The Vent Thread

[Magnus]

Hospital beds are awefully small.....

[CodeZTM]

Our best and most productive employee has just given her two weeks notice and will be taking some of our best clients with her as she moves into their own private accounting departments. Shitstorm incoming in 3...2...1...

#loudnoisedownstairs #idontblameher #bosssfault #gottoremembertosendflowers #ohshitmoreworkforme

[BasharOfTheAges]

@CodeZTM - slip her your resume with the flowers?

[kenisama]

Airborne school was a bust, apparently you need to be able to hear (lost part of my hearing in a live-fire exercise years ago) in order to jump out of planes... and my previous unit is dicking around with my medical waiver, so now my whole training pipeline is being delayed. So now I'll have to go back to my previous job until I can return to Airborne school again! >.<

[Castor Troy]

YouTube refused to restore my channel for the 3rd time.

RIP CastorTroyAMV

Dec 2005 - Sep 2011

[Ileia]

YouTube refused to restore my channel for the 3rd time.

RIP CastorTroyAMV

Dec 2005 - Sep 2011

Awww
but welcome to the world, CastorTroyAMVs

(that's what I did, haha >_>)

[Otohiko]

Fuck my university. Seriously.

First, earlier this year they distributed my scholarship funding in an entirely weird manner. The net result was that I got a whole bunch of money late last year and early this year, which helped me fund travel, buy myself a few nifty things, buy people presents, and save up for a rainy day (which turned out to be more like save up for more travel so I didn't have to be stuck in this shithole for longer than I have to and could instead spend some time with people I actually like). Then at the start of May I get a thousand bucks, and that's it. My saved-up-for-rainy-day money starts getting used, in anticipation that by September when I start teaching again, everything will be good. No money at all comes my way for 5 full months, despite the fact that in August they drop the surprise that I have to design the course I'm due to teach in the fall (even though it's a 101 course). Don't get me wrong, I love designing courses, but that's a bunch of work I had to do in August that I was paid zilch for. Somehow I scrape by until the end of September (in part due to my parents taking pity and lending me a bit of money to survive on), eagerly awaiting my payday in hopes it'd fix everything.

Payday comes today, and I'm shocked - my paycheck is a full 1/3 less than I expected. I check to see what's up, and while tuition has gone up (my tuition is automatically deducted from my pay, since I work for the university), that's not quite it. When I figure out what it is, I'm just fucking pissed as hell... basically, my pay is for a full term, but it's divided evenly into 4 months. My tuition, on the other hand, is divided evenly into 3 months, namely September, October, November. As a result, it's more than 1/2 my actual pay. And my rent is more than 2/3 of what's left over. So after Christmas, when they're done bleeding me dry, I'll get a nice big paycheck. Until then, I'm one unexpected expense or emergency away from starving. I can't even cover my credit card bill that I picked up over the summer. Yeah thanks.

And this is how they treat someone whom students call 'prof' and who works way more than he's paid for in the first place. Were I getting this kind of paycheck every month, I would in fact not be meeting the 'minimum personal amount' as set by both our federal and provincial tax authorities. In other words, I'd probably be doing better over these few months if I were unemployed and getting welfare or unemployment benefits.

Fuck you Waterloo.

[dj_ultima_the_great]

My mouse is being really screwy. I can scroll down on the wheel fairly smoothly, but it doesn't seem to want to go up without a fight. It feels like slogging through honey every time I roll it up. I could swap it out with the mouse on my desktop upstairs, but damn it, I like this one.

Also, let's see... still no job. Home phone was disconnected. I only have enough money for one more month of cellphone usage before I have to cancel it. Our heater is broken, and I'm not really sure where Mom is going to come up with the money to get it fixed before winter. She keeps having to see the doctor and get prescribed to new meds (for constant migraines and the inability to sleep).

I think what upsets me the most, though, is that we wouldn't be in this predicament if my mother hadn't been such a damned fool. See, she has no retirement. She used it all to pay for medical bills, and she's still drowning in debt. She has borrowed money from every family member, myself included, and we all know that we'll never see a penny of it again.

Actually, that's a lie. I thought I would, even if it took a while. I had that mindset because I knew my grandfather was in bad health - and please don't take this as callous; I loved him dearly - and I knew that when he passed, she would get an inheritance. She could finally pay off the house, her car, all of her credit card debt, and all of her medical bills. That might not have left much in excess, but without those burdens, she could start saving up money again, even on her meager wages, and then she would finally - finally - be at some form of financial stability. She promised that she would do this.

Do you want to know why none of these things happened? Mom thinks she is in love with a man that she encountered online. She has never met him in the two to three years of their "romance," and he pointedly avoids any contact with us children, as if he were trying to isolate her. This is made easy by the fact that I was away at college, both of my siblings moved out some time ago, and she has neither friends nor a social life of any kind. She goes to work, comes home, watches television, and beckons immediately to him arriving online, regardless of whatever else she's doing at the time. Rinse and repeat. Every. Single. Day.

In short, she gave all of her money - all one-hundred thousand dollars and change - to this person. He is supposedly worth about a quarter million dollars. Why did he need her money? Why would he have accepted it if he knew her financial state? Why wasn't he the one giving her the money she needed to survive? Don't you provide for the ones you love? Why doesn't Mom see that this is all wrong? I'm ashamed of her. She took my grandfather's last gift to her and spit on it.

I want to get over it. I love my mother and I want things to be normal - but she just screwed up the rest of her life. It's like she's on a sinking ship (with me in tow, I might add), and when she found the lifeboats, she threw them overboard!

Sorry, that got a bit long. It's 2-3 years' worth of a vent, after all. I can't say any of this to her for the time being (gotta live here whether it's on good or bad terms, so it may as well be "good"), but it needs to go somewhere or my brain is going to jiffy pop all the fuck over this place.


- Jen

[CodeZTM]

/hugs Jen

I'm so sorry for your situation. I hope everything works out in your favor.

[Otohiko]

x2, that's just horrible, I don't even have any other words for it. At this stage, and don't take it the wrong way, but the best thing you can do is get out. Don't let her drag you down with her.

My family also has an inheritance issue coming up about which I feel uneasy. My mother was always the responsible one in the family, went back to support and be with my grandmother when she was suffering from poor health, and now the same with my grandfather. Her younger sister, on the other hand, was always the partier and the irresponsible one, and the only really positive thing she'd done for my grandparents in their old age was throw some money at them a couple of times, but that's about it. She rarely visited (she also emigrated from Russia, like my family), when she did visit she fought with my grandparents, and otherwise spent her whole life very irresponsibly - blew her money on all sorts of things, including men who used her for gain and wrote off a whole bunch of debts on her that she's still dealing with. Her lifestyle in general is unhealthy and irresponsible. Somehow, though, it appears she will be getting virtually everything. Because my grandparents think she's the more needy one, as opposed to my mother who'd spent her whole life raising a family and being frugal. That just strikes me as extremely unfair. I fear my aunt's use of the inheritance money will be no better than Jen's mom in this case, too, so... I can sympathise