Please share your struggle of the day

[CatsCatsCats]

As a young man, I find I'm never carded if I buy liquor before noon. They don't ask questions at that time of day, they don't wanna know

[Am_I_Anonymous]

As a young man, I find I'm never carded if I buy liquor before noon. They don't ask questions at that time of day, they don't wanna know

Ha, I grew up where if your ass went to the liquor store you got what you wanted. 15? No problem little brotha, here's your OE.

[Rufus]

Antipenultimate meant (in this context) 3 days left of an event, Rufus.

I really don't want to be a prescriptivist, but...

[CatsCatsCats]

Well the problem here is that it should be antepenultimate which makes sense, really.

[Kara]

Massive self-ownage. :'(

[Rufus]

It may very well have been, you people have no respect for vowels.

edit: Ha.

[kick51]

Massive self-ownage. :'(

not really that massive...that's likely the only time you will ever hear that word spoken and used in real life, outside of a "what are the most fucked up words" conversation 

[Kara]

For me it's massive.

Plus I'm famously anti-antediluvian (the word itself).

[Rufus]

Thinblood.

[Joe Molotov]

Massive self-ownage. :'(

Self-ownage is my antedrug.

[Kara]

Thinblood.

World of Darkness 1.0 was so #struggle for me, breh, you have no idea.

[nachobro]

A pan cookie sounds pretty good. Gonna have to try this out.

[Kara]

I really wish kombucha was something drunk primarily by people who legitimately like the taste of fermented beverages and not rubes predisposed to belief in pseudoscience. The market I buy it from is ground zero: Cacasaki and I think it's safe to say at least 50% of the children in there are unvaccinated. I sure am glad this raw, fermented beverage is made without GMO ingredients.

[CatsCatsCats]

That stuffs nasty, bro.

[Kara]

That stuffs nasty, bro.

I don't believe in a holy trinity, but something that lets me indulge my love of tea, raw food, and fermentation simultaneously is about as close as I'll ever come to that. :banderas

[chronovore]

I don't normally drink coffee, but had a cup last night after dinner at a friends birthday celebration.

Laid down around midnight. Still wide awake at 5 am. wtf never again coffee after noon

The older you get the later you can drink and still sleep

My wifes parents and my dad will drink coffee near midnight no problem

This is not true for me. I used to be able to drink coffee at any time, but now if I have it after 17:00, I’m doomed to a preternaturally long night.

[Kara]

Every fucking intern I try and spare the sack ends up getting sacked anyway because their stupidity is infinite and I am but a single miserable pile of secrets.

Care about other people y'all.

At least this one went out on a hilarious note.

[Madrun Badrun]

Ya when ever I try to spare someone the red dragon on my back makes me do it anyways. 

[Kara]

I like you, Arv. That's why when I write the Great Esperantine Novel I'm going to dedicate it to you.

[Madrun Badrun]

And when my brown shirts start burning books, I'll have them spare yours. 

[Positive Touch]

QUIT ASKING STUPID QUESTIONS WHEN THE DAMN TRAINING IS OVER WE'RE TRYING TO GO HOME

[nudemacusers]

my son just poured my sample of hermes ambre narguile all over his body

he does smell nice tho

[Madrun Badrun]

I'm sorry about your perfumed boy

[Kara]

And when my brown shirts start burning books, I'll have them spare yours.

Jedem das Seine.

[brawndolicious]

Took a near end of day shit break and finally got the stall that doesn't have the loose lock.

Somehow didn't lock it properly though, which I found out when a gentleman walked right in (handicap stall) to see me with my pants down browsing this forum and looking like a deer in headlights.

But it gave me the idea for disposable balaclavas, which can be useful in everything from office bathrooms to whore houses where the regular patrons don't want to know what each other is doing in there.

[Madrun Badrun]

'shit' break.  wink wink.

[Kara]

I don't know what to do with the balaclava I bought for my Christmas vacation. If it was disposable, I could have just thrown it away.

[Madrun Badrun]

Commit a murder, so you have an excuse to get rid of the evidence. 

[brawndolicious]

Go to a key party. There's a lot of those in OC right?

[Madrun Badrun]

You don't wear a balaclava during a key party.  A key party is not anonymous. 

[Kara]

Go to a key party. There's a lot of those in OC right?

Seems like something that would be popular outchea, but I already have enough social exposure risks.

Personal brands, they're so demonic, friends.

[Kara]

Netflix is recommending I watch Frasier.

[nudemacusers]

Netflix is recommending I watch Frasier.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

A few weeks ago my boss announced she was quitting at the end of the year.  She was lazy and incompetent so me and two of her other direct reports ran the department for her while she went out for Starbucks, fucked around on the internet all day, or just simply disappeared for hours a time with nobody knowing where she went.  I was delighted to hear that she recommended me to her boss (the VP) to take her place.  So naturally I applied.  I had two interviews and both seemed to go great.  Then I heard that some asshole from another department that isn't even tangentially related to mine wanted to make a lateral move into the position.  Overnight prospects went from great to shit.  Naturally I heard the bad news this week that they're going with this guy...who has absolutely no experience with the department.  He set up a meeting invitation late next week to talk about the department and he says he already has ideas.  Keep in mind he has no experience with engineering or operations whatsoever but already he has ideas.  I'm preparing for the worst.

Once I'm done with my MBA in the next few months, I think I'm ready to move on to another job.

As an update, this guy sucks ass.

Turns out, this guy and the VP started off working in the same year in the same department about 30 years ago.  He wound up starting on the 29th of December and was horrified to find that the VP would occasionally ask me or my peers for information.  His first declaration right away was that all communication gets routed through him first.  In my limited corporate experience, I have yet to experience one positive instance of closing off channels of communication.  Sure enough, it's only three weeks in and shit is already falling through the cracks.  The VP is making these requests still and it now gets routed through the Director.  Sometimes it gets to us, sometimes it doesn't.  The VP called one of the other managers in the group asking for a status update on something he never received.  Something simple became something urgent because the VP needed to talk to the state regulators and needed that information.  Since the original request was a few days before, it would have been no problem to pull together the information but in a few hours?  It was basically a chinese fire drill to pull it together.  The Director basically disappeared for the rest of the day: turned off his Lync, wouldn't answer anyone's calls, and wouldn't reply to anyone's e-mails.

I had a report that I put together and sent out on 12/15 to my old boss and the new one.  It is due on January 15th and required the director's approval and then the VP's.  On the original e-mail, since the guy was new, I stressed that it has a legal requirement to be in by that date.  I offered to walk him through the report, what we did, how we came up with the numbers, etc.  No response.  So once a week in December, I sent a reminder e-mail about the report, again stressing the due date, offering to meet with him to go over the report.  Nothing.  So about every other day, I called or e-mailed asking for the status and I wouldn't hear anything.  So this morning, our internal compliance staff sent out an e-mail asking why this report hasn't been signed and logged into our data retention system.  Within a minute, the Director, copying in the VP, myself, and a couple others, said he never received anything on the matter but was going to make it a priority to get it done today.  So I responded and attached the old e-mails I sent to him, saying that he received the report on December 15th and received several reminders.  Within a minute or two of sending that e-mail out, I got a call from my boss, one of the few times he's returned my calls, "Uh yeah, I guess I did receive it.  Uh, can you tell me what this report is about?"  About 1:30 today, everything got signed and entered and the panic was over.

I might need to move on to another job sooner than I thought.

Some positive news, my boss on Friday let it be known to us that he put in a request to go back to his old position.  That's right, after six weeks of doing the job, he's tapping out already.  This is pretty unheard of but the guy is extremely connected to the VP and other senior management (which is how he got the job in the first place) so I'm guessing they would be more likely to take his request more seriously.  Fortunately for this guy, they still haven't filled his old position (our corporate bureaucracy is like molasses on a cold day) so it is possible.  If they were to go through with this request, due to said bureaucracy, it may be 1-2 months until it goes through in which case maybe they will repost the position.  Am I a big enough masochist to go through the whole process again?  We'll see.  Knowing my luck, they will either deny the transfer request or fill in the job with some other dickhead.

As a final update, it turns out that my boss's request was denied.  Turns out his previous position was basically filled and they weren't going to tell the replacement that he/she was SOL even though they made an offer to them that they accepted.  My boss has handled this by basically doing as little work as possible: won't respond to e-mails, won't return your calls, and attends meetings but is a passive contributor which by that I mean he only says anything if he gets asked a question.  We've started conversing directly with the VP again if there are issues.

This is a job that pays about $250,000 and it's in the midwest so it's about a $400,000-500,000 equivalent job out in the Bay Area.  I can't see this turning out well for this guy but I'm still pissed that they chose this dingleberry over me.  I've made the arrangements for my final semester of my MBA and then I'm gone.  Fuck this!

[Madrun Badrun]

Snooze didn't go off and so instead of staying in bed for an extra 20min I stayed in bed for an extra 3 hours.

[I'm a Puppy!]

A few weeks ago my boss announced she was quitting at the end of the year.  She was lazy and incompetent so me and two of her other direct reports ran the department for her while she went out for Starbucks, fucked around on the internet all day, or just simply disappeared for hours a time with nobody knowing where she went.  I was delighted to hear that she recommended me to her boss (the VP) to take her place.  So naturally I applied.  I had two interviews and both seemed to go great.  Then I heard that some asshole from another department that isn't even tangentially related to mine wanted to make a lateral move into the position.  Overnight prospects went from great to shit.  Naturally I heard the bad news this week that they're going with this guy...who has absolutely no experience with the department.  He set up a meeting invitation late next week to talk about the department and he says he already has ideas.  Keep in mind he has no experience with engineering or operations whatsoever but already he has ideas.  I'm preparing for the worst.

Once I'm done with my MBA in the next few months, I think I'm ready to move on to another job.

As an update, this guy sucks ass.

Turns out, this guy and the VP started off working in the same year in the same department about 30 years ago.  He wound up starting on the 29th of December and was horrified to find that the VP would occasionally ask me or my peers for information.  His first declaration right away was that all communication gets routed through him first.  In my limited corporate experience, I have yet to experience one positive instance of closing off channels of communication.  Sure enough, it's only three weeks in and shit is already falling through the cracks.  The VP is making these requests still and it now gets routed through the Director.  Sometimes it gets to us, sometimes it doesn't.  The VP called one of the other managers in the group asking for a status update on something he never received.  Something simple became something urgent because the VP needed to talk to the state regulators and needed that information.  Since the original request was a few days before, it would have been no problem to pull together the information but in a few hours?  It was basically a chinese fire drill to pull it together.  The Director basically disappeared for the rest of the day: turned off his Lync, wouldn't answer anyone's calls, and wouldn't reply to anyone's e-mails.

I had a report that I put together and sent out on 12/15 to my old boss and the new one.  It is due on January 15th and required the director's approval and then the VP's.  On the original e-mail, since the guy was new, I stressed that it has a legal requirement to be in by that date.  I offered to walk him through the report, what we did, how we came up with the numbers, etc.  No response.  So once a week in December, I sent a reminder e-mail about the report, again stressing the due date, offering to meet with him to go over the report.  Nothing.  So about every other day, I called or e-mailed asking for the status and I wouldn't hear anything.  So this morning, our internal compliance staff sent out an e-mail asking why this report hasn't been signed and logged into our data retention system.  Within a minute, the Director, copying in the VP, myself, and a couple others, said he never received anything on the matter but was going to make it a priority to get it done today.  So I responded and attached the old e-mails I sent to him, saying that he received the report on December 15th and received several reminders.  Within a minute or two of sending that e-mail out, I got a call from my boss, one of the few times he's returned my calls, "Uh yeah, I guess I did receive it.  Uh, can you tell me what this report is about?"  About 1:30 today, everything got signed and entered and the panic was over.

I might need to move on to another job sooner than I thought.

Some positive news, my boss on Friday let it be known to us that he put in a request to go back to his old position.  That's right, after six weeks of doing the job, he's tapping out already.  This is pretty unheard of but the guy is extremely connected to the VP and other senior management (which is how he got the job in the first place) so I'm guessing they would be more likely to take his request more seriously.  Fortunately for this guy, they still haven't filled his old position (our corporate bureaucracy is like molasses on a cold day) so it is possible.  If they were to go through with this request, due to said bureaucracy, it may be 1-2 months until it goes through in which case maybe they will repost the position.  Am I a big enough masochist to go through the whole process again?  We'll see.  Knowing my luck, they will either deny the transfer request or fill in the job with some other dickhead.

As a final update, it turns out that my boss's request was denied.  Turns out his previous position was basically filled and they weren't going to tell the replacement that he/she was SOL even though they made an offer to them that they accepted.  My boss has handled this by basically doing as little work as possible: won't respond to e-mails, won't return your calls, and attends meetings but is a passive contributor which by that I mean he only says anything if he gets asked a question.  We've started conversing directly with the VP again if there are issues.

This is a job that pays about $250,000 and it's in the midwest so it's about a $400,000-500,000 equivalent job out in the Bay Area.  I can't see this turning out well for this guy but I'm still pissed that they chose this dingleberry over me.  I've made the arrangements for my final semester of my MBA and then I'm gone.  Fuck this!

You'd be surprised at how often this tactic actually works.  I don't know why it does. But in many many companies it does.

[Kara]

A septuagenarian Hungarian man harassed me in Esperanto.

[Madrun Badrun]

[Rufus]

Bringing peoples together.

[Huff]

Got talked into going to a bar to watch the fight tonight by a cute jewish girl who will be a bud light girl there for an hour before she has to go to a different bar to do the same thing.

Going alone to a bar to watch a sport I give no shits about to potentially talk to a girl isn't high up on my list of things to do tonight. But I do love jewish girls. So I'm in.

[Kara]

Mazel tov.

[Phoenix Dark]

Got a haircut and my barber kind of fucked me up. I have natural waves, so when my hair is super short it looks like I have bald spots. Because of this I ask for slightly longer cuts. Well today he went low enough to make it look patchy, especially on such a sunny day. To make matters worse he didn't even use the brush thingie to brush the hair off my face.


An hour later I went to my favorite local taco place and experienced two more struggles. The tortillas were rather stale - they didn't taste stale but felt stale, which really annoyed me. I also ordered some chips n salsa and the salsa they gave me was too chunky. Maybe they changed their recipe or something because this one isn't nearly as good (or spicy) as the previous one.


I also forgot to mention that I tried going to my bank's ATM to get some money for the barber but it was under repair, so I had to use another bank's ATM and received a $4 fee.

[chronovore]

I'm sorry about your perfumed boy

Surprisingly, you’ve stumbled upon Nudemacusers’ pet name for his featured element at tumescent rest.

[tiesto]

Ugh... went with friends to NJ for retro game hunting... we went to this store in downtown Newark, and I parked on a back street... which apparently was handicapped parking. But the lines weren't blue (well, what you could see of the lines due to the snow). So I got a ticket with a "court appearance required" on it, and no dollar amount when I go to the traffic violations website, so I can't pay it online.

My court date is in 2 weeks but I live about 2.5 hours away from Newark, and am really NOT itching to go back there. Anybody on here have any advice on what to do? I was thinking of calling the traffic violations bureau and explain the situation, and say "I'd rather just pay just so I don't have to take off a work day to head down to NJ to fight it".

[StealthFan]

[Kara]

I need a copy of that book.

[chronovore]

Using an online learning site, the course instructor is making all manner of common grammatical mistakes, and my OCD is focusing on them instead of the subject matter.

[Kara]

I had a philosophical argument with myself about whether gratitude was a state of being or a thing (which would make it logically able to take an accusative case).

I hadn't even got out of bed, either.

[Rufus]

It's a noun and can be an adjective and even an adverb. There you go.

[TakingBackSunday]

prepping my résumé to find a new job.  My new leadership role has been completely undermined by my CTO and ownership.  All advice and direction I've advocated for the sanity of our workforce and success of our new product launch has been completely ignored for a "more projects now!" approach.  When I came to terms with that, my advice to increase our resources/staff to compensate for the workload has fallen on deaf ears.  My time estimates have been scoffed at, my intuition is seen as hesitation, and they finally hired a new project manager to oversee things along with me.

Fuck that.  I'm out.  I can't be a part of a company that hires me to do something then doesn't listen to the thing they told me to do.  I'm not gonna become a yes man and desert the needs of my developers.

[Kara]

It's a noun and can be an adjective and even an adverb. There you go.

I more or less came to this conclusion in the shower, compounding my struggle for the day.

I like that "thank you" is an adverb in Arabic (albeit with the caveat that the verb it's modifying more or less doesn't exist in the present tense ) and think that's the most logical way of viewing it, doe.

[kick51]

loud mofo upstairs moved out yesterday, was very happy to get a good night's sleep.  the new people started moving in first thing this morning    they might be quieter though, already seem less foot-stompy

[Rufus]

I like that "thank you" is an adverb in Arabic (albeit with the caveat that the verb it's modifying more or less doesn't exist in the present tense ) and think that's the most logical way of viewing it, doe.

That's odd.

[Kara]

TBH, once you get used to it you wonder why we waste so much energy conjugating "to be" in other languages since things that are are rather evident.

[Madrun Badrun]

Did you spit on him?  Or was there a line?

[Madrun Badrun]

So, if I read that right, people can tell you enjoy a good cock just from some eye contact?  You got a gay-wink thing going on?  Eyes that say you're looking for some sailors. 

[chronovore]

prepping my résumé to find a new job.  My new leadership role has been completely undermined by my CTO and ownership.  All advice and direction I've advocated for the sanity of our workforce and success of our new product launch has been completely ignored for a "more projects now!" approach.  When I came to terms with that, my advice to increase our resources/staff to compensate for the workload has fallen on deaf ears.  My time estimates have been scoffed at, my intuition is seen as hesitation, and they finally hired a new project manager to oversee things along with me.

Fuck that.  I'm out.  I can't be a part of a company that hires me to do something then doesn't listen to the thing they told me to do.  I'm not gonna become a yes man and desert the needs of my developers.

It sounds a lot like a company which is about to run out of money.

[Atramental]

Hrrrrmm.... I sense a work related shit storm on the horizon.

*braces self*

[Kara]

Someone thought it was novel (no pun intended, ugh) that I was reading in a cafe that fashions itself counterculture DESPITE THERE BEING A FUCKING BABY SHOWER THERE THIS MORNING FUCK YOU CACS AND CACABES and asked to take my picture. Posed. I was literally a poser, and possibly a poseur. Now I know how the caged bird sings those French girls felt.

On a related note, I was wearing a shirt that had I known I would be photographed like an animal at the zoo while wearing, I would not have worn. With my luck this picture will become some Facebook meme like "hey check this out. people read. books. :deadpos".

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

prepping my résumé to find a new job.  My new leadership role has been completely undermined by my CTO and ownership.  All advice and direction I've advocated for the sanity of our workforce and success of our new product launch has been completely ignored for a "more projects now!" approach.  When I came to terms with that, my advice to increase our resources/staff to compensate for the workload has fallen on deaf ears.  My time estimates have been scoffed at, my intuition is seen as hesitation, and they finally hired a new project manager to oversee things along with me.

Fuck that.  I'm out.  I can't be a part of a company that hires me to do something then doesn't listen to the thing they told me to do.  I'm not gonna become a yes man and desert the needs of my developers.

Welcome to lower/middle management.  You find that you have almost no authority but almost all of the responsibility.  You usually need to get to the next stage of management before you can actually enact the change you want.