The Not Happy Thread

I've ensconced myself in here with a cup of decaf tea so I don't resort to it.

 

OMG thank you for that laugh out loud moment! I needed that.

I'm laughing so hard because "He's so pretty" is what I say to friends when I see a cute guy. Cuz, 12. (Not really, but brain sometimes is.)

 

You forgot needing a social security number (or the equiv) to verify with the license.

 

Wait, what?

What will be better for everyone?

And why, O @deadrats, should I or anyone not be as interested in your posts and contributions as much as in anyone else's? You're a valued member around here, even if it looks like you need to be reminded of it.

 

We've got a Train Station around here for that, but I can't remember where it's kept. Maybe Amtrak moved it??

 

I forgot about that, used to be stickied.

 

I ran into that at the last actual, real, full time job I had in the actual, real, full time profession I actually, really trained for. Like, there we were, going all out for a deadline, and the colleague comes around with one of those "use this method instead, it'll be faster." Yeah, right, you want me to pull off and take the time to learn some brand new technique Right Now. Sure. Discuss it with me later.

And then I got told in my yearly review that "somebody" had a complaint about me that I "didn't listen."

I was being set up for being laid off. Though it wasn't for that. But I could smell it coming from a mile away, and if I'd had any sense I would have started job searching right then.

 

Ugh. That sucks! It's really awful when you're suddenly given requires methods that make no sense. I've been there, too.

In this case, I'm the boss and the employee was getting distracted with needless experimentation that took him away from the task at hand. I came here to vent so I wouldn't totally yell at him, because his actions affected my schedule, so I hadn't eaten yet that day. I was hypoglycemic, and was ready to go off on him big time. He ended up turning a one day job into three, then made a big deal of saying, "Oh as a favor to you I won't charge you the extra hours." Damn right you won't.

 

Tiny, tiny gripe but the main place I get coffee from at the uni food court never stirs the sugar in properly. There's always still too much at the bottom. I don't mind given it's relatively cheap and quick while still being okay, but damn they could use an extra two or three seconds of stirring it.

 

Sugar sludge is my favorite part of a cup of coffee or tea!

 

You monster!

 

I have got to get a new scale. I felt something horrible brewing in my guts, so I hopped on the scale real quick, noted the number, then rushed off to the toilet.

What ensued need not be described here, or anywhere else. Suffice it to say that it was a very productive experience, in terms of volume produced.

Remember how Macbeth says that life is "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"? Well, according to my Tamita Metabo-Scan digital scale, the sound and fury I just engaged in signified less than nothing. 200 grams less, to be exact.

It says I gained half a pound, on the toilet.

 

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If they don't have those wooden little sticks available there that you'd use to stir it yourself (and I assume they don't because clearly they also don't have little sugar packets that customers take along so they can sweeten their own coffee), maybe you have to start bringing you own? Or, I duno, shake the coffee violently.

There's a guy at my work who puts honey in his coffee. It's so weird. It's like instead of cream you'd put butter there.

 

Mongolian Butter Tea
Butter tea, also known as po cha (Tibetan: བོད་ཇ་, Wylie: bod ja, "Tibetan tea"), cha süma (Tibetan: ཇ་སྲུབ་མ་, Wylie: ja srub ma, "churned tea"), Mandarin Chinese: sūyóu chá (酥油茶) or gur gur in the Ladakhi language, is a drink of the people in the Himalayan regions of Nepal, Bhutan, India (particularly in Ladakh, Sikkim) and, most famously, Tibet.

 

I try shaking it a bit but I don't want to spill it and it doesn't help much. It's fine as it is but I might not get two sugars if it was stirred better so it feels a little wasteful.

 

Maybe they'll get the message if you passive-aggressively shake the cup in front of them.

 

Write this up formally and send it to a physics journal. Your bowels have discovered antigravity and you are owed a Nobel Prize.

 

In a downward, slump of unhappiness, with a racing mind and a clutching chest. Taking it easy today while riding this out. I know it’ll pass, I know it won’t last forever; it’ll just suck.

 

Hubby needs to buy another charging cable and stop using mine, he never puts it back.