Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

mietze

Do you enjoy this group and do they have good snacks? I might be willing to try and merrily go along with something that isnt totally my cup of tea if I enjoyed the company. Otherwise I would nope out (nicely). No shade at math for fun or whatever but it just isn't my bag in a RP game tabletop.

Tyche

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

For example this is what he posted for session 3 from our chat:

Advice, dear readers?

Damn it Jim! I'm a dwarven warrior, not a mathematician!

Auspice

Dropbox only lets me have 3 devices linked.

#firstworldproblems

Auspice

You would think that an emergency maintenance call first thing in the morning about a fucking chemical leak releasing fumes that are making me sick would get my apartment maintenance out.

But no.
Of course not.

So it's another night of fans and open windows (while it's 110F out) so I and my cats don't get horrendously ill.

thesuntsar

This person who keeps pacing by me at work. STOP IT.

surreality

The realization that no matter what comes out of their mouth, some people are gonna lie over and over and over again and let you down.

Bleargh.

My annoyance here is with myself in the end, that there are some people I can't stop giving a damn about despite the reality that they did this shit, are doing this shit, and no matter how many times they say it's going to be different, they're going to continue to do this shit, and I am all too aware of this.

surreality

Double for pure 'what in the actual fuck'.

I live in a development with two exits: one at each end of the main street.

They've been working on the bottom of the hill exit for months, so it's been blocked off.

...today, they began work at the top of the hill exit, blocking it off.

People are drifting home from rush hour to find that they have been effectively barred from their homes by road crews.

The remainder of us are trapped here until they finish one end or the other.

Laugh, cry, scratch my head... I am simply at a loss, so all of these things at once.

Auspice

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

The remainder of us are trapped here until they finish one end or the other.

I'll be honest, I was mulling the 'how does this work' of such things recently. One of the roads I take to work is due to be closed for roadwork soon. They're 'scheduling' it for 9a-4p daily while it is, but I'm still ??? because there are businesses and homes both on it.

What if you work 2nd shift?
What about the profit loss for the businesses?

(They're indicating the WHOLE ROAD will be closed every day during that window for an indeterminate amount of time. Not just one lane or the other.)

silverfox

I need to talk about a parent desperately because I'm worried sick about their kid.

They. won't. pick. up. the. phone.

They won't respond to my voice mails.

I've emailed.

They won't reply to my emails.

I have given them my cell phone number in voice mails repeatedly with the tag, "Call me any time before 10 pm!"

Zip.

Tinuviel

No, admin toadie, I cannot attend a meeting you suddenly decided that we needed. 1) I live an hour and a half away. 2) My workday doesn't start until eight-thirty am. You don't get my time before that without arranging it beforehand AND arranging to pay me. 3) I don't answer to you.

Auspice

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

No, admin toadie, I cannot attend a meeting you suddenly decided that we needed. 1) I live an hour and a half away. 2) My workday doesn't start until eight-thirty am. You don't get my time before that without arranging it beforehand AND arranging to pay me. 3) I don't answer to you.

it's apparently 'I didn't want this meeting' day.

I need to sit down with a SME and it got scheduled for...... Monday afternoon.
As in 9/2.
As in Labor Day.
As in a day I was gonna enjoy having a paid day off and sleep a lot.

Now I'm just telling myself it's more money.

Jeshin

@Auspice Time and a half money?

Auspice

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

@Auspice Time and a half money?

Sadly my time spent here won't be time and a half.
But 8 hours normal pay + 8 hours holiday pay is still nice.

If the meeting were before lunch I could just do a half day, but it's at 3pm. CURSES.

Auspice

Every month when I go to pay my bills I get Charter (Spectrum) and Comcast (Xfinity) confused.

Aria

....My MIL sent me a two page list of shit to include in the "stuff to do" section of our wedding website. That doesn't include the website links, addresses, or blurbs/reviews she wants included. Just the list.

Two pages.

Two pages.

I've written up bits about nearly a dozen restaurants, several brewpubs/distilleries, shopping, museums, parks, gardens, libraries, sporting events, walking trails, kid's activities, and historic spots (including ones that are just statues) that are all opening/happening in this little college town over the course of one weekend.

I've reached my breaking point. How can you tell?

Duck Pond @ Alumni Center Gardens
There's gardens! And a pond! And ducks! It's cute - and also self-explanatory.

This is it. I refuse to write a descriptive review of a fucking duck pond.

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Auspice

@Aria

Should've eloped.

Tinuviel

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

the "stuff to do" section of our wedding website

"Attend our wedding, then do whatever you want you're an adult."

Aria

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

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

the "stuff to do" section of our wedding website

"Attend our wedding, then do whatever you want you're an adult."

"It's 2019. If they're on our website, they presumably have access to the internet. Fucking Google it."

Honestly, for people travelling in from out of town - and especially out of state - I don't mind providing a few tips on what to check out or some mentions of our favorite places. But two pages has made me feel like we're on the verge of treating a two-day trip to a college town in central Pennsylvania like we're asking our relatives to visit us in a particularly remote region of the globe and need to provide them with a multi-day itinerary including a guided tour by an English-speaking local.

It's not like we're in the mountains of Tibet. I'm pretty sure people will be able to read a menu and check the weather forecast without me, dude.

mietze

Jesus christ. I thought hearing my boys say milady every other sentence when they were in jr high was bad, but now everything is "pog" and I am so fucking old that EVERY time I think to myself WTF are they talking about the juice for."

gryphter

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