minor inconveniences that are not struggles

[Crash Dummy]

pretty sure the shitty water here is killing my hairline, i'll be posting about full-blown alopecia in the struggle thread before long

[Joe Molotov]

Literally boarding a plane and an announcement comes on saying that today is the anniversary of 9/11 and to take a moment to remember the tragedy. It's the fourth. I guess this is it for me, guys. It's been swell.

9/4, never forget.

[Atramental]

YOU’RE GONNA CARRY THAT WEIGHT

[Madrun Badrun]

Pizza hut all you can eat with dessert pizzas as a kid made me who I am. 

[Atramental]

Now that I know that I’m genetically predisposed to get colon cancer the only pizza I can have now is the fake kind that vegans/vegetarians and people with celiac disease eat.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Now that I know that I’m genetically predisposed to get colon cancer the only pizza I can have now is the fake kind that vegans/vegetarians and people with celiac disease eat.

[Freaky Fred]

Want to post in the Bore "MLB 2018" thread, but it hasn't been bumped since May, so it doesnt seem like anyone would care to discuss baseball with me anyways.

Plus, I wouldn't have anything interesting to say

[team filler]

go dodgers!

[Mr Gilhaney]

TVC started using an avatar I use elsewhere, and every time I see his posts, I think they are mine and then go 'wait this isn't true, I never did this'.

[team filler]

put him on ignore 

[I'm a Puppy!]

Got passed up for a job I actually wanted. Other jobs I rejected because they weren't interesting or we weren't on the same page. But this one, I actually wanted.

[Joe Molotov]

put him on ignore 

Put yourself on ignore and live vicariously though TVC

[Madrun Badrun]

My dog got stung by something in the mouth.  Think i might have to go to the emergency vet

[I'm a Puppy!]

Flight from Milwaukee delayed and I'll miss my connection in O'hare by 30 minutes.
Airline: We'll put you on a bus to get to chicago in time
On the smelly bus for an hour  get a text
"Your flight from Chicago has been delayed for 2 hours."

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Now that I know that I’m genetically predisposed to get colon cancer the only pizza I can have now is the fake kind that vegans/vegetarians and people with celiac disease eat.

We're all going to die and there's no point in living past 70; those years suck ass anyway.  Eat the good (bad) pizza anyway.

[Rufus]

Agree about the quality of life past 70, but it seems like it might hit him well before then, though.

[Atramental]

Yeah, I'm still planning on making it to 50. 

[TVC15]

Life’s not worth living without real pizza. Gluten free pizza is godawful. You’ll forget about your health after trying to choke thar shit down. Besides, are you just going to be eating cheese pizza, because there aren’t many healthy and tasty pizza toppings. You won’t make it through two slices before dropping this foolish crusade.

Do you really want to live to be elderly? I love you, Atra, but who’s going to take care of you? If you’re eating pussy food like gluten free pizza, no woman will ever breed with you. Without a wife or children to help you when you’re old, you’re just going to end up in a crooked elderly home, getting molested by teenagers, or worse, homeless and crazy.

[Atramental]

I'm holding out for advanced cybernetics and cloned organs. Once those exist, I can become the geriatric cyberpunk I always dreamed of becoming.

[TVC15]

I'm holding out for advanced cybernetics and cloned organs. Once those exist, I can become the geriatric cyberpunk I always dreamed of becoming.

Global warming will make every living day miserable in the next 30 years or so. It’s not worth living through that. And if you do, you’ll live in an ever-worsening and depressing world as scarcity of key resources starts to seriously affect the first world. Live a life worth living now. Eat the goddamned real pizza.

Fuck, get extra pepperoni.

[Joe Molotov]

Now that I know that I’m genetically predisposed to get colon cancer the only pizza I can have now is the fake kind that vegans/vegetarians and people with celiac disease eat.

We're all going to die and there's no point in living past 70; those years suck ass anyway.  Eat the good (bad) pizza anyway.

Not sure if Bad Vibes Thread material or Good Vibes

[Rufus]

Having to keep an eye on disk access in task manager to see if Windows is actually updating still.

[team filler]

living past 50 is for queers

[team filler]

SUPERNOVA, BURN BRIGHT DIE YOUNG

this nicca gonna live to 150

[Atramental]

I had a chorizo quesadilla and a gin & tonic for lunch today. YOLO. 

[Raist]

SUPERNOVA, BURN BRIGHT DIE YOUNG

Supernovae are stars that reached the end of their (extremely long) life, you muppet.

[I'm a Puppy!]

I feel another breakdown coming on. Too much borked. Too little time to fix it. 

[Atramental]

I'm gonna be back to working 50 to 60 hour work weeks again if we don't get a 2nd production designer soon.

I swear to fuck if we go this whole year without hiring someone new I'm out of this death trap of a job beginning of 2019.

[team filler]

why would your employer pay a second salary when they can pay you to do the work of two or more people? 

[Atramental]

Also, our front developer already had to take herself to the ER this week.

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Doesn't help that she's morbidly obese. But still. 

[close]

[I'm a Puppy!]

No offense Atra, but the only thing keeping me here is that I have kids to feed, and even that is a tenuous reason. You're young and single. Why do this to yourself?

[Atramental]

Because I'm afraid that I'll end up somewhere worse or that I have to move to some expensive as fuck city where my pay will be higher but my standard of living will be a lot lower.

 

edit: for example, I could end up making $50K in Atlanta but living expenses would eat into a good chunk of my salary and I would end up scraping by like I do with my $30K salary in the small city I live in now. Also, I wouldn’t have the benefit of my current social connections (my brother allowing me to live out of his nice house, my friend that gets me weed, etc.) 

[Freaky Fred]

someone bumped the MLB 2018 thread, and I still don't have anything interesting to say in it

[brawndolicious]

I just remembered I got assigned to help somebody with a work project. Last update went:

Me: Okay so would you and the engineer be fine with xyz location for the sampling port?

Colleague: The ops plan states this and we should just follow it.

*pastes paragraph from ops plan*

Me: Yeah I wrote that paragraph as vaguely as possible because we didn't decide anything yet and we'll be held to whatever we submit to regulators. My suggestion is xyz location.

I haven't received a response in a week, is this the point where I'm allowed to burn the office to the ground?

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It feels like any decent project manager either becomes a consultant or move on to a different role.

[close]

[skullstorm]

Someone in my apartment building got a new dog that howls and cries everytime it's left alone and it goes on for an hour or two at a time and then it probably falls asleep but if someone makes a loud noise somewhere in the building the dog starts crying again    And it's so heartbreaking to hear! I feel like I should go feed it through the letter box like Elaine on Seinfeld...

If it wasn't my last week of hanging around with nothing to do at home all day I'd leave the owner a note that I can dogsit. Well, come next week I shouldn't hear it much anymore. Still feel bad for the doggo 

[Crash Dummy]

I just remembered I got assigned to help somebody with a work project. Last update went:

Me: Okay so would you and the engineer be fine with xyz location for the sampling port?

Colleague: The ops plan states this and we should just follow it.

*pastes paragraph from ops plan*

Me: Yeah I wrote that paragraph as vaguely as possible because we didn't decide anything yet and we'll be held to whatever we submit to regulators. My suggestion is xyz location.

I haven't received a response in a week, is this the point where I'm allowed to burn the office to the ground?

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It feels like any decent project manager either becomes a consultant or move on to a different role.

[close]

just respond with something like "since no one has objected, we will proceed with location xyz on dd/mm/yy, thanks." and take it from there

[Madrun Badrun]

Someone in my apartment building got a new dog that howls and cries everytime it's left alone and it goes on for an hour or two at a time and then it probably falls asleep but if someone makes a loud noise somewhere in the building the dog starts crying again    And it's so heartbreaking to hear! I feel like I should go feed it through the letter box like Elaine on Seinfeld...

If it wasn't my last week of hanging around with nothing to do at home all day I'd leave the owner a note that I can dogsit. Well, come next week I shouldn't hear it much anymore. Still feel bad for the doggo 

Drop them a letter, letting them know how bad it is.  Sometimes owners don't know. 

[skullstorm]

Yea I've wondered if they're even aware. Since it can last hours at a time they really should find a way to help the poor little guy.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Today was one of those days that the only choice I had was to let my rage fuel my work. It made for a productive day, but holy hell, I've left so much desolation behind me.

[Raist]

What did you do with the bodies?

[chronovore]

Sat at breakfast today, listening to my new BT earphones. I'd paired them to a tablet and my phone, and they'd done a pretty great job determining where they should be paying attention. Until this morning. It chimes and announces "disconnected" and "connected" with such frequency that I can't hear the podcast at all.

Like, considering I have a $25 pair of wireless headphones that connect effortlessly most of the time, and sound pretty good, it's embarrassing to complain about. Definitely a champagne problem. Didn't seem trivial at the moment though.

Today was one of those days that the only choice I had was to let my rage fuel my work. It made for a productive day, but holy hell, I've left so much desolation behind me.

Weird. That was looking like how it was going to go for me as well, but then I got sanity checked by one good fellow on my team. Seriously, I was starting to think I was going to have to supply the IT division with new orifices, the locations of which they would not be eligible to choose.

[TVC15]

Either my Sony or Bose wireless earbuds had that problem. It was too much for me

[Nabbis]

Cleaning root canals without a nurse is an astronomical pain in the ass.

[Brehvolution]

[chronovore]

Cleaning root canals without a nurse is an astronomical pain in the ass.

You're working the problem from the wrong end.

[I'm a Puppy!]

chronovore: The wisest of us all

[Nabbis]

Cleaning root canals without a nurse is an astronomical pain in the ass.

You're working the problem from the wrong end.

That ain't what yo moma said.

[CatsCatsCats]

[team filler]

waluigi over here can't handle some basic plumbing

[Yeti]

(Image removed from quote.)

yeah but his mom's sink was made with water megabloks

[benjipwns]

i was making a dumb post in the dumpster thread and remembered this that happened a while ago

department needs to replace its main first level statistics books because it's for outdated SPSS versions and nobody thought to ask the department before letting the license lapse, so they also started exploring other software packages for it

i found a book that covered like four or five of them that they have been considering including even R and was real good at basic teaching how to use them, the department rejected it because it didn't include anything on politics, all the examples were like counting oranges or bananas or apples or whatever

of course, the department wants to subscribe to some massive package rather than using, to pick a random one, SageMath as a GUI for R, even though none of the courses really do much you can't do with Excel's tools, and the licenses for this don't apply to the profs research anyway.

Someone has been promoting WINKS for years because they used it as an undergrad or grad or something at FSU I think, even though it's not technically Windows 10 (or 8 even) compatible and I don't even remember if it has Linux or Mac versions, BUT this image is literally on the WINKS homepage:

 

edit: winks page: https://www.texasoft.com/

[I'm a Puppy!]

Welp. I think the desolation I left earlier this week is nothing compared to the smoldering crater I've left today. It was a move you only hear about in shows and hushed rumors of things that happen to friends of friends.  They wanted a bus, I threw a nuke.  I'm on the verge of pulling the whole team. Up to executives now. 

Just goes to show, you treat people like dogs, you turn them into wolves.

[Joe Molotov]

I hope you at least gave a courtesy flush.

[Tasty]

I hope you at least gave a courtesy flush.

I thought this was about a giant shit for the first couple sentences too.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Welp. I think the desolation I left earlier this week is nothing compared to the smoldering crater I've left today. It was a move you only hear about in shows and hushed rumors of things that happen to friends of friends.  They wanted a bus, I threw a nuke.  I'm on the verge of pulling the whole team. Up to executives now. 

Just goes to show, you treat people like dogs, you turn them into wolves.

I'm missing so much context. Did you get a different job after you took that first hiatus? And the new company you moved to sucks?

Same company and client. I left things got worse while I was gone. I had enough.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Realizing you've finally hit adulthood when you get excited for the house to be empty not so you can jerk off or get high, but clean in peace 

This isn't the bad vibes thread

[Atramental]

If it's any consolation, you're just accelerating the inevitable death of most brick and mortar retail stores. 

[Valkyrie]

I’m starting to have sexual thoughts about my classmate.

[Rahxephon91]

It is really hard to score molly when all your friends are lame. I don't know anyone with a connection.

[chronovore]

Had a weekend at home with the family, took an early morning train back to my current place of employment, 4 hours in transit, and have worked a full day. Brain stopped working about 30 minutes ago. Not sure if I'm cut out to be away from my family for three weeks at a time. already thinking about how to move back to a local-to-home job.