RL Peeves

Solstice · 31 May 2023, 13:23

Oh hey! If it isn’t the most tasteless fucking sales email I’ve seen in my life.

Subject: Business ‘Long Covid’ Discussion

Hi <firstname.lastname>,

Is your business struggling post-COVID with any of these ‘classic’ symptoms?

Projects late or overspent
Resources not rising to the need
Deliverables not meeting expectations
Management without visibility to keep things on track

It goes on to try to sell a business management platform.

Blocked the sender’s domain for my entire place of work and reported them as malware, because fuck everything about that.

somasatori · 3 Jun 2023, 07:23

They dropped the mask mandate at my clinic. I’m a little annoyed with it, but I work in residential substance use treatment, so the main potential problem is staff-to-resident and staff-to-staff transmission. Anyway, I didn’t realize how awkward I would feel doing clinical work without a mask on. It’s like, what do I do with my mouth, am I smiling too much? not enough? Did I not already have enough anxiety that we gotta add this?

Also, because of the environment, I’ve already noted some residents experiencing peer pressure about masking. We’re supposed to be a therapeutic community, so that’s frustrating.

junipersky · 3 Jun 2023, 13:47

@somasatori

I’m sorry.

If someone feels comfortable in a mask everyone should respect them wearing one.

somasatori · 3 Jun 2023, 14:46

@junipersky right?? Especially if we’re trying to help people reacclimate to life without substance abuse.

Aria · 6 Apr 2023, 15:49

@somasatori I honestly wish that we’d adopt the masking culture that they have in Japan. In the the last three years, I got sick exactly once after my COVID nightmare right at the start, and it was because my husband worked retail and brought something home even with the mask. When he moved to working a medical-adjacent field that required all customers to wear masks, too? Nothing. Not a single cold.

Compare that to the three colds or so I’d get every year from SCA friends who would come to events despite knowing they were still getting over something (I am looking right at you, friend who hugged me and then told me you were ill because seriously, what the fuck?!) or coworkers who had children in daycare that would be like “Ohh, yeah, my two year old has boogers coming out of everything and is miserable right now, but they don’t have a fever so I sent them to scho-- <hackwheeze>.”

If someone wants to wear a mask when they’re out in public, let them. You don’t know what health conditions they might have that could become dangerous with ‘just the sniffles’ added in. If you or someone in your house is sick, wear a mask before going out in public. You don’t know who you could make seriously ill.

Aria · 7 Jun 2023, 16:57

It’s hilarious that the above was my last post in this thread.

I went to see The Sisters of Mercy over the weekend. I forgot my mask in the car and didn’t walk back to go get it, even though I specifically brought one to wear in the crowd.

…Guess who has been home sick for the last two days?

Solstice · 21 Jun 2023, 14:31

Unshockingly, still looking for a house despite ramping things up in earnest about three months ago now. Everything I’d consider bidding on (or placed a bid on) is getting snapped up within like three days of being listed for so, so much higher than listing.

I’m so tired, and if one more person who bought their first house when Reagan was president tries to tell me I’m doing it wrong, I will fucking claw their eyes out. For those counting, I’m up to five of those instances. That number is way the fuck too high for the most important purchase of my adult life.

And that is my peeve. Hopefully not the same peeve in September.

Duke Whisky · 22 Jun 2023, 07:54

This has been a week.

While I didn’t really ever use it, and had been dangling over the Permanently Delete button. Over night the Facebook account was hacked, password changed. Renamed. Email removed and a new one added. Probably started scamming people and deactivated.

So far haven’t found a way to recover it, so I don’t know if anything personal was stolen.

Also having a kitchen redo and the kitchen supply company sent the wrong doors, likely delaying the work which was already overrunning.

Oh well, it is what it is.

Testament · 25 Jun 2023, 23:01

Participated in my first powerlifting competition this year. Or well, not an USA Powerlifting sanctioned meet, more like a small thing done at the gym I go to. So not official official competing.

Good things: I PR’d on the bench press, pushing 240lbs and steady at 350 lbs for deadlift I’m proud of. Don’t ask me about my squat, my right hip still hates squatting.

Consequence of that: I partially tore muscles in both my biceps in the process of it because I’m stubborn to my own detriment. Now I can’t bend my arms and they’re both stuck bent at a 90 degree angle because doing anything else is just…a lot of pain.

Also bonus peeve: my router decided it wanted to light itself on fire, so I have to write this on my phone until I can replace said router.

Cobalt · 27 Jun 2023, 07:18

Y’know, when we bought our new house and the inspector inspected the place … You think he might have mentioned that our attic is not insulated.

junipersky · 27 Jun 2023, 14:10

Vacation is over

Meg · 27 Jun 2023, 17:58

fucking layoffs, man. maybe with all the time i now have on my hands, i will get back into RP.

Raeras · 27 Jun 2023, 22:13

Having roommates. I can’t wait until my husband and I can just live on our own x.x

dvoraen · 28 Jun 2023, 18:10

@Meg Let’s just kidnap people to play murder games. Productive and cathartic, imo

junipersky · 28 Jun 2023, 18:26

@Meg

Up vote the play, down vote layoffs

junipersky · 30 Jun 2023, 20:45

Old grumpy guy is one of the few paid employees of the shelter. He is convinced only he knows what is best for the cats.

I had to pull a new volunteer aside and go, “That is just who he is. Take what he says to heart, then say okay, and walk away. You will never get the last word or change his mind.”

It would be insufferable except for the fact that his love for these animals runs DEEP and it is typically him who realizes when an animal needs to pass over the rainbow bridge. So he can be a cranky ass.

junipersky · 1 Jul 2023, 16:19

Lol, I just talked to the other two volunteers who have been here longer than grumpy old guy, and their advice was I should just flip him off next time.

Cobalt · 1 Jul 2023, 20:21

Why can’t I get this stupid brain of mine to finish a book? I want to be a professional author. I know my writing quality is good enough. But why can’t I finish a goddamned book?

Floof · 2 Jul 2023, 22:04

@Cobalt said in RL Peeves:

Why can’t I get this stupid brain of mine to finish a book? I want to be a professional author. I know my writing quality is good enough. But why can’t I finish a goddamned book?

I’ve been struggling with this, too! Well, sort of. I can plan and brainstorm all day, but starting the putting words on the page part has been like pulling teeth for some reason. So I imagine finishing will also be an issue.

Coin · 3 Jul 2023, 16:32

@Cobalt said in RL Peeves:

Why can’t I get this stupid brain of mine to finish a book? I want to be a professional author. I know my writing quality is good enough. But why can’t I finish a goddamned book?

@Floof said in RL Peeves:

@Cobalt said in RL Peeves:

Why can’t I get this stupid brain of mine to finish a book? I want to be a professional author. I know my writing quality is good enough. But why can’t I finish a goddamned book?

I’ve been struggling with this, too! Well, sort of. I can plan and brainstorm all day, but starting the putting words on the page part has been like pulling teeth for some reason. So I imagine finishing will also be an issue.

I can outline a five-book series, but actually writing one of them?

Lol.

Lolololololololololol.