Random thing you loathe right now.

If someone is going to strike up a conversation with someone in a room full of strangers, I'm the guy they'll pick. Even though I'm likely the last person in the room who wants to have a conversation. I avoid eye contact, turn away as I see them meandering over, etc. but they still find me.

FeralMonkey wrote:

If someone is going to strike up a conversation with someone in a room full of strangers, I'm the guy they'll pick. Even though I'm likely the last person in the room who wants to have a conversation. I avoid eye contact, turn away as I see them meandering over, etc. but they still find me.

Yeah, I'm the same way. At our company Christmas party this year there was a guy who joined our tiny group of people playing darts and started talking to me. The guy seemed normal at first, just random chit chat and the like. Then, out of nowhere, he started talking about how he had a panic attack at work. Which naturally lead to the story about how his dog had just died at the time, he just got the job, and he didn't really understand the job so he stressed about a lot. That of course led to the story about how he drove himself to the hospital after making sure no one saw him freaking out and then calling his boss later that day about the whole ordeal.

"But this is a really cool place to work, huh?"

....

Minarchist wrote:
Strangeblades wrote:

Same here. My awkward and odd facial features and my big hook nose, combined with my mannerisms, guarantees I'm left alone by most.

You mean that homicidal look in your eyes? :)

I think it's more the blood dripping from his hands.

trichy wrote:
Minarchist wrote:
Strangeblades wrote:

Same here. My awkward and odd facial features and my big hook nose, combined with my mannerisms, guarantees I'm left alone by most.

You mean that homicidal look in your eyes? :)

I think it's more the blood dripping from his hands.

IDK, maybe he'll actually manage to get walking around with wounds made from having a 7" cold forged iron spike plunged through the soft tissue of your adductor pollicis back in fashion again.

Falchion wrote:
trichy wrote:
Minarchist wrote:
Strangeblades wrote:

Same here. My awkward and odd facial features and my big hook nose, combined with my mannerisms, guarantees I'm left alone by most.

You mean that homicidal look in your eyes? :)

I think it's more the blood dripping from his hands.

IDK, maybe he'll actually manage to get walking around with wounds made from having a 7" cold forged iron spike plunged through the soft tissue of your adductor pollicis back in fashion again.

The right person can always make that look fashionable. I think you have to leave the spike in.

Strangeblades wrote:
PRG013 wrote:
Amoebic wrote:

Strange guy 2 is a lot less creepy.

You just described me!

I'm house trained. Sorry. That's all I got.

Seriously, you just gotta let that sh*t roll off you. Urban areas are crawling with odd and creepy folks.

Doesn't mean it's not annoying, especially in the dark when no one else is around. Having a wang doesn't make a person entitled to my time, whatever the population density.

Dangerously close to P&C territory, so I'm just going to leave it at this: This is the loathe thread. Generally it's not cool to respond with "you should just not let that bother you."

Strangeblades wrote:
PRG013 wrote:
Amoebic wrote:

Strange guy 2 is a lot less creepy.

You just described me!

I'm house trained. Sorry. That's all I got.

Seriously, you just gotta let that sh*t roll off you. Urban areas are crawling with odd and creepy folks.

Usually, I do. This city has some fabulous mass transit so the odd folks are just part of the scenery. I'm not phased by the being approached part. It happens. A lot. I have "pleasant" looking face. Just don't think its unreasonable to want 10 minutes of peace and or quiet to inhale my food and I just wasn't getting that last night. Literally wasn't able to get a bite in because someone else felt their needs were more important than mine. That's super annoying no matter how common being approached by strangers can be.

That wonderful meeting where three things are sprung on you:

1) your old business unit is being dissolved
2) hi, I'm your new boss
3) oh yeah, you'll now be doing the thing you were doing 4 years ago that drove you to leaving the company the last time

Goddamnit, I was just getting into a grove and starting to like this.

I guess you had no opportunity to bring up "You know I came to work here with the understanding that I wouldn't be doing that crap any more?" Not that that's easy to do when you get ambushed and aren't particularly planning to be looking for a new job.

Its mostly a meta-loathe.

I'm starting to feel like I got back with a psycho-ex, knowing full well that things might not have changed, but seeing signs that most of it had changed.

And then they do exactly what they did years ago that drove me away.

It doesn't help that I now get to see all these projects and promises that I was working on at the end of last year basically vanish into smoke with this change.

I was really looking forward to rewriting our certification test, scrapping and rewriting our partner portal website, and helping this company get a better understand of how our partners deliver our product for end clients - all of which should still be high-priority goals :/

Is there any possibility you can bring all this up with the management or will they react badly?

At this place, its a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenario. They haven't really figured out "career development" or "treating employees like people".

I can make it known that I'm not happy with the decision, but that won't change the decision. They've just taken our group of 6 people, laid one off, and moved the other 5 around.

edosan wrote:

Two things at one this morning:

- Our refrigerator isn't getting cold enough. Moved dial to colder to see if that fixes it. I hope it's not dying on us.

We had that happen on our fridge a few weeks back (on Christmas Eve, so no chance of getting someone out to look at it). The freezer section was still working OK, and it turns out, something was blocking an intake or something in the fridge section. After cleaning it out, it started working just fine.

soonerjudd wrote:
edosan wrote:

Two things at one this morning:

- Our refrigerator isn't getting cold enough. Moved dial to colder to see if that fixes it. I hope it's not dying on us.

We had that happen on our fridge a few weeks back (on Christmas Eve, so no chance of getting someone out to look at it). The freezer section was still working OK, and it turns out, something was blocking an intake or something in the fridge section. After cleaning it out, it started working just fine.

I would also clean out the condenser coils on the back of the fridge. When those get gunked up, they're less efficient.

http://www.wikihow.com/Clean-Refrige...

The construction site across the street.

momgamer wrote:
soonerjudd wrote:
edosan wrote:

Two things at one this morning:

- Our refrigerator isn't getting cold enough. Moved dial to colder to see if that fixes it. I hope it's not dying on us.

We had that happen on our fridge a few weeks back (on Christmas Eve, so no chance of getting someone out to look at it). The freezer section was still working OK, and it turns out, something was blocking an intake or something in the fridge section. After cleaning it out, it started working just fine.

I would also clean out the condenser coils on the back of the fridge. When those get gunked up, they're less efficient.

http://www.wikihow.com/Clean-Refrige...

Already thought of the condenser coils. Thanks, though.

Repairmen came by and it's going to cost some cash, but not as much as buying a new fridge. Only problem: we have to be without a fridge for two days. Borrowing an extra cooler from a friend tonight.

Supposed to have seven people on a shift per our contract. Wednesdays right now we normally have five.

Today we have three. People know we're short, still f*ck us by calling out regularly.

Currently filling in as supervisor. Slowly going crazy.

Indecisiveness, crushing, depressing mood swings, and an inability to let go of things.

When coffee doesn't do its job in the morning, and I end up staring stupidly at the computer screen for an hour.

Vrikk wrote:

When coffee doesn't do its job in the morning, and I end up staring stupidly at the computer screen for an hour.

Man, that sounds like a typical night of Team Fortress 2 on a pub server.

75 minute powerpoint presentation. 58 slides, each one completely crammed with text and illegible diagrams. Nowhere to sit.

muttonchop wrote:

75 minute powerpoint presentation. 58 slides, each one completely crammed with text and illegible diagrams. Nowhere to sit.

Did the presenter read each slide to you? That's the best, when the presenter reads the slides. Word. For. Freaking. Word.

Teneman wrote:
muttonchop wrote:

75 minute powerpoint presentation. 58 slides, each one completely crammed with text and illegible diagrams. Nowhere to sit.

Did the presenter read each slide to you? That's the best, when the presenter reads the slides. Word. For. Freaking. Word.

That's the best. Saves on eye strain.

PRG013 wrote:
Teneman wrote:
muttonchop wrote:

75 minute powerpoint presentation. 58 slides, each one completely crammed with text and illegible diagrams. Nowhere to sit.

Did the presenter read each slide to you? That's the best, when the presenter reads the slides. Word. For. Freaking. Word.

That's the best. Saves on eye strain.

That's the best. I get to absorb it while sleeping.

McIrishJihad wrote:
PRG013 wrote:
Teneman wrote:
muttonchop wrote:

75 minute powerpoint presentation. 58 slides, each one completely crammed with text and illegible diagrams. Nowhere to sit.

Did the presenter read each slide to you? That's the best, when the presenter reads the slides. Word. For. Freaking. Word.

That's the best. Saves on eye strain.

That's the best. I get to absorb it while sleeping.

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I had a professor, who strangely looks like the doctor from Far Cry 3:

IMAGE(http://genuinegamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Far-Cry-3-Dr-Earnhardt.png)

who all he did was read from the book in a flat monotone voice every class period after having assigned that chapter as reading the week before. I had him for two different classes, both programming related so they were both rather dry text books. Talk about sucking all the fun out of learning C++

After 4 decades or so of eating solid food, you'd think I would have learned to chew it before swallowing. Apparently that's a lesson that just just won't stick. Unlike the bite of chicken that I swear is about to pierce my esophagus right now.

FeralMonkey wrote:

After 4 decades or so of eating solid food, you'd think I would have learned to chew it before swallowing. Apparently that's a lesson that just just won't stick. Unlike the bite of chicken that I swear is about to pierce my esophagus right now.

You probably shouldn't have stopped to type that.

Norfair wrote:
FeralMonkey wrote:

After 4 decades or so of eating solid food, you'd think I would have learned to chew it before swallowing. Apparently that's a lesson that just just won't stick. Unlike the bite of chicken that I swear is about to pierce my esophagus right now.

You probably shouldn't have stopped to type that.

Also, it's best to pick the bones out, before swallowing the chicken whole.