RL Anger

Ganymede

But have you tried it with Dr Pepper?

I thought the idea was to make it not taste like cough syrup?

WTFE

@Ganymede Please stop humanizing yourself in my eyes. (I like bourbon too…)

ThatGuyThere

Scotch is one of those odd alcohols like wine where I only like the cheap stuff. Give me expensive scotch or wine and will grudgingly drink it but I actually enjoy most "well" scotches. Same with wine I have found Carlo Rossi is my favorite and it comes in giant cheap jugs.

Ganymede

@WTFE said in RL Anger:

Please stop humanizing yourself in my eyes. (I like bourbon too…)

Beep, boop.

I often frequent a local joint called Century Bar. It has over 150 bottles of bourbon. And, as the name suggestions, if you try 100 of them, you'll get your name on a small plaque on the wall. Not in one sitting, but still.

I'm nursing a bottle of Knob Creek and a bottle of Woodford Reserve at home. I have Bullitt as well, but that's reserved for my Manhattans.

Auspice

@Ganymede said in RL Anger:

@WTFE said in RL Anger:

Please stop humanizing yourself in my eyes. (I like bourbon too…)

Beep, boop.

I often frequent a local joint called Century Bar. It has over 150 bottles of bourbon. And, as the name suggestions, if you try 100 of them, you'll get your name on a small plaque on the wall. Not in one sitting, but still.

I'm nursing a bottle of Knob Creek and a bottle of Woodford Reserve at home. I have Bullitt as well, but that's reserved for my Manhattans.

Bulleit is the bourbon that's dangerous for me. I'll drink that shit straight.

I, too, am 'meh' on scotch. There's a couple I enjoy, but most just aren't as great as people say. I'm picky on whisky, too. And sour mash can go fuck itself.

Auspice

I have this utter inability to properly sleep when there's something big happening the next day. Like traveling. A new job. A major surgery.

... or in today's case, moving.

So I'm exhausted and sick with anxiety for something that doesn't 'begin' for another... 5.5 hours.

Arkandel

@Auspice I feel you. I hate moving almost as much as my cat does.

Auspice

@Arkandel said in RL Anger:

@Auspice I feel you. I hate moving almost as much as my cat does.

My early to mid-twenties self loved moving.

I don't know wtf her problem was.

I enjoyed my move out here last year, but there's something about moving cross-country after shedding bullshit like an abusive ex-husband. This? This is just an annoying hassle and I wish I'd had the money to hire professional movers.

Arkandel

Although sometimes I roll my eye at how little excuse people need to get offended about assorted issues, come on Old Navy. I mean there comes a point they had to be doing this shit on purpose.

Auspice

@Arkandel said in RL Anger:

Although sometimes I roll my eye at how little excuse people need to get offended about assorted issues, come on Old Navy. I mean there comes a point they had to be doing this shit on purpose.

I choose to interpret it this way:

Classically, the logo largely appeared on the car. Thus, the boy is just mobile advertising.
The girl is the one who will be actually be busting said ghosts.

Tyche

@Arkandel said in RL Anger:

Although sometimes I roll my eye at how little excuse people need to get offended about assorted issues, come on Old Navy. I mean there comes a point they had to be doing this shit on purpose.

I still have to roll my eyes. Don't they realize how sexist it is to have different clothing for boys and girls?

surreality

@Arkandel said in RL Anger:

Although sometimes I roll my eye at how little excuse people need to get offended about assorted issues, come on Old Navy. I mean there comes a point they had to be doing this shit on purpose.

...yet another reason to not shop there. And I say this as someone who spends most of their time wearing tees and thermals from the men's section at Target or similar. (What, they're typically prettier or funny and cheaper. Same, identical thermal in men's and women's... women's was $10 more. Not even kidding. Fuck that shit.)

Cupcake

Dear Company I Really Want To Be Hired By,

You've got those open jobs up on your website and I've applied for two of them. One I applied for a week before you refreshed the notice, the other a week after. And yet, my application's status is still listed as "New" for both positions. I've even called to ask if there was someone I could speak to in order to get my application reviewed. Even if your answer is "no, thanks" I'd appreciate some kind of feedback so I know what's going on because...I actually REALLY want to work for you. Crush my dreams or make my fantasy a reality, but please stop making me live in limbo.

Arkandel

Job interview over the phone this morning so I took a few hours off from work to field it from home. The idea was I just needed a quiet environment - good thinking - so I made sure to feed all the animals first, went to the office and shut the door.

My cat woke up in mid-interview and started mewling at me. Then she swatted at my feet while I was trying to answer stupid 'test' technical questions (which I despise, wtf are you asking me Google-able questions, are my memorisation skills critical for some reason? Ask to see my problem solving thinking processes since that's what I'd be doing for you! Anyhow).

I toss her out, she starts digging at the door. I let her in, she runs over to my ankles again. She never does that, she was probably responding to my being nervous, which obviously smacking me helps.

Thanks, cat!

silentsophia

I wish I could get PC parts a little faster than 2-3 paychecks from now. But I AM SO CLOSE to being done.

Also, getting 3 sicknesses at once really sucks.

Roz

Not really ANGER so much as a bit of stress. Enough that I didn't want to keep it in the RL Things I Love thread.

@Roz said in RL things I love:

So I work in arts marketing. Over the past year, we've gone through a full website redesign for one of my company's projects -- a performing arts venue -- and I project managed from the client end. Our web developer is fantastic. Like, legit, he's awesome. He's passionate about his work, patient, communicative, everything great. The experience was so positive on both ends that, kind of on a whim, I emailed him a few months ago to say, "Hey, I've been looking for new opportunities. Let me know if you're ever looking for project managers?" And he came back with, "Actually, I've kind of been looking for something on the level of a COO...

Fast forward to now, when he's actually in town for the conference of our ticketing platform. We talk about what he's looking for, what I really like doing, and find a whole lot of overlaps. My former department head has drinks with us, because she was there for the big chunk of the process and also loves him. She straight up acts like my mom (despite being a year younger than me) and goes WOW ROZ WOULD BE GREAT AT THOSE THINGS YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT NEEDING SOMEONE TO DO.

He's really careful about spelling out all the ways the work would be different for me. (It's remote, the team is all across the country, etc.) He thinks I'm great, but only wants me to consider talking about it seriously if I know all the pros and cons. I come back the next day and go, you know what, I think it's all exciting. So now I have to consider what my price tag would be and we can figure out if it's something that makes sense for both of us.

I'm kind of terrified?

So an update. The good news is that my salary numbers -- which would be a marked increase for me, we're talking like at least a 50% raise, but I'm underpaid now and it'd be a higher market rate -- all seemed to jive with what he expected. Really, most everything we talked about seemed to jive. That part was really cool, and I actually felt like a pretty good adult.

The tough part is this: he's not going to be ready for me for at least a couple more months. Usually? This wouldn't be a big deal for me. If it started stretching out to something like six, sure, but we're probably talking more like three. He wants to make sure they've got an adequate runway built out for me over there, as I'd actually be his second full-time, salaried employee (after, you know, him). It's a new frontier for him and his business.

The reason why it's a bigger deal for me is timing. My lease is up in November. I don't want to renew with my roommate for reasons you can -- hah -- find earlier in this thread. And actually, I don't want to renew at all, because one of the things this job would let me do is move to a different city entirely. Which is what I want to do. Even if I renew my lease at my current place, I'd have to find a totally new roommate to do it with, and I don't even know if they'll allow that. That is -- if that will constitute a renewal or if it'll be a brand new lease and maybe they can hike the rent or whatever. But I'd have to go through the whole search for a roommate. And I have to decide in the next couple weeks while my renewal period is open.

I was hoping that after the conversation happened I'd be able to give notice at my current job fairly soon and have started by the time I moved -- or maybe move in between jobs. Clearly that's not happening, and I'm not sure what the best option for me is.

I just wanted to be able to upend my life and run off to a new city.

Wizz

I had finally thrown in the towel with a girl I work with and been on-off flirty with and kind of close to for a few months after she ghosted on me for the third consecutive time we'd made arrangements for a date.

Yesterday she had a medical emergency that everyone assumed was a panic attack at first, and one of my coworkers took me aside and told me she'd just had a pregnancy scare with another of our coworkers. I didn't know they were seeing each other, and I guess with that context I can't be mad at them...I really like the other dude and the only reason I feel any resentment is that she didn't just tell me to back off.

But holy moley am I pissed at the coworker that told me. She's not really close to any of us and she was probably told in confidence. Why did she feel like she had any right to tell me that?

Ganymede

@Wizz

Don't shit where you eat. That's what I have to say about that.

Wizz

@Ganymede
Yeah, I think that's ultimately what I'm walking away with.
Still, WTF. I don't get people.

mietze

Not anger so much as bleh. I'm thankful I have the education and moxie to be my own advocate when it comes to healthcare issues, but it's pretty exhausting having to do it.