Author Topic: Random talk thread: It just keeps happening (Read 4294762 times)

Himu · « **Reply #8700 on:** July 17, 2011, 01:47:16 AM »

It's not only games, he stole dvds/blurays as well. And he took that I very much WILL play again but that's not the point. The point is that he had the audacity to swipe my shit. That's MY stuff. I believe he took my dad's watch as well, though I can't prove it (yet). The fact we're family makes it even worse.

Diunx · « **Reply #8701 on:** July 17, 2011, 01:51:41 AM »

Tell his mum, seriously.

lennedsay · « **Reply #8702 on:** July 17, 2011, 03:12:19 AM »

Quote from: Stringer Bell on July 16, 2011, 09:39:53 PM

for 360? No, it didn't.

Well then that's your first mistake. You could've been bitching right now about someone stealing your physical copy. But here you are, like a dirty poor with only one copy and it's gone AWOL.

Himu · « **Reply #8703 on:** July 17, 2011, 03:13:37 AM »

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #8704 on:** July 17, 2011, 02:12:58 PM »

So my grandma's party was yesterday. My cousin and her fiance stayed at my parents house, and shortly after they got there my dad texted me "her fiance is *ex's name*." That confused me and when I texted back he didn't respond. When I met my parents at my grandma's house later that day I understood what he meant. Her fiance dresses and acts EXACTLY like her ex. Has the whole "grown man in his 30s dressing like a teenager" urban attire look (baggy polo shirt, baggy jeans, baseball hat over wave cap, etc). He's also cross eyed and has messed up teeth.

But he was REALLY cool, I liked him immediately after talking to him a bit. He sat in the back yard with me and my other cousin talking about music, sports, etc. Plus while discussing non hip-hop related music, he uttered the most profound statement I've heard all year: "The Pet Shop Boys had more swagger than any nicca in the 80s, no doubt. They were so hood they didn't look in the camera in their music video." I gave him dap to officially welcome him into the family.

I kinda felt bad for him because one of my uncles kept staring at him, but he seemed to brush it off.

Anyway I got my cousin a card and the third season of The Wire; it's her favorite show and she didn't have it, so yeah; dunno how whether that counts as a good wedding gift or not, but she liked it. Still, she was acting so...weird throughout the party. She didn't help cook anything but felt the need to supervise everything, and at one point told my brother "don't ruin the party, just cook the meat" because he was talking to someone while turning steaks on the grill. smh...

Brehvolution · « **Reply #8705 on:** July 17, 2011, 03:20:06 PM »

The summer isn't even half over and I'm sick of hot dogs and hamburgers already.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #8706 on:** July 17, 2011, 09:49:59 PM »

shit accidently went into the unmarked spoiler thread for ADWD

Diunx · « **Reply #8707 on:** July 17, 2011, 10:17:31 PM »

smh, I don't even enter the marked one.

Skidmark · « **Reply #8708 on:** July 17, 2011, 10:26:56 PM »

I'm hammered. Just cleaned a laptop's fan, had to remove all the harware parts including the motherbord to reomve some dust. But I managed to droped the temp from 90 C to 40 C. MIssion succesfull. Shall I upload some pics`?

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #8709 on:** July 18, 2011, 01:35:20 AM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on July 17, 2011, 02:12:58 PM

Still, she was acting so...weird throughout the party. She didn't help cook anything but felt the need to supervise everything, and at one point told my brother "don't ruin the party, just cook the meat" because he was talking to someone while turning steaks on the grill. smh...

Oh no! There goes Michigan, go go Bridezilla. Yeaaah yeaah.

Himu · « **Reply #8710 on:** July 18, 2011, 01:39:38 AM »

women who turn their weddings into entitlement parties are the fucking worst.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #8711 on:** July 18, 2011, 07:47:55 AM »

A girl I've been sitting on the bus with for a year turned out to work in a strip club.

MCD · « **Reply #8712 on:** July 18, 2011, 08:04:23 AM »

Near death experience sure sucks on the road.

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #8713 on:** July 18, 2011, 08:36:34 AM »

Quote from: Premium Lager on July 18, 2011, 07:47:55 AM

A girl I've been sitting on the bus with for a year turned out to work in a strip club.

Did you find that out from talking to her or from going to the strip club?

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #8714 on:** July 18, 2011, 09:44:12 AM »

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #8715 on:** July 18, 2011, 02:46:27 PM »

Quote from: Stringer Bell on July 18, 2011, 01:39:38 AM

women who turn their weddings into entitlement parties are the fucking worst.

So... you get your stuff back?

Himu · « **Reply #8716 on:** July 18, 2011, 02:53:35 PM »

No, they were out of town so I didn't go to their house but I've contacted his mom (my cousin).

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #8717 on:** July 18, 2011, 02:54:05 PM »

I musta missed this, what's the story?

demi · « **Reply #8718 on:** July 18, 2011, 02:54:44 PM »

nicca stole his games

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #8719 on:** July 18, 2011, 03:06:09 PM »

Ah just read the posts. Holy shit. He's going to deny everything, you'd need to catch him in the act or prove without a doubt he stole it.

Does your dad suspect he stole his watch? If so you might want to talk to him about this

Himu · « **Reply #8720 on:** July 18, 2011, 03:26:24 PM »

I've already talked to my dad about it. He's neutral on it, though he's trying to get down to the bottom of it as well.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #8721 on:** July 18, 2011, 08:50:46 PM »

Pet Shop Boys

Quote from: Spencer on July 17, 2011, 02:24:46 PM

~~Some~~ Most girls just turn weddings into entitlement parties. Don't be surprised if this one isn't her last.

fixt

Reb · « **Reply #8722 on:** July 19, 2011, 04:40:14 AM »

My old boss put out a job listing for a management trainee, when he was looking for a secretary.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #8723 on:** July 19, 2011, 05:17:12 AM »

Borders is done, for good. My first job, where I worked at four three and a half years. It's odd, honestly. The corporate structure of Borders was absolutely abysmal, but everyone that I worked with were good people. All nice, all well-meaning, all fun to chat with. I was usually apart of the late shift, and everyone during that shift was the best. All college kids and late 20 something managers who just used the intercom to fuck around with the customers. It was fun a lot of the times. Sad to see some of those people lose their jobs.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #8724 on:** July 19, 2011, 06:52:47 AM »

There's a lot of bait and switch regarding the term "management" because of the potential ego boosts of the applicants who want a management position and therefore you get more applicants (and probably better qualified applicants). Better than putting down "secretary" or "administrative assistant," which the latter was most likely created because people didn't want to apply to be a secretary.

Fun fact: A HR representative at the company I work for stated that they've received more than double the applicants by hinting at being at management or having potential to go into management.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #8725 on:** July 19, 2011, 07:25:21 AM »

What happened BN?

Reb · « **Reply #8726 on:** July 19, 2011, 07:31:43 AM »

Quote from: AWESOM-O on July 19, 2011, 06:02:38 AM

Quote from: Rebiak on July 19, 2011, 04:40:14 AM
My old boss put out a job listing for a management trainee, when he was looking for a secretary.

Did he/she ever get a chance to train for management?

Haha no, she answer a lot of phonecalls from management though.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #8727 on:** July 19, 2011, 07:37:29 AM »

http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/18/news/companies/borders_liquidation/?hpt=hp_t2

Basically, shit's done. I hated working for them, but I certainly loved working with the actual people at the stores. It's retail so obviously it sucked but fuck if it wasn't fun at times. I was a book seller, cashier, and barista in the built-in Starbucks, and I met quite a few cool people there. My best friend joined the same week I did and worked there until this happened. It's a shame, she really liked it. Also, one of my managers was a 67 year old retired Spanish teacher who kept on leaving to pursue other interests but would always seem to inch back to the store to take up his job again. I'm concerned what he's going to do now. Nicest guy I've ever met, and truly the type of person who will probably be most affected by this. There was another guy who was like 32 who worked in the café with me who spent his entire twenties living in Brooklyn and playing for several hardcore bands there in that scene. He was friends with the Black Keys guys. I always asked him what the fuck he was even doing working there.

Oh well, everyone saw it coming for years. Just had to happen eventually, and I sincerely hope all my friends who worked there had some sort of backup plan. Christ, I'd probably laugh at them if they didn't. Nothing more embarrassing than being on the shit-end of the stick, ball-licking for a sinking ship.

BlackMage · « **Reply #8728 on:** July 19, 2011, 08:19:56 AM »

Yeah, I worked for Borders for 2 years back in the day. I was in charge of Magazines. It was the easiest job I ever had, and the people who worked there were awesome. In fact, most of my friends are ex-borders employees.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #8729 on:** July 19, 2011, 08:49:20 AM »

Yeah it was a pretty piss easy job if they shoved me in the back of the store in charge of movies. As little customer contact as possible. Fuck I hate people.

It was pretty stressful when we had to do inventory though. Thank god retail is not my profession, I wouldn't handle all the shitty things that go hand in hand with that sort of job. Terrible schedule, awful people, shitty corporate overhead...yuck

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #8730 on:** July 19, 2011, 08:56:09 AM »

I never want to work in retail again. Unless its my own store or something.

Don Flamenco · « **Reply #8731 on:** July 19, 2011, 11:13:09 AM »

Quote

Welcome to liberal arts major jobs in the post-recession world, bitch!

ok, it's bad out there, but not so bad that you have to work for a pyramid scheme. Those things are scams, not jobs.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #8732 on:** July 19, 2011, 03:22:39 PM »

had my array bounds messed up so the whole thing gets skewed. Love when that happens.

chronovore · « **Reply #8733 on:** July 19, 2011, 05:24:44 PM »

Quote from: Premium Lager on July 15, 2011, 05:21:12 AM

The secret not to be friendzoned is to friendzone them first.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Then they will give everything up
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This is so true.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #8734 on:** July 20, 2011, 03:37:07 AM »

Can I have a fast forward button please?

Himu · « **Reply #8735 on:** July 20, 2011, 03:41:02 AM »

I'm getting close to my boiling point. If I don't get a job before year's end, I'm joining the military. If I can't join the military, I'm doing one of those English teaching jobs overseas, because fuck it, America can suck it.

Wow, that rhymed.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #8736 on:** July 20, 2011, 03:43:47 AM »

You should do one of those teaching jobs anyways. Have some laughs man.

chronovore · « **Reply #8737 on:** July 20, 2011, 05:03:33 AM »

My first English teaching job in Japan was the worst job I ever had in my life. The second one was the cushiest cakewalk I ever had. Have fun, Himumu!

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #8738 on:** July 20, 2011, 05:31:50 AM »

Fucking native speakers. So unfair I couldn't teach in Korea/Japan.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #8739 on:** July 20, 2011, 03:13:42 PM »

listening to Ross Kemp on Gangs while at work. Good stuff.

Himu · « **Reply #8740 on:** July 20, 2011, 04:26:00 PM »

Quote from: chronovore on July 20, 2011, 05:03:33 AM

My first English teaching job in Japan was the worst job I ever had in my life. The second one was the cushiest cakewalk I ever had. Have fun, Himumu!

I'd prefer doing it in China.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #8741 on:** July 20, 2011, 04:29:46 PM »

I was all set to teach English in Japan via the JET program if I didn't get into graduate school after college. I always wonder how my life would've turned out if I did JET.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #8742 on:** July 20, 2011, 04:35:15 PM »

Roomates with Ichi. On the bright side there would probably be more pegging in your life.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #8743 on:** July 20, 2011, 05:49:31 PM »

The janitor, who has a thick African accent and is like four times my mass, just came in to sweep and asked me how to unlock an iphone. I didn't know so he just went to the next person in the lab and asked the same thing, lol.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #8744 on:** July 20, 2011, 09:23:49 PM »

You knew. $:-\$

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #8745 on:** July 20, 2011, 10:29:07 PM »

I don't. I've never even touched an iphone. I told him to google it and he said "and they will know?"

Himu · « **Reply #8746 on:** July 20, 2011, 10:41:48 PM »

smh arvie

Himu · « **Reply #8747 on:** July 20, 2011, 11:26:57 PM »

Give an update on Nami, Arvie.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #8748 on:** July 21, 2011, 12:00:19 AM »

She's doing good.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #8749 on:** July 21, 2011, 04:52:18 AM »

Im so angry I cant work.

chronovore · « **Reply #8750 on:** July 21, 2011, 05:00:58 AM »

Quote from: Premium Lager on July 20, 2011, 05:31:50 AM

Fucking native speakers. So unfair I couldn't teach in Korea/Japan.

In related news, the female population of Asia sleeps safely tonight.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #8751 on:** July 21, 2011, 05:08:50 AM »

Brehvolution · « **Reply #8752 on:** July 21, 2011, 12:54:48 PM »

17/hr is good pay for what you do, but I understand your frustration.

demi · « **Reply #8753 on:** July 21, 2011, 12:58:05 PM »

you should be glad you are even making 17/h considering if you leave you might not get another chance anywhere else in this poophole economy. it might be diff over in Oregon, of course. cause nobody lives in Oregon.

Bebpo · « **Reply #8754 on:** July 21, 2011, 01:16:07 PM »

Can you do some night classes after your work day? Or save up a bit, quit your job, and have your wife support you for a few years until you can get some training in what you want to do so you can make more money for both of you?

T234 · « **Reply #8755 on:** July 21, 2011, 01:43:11 PM »

I'll trade you jobs, Spencer!

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #8756 on:** July 21, 2011, 01:51:15 PM »

what are you actually interested in studying?

demi · « **Reply #8757 on:** July 21, 2011, 02:18:39 PM »

You are like 24 or something. Plenty of time... there are people in their 40s just now entering for the first time

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #8758 on:** July 21, 2011, 02:35:24 PM »

Yeah that sounds pretty familiar. I started taking college classes at 13 in math and CS, fucked up and never got a degree, although sadly in my case there wasn't a young woman involved.

I dunno if this is something that works in general or just a weird anomaly, but what eventually worked for me is doing a lot of CS study on my own and then getting a sort of semiskilled IT job, which was shitty but gave me the chance to gradually take on more programming responsibilities as they realized I could. Then the connections I made there helped me get better jobs, and eventually once you have enough experience it doesn't really matter so much whether you have a degree.

we should really hang out sometime.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #8759 on:** July 21, 2011, 02:36:39 PM »

Go back to school. Nothing as fun as doing compsci stuff 8 hours a day.

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Author Topic: Random talk thread: It just keeps happening (Read 4294762 times)