RL Anger

[Tinuviel]

@ganymede Thank you, but no. It's just a thing we have to wait out, really. It happens to the both of us, we're pros at dealing. But still, hit me like a tonne of bricks this morning.

[Roz]

Still struggling several months into my new job, and now my WORK WIFE IS LEAVING. ;________;

[Sparks]

@roz said in RL Anger:

Still struggling several months into my new job, and now my WORK WIFE IS LEAVING. ;________;

Oh, man, losing workspouse is one of the worst things. I'm so sorry, Roz.

[Deleted]

I lost my workspouse a few weeks ago. He got a better job. He was the alt-right peanut butter to my progressive socialist jam.

Now my co-worker I sit next to for 12 hours a day doesn't speak much English. Life is hard.

[Wizz]

@rnmissionrun said in RL Anger:

You'd think he would have had the common decency to say something to alert me to the problem on his way out but I as I recall, he left the store without even saying "thank you". To this day I have not let another customer use the employee restroom.

I worked at a K-Mart for a while because I clearly make great life decisions and one of my fondest memories was...similar. There was a family that came in pretty frequently, maybe every other day for a few months, a couple and their teenage daughter; they'd have these big explosive arguments in the electronics section I worked in basically every time they came in to shop. I was never really sure what they were arguing about because it would start outside and they'd bring it with them.

Anyway, one day the mother scrambles up in a panic asking me where the restroom is and I point it out, at the other end of the store, and she just runs in the direction I point. A couple of minutes later they call me to the front and point out that she has left a literal trail of poop behind her, flung out of the bottom of her pant legs. We followed the trail and it ended...I shit you not...in a pile of shirts the lady had pulled off the rack, to cover a massive dump she'd taken on the floor. We COULD NOT FIND THIS LADY, she was not in the bathrooms or anywhere in the building, she had basically just shat and fled. We never saw that family again and that was the last retail job I ever worked.

[Arkandel]

@wizz Okay what the fuck.

[Wizz]

@arkandel
I am not being at all facetious or hyperbolic when I say that was the incident that made me rethink my life up until that point and go apply to another industry.

But I hate to say, it really wasn't that unique. It was definitely the worst one I ever personally had to deal with, but working retail was fucking awful. People just act like animals, treat the properties they shop in with absolutely no respect, and treat you like you are not another human being.

[TwoGunBob]

Oh wow, flashback to working at a grocery store and having a jogger come in wearing a tank top and gym shorts. He basically asks where the bathroom is and RUNS down the aisle after he gets directions, "back of the store, left of the butcher block."
It's minutes later and there's a call because there's a streaking trail of diarrhea leading down the aisle and into the back, single stall, bathroom. The bathroom itself is a disaster, like the guy exploded in there which is possible as we found his shorts, shirt, and underwear which were completely saturated in wet fecal matter.
So we begin jokes about how oblivious we all must be if a jogger completely shit himself, left an incrminiating trail, stripped naked, and then exited the store without being noticed.

Now, my belief is that he stole a change of clothes from the Dallas Cowboys stand that was near the bathroom but I can't verify anything more than him coming in, exploding in fecal matter, and vanishing.

And, yes, they tried to put me on bathroom detail for that one but I advised them I'd cleaned enough shit in my teenage years and it was time for another teenager to step up and learn how to loathe the human race one mop swipe at a time.

[Auspice]

HOLY SHIT.

Another classmate got back to me re: my 'Hey, how did your feedback / call with our instructor go?'

(Edited to remove personal info:)

I'd love to discuss this at length should you find the time. I'd greatly prefer we have this conversation either by telephone or through an alternate email address.

The best email address for me is [redacted].

My phone number is [redacted].

A text or email from you prior to a call with your initials and the area code means I'd pick-up if I were able.

If you wish to dialogue further, I'd like your de facto "NDA" anything we discuss remain confidential.

I can say this isn't the first such request I've received in this class; the others have been from students with self-esteem and a strong sense of right and wrong.

[scar]

@auspice How clandestine.

[mietze]

Pretty much all day I’ve been on the edge of stress- and anxiety-vomiting turning in my court paperwork. But now I might be adopting 2 kittens this evening, so there is that.

[Ganymede]

@mietze said in RL Anger:

Pretty much all day I’ve been on the edge of stress- and anxiety-vomiting turning in my court paperwork. But now I might be adopting 2 kittens this evening, so there is that.

I want another kitten, but I have a 3-varmint rule.

[surreality]

@mietze Am incredibly proud of you for getting the paperwork in. It's scary as fuck, that's brave as hell, and consider a big thumbs up and a loud cheer (and hugs if desired) sent your way in support and encouragement. Am really really glad to hear this.

And kittens are awesome, always.

[Thenomain]

@ganymede said in RL Anger:

I want another kitten, but I have a 3-varmint rule.

How many varmint slots does a child take up?

[Ganymede]

@thenomain

One.

I have two kids and one cat. If one of the kids wants a cat, they will have to kill one child or the existing cat. And I know my cat is pretty damn fast.

My household is always going to be interesting.

[Aria]

Apparently, my conversation with my stylist last night went something like this:

What I said: "I'm willing to lose some length off the back of my hair to get this shape that I used to have and loved and that you cut for me for quite some time back into it, here is several pictures, and a Pinterest page of women with hair just above their shoulders, and me pointing to where I want it just above my shoulders. I know it has to clear my shoulders to not do the weird flippy-out thing it does."

What she heard: "If it's still doing the weird flippy out thing in the back, please just keep cutting it and cutting it! It's totally fine for you to reinterpret 'just above my shoulders' to 'chin-length' despite the fact that I've been coming here for seven years so you know I've been growing it out from a pixie cut the last three. I won't miss 3"-4" of hair that it'll take me a year to grow back at all!"

....Please excuse me while I cry in the shower to choruses of my boyfriend saying "No, really, it's cute!"

[Cupcake]

@aria Oh my god, I feel your pain. The last time I got my hair cut, I told the hair dresser I wanted this (I brought her multiple pictures):

Clearly you can see that the hair slanting from the part is one long continuous lock of hair, right? She cut me a fringe bang at that length and I wound up looking like a poor man's Velma Dinkley. I cried for a week.

[KDraygo]

@ganymede said in RL Anger:

@thenomain

One.

I have two kids and one cat. If one of the kids wants a cat, they will have to kill one child or the existing cat. And I know my cat is pretty damn fast.

My household is always going to be interesting.

Two children enter, one kitty leaves! THUNDERDOME!

[TwoGunBob]

@kdraygo Can't we just get BEYOND Thunderdome?

[DownWithOPP]

@twogunbob I don't need another hero...