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  • ToxTox I kill threads they/themRegistered User regular
    edited April 2012
    Tox wrote: »
    $90.88, which is a lot more than $20, and I don't even remember what I spent that money on. Probably dining out.

    That awkward moment when you realize how fucking poor you have to be to think that $90 "is a lot more than" $20. #fml #firstworldproblems

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  • CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
    So the guy I'm supposed to work with on Monday and Friday nights has screwed me over the last 3 nights we've worked

    That's fun

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    So the guy I'm supposed to work with on Monday and Friday nights has screwed me over the last 3 nights we've worked

    That's fun

    Ugh that blows

    Right now I am nervous about actually getting a weekend

    Because one of my coworkers called in sick tonight and I'm worried that she might do the same tomorrow/sunday night as well

  • CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
    Well it started last Friday night. I was sick as a dog but still came into work. We had a roll change at the start if the shift meaning that we had to go out and tear down one of the mills and build it back. It's a hot greasy dangerous job. Now this same guy has been sick plenty of times and I've picked up the slack for him on roll changes so he basically doesn't have to do a damn thing. But he doesn't help me out in the least. He lays down and slacks behind so I have to do most of the work, all while stopping periodically to puke. And he's laughing about it. So I tell him how much bullshit it is and how he can go fuck himself. He apologizes and I make it through the night.

    Then on Monday night we finished another roll change and the rest of the night looked pretty easy. We still had work to do but there was no rush on it, but other people were waiting on us before they could do their work. So this guy begs and pleads the boss to be put in an easier job for the night for "training". He wanted to sit on his ass for 6 hours of a 12 hour shift. It left me with a shitload of work to do for 1 person in a 2 person job. At this point I didn't want to fucking see the guy and didn't say a word to him after the shift was over.

    Cut to tonight and he's done the same thing again. Convinced a boss to let him "train" in the saw while there was work for us to do. I finished the bare minimum that needed to be done and don't plan on doing anything else the rest of the night. If they wanted shit to get done they would have left me with a partner instead of making me have to guide 3 ton rolls into a cradle by myself

    Fuck it. I almost hope I get hurt tonight so I can sue the ever-loving shit out of this place.

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  • HarrierHarrier The Star Spangled Man Registered User regular
    PUNCH THE SHIT OUT OF THAT FUCKER

    I don't wanna kill anybody. I don't like bullies. I don't care where they're from.
  • ToxTox I kill threads they/themRegistered User regular
    Nah don't get hurt, bro. Just the next time he pulls that crap (or tonight, or whenever you're in good with your boss, or whatever), ask your boss if they're planning to transfer him out and put someone else on, so that your shift will have the manpower to get more work done. Training is a good thing, especially if he's trying to transfer to a different job or something, but if they leave your area understaffed for too long, there will end up being a backlog of work.

    Of course, that's what you tell your boss. I'm with you, that's fucked up.

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  • CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
    That rant brought to you by the 30 minute bathroom break I just took because fuck it

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  • CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
    Seriously, I finished the roll that the guys building the next set of mills needed at 11pm

    I ain't done dick since

    And that won't change until about 5:30am

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  • IpseDixitIpseDixit Treat me like a pirate And give me that bootyRegistered User regular
    Tox wrote: »
    IpseDixit wrote: »
    Tox wrote: »
    My favorite fast food story about money was when I was working as a front-end manager, counting down a drawer, and one of the drawers came up way over. We used counting machines that weighed the coin and you tell it what type of coin it is and it tells you how much is in it. Turns out it was miscounting the quarters.

    Because there was $4 worth of pure silver quarters someone had paid with.

    I made $20 bucks off those quarters (which I 'bought' from the drawer). Wish I'd hung on to them, they'd be worth a fuckton more now.

    Not really. Silver quarters have a melt value of 5.68

    which is about triple what I made off of them originally.

    Whoooooooops thought that was 4 quarters not $4 of quarters
    Janson wrote: »
    Also silver quarters, so pretty :3

    ?

    They look exactly like regular quarters

    Well unless you polish them I guess?

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Man tonight has been fairly easy for a Friday

    And I feel bad thinking it but I think a big reason is because my coworker isn't here

    She tends to get overly stressed and that stresses everyone else out

  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    Stress/drama in the workplace is the worst

    You want to get involved and help work things out but can't because that inevitably makes things worse

    It just ends up bringing everyone down

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Yuup

    My coworker was saying it's because she's female and she deals with stress differently

    And all I could respond with was "Yup, women are different from men."

  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    Yeah your coworker has some super dumb ideas.

  • ToxTox I kill threads they/themRegistered User regular
    IpseDixit wrote: »
    Janson wrote: »
    Also silver quarters, so pretty :3

    ?

    They look exactly like regular quarters

    Well unless you polish them I guess?

    They're naturally a bit shinier, and they sound different when they clink up against other metal coins.

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    I am having the worst dreams on this vacation

    like, tonight I dreamt that I was part of this jungle expedition when suddenly aliens kidnap all the expedition members' kids and I have to negotiate with them to get them back

    and I can't do it and so the kids are gone forever

    then there was another dream where I was an old man and I had a heart attack or something and when I woke up in the hospital I was blind and bloody tears were streaming from my eyes, so a nurse had to constantly dab them

    yay vacation, rest and recuperation

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  • CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
    Holy shit

    You aren't by chance vacationing at a Colorado resort that's been shut down for the winter are you?

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    no I'm in France

    is that better I don't know

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  • CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
    ehhhhhhhh

    nope

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  • IpseDixitIpseDixit Treat me like a pirate And give me that bootyRegistered User regular
    Tox wrote: »
    IpseDixit wrote: »
    Janson wrote: »
    Also silver quarters, so pretty :3

    ?

    They look exactly like regular quarters

    Well unless you polish them I guess?

    They're naturally a bit shinier, and they sound different when they clink up against other metal coins.

    Oh yes I know

    I have quite a few of them, and even more silver dimes

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  • AnialosAnialos Collies are love, Collies are life! Shadowbrook ColliesRegistered User regular
    I've got one two dollar bill I always have in my wallet for luck. My other one is in a frame from when I got perfect attendance to some church thing when I was like...8.

  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    Liiya wrote: »
    Oh, I'm sorry!

    Think nothing of it.
    Druhim wrote: »
    There's nothing wrong with it, but I do find it really interesting how many people wait to get their driver's license or are so freaked out by driving that they don't want to learn. When I was in high school, everyone was eager to learn to drive because it meant freedom.

    Freedom is great, but there was a severe concern in my head that somehow I was going to fuck up. Now that I'm nearly off my learners I love driving and I've learned from my mistakes, but having been through that mental block myself I can understand where people are coming from.

  • CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
    I've got a 2 dollar bill I keep in my wallet from change I got going across one of the bridges in NYC. My first big trip solo

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Holy shit

    You aren't by chance vacationing at a Colorado resort that's been shut down for the winter are you?

    As a big fan of the movie, I want you to know I appreciated this reference.

  • FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    I've been trying to write a message in my wife's birthday card all day and now I've tried putting pen to paper it's come out all wrong and I'm not a fan of what I've written at all and now I just want to tear the back of the card off and give her a piece of card with a pretty picture of penguins on it because that would be better than giving her a card filled with the useless crap I wrote but that's also not what she deserves at all because she's awesome and wonderful and damn it why can't I write something good and nice and simple that just cleanly express heartfelt emotion with out being an asinine or convoluted or Jesus fuck ass shit balls motherfuck.

    I am less than enthused by this turn of events.

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  • I Win SwordfightsI Win Swordfights all the traits of greatness starlight at my feetRegistered User regular
    fishman you are fucking adorable

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  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    My job is so fucking stressful, I'm a sales representative (which is a nicer word for salesman) for a testlab and there's so much work to do for me that I can never finish it on time and I get all the customers calling me when I'm running late too. This would not be so bad if it wasn't really difficult stuff I'm selling. I kinda rolled into this by chance and figured I'd learn stuff on the job, but we're testing some extremely complex stuff I can hardly explain to other people.

    So like, every time a new customer calls I spend half an hour trying to explain how things work and that's pretty fun. I'm learning a lot about communication and it nets us a lot of new customers. But I also got like a dozen quotations to write, a dozen other customers to call about quotations I made earlier and another dozen customers who I need to talk to because they failed earlier tests or they require specific help with fixing their appliances/machines and then there's my co-workers who need to talk to me about what they're supposed to do because there's always some ambiguities after I have done my job and the customer is in the test lab asking questions they haven't discussed with me before. Not to mention the amount of work I get when a customer does not show up, holy fuck telling a guy that we want money because he is a fuck-up is tough. Especially if the guy is working for a big-ass company making machines for gigantic international corporations.

    I have dreams about work and nightmares about forgetting things every day. I had some fucked up dreams where all my customers were replaced by my friends and they were all super disappointed in me not answering them properly.

  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    Fishman wrote: »
    I've been trying to write a message in my wife's birthday card all day and now I've tried putting pen to paper it's come out all wrong and I'm not a fan of what I've written at all and now I just want to tear the back of the card off and give her a piece of card with a pretty picture of penguins on it because that would be better than giving her a card filled with the useless crap I wrote but that's also not what she deserves at all because she's awesome and wonderful and damn it why can't I write something good and nice and simple that just cleanly express heartfelt emotion with out being an asinine or convoluted or Jesus fuck ass shit balls motherfuck.

    I am less than enthused by this turn of events.

    Hand her the front half of the card, say something like "Print is dead." and then just plant a giant kisser on her.

  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Fishman wrote: »
    I've been trying to write a message in my wife's birthday card all day and now I've tried putting pen to paper it's come out all wrong and I'm not a fan of what I've written at all and now I just want to tear the back of the card off and give her a piece of card with a pretty picture of penguins on it because that would be better than giving her a card filled with the useless crap I wrote but that's also not what she deserves at all because she's awesome and wonderful and damn it why can't I write something good and nice and simple that just cleanly express heartfelt emotion with out being an asinine or convoluted or Jesus fuck ass shit balls motherfuck.

    I am less than enthused by this turn of events.

    Damn brains. The important thing is you're making the effort to communicate something meaningful to her even if your brain's not being cooperative right now.

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  • SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    Fishman wrote: »
    I've been trying to write a message in my wife's birthday card all day and now I've tried putting pen to paper it's come out all wrong and I'm not a fan of what I've written at all and now I just want to tear the back of the card off and give her a piece of card with a pretty picture of penguins on it because that would be better than giving her a card filled with the useless crap I wrote but that's also not what she deserves at all because she's awesome and wonderful and damn it why can't I write something good and nice and simple that just cleanly express heartfelt emotion with out being an asinine or convoluted or Jesus fuck ass shit balls motherfuck.

    I am less than enthused by this turn of events.

    Print up this post and glue it over what you've written

  • ToxTox I kill threads they/themRegistered User regular
    Sheri wrote: »
    Fishman wrote: »
    I've been trying to write a message in my wife's birthday card all day and now I've tried putting pen to paper it's come out all wrong and I'm not a fan of what I've written at all and now I just want to tear the back of the card off and give her a piece of card with a pretty picture of penguins on it because that would be better than giving her a card filled with the useless crap I wrote but that's also not what she deserves at all because she's awesome and wonderful and damn it why can't I write something good and nice and simple that just cleanly express heartfelt emotion with out being an asinine or convoluted or Jesus fuck ass shit balls motherfuck.

    I am less than enthused by this turn of events.

    Print up this post and glue it over what you've written

    Maybe drop the profanity at the end.

    Also, just make sure you don't keep her waiting on the card ;)

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  • premiumpremium Registered User regular
    Fishman wrote: »
    I've been trying to write a message in my wife's birthday card all day and now I've tried putting pen to paper it's come out all wrong and I'm not a fan of what I've written at all and now I just want to tear the back of the card off and give her a piece of card with a pretty picture of penguins on it because that would be better than giving her a card filled with the useless crap I wrote but that's also not what she deserves at all because she's awesome and wonderful and damn it why can't I write something good and nice and simple that just cleanly express heartfelt emotion with out being an asinine or convoluted or Jesus fuck ass shit balls motherfuck.

    I am less than enthused by this turn of events.

    If what you wrote was even half as amazing as this post I'm sure she will be happy.

  • ToxTox I kill threads they/themRegistered User regular
    But seriously, bro, you're a pretty awesome dude. I wouldn't worry too much.

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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    I am coming down with what my buddy had this week I think.

    That's gonna suck. I probably shouldn't have visited him, heh.

  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    going back to that whole driving thing

    I used to be terrified of driving, then I got lessons. Then, the more comfortable I got, the worse I got. I just could not pay attention to what was going on around me, or I blocked it out, or something. Also my natural reaction to things going bad was just to stop. Point is I was a danger and would probably get myself or someone else killed if allowed to be behind the wheel. I do know enough that if I had to drive a car in an emergency, I could. Just not legally.

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  • premiumpremium Registered User regular
    Give it a try again some day. I'm sure you can train your brain to pay attention if you keep at it.
    Try a different instructor or driving sober next time.

  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I like how you just assumed he must be drunk whenever he's driving.

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  • HarrierHarrier The Star Spangled Man Registered User regular
    Fishman wrote: »
    I've been trying to write a message in my wife's birthday card all day and now I've tried putting pen to paper it's come out all wrong and I'm not a fan of what I've written at all and now I just want to tear the back of the card off and give her a piece of card with a pretty picture of penguins on it because that would be better than giving her a card filled with the useless crap I wrote but that's also not what she deserves at all because she's awesome and wonderful and damn it why can't I write something good and nice and simple that just cleanly express heartfelt emotion with out being an asinine or convoluted or Jesus fuck ass shit balls motherfuck.

    I am less than enthused by this turn of events.
    "I love you."

    Done.

    Also what Weaver said about the kiss.

    I don't wanna kill anybody. I don't like bullies. I don't care where they're from.
  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    always sober

    it's just not worth taking the gamble that I fuck up majorly to try again, since I cheated too many accidents, but didn't avoid all of them.

    I pretty much spent six months becoming the reaper's chaueffeur.

    Not everyone should drive. I can live with it, and get anywhere I need to go with no problems.

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    Druhim wrote: »
    I like how you just assumed he must be drunk whenever he's driving.

    also this

    and also also damn I feel like I repeat myself a lot

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