The Vent Thread

[Ileia]

Right now, my best defense is drinking lots of icy water, frequent cold showers, and these:




...you know things are bad when you turn on the water spigot and it's already hot....so you have to wait for the water to get cold. XD

[Castor Troy]

...it's so cloudy here in CA....

[lloyd9988]

Hmm. . . I know this might sound like a dumb idea, but I think there needs to be a reverse in time schedules for workers during the summer:

i.e. Let them sleep in during the day and work at night. Pretty much let them buy out solar panels to run electricity and ventilation systems in their house while they sleep and let them earn money by working at night. At least, so people don't have to go out in this damned heat and they can probably profit off of it as well. . .

[MycathatesyouAMV]

Holy crap, I would be one happy camper with all those freezie pops.

[Chained(E)Studio]

Hmmmm.. people -_-
Now to go back to work ://

[dj_ultima_the_great]

Couple of things for me...

One, my computer has done the restarting thing a couple of times today. That doesn't bode well. Setbacks in my paychecks mean that it's still going to be a couple of weeks before I can afford a new rig. I really need this thing to hold out for a while yet...

Two, my feet. My goddamn, dumbass feet. Without going into too much detail, I haven't been able to wear a "normal" pair of shoes for about three years. Namely, women's shoes, of any kind. I have several pairs of high heels that I have never worn because my feet got screwed up right around the time I bought them (but not because of them, I should note). What is making this into a vent now is that being on my feet all day for work is maddeningly painful. A couple of days in a row with long shifts and I'm almost in tears. I thought I would toughen up after six or so months, but nine months out and it doesn't seem to be getting any better. Doctors have been similarly useless.

Three, our internet is going to be disconnected in a few days. I thought we were past this shit, but apparently not. The trouble, according to Mom, is that all of the bills fall at the same time of month, whereas the rent should fall with her first paycheck and pretty much everything else should be on the second.

This leads to the fourth point of trouble. I had an ugly conversation with my mother today. I would like to think that is was enlightening and helpful for her, but she mostly just yelled and cried. The main ideas were that I'm not paying any more bills for her, she needs to stop obsessing over her medical issues, she needs to get a friend so that I'm not her sole source of communication, how much money she actually inherited and what she really did with it in detail, and most importantly on a personal level, how I asked to be treated like an adult years ago and she hasn't done it except to ask me repeatedly for money.

At the end, she seemed to accept and understand everything, especially that last bit, but who knows? I would like to remain optimistic, but if there's a cloud in the silver lining, God knows she'll find it.

[Radical_Yue]

I love my job. Love, love, love it.

I don't love my supervisor. She's a very nice person but her and I just don't get along. I don't like her methods and I don't like her as a manager. She's just very "for the company" but she likes to pretend she is for her employees. One of those people who asks you how you're doing but rushes out of the conversation as fast as humanly possible because they don't really care.

But whatever, I can deal with that. That's not my problem at all. I'll work for her but I won't respect her or try to connect with her. I'm totally cool with that and have been doing fine.

What I'm not fucking cool with is signing me up for fucking contests while I'm away. Normally whenever they have their little contests, I throw my entry form in the trash. I don't want any money or prizes from her, I'll do my job on my own. But this time I've apparently been assigned to a team so I can't fucking back out because other people are "counting on me" >__@

People always say "Hey! It's free money!"
That's lovely, but I don't want it. I'd rather keep myself distanced, come to work, do my job, and go home. I don't want her silly prize money. I'll earn it myself doing my own fucking job. I don't want to get any closer to her or the other people on my team than I have to.

I just went from a really awesome mood to incredibly annoyed which I think is making me way more pissed off than it should. But I don't give a fuck. Bitch killed my buzz.

[ZephyrStar]

I hear ya.

It's just one of those inescapable things about working for any company, there will always be teambuilding exercises and stuff. And you'll get roped in somehow, some way. I wish sometimes that the world could understand that there are people who are perfectly happy to just sit in their cube and solve everyone's problems. Leave em alone, and that's when they are most productive. This is why I would kill to work from home again, I could get so much done.

[BasharOfTheAges]

Burned my tongue yesterday morning. It still hurts... a lot.

[Radical_Yue]

Mutemath is playing in Colorado Springs (where I live) on September 15th at a little bar not even 15 minutes away.

Why is this in the vent thread?


Because on that day I will be at NDK in Denver instead.

Which is not a bad thing, but damn it, WHY CAN'T I HAVE BOTH?! ;______;