The not happy thread

Yikes. I'm sorry, Mercurial. That's a nightmare I don't think I'd ever want to deal with. With hope and luck, your new ones will be there soon, and you'll like them better than the old ones, yeah?

 

Both my skullcandy headphones broke and needed to be taken back to the shop. Once they snapped on the 'arms' and another time the actual plug broke and lost connection.

The manager at HMV advised me to buy some different headphones, because apparently, Skullcandy are rubbish quality. They'd actually stopped stocking up on then because they're just in it for the cool labels - the actual headphones are cheap.

They had loads of them in the store room, she said, because so many people had taken them back broken. I got some SONY ones instead and saved myself £10 to spend in HMV!

 

Wait, Sony ones as in the ones with the slight rubber extra that goes in your ear without shoving the whole bud in there?

These are the ones I use, and I'll never use another set of headphones after these. Beautiful sound quality for something so cheap, and they don't break too much. Took me about a year and some of daily usage through HS to break my first pair.

 

I feel your pain. Though I can't honestly say the last time I made a mistake in saving in some time. But I know how much it sucks to suddenly realize you saved the wrong file and everything is just... gone. Now I just check, double check, and sometimes triple check that I am not overwriting any files.

 

What happened, man? I thought you were going to be able to stay through high school!

Dude that's ridiculously lame. As someone who works retail, it's incredibly frustrating to me when places have poor customer service. Ugh. I hope you get your new headphones soon, I can't imagine going without music for that long!

I've been feeling more and more rundown the past few days, and I guess today my body decided to completely shut down...just in time for me to go back to work tomorrow. God, I feel like sh*t...

 

^Oh, I'm sorry to hear that hidden. What about taking a hot bath? That seems to revitalize me when I feel like crap.

 

I thought about it, since that usually helps me too, but I just don't have energy to do anything right now. :/ Boo, sickness. I don't even want to move.

 

*sends a bowl of chicken soup over to hidden with a card that reads, "Get well soon."*

 

Now that I'm graduating early, I am going to be there at LEAST until I go to college.

NO MORE SICKNESS. You are NOT ALLOWED. Okay? So you stop this nonsense right now.

 

My brother got me these for my last birthday:

http://www.go-electrical.co.uk/imagecache/mxw_400_mxh_400_20090805160129-green.jpg

Of what I've seen they seem to cost around $20 but to me the sound quality is amazing and they're definitely not near to breaking. I'm very happy with them and I'd definitely recommend them to every one else as well.

 

We have a holiday today (Republic Day) but I'm fed up cos I had an altercation yesterday with a group of women teachers in my office (we have an 'open office' at the mo due to building work at the uni).

The desk next to mine is empty, and they've improvised a kitchen area there where they all gather to screech and socialise as they make each other endless cups of coffee and share out other messy refreshments (then they wonder why the diet isn't working).

Sent off a mail to the head of dept asking her to get the women in hand, since they immediately ran off to complain I had 'upset them'. Then I checked the mail and was afraid I sounded too angry. I showed it to my husband, and he said attack is the best form of defence and in Turkey they expect people to fire off complaints or open lawsuits about even the most minor things. Because the foreign staff never complain it looks like we are always in the wrong--they build up a dossier of complaints against us, but we never complain back.

I hope he's right and there isn't too much depressing fallout on Monday about this. Still fed up. Counting the days to early retirement (3yrs to go...)

 

I'm so fuming right now, but the odd thing is, it's not my place to be mad.

Staring at my girlfriend's ex's facebook wall, and how everyone is posting to him how much better off he is without her, that if she ever thought of breaking up with him then she wasn't the one, blah blah. The part where I fume? He's the one who initiated the break-up by saying how much he thought of cheating on her! What is this crap? Does it seriously happen each time a couple break-up? He sent her messages saying he thought of all these other women, he's already admitted he was dating her for a period of time simply for her body, has lied to her repeatedly about hanging out with these girls who hit on him and didn't care when he was 'dating' Steph, and he gets the sympathy?

What the hell is wrong with this picture.

/cue violent fuming spree

 

-scrap that-

 

A lot is wrong with that. Seriously, though, he's not the guy for her. And I'm sorry to say this -- it's not intended for guys on WF -- but men in general stink. They're pigs, and they're helpless. What would the world be like without women? Besides, the fact that you're fuming means that you're a good friend.

 

Re: my problem a few posts earlier, just have to say *hurrah* for men, at least for keeping me sane in the workplace. Prefer pigs with a sense of humour over a mob of cats caterwauling and moaning over past slights they must all analyse to make sure the correct blame is apportioned and maximum revenge extracted.

Not saying you are wrong to support your friend but--getting angry for her? It's bad enough her brooding on her wrongs without a sisterhoood joining in. Can't you both just forget and move on--why expend any more thought and energy on this shallow bloke? There are plenty of great men out there...

 

Thanks, guys.

And sorry about the moving situation, Em. :/ It stinks at first, but it'll get better!

God, that sounds like a pain! I hope everything Monday is fine. :/

Ugh, she should really just cut him out of her life and move on. Guys like that are better just forgotten.

Gotta say, I agree with this. For all their negative points, I've had far more luck getting along with men than I usually do with women. With the exception of my ex and his crew, but they were more like chicks, anyway...

 

Sorry. I'm not sexist. Women really couldn't live without men. . . I should probably just stop talking

 

The work schedule gods hate me. I was so excited about driving down to Arizona for Thanksgiving, and then Joel's boss changed his schedule yesterday. He works Thursdays now, which means not only will we not be driving to Arizona on Thanksgiving, but he will be at work, and I will be alone. Awesome.

Also, we were planning on going down next Monday afternoon and coming back Thursday, and now we don't know if this schedule change will effect that. :/

 

Aw, that really sucks! Come on... why did they have to change his schedule? I really hope that somehow it changes back again...
And I would come and visit you if I could!

 

Oh, HN, that's really too bad... I hope somehow you can fix a way to have a nice time all the same. You'd have thought the boss would have realised you had plans...

 

Can't he refuse, Hidden? I mean, I know it's kind of unheard of (and probably useless) to refuse your boss, but it's so unfair. Why do they think it's okay to screw up your plans at a moment's notice? It's as if these people forget that you don't live to work, you work to live.

That really sucks. I'm so sorry.

This is why I've never, ever liked the idea of full time employment. Hopefully my dreams will miraculously come true and I'll never work a full-time job a day in my life.

 

Thanks, guys. It's tough because of the line of work Joel is in. I'm sure his boss understands that he was wanting to go down to Arizona, but the thing is most of the pilots working with Joel commute. Not commute as in "I drive an hour to work every day," but commute as in "I fly home to California/Michigan/Texas when my hitch is over." So it's not like Joel and I are the only people who won't be able to go home to family for the holidays. :/

When I talked to Joel about the schedule change, he said that they had adjusted a lot of people's schedules to try to redistribute coverage. The way shifts work, people either fly for seven days, then have seven days off or they fly for four days, then have three days off. They had tried to stagger it so everyone started on a different day and there was always fairly even coverage, but I guess people complained about their start/stop dates making it difficult to travel home, and consequently so many adjustments had been made that there were weeks with a ton of pilots working and then other weeks where they were totally screwed for coverage. And since Joel works hard and doesn't b*tch like the other pilots, he's usually the first to get screwed over when schedule issues need addressed. He said he's going to talk to his boss, though, and see what he can do about keeping his schedule the way that it was. We'll see what happens...even if they don't let him change it back, though, at least they don't fly on Christmas. My job closes early Christmas Eve, too, so we'll probably be able to drive home on Christmas Eve and see everyone for Christmas, at least.

/rant

 

I'm getting frustrated with people telling me Halloween is an evil holiday celebrated only by Satanists and Wiccans. I want to dress up. I want to get candy. And I want to otherwise celebrate Halloween. And I really don't care if the holiday was started by pagans. In fact, I might go thank a pagan for starting Halloween.

I shall be dressing up, going trick-or-treating, going to a concert, then watching a scary movie. Why? BECAUSE I CAN.

/rant



Heather: That sucks for you guys. :/ Maybe have a post-Halloween date and dress up for no apparent reason?

Edit: Oops. I just realized you're thinking a holiday ahead. Duh. Sorry. Hmm.. when Dad left for Iraq, we celebrated Thanksgiving early with all of our family. Maybe do something like that?

 

Dude, people like to create controversy where there is none. I'm glad you're not letting them ruin a fun day for you!

On the holiday celebration front, I wanted to do something like that, but it's difficult since I work retail. I pretty much can't take any time off from November to mid-January, so that makes getting together a bit tricky. That being said, we're going to try to do something in January. That would be cool.

Edit: Joel's family is going to come here to celebrate with us after Thanksgiving and before Christmas, so that's cool...but honestly, I don't care much about seeing Joel's family. That sounds b*tchy, but hey...anyone who has been around the forums for a while knows that I have issues with my mother-in-law.

 

Speak of the devil... check my facebook status.


And.. keep your head up! It'll be alright in the end.