Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

JinShei · Dec 8, 2019, 4:34 AM

Brains that wake abruptly with waves of anxiety. Boom, you are awake now, adrenalin rush, heart pounding...

surreality · Dec 8, 2019, 7:49 AM

@JinShei Empathy virtual hug sent. That's... pretty much my last three months; it used to be 'every so often' but now daily. Fingers crossed it fucks off much, much faster for you!

JinShei · Dec 8, 2019, 7:49 AM

@surreality That sucks. I get it around once a fortnight, and there is no going back to sleep, is there? I got up at 4am and bitched about it to the other players.

surreality · Dec 8, 2019, 7:51 AM

@JinShei Sometimes I think the anxiety portion of our brains decides, 'Pfft, nightmares are bragging about how they can wake up the body, HOLD MY BEER!' and then we're just screwed.

JinShei · Dec 8, 2019, 7:54 AM

@surreality YES! That! I feel like it is like the janitor at work just testing a fire alarm. Just checking all of these things work, oh sooooo sorry, were you trying to sleep?

surreality · Dec 8, 2019, 8:01 AM

@JinShei That actually is a really good way to put it: it's how you wake up if you're waking up to an actual blaring alarm or the sound of someone screaming like they're being murdered. A lot of people don't get it, and I'm totally stealing that to help explain it.

The husband could sleep through the apocalypse, and fall asleep again easily after almost any interruption.

Meanwhile, me:

JinShei · Dec 8, 2019, 8:04 AM

@surreality Yeah, mine can wake up, and then boom, be back to sleep in five seconds. Me, heart pounding like someone set off our house alarm..

surreality · Dec 8, 2019, 8:23 AM

@JinShei I find myself weirdly grateful for the new flouf, 'cause I swear she is the only cat on earth that never sleeps. I wake up like somebody dropped a bucket of water on my head, and I get a flouf immediately jumping up onto the bed for all the petting forever. It helps. It really, really helps. I'm still awake, and there's no getting back to sleep, but there is cuteness and d'aww that at least helps bring on the 'slightly less panicky' faster than usual.

JinShei · Dec 8, 2019, 8:26 AM

@surreality said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@JinShei I find myself weirdly grateful for the new flouf, 'cause I swear she is the only cat on earth that never sleeps. I wake up like somebody dropped a bucket of water on my head, and I get a flouf immediately jumping up onto the bed for all the petting forever. It helps. It really, really helps. I'm still awake, and there's no getting back to sleep, but there is cuteness and d'aww that at least helps bring on the 'slightly less panicky' faster than usual.

My dog is more like ..."Why did you wake me, human? would a ball help? here, let me get one and drop it on your face."

surreality · Dec 8, 2019, 8:31 AM

@JinShei YEP, that is familiar. I end up getting that, too. Thankfully, just with the catnip mouse... (she's caught a real one, so it could have been worse?)

"OH HI, YOU'RE AWAKE NOW, WE CAN PLAY!"

JinShei · Dec 8, 2019, 8:36 AM

@surreality My sister's cat used to do this trick with mice. She was bright as all hell, and she used to drop them into the toaster. When you put in your bread, it would pop up with the toast, and she would take it away to eat as you all were freaking about cooked mice...

surreality · Dec 8, 2019, 8:45 AM

@JinShei And now I'm secretly glad flouf is in the bedroom, or she might get ideas. When I looked up the breed we think she likely is, it mentioned 'they have a sense of humor, but often only they will find it funny.' ACCURATE. This would totally give her ideas.

JinShei · Dec 8, 2019, 8:48 AM

@surreality My cat back then was half local tom, half purebred Persian. He hated men for no reason at all. He hunted my male friends, to the point of hiding and attacking (bottom of sleeping bags, off high surfaces onto backs), but once pounced into the middle of my friend's viennetta, before scoot to where he could not be reached to lick his paws.

surreality · Dec 8, 2019, 8:53 AM

@JinShei We're pretty sure this girl is a Turkish Angora. They have a number of unusual traits, and she nails every one. (Stunning since she was found as a stray, I mean, yeesh. Though it was in a very wealthy area where she was found, and the vet's convinced she was owned as a kitten to be so social, so very possible.)

No blanket-covered feets are safe, ever. Her usual 'love me' method of making sure I'm distracted from freaking out is to plunk down on my pillow and wedge me right off of it while chirping for pettings. (A king size pillow, even! She's not a big kitty! Talent.)

If the pettings are not forthcoming, she will do things like 'burrow nose into armpit until you move, and if you don't, you will be sitting there, baffled, wondering, 'WHY YOU NIP MY ARMPIT OF ALL THE THINGS?!''

Sometimes I'm pretty sure cats operate on the principle of 'if you are more confused than angry, I win'.

JinShei · Dec 8, 2019, 9:05 AM

@surreality Awwww! I admit to being a dog person these days - I gave up on cats after one that left me for a parrot and an alcoholic...

surreality · Dec 8, 2019, 9:07 AM

@JinShei Considering that adorable pup, I can't blame you! I'd be won over, too.

JinShei · Dec 8, 2019, 9:11 AM

@surreality She is adorable to a point. This morning she has barked and barked because nobody will keep throwing the ball, and then bayed at our neighbour for being in their garden. Before 9am. She really hates one of our neighbours because she has learning difficulties, and a distinct lack of respect for personal space and autonomy of puppies who like to know people before they are picked up and hugged.

Derp · Dec 8, 2019, 3:15 PM

@surreality said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@JinShei That actually is a really good way to put it: it's how you wake up if you're waking up to an actual blaring alarm or the sound of someone screaming like they're being murdered. A lot of people don't get it, and I'm totally stealing that to help explain it.

The husband could sleep through the apocalypse, and fall asleep again easily after almost any interruption.

Meanwhile, me:

More like:

RightMeow · Dec 9, 2019, 3:33 AM

4 managers (in various roles) and 1 over manager with a manager over that.
1 manager (me) has a set days off because they have family needs to take care of that the other three do not. Those needs dictate a tendency to have Mon/Thur be days off. Unless a two week notice is given or at least a one week to figure things out.

Today

Overmanager: Did you notice all of you have Monday off?
Me: Nope, it's my regular day off though.
Overmanager: This needs to be fixed. I'm taking the day off too. So that leaves no one here.
Me: Hmmm

A couple hours later:
Me to Manager 2: Did you notice we all had Monday off?
M2: Nope, I'm not coming in. I'll turn my phone off.
Me to M3: Did you notice...
M3: Nope, I'm working too much this week I need to take it off.
Me to M4: Did you notice...
M4: Oh, did they tell you we have a mandatory corporate thing on Thursday?
Me: No
Me to M4: Did you notice...
M4: Oh, yeah. Ugh. I just have to cut hours. I'm not sure I can swing that either.

Me changes schedule and calls Overmanager. Response:
Yeah, take off Wednesday (that I already figured out) hangs up on me
Me: Why thanks, Me. I so appreciate you going out of your fucking way to help save my ass from over over manager. Why thank you so much.

Hour later

Go in to adjust written in schedule times and pause. Stare at said schedule. Stare longer. Feel the fury.

While I am altering my FUCKING LIFE they each have THREE days off. I have one. ONE. Because I'm probably going to have to come in on Thursday. HOWEVER, even if that were not the case... THREE FUCKING DAYS OFF when I had two and it was up to ME to figure it out and do it?

SO MUCH VENT.

I might start hating people.

Ganymede · Dec 9, 2019, 4:00 AM

@RightMeow said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I might start hating people.

That you don’t already speaks volumes of your good nature or naïveté.