Please share your struggle of the day

[seagrams hotsauce]

Gotta quit my job but I'm unsure how to do so tactfully. "yeah, I'm giving you my two weeks. Oh, why? Uh, your employees drop 'distinguished black fellow' a little too casually for my tastes. Can I get the reference?

[bork]

Why do you have to give them a reason?  Or why not just say you have to move or something? 

[Kara]

Why is it that when someone else handles dropping off my business packages the failure to deliver rate somehow magically climbs above the failure rate when I handle my business mailing myself (0%)?

Depend on other people brehs. They definitely don't let you down.

[Joe Molotov]

there was free food that I missed out on

The real struggle begins here.

[bork]

Am on the train right now.  This large group of people from all over the world got on.  Noisy as hell.  Am currently squished in my seat by some Euro guy wearing entirely too small bicyle shorts, showing off his legs to everyone with his knees up, and listening to some kid asking the Japanese people if they knew about Big Hero 6.

Aaand they just got off as I finished typing this.

[StealthFan]

Come see me in Simi Valley breh. You can see how fat I am.

[Phoenix Dark]

Come see me in Simi Valley breh. You can see how fat I am.

I might visit Cali later this year...

[Tasty]

I'm thinking of going to Fox & Hound. I always wanted to drink at a "British" pub.

Sorry Stealth, looks I'm babysitting while I'm here

There's a place like that here called Elephant & Castle that I love.

[CatsCatsCats]

So I was just accused of having asperger syndrome by someone close to me -- how do I know if they're right?

[Joe Molotov]

We're all a little spectrummy here.

[Atramental]

Some more than others. 

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[CatsCatsCats]

I found some online prescreen thing, but didn't follow through with it because it relies on self assessment. I never feel strongly enough to answer strongly agree or disagree.

[nudemacusers]

everyone should have that one topic or hobby in which their inner special fellow can flourish. IMO.

[Kara]

everyone should have that one topic or hobby in which their inner special fellow can flourish. IMO.

Flags.

[Atramental]

Typefaces. 

[Kara]

Typefaces. 

This is a good one. Even getting snobby about Arial is enough to make you a pariah.

[dkdk]

i'm not even 6 weeks into the new salary/bonus i'm getting and these motherfuckers already have buyers remorse 
i guess they never expected i'd put in the work to earn the hypothetical bonuses they were throwing around.

they trying to get me to take some new funny money deal that'd basically undo my raise. these motherfuckers pick the weirdest shit to worry about and they wonder why they can't make any money.

[Atramental]

Typefaces. 

This is a good one. Even getting snobby about Arial is enough to make you a pariah.

Arial

  Helvetica (it's now passé because hipsters ran it into the fucking ground by using it so much)

Adelle Sans 

Ideal Sans 

[jakefromstatefarm]

while walking across campus I cut off a girl in an intersection who, knowing she was within earshot, then retorted "Get out of my way..."


brb cutting myself

[Kara]

If you don't want to be cut off then you shouldn't be sauntering along.

[suppadoopa]

Where do you work? It sounds pretty chill.

I work in a print shop. It is pretty chill. Get paid printing out/helping design posters, business cards, etc

Flags.

shieet, I'd be down. I used to collect flags from every state and country I've visited.

[nudemacusers]

slow moving pedestrians 

slow moving young pedestrians 

[Kara]

shieet, I'd be down. I used to collect flags from every state and country I've visited.

Bore class of 2015, GOAT.

[Kara]

Today I found out that not only is there a California license plate A6MZERO registered to a late model Mitsubishi Eclipse with an embarrassingly oversized aftermarket spoiler but that I remember the model numbers of Imperial Japanese combat aircraft despite not having been terribly interested in this subject matter since childhood.

And because I'm not crazy enough, in the post office I noticed someone repping the Bf 109 on their t-shirt and then made a connection between this and the Mitsu I saw on the road.

For the love of god someone please lobotomize me.

[Tasty]

No surprise to anybody but I'm a bit spergy myself. I'll tell you to do as I do, don't give a give a fuck and do your thing.

Yep, same. Dat compulsion to catch all 721 Pokemon and complete the catalog in Animal Crossing...

[brawndolicious]

Ordered xfinity for Internet and picked up a little ubee modem that I've never used and apparently wasn't like their normal ones that also act as a hotspot/have WiFi, so I go to Frys and get a linksys thing that looked good online and after I pick it up one of the employees takes me aside to check it in for the commission (whatever), after which he lets me go to the checkout line and I finally get home with everything I need by 9:30PM. I set up the router but it keeps getting a problem with activating the Internet connection so I decided to just call comcast rather than troubleshoot.

They provided enough help and attention to my problem to suggest that I call ubee as they would know more about the equipment and could help me. I look on the ubee website for a number and it specifically says that they don't do technical support since they only sell equipment to ISPs and that users should call comcast if they have any problems.

So I call back comcast at 10:05PM and I get a robot telling me that customer service shuts down at 1AM....eastern. I called Ms Robot a motherfucking fucker and now I'm eating some pizza.

[benjipwns]

They provided enough help and attention to my problem to suggest that I call ubee as they would know more about the equipment and could help me. I look on the ubee website for a number and it specifically says that they don't do technical support since they only sell equipment to ISPs and that users should call comcast if they have any problems.

[Kara]

Eating pizza is a good solution to life problems imo.

[Cerveza mas fina]

So I'm in LA and finished my passport shit in 30 minutes as I landed. Sweet, right?

Wrong. My brother somehow decided this is the worst day of his life and that he hates LA while only being here for 3 hours

Dude's passive aggressive shit and getting angry over petty shit is getting on my last nerve. Sure the cab drivers we used suck, but overall today is a W in every way. Our biggest issue is solved in 30 minutes when we expected 3 full days for it and we get 3 days of chilling in Hollywood in a good hotel all paid for by my dad instead of having to pack. Which we already did and whatever else is there we have 4 days to get done anyway.

I've given him multiple passes for his primadonna antics. He's my brother, you know? But after it's been confirmed that I don't have any issues anymore, in less than a fucking hour. Where I can just chill for these few days and have some fun for the past shitty week. And I'm not even paying for anything, it's being paid for me as a belated birthday gift. And you decided to ruin it by being a cunt ass bitch? Fuck you. I'm happy I won't be living with your whiny, bitch made ass anymore. Fuck you for ruining this and trying to blame my dad for trying to help me out for once.

tl;dr
My brother sucks.

Next time take me to LA on your dads expenses bro.

[Kara]

Vularai, do you know of a good pizza place in north hollywood?

The only good thing in NoHo is Game Dude.

[benjipwns]

Eating pizza is a good solution to life problems imo.

I was waiting to eat a pizza and I got banned from GAF. Hypothesis confirmed. Will put regression and data in appendix.

[Kara]

I wanted pizza earlier but the commune was watching Bravo in the living room and I didn't want to say something like, "Watch out for that four day old Slim Jim wrapper on the lawn on  your way out," to the delivery person so I just worked out instead. Now I'm eating dollar store cereal in bed alone. The struggle has never been more real.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Today was bonus day for my company and they fucked it up. Now I gotta go back and say, "Hey! You shorted me x amount!" and fight for it. I hate having to fight for what I've already earned.

Also, the tax rate on bonuses

[Brehvolution]

At least you get a bonus. Our profit sharing goes straight to the 401k which, I assume, is to avoid the taxes on both the employer and employee. It would be nice to get some extra cash sometimes though.

[Cerveza mas fina]

I thought I was doing meh at work cause me boss wanted to talk about performance

Yet I got a nice bonus

 

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I usually just move as much of my bonus as I can into my 401k.  Fuck losing 40-50% of it to taxes.

[Kara]

Unless you have some interesting predictions about the direction of tax policy, pretax retirement contributions for anyone younger than... let's say 45... are bad life decisions.

[CatsCatsCats]

Explicame tax bro

[Kara]

Income tax rates are at historic lows, better to pay the tax on the income now and put it in a post-tax investment instrument.

Unless you think tax rates will hold or decline by the time you retire that is.

[CatsCatsCats]

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I have both pre-tax and post-tax investments.  I agree that what is in place in 2015 isn't going to be how things are in 2050.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Any kind of pension funds are scams, invest in brick and mortar bros.

[Tasty]

Yeah, this is untenable. Need to talk to the finance guy about this.

Paying hundreds of dollars to the government for taxes two years in a row is fucking awful.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Yeah, this is untenable. Need to talk to the finance guy about this.

Paying hundreds of dollars to the government for taxes two years in a row is fucking awful.

hundreds

[Kara]

Tax is a good area for "practical" economics. For example, generally speaking it's bad to get a tax refund (I'm not picking on anyone here when I say this) because you gave whatever tax authority that held the overpaid tax an interest free loan.

[Tasty]

Paying hundreds of dollars to the government for taxes two years in a row is fucking awful.

There truly is a conservative within every ninthing. Without fail

Lololol

No.

[Tasty]

Yeah, this is untenable. Need to talk to the finance guy about this.

Paying hundreds of dollars to the government for taxes two years in a row is fucking awful.

hundreds

On the flipside I'm getting a whopping $52 from my MA return.

[CatsCatsCats]

Tax is a good area for "practical" economics. For example, generally speaking it's bad to get a tax refund (I'm not picking on anyone here when I say this) because you gave whatever tax authority that held the overpaid tax an interest free loan.

One time I got the irs to pay me interest, I felt like a god.

(It was for my first time home buyer's credit)

[Kara]

The heavy duty hanger I use for my pea coat broke.  :'(

[Madrun Badrun]

Got egg in my beard.  Egg is among the hardest foods to get out of my bread. 

[nudemacusers]

The heavy duty hanger I use for my pea coat broke.  :'(

a good opportunity to by a new hanger. and pea coat.

[ToxicAdam]

I hate that. I only have 6 or 7 wood hangers and when they split it's always like an old friend died.

[nudemacusers]

heavy duty plastic with a little velvet plush > wood brehs. it is known.

[Kara]

The heavy duty hanger I use for my pea coat broke.  :'(

a good opportunity to by a new hanger. and pea coat.

Mine rules, though it could use some tailoring, I can't abandon it now.

[Madrun Badrun]

It broke the hanger.  It's already trying to abandon you.  Strike back.

[nudemacusers]

the relationship is over dude.

[Kara]

If I used abandonment as evidence of a relationship's end I'd have no relationships to speak of.

[Positive Touch]

read one too many arguments talking about what people "deserve" or are entitled to and caught the slightest of feels. so ashamed fbm

[Cerveza mas fina]

Velvet on hangers is gross

[nudemacusers]

it provides a nice gentle grip for suiting pants

If I used abandonment as evidence of a relationship's end I'd have no relationships to speak of.

well... do you?