Posts made by Auspice

My parents are coming to town next week. They are staying in my little one-bedroom apartment with me for a few days.

I am super anxious about this.

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

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

look I got really frisky with some cardboard last night okay

If it didn't want to be used as it was, it shouldn't have been corrugated.

Well, cardboard isn't always corrugated and corrugated paper isn't always cardboard. But what saosmash and I do in the dark..........

Snapcats!

MAH CAPS

FIND THE CAT

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

There is a small cut on my finger and I have NO IDEA where it came from.

look I got really frisky with some cardboard last night okay

I fucking hate group assignments.

Three of us have been diligently working since we got the group assignments (who is in the group) on Tuesday. Deadline is tonight at 11:59p EST.

Last night, Person #4 shows up. She begins making demands to the script based on her 'morals and ethics.' She also tries to guilt-trip us into holding off actually working on the outline until another guy (her friend) shows up 'sometime Friday.' The other two guys sort of hemmed and hawed over this.

A lot of 'But it's not fair that he'll lose out on the assignment!' 'But he won't get a say in anything!'

I stepped in and took being the bad guy: 'Look, we've been working on this all week. If he couldn't even email us, that's on him. It's not fair to us, who have been working. He could have taken a couple minutes, at any point, to drop off his outline or let us know. This is a project we're supposed to approach as professional work. He's the one who has been unprofessional. He can weigh in and participate next week. Make sure he's aware next week's deadline is Tuesday.'

I don't fuck around.

Person #5 just emailed us.
'My apologies for the delay. I was confused as to how we were supposed to go about doing this assignment'

...yeah, right. I sent out 4 emails this week (2 on Tuesday, 1 Wednesday, 1 Thursday) with updates, links to the Google Drive folder, the assignment itself had instructions, we had a group message on the platform. If you didn't take the time to reach out to anyone to say 'Hey, I'm a little lost...' in any one of those places, you weren't 'confused,' you just didn't bother to check on any of your assignments for the week until today and you're trying to cover your ass. Back of the room.

This is a senior-level class. We're six months out from graduating. These are all people who should know better and I am going to make damn sure the professor knows the two guys who showed up from the get-go deserve credit vs. the three who showed up last minute (well, one still hasn't; his friend is trying to cover his ass for him).

People like them are why I hate group projects so goddamn much.

Maybe it's just from too many years working customer/technical support, but I have this especial dislike for people who end communications/emails with 'God Bless.'

You're spreading god's word with your passive-aggressive email, Sharon!

My job is all email tickets. I've been solely on 'cancellations and refunds' for the product (a streaming service). The rules are: work tickets oldest to newest. Period. Don't cherry pick. Don't skip a ticket that a coworker has worked previously (they might not be working that day, they might be on a special project, etc etc).

Continually, my coworkers have been cherry picking. Even more worryingly, they have been skipping tickets assigned to me. Just the ones assigned to me. I brought this up to my PM* today. I know I'm a team lead, but they still need to be working those tickets.

He gets back to me: 'so they said they've been skipping them because you're very, very good and you have a better rapport with the users than they do.'

So we had to have a chat with the team of hey, that's flattering guys, but
a) I want you guys to have a good rapport, too!
b) I have days off and we really, really don't want customers to ever wait close to 72 hours for a response.

This has also been why my # of tickets handled has been shit because they were basically agreeing with each other 'Auspice will be good at handling this one!' and skipping to 'easier to handle' tickets and leaving all the really angry or 'might possibly be angry' users for me.

So while I'm flattered, I'm also not happy with my team.

*I brought it up to the PM because I've tried bringing it up to the team myself previously and right now, the bulk of them are in Sacramento while I'm in Austin and 'discussing' things with people via group Skype chat lacks the same impact as his being able to take them aside directly in the Sacramento office.

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

if the man did not overrule her and pay anyway, despite her protests, she deemed them insufficiently chivalrous and would never see them again.

My cousin would, when going out on dates, sit in the car until the guy walked around and opened the door for her.

Literally just... sit there and wait.

I mean, there's something to be said for holding the door to the restaurant I guess, but I'MMA GET MY OWN CAR DOOR AND CHAIR TYVM.

"Who's the dumbest person you've ever met?"

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

This happened today. A good female friend, a self-proclaimed Feminist who loves to go on and on about sexism and inequality, today ends up all depressed because her crush isn't going right. All was fine, we talked about it, until she blurted out that she was tired of waiting.

Me: "Waiting on what?"
Her: "For him to ask me out! I'm starting to think that he doesn't like me!"
Me: "Why haven't you approached him?"
Her: "He's the guy!"
Me: "What does that have to do with anything?"
Her: "What?! What do you mean? It's the man's job to make the first move!"
Me: facepalms "You're serious? That's sexist, don't you think? What happened to equality?"

We talked a little longer, and now I think she has a little better grasp as to why I was so shocked to hear her talk like that.

Almost every single relationship I've ever had, I've initiated.

...I'd like to be the one asked out someday, but come on, Rook's friend!
Make the first move.

I've been told guys find that hot, even!

@rook said in Good TV:

@auspice
Well with a name like WARNER BROTHERS, no one would have seen THAT coming. AMIRITE?

@goldfish

We had some good scenes with Wyatt and Arwen.

Go go ASL RP!

@phatdenny said in Reasons why you quit a game...:

But there was this one case where they straight up ripped the setting from some other chat

Saw that done just in the past couple years.
Made me especially angry because I was one of the people who worked on the original.

Now I'm mad just thinking about it. Well! Upside! I can burn some of that off on my walk/jog to the bus stop.

@shelbeast said in The Kitten Army (GIF Heavy):

Poor Max.

How is he ever going to get the college education he needs to provide for his family if he's not allowed into the library to study? He can't be a gentleman and a scholar under these conditions.

He's trying so hard.

Max even has an instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cool_cat_max_and_gracie/

@ganymede

Oh, this has a large part to do with it also. And I almost added on to my post that giving the non-super side of the persona a story is a massive part of things (but then I got distracted by work and just hit 'Submit'). It's something we witness, too, with Wonder Woman. The story is about Diana, not Wonder Woman.

However, that, too, can go back to DC and their 'board of directors / marketing'. You can't market a person. You can market a toy. That's why they haven't wanted to do things the Marvel way. They want Superman and Batman toys. They're still caught up in the whole scheme of 'girls don't play with action figures' despite so many articles and videos of people saying 'My daughter wanted more Rey toys' after The Force Awakens.

Both tie into one another. Warner Bros. is still stuck 40~ years ago with shitty gendered bullshit and they're hyper-focused on the male side and it's giving us bad movies.

@arkandel said in Good TV:

@lisse24 said in Good TV:

I've been watching Manhunt on Netflix.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/11/justice-league-edits-joss-whedon-micromanaged-zack-snyder

It's been said, repeatedly, that a large part of WB's issue with DC vs. Disney's with Marvel is that Pixar/Marvel (and part of why the partnership has worked so well is both studios took the same approach pre-merger) always gave a single person creative control / the buck stopped with them. WB has a board of directors at the helm over their movies who make decisions based on marketing.

It's theorized that a large part of why Wonder Woman did so well is they thought 'eh, female hero, female director, no one's gonna like it anyway. let's just get it over and done with so we can prove it won't do well.' and they let Patty Jenkins actually do her job.

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

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

@auspice

It's so angry!

My name is T-Dog, bitch!!!

With women, there are really only two options. Either she doesn't sleep with you and there's really no reason to ever call her again. Or she does sleep with you... and there's really no reason to ever call her again.