Those people who talk at their cell phone, holding it in front of their face, and then returning it to their ear to listen to the other person. I don't know why some people do this, but it's irritating. Especially when you're trying to take their cake order... rude anyway, talking on a cell phone. At least don't be weird about it...?
Being an "adult" is recently extra-annoying. Too many obligations taking away from my hobbies, damnit =p. I'm gradually going more insane from a lack of time to draw anything, and lack of time to rp. Mostly from the lack of the former, turns out.
Apparently you can have art-withdrawals.
No, bro-in-law, I do not want to go to your third wedding but I have to anyway? Thanks for making it an all day event (8am to 12am), waiting on your idiot bride to stop joy-crying and "wooo!"ing long enough to get pictures done =| (yes I'm the wedding-grinch)
In laws are in town, just got over the flu, just got back from seeing my parents, have been running around trying to get things together for a refi on the house.
Buh.
Pardon while I go grump in a corner, for no real reason other than I'm just a grumpy-gus.
I'm there with ya Sunny. I hadn't met any new-to-the-hobby folks for years, and now all of a sudden one of my favorite MUSHers and best online-friends ever, just started three or so years ago. I've been hearing about new people a lot more frequently too (as opposed to not at all).
Thank you to those people who have really put the time in to make the hobby fun again. All you "dinosaurs" and new people alike.
I've noticed that, just in the last year even, there's been a huge uptrend of tabletop games. At least around where I live, and with my generation. I wonder if some renewed interest in MUSHing isn't in part because of some of that? Video games are great and all, but a lot of my thirty-something nerd-friends have been looking for something more ... just more, I guess.
Anyway...
Yay MU*ing!
Yeah... Age of Strife? I wasn't there too long. I played Xia for a bit. Just don't often see folks from Star Wars MU*s, as far as I can tell. I got excited. Lol.
Amara sounds mighty familiar. Played on AoS at all, back-when?
@Three-Eyed-Crow
Definitely documented.
Unfortunately I don't get paid/documented sick time, or anything like that. I'm part time now (in part because of mentioned issues, in part because I've started my own business yay!), so if I call out, I call out. Or, that's how I've understood it over the years. I'll be looking that up to double check, because I've been a full time employee up until a few months ago, and am still kind of used to how things worked, from that perspective.
Regardless. Still fuming.
Inconsiderate/Immature management at work, especially when they're older than me and should know better. (Age shouldn't be the deciding factor here, I know, I know. But it still baffles me every time.)
Had to call out of work yesterday. I'd agreed to help with Inventory, even though that's the manager's job and I'm but a low-level peon. Really sucks that I couldn't be there to help, but I can't plan when the shit hits the fan. Legitimately sorry, coworkers.
Don't call me the next day to ask if I was actually sick or not, and whether or not I value my job. What the everloving flying fuck. And do not call me four times in a row after I tell you I've discussed it with the store manager, and it's none of your business (because frankly they're a man-child, and the last person who had similar issues had to switch departments, because they couldn't handle the judgmental reactions from this manager), say that I have to go, and hang up after you say 'ok'. What a piss-poor excuse for an adult. Acting like dangling my job over my head is a reasonable response to the situation.
Maybe I'm overreacting, because of mentioned issues that are none of my immediate manager's business, but come on. Four times. Four times they called me after I hung up. On a real day off for me. After insinuating that I'm a liar and that my job was on the line.
Excuse me while I go flip a table somewhere. And probably stress-eat some cookies. Damn girl-scouts...
@ThatOneDude
Lol.
Hey. Yesterday was a perfect day. About 65, sunny, bit breezy. Weather needs to make up it's mind.
You enjoy your gross 80 degree weather over there =p
@Stabby
Re. Stupid People.
There was some snow in the Southeast. I work at a bakery. All of our bread was gone by 10am on Wednesday.
A woman approaches me, legitimately upset already. Asks - "Where's y'alls bread at?"
I inform her that its gone for now, we're baking one last batch then calling it quits and going home before the roads ice over (untreated roads, you northerners shut your mouths >.>).
Lady promptly freaks out, with actual tears in her eyes - "BUT WHAT WILL MY BABIES EAT". All shrill and loud.
I laughed. I thought she was joking. My manager informed me, after she complained about me, that she wasn't joking.
Stupid people. You're in a damn grocery store. Find something else. Jeez. Its just a bit of snow, you won't be snowed in for weeks, I /promise/.
That said..more peeves. Southerners freaking out about snow and being stupid. I'm from the midwest. Snow is no big deal. But I get why it is here, and ice is legitimately scary here, because there's no plows or salt trucks, or anything (especially in the more rural burb I'm in). Anyway... swear it doesn't mean the world is ending, as much as I love to watch the local news footage of reporters freaking out over snow flurries...
... /tangent. That should cover my "bitching" quota for a week or so. >>
@ThatOneDude
Totally needing that oasis today...jeez. haha. We do have color examples in one of our books. The inevitable "well I don't like /any/ of those, they're just not /quite/ right". ...
I've promised a customer that their four year old won't remember what hue of purple the cake is by the time it matters. They still didn't believe me. >.>
One of these days...
I need that weird oasis of calm contraption, or a wiffle bat. Or possibly both.
@Admiral
In a similar vein...
Retail/food industry shiftwork.
Grateful I even have a job, but still kind of want to dig parts of my brain out with a mellon baller while I'm there.
Never the same schedule and 45+ hours after going part time(which means no more benefits) to do other things with my.life, because management can't get their crap together.
Great for the money.
Not so great for my lingering sanity.
Additional peeve: If you ever order a cake with the color "turquoise" on it... please for the love of god bring a swatch or something. Don't get mad at the cake decorators and call them(me) horrible names because I decorated little Susie's cake in the wrong shade of turquoise. (Definitely happened at least twice a month there for a while) I (we/cake decorators) are not mind readers. Promise.
Yes. "Firstworldproblems".
About to finish my last project left over from the holiday season, so I can /finally/ relax at home. Didn't have to get up at 3am for work for the first time in well over a week. As a result I was not late for work, for a change. Managed to call my parents just to chitchat, finally. Gave a little girl a free cookie at work (edit: i work at a bakery), because she dropped her sucker on the ground and her mom wouldn't have it again so she was absolutely beside herself with grief (kids, man). Started as a "stfu" gesture, but she gave me a bearhug and it was incidentally one of the sweetest things ever.
Good things are good!