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MightyJoe36 posted:Back when I had an answering machine, people would leave messages like: Our city's code enforcement recently announced that they wouldn't take anonymous complaints anymore because they have literally never cleared a single one. I'm the one they forward all the environmental complaints to and you'd be amazed how many complaints boil down to "I am a phantom, an enigma shrouded in mystery, untraceable, untrackable. Please tell my neighbor he can't have a fire pit"
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Shibawanko posted:"please teach me" There's also the issue that I'm dealing with when it comes to my supervisor who was on vacation for two weeks and has just now come back and I'm so sad because now I'm going to have to deal with this again  :"I know how to do [thing she taught me how to do], I'm going to work on the ticket that handles it" "Okay, here's how you do [thing she taught me how to do] -- [instructions]" "Yup, I remember, thanks" "Okay, I don't want to micromanage you or anything, I just want to help in any way I can, so let me know if you need help" "I'm good for now, thanks" "Right, I'm just saying, I'm here to offer help if you need it, but I'm not trying to micromanage you or anything, just tell me if you have any questions, that's all I want to do, just making sure that I'm here any time you need any sort of advice or help or anything..." 
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There’s a guy I know of, have met a couple times, wouldn’t call him a friend or even an acquaintance, but a ton of my friends know him. Anyway, today he visited his 197th country. Every country in the world (except google says there’s 193 so ???). So everyone is on Instagram talking about how proud of him they are, it’s been an amazing journey and all that, he’s an inspiration. Except….he’s just a really rich dude that has a job (idk what he does) that allows/affords him to travel a ton. Like, if I had an assload of money and a job that would let me do it I could do it to? Anyone could. Yeah I mean that’s a lot of countries and it impressive but they’re acting like the guy survived cancer or something. This is right in the same vein for me of when a tragedy happens people post their pictures of their vacation from 5 years ago like “Omg I was there”. It all feels like they’re trying to grab some part of the attention or the achievement this guy has. Like “well I didn’t travel to 197 countries but I know a guy that did!”
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Aug 30, 2022 19:05
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Joey Freshwater posted:Anyway, today he visited his 197th country. Every country in the world (except google says there’s 193 so ???). 193 is the number of full UN members. Opinions on what counts as a country vary. Does some rich fucker setting up on an uninhabited island, calling it Fucktopia, and printing Fuckbucks on his lovely computer printer, count as a country? Probably not. Is the Vatican a country despite not having its own currency, military, etc.? Probably. What about South Ossetia, North Cyprus, Abkhazia, Kosovo, etc.? They are all claimed by a "mother country" but have de facto independence. General consensus is "no," they're not countries, except Kosovo, in which the consensus is mostly (but not entirely) "yes". And don't even get me started on Taiwan and Palestine. His 197 is probably the full UN members plus Vatican City, Kosovo, Palestine, and Taiwan.
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Aug 30, 2022 20:01
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I've never met anyone who makes "travel" part of their identity, say they're "based out of" somewhere instead of "lives" somewhere, etc that isn't a horrible rich gently caress who would absolutely be an "expat" not an "immigrant" if forced out of their comfort zone
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Aug 30, 2022 21:14
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When you become interested in a topic and find an SA thread about it, but the big informative first post is from 2017 and has literally zero correct/current information in it
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Aug 30, 2022 21:36
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I've never met anyone who makes "travel" part of their identity, say they're "based out of" somewhere instead of "lives" somewhere, etc that isn't a horrible rich gently caress who would absolutely be an "expat" not an "immigrant" if forced out of their comfort zone To be fair to the guy, everything I’ve heard about him is that he’s a super nice guy and the travel has something to do with his father that passed some years ago. He’s successful and wealthy on his own as far as I know. So whatever good for him I’m more annoyed at the people latching on to him like look at MY FRIEND guys this guy who’s doing things is MY FRIEND it’s about meeeee
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Aug 30, 2022 21:42
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Different peeve that just happened Me: “Hey Mr. Customer I’ll be in town week of the 26th and would like to meet. I’m wide open so let me know what’s the best time for you to come visit” Customer: “Yes I am available that week, let me know what you have available and I’ll see if it works in my schedule and I’ll gather the team” Mother fucker I just told you to give me a time that works in your schedule and I’ll show up what the gently caress it’s not hard
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Aug 30, 2022 21:44
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Joey Freshwater posted:Different peeve that just happened No please provide an annotated schedule of your availability that week. Also, you told me you were available at time-o-clock, but when I got back to you two days later now you tell me you're not available then? How dare you.
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Joey Freshwater posted:Different peeve that just happened It’s even better when you then go “okay, how about Thursday at 1?” And they respond “oh not then, we’re busy”
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The Black Stones posted:It’s even better when you then go “okay, how about Thursday at 1?” And they respond “oh not then, we’re busy” Every, loving, time.
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Weird, it's almost like they don't actually want to meet with you or something. edit: I'll admit though, they're cowards for just not saying so outright. Even just, "Sorry man, my week is slammed." is better than wasting your time. Inspector 34 has a new favorite as of 05:48 on Aug 31, 2022 |
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Aug 31, 2022 05:38
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I'm currently manning a stand at a huge expo, (which involves wearing a suit every day, with company color/highlights in addition) which is tedious but kinda cool. (Apart from me probably being guaranteed to get covid after this, ugh.) What's less cool is that when I took a taxi yesterday the driver started asking a bit about getting his daughter a job at the company I'm representing (Biggest company in the field in the country, though I'm just a hired-in consultant), which I reply the standard 'go thorugh the website, we have a dedicated graduate program she can apply to.' Then he proceeds to start calling her so that she can talk to me, and I can guide her through it and jesus loving christ dude, I'm a customer, stop hassling me like this because I'm suddenly your captive audience for the trip. Thankfully she didn't pick up, so I was spared that, but ugh. I didn't mind him talking about it, but the moment he just called her up was when it went from normal to annoying and uncomfortable.
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SubNat posted:I'm currently manning a stand at a huge expo, (which involves wearing a suit every day, with company color/highlights in addition) which is tedious but kinda cool. (Apart from me probably being guaranteed to get covid after this, ugh.) Why would you even hire someone who needs their hand held through a web form
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Aug 31, 2022 14:47
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Killingyouguy! posted:Why would you even hire someone who needs their hand held through a web form Welcome to modern parenting. I have seen parents accompany their young adult children to interviews. Look up "snow plow parent" It's even worse in higher education. The parents "help" so much the kid never learns how to grow up.
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Aug 31, 2022 14:52
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Killingyouguy! posted:Why would you even hire someone who needs their hand held through a web form It was more that he started calling her right off the bat probably so I could just repeat the same I said to him, to her. Hopefully I'd be off long before she got to trying to fill out the form. Either way, people barrelling up to me to go 'Hey I want a job, can you fix me up?' has been a running theme this week. I cannot wait to be over wearing a suit every day. Being at an expo for almost a week pops up enough peeves that I could probably hard-crash the SA forums with a too-long forums post.
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Aug 31, 2022 19:29
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People that love to use social media to bemoan how hard it is having kids, or running their household, or raising their dogs, or whatever. All of these "problems" are self inflicted, please stop mining them for internet points. You are not a cool Instagram mom, you are someone that needs therapy. Seeking validation by having multiple kids or pets and carping on about how hard it is, is not a positive thing.
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Sep 4, 2022 13:42
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Indolent Bastard posted:People that love to use social media to bemoan how hard it is having kids, or running their household, or raising their dogs, or whatever. "Nobody knows what a sacrifice and burden it is to raise a family" "No we all knew that and sidestepped it"
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Indolent Bastard posted:The parents "help" so much the kid never learns how to grow up. My mom wasn't that bad but holy poo poo was my 20s just a series of discovering things I didn't know because she just automatically did everything. At least I could cook and do my laundry so it wasn't as bad as it was for some other people.
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Atticus_1354 posted:My mom wasn't that bad but holy poo poo was my 20s just a series of discovering things I didn't know because she just automatically did everything. At least I could cook and do my laundry so it wasn't as bad as it was for some other people. I taught a 26 year old man how to make a tuna sandwich. Once you leave home and lose your housekeeper, life gets hard. He also tossed out left over pizza, because he had no concept of eating leftovers.
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Indolent Bastard posted:I taught a 26 year old man how to make a tuna sandwich. Once you leave home and lose your housekeeper, life gets hard.
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Indolent Bastard posted:I taught a 26 year old man how to make a tuna sandwich. Once you leave home and lose your housekeeper, life gets hard. I already said thank you.
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Tiggum posted:As in, bread + tuna = sandwich? How could you understand the concept of a sandwich and not be able to put that together yourself? The tuna comes from a can, you see, and he never had a parent who cared enough to make him consider how the can opener addresses the can
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the holy poopacy posted:The tuna comes from a can, you see, and he never had a parent who cared enough to make him consider how the can opener addresses the can You know, I had a friend tell me recently that he's the only one among his group of friends who knows how to operate a manual can opener. As in the kind with the handles you squeeze, and turn? I called some bullshit on that but after reading these posts I'm beginning to think he wasn't bullshitting me, and operating a can opener is indeed some lost arcane knowledge. 
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Indolent Bastard posted:I taught a 26 year old man how to make a tuna sandwich. Once you leave home and lose your housekeeper, life gets hard. Wow holy poo poo I'm not anywhere near that bad. I just meant things like paperwork and budgeting.
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Tiggum posted:As in, bread + tuna = sandwich? How could you understand the concept of a sandwich and not be able to put that together yourself? I'd assume 'what to mix with the tuna so you're not just eating tuna in your tuna sandwich'. Like my mom showed me when I was 8 and I literally just scooped some tuna onto some bread and was surprised when it wasn't very good.
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Silver Falcon posted:You know, I had a friend tell me recently that he's the only one among his group of friends who knows how to operate a manual can opener. As in the kind with the handles you squeeze, and turn? When I first met my wife, she was confused by my can opener, because it didn't have any handles or something to turn, it was just the, i dunno, what I consider the regular kind? A handle with a hook and a pointy bit.  As it turns out, no one in her family has even seen one before. I had never seen any other kind. Apparently people have wall-mounted mechanical stuffs with rotary handles and cutting wheels or whatever. An entire world of complex solutions to a problem solved by a bent piece of metal with a handle.
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I was at a party recently where someone had no idea how to use a non-electric corkscrew, or that they existed. We're all in our mid-30s.
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Sep 4, 2022 22:08
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The wall-mounted stuff is overwhelmingly old timey buildings, not some modern tesla contraption. This is an arrangement of modern can openers. They are all hand-powered mechanics vastly better than the "normal" one pictured and also use 0 electricity or effort.  I'm frankly glad my wife uses normal modern can openers for TYOOL 2022 can opening, same way I'm glad she doesn't get smug about wooden butter knives.
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Phosphine posted:When I first met my wife, she was confused by my can opener, because it didn't have any handles or something to turn, it was just the, i dunno, what I consider the regular kind? A handle with a hook and a pointy bit. I have never seen this alien tool in my life It looks like it’s for probing
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I've used the little hook thing on my pocketknife to open cans before but I definitely prefer something with that modern extravagance known as 'gears'.
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Phosphine posted:When I first met my wife, she was confused by my can opener, because it didn't have any handles or something to turn, it was just the, i dunno, what I consider the regular kind? A handle with a hook and a pointy bit. I haven't seen one of them outside old Looney Toons cartoons. I could maybe figure out how to use one but I think I'd be afraid of slicing my finger open. The one I'm used to is the bottom left one in the assortment that Edgar Allen Hoe posted. But my bud was talking about how nobody in his friend group knows how to use any kind of manual, non-electric can opener, and it's like what?
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Bottom left is the standard dictionary definition can opener. The one Phosphine posted is some old timey poo poo that I've only seen in movies made prior to the 1950s.
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My Uber story is I got picked up by a navy sailor doing Uber as some part time extra cash, and midway through the drive he got a text message from his daughter that really had some kind of effect on him, so he said "I apologize but I need to stop and call my daughter." Before I could say anything he just pulled over in the shoulder of an elevated freeway and called his daughter. He just yelled at her for 20 minutes about college applications while alternately sitting in the driver seat or pacing around the car. Then he hung up angrily. He got back in and said "my loving stupid daughter makes me so goddamn mad" then drive me the last five minutes to my house. Anyway I guess my pet peeve is when that happens.
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Tiggum posted:As in, bread + tuna = sandwich? How could you understand the concept of a sandwich and not be able to put that together yourself? The fact you drain the liquid from the can and the mysterious alchemy that is adding mayo and the correct ratio of this exotic food item. I dunno what to tell you. The dude was not well set up to live on his own.
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 and other videos like it
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