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moonmazed
Dec 27, 2021

by VideoGames
supposivly

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SyNack Sassimov
May 4, 2006

Let the robot win.
            --Captain James T. Vader


moonmazed posted:

supposivly

seriously, what an idiot, everyone knows it's "supposably"

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

spicy whatever but salt that's the stuff, give me multiple types of salt like a good baccala and thats the stuff i tell the restaurant to go a 9 on a 1-10 scale on salt and they're like no absolutely not and im like ugh i bring my own salt packets with me these days, from my salt mine, in my back yard

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
I was going to say I don't know why some people take pride in how much capsaicin they can keep down, it's just a chemical. It's not like people are priding themselves on how much salt they can dump on their food.

One of the spiciest things I ever ate was when a Bhutanese housemate shared some curry paste from home. It was insanely hot to me, but there was a rich melange of flavours under the heat.

Hughlander
May 11, 2005

AITA for quitting mid-project and for not waiting for my replacement?

quote:

I've (32F) been working for my current company for 3 years. During my interview, they said they cannot give my asking salary yet but said they will give after my confirmation.

I was confirmed after two months because they said I did exemplary work, my salary increased but still lower than my asking salary. HR told me that after the next evaluation they will check again.

Boss liked me a lot and was trusted with some high level matters. My annual evaluation (2020) came and said they will not give me annual increase eventhough it is in the company policy. Reason is because of the pandemic. I accepted this since it has been hard for everybody.

After a while, I got pregnant. Since my pregnancy is sensitive I took it easy with my work (no longer doing overtime, extra works etc), and taking emergency leaves. Co-worker told me that the boss was pissed since there are a lot of ongoing projects but they can't fire a pregnant women.

I gave birth, and was only allowed 2 months matetnity leave. Luckily we are in a work from home scheme because of the pandemic so i can still take care of baby after my leave was over. My next annual (2021) evaluation came and still no increase and no bonus because they said i took a lot of days off while pregnant plus maternity leave. I accepted this because i really did take a lot of days off and it is hard to find new job in the middle of pandemic.

On my third year (2022), i still did not get increase and they did not even bother to give explanation. Luckily, i was headhunter and offered twice of my asking salary. I accepted the job offer and submitted my resignation.

Boss got pissed because i am in the middle of the project but cannot do anything about it.

I feel a bit of a bit guilty though because they still haven't found a replacement and my teammates will have hard time when i am gone, also they did give me a lot of considerations while i was pregnant.

AITA for not waiting for my replacement?

Edit: Thank you everybody for you kind words and encouragements. Thru this i realized that I do not feel guilty for the company but to my teammates who will shoulder my work load because management cannot find replacement. Thank you for making me realize that i should not be burden by it.

Just to answers some questions and additional info:

I could have left after 2 months when they did not give the promised salary. The thing is I work in an industry where job openings hard hard to come by (specialist works). So at that moment I had no choice but to accept. When the pandemic happened, it became even harder to find new job.

They made a counter offer to increase my salary by 50% but I refused since other company is offering me twice. Also, knowing them, they will just increase my work load if they increase my salary.

During previous annual evaluation meeting, HR said that it is hard for them to believe that I have been working as hard as other employees because I was working at home, while taking care of my baby. Although it is true that I might not working the full 8hours per day, but I made sure that I finish my tasks everyday. I am a firm believer that working smart is better than working hard.

My last day will be in two days and the boss still haven't said a word to me. Everything he wants to tell me will be thru the second boss. I guess he is still pissed for "leaving them hanging". I'll keep you guys posted if he even shows up to my exit interview.

Also found out today, additional 2 employees from other projects resigned and were poached by the company that offered me a job.

Right to my veins... "We're not going to give you a raise for 2 years... Oh wait you're leaving? Here's 50% more! Wait no come back!"

Sloth Life
Nov 15, 2014

Built for comfort and speed!
Fallen Rib
Smashing face in cake started with birthday parties and now has escalated to weddings.

You get lots of stuff like this too

https://youtu.be/M6tTFkwHF0Q

Sisal Two-Step
May 29, 2006

mom without jaw
dad without wife


i'm taking all the Ls now, sorry

Soylent Pudding posted:

AITA for not punishing my son for cursing at my parents?
I know they deserved it but they are still my parents.
Sounds like OP should ask her son for tips on growing a proper spine.

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
The guy (28M) I (26F) am seeing has a serious girlfriend

quote:

I’ve been seeing (Nate) for about 2 months now and I really really like him. I met him at the gym. When we first got together he took me out to dinner and then asked if I wanted to come back to his place. Before we hooked up he said that he wasn’t looking for anything serious, and that he’s seeing other people, was I okay with that? I really liked the guy so I said sure.

I see him every weekend or so, to the point where I’d definitely consider Nate my boyfriend, but we hadn’t talked about taking that next step. One night I was sleeping over at his place and I saw a text on his phone that said “Good night baby, love you!” And I was floored. I know his passcode from playing music off his phone so I took a peak and it was clear. He has a long-time girlfriend. I don’t know what came over me but I was livid. I knew he was “seeing other people” but not that he had a full blown girlfriend that he says “I love you” to.

I immediately confronted Nate about it and he just said that it wasn’t any of my business. When I pushed him on it he said she knows everything, that they’re long distance and eventually she’ll move in with him but until then they’re fine with casual relationships on the side. He then immediately drove me home and hasn’t responded to me since. I feel like I have a right to be upset, because he didn’t give me the full extent of his other relationships. I’m also not sure if I trust that she knows about him seeing other girls because that seems like a line he just used. The girls name is like burned into my head, do I try to reach out to her? Part of me still wants to fix things with Nate if I could because I do really like him, but I have no clue how.

Tldr: guy I’m seeing has a girlfriend that he says knows about his casual relationships. I’m upset he didn’t tell me he had a girlfriend and don’t know if I should reach out to her.

UPDATE: The guy (28M) I (26F) am seeing has a serious girlfriend

quote:

Original post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/comments/s0g8wg/the_guy_28m_i_26f_am_seeing_has_a_serious/

I did it, I told the girlfriend.

I ended up finding her on instagram. When I got access to her feed it was mind blowing. She had so many pictures of her and Nate together, dating back to like 4 years ago. He’s taken her to Iceland for her birthday. They spent New Years in a fancy ski lodge. Honestly seeing all that made me seethe, because other than like two nice dinners Nate and I mostly stayed in. Also I knew he was well off but not like, birthday trips to Iceland well off. Now I feel like I hardly know anything about him.

So I messaged the girlfriend and told her what happened, that I’d been seeing Nate for a couple months now. She knew already. She said pretty much exactly what he said, that while they’re apart they don’t mind if they both have casual relationships with other people. I asked her if she knew why he didn’t tell me about her and she just said he’s a pretty private person, he doesn’t share more than he feels necessary. Then I asked her if there was a way to get him to respond to me so I could say I’m sorry and she just said that he’s sending a pretty clear message, and that she hoped she gave me some closure but “it would be in everybody’s best interest to please not contact either of us again.” Which okay, ouch. No need to treat me like a child. Now I’m blocked. I texted Nate to apologize and asked if we could get coffee to talk it through but he hasn’t responded.

So that’s the update, pretty much the strangest relationship situation I’ve ever been in and now I’m at a loss. I really liked him. This sucks.

tldr: I told the girlfriend and she knew. Now he still won't respond to me.

Seth Pecksniff
May 27, 2004

can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.

Halloween Jack posted:

I put the bird's-eye chilis in my pho. The tiniest drop of broth splattered in my eye and it was all over

You're taking the whole "if your eye makes you sin pluck it out" to an entirely new level :stonk:

B-Rock452
Jan 6, 2005
:justflu:

Hughlander posted:

AITA for quitting mid-project and for not waiting for my replacement?


Right to my veins... "We're not going to give you a raise for 2 years... Oh wait you're leaving? Here's 50% more! Wait no come back!"

I mean if they actually put it down in writing that her performance evaluation suffered because she took maternity leave she could easily get what she originally asked for and more...

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Ouhei posted:

It's a fairly common (but dumb) thing that happens at weddings (at least in the US). Common enough that our wedding asked us if we were going to do it so they could make sure to have some towels handy.

How is this the first I'm hearing this? US weddings are wild, everybody suited up and then some loving vaudeville bullshit.

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

The Glumslinger posted:

The guy (28M) I (26F) am seeing has a serious girlfriend

UPDATE: The guy (28M) I (26F) am seeing has a serious girlfriend
Ooof I feel for OP but also I kind-of don't. Ultimately Bougie Boy's fault though-- if you want to treat other humans like your pets you have to remember that they have feelings too. Hope she learns from that one.

Yorkshire Pudding
Nov 24, 2006



mind the walrus posted:

Ooof I feel for OP but also I kind-of don't. Ultimately Bougie Boy's fault though-- if you want to treat other humans like your pets you have to remember that they have feelings too. Hope she learns from that one.

This is a pretty clear cut case of OP hurting her own feelings.

Boy: I want to hang out and hook up but I have no interest in dating as I’m seeing other people.

OP: hey I unlocked your phone while you slept and tried to get you in trouble with the girlfriend you mentioned when establishing our situation and it backfired, oof ouch my feelings!

TengenNewsEditor
Apr 3, 2004

The Glumslinger posted:

The guy (28M) I (26F) am seeing has a serious girlfriend

UPDATE: The guy (28M) I (26F) am seeing has a serious girlfriend

This side piece has some nerve asking the main chick how to contact her man

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

her whining about how much he spends on her in comparison to his girlfriend is tempering my sympathy as well

the holy poopacy
May 16, 2009

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Fun Shoe

Yorkshire Pudding posted:

This is a pretty clear cut case of OP hurting her own feelings.

Boy: I want to hang out and hook up but I have no interest in dating as I’m seeing other people.

OP: hey I unlocked your phone while you slept and tried to get you in trouble with the girlfriend you mentioned when establishing our situation and it backfired, oof ouch my feelings!

also, OP has been seeing him for all of 2 months. it's not really like he was stringing her along or getting overly comfortable in a long-term situation.

Kenshin
Jan 10, 2007
Eh, on the other hand the OP was right to make sure this was a consensual situation since the dude was being dodgy about it. He probably should have been more up-front about it, him getting all weird when she was like "wait, you have a girlfriend?!" didn't help. It's clear she didn't want to be involved with a cheater.

Soysaucebeast
Mar 4, 2008




Hughlander posted:

AITA for quitting mid-project and for not waiting for my replacement?


Right to my veins... "We're not going to give you a raise for 2 years... Oh wait you're leaving? Here's 50% more! Wait no come back!"

Lmao I did basically that same exact thing late last year. I started in 2019, and was told I would get a set 3% raise every year and while I would have to swap from morning shifts to evening shifts sometimes, it wouldn't be more than once a quarter. It wasn't the best offer ever, but I was leaving a place that was giving me daily panic attacks so I took it. So then the pandemic happened and we were told we'd work from home, they even have us laptops and had us test everything out to make sure it worked. A week later we were told "lol jk literally every other department is working from home but you guys can eat a dick" (turns out my boss TALKED THE HIGHER UPS INTO KEEPING US THERE), and also there were no raises because pandemic. 2021 rolls around and despite record profits, there were still no raises and we were told that there wouldn't be another until other companies in the area started offering more then ours did. Also they were loving with my schedule literally every chance they got, and it got to the point where some nights I could only get about 4 hours of sleep (in an office job!).

After that announcement, out of our team of 8 people, three quit (including yours truly), two are looking for new jobs, one is going to retire next year, and the other two legitimately do not give a gently caress to the extent they come in to work drunk. My boss begged me every day of my last two weeks to reconsider, but wouldn't even offer me a stable schedule nevermind a raise.

Ouhei
Oct 23, 2008

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:

Absurd Alhazred posted:

How is this the first I'm hearing this? US weddings are wild, everybody suited up and then some loving vaudeville bullshit.

As another poster noted, the calm version is like getting a little bit of icing on their nose, but people get way too into it and I've seen videos of people who ended up covered head to toe. I don't really see the fun in it; wastes cake and you mess up your face for the rest of the night.

The Glumslinger posted:

The guy (28M) I (26F) am seeing has a serious girlfriend

UPDATE: The guy (28M) I (26F) am seeing has a serious girlfriend

lol not how I saw that update going! I can see thinking "I'm seeing other people and don't want anything serious" is something very different from "I have a long term girlfriend, but we're cool with loving around while we're apart". But lol at her just getting mad that the main girl got fancy trips and she got takeout.

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

Kenshin posted:

He probably should have been more up-front about it, him getting all weird when she was like "wait, you have a girlfriend?!" didn't help. It's clear she didn't want to be involved with a cheater.
Yeah like, OP is obviously very immature, but it's on Mr. "I have enough money/time to pursue multiple casuals" to manage that poo poo.

The fact that he bailed the instant it was no longer purely beneficial to him, with his actual gf corroborating his decision, is a really big tell to where this guy's priorities were.

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

mind the walrus posted:

Yeah like, OP is obviously very immature, but it's on Mr. "I have enough money/time to pursue multiple casuals" to manage that poo poo.

The fact that he bailed the instant it was no longer purely beneficial to him, with his actual gf corroborating his decision, is a really big tell to where this guy's priorities were.

#justrichpeoplethings

that dude can prolly spot women like the op from a mile away

Winter Stormer
Oct 17, 2012

Halloween Jack posted:

I was going to say I don't know why some people take pride in how much capsaicin they can keep down, it's just a chemical. It's not like people are priding themselves on how much salt they can dump on their food.

buddy wait until you meet someone who prides themself on their tolerance and/or consumption of known chemical ethanol

El Spamo
Aug 21, 2003

Fuss and misery
Def not the rear end in a top hat especially when the guy got cagey, but the OP has a clear message that the arrangement is over with.
It sucks, but time to move on with your life.

Prole
Jan 13, 2022

New face here. Hello.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Soylent Pudding
Jun 22, 2007

We've got people!


Spot the missing missing reasons.

WIBTA if I don't invite my eldest daughter to my wedding?

quote:

My eldest daughter "Emily" and I haven't spoken in 4 years. Her father and I divorced when she was 12. It was a very dark period in my life. I wasn't the mother she needed so she moved in with her father. My youngest daughter "Anna" stayed with me. I got therapy and it helped my bond with Anna grow strong.

Emily has always been smart and independent. She was always able to navigate through life on her own. She has never needed me. Anna, on the other hand, has always needed more guidance. She comes to me with her problems and I'm always happy to help her. Anna and I are very similar too. We have the same interests, sense of humor, etc. Emily is the polar opposite of me. I have never been able to connect with her.

Their father doesn't like Anna that much. There were times when Anna would come home from his house sobbing about being mistreated by him and Emily. I would call her father and chew him out. Sometimes I wouldn't let Anna go over to his house.

Emily is 33 now. Anna is 31. Emily lives out of state. Anna lives with me (she fell on hard times and I wasn't going to let her and her child live on the streets). 6 years ago, Emily started sending me nasty emails. She made some wild accusations about me "favoring" Anna and "neglecting" her. She also accused me of not defending her against her father. She told me some things about him that I never knew. Allegedly her home life with her father was awful and I never "rescued" her. I didn't even knew how much her father mistreated her because she never told me. She also brought up issues from 15 years prior, that I thought we both had moved past.

I apologized to her but the emails kept coming for two years. She said nasty things about Anna, accused Anna of "stirring up drama" within the family, and accused me of never sticking up for her. Anna wears her heart on her sleeve, and she can have bad days sometimes but she has a heart of gold. Emily has always been jealous of her so they never developed a sisterly relationship. I asked her to stop bashing her own sister, nicely, a million times.

I eventually stopped reading her diatribes. They were too hurtful. Her negativity was taking a toll on my happiness. My partner emailed Emily and told her to stop emailing me. It was a firm and polite email. Emily blew up at him. She cut all of us out of her life. I sent her a couple of emails but they went unanswered.

My partner and I are getting married soon. Anna is my MOH. I don't know if I should send Emily an invitation. She might not show up but what if she does? It will be awkward because no one else knows that Emily and I aren't on speaking terms.

I want to work things out with her before my wedding but she won't talk to me. My partner thinks that I shouldn't invite her. Anna doesn't want to see her either. I think that I should invite her just to be polite and to make her feel included but I don't know what will happen if she shows up. WIBTA?

Zulily Zoetrope
Jun 1, 2011

Muldoon

mind the walrus posted:

Yeah like, OP is obviously very immature, but it's on Mr. "I have enough money/time to pursue multiple casuals" to manage that poo poo.

The fact that he bailed the instant it was no longer purely beneficial to him, with his actual gf corroborating his decision, is a really big tell to where this guy's priorities were.

His priorities of getting the hell away from someone who would grossly violate his privacy by breaking into his phone, and somehow still thinks she has a chance of a relationship despite getting a very clear message?

man what a freak, he should just meet her once for closure and then that would totally be the end of it this time

Yorkshire Pudding
Nov 24, 2006



Prole posted:

New face here. Hello.

Yaldaproleth

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Who flourish in your pri-ime
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Soylent Pudding posted:

Spot the missing missing reasons.

WIBTA if I don't invite my eldest daughter to my wedding?

That's giving off vibes of some really nasty abuse to me.

Pope Corky the IX
Dec 18, 2006

What are you looking at?

Prole posted:

New face here. Hello.

Sisal Two-Step
May 29, 2006

mom without jaw
dad without wife


i'm taking all the Ls now, sorry

Soylent Pudding posted:

Spot the missing missing reasons.

WIBTA if I don't invite my eldest daughter to my wedding?

Those are some missing missing reasons.

quote:

I did not favor Anna. The circumstances made me much closer to her than Emily and Anna lets me in while Emily shuts me out. I didn't know what else to do so I let her be. I love them both equally.

quote:

I could submit only 3000 characters. There's so much more to the story.
I bet.

kalel
Jun 19, 2012

Prole posted:

New face here. Hello.

hi. what's up

Danaru
Jun 5, 2012

何 ??

Soylent Pudding posted:

Spot the missing missing reasons.

WIBTA if I don't invite my eldest daughter to my wedding?

quote:

She also brought up issues from 15 years prior, that I thought we both had moved past.

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

generally when I see someone say "we both moved past" something, my gut reaction is that they are being manipulative and implying that they were also wronged when they were not

Invisible Clergy
Sep 25, 2015

"Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces"

Malachi 2:3

Halloween Jack posted:

I was going to say I don't know why some people take pride in how much capsaicin they can keep down, it's just a chemical. It's not like people are priding themselves on how much salt they can dump on their food.

One of the spiciest things I ever ate was when a Bhutanese housemate shared some curry paste from home. It was insanely hot to me, but there was a rich melange of flavours under the heat.

It is useful to some empty people as a prosthetic personality. You've heard of nerds conflating media they consume with their personal identity because they have no personality. This is the same thing but with food. Also as mentioned upthread, it's a toxic masculinity thing, especially for guys who can't do anything else traditionally masculine. "You can lift more weight than I can and run faster and fought in a war? Well I order padthai level 5 instead of level 4, qed my dick is bigger so there."

WIBTA for bringing my toddler to an event that's supposed to be kid free?

quote:

I am a member of a local group for people who work gig economy jobs. We chat all the time and I know for a fact several regular members of the group are single parents and at least half of us have kids. So beginning in January the admin said that we were going to start having monthly events.

The first event I asked if I could bring my toddler because her Dad works nights and it was at a place that's kid friendly. He said he had not even considered that children would be there and that he felt like he wanted everybody to be comfortable so he did not want children at the first event and stated to please not take it personally but we would have more events that kids could come to later. I Shrugged it off but then the info for the second event is coming out and once again it's at a (even more) kid friendly place and yet it appears to still be no kids allowed.

When I looked at his profile there seems to be a couple of post that make it sound like he himself isn't fond of kids. Part of me wants to just RSVP yes and show up with my kid. Part of me wants to at least make a big stink about it because it seems like he is alienating a good portion of us by not allowing kids. Being a mother is already so isolating. I struggle to make friends and these people are really some of the only people I've connected with over the last few years. I would really like to meet them but it doesn't seem possible if the events continue to be kid free. It seems so unfair that me and a good chunk of the other parents can't come unless we pay for a sitter. WIBTA if I just showed up with my toddler and acted like I didn't know kids weren't invited?
(added paragraph breaks)

kalel
Jun 19, 2012

Soylent Pudding posted:

Spot the missing missing reasons.

WIBTA if I don't invite my eldest daughter to my wedding?

*me, reading between the lines* loving :yikeseroo:

Doctor Butts
May 21, 2002

Prole posted:

New face here. Hello.

If there was hope, it must lie in the proles.

Squatch Ambassador
Nov 12, 2008

What? Never seen a shaved Squatch before?

Soylent Pudding posted:

Spot the missing missing reasons.

WIBTA if I don't invite my eldest daughter to my wedding?

Emily has always been smart and independent. She was always able to navigate through life on her own. She has never needed me. Anna, on the other hand, has always needed more guidance.

This line is a huge red flag to me. It's the same thing my mother says how she treated me vs my siblings. I was never inherently "more independent", I was forced to learn to be independent because I didn't get support.

Yorkshire Pudding
Nov 24, 2006



Hungry Computer posted:

This line is a huge red flag to me. It's the same thing my mother says how she treated me vs my siblings. I was never inherently "more independent", I was forced to learn to be independent because I didn't get support.

“Little Doug never ate as much as his younger brother Jeff. I have always been able to tell because I never gave Doug as much food as Jeff and he’s still alive”

Bruceski
Aug 21, 2007

The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Halloween Jack posted:

I was going to say I don't know why some people take pride in how much capsaicin they can keep down, it's just a chemical. It's not like people are priding themselves on how much salt they can dump on their food.

One of the spiciest things I ever ate was when a Bhutanese housemate shared some curry paste from home. It was insanely hot to me, but there was a rich melange of flavours under the heat.

I like hot stuff when it's got flavor, but once I tried a restaurant's "make you sign a waiver" hot wings and it was disgusting. No thought to the taste, just as much heat as they could figure out how to get in there. One bite told me I wasn't going to enjoy any more of it. It's definitely a craps shoot when you go hot whether they know what they're doing, I've had great spicy stuff elsewhere.

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Doctor Butts
May 21, 2002

Bruceski posted:

I like hot stuff when it's got flavor, but once I tried a restaurant's "make you sign a waiver" hot wings and it was disgusting. No thought to the taste, just as much heat as they could figure out how to get in there. One bite told me I wasn't going to enjoy any more of it. It's definitely a craps shoot when you go hot whether they know what they're doing, I've had great spicy stuff elsewhere.

Nothing that has you sign a waiver is gonna have flavor.

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