That Moment...

TMW you get a call from a random number, so you do a search for it, and it comes back with Australia!

TMW you then specify Ireland in the search, and you get one result: Obamacare! WTF?

 

TM after having an exotic dinner of pasta and peas, you conclude that it's time to go shopping tomorrow.

 

TMW you discover that you now get to look forward to Florence and two other storms.

 

It is my place, didn't you know?

 

Is it?

 

TMW you're sitting there laughing because one of your characters just said something super hilarious.

 

TMW you finished your first week at your first job, and you are proud of yourself and feeling good about yourself and where your life is heading........ and your car dies on your way home from the gym.....

now, on top of tuition and student loans, I have to pay to fix my car so i dont lose the job i worked so hard to get.....


(you know, because you can only have so many good days before the universe decides it's time to fuck your shit up)

 

I too know this one, and it's name is Murphy and shows up at the darndest times.

 

Had to walk home, battering the arthritis in my spine, and battering a hyperflected knee, cause my new battery in the Jeep died! Thank God for Meloxicam.

 

Murphy needs to take a hike....

 

Well, you can tell Murphy from me, that I told him to leave you alone! If he doesn't, he'll have me to deal with!

 

That Moment your eyes lack focus... your forehead fills heavy... and you feel numb... numb to everything around you. Yeah, work sucks but it pays the bills at the moment.

 

TMW...

...you realize you'd take a hurricane over going to work and you're hoping that the storm tracks north just a little bit more.

 

TMW you want to smack Mink with your Orca tail for tempting fate. DO NOT EVER TEMPT FATE!!!!!

 

Seconded. Irma went through this neighborhood, and I don’t trust the hurricane safety if this house, so if they start tracking this way I’ll have to pack up and scram.

Edited for clarity. Not a good writing day.

 

I've been through a couple of hurricanes and I'd be perfectly fine going through another one, and I now live in a home that likely isn't rated for storms higher than a thunderstorm this time around.

The storm doesn't have to hit everywhere. If it would just track to where I live...that'd be fine.

Edit: I'd even take just enough to flood the streets where I live....just enough to make getting to work impossible.

 

Or, you could just, like, find a way to make your employment situation work so that other people’s homes and livelihoods aren’t disrupted because you’re unhappy with your job. Just sayin’.

 

Been trying for three months.

It's more of a comment how I absolutely loathe my job, and the fact that management has allowed the environment grow so toxic is pretty sad.

Edit: I entirely understand the seriousness of hurricanes and even the non-hurricane force storms that come along with them. I don't want anyone to get hurt, but it doesn't stop the "Huh. How did you go from liking the job to wanting almost any way to not have to show up?" feeling.

 

Yeah, I know...some of us are just skeeved after negative experiences with Irma, Maria, or Irene.

Is the job a stepping stone to something you do want? If so, sometimes focusing on that can get you through the day if you can’t change the job itself.

That’s how I got through a toxic job environment with a company that was top in its field. I wanted it for my resume, but the boss / owner of the company was...beyond anything any of us could write. He was an almost daily screamer / office destroyer (like clockwork, you knew he was gonna blow around 2:30-3 in the afternoon) who called my coworkers “fucking moron” to their faces like it was their names. Then after he’d break shit in his office and destroy everything on his desk (once he even overturned the desk), I’d get sent in to clean up the mess and reorder his files and make the place look like it never happened.

I handled working there by finding just two positive things about that job: 1. It was a stepping stone that would get me where I wanted to be. 2. As I cleaned up his mess I read—and memorized—every damn contract, deal memo, and piece of paper to learn what made the guy so successful in business that people were willing to overlook such a toxic environment. Maybe there’s something in your workplace you can grab onto for your own mental health? Even if it’s just the knowledge that it isn’t forever.

 

Like I said, I've been within hurricanes and dealt with the aftermath of Katrina. My viewpoint, though, is generally that they happen and I might as well take whatever positivity I can from the situation that occurs. (Same viewpoint I had with blizzards and tornadoes.).

This job is just something to pay the bills. The company, at least this particular region, is disgusting when it comes to its customers and even worse when it comes to its employees. How this section hasn't tanked, I don't know. They've even lost most of their decent employees in the last three months and this particular section is running on fumes.

I've searched for the positive and have yet to find anything that will hold up to the verbal abuse from customers and management. If the company was just decent to its customers then it would likely be a little less cruddy.

I couldn't hold on under what you went through, though.

 

How ‘bout this? : It’s making you tougher. I’d much rather learn what I’m made of at a shitty job than from a hurricane. At least this way the job pays you instead of leaving you homeless.

 

TMW... You finish watching an old movie from the 70s and you are left saying "Well, that was something," .

The movie was called Zardoz, I think I liked it, but also not sure at the same time. It... It was interesting. Little disappointed by the lack of world building outside the Vortex. But uh... yeah... it was something. I don't think it was horrible like some people say, I don't think it was so bad it was good sort of thing either. though maybe I am not sure. Sure there were some odd parts... parts that make you question what drugs where in use by the cast and crew. As far as early Post-Apocalyptic stories go, it was fine... Little less world building than I would like... but erh... it... it... was something. I am utterly lost for words, to be honest and typing what ever comes to my head. I thing there might have been some wasted potential, but again... maybe that is left from the imagiantion

 

TMW you find a dead sparrow in your garden.

 

Woo-hoo, we eat meat tonight!