RL Peeves
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Our office opens at 8:30 AM. My workday begins at 9:30 AM – which is clearly posted on my office profile, my Outlook, and my Teams, the last of which provides a gray warning message that reads ‘Send during their normal working hours of 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM?’ if you try to message me outside that time.
If you, co-worker from a different department, call me multiple times in a row at 7:45 in the morning, I’m going to assume that it’s because it’s a fucking emergency and not that you want an update on something that’s already been reviewed and edited and which is not going out for another… <checks watch> four hours.
PS - When I call you back ten minutes later and you don’t answer the phone, and then ignore your Teams messages for the next 30 minutes, I’m going to be extra double pissed.
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I don’t watch many shows these days, so I’m probably super late on the uptake, and I’m sure this has been a thing for a while …
But someone recently recommended I watch a show on Amazon Prime, so I did, and now I’m mad to realise suddenly there are ads and I have to pay extra on top of my membership to remove them??
Don’t I already pay for unencumbered viewing with the Prime membership itself? smdh. fkin bezos.
(Yes I know this is very much a first world problem peeve.)
EDIT: For anyone with the same peeve — swapping from AdBlock to uBlock Origin did the trick.
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Being a single dad on father’s weekend sucks balls. Kids forget about it even they talked it up spent money on candy and video games for themselves. Than had to buy a new swimsuit for one of them due to losing it and having to need it for a trip at school. Just feel fucking alone and like I’m not respected nor appreciated.
(Edited: To clarify)
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@BloodAngel that definitely sucks. I don’t know what age your kids are, but without an adult getting on their cases about it, I think it’s really just not in their natures to remember holidays like that. I usually buy myself something I want and say ‘this is my Mother’s Day gift from you.’ I guess what I’m saying is, it might hurt but it’s not personal, and take the opportunity to do something nice for yourself.
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@Snackness Teens. So they know, just bad at planning ironic after posting this they gave me hand drawn stuff they did for me but felt ashamed of and that it sucked! Now going out to eat, so it worked out.
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RL Peeve is domain change. Not that it’s changing, but that I’m going to have to try and remember my password.
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@RightMeow lol. If you or anyone else has issues with this, please let me know and I can help. I am not unsympathetic to this.
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@RightMeow said in RL Peeves:
RL Peeve is domain change. Not that it’s changing, but that I’m going to have to try and remember my password.
Most people use password managers for security.
I use password managers because ‘lazy’ is my fundamental personality trait.
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@Kestrel Last month, I was housesitting for my sister. She has a bunch of streaming services. I decided to watch the classic drama film 12 Angry Men on, uh, whatever service it’s on. Roku or Jupiter or something. Doesn’t matter. What matters is the movie has ad breaks set by machine so they occur whenever the computers running things say they must occur, with no respect for what they’re interrupting. If they interrupt a scene? Tough. If they interrupt a SENTENCE? Tough. Watch our commercials, you pig! You’re already paying to watch this movie but you’re not paying enough, so pay to watch commercials from people who pay us more than you do!
It really is a small peeve, but given the state of my culture right now, small peeves can be useful because at least a person can fit their hand around a small one, you know?
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I don’t know if anyone else here is in the lit mag world, but this serial plagiarizer dude is becoming like wack-a-mole. Why? Why plagiarize some sweet stranger’s poem or personal essay? There’s no money in this. It’s under various aliases, so there’s no sharing this with real life friends or family. What the actual fuck is wrong with you?
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@helvetica said in RL Peeves:
I don’t know if anyone else here is in the lit mag world, but this serial plagiarizer dude is becoming like wack-a-mole. Why? Why plagiarize some sweet stranger’s poem or personal essay? There’s no money in this. It’s under various aliases, so there’s no sharing this with real life friends or family. What the actual fuck is wrong with you?
I would guess envy? A desire to get the credit for an idea you wish you’d had?
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Aw.
When you find a video game and it’s lots of fun and then you look at the patch notes and see that it’s on maintenance mode and no longer receiving updates because it failed to capture a base within 8 months of launch. Live service games live such brutal, fleeting lives.
(Omega Strikers, for the curious.)
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Messily with lots of four letter words. Ouch included
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Fun Fact: If you get the right kind of IUD, you can enjoy the benefits of not getting pregnant AND not having a period.
A+. Do recommend.
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Getting out of the shower and looking into the hallway and wondering… am I losing my goddamn mind as something seems to be moving on the floor. Oh no, a damn scorpion
These things freak me out to no end. -
jury duty.
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Having had bowel surgery and having to recover from that because your bowel was wrapped around your potentially cancerous tumor and stuck to it, which apparently includes learning how to eat again and training your stomach to accept food. It’s been a rocky, painful, rollercoaster for which I hope that I’m on the other end of.
T-minus 3 days since I last lost the contents of my stomach due to extreme gas and bloat. Hoping to start including more foods again soon. BRAT and chicken are overrated.
