RL peeves! >< @$!#

[silentsophia]

@Three-Eyed-Crow Also steadily voting away the very benefits they use for those who come after them. But that's another can of worms. Like, some of my grandparents and parents have no clue that I can't just walk into a business, hand them my resume and expect a livable job. I'd probably just get laughed at or hauled off by security.

[Thenomain]

Dear Landlord,

Used toilet water is dripping into my bathroom. While you might not consider this an "emergency maintenance situation", you can at least return my calls to let me know that someone is on it.

Sincerely,
Someone Who Is Going To Spam the Emergency Line Tonight

(n.b., this is a reputable rental agency, so I know someone is listening to the emergency line and I'm pretty shocked by this lapse of service.)

[silentsophia]

Jesus. Poor Theno.

Also, people who I talk to and are like, giiiiirls don't talk to me. I mean, hooooot girls.

[Pony Trolling]

Boob money, as a cashier.... just... ugh, and it's now 1000 worse now that it's summer.

[Miss Demeanor]

Boob money is better than junk money. As someone who's worked a gas station in Florida (where men can totally come in wearing a goddamn speedo and flipflops)... boob money is SO MUCH BETTER.

@Insomnia That's what I figured. Also, damned hard to find a good 5 blade women's razor that isn't surrounded by 'moisturizing soap strips' or whatever the fuck garbage they're pushing these days.

[HelloRaptor]

@Pony-Trolling said:

Boob money, as a cashier.... just... ugh, and it's now 1000 worse now that it's summer.

Boob money? Is that like... when a chick has a wad of cash tucked between her breasts getting all sweaty?

[BetterJudgment]

@VulgarKitten said:

Re: Durkheim; most of the data captured in "The Division of Labor in Society," is empirical. Have you read this particular work, to know why I referenced it? In fact, Durkheim was a pioneer of empirical (quantitative) measures, though granted he is not current by any means. However, neither is Marx current and we can still apply his theories broadly to society today.

I haven't read that work by Durkheim, although I have read Weber, who is of his generation and in my discipline (history) is even more widely cited as an empiricist, and whose Protestant Ethic I think doesn't hold up. Maybe Durkheim had access to better quantitative data than Weber did. It's likely, though, that my skepticism of nomothetic approaches in the social sciences is showing, along with my stupidly and wrongly jumping to the conclusion that you were saying that population growth is the only necessity for enhanced capitalism. I do think that the negative results of population growth outweigh any possible advantages, but that's a different conversation (and one I've been thinking about since reading the newly published article "Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction.)

[thebird]

@HelloRaptor
Yes.
Inside-clothing-money in general is pretty awful.

[silentsophia]

@thebird I've seen money tucked in between boobs, in socks and eugh. I'm glad I didn't have to be at the front desk much for the IT place.

[tragedyjones]

Devil's advocate, I greatly enjoy depositing money in a woman's cleavage or undergarments. Funny how that works!

[HelloRaptor]

@tragedyjones said:

Devil's advocate, I greatly enjoy depositing money in a woman's cleavage or undergarments. Funny how that works!

Human Resources would like a word with you.

[Arkandel]

Woke up with no internet connection. It's like the light has gone out of the world. The ISP's tier 1 support (good people otherwise) insisted the problem was with my ethernet cables (both of them?) until I pointed out the cable modem's error logs.

So now I'm at work, thinking tonight is gonna suck. Hopefully they won't need to mail me a new modem.

[Luna]

Lack of motivation. I'm just not motivated today. Kinda blah feeling. Ugh.

[Coin]

@Luna said:

Lack of motivation. I'm just not motivated today. Kinda blah feeling. Ugh.

/shakes you into productivity.

[Luna]

@Coin Well now I just have shaken Luna syndrome!

[HelloRaptor]

@Arkandel said:

Woke up with no internet connection. It's like the light has gone out of the world. The ISP's tier 1 support (good people otherwise) insisted the problem was with my ethernet cables (both of them?) until I pointed out the cable modem's error logs.

So now I'm at work, thinking tonight is gonna suck. Hopefully they won't need to mail me a new modem.

Ever since I moved to Comcast Business I've had way more luck with tech people. They trust me pretty much immediately when I do a quick run through of what I've done/verified on my end, without asking me to repeat anything stupid/obvious/etc that I've already mentioned, or insisting I'm wrong, unless they've also provided a very good, very specific reason for why I might be (which did happen once, and they were right).

It's worlds different than the residential support, which are (having worked at an ISP and seen it firsthand) actively trained to treat the customer like the dumbest possible form of life. Which is, 99% of the time, pretty true.

Also, no bandwidth caps, yay!

[HelloRaptor]

Anime sub groups who sub 10 out of 12 episodes of an anime and then go on hiatus.

Shut up, @Glitch, I'm not learning Japanese. >_>

[Arkandel]

@HelloRaptor TekSavvy is pretty good in the Toronto area, and they do offer unlimited internetz at a small extra fee, but since their normal cap is 400 GB/month I'm finding it very hard to justify paying anything at all. The guy on the phone actually didn't assume I was computer-illiterate (one of his first questions was "if I know how to do an ipconfig") but the hardest part by far was finding a freakin' paperclip to bend so I could perform a factory reset. At 7:15 am it's not the easiest task.

[HelloRaptor]

@Arkandel said:

@HelloRaptor TekSavvy is pretty good in the Toronto area, and they do offer unlimited internetz at a small extra fee, but since their normal cap is 400 GB/month I'm finding it very hard to justify paying anything at all. The guy on the phone actually didn't assume I was computer-illiterate (one of his first questions was "if I know how to do an ipconfig") but the hardest part by far was finding a freakin' paperclip to bend so I could perform a factory reset. At 7:15 am it's not the easiest task.

If you really knew what you were doing you'd already have a bent paperclip taped to the side of your modem.

[Arkandel]

@HelloRaptor @#^&*$@#$@ you.