Random thing you loathe right now.

Thanks guys, I appreciate it.

The part that I really loathe is that I have to continue living with her for another month and a half.

CptDomano wrote:

Conference calls/meetings at work. More so with how scripted these conference calls/meetings go:

00-15 minute mark: People calling in randomly, very few are early, most are late by 10 minutes or more
15-20 minute mark: Talk about the weather, ESPECIALLY if anyone on the call is out of the US region
20-30 minute mark: Meeting host spends this time trying to share his screen in the online meeting room
30-35 minute mark: More random talk
35-60 minute mark: The actual point of the one hour meeting, in which the people who are late complain about the need for a meeting for 10 minutes.
60-70 minute mark: Schedule next meeting

/facepalm

Yeah, that sounds awfully familiar. Also don't forget the inevitable 10 minutes lost when one person's phone starts picking up tons of background noise and everyone else starts yelling at them to mute.

H to the ickle wrote:

The part that I really loathe is that I have to continue living with her for another month and a half.

Been there, done that. I don't know your living situation but here's what I did in mine

After her moving out period had passed (I owned the condo we lived in) and she still had done nothing about getting her own place, I started bring dates home.

She was out in 2 weeks.

muttonchop wrote:

Yeah, that sounds awfully familiar. Also don't forget the inevitable 10 minutes lost when one person's phone starts picking up tons of background noise and everyone else starts yelling at them to mute.

Oh jeez, I totally forgot about that. Yeah, that sounds about right--an average on hour meeting runs for about an hour and a half with about 20 minutes discussing the actual meeting itself.

Another head cold. I've pretty much had a cold or bronchitis from a cold or plugged up ears since the middle of December.

Today was a day that definitely warrants booze. Bad day at work, really stressful. Not like I lost my job or anything, it was just super busy and I was essentially by myself making orders for a good two hours. And on top of it, I couldn't get anyone to come back and help me - though this was partially my own fault, as I had APPARENTLY neglected to turn my headset back on when I got back from my break. /facepalm

It never even occurred to me that I wasn't hearing orders come through from the drive through. It was so freaking busy it was all I could do to make the damn sandwiches on the current order before FIVE MORE freaking orders got slapped onto my damn screen. Only way I got through it without screaming in frustration was repeating this mantra in my head over and over, just to keep myself calm.

Found out today that non-essential spending at my company is being frozen, including IT. There's a legitimate reason for doing this (and it has nothing to do with the health of the company which is still quite strong) but as usual, management doesn't f*cking tell us anything until the last minute. We only have enough laptops to equip the new hires we've already been told about but they don't plan to suspend hiring so I guess we're supposed to just conjure systems out of the ether. We also bought a near bankrupt company that has a crumbling IT infrastructure and those guys will now have to suck it up and wait, even though I and they were told that new equipment was coming. Great for morale. We also have numerous shortcomings in our own infrastructure that desperately need upgrading but they kept putting it off and putting it off, now we're in a freeze that "could last for months" and apparently we're supposed to keep everything here running with sheer force of will. I really like this company and my job as a whole but stuff has been getting more and more off the rails around here lately. This is not a stress I needed after the terrible week and a half I've already had.

"Happy Valentines Day! Your divorce has been finalized!"

Boo....

Radical Ans wrote:

"Happy Valentines Day! Your divorce has been finalized!"

Boo....

Ugh, sorry to hear that, man. My Dad got the finalization on his divorce on their anniversary, which is probably worse than Valentine's. At least now it is over, and you can start the next chapter of your life.

February 14th is always terrible, but at least Feb 15th is "Chocolate Discount Day"... which really only makes things worse.

Spoiler:

I wonder if the suicide rate jumps on Feb 14th. /downer

Why the f*ck would the girl who just broke up with me still get me chocolates on Valentine's Day?

H to the ickle wrote:

Why the f*ck would the girl who just broke up with me still get me chocolates on Valentine's Day?

Because either she or you lacks perspective and/or self-awareness? (not sure whether you're complaining that she expects it, or that you go them for her anyway)

H to the ickle wrote:

Why the f*ck would the girl who just broke up with me still get me chocolates on Valentine's Day?

She's trying to feel less guilty. Eat them anyway, to spite her.

I didn't get her anything... because she cheated on me and dumped me a few weeks ago. So no, I wasn't expecting it.

H to the ickle wrote:

I didn't get her anything... because she cheated on me and dumped me a few weeks ago. So no, I wasn't expecting it.

You should have looked her straight in the eye and say 'Gee thanks, chocolate totally makes up for the cheating.'

H to the ickle wrote:

I didn't get her anything... because she cheated on me and dumped me a few weeks ago. So no, I wasn't expecting it.

You could always reciprocate.

IMAGE(http://www.victorianalady.com/images/750_New_Hope_Death_By_Chocolate.JPG)

Death looks mighty delicious.

H to the ickle wrote:

I didn't get her anything... because she cheated on me and dumped me a few weeks ago. So no, I wasn't expecting it.

Just saw this on the front page of Reddit. I assumed it was yours:

http://i.qkme.me/3szyoi.jpg (linked for mild NSFW)

Bonus_Eruptus wrote:
H to the ickle wrote:

I didn't get her anything... because she cheated on me and dumped me a few weeks ago. So no, I wasn't expecting it.

Just saw this on the front page of Reddit. I assumed it was yours:

http://i.qkme.me/3szyoi.jpg (linked for mild NSFW)

Scumbag Stevette?

H to the ickle wrote:

I didn't get her anything... because she cheated on me and dumped me a few weeks ago. So no, I wasn't expecting it.

Ockham's Razor says... she is crazy!

Demyx wrote:
H to the ickle wrote:

I didn't get her anything... because she cheated on me and dumped me a few weeks ago. So no, I wasn't expecting it.

Ockham's Razor says... she is crazy!

+1

Run, do not walk, away from this one.

[generic plenty of fish in the sea, specific you're better off without her]

Finally watched a Harlem Shake video. Your memes are pretty sucky these days, Internet.

ianunderhill wrote:

Finally watched a Harlem Shake video. Your memes are pretty sucky these days, Internet.

Yeah, I'm with ya, ian. Don't really get the Harlem Shake vids

Political discussion via facebook between my very conservative mother and my somewhat liberal friend. Oh geez... all stemming from a politically neutral comment I posted about the stupidity of today's media.

My barber-lady cut my hair too short. Now I either have to put product in it or look like an electrified hedgehog.

Totally unrelated: Ladies/fashionable men, regarded the electrified hedgehog look, is it 'in' this season? For say, the next month?

CptDomano wrote:
ianunderhill wrote:

Finally watched a Harlem Shake video. Your memes are pretty sucky these days, Internet.

Yeah, I'm with ya, ian. Don't really get the Harlem Shake vids

At first I was like "whaaaaaa?"

Then I was like "well, they're only 30 seconds long..."

Now I'm like "eh, good effort, not as cool as that other one"

Tomorrow will probably be "WHEN WILL THIS DIE ALREADY??"

dhelor wrote:

Political discussion via facebook between my very conservative mother and my somewhat liberal friend. Oh geez... all stemming from a politically neutral comment I posted about the stupidity of today's media.

And now my friend has come back with not one, but TWO walls of text in reply to my mother's last comment. And when I say "wall of text," I mean from the top of my browser to the bottom and THEN SOME. Good lord... I'm not even going to BEGIN to read them, I'm just gonna smack him the next time I see him. Maybe I'll try to find a book on proper sentence and paragraph structure before then too.

Facebook: the only way to win is not to play.

Whoa. Since when has Facebook been this hostile? I thought that was strictly limited to P&C.

dhelor wrote:
dhelor wrote:

Political discussion via facebook between my very conservative mother and my somewhat liberal friend. Oh geez... all stemming from a politically neutral comment I posted about the stupidity of today's media.

And now my friend has come back with not one, but TWO walls of text in reply to my mother's last comment. And when I say "wall of text," I mean from the top of my browser to the bottom and THEN SOME. Good lord... I'm not even going to BEGIN to read them, I'm just gonna smack him the next time I see him. Maybe I'll try to find a book on proper sentence and paragraph structure before then too.

'Delete comment' an option?