[Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

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Anonymous

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I am so worn out, I feel like I am just blindly going through life waiting for each day to end. I used to look forward to sleep because it would be a brief reprieve from mental torment throughout the day but now I don’t even get peace in my sleep. My mind seems to take pleasure in tormenting me day and night now. At times I am afraid of my own thoughts. I barely have a day go by that I don’t at least think about suicide or death in some form. I am still strong enough that I am not going to kill myself and it is usually just passing thoughts throughout the day/night but I feel myself getting weaker with each passing day.

My whole life I have felt that I don’t belong and that I don’t deserve to be alive. That I cheated someone out of life who would have been better at it than me and better for the world. Despite thinking about suicide or death almost every day I don’t think I would ever kill myself but I often feel that if I was to just die I would be alright with that. I wish I could just vanish and disappear but at the same time I feel that I can’t just disappear because I haven’t earned being alive yet. I feel that since I was born I need to do something to make my life worth actually having been born. But despite that I have no motivation and can barely get through the day.

I am just so worn out…………
 
I feel that since I was born I need to do something to make my life worth actually having been born. But despite that I have no motivation and can barely get through the day.
That's a tough cycle. I've been there too. I have thoughts like this every couple of weeks, and I have had long periods like this is the past. It really seems to have to do with goals in life. I have thought along the way that certain things would make me "happy". When I was single, I wanted a girlfriend. When I was in school, I wanted to graduate. When I was in grad school, I wanted publications and wanted to graduate. My goal posts kept changing, but my happiness never did. So, maybe your goals need to change? Hope you break out of the cycle.
 

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One thing I've learned from the internet is that probably a majority of people have been through some kind of major depressive episode (which ironically means that those same internet postings can probably stop "educating" this likely fictional crowd of people who just "don't get it"). You slog through it. People give you aphorisms precisely because so many have been through it, and unwelcome or not, the aphorisms are probably true, even though you can't see it right now. You swim through concrete to make it to the water on the other side. The only other person you're cheating out of not being here--albeit not by choice--is a different you. All this is to say that a lot of us get it. You have to find that spark, and you only find it by sticking around. You won't find it by feeling you're a bad person. We're all turds who do terrible things. You live for those brief moments when you do something brilliant, not the hours you didn't. That's just about the best you can hope for, and it ain't bad.
 
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I am pretty sure I have been fighting depression my whole life but I keep postponing going to a therapist because just like life I seem to lack motivation to do something even if it's for my own benefit. Lately though it has been getting worse and my friends have been taking not and are trying to convince me to get help. My own family for the most part are to self centered to even care or notice. They just kind of pretend I don't exist unless they need something.
 
One of the really shitty things about depression is that it waits until you get down enough that you can't be bothered to get help, and then it hits you hard. It is a one hell of a struggle.
 

GasBandit

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Guess who's getting audited?

Gah.

2013, didn't you suck enough already?

Thing is, the amount they say I owe is just under $600... I'm tempted to just cut them a check to make them go away. But it's the principle of the thing. I think I'm going to fight.
 
Guess who's getting audited?

Gah.

2013, didn't you suck enough already?

Thing is, the amount they say I owe is just under $600... I'm tempted to just cut them a check to make them go away. But it's the principle of the thing. I think I'm going to fight.
You're even considering paying the federal government and rewarding them for bothering you?
 

GasBandit

Staff member
Ok, I've read it over a little more carefully and gone over my 2013 stuff...

Uhh... never mind, I'm gonna pay this and hope they consider the matter closed. I uh... forgot to include something.
 
Ok, I've read it over a little more carefully and gone over my 2013 stuff...

Uhh... never mind, I'm gonna pay this and hope they consider the matter closed. I uh... forgot to include something.
They generally ask for less than they are owed, if only to actually get SOMETHING.
 
I pulled my calf really bad running yesterday when I did an awkward jump over a railing. Quite a lot of pain. Unluckily for me I was nearly 2 klicks from home. That was a fun walk. Today is irritating.
 
Manager at meeting yesterday morning: You're not properly using the down time. Stop bringing your laptop.
Me: Okay, I guess.
Front desk computer later that night: We'll just see about THAT. (HDD fails.)

Fortunately I'd left the laptop in the car in case war were declared.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
The day I dreaded for months arrived unexpectedly today... our fancy Xerox printer/copier, that management got to replace ALL other printers in the building to save toner, ran out of toner. The thing is supposed to reorder its own toner replacements. Well, I guess it got lost in shipping somewhere because we never got it. Now all of a sudden the whole building needs to print stuff (including invoices from accounting for August because yesterday was the 31st), and naturally because it plugs into the wall and they don't understand how it works, the copier is somehow I.T.'s responsibility to take care of. Because, you know, a xerox machine is the same as a desktop PC, right? Hey, I got the drivers installed correctly on everybody's PC, that's my part. IMO this is a problem for the office manager... if we had one. Closest we'd have is our accountant/HR, who is up to her ears in 9 other things she doesn't understand either... soooo GAS BANDIT TO THE RESCUE AGAIN.

Oh, turns out the local office number for Dahill "CANNOT BE COMPLETED AS DIALED." Oh fun.

Manage to find the direct number for one of their guys from a guy my boss knows, so I'm getting it fukkin' done.
 

fade

Staff member
How do you know you're not like the Hudsucker Proxy? They want to dump the station and run away with the shareholders' money, and they're slowing shifting everything onto your shoulders so that you get the blame.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
And? Clearly you're still doing EVERYONE ELSE'S job, as well...
Fair point, that.[DOUBLEPOST=1441133633,1441133598][/DOUBLEPOST]
How do you know you're not like the Hudsucker Proxy? They want to dump the station and run away with the shareholders' money, and they're slowing shifting everything onto your shoulders so that you get the blame.
We're only owned by one person, though.
 

GasBandit

Staff member
We're only owned by one person, though.
Waiting for the owner to come in one day, "Someday, lad...all this will be yours. And that day is today. See ya!" <bolts out door, sound of screeching tires>

--Patrick


"Please, if you really cared, you'd resign, but there's no way you ever will, because you're just counting the days until, her his face bloated and yellow from liver failure, she he calls you to her his death bed and, in a croaky whisper, explains that Mr. Archer the General Manager is totally incompetent and that you, the long-suffering Lana Kane Gas Bandit, are the only one qualified to run ISIS the radio station and you weep shameful tears because you know this terrible place is the only true love you will ever know." - Cheryl
 
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