Terrible, my condolences.
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Terrible, my condolences.
that's sad.
a puppy? how old was he?
Thanks guys, apparentelly the neighbors had some serious birds problems in their house so they put some poisoned food around it, i don`t think it was intentional. Ironically we were living in an apartment where we weren`t really allowed to have animals, so i decided to move to this place i don`t even like just to keep him.
R.I.P Arold
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1 year and 1 month.Quote:
Originally Posted by Death BOO Z
What a shame and terrible luck, that was one cute doggy ;[
Sorry to hear that...and who new that women get angry if you mention that they snore? :\
Of course they do. It is my belief that they view it as unsightly and unwomanly.Quote:
Originally Posted by rockmanj
I should have known that...but I didn't. I mean, really, why care?Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Don`t call them fat either (even if they`re skinny as hell and you`re clearly joking), trust me.
Well, that goes without saying. Its not like snoring is something that can be controlled though. I for one, snore, sleepwalk, and talk in my sleep (among other things). I asked a good friend what her reaction would be, and she said that she would want to be woken up in order to stop her snoring. I am sure that the original lady didn't take it too badly (or I will be having some cold and lonely nights during my vacation).Quote:
Originally Posted by UChessmaster
Unless it's your aim to make them self-conscious, in which case call them muffin top.Quote:
Originally Posted by UChessmaster
LOL That reminds me of my ex (she didn't have a muffin top), but I used to refer to a part of her as "muffin". Muffin is a really funny words to me for some reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by Assertn
I hate so say this, as of course we all have limitations to our thinking, but one of my coworkers seems to not be very, very shortsighted and narrow minded. She basically only considers things from her perspective, and is shocked or angered when someone else does not agree. For instance, the other day she was telling one of the directors that her job was harder than his. She does do a lot of menial work, but I know all the work that guy does (he kind of makes it look easy) and on top of that, he has another job and is a Phd candidate as well. My workplace is pretty lax, so he just kind of looked at her quizzically and kept talking, which I credit him for. Other things that she does that annoys me is call my lunch "amazing" everyday, not give me messages that are on the phone, and try to follow me to my home (She found out that we live fairly close to each other). I know it is wrong and high handed of me, but her I(dare I say) simple-mindedness gets on my nerves.
Nah, do yourself a favour and stop worrying about considering her a fool. If she's a happy fool, let her be. Learn to ignore her. You will never be able to sync with all the people in the world so it's useless to waste energy (and sanity) trying to. You are no worse a person for accepting that fact. In fact you might get better along with her if you do.
I have pretty much accepted it; it just annoys me because we share the same space. It gets hard to ignore at times. Its not bothering me that much, but it helps to get it off my chest (although I am being annoyed at this very moment).
Dear Ebay,
If you need me to sign in, don't tell me that I'm logged in in the first place!!
Missed a goddamn bid because of you.
I know it seems like I complain a lot, but one of the people in my fellowship really gets on my nerves. She thinks that anyone that is attracted to a person different than them (ethnically) must have a fetish for that sort of person. She clearly does not understand the word and yells and overracts when someone (me) says something to the contrary. I am very tempted to tear down her psyche (for that and other offences).
Where do you keep finding these wonderful acquaintances, rockman?
My profession puts me in contact with all these wonderful people.
-My ankles hurt
-My calves hurt
-My knees hurt
-My back hurts
-My shoulder hurts
-My triceps hurt
-My jaw hurts
-My head hurts
-I want to cough when I breath in too deeply
:(
What the?
Did you finally overdose on preservatives?
My knees hurt too, due to runner's knee. I miss running so badly, so I resort to drinking to relieve my stress.
No Preservatives - the beauty of the canning process. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by shinta|hikari
Most of the above is due to physical exertion.
My jaws hurt because I decided to take up Haku's suggestion to chew stuff in order to build up head muscles (a preparation for when/if I have to go bald). I chewed gum vigorously for like.. 8 hours yesterday.
Not sure why my head hurts - probably from lacking sleep a little?
No idea regarding the cough either.. my brother's got a cold, but cough's usually the last thing to happen. I did sleep in too hot an environment though - that always makes me feel like crap, as if I just had a fever. Might have enhanced all of the above.
God Bless Painkillers. And a strong liver to break them down with.
What you bitches need is some real exercise, especially Bill
Join a gym, you wont regret it
Gah! I think I will either have to confront that woman I work with or go to her boss about her communication with clients. She actually asked a client to answer the phone today! Besides being annoying and non-self aware, this seems to be a pretty serious issue. I don't think today will end well...
I just sat in court for three hours because the dumbass cuntface bitch who works up front told me to be there at 9am. The judge tells me my time to come is 1. Life is fucking stupid.
I have no idea what I did, but my back goes on fire every time I take a full breath. I hope I just slept funny. Strangest thing is it started just randomly after lunch, felt perfectly fine before that.
So didn't you sit in court for four hours then?Quote:
Originally Posted by The Heretic Azazel
No, look at his posting time. It had only been 3 hours before he decided to bitch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Assertn
Gah...my former roommate keeps harassing me about a gas bill that was in his name that he did not cancel. He ended up getting charged for it and keeps telling me to pay him ASAP. I am going to pay him, but I can;y just hand over the money all at once (it was over a number of months). I mean, legally and otherwise it is his fault and we are helping him out. I don't feel like I am wrong here (or am I?)
Your former roommate sounds like your typical ahole who goes through life not taking care of little things, then puts that shit on other people when it hits him. I wouldn't pay him.
I hate doing the dishes. I try and try to clean as I go, but I always end up with a sink full of dishes. It doesn't help that most stuff I cook requires I use 10 different pots/pans/utensils each time.
Get yourself a wifeQuote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
or
Get yourself a dishwasher
or
Get yourself a decent job and stop cooking
;)
Decent job = eating out or paying someone else to cook for me? I'd hate that. I love cooking, I hate cleaning up afterwards. I have a dishwasher but I prefer hand-washing, I just don't have time for it. Same with the car, I could pay $6 at the local gas station for an auto car wash, but I'd rather hand-wash, just don't have time for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by David75
Latest bitch: got pissed playing BC2 so I hulk-slammed my keyboard so now it doesn't work. Add in that it's wireless, so I can't get the system to recognize it until Windows loads, but I can't get past the BIOS password without a keyboard.
Wash dishes as you wait while your food is cooking.
@rockmanj: it depends on how that whole situation came about. Did he move out, forgot to cancel his account, and you guys have been getting free gas in the meantime? If so, I think its only fair that you paid it. Sure, legally it's his fault and you don't owe him a dime, but looking at it from a moral perspective whoever used it should pay it.
I'll assume that the former agreement was that the bill went under his name, but you paid half while you two were still living together? There's a shared understanding that even though he's legally liable for the costs, in actuality you both have agreed to pay for what you used (and assumed a 50/50 split for simplicity's sake). This is just an extension of that since he forgot to terminante your agreement.
I don't think you should be pressured into a lump sum payment though. Try to make repaying him back as high a priority as possible without starving yourself or something.
One of my current roommates and I told him we would pay him back, since we were using the gas at the time. The former one said he wants it all at once, and I told him that to demand that is unfair and not going to happen, since my other roommate and i have other bills & responsibilities. He does not think it is his fault at all, even though I constantly told him to terminate the gas bill so we could start a new one, and he did not. We are resolving the problem, just not as fast as he wants us to (I believe I tied the payments to my paycheck, so it automatically sends him money when I am paid). There were other problems with that bill for some reason before...I would ask him how much i owed him and he would say "I will let you know later" then demand money on whatever day he wished to tell me so that it isn't late.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
For me, the meals I cook are usually complex and multi-part, so it demands my attention throughout. I've tried cleaning between stages, but I always have to stop, wash off valuable suds, and get back to cooking.Quote:
Originally Posted by enkoujin
Even cooking ramen, you only have 3 minutes. But that's actually 2 minutes since you have to add the meat and sauce pack at the 2 minute point. Then you let it cook 1 more minute and it's done. Then you have to eat it right away or the noodles get too soggy. No time to clean dishes during all of that. And after eating all that ramen, you're too sleepy to wash dishes.
Today I read from my morning newspaper that the holding company that had earlier acquired the computer hardware store from where I have for years bought almost all of my computer stuff also acquired one old and bloated store from the other side of the city. That in itself wouldn't have mattered much to me, but I got an impression from the article they intend to move all the business in this city to the overly large store of the older company with its needlessly many employees who have very little interest to actually serve people unless you represent some big buyer (that is, a company or institution). Otherwise they only take your money but if you ask them something they can't answer from the top of their empty heads, they literally tell you to find the answer on your own time and go away. Which is the main reason I haven't visited them for a long time now, in addition to their ridiculous prices they still think are great.
As opposed to that, the small store I frequent has great prices (or as great as they ever are in Finland), has really cool guys working there who know much more of hardware and have always been willing to find the answers if they couldn't produce them immediately. And their shop apparently will be shut down in favour of the stupid oversized store with the idiot staff more interested in their suits than computers.
Tells volumes of why holding companies with no practical knowledge of anything they stick their rotten noses into should all go to hell.
They're still going to be open for a little while, right? Visit them and see where all current staff are going to be. If they move to the store further away, then at least you have some people who you know are reliable there. If not, then see if you can shop with them online in the future, or ask them to recommend a different retailer.
Easier solution is to open your own store and become that reliable shop that everyone goes to, until you sell it to a large conglomerate that closes it when they merge it with their other location.
Gah! Why are most of the people I have to deal with flakes? I have been getting blown off or not responded to a lot lately, and it's really getting my goat. I may just start cutting people off left and right (again).
I read the holding company's own web news bulletin, and now I get why the newspaper article was so hard to decipher; the company bulletin itself both said all the functions in this city will be consolidated, yet a little later they said that all the customers are still able to visit their usual stores... I guess I'll visit my usual store on monday and ask if they are any more enlightened of their own circumstances.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Man, my family members are slobs.
They make me wash the dishes every night and then they always use a boat load of dishes every day and night because they're not appreciating the work I put into washing the dishes. It's always "used ones go in the sink, clean ones comes out on the dish rack; never a miscommunication" with them. I always find myself slaving over the sink having to wash a variety of bowls, plates, utensils, etc.
Well, washing tableware, bowls and plates aren't too much of a hassle because they require minimal strength for washing. However, washing pans, pots and other cookware sucks too. They're so big and bulky and there's almost never enough space in my sink to wash those bastards. Right now, I've got about four or five pots and two pans that need to be washed. I mean, even if I do use the dishwasher, most hard-anodized cookware aren't dishwasher safe, so you end up cleaning them up anyway because your cooking-illiterate family believed in having your food taste like metal and having evenly cooked food as the best and only way one should prepare their food.
Also, washing wooden spatulas suck as well. Unless they've been lubricated with oil, you'll always bet that food or whatever is going to be sticking to them and then they become really hard to wash out unless you've soaked them in water for a couple of hours. And even then, you've got eggs or whatever shit that's still sticking on them so you have to wash them over and over. And since my family always find themselves using wooden spatulas because they're so incompetent at cooking besides their "great" stir-frying that I always find these wooden spatulas in the sink ready to be washed by me. I sometimes wish that I could buy a bandsaw and cut that shit up into toothpicks so that I can add them to my family's cooking and choke the person who's been using it every second day.
The same goes with tall cups in which your hand can never read the bottom, so you end up breaking it somehow and buying new ones later. It's especially becomes more difficult if my slobby family members drink some milk or some other fluids that are very perishable so then it's like your hand is touching some globs of bullshit. Point is - if your hand can't reach the bottom of the cup, the cup is, instantly, a failed product and the designers who made the cup clearly did not take into consideration the statistical size of its consumers' hands to be used in conjunction with washing dishes. Those mother fuckers.
Then, it gets complicated when you're washing other shit like rolling pins, cutting boards and other kitchen gadgets like can openers. How the fuck do you wash can-openers? They're like the most hardest gadget to wash. Washing pizza rollers? Easy. Washing jar openers? Moderately difficult. Washing muffin pans? Hard. But washing can-openers? You've got to be shitting me.
After that, we've got salad dressing. Fuck that shit, it's a bunch of bullshit! Salad dressing expires really fast if it's left unrefridgerated (which is the case most of the time if you're hand-washing shit) and depending on the sauce, it's just a bunch of white cheese and the shit, figuratively, smells like toenails. After that, if you do soak that shit in, and it's one of the last dishes to be put in the dish (or on the tower of dishes), then the white shit goes all over the god damn pots and dishes once you run it through water. Also, it's pretty gross once it collects in the sink - which brings me to my next point.
Penultimately, we've got those rubber gloves. I almost never use rubber gloves when I'm washing dishes. Why? It's because, occasionally, I'll get some water inside my gloves and the next day I use them, they emit an essence that cannot be described in any human language. Personally, I think it's a combination of shit leaking out of an elephant which has been regurgitated four times, a dead pile of cows all voiding their complex digestive system simutaneously and a roadkill skunk. Who the fuck wants to put their hands in something that smells like that? I wouldn't.
Finally, we've got shit in the drain. Really, this can't be avoided unless your family members ate all of their plates clean (which mine don't, unfortunately), then you get a shit load of shit stuck in the sink drainer and depending on how much shit there is in the sink drainer, you have to waste your time toggling with the amount of waste you let through the sink drainer because if you let too much out, then you might risk clogging up your pipes and waste your time sitting around all day until these guys come to your house, unclogging your shit, then leaving you to clean up the mess. If you let only little bit in, you'd have to waste your time watching water form a small whirlpool going down the drain. Yeah, that's right; it's like having to watch your shit go down the toilet every time you take a shit. It's a waste of time and hell, you could be doing something better while you watch the shit go down like washing your hands (only in this case, washing your hands will increase the time it takes for the water and shit to be drained).
tl;dr
Washing dishes suck.
You should spend less time writing these short essays and more time washing those dishes.
My bitch: mowed the lawn for the first time in almost 3 weeks. Lawn looks great but now my allergies are kicking my ass.
I was browsing this thread from my mobile, and from the reading the first line and eyeing the first two paragraphs of the post knew immediately it came from En. I'm not too sure what to make of it.
@dishes: wooden spatulas suck, I'm with you on that one. Stuff sticking to it isn't so big a problem since I just use steel wool and scrub the shit through it, but I dislike the way it holds the smell of whatever you last cooked for weeks to come. Same with white plastic ladles becoming temporarily discoloured.
I think Australia must have huge pipes for sinks or something. My parents always use those drain catcher things because they think the sinks will clog up. I've tipped saucepans of porridge down the sink for years without problems. (I've known of a Taiwanese family who've carried over a disgusting habit of throwing their used toilet paper in the bathroom bin so they don't clog their toilet. They must be squatting on their toilet bowls too, because I can't think of another reason for how they can fucking miss.)
I can't remember the last time I ever used gloves for dishes. Back ages ago my biggest bitch about dishes was getting splashed in dishwater. We don't have a habbit of using aprons (when we did they were cloth ones that got soaked anyway). Now I just make it a rule to wash dishes before showering, but that's less about splashing since I don't do that anymore and more about not having to reapply moisturiser to my arms.
@lawn: I only feel like shit (sometimess) when I'm actually mowing the lawn. Not after.
It would save money and the awful smells if you just showered with your dishes.
The heater core in my car blew. That part is probably the absolute worst component in a car to lose. Huge labor cost, all day work, and as icing on the cake, the part alone is expensive ($300+).
Ate from a place that serves "bulgogi burger." Tastes pretty good, but as expected, it's now tearing through my innards (at least it was cool enough to wait until after I finished taking a final). I tell you, me and Korean stuff will never get along. If she's hot enough, I'd still give it a shot, but I know it would end dismally.
edit: it might not have been the Korean food that tried to kill me! Remembered I drank an expired bottle of 5 Hour Energy before my final and that might have been what messed me up. After purging, I feel better, but not great. Sux that I threw away the other half of my burger, and the last 2 bottles of expired 5 hour.
Tsk, Tsk...do you not watch "The Inbetweeners"? Today I got some hair and debris in my eye, and had to go to an eye doctor. To make things worse, my nose would not stop running the whole time, but she was pretty cool about it. Turns out I scratched my cornea pretty badly and have to constantly lubricate my eye for the next few days (no jokes, plz). At least it was only 50$ total.Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
I've seen that episode. I stopped watching the show after 5 or 6 episodes because the crew are a bunch of unlikeable limey twits.Quote:
Originally Posted by rockmanj
Unlike Will in this clip, I stayed home from work today while I recover from this. Gonna try to eat some rice now, wish me luck!
The grains or congee? Maybe try some mint or chamomile tea as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
I made slightly wetter than usual rice, so not quite congee (if that's what I think it is). That was 5 hours ago and it hasn't come back up, though I feel slightly worse as my body tries to process the rice.Quote:
Originally Posted by rockmanj
I found out about the BRAT diet for food poisoning sufferers: bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast (white bread) are supposed to be the best choices for sustenance and easy digestion. Also, tea like you said, though I'm drinking lemonade and that's staying put.
Ah, you were vomitting. I just thought you were just letting it all out the other end.
Got over my food-poisoning in almost 48 hours exact. I think it was a life-changing experience. So far, flowery smelling soaps seem to make me nauseous now, as does cold tea. I'm more paranoid about food preparation and cleanliness in the kitchen, though I wonder how long that will last, since I'm pretty sure I got sick from restaurant food or the expired energy drink. Cleaned out the fridge and cupboards of expired food and hope this never happens again. I still feel weak and tired as a kitten, though my appetite is returning.
edit: also, I like corn tortillas more than flour tortillas now... not sure if it's related to the illness, but it wasn't this way before.
I was going to pick and keep a bag of 3-days-expired potato chips out of the bin that my manager threw out, but in the end decided that acting suspicious/cheap/sneaky and getting caught wasn't worth a bag of chips.
It's good to have standards.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
I have two things to bitch about, first one is about unimaginable thing that had happened in my country, the other one is related to car.
1) Imagine this - football(the football, not the handegg, you Americans!) fans were showing signs with anti-goverment slogans(targeted against the PM and the president) on the matches. Guess what was the media and government reactions.
Government forced the football clubs, which fans were showing those slogans, to close the stations for everyone - those clubs now have to play without anyone watching them. It is so stupid and surreal that i don't know what i was supposed to do - laugh or cry at their stupidity.
Media ,on the other hand, didn't show that anyone had displayed slogans, but they quickly found small groups of pseudo-fans and did a lot of reports showing that the fans are all a dangerous, social degenerated group(which is not true). they basically put up a nice smokescreen to obscure the news of government closing stations, and they channeled people's hatred against football fans. It was done by every media available over here - except few, very small ones. If someone tells me to believe in free media, I'll just laugh.
2) i've been changing tires(to be exact, whole wheels) from winter ones to summer ones, and the goddamn mechanic's helper broke one of anti-theft screws. so instead of 20minutes max, it took over two hours.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
That exchange almost got me in trouble at work for snickering.
My boss's wife is going around asking for donations for my boss's birthday present. She is getting him a new movie screen for his home theater.
Obviously I'm not required to give anything, but beyond that it pisses me off that they're going around begging for money ("begging" is what I call it when you come to my office and shake a manila envelope full of money in front of me) for an extravagant gift they can easily afford while I barely have enough money to put gas in my car. I wouldn't be caught dead asking my employees for birthday gift money.
Did you give her any?
Unfortunately for you, this will make it so that you'll never be the boss :-(. Gotta start exploiting whenever the opportunity arises.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Heretic Azazel
I have never had a boss like that. More like the boss himself brought a birthday cake or something else for the employees to enjoy. But Azazel's boss really sounds like the kind of capitalist swine the marxists were writing about, and the wife even worse. My condolences.Quote:
Originally Posted by Uchiha Barles
I think it depends on the laws in your country. Mass demonstrations here require prior approval, as does election campaigns and advertisements on television by parties who are trying to "slander" the other.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xelbair
If those people are trying to use a loophole and use televised sporting events to demote certain political parties (if this is against the law), then I can't really blame your government for shutting the whole thing down in response.
You don't really mean this, do you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
It is legal to do so over here. you require permission only if your protest will block roads etc. and its more like setting up a time and route, it is not dependant on the topic of protest.
They are using pseudo-fans fights as a excuse for a reason.
It hinges on the bold part.Quote:
Originally Posted by XanBcoo
If those people are trying to use a loophole and use televised sporting events to demote certain political parties (if this is against the law), then I can't really blame your government for shutting the whole thing down in response.
What I meant was, it should never be against the law. And if it is, the government should not get a pardon for exercising such strict control over the media.
I think he was speaking realistically of what is currently applicable in that situation, not what he thinks is ideal.
My mum recently learned of the term Densha Otoko and has been using it to categorise me. She acts like she knows what she's talking about, and uses the term as a convenient remark to comment about everything I do. She thinks being in front of a computer for extended periods of time decreases your ability to communicate with humans when it's her that I have issues talking with (and vice versa). She reckons I have communication problems when I'm really just pissed and annoyed. Of course, this is all because I'm a Densha Otoko.
She did this last time she learned of the "Your mind is like this cup that is filled to the brim and is unable to accept anything else" line too.
I'm pissed and annoyed.
I think the proper term to describe your type is "hikikomori". Teach her that if you want her to be accurate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Simple solution, Bill, simple solution: Move out.
I think Hikikomori is even less accurate. From Hikikomori wiki:Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
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The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare defines hikikomori as people who refuse to leave their house, and isolate themselves from society in their homes for a period exceeding six months.[1]
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While many people feel the pressures of the outside world, hikikomori react by complete social withdrawal. In some cases, they lock themselves in a room for prolonged periods, sometimes measured in years.
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In general, the prevalence of hikikomori tendencies in Japan may be encouraged and facilitated by three primary factors:
1 - Middle class affluence in a post-industrial society such as Japan allows parents to support and feed an adult child in the home indefinitely. Lower-income families do not have hikikomori children because a socially withdrawing youth is forced to work outside the home.
I'm not withdrawing from any pressure imposed on me by society, I don't receive social security payments, I'm working and I'm paying for my share of food/board.Quote:
Hikikomori tend to be financially supported by their parents, or by receiving social assistance. They seldom work since jobs usually require socialization.
Densha Otoko was inaccurate in that she believed that computer use was the key to my "communication problem". Communication problems experienced by Densha Otoko are more like they're unable to express what they think or feel due to the inability to express oneself. That's not me. I'm perfectly able to express myself and my thoughts. In fact, in group meetings and assignments I'm often the one who has to both facilitate the meetings so we can keep talking (and not stare each other), keep talking in a direction that advances towards what we're trying to achieve in the project, and interpret(rephrase) what people are saying so other people can understand each other. (seriously, on this matter I don't know what's wrong with my groups. It's not a language barrier thing.. people just aren't listening.. and don't seem to pick up that others aren't understanding them.. but that's another matter).
If you had to describe the problem that exist between us, it would be personality clash. If you wanted to push it all on me, anger management issues would be the best (albeit still incorrect) way to describe it.
Hikikomori requires me to hide from something and to posses a fear of social interaction. None of that applies to me. What does apply to me is that when I'm using my free time, I like to do things and communicate with people who share the same interests as me. Not many of those two things can be done without a keyboard and monitor because they're simply not available otherwise.
@Kraco: I'm a fairly lazy person to be honest. Moving requires effort, searching, planning, effort, change of environments, packing, money to do the actual move... did I mention effort? The board I'm currently paying is likely to be more than what I'll need for rent/food after moving out (I'm paying this so I won't ever have the excuse of "You were better off here because you incurred less rent etc" bite me in later years) - but in exchange for that money I can stay in a place that I've familiarised myself with for the last 16 years of my life. For a person as resistant to unnecessary change as I am, moving's the final straw (at least until I'm further ahead in my career where my working hours would be such that I'd move just to cut down on transport time alone).
You are even paying rent for living in your parents' house? I'm understanding you less and less, because free living was the only thing I'd have somewhat understood. Or if it was some sort of family business related form of living you'd inherit, like a store with the living quarters upstairs and you were already working downstairs. Maybe what you perceive as a communication problem between you and your mom is actually your mom trying indirectly to tell you to find your own place...Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Yeah I was just messing with you man. Sorry about that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Asians tend to live with their parents as long as possible, usually into their 20s. In China, they might stay until their 30s.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kraco
My bitch: websites that don't move the cursor to the search field or the most likely place you will go on their website. Amazon.com is guilty of this.
What seems to be getting under my skin lately is the fact there there are commercials everywhere. It seems that you can't view a video or a clipping of an article without being forced to sit and watch another commercial. Makes me loose the desire and interest I had in the first place.
Pretty soon you won't be able to sleep without some commercial invading your dreams, like it doesn't stick in you head anyways. Those bastards are after your subconscious impulses and it doesn't seem to be anyway to keep them out.
Our economy depends heavily on consumerism, which depends heavily on advertising to get you to spend your money on their products. It's all a part of the same vicious cycle.Quote:
Originally Posted by dragonrage
I know this very well, I am part of it. Just pisses me off sometimes, especially when it's a bad day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
I got fired. Nothing new and I was totally expecting it after witnessing recent events but it still pisses me of how they do things and why. In the last few months I have seen some friends and co-wokers getting fired. The reasons where arbitrary and the way they did it was nasty. The modus operandi is as follows.
Two of the branch bosses go to your workplace without notice and give you the papers. Firing advise, indemnization and so. They tell you to sign it and to take all your things and leave at once. They make it clear that the company is willing to indemnizate you above what you deserve if you sign at the moment and that the reasons for the firing where that you where being lenient and that you had bad performance lately.
If you dont sign and leave at the moment they subtlely tell you that company will take it to the courts so you will get less money and much more later. Here this kind of procedures can take 6 months easily. You must understand that this bosses are co-wokers too and posibly you are "friends" with them so its kind of hard to go against them. They go in pairs so they can be witnesses if you dont want to sign and start making a ruckus, so they can protect any company property and sign the papers as witnesses (with the administrative that usually is with you) that you where fired.
Its true that since the crisis things got hard and we have had less work for too much people so its logic to get the branch reduced but what they have done for the last 2 years is fire the cheaper ones. The ones with lower salaries and that have been less time in the company. This is a good move from a boss perspective. They present costs reductions to their bosses and dont have to pay much in indemnizations cause all of them where newbies and had low salaries.
The thing is and I tried to explain it over and over to my boss is that if you fire people that represent the 2% of the brach cost but produce the 5% in the long term you are making a big loss. Here usually the people that have been long in the company (its quite new so the most veterans have been there for about 12 years) dont work at all, they know that they are expensive to kick out. They have the highest indemnizations for antiquity and their salary just kept going up year after year thus making them more expensive at the firing.
So for example after other firings I ended in a team of 4 people (2 vets and a protegee) doing around 60% of the work myself, when even when everyone gives 100% things go wrong. Also to sum to it this people had me in their sights from a previous project we where rulling in parallel in wich they ended expending more money and ended 4 months later than the team I was in, so they ended having some kind of rivalry. My team was almost made of youngsters and newbies in the company so they tried to bully us from the begining. This company is kind of a kindergarden.
So to conclude this rant I ended up getting fired cause project was taking ages and costs where sky high (you have to pay the obscene salaries those guys have for way more months than planned). The other 2 vets and the protegee stood there looking at me with a controlled smile. I ended up not signing the papers cause Im not going to give my consent to something that says that my work was defective, thus giving those guys an excuse to say that I was the reason that project was such a complete mess.
I talked to the boss telling him what happened and what I thought and all he said to me was: Yeah you may be right cause I noticed that every project those guys are in ends being a mess but... those guys aint a threat for the bosses cause they cant do the job... and you where cheaper.
So I end with a sense of freedom for not having to work for those guys again and gotten freed from my co-wokers( some days I felt like john malkovich in burn after reading). But on the oher hand Im angry cause I gave some of my best yeas to those incompetent leeches.
Seems strange such a company would stay in business. Not much competition?
Are rival firms also in the same position, or are they ready to mop up all the talent that your company's been culling?
@Edort4: Was this a real job or working at a McDonald's? Living and working under the spectre of possibly layoffs or getting fired is no way to live and work. I think it's best that it happened so you can move on to better things, instead of spending each day wondering if or when it will happen. I've been through this, and it sucked. Hopefully you have some options and savings to keep you afloat until you find something new.
Well the whole sector suffered heavily after the crash in middle 2008. Cause projects take time to be auctioned and durations are around 18 months the real problem started to show at middle 2010. All previous projects where ending and almost no new project was coming in, mine was one of the last. Experts said that around 70% of the sector had to dissapear because it was oversized.
So I heard the same thing happens in every other company. A friend of mine went to a rival and said that it was the same or even worse. Cause seeing how much people is available they have worsened the conditions, lower salaries, more working hours, less benefits and so.
It was a real job (are there unreal ones?) I didnt expect to sound as a part time worker or so. I dont find it being fired so bad, I mean its part of life. If they pay me what they owe me and treat me well. I have good savings and coverage problem is that actually unemployment rates are very high so geting another job will take time and the conditions will be much worse. Just have to decide if I stick with this kind of job or try something different. I dindt work on what I studied so maybe I should go back to that and recycle myself. Anyway bad moment to get out.
What I hated was how it happened and that maybe if my boss would have made a bet for his working people instead of "experienced" ones and protegees things could had been saved or at least well completed, wich never leaves a bad mouth taste.
What sector is this exactly? Sounds like an engineering job.
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Herniated L4/L5 Disc and severe Canal Stenosis (not pictured)
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Does it hurt as bad as it looks? Cause it looks pretty bad. I should get my back checked out, been having pain there from poor habits. What's the milky white snake going down the center that the disc is mashing into, your spinal cord?
Yeah, it's some pretty spectacular pain. I am pretty much crippled right now.
The white line spanning the back of the spine is the spinal canal. So, essentially yes, it's protruding into and pinching the nerve roots in my lower back. :(
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Aiya, that's awful TT :( What sort of treatment have they recommended for you?
My complaint is just small, but I found out that hiding food in the back of my fridge is NOT equivalent to labelling it with my name. I thought it would be safe for a couple hours when I went out, and I came back intending to eat the delicious half-price pasta salad I bought, but it was gone when I got home and I was sad. I feel like there has been so little food in my house these days that everyone is one the brink of starvation and will eat any small amount of prepared food that appears in the fridge. I'm going to prepare a very large amount of something edible today in such a quantity that there's guaranteed to be leftovers for me to eat tomorrow.
Eat out of only one side of the container. That will confuse them long enough for you to defend it.
Must be indeed quite a cave of starving wolves if the occupants eat any food left unguarded, not only their own. Because I can't imagine KitKat would live with people with no manners or morals, so it must be the hunger driving them to fell deeds.
That used to piss me off. We'd share a food bill back in school, but people would buy stuff I didn't care for. So I'd go out and buy stuff I did enjoy, but those would be the first things to go, and as often as not, they'd be gone before I could eat any.
Just label your food. Is that not enough of a territorial mark for those who share homes?
I eat food that is not mine in the staff house I am staying in right now. I know it belongs to someone else, but they never eat it anyway until it spoils. I hate waste, so I do them and earth a favor by preventing that.
It also helps with the expenses, so it's all good, for me anyway.
I sometimes prepare meals using leftover stuff too (I cooked szechuan pork with cashews for everyone today using common stuff and stuff that is not mine), so I would think that that much would be enough compensation for my occasional thievery.
Well back then, we shared the bill. Eventually we did stop doing that as I wasn't the only person with a problem on how the food was consumed. But yeah, if you're going to be sharing a bill, it kind of goes against the spirit of things to label stuff, specially in the quantities I'm talking about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Weird, that never happens to me. Go to a restaurant that splits 1 meal into two and puts it on each side of the table?
Do they seem to mind that you eat their food?Quote:
Originally Posted by shinta|hikari
I didn't think I'd be the kind of person to eat others' food, but when I had roommates before, one of them worked for Amway so he always had these juice cartons in the fridge and I would drink 2 or 3 out of every 10. He never complained, but I doubt he was happy about it.
When I first came to NYC I rigidly ignored all of the random people (men) on the street who would holla ( "hi!" "hey beautiful," "you're so beautiful," *whistle* etc) at me. But over the years I've loosened up, and at least offer a smile or nod in return. I'm one of the few people I know in Manhattan who doesn't ignore any and all attempts at transient communication from the locals and tourists.
But I really can't stand the people in NYC who wait a split second after you pass them to holla at you or whistle, because at that point of walking past them you can't really acknowledge them and just keep walking. So it turns into having some perverted coward scream at your back and not really being able to turn around because that's just awkward. And its not like you can individually yell at them for being cowardly because the next day someone is going to do the same thing. :[
They don't even notice it's gone. They are not simply feigning ignorance either, because the last time I mistakenly (I thought it belonged to the person I replaced when I came in) drank a protein drink the owner emailed everyone staying at the staff house complaining about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
I only get rid of the stuff that will expire anyway.
Do you walk past a lot of construction sites?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sapphire
I think it's nice that you accept compliments and not just walk past with your nose in the air. I wouldn't recommend doing that in some places like Vietnam though, or the street vendors will never leave you alone.
Just convince yourself that they're taking the time to confirm that your ass is as awesome as the rest of you, and that the holla is a nod of approval. That way, you turn a slightly annoying, daily encounter into a regular ego boost. Win-win.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sapphire
On a related note about greetings, I wish "Welcome" can be used in English like it's used in Japanese. It saves having people going like:
Me: How are you going today?
Customer: Crap. But you don't really care do you?
Ever try just saying, "Hello,"?
If you are contractually required to say more than that, go with, "Hello, can I help you find anything?"
That said, I'm a big fan of responding to "How is it going?" with a negative, then waiting for the "Good!" auto-reply. It lets you know right away they weren't expecting anything but "Good!" or "Fine," and that they weren't going to listen to your reply in the first place, because they really don't care about anyone's well being when they use that particular greeting. It's also the reason I shifted my standard greeting to, "Mornin'." [With, "Afternoon." and "Evening." as applicable.] That way, "How goes it?" is reserved for people I legitimately give a shit about.
Re: Hello - a bit too short? :P
Re: Hello, can I help you find anything? - when they're bringing stuff to the counter it sounds even more like an automated answer.
I'll try mixing in those (amongst others) every now and then to see what works though..
"What can I help you with?"
"What assistance do you need?"
"How can I be of help to you?"
"What's your concern/issue?"
I think "Hi there", and the applicable greeting that varies on the time of day works best from Ryllharu's suggestion works best too. Since you're a pharmacist and people come to you, you just have to say something minimal to indicate that you're ready to help the next person. That's really all you have to say.