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Originally Posted by samsonlonghair

I have a odd job today upgrading hard drives for a doctors office. Sounds easy, right? One problem: This doctors office uses a lot of expensive, proprietary software. The software vendors won't give them the discs. This means I can't just format the new drives because I don't have the software they need.

So I turn to Norton Ghost. For some reason I've had error after error after error. DriveImageXML and Clonezilla are giving me similar problems. Maybe it's because these PCs are taiwanese cheapos.

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What kinds of errors? Regardless of where the PCs were made, the hardware should behave the same and the drive imaging software shouldn't have a problem...

Don't double post. Merged
- Xan

in worst case the image file is broken...

It depends on what sort of error you're talking about too. Are they all having trouble reimaging onto the new drive, or reading off the old one? Cuz the latter means the HDD is buggered with read errors already.

Taiwan makes some good computer products too. <<here be urge to revive Mizuchi's infamous quote>>

It's 92 Goddamn degrees in the house because the air conditioner is broken.

I'm in for a long, sticky night. And not in the fun way.

Screwed-up-computer-Day today.

1 computer randomly froze, another suddenly reverted to USB 1.1 ports, and the laptop's mousepad's tap and double-tap function just doesn't work anymore.

I bit into some crab last night, and the shell somehow dislodged the metal wire sitting behind my lower-front teeth. (I had braces years back, and I've still got a metal wire sitting behind there. I was allowed to take it out when I was 18.)

Originally the wire held 6 teeth in place, but the cement on the leftmost 2 have broken, and the wire sits at an awkward angle now. Since it's rigid, it now pulls/pushes on the others, numbing them.

The dentist doesn't open till Monday, and even then I'm not sure if I can get a booking :(.

Damn crab.

god....so much TMI from my roommate.... I need some xanax

I just saw the pictures of Cobra Commander in the upcoming G.I.Joe movie, and I'm pissed that they messed up. I'd settle for a faceless helmet but they had to make it "cool".

I'm tired of dealing with this buddy of mine who's a poster child for bi-polar disorder. One minute he's cool, the next he's not. The problem is it seems to be me that is making him switch on and off. I'm the same as always, but somehow I seem to be able to hit that switch. F*cking annoying sh*t to have to deal with someone like this.

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I'm tired of dealing with this buddy of mine who's a poster child for bi-polar disorder. One minute he's cool, the next he's not. The problem is it seems to be me that is making him switch on and off. I'm the same as always, but somehow I seem to be able to hit that switch. F*cking annoying sh*t to have to deal with someone like this.

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o_O ......That does sound annoying especially since he is your friend. Do you remember what you did or say before he reverts to his none cool ways?

I just got ill and my allergy kicked up stronger than before.

one of our most important servers was down this morning, and when it rebooted, chkdsk started and erased most of the hard drive volume making it unusable... I'm probably going to have to be up all night monitoring the backup status.

the whole day has been a nightmare basically...

Do you get OT or comp time for your efforts tonight? If so, and if you can do the monitoring remotely from home, then it's win win cha-ching.

I applied for and got this one easy (with very little stress) job that pays well for an easy job.

Problem is - I'm contracted for six months and I can't work Thursday mornings due to time conflict with a university laboratory class, so if I don't sort this out well with my supervisor, I'll have to put down my employment.

After jerking me around for 3 weeks and my drug test and background check coming back clean, Walmart wouldn't hire me because i copped to a weed charge. How the hell was my check for misdemeanors and felonies clean? You have to move to expunge those charges.

I'll be glad when pot is legal

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After jerking me around for 3 weeks and my drug test and background check coming back clean, Walmart wouldn't hire me because i copped to a weed charge. How the hell was my check for misdemeanors and felonies clean? You have to move to expunge those charges.

I'll be glad when pot is legal

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when you get custom title, make it "Walmart reject"...


seriously? doesn't walmart hire actual ex-cons and stuff?

I started med school in 2004, there needs to be at least 15 people registering for next term for college to open said term, as time went by several people was left behind because they failed several subjects, next term there won`t be 15 people thus i`m losing a term by default. : (

I'm starting to get annoyed by people thinking that I am a teenager -_-.

how old are you rockman?

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After jerking me around for 3 weeks and my drug test and background check coming back clean, Walmart wouldn't hire me because i copped to a weed charge. How the hell was my check for misdemeanors and felonies clean? You have to move to expunge those charges.

I'll be glad when pot is legal

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That is just plain ridiculous. I'm more worried about the people who don't have petty marijuana charges on their record. I really think that stuff like this should warrant a lawsuit... a previous arrest for weed has nothing to do with any sort of job function you'd be doing at a walmart.

I totally sympathize w\ your situation.

Does walmart use that applicant screening system that places like best buy and target use? where they ask you hundreds of questions and just reword the questions over and over? I think that is the most retarded concept ever... they filter out possibly good applicants and hire douchebags who probably aren't qualified.

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I started med school in 2004, there needs to be at least 15 people registering for next term for college to open said term, as time went by several people was left behind because they failed several subjects, next term there won`t be 15 people thus i`m losing a term by default. : (

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I shouldn't care since you voted to have me banned, but since I'm going back to school I know how you feel. Right now I'm registered for 12 hours for the Fall semester, and each semester after I will only be taking about 12 hours. If one class is canceled, I'll fall outside "full time" status and that could cause problems with taxes and such, not to mention it could add another semester before I could graduate.

Are you talking about not having enough people for a particular class, or for the entire program? That's pretty rough if they cancel the entire term for lack of participation. Maybe you can get an internship or work during the semester off.

I was taking cisco courses and they kinda threw the regulations out the window with them, because all other classes get scrapped if nobody signs up... but I had 2-3 of the cisco courses that were just me and another student.... heck.. I think my last one was just me and the teacher !

It got funny one semester because this one old faculty member's class was scrapped because of not having enough people and they wind up bringing him in to "help out" and then our class only had 3 people in it.

I need 1 credit to have my associates degree ( WOOHOO....) which I'm starting to think will impact me as much as having my GED did when I was 17.

Current bitching.... I think I have pink eye but I don't really want to goto the doctor and miss work so I'm going to tough it out until the end of the day to see if it clears up or not.. could just be bad allergies idk. I'm restraining from any hand to face contact and washing my hands religiously.

Home renovation... week 5...

The inlaws are helping us "remodel" our new house and it's now the 5th week...

Got off work early today and I get home to find no water, flys buzzing around the house ( windows / doors left open most of the day because of in and out traffic ) the cat's been put in my "office" so it smells like cat pee in here.

about to goto the store just to have an excuse to get out of here.

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I shouldn't care since you voted to have me banned.

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But we voted because we love you. :(

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Are you talking about not having enough people for a particular class, or for the entire program? That's pretty rough if they cancel the entire term for lack of participation. Maybe you can get an internship or work during the semester off.

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A particular class (Semiology III) wich in turn wont allow me to take Semiology IV the term after, and in order to take the other classes i must take Semiology IV along them as a correquisite.

So this term ill take everything except Semio III and next term i take nothing BUT Semio III.

a sincere letter

To: All it may concern
Subject: I don't give a damn

I really don't. On a scale of one to ten, with one being the lowest, and ten being 'damn', my level is that I don't give a damnnnn!.
I don't know why it costs so much, I don't know if we're cheaper than the store next to us. I don't know how long the special price will remain, and I don't know why the same product costs less in your town. Truth is, I don't practically care. YOU came here, so obviously you want to buy, and if you came here and didn't immediately leave after seeing the price, then either buy it, or shut the hell up.

It's not that I don't want to do my job, I'll perfectly willing to explain the difference between a 0.5 HB pencil lead head and a 0.9 B2 head. I'll gladly find you whatever stupid cartoon character collage ruled notebook, I really have no problem with my job being a cross between fetch dog and half assed wiki.

But don't think for a second that I care. not for a damn moment I'm really concerned with what gift you should bring to your 12 year old grandson (hint: not a colored pencil. try money), I'm mostly concerned with:
A. making you take the fanciest, most expensive, least sold before product to the registry.
B. Making you get out my face so I could talk and exchange jokes with my coworkers.

Also, your little, beloved, oh so charming son is finally going to school? come with him alone and leave his younger brothers with someone to watch over them (the other parent, his grandma, the television). You (and I mean it, You. not me) don't need this kind of shit, School supplies is expensive enough on it's own - you don't need to buy each one of the little monsters an attention gift.
Also, either bring the fuckin' school list, or shut up when I tell you what's good for you. on this field (as far as you know), I'm the expert. So if I say that most schools require you to bring shit that didn't exist when you were a kid, I know what I'm talking about, and you can't prove I'm lying.

It's okay if you want to see a certain color from this certain model of a Jansport bag, but if I tell you I'm going to the searing hot storage room to look for it, then you better be willing to buy it. or leave immediately afterwards. this isn't a catalog. I'm one day close to demand people to show me the money before doing any shit for them ("sure, I can look for the 5YM superbreak, just show me you got 179.99 NIS to pay for it"). And again, this is the price, there's no discount for asking real nice. and don't ask where you can find this model for a cheaper price, do your own damn research (hint: not in the mall. though, it doesn't matter for jansport, it's the same everywhere).

And I mean it. I WORK HERE. I sell stuff that we keep. as long as I'm wearing the black (with orange letters) outfit, I'm not your friend (actually, seeing as we have an imminence age difference, and you shop in the mall for funz. I'm NEVER your friend). If we don't sell enough, we will go out of business, and I'll have no money. I am not your shopping adviser. at worst case, I can direct you to the closest store of the chain, I'll even call them and ask if they have whatever you're looking for in stock. I won't direct you to our competition.

But that's not the point. the point is, that I don't give a damn. forgot to buy a present to your parents and the store closed five minutes ago? I don't care. (also, Hint: they don't need a digital photo frame, they want attention. but we don't sell attention, and we do sell digital photo frames, do you catch the drift?).

also: dear mall management. it's summer, it's hot. it's a half open mall. we need air conditioning, and if not available, more ventilation. much more ventilation. second point, I see that open space is valuable to you. you know what valuable for the people working there? it's that we can monitor what's happening in our selling space. It's Israel. our two miles long park has three entries, because the city council doesn't want to pay for a fourth security guard. why does our space have six entries, in less than a 20 feet radios? we've got more holes than a heroin shooting Swiss whore (like a Swiss cheese, only a whore). of course I can't be nice to customers (and make entire mall a better place, in the grand scale of things), if there's always a minority standing behind the bags (which are apparently more expensive here than in her town) dressed in full black, with long sleeves and all, just two steps away from the parking lot. Open space my ass, I've never seen a store that doesn't monitor who comes in and out, just put a damn fence around us.

to conclude my point, I'm not a bad sales person (at least not horribly bad), I'm simply a bad person (ok, I'm not a people's person, despite how well I hide it). I know there are much worse jobs than mine, and I'm doing an effort to do my job the best I can. but I don't care about the customers, and if you come in to see whats new after closing time, I will rip your head off and feed it to the cat the sleeps in the mall (yes, we have a cat sleeping inside the building, it's not hygienic, but I don't care, because I simply don't give a damn).


yours truly, a sales man battling to stay sane until September 1st.



long rants are for the flame pit, short rants are for the bitching threads.


edit: obviously, I wrote stay 'sand' instead of stay 'sane'. how hilarious.

Hilarity.

The personal hell of working customer service is universal.

I didn't really mind it too bad at the grocery store seafood counter (except for the rare complete scumbags), it was the boredom that got to me.

Even the people who told me they could drive an hour to the shore to get whatever I was selling 10x cheaper didn't really bother me, at least they were someone to talk to for a few minutes.

Ugh, the pain brought by ripping out a nail is not pleasant at all. I tripped over some lines in the hallway and came crashing down, destroying my toe nail in the process. This is like Higurashi torture. :(

DBZ, im thinking of buying some colored pencils to my cute 4 year old cousin that`s starting school, wich is the best and cheapest brand i can get? :P

OH and can you offer a discount?

DBZ has longer rants in the bitching thread than I do. I love it.

Starting uni soon. I look like a 20 year old but I'm actually quite a bit older. I'm getting whiplash from all the gorgeous young women walking around, and the school crowd hasn't even arrived to town yet. I feel so out of place. Hopefully I can make the most of it.

Oh yeah, looking at a support job in the IT dept. But it looks like everyone uses Macs, and I hate Macs.

Ani : Perfect !!!

Especially an on-campus job. I worked 2 years as a department assistant and it was great being to be around all the ladies... My friend who got me the job was quite a charactor. He was in his mid 30's but it was hard to tell he was even close to 30. He was picking up all sorts of girls, all the time. I met my wife @ school and lots of other girls before we were dating and some while we were taking a break from dating : )

I'm sure the campus doesn't use all mac's though... I've only had one mac call here at work and I was basically like.. ooooooh... you're using a mac, well... our software is made to run under windows. sorry!

Macs... i hate them too - i had to use them for 2 years on my IT lessons...now i pity every mac user. Only good thing i find in macs is bash shell.

I can only imagine that Macs are easy to figure out considering they are geared towards the non-tech users who treat computers as appliances. If those folks can get a Mac to work, I'll be able to figure it out.

As far as meeting women, I'll at least get to look at tons of them since the IT help booth is centrally located in the main library/computer usage facility. The thing is, I've pretty much gotten over liking women for their looks. I'm enlightened so I'm more interested in their personality and interests. Guess that comes with age or just not being very successful with the hot ones.

Current bitch: AT&fuckingT. Signed up for a phone line with DSL service since Uverse isn't available in my neighborhood and I've heard horror stories about TimeWarner in Austin. Unfortunately it's been a f*cking nightmare getting service from at&t. The installer monkey came out on Tuesday and hooked up the line and it worked ok. A few hours later, no dial tone. I call, the repair won't occur until Friday. There's no problem local to my premises, it's on their side, since there's no service up to the demarc.

So 3 days without service, then I wait around at home all day Friday... and no repair guy shows up. I call their "customer support" line, they see the trouble ticket, and they see no one has made a visit. Nothing they can do to help besides reissue the trouble ticket. No idea when a repair guy can show up. So I get pissed and tell them I want to cancel all services (phone line/DSL/DirecTV). "So sorry, customer service is closed for the day, you'll have to call back tomorrow to cancel services." So I told the guy thanks a lot and to "f*ck off" before hanging up.

That sucks.... I had to call time warner once and spent an hour humoring this guy who even insisted that I restart my computer to reset my NIC... and he got an attitude when I started asking him why I would do that.

Luckily I have FiOS now even though I haven't gotten around to running a cable to my "office" and my wireless is occasionally flaking out.

Well it pays to get upset I guess. I called AT&T on Saturday to cancel my services. My call was immediately routed to the cancellations department by the automated system whereas usually you have to go through several selections to get a human. The customer support guy apologized, offered me 1/2 off for 6 months of internet service (savings of $105 over 6 months) and a repair tech would be dispatched that day. I warily agreed, and waited for them to mess it up again by not sending a tech. A couple hours later, a tech arrives, explains he normally doesn't do service on Saturdays or in my area, but got the trouble call and made the visit. Half hour later, phone works and internet too, plus now I got the discount for 6 months (I'll have to follow up to make sure they honor that).

On august 1 i have exactly one month of vacation, having nothing to do i thought "Hey! i`ll get a month of xbox live" so i go to stores and they dont sell 1 month worth of live in my country or the 3 months even, only the whole year one and it cost 120 US$ (in the us it cost somewhere between 50$). I try to get it with my credit card on the xbox marketplace and they won`t accept my credit card cause my card is dominican while my account is american, so i create a dominican account but i can`t do that because they dont accept dominican accounts. So i call my aunt and see if she can get me a card and she says "yeah sure, i`ll get it this week", the following week i ask if she bought it and she says "uhmmm... what card?" so after reexplaining everything she says "oh yeah, sure, i`ll get it this week" on thursday that week i ask her if she got it and she says that she`s sick, i ask what`s wrong and she answers that she only goes out on weekends (what does that has to do with being sick...? w/e ill ask her on weekend), so that weekend i ask yet again and she`s like... "oh... today is wekeend? ok NOW i`m sick" wich made me :mad: she`s clearly not going to buy anything because she`s lazy as hell and "too tired from work" wich irks me because if it were me and she needed me i would get up my bed at ANY time and do w/e i have to do for her in a matter of minutes and she knows it, today is august 17 and i don`t think it`s worth it to try anymore, i just wanted to play live on my vacations and instead i get to look at my wall the whole month (it`s white by the way). :( .

Maybe it's your sign that you should spend the time doing something besides playing Xbox during your month off.

I was thinking the same thing though, some companies just make it freaking difficult for you to buy their services. AT&T tried to do that to me, and in the end I saved money for their trouble.

I do what my sig says the other 11 months of the year :p

Its always good to take a break from changing the world by staring at the wall for a month.

I'm surprised that even after more than half a month you say the wall is just white. Surely by now you should be seeing shades and irregularities.

This private message, this pisses me off:

I am sorry for this message and I hope you'll read it.
My name is Jose Miguel and I am from Ecuador, Latin America.
I hope that adim of this forum give me oportunity to make a Great Bonus for the all members of this community.
My economical situation is too bad now, therefore I offer a great stuff with a BONUS for a members of this forum!

So what I am offer?

A SET OF 5 DOUBLE LAYER DVDs WITH 600 AUDIO BOOKS FOR ONLY $57 with a FREE WORLDWIDE SHIPPING w/tracking number.
Complete Alphabetical AudioBooks Listing you can found here: http://www.mp3s.ec/listing.html

I wonder how these bots select people for their messages. They certainly didn't go by alphabetical order.

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I wonder how these bots select people for their messages. They certainly didn't go by alphabetical order.

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That sort of bullshit is a big no no right?
I'm surprised all the messages weren't purged and the user cock punched banned

Wait,...he's not a bot? I always had friends who send me ads unknowingly because they're stupid enough to type their usernames/passwords into insecure websites. This is the first I've seen someone advertise like this willingly.

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That sort of bullshit is a big no no right?

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Right. Now go kick his Ecuador ass.

You got immobilized or something in your previous bitch, right Cal? You moving again?

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Originally Posted by Buffalobiian

Wait,...he's not a bot? I always had friends who send me ads unknowingly because they're stupid enough to type their usernames/passwords into insecure websites. This is the first I've seen someone advertise like this willingly.

Right. Now go kick his Ecuador ass.

You got immobilized or something in your previous bitch, right Cal? You moving again?

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I spent a month and a half in a (7) cast(s). A month and a half in a walking boot on crutches.
And as of a week ago I have started rehab and Physical therapy and can almost walk again =D.
It'll be another 3-6 months before the fibula heals, but I should regain my ankle in a few weeks. My knee in a couple more weeks after that.
I may be able to ride my bike (finally) in a month or so.

So I'm kind of still busted. but recovering. If I have to walk from my office to the lab I have to wear das damn boot. If I get to spend all day in the same building I can walk normally, though painfully and with significant limp.

The PT is amazing. I've literally watched my calf muscle grow every day I've been allowed to walk.
I'm almost a whole boy again!

Once I can run and kick again next year, Equador here I come!

It's August. It's late-winter. It's 28 degrees C @ 3pm.

WTF....:(