The Not Happy Thread

I'm so sorry to hear this.

One question to keep in mind is whether or not he actually wants to change his schedule. I can tell you from personal experience that managers can put massive pressure on employees to change their shifts, or suffer lost hours, which can be devastating if you're counting on that paycheck. It's also possible that this change in shifts can help him advance, and will only be temporary.

However, I don't know the situation, so forgive me if I've overstepped my bounds. I feel for you and my thoughts are with you.

 

sadly, its all his choice. He is one of the higher ranking so he gets first choice on shifts. He doesn't like his current day shift because "its boring" so come next week he's picking another one.

 

There is this lady, an older woman who lives in my building. She's very talkative, which I imagine comes from the lack of people around her. Well, other than her son who is....well....not the best company, to say the least. I found her slightly annoying as she likes to pull me aside, on the street, just to talk about mundane shit I don't care about, and I always try to avoid her, but.....

Well, she's dying of cancer now. I found out when her wig fell off and she told me the treatments were effecting her hair. She laughed it off and went quickly upstairs...feels bad man.

Fuck cancer.

 

My coworker, who is supposed to be here tomorrow, decided she isn't going to be here. So it'll just be me and a new girl tomorrow and the new girl has to open by herself.

Then you have the issue that all week we haven't had a manager because they keep using her for somewhere else. There's a whole lot more going on, too.

This is the first job where I ever thought that I could just up and leave and be fine with that...even if it meant not being able to pay my bills.

I'm tired. So, incredibly, tired.

 

You can always take the pain away, but there are often consequences worse than the pain in the first place. Never feel powerless, but make sure you map out your options and consequences of triggering those options. Sometimes doing that means you will do something different, or not, but at least then doing nothing is an active choice rather than a mindless default.

 

This morning, around 3am, a man was killed during a town festival in the city center where I live. As of now, there are no clues as to what the cause of the conflict was, nor what nationality the culprit belongs to but the mere fact that the weapon was a knife was enough reason for the local right-wing scene and "concerned citizens" to assume it must have been a foreigner. About twelves hours later, close to a thousand hooligans gathered in the city center to demonstrate against foreigners and refugees, attacking foreign looking people and shouting Nazis phrases. The police wasn't able to do anything and had to stay at the edges of the mob to try and prevent even worse escalation.

I'm really worried about where all of this is headed...

 

Here is hoping it doesn't hit a boiling point, but simmers back to a peaceful one.

 

There are already two more protests announced for tomorrow, by opposing sides. Don't know if I'll be there then but there's high potential for shit to be on fire (figuratively and literally).

 

Don’t worry, I’m in Mobile, Alabama. I’m safe.

 

On that note, stay safe and away from such things. Seems they are only getting started.

 

<kills self>

 

<instantly recalls your efforts on my behalf and instinctively swims out to you, at great peril, to administer orca-life potion, then realizes I have no ride home. Still worth it, though>

 

Things like this are why I don’t watch/read/listen to news of any kind whatsoever. It’s all just people being angry, people being violent, people whinging about their rights. I’m fucking sick to death of it.

I have a good life. The people I care about have good lives. I don’t care about anything else any more. The world is too stressful.

 

First day of college. Tomorrow.
Math class.
Scared.
Very scared that I'll fail it.
Math is literally the reason this goes in this thread. Otherwise, I really probably wouldn't mind.
I'm VERY bad at math.

 

Yeahhhh....this past week has been pretty awful. I found out my brother had to have emergency open heart surgery. I’m dealing with some workplace drama. And I can’t seem to write anything worth a damn. These events are ongoing in no particular order. So it hasn’t been the greatest past few days, but I’m hoping next week will be better.

 

After reading through the other posts it’s rather small by comparison, but when I was trying to leave work my car decided starting would be something best left to other vehicles. I think there’s a short in the ignition switch. Turn the key and everything comes on (except the engine), the dash lights, radio, AC; but not even so much as a click from the starter.
Just another something to fix. And the list keeps growing.

 

Math is the universal language, though I suspect it is also the invention of the devil
due to it being far too complex the higher you go with it.

 

Déjà vu

 

Woke up and thought it was Friday... it wasn't. Forgot my coffein pills and don't have the time to run by a store to get energy drinks. I can barely keep my eyes open and I'm not even at work yet.

 

Last night I dreamt a piece of music. This is not unprecedented, but I can never remember it well enough when I wake up to recreate it. This time, however, I woke up and remembered it well enough to get it down.

Then I actually woke up. Yup, the part where I wrote down the music I had dreamt was a false awakening. Now that I am actually awake (as far as I can tell), I have no idea what the music sounded like.

Oh, and I spent several hours yesterday working on something new and it was shit.