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WILDTURKEY101 posted:Twice in 12 years working in public education. First time was when I was working with a 14 year old girl, and I knew it was her last day at school. She was smart, athletic, kind, just a very sweet kid. We got along well. She was being sent to a boarding school far away from everything she knew because her garbage rich prick parents couldnt deal with her OCD and anxiety. I was helping her with her writing when she started quietly crying and she asked me “when you were a kid, did you ever feel like adults only cared about what you do, but not about you?” All I could say was “yeah.” I had to call another teacher to watch the room while I lost it in the bathroom. christ, that sucks. any happy endings from either stories?
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DamnitGannet posted:i went to a casino for the first time ever a few weeks ago for a comedy show that was being held there. the show was cancelled so my wife and i walked the floor and it was the most surreal thing i've ever seen. a poo poo ton of people camped out at the slot machines, sticking dollar after dollar after dollar into it while the machines flash and roar (literally, there were wolves and bears and poo poo roaring at you on the machines.) I thought well gee, everyone is playing these so there must be something to it, right? i put a dollar in, the machine made a lot of noise, flashed some lights, roared at me and.. that was it. It was really shocking to me that people get taken in by this and spend hours and hours and hundreds (thousands??) of dollars on these things. some people even had like a card around their neck they would scan to play, i guess they load it with cash and play that way but jesus christ, it was really kind of.. gross? and sinister. i was telling a coworker about this and she said "thats why you stay away from the dollar slots and go to the 20 dollar slots" like oh my god?? anyway big props to you for ripping off some casinos I later got an app on my phone after those times that would play looping sounds to supposedly help you sleep and one of the most popular options was the sound of casino machines bleeping and blooping. I never found a seemingly accepted comforting sound more anxiety and inducing, personally. It induces the run away for my life instinct, now.
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DamnitGannet posted:some people even had like a card around their neck they would scan to play, i guess they load it with cash and play that way but jesus christ, it was really kind of.. gross? and sinister. This is the same thing Disney does with their bracelets things at the park. It's to abstract out the act of spending money and make it so easy and convenient. You just tap your wristband to whatever and bam, transaction complete. No fishing in your wallet or purse of a debit card, much less counting out cash. It is really insidious and evil.
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Catastrophe posted:I later got an app on my phone after those times that would play looping sounds to supposedly help you sleep and one of the most popular options was the sound of casino machines bleeping and blooping. I never found a seemingly accepted comforting sound more anxiety and inducing, personally. It induces the run away for my life instinct, now. I listen to money singing. It’s like looking down From long french windows at a provincial town, The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad In the evening sun. It is intensely sad.
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I’ve had some toxic work environments, at a couple I doggedly stuck it out because it benefited my career to have on my resume or the pay was acceptable etc. once I saved up a decent nest egg I realized I can leave any job and be fine and it’s given a whole heck of a lot of reassurance
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When my mom died last year. I had just gone back to work after around two weeks off for bereavement. I work overnights in retail hell, so we take lunch around two in the morning. I wasn't feeling social, so I took lunch by myself around the other side of the building. I made the mistake of reading the last couple of texts my mom sent me, and I remember just staring into a field while I smoked a cigarette, and the thought that everyone who ever loved me was either dead or never wanted to speak to me again wormed it's way into my head and I just started bawling. It got better, but I cannot describe to you how alone and insignificant I felt in that moment. I'm a pretty outgoing and talkative guy normally, and I don't think I said a word to anyone for about four days after that.
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naem posted:once I saved up a decent nest egg I realized I can leave any job and be fine and it’s given a whole heck of a lot of reassurance
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Narzack posted:I've heard that there's great money in that, but that it's also really dangerous. What tipped you over, do you think? Homeowners. And I have to say being a laborer in this country feels bad even when you're paid well. The white collar soft side of our society doesn't deserve us, frankly. gently caress y'all. 20 Blunts fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Mar 8, 2024 |
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My last job I had two rear end in a top hat coworkers who would hang out together and bully me. One was supposed to be teaching me stuff, but I had to learn from the internet. I struggle to describe how belittling and condescending they could be. Plus at the time my sad brains medication was not working well. So I cried a lot there. Now in my current job, there’s only one person who is a jerk, and he’s in HR so that’s to be expected. They treat me like an actual person and it’s really improved my life. gently caress you, Jason and Brian. Especially Brian, who refused to speak to me for six months because I called him a hypocrite for ranting about Mexicans all dealing drugs, when he ran drugs himself earlier in life. All the collectors and techs hated coming back to the shop because you guys were there. That’s actually kind of therapeutic, writing it all down.
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I don't know if I've mentioned this here before and it wasn't a thing my company itself imposed but is an example of a work and life culture that I never want to return to. Back living in a small town in central WI, I had a coworker confront me about owning a BMW car. Apparently, that was unacceptable and "this is Wisconsin, you've gotta own a truck" and then told me that people were making comments because, in their words, BMW stood for "black man's wheels" and that was not ok in WI. My parents keep begging me to move back to WI. I am never moving back to WI. I can't even pretend to have the capability to deal with people like that.
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Domus posted:My last job I had two rear end in a top hat coworkers who would hang out together and bully me. One was supposed to be teaching me stuff, but I had to learn from the internet. I struggle to describe how belittling and condescending they could be. Plus at the time my sad brains medication was not working well. So I cried a lot there. Now in my current job, there’s only one person who is a jerk, and he’s in HR so that’s to be expected. They treat me like an actual person and it’s really improved my life. gently caress you, Jason and Brian. Especially Brian, who refused to speak to me for six months because I called him a hypocrite for ranting about Mexicans all dealing drugs, when he ran drugs himself earlier in life. All the collectors and techs hated coming back to the shop because you guys were there. Wow gently caress those guys, glad you're doing better now 
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I quit my first job at a cheesesteak place after about a month because there was this dude in his mid/late 20s (I had just turned 15) who decided he hated me for no reason from my first shift and just went out of his way to make the job a living hell. A new degrading nickname every week, responding to anything I said by putting me down in some way, making fun of my friends when they came in, pouring water on me before I had to walk hom in the winter. After a really lovely shift he shouted/sung hallelujah as I was leaving and I came in and quit the next day. Dude in question was the rock of the night shift so the manager valued him over me and didn't do anything about it. The manager was not surprised I was quitting and was understanding, and said he'd give king rear end in a top hat a talking to but it's like you should probably have done that weeks ago??? Not 100% relevant as I never cried as a result but god did I hate my life at that job and hope that dude is still working crappy food service jobs into his 40's because it's what he deserves
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slapstick surgery posted:When my mom died last year. I don't have anything to add really but just wanted to thank you for sharing such a poetic and bleak moment. The suffering you felt in that moment wasn't wasted, it didn't spill into that parking lot or evaporate up into the dark 2 AM sky. Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
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Why cry at work when you can just jerk off in the bathroom? Doesn’t make any sense to me.
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Bloodfart McCoy posted:Why cry at work when you can just jerk off in the bathroom? Boss makes a dollar I make a dime that's why I jerk it on company time Catastrophe posted:I am posting here too much, I know, but I used to work in the casino industry in the sense I worked on the other end where I scammed the ever-loving christ out of dumbass casinos and made a good living for a while. I saw way too many people who were there seemingly out of delusion, habit, addiction, desperation and were losing more and more money but trying harder and harder to get a win, though. I'm thinking many people who walk into one of those places for the first time will hear all the loud noises and see the flashing lights and fancy machines and cool restaurants and get sucked in. Casinos are an utterly depressing display of the disgusting cracks in humanity, IMO. Even though I made a lot of money, casinos completely suck and I wish they would all die. Don't want to derail just curious how you were able to scam them. DamnitGannet posted:i went to a casino for the first time ever a few weeks ago for a comedy show that was being held there. the show was cancelled so my wife and i walked the floor and it was the most surreal thing i've ever seen. a poo poo ton of people camped out at the slot machines, sticking dollar after dollar after dollar into it while the machines flash and roar (literally, there were wolves and bears and poo poo roaring at you on the machines.) I thought well gee, everyone is playing these so there must be something to it, right? i put a dollar in, the machine made a lot of noise, flashed some lights, roared at me and.. that was it. It was really shocking to me that people get taken in by this and spend hours and hours and hundreds (thousands??) of dollars on these things. some people even had like a card around their neck they would scan to play, i guess they load it with cash and play that way but jesus christ, it was really kind of.. gross? and sinister. i was telling a coworker about this and she said "thats why you stay away from the dollar slots and go to the 20 dollar slots" like oh my god?? anyway big props to you for ripping off some casinos The power of positive reinforcement it is really incredible the amount of effort casinos go into to psychologically trap you. The feeling of not knowing the next outcome on a spin is really exhilarating and incredibly addicting especially if you feel a big win is just around the corner or even worse if you've had a big win because the casinos know it is very likely you're going to give all that money back That's why they love it when you hit a jackpot because most of the money isn't theirs since it's built up by money put into it and you'll tell all your friends where you won that money and guess where they are all going to go the next time they go gambling
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Bloodfart McCoy posted:Why cry at work when you can just jerk off in the bathroom? You can do both.
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Buce posted:i'm on powerful psychiatric medications so i cry pretty much all the time sometimes I think about cute puppies and that's p much enough to make me cry
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Feels like I average once/year in normal years. Usually happens when I am sleep deprived and have a stressful deadline looming, then some ridiculous comment sets me off. During the first years of the pandemic, I worked a salaried desk job that was in person and was convinced I was carrying the world on my shoulders. There were periods of time when at least once a week my boss would do something ridiculous/unethical, and as soon as she walked away, I'd almost involuntarily walk out a side door, drive to a discreet parking lot around the corner, and just sob. Then I would buy a soda to take back in so I could tell myself no one would suspect anything. Last year, I was bluntly and very unexpectedly told that my first work mentor had died the night before after a long illness. I went out the side door and drove my car...and I couldn't cry. I was deeply, deeply sad and struggling to process it, and just couldn't cry. Bought the soda and went back.
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