but then I remember the one time a prof out of Indiana U called us to investigate a thing and it was.......... well let's just say it has been plot fodder for years.
...share this story? Please? All curious now.
Oh fucking well.
@surreality said in RL Anger:
but then I remember the one time a prof out of Indiana U called us to investigate a thing and it was.......... well let's just say it has been plot fodder for years.
...share this story? Please? All curious now.
I'll share it sort of in brief because when I try to share the whole story it gets... rambly because I'll begin remembering other parts in fits and starts.
I joined an established group where the members were across Cincinnati and Dayton (mostly Dayton, so I had a bit of a haul when I'd do stuff with them since I was in Cincinnati). A lot of what we did early on was just plan weekend events going out to 'known' haunted sites to see what we could find, if anything. Lot of disproving at first. Basically spending all night out around this haunted bridge or that haunted burned down spot and coming back with nada and the people running the group would post up out findings and go 'nope. nothing here.' Which was part of why I dug it. There wasn't that level of 'THESE DUST MOTES ARE TOTALLY...'
But then this prof calls us and says he had a family reach out to him, begging him for help with their son. Reports of all this 'activity' around him. Well, the prof had found out about us (these people lived on the Indiana/Ohio border) and asked if we could go check it out.
It was a long drive into the middle of nowhere. Their place is miles from anyone else, double-wide trailer on a large plot of land, backing up to a tree covered hill (fuck that hill... it still shows up in nightmares...). Redneck family. Nice enough family, but just sort of what you'd expect in hill country. The four of us who went introduce ourselves, interview the family. This kid is... 10, 11 and he's being tormented by something and it's started to affect the family too (father, mother, sister). We check out the house and... parents seem like maybe they do some drugs but not enough to see any signs that are worrying. The house is clean. The kids are clean, well-fed, well-clothed. Everyone just seems ... worried. Anxious.
But this kid was troubled. And not like, kid-gone-bad type troubled. Like something was affecting him sort of troubled. And overall it was just feeling... off. This wasn't feeling like a haunting deal.
The guy who ran the group decides he wants to check out the woods behind the house. And I'd just had increasingly bad feelings about them. I'm not a 'scared of the woods' type, either. I love the woods. I love hiking, camping, trails...
This is where my memory gets fuzzy. I don't have clear memories of what happened when I tried walking up that hill. The fourth person stayed at the house. Our leader was totally fine on the hill. The other woman who tried walking up with me barely got a handful of feet in before she felt it, too, and had to flee. I got nauseated. Dizzy. The trees just sort of... moved, blended together. It was ... sometimes I think I saw things through them. I don't know. It might have been that it was late by then and I was dizzy. It might also be because of the recurring dreams I've had every so often since. I just know that it was a struggle leaving and it felt wrong. I've never had a place feel as wrong as that hill did.
We interviewed the family again at length and that's when it came out that the phenomena around the kid would stop happening there and pick up at his grandmother's whenever he'd go to visit her. That was the ah-ha moment. It was tied to him. We sort of came through that and what all else we put together that this was not a haunting or 'spirit' in the sense of what we dealt with and we felt it more fell in the realm of, well, the church. We ended up passing it back to the prof and recommended he speak to the church to have them step in and handle the rest.
...and well, see, even wanting to 'nutshell' it I still rambled. I can't help it. It's sort of scarred itself into me. And I know a lot of it is just like, 'Auspice, dude, that's totally just a plot scene come on' but it wasn't. And before that I was totally a skeptic who had just watched so much Ghosthunters shit that I wanted to run around cool abandoned places and record things and be that person disproving everything. But after that night I wanna be a legendtripper and disprove more so I can find the things that are real. ...even if I end up with a few more mental scars.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
@Auspice That would be amazing plot food, but holy shit. Yeah. I've been to a few Nopevilles here and there and that's... yeah. Yep. Accurate. That dizzy skin-crawl stomach-drop can fuck all the way off. 
@Ghost Theres all sorts of moaning coming from the basement!
DONT COME IN HERE!
knowing what I do of Ghost's SO...
...those would be moans of pain as someone was separated from their genitalia.
She gives it back when she's done with it.
I love my tattooed barbarianess
When corporate types call layoffs by a different term: synergies
Aaaaaaaaaaaand go fuck yourself with that.
(Didn't get laid off, but someone was asked about potential layoffs and the exec referred to them as synergies)
Calling a layoff a synergy is like saying that OJ Simpson ended his relationship with his wife.
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
I really don't understand He-Man
Calling a layoff a synergy is like saying that OJ Simpson ended his relationship with his wife.
Not really.
A synergy has nothing to do with terminating employment.
Murdering her is a way to end a relationship with your wife.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
@Ganymede Well...yeah...erm.
Uno mas!
Calling a layoff a synergy is like calling a divorce a re-allocation of tax deductions
Or...
Synergies should be a category on Pornhub, because it apparently means getting fucked by someone who gets paid more than you.
When corporate types call layoffs by a different term: synergies
Aaaaaaaaaaaand go fuck yourself with that.
(Didn't get laid off, but someone was asked about potential layoffs and the exec referred to them as synergies)
Calling a layoff a synergy is like saying that OJ Simpson ended his relationship with his wife.
look it was on his 'Word-a-Day for Cookie Cutter Executives' calendar. He was required by the agency to utilize it or they would have sent the Suits (#1876 & #9067 who just completed a seminar on 'Team Building: Actualizing in the Workplace') to return him to the cube farm upstate.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
How corporate execs use synergy...
An actual, decent use of the word synergy...
(SIDEBAR: About 4 months of me exclusively using Mac gifs remain. Cherish this time.)
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
I really don't understand He-Man
How corporate execs use synergy...
An actual, decent use of the word synergy...
(SIDEBAR: About 4 months of me exclusively using Mac gifs remain. Cherish this time.)
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
How corporate execs use synergy...
An actual, decent use of the word synergy...
(SIDEBAR: About 4 months of me exclusively using Mac gifs remain. Cherish this time.)
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
I really don't understand He-Man
How corporate execs use synergy...
An actual, decent use of the word synergy...
(SIDEBAR: About 4 months of me exclusively using Mac gifs remain. Cherish this time.)
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
How corporate execs use synergy...
An actual, decent use of the word synergy...
(SIDEBAR: About 4 months of me exclusively using Mac gifs remain. Cherish this time.)
Fact: There is an Always Sunny in Philadelphia gif for every occasion.
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
I really don't understand He-Man
How corporate execs use synergy...
An actual, decent use of the word synergy...
(SIDEBAR: About 4 months of me exclusively using Mac gifs remain. Cherish this time.)
Fact: There is an Always Sunny in Philadelphia gif for every occasion.
Any corporate executive that cares to use "synergy" as a euphemism for a "layoff" might as well use the term "Cleveland Steamer," because that is far more connotative.
Dear Colleagues --
Tomorrow is my last day in this role, a fact which was announced to our entire department and several of our business partners two weeks ago now. So no, no I'm really not up for "helping" you by handling the logistics for an event happening at the end of June.
Additionally, while I am so glad to hear that you're happy for me, I have also noticed the little note of panic that appears in your voice whenever you're reminded that you may have to do all of tasks that weren't supposed to be a part of my duties but which you were Way Too Busy with Super Important Things to handle. But don't worry too much! I'll be leaving you links to the intranet guides on how to do all of those tasks that you didn't take seriously these last four years. I'm sure you'll figure it out, by which I mean find someone else to grossly undervalue even after you screw it up yourself three or four times.
Finally, Denyse -- yes you, specifically -- while you're right that it is very exciting that I'm being moved to the team rolling out the new processes and methodologies that are being launched company-wide and it's going to be great to be on such a high-profile project, you have literally never said a single word to me in the course of my time in this department except when you wanted me to do something for you. No, I would not like to go to lunch and tell you all about the process for getting my project management certification or for any other ass-kissing you've suddenly decided to take upon yourself.
Kindly fuck all the way off.
Sincerely,
Me
https://whatiswrongwith.me/Mia
There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello
Sounds like Denyse just got PMOwned
I have also noticed the little note of panic that appears in your voice whenever you're reminded that you may have to do all of tasks that weren't supposed to be a part of my duties but which you were Way Too Busy with Super Important Things to handle.
There's no compliment like hearing that tone of voice that comes with a blaring subtext of 'I just peed myself a little in terror' in these situations, truth. Savor it!
Oh fucking well.
@surreality said in RL Anger:
I have also noticed the little note of panic that appears in your voice whenever you're reminded that you may have to do all of tasks that weren't supposed to be a part of my duties but which you were Way Too Busy with Super Important Things to handle.
There's no compliment like hearing that tone of voice that comes with a blaring subtext of 'I just peed myself a little in terror' in these situations, truth. Savor it!
It's so stupid but I am near to tears; as it is I have trouble communicating and when I ask for clarification someone implying that I'm stupid or being sarcastic about it isn't helpful and makes me feel like shit.
Me: Should I do A or B?
Them: Yes. They have A already.
Me: ...so I should do B?
Them: OBVIOUSLY, if I said someone has already taken care of A.
(In my line of work, it is not uncommon for clients to wind up with multiples of the same item per their request.)
"If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?"
-- Hamilton: An American Musical
When corporate types call layoffs by a different term: synergies
Aaaaaaaaaaaand go fuck yourself with that.
(Didn't get laid off, but someone was asked about potential layoffs and the exec referred to them as synergies)
Calling a layoff a synergy is like saying that OJ Simpson ended his relationship with his wife.
