Posts made by Ominous

@JinShei

Hopefully it was out of passion, and he exited stage right doing something he loved.

@Macha said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

NSFW Sam L Jackson

The NSWF tag is redundant when paired with Samuel L. Jackson.

@Snackness

The logic behind all hazing. You cannot be a part of the community until you have endured what everyone else in the community endured to join the community.

@reimesu

George Lucas showed how effectively the IP holder can mess with a devout fanbase.

She just needs to add the Harry Potter version of Jar Jar Binks and make Voldemort a whiney 10 year old in a prequel series.

I went to private school and my books would not all fit in the cubby hole built into the seat of the desk. I frequently carried a backpack with three or four books home every day.

So a bit like Pixar's The Incredibles.

@SinCerely

I shall soon be joining you as cross-country mover. I am not looking forward to it, and I wouldn't have been able to do it without the help of my friends and family, which has been quite heartening.

@Tinuviel

I was actually referencing something that happened in my home county over a decade ago, but it is a bit relevant today, isn't it?

@Tinuviel said in RL things I love:

It's an unimportant federal building.

A rural post office that had closed down three years ago due to budget cuts and a small population in that zipcode that is now handled by the larger post office at the nearby large town/city.

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

"I can see that the database is already built and operational, but everything I want I can get with that spreadsheet that you send out and Power BI, so I don't see why we need a database at all."

Response: "I will no longer be sending out the spreadsheet, and you will need to create one yourself from the same source. That source would be the database you don't think we need."

I was feeling bad about leaving my job of almost three years (half a month shy of my start date at the academy and three months shy of my graduation date). However, after yesterday I feel good and am ready to move on.

It was originally supposed to be my last day (and might now have been my last day after what happened, but I'm hoping to ride out another week for a little more money before I start my new job) and it was the friday of my workweek, so I expected a somewhat easy post assignment to cruise through until the end of shift. No, instead they assigned me to 5 East, which three months ago before we had a jail riot was an easy post because it was the old man wing, but had since been turned into a disciplinary wing to house the rioters and then, after they came off disciplinary, house any other displinary inmates. So I was going to be doing jumpsuit exchange and late night meal for 22 men who are very unhappy to be locked in their cells for 23 hours a day with no television or distraction other than their one hour out in a dayroom that has their shower and the telephone. Also, the wing has a very low ceiling, terrible lighting so you can't see if you're about to get assaulted, and most officers and inmates swear that it, along with 6 East above it, is haunted. It's certainly creepy enough to be haunted; though, I don't believe in the paranormal.

The second layer of the shit cake was that I was the only third-shifter assigned to that entire floor for the night. Out of 6 officers, I was the only one who wasn't going to be exhausted after having already worked a full shift during second shift. Also none of them knew it was jumpsuit exchange night on that floor, so they were unprepared and unhappy that they had to do that and I was going to have lead them through that.

The third layer of the shit cake was that second shift had apparently not done much, so almost all of the inmates were agitated. The North 1 walk of the wing had flooded the walk on first shift until first shift cut off their water. Second shift gave them back their water, and they flooded the walk again, so second shift cut off their water. They were already demanding we turn the water back on and I wasn't about to give it to them after demonstrating they can't behave themselves twice in one day, pissing them off more. The South 1 walk was pissed they didn't receive hot water (scaldingly hot water we heat up in hot pots so they can cook noodles or make instant coffee; it's a privilege not a right, and it's at officer's discretion whether to give it) so were donkey kicking their doors for attention. As I did my rounds for beginning of shift count, two different inmates kindly informed me that when I opened their doors to serve them food they were jumping me.

The fourth layer of the shit cake was that my partner decided to leave the floor after having been there maybe 10 minutes for a "bathroom break" that proceeded to take 40 minutes (or longer, they hadn't returned by the end of the story), and after I had been there an hour, my Sergeant still hadn't arrived on the floor for me to address the issues with the wing with them. So I was a bit miffed at having to deal with these issues by myself.

The steaming turd topping on the shit cake was when I did rounds for the final time, South 1 had decided to flood their walk too, so I had to cut off their water at which point I was threatened two more times with assault (well, one was a threat of murder but let's not get technical).

I called my lieutenant, told her I wasn't eating that shit cake, and she could force feed it to whatever poor bastard hadn't already given their two weeks notice. I turned in the wing's keyset; exited the security perimeter; collected my firearm, extra magazines, baton, and cell phone; and clocked out.

If that story sounds right up your alley, they're hiring.

@deathbird

@deathbird said in MU Things I Love:

It was studded with..uh... prose.

For her pleasure, I'm sure.

EDIT: Actually that's sexist and LGBTQ+ excluding. Make that "For their partner's pleasure, I'm sure."

@Coin

Was it a quality TS pose? If so, be sure to offer praise where praise is due. Don't let the budding erotic writers flounder because they think no one likes their work.

@Ganymede

Louisville isn't expensive, but Oxnard isn't either, compared to LA. The biggest jumps are going to be in rent, which is going to be one and a half to twice as expensive, and utilities, which will be about 33% higher.

It's a complete career change. Still civil service, but not law enforcement.

The job is in the Ventura/Oxnard/Santa Barbara area which, according to all the cost of living sites I can find that have that area, is only about 18% more expensive than Louisville. They're offering $80K, which, when you do the math, is comparable to about $65K in Louisville. The most I have ever made at my current job is $58K and that was my first year, when I was working a minimum of 60 hours a week and sometimes 80 hours a week, plus uniformed off-duty security work and I had no vacation. So when it comes to money, it is an overall step up, as I will be making more than I ever have and only have to work 40 hours a week.

Yeah, the Post Office is getting creamed right now. Their turn-over is atrocious according to some of the reddits I have been reading. But, finding a relationship at my age is, as you stated, very difficult. I've never had to decide between money or love before, so hooray for new experiences.

As for California, yeah, not the biggest fan. I love the climate, I love the beaches, I love the food, but I can't stand how everything feels like it's one giant suburb.

I'm not sure if the ADD/ADHD thread or the Work Thread would be better for this, but I opted for just the general Real World Bleh thread.

So, since the beginning of April, I have been required to work outside of my bidded post of 2nd shift Floor Security at our work release facility against union contract. Because of COVID, they reduced the number of inmates housed there and moved half of the staff to the main jail to reduce the chronic problem of overtime. I hate the main facility. The officers who work there are lazy and have no clue what they're doing, and the behavior of the inmates there are of the "think behaving like they're still in middle school is acceptable" variety.

Having had enough of that and the protests making me rethink my career choice, I have cast a wide net for jobs. I have been offered a position with the post office delivering mail in a rather nice part of town and it will offer a pay cut of only $2/hr. I also started dating someone and we really like each other. However, a job I put in for in California in February has finally come calling and wants to offer my double my current pay.

So now I am pulling my hair out at all this stress. Do I quit my current job, leaving all these friends I have made and the devil I know? Do I take the California job, leaving this blooming relationship? Do I take the post office job, essentially giving up the best opportunity I have ever had in my life as far as jobs go? If I take the California job, do I sell all my stuff rather than ship it? I have hoarding tendencies, and getting rid of stuff is very hard for me. On and on the decision matrix goes, and I just want to down a fifth and go to bed.

@Wretched

I'm the opposite on that one. Whenever someone is sending me piecemeal messages, pinging me with each one, I start to get angry. Just. Frickin'. Write. A. Complete. Thought!

See what I did there?