Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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Cross with chicken.
Row boat back.
Cross with cat.
Return with chicken.
Realize this won't work and that you just made two trips across the river and back for nothing.
The cat on the other side of the river is getting impatient and is about to wander off.
The four cats on this side of the river are eyeing the chicken hungrily.
You wonder if this whole thing is worth it, and maybe you should just let the cats have the chicken.
But you worked hard to raise this chicken, dammit, and if anyone's going to be eating it, it's gonna be you.
You decide to cook and eat the chicken right here.
You realize you don't have a knife.
Applying for jobs has got to be one of the most soul-sucking activities on the planet. I hate it I hate it I hate it.
And cover letters can fuck right off too.
(Applying for church jobs sucks too, but in a very different way than applying for 'real' jobs, which is what I'm currently doing since there will be no local clergy vacancies until at least June.)
And cover letters can fuck right off too.
(Applying for church jobs sucks too, but in a very different way than applying for 'real' jobs, which is what I'm currently doing since there will be no local clergy vacancies until at least June.)
I refuse to do that. I once got a call from a lady who wanted me to apply at her company. When I went to the link she sent, I was faced with the whole "enter everything from your CV manually" thing. I noped right out. She called me the next day asking why I hadn't followed through, and I explained that I felt the process was ridiculous, and that everything they needed was on the CV they already had, and which precipitated her calling me for in the first place--and that if I had to spend an hour or two laboriously filling that shit in on their website, it simply wasn't worth it to me.
My answer: "Not that much"
I don't mind that my dog farts. I do mind that his smells worse than mine.
Me at 10 PM: Welp, I'm having a hard time keeping my eyes open. Early to bed, I guess.
Me, at midnight: What the fuck? Why did I wake up wide awake after only two hours of sleep?
Me, at midnight: What the fuck? Why did I wake up wide awake after only two hours of sleep?
Welcome to my life. I usually sleep 3 or so times a day. Couple of sleeps at night between 2-4 hours, and a nap in the afternoon. I rarely get a full 8 hours at one stretch any longer.
I tend to average around 6-7 hours. But sometimes, it's like this where I'll go to bed early with the intention of sleeping through to early in the morning and it just never seems to happen.
An electric blanket and a cat or two when I don’t want to sleep? I’m out with in minutes.
When I want to sleep?
When I want to sleep?
We got a new intern for our department this month. He's an older fellow, older than most interns we get, but he's not that old. Mid-30s, I'd say, or 40 at most. But he is strangely computer-illiterate. For example, he knows what copy and paste are, but the only way he knows how to do them are by right-clicking and looking for the "copy" and "paste" entries in the menu. He doesn't know about ctrl-c and ctrl-v, and after I told him about them he still prefers to copy and paste by right clicking. And he doesn't click and drag files to move them either, he right clicks, looks for copy, and then goes to the other window to right click and paste.
And this is just one example of how he operates his computer. Other examples include not knowing there's a "Find" command in Word, not knowing you can click and drag to resize the columns in Windows Explorer so that you can see the whole file name, etc.
He's a pretty good translator, but his work times are unusually long because these little inefficiencies build up over time.
And this is just one example of how he operates his computer. Other examples include not knowing there's a "Find" command in Word, not knowing you can click and drag to resize the columns in Windows Explorer so that you can see the whole file name, etc.
He's a pretty good translator, but his work times are unusually long because these little inefficiencies build up over time.
Yeah... One of my colleagues is a 40-something IT guy, and while he absolutely knows those things, he has his, "right" way of doing things, and all the rest. If you ask him for help and he has to look on your screen, you better be willing to use his ways or he simply won't help.
There's a person at our company who is our resident expert on the translation software, and if you encounter a problem and ask her to take a look at the software on your computer, she will first rearrange everything in the software on your computer to her liking before she actually starts solving your problem.
Granted, her preferred layout is objectively more efficient than the default settings, but still... it's different.
A few months ago, a friend of mine posted on Facebook that she was giving up dating. I responded "Men are dumb. I don't blame you." And that comment was flagged for hate speech. I contested it, but nothing came of it.
She made a similar post recently about owning like half a dozen corgis instead of dating men. I said "Corgis are better than men." Which wasn't flagged, but someone said my comment was deemed "possibly offensive" and hidden. To which I responded with a screenshot of my previous comment saying "Facebook clearly doesn't like me commenting on her dating life.
And THAT landed me in Facebook jail.
For fucks sake, it's not even hate speech. It's so stupid.
She made a similar post recently about owning like half a dozen corgis instead of dating men. I said "Corgis are better than men." Which wasn't flagged, but someone said my comment was deemed "possibly offensive" and hidden. To which I responded with a screenshot of my previous comment saying "Facebook clearly doesn't like me commenting on her dating life.
And THAT landed me in Facebook jail.
For fucks sake, it's not even hate speech. It's so stupid.
An yes, men, the most targeted, vulnerable group.
I'm glad I don't do social media
Dafuq? Is someone deliberately reporting all your messages to troll you or something?
I honestly have no idea. I received the reports almost instantly after posting, so I'm thinking they're automatic somehow.
That's how I got sent to twitter jail. Way too fast for a human to catch and report.
I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate having to find new doctors. I hate not knowing if they're going to be any good or not. I hate when someone tells me about a great doctor, and they don't take my insurance. I hate my insurance giving me a listing of doctors, and at least 50% of the practices don't exist anymore. And I hate that I have to do all of this because my old optometrist ...retired? I think? and someone really shifty took over his practice.
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Oh man, tell me about it. My last GP apparently got his license yanked for overprescribing ADHD meds. *I* never had a problem with them, and he never tried to tell me I had ADHD even though an argument probably could be made that I do. But the process of finding a new doc was so onerous I haven't done it - in like 7 years. I just go to urgent care clinics when I get sick. Seems to work out for me. Not that that's a viable optometrist solution of course.
Honestly, I've done the same thing for certain GP cases, but part of that was because the urgent care places were open when my GP wasn't. If I just wanted to get more contacts, I could just go anywhere, but my eye has been watering a lot lately, and I want to have it checked.
I nearly cried when my pain specialist retired. He was awesome and the wait to get into any pain clinic is insane. Sometimes it’s four years!
I lucked out and the new doctor is also good. He is doing a more aggressive treatment next time too which I have high hopes for.
I lucked out and the new doctor is also good. He is doing a more aggressive treatment next time too which I have high hopes for.
I’ve been feeling yuck since I did my injection, but that happens often so I didn’t think much of it. It got worse and I’ve been up all night super gross. I’m busy at work, but I can’t speak with my throat like this 
