RL Peeves
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RL is eating me alive. I sustained what I am no longer in denial about it being a career ending injury several months ago, still doing my best to soldier through my remaining settled contract hours all while jumping into the abyss of despair that is job searching right now (and starting over in roles that I dont have 30 years of experience in). Ugh.
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When someone you hero-worshipped as a child turns out, 30 years later, to be into some of the conspiraciest of conspiracy theories.
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People being late for appointments but not calling or texting ahead to let us know.
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@junipersky said in RL Peeves:
People being late for appointments but not calling or texting ahead to let us know.
This is so fucking rude! I do not understand why people can’t respect other people’s time at least enough to let someone know if you’re running late. Things happen, we know it. But don’t leave me twiddling my thumbs with no idea if I should hang out for another twenty minutes or if I’ve been ghosted…usually for a meeting THEY asked for.
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This was exactly it!! If we had known she was going to be late (45 minutes late, I texted after 10 minutes to verify we didn’t have the wrong time and she replied she got the time weont and would be a “little late”) we might have gone out for lunch. >.>
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@junipersky Ugh! Sorry you had to deal with that.
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I also start worrying if they got an accident or something or something else bad happened. This is because my anxiety likes to play worst case scenario with my brain. I can also get a bit upset because I have limited time as I tend to over schedule my life (I know that’s a me issue) and I never know what point to cut ties on the one I’m waiting on and move on or cancel the other and wait. Then I have guilt regardless when that all could be fixed with a quick “hey I’ll be there at X time”. Life happens, I think we all get it.
This ranks up there with the “We have to talk later” comment
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When the huge five-digit increase in the monthly AWS bill cannot possibly be from AI usage and has to come from somewhere else even though month-on-month reporting without AI shows everything else holding steady…
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Close friend of mine isn’t in the hobby and has no creative interests. Nothing wrong with that. She’s not really a writer in any sense, doesn’t need those skills for her job, and typically sends fairly brief messages in imperfect grammar. We have other interests/values in common and she’s highly skilled/intelligent, just differently skilled/intelligent. Never in my life judged her for not being ultra verbose/articulate. We vibe in other ways.
This morning she messaged me a pop culture reference I didn’t recognise, so I misinterpreted it as her sharing her feelings rather than just quoting something. In response to my sincere attempt to engage with her accordingly, she sent (yes I counted) 10 perfect structured paragraphs that sound absolutely nothing like her, explaining in depth the pop culture reference, why she referenced it, and what the philosophical implications of it are.
And I’m just tired, boss. I thought people using AI to RP for them was bad enough. Now I got an RL friend delegating social interaction to ChatGPT too. I don’t consent to this shit. I don’t want to interact with pristine slop, I want my unique human friends back.
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And I’m just tired, boss. I thought people using AI to RP for them was bad enough. Now I got an RL friend delegating social interaction to ChatGPT too. I don’t consent to this shit. I don’t want to interact with pristine slop, I want my unique human friends back.
“I use Copilot to prep for all of our 1:1 meetings!”
If you need Copilot to walk you through a weekly 1:1 meeting with your direct reports about their work capacity, current projects, and career goals because you’re incapable of holding that conversation on your own, I think the wrong one of us is the manager here, friend.
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@junipersky said in RL Peeves:
People being late for appointments but not calling or texting ahead to let us know.
I had to deal with something that might be the reverse of this last week. I had an appointment, and I try as hard as I can to be at least 10 minutes early for all of my appointments. I arrive at the office, walk up to the receptionist, and explain why I’m there, and the receptionist might as well have jumped out the window. She was incredibly rude and acted like I derailed her entire day by not being exactly on time. It was like she wasn’t prepared to have people sitting in the lobby waiting for appointments and anyone doing so was a personal attack.
