It's Personal...

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 9:39 am

OgreBattle wrote:muslim burgers and fries lately.

made from?

TiaC · Post by **TiaC** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 9:47 am

Stahlseele wrote:
OgreBattle wrote:muslim burgers and fries lately.
made from?

Real Muslims of course. What else would you make them from?

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 1:05 pm

TiaC wrote:
Stahlseele wrote:
OgreBattle wrote:muslim burgers and fries lately.
made from?
Real Muslims of course. What else would you make them from?

Local Radicalized youths/enemy combatants. Buy locally. The other white meat.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 1:42 am

http://imgur.com/a/KC5SS

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 4:39 am

Well, I got a job, so it's time for one of my tires to fuck off...

...apparently...

For some reason, whenever I get a job since I've had my car, something goes wrong with it. First year I had it, I got a flat the day my job started. The second year, I got a flat the day the training for my job started. This past year, shortly after I got my stock job, my car's computer fucked off.

Today, literally a week after I started my job, I got another flat.

Fortunately this time the flat happened after work.

I'm starting to think there's some higher power, and they are a fucking troll.

erik · Post by **erik** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 7:48 am

When I interviewed for my current job a rock hit and cracked my windshield creating a pretty large crack that was too big to repair.

Shortly after I started my job before that one there was a skiff of what was probably a concrete pack or something that was left on the highway and hit the shit out of my transmission fluid pan.

I feel your pain and I don't think this car will survive another job change. I need it to hold together for another few years so I can replace it with an electric car once those become economical. Or a jet pack.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 8:02 am

I used a chunk of my income tax return to get new glasses. I've had my current pair foe eight years and while the lenses are pretty scratch-free and my prescription hadn't slipped by much, it's still time.

So I've got that all paid for, I was all cool, I got some new clothes, did something other useful things with the money before I went and did my "want" purchases.

Then yesterday a filling came out of one of my teeth. That tooth's been chipped for a damn while and the chip was abutting the filling. I don't even know what I did to chip it.

It's not a toothache, and I'm being careful with it, but it just HAD to happen right when I don't have the money for surprise dental work. So yeah, you're not the only one.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 4:45 pm

http://www.rehtwogunraconteur.com/the-s ... rd-part-1/

Count Arioch the 28th · Wed Feb 24, 2016 7:29 pm

One of the few exes I have remained friends with got engaged the other day. I'm happy to hear that, she's a great woman and deserves it. However, it's been raising some uncomfortable questions that I would rather not think about. I know asking for someone to bond themselves to you permanently to you is a huge deal for normies (let alone a mentally and physically broken jerk with a credit score low enough to be deemed mentally retarded such as myself), and I know that most people just need to live in the now and enjoy things as they last. It's just that sometimes I wish that the whole eternal love thing wasn't barred completely to people like me. (the fact that my current primary has already told me she plans to leave town in the summer to move closer to her family leaves me feeling really down.)

I can't say my life is bad by any means. This is just causing me to question a lot of things that I didn't before and I am having trouble coming up with satisfactory answers.

Schleiermacher · Post by **Schleiermacher** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 7:57 pm

"eternal love" is a crock anyway. You get the honeymoon phase, you get that New Relationship glow, but it wears off. Then what you have is a relationship that had better be founded on mutual respect and common interests, or it won't last.

And plenty of neurotypicals and ostensibly successful people struggle just as much with that as you do, so take heart.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 8:10 pm

My current partner and I are both burnt out on "love" and relationships, and have basically agreed that we're both interested in seeing how long we can stay a thing before one of us drives the other crazy.

Eternal love is very poetic, but fuck that shit, all relationships have an expiration date, some people are just lucky that it is "on the death of one or both people."

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 6:20 pm

Jury duty starts Monday. Funny enough, it's a building I sort ofwork in.

See, I'm part of a janitorial crew. There's two buildings we clean--the US Army Corps of Engineers office, and the district's Federal Courthouse. I'm only in there a few times a year to help with something extra, because we divide the crew up, but still. This is seriously next door to work.

So my current plan is to stash work clothes at work, and then do jury duty, knock around between whatever time between that and work, and then do my job as normal and pick up two paychecks. Quite apart from being kinda interested in jury duty--I've been called, just never been picked for a panel--I'd like the idea of picking up a bit of spare cash.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 8:40 pm

Shelfies, 2016: http://imgur.com/a/OWmrG

Eikre · Post by **Eikre** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 9:34 pm

Nice bookhole, dude. I really like your dedication to barrister's shelves.

Have you considered doing some work on the room itself? Neutral walls, neutral carpet... I can't imagine you wouldn't be pleased with some wallpaper, at least.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 9:37 pm

I'm leasing. Also, the reason I haven't touched the walls is because they can't guarantee they got 100% of the asbestos out of them.

Eikre · Post by **Eikre** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 9:55 pm

Well if THAT's the case you actually want as many layers of /whatever/ on those suckers as possible. Seriously.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 11:05 pm

Seeing the Cthulhu pop figure on your shelf, AH, here's another thing for bookcase decor-

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 11:10 pm

Clik clik clik...

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 11:14 pm

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 8:37 pm

http://www.rehfoundation.org/the-robert ... -nominees/

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Thu Mar 03, 2016 2:30 am

Just got a "partially meets expectations" review at work despite actually getting a "meets expectations" (and being told as much) because a few people had to get offered up to the gods of the bell curve as a sacrifice.

Of course, they have to make up a pretext for this, and I was told it was because I wasn't collaborating with my broader department. I mentioned reaching out to them to see if they had any programming jobs they might need help on, and I was told "No, just stuff like having coffee with them or chatting with them, more.". So, I literally got fucked out of about $5,000 of raise/bonus for not chatting with my coworkers enough.

Time to start polishing that resume, I think...

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Thu Mar 03, 2016 9:54 am

Yeah, it's a trap.
As soon as you start doing that, the next review will probably have you partially meeting expectations because you keep doing stuff other than working and disrupting other peoples work with it.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Thu Mar 03, 2016 2:18 pm

Stahlseele wrote:Yeah, it's a trap.
As soon as you start doing that, the next review will probably have you partially meeting expectations because you keep doing stuff other than working and disrupting other peoples work with it.

Yeah, I obviously can't "do my job less" and expect better results, but I don't think this is meant to be a trap. It's a side-effect of their bell curve system, where a certain number of people need to be given below-average ratings. I was flat-out told that I met all of my expectations, but several (I wasn't the only one) people had to be bumped down to appease the system.

So, this whole "not chit-chatting enough" thing is just a very weird pretext that was invented to justify it. I know better than to call my boss and her boss out for being stupid during the meeting; for the time being, either one of them can make my life much worse. Still, this gave me the motivation to start polishing my resume/portfolio, which I haven't done in about eight years. Also, the economy is better than when I got this job, and I'm currently employed. Both of these will make the job hunt much less stressful.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Thu Mar 03, 2016 2:40 pm

I don't think it's a trap. It could also be just a pretext to not pay out the bonus because company decided to cut the salary tis month but doesn't want to actually cut the salary.

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Thu Mar 03, 2016 3:34 pm

Ancient History wrote:http://www.rehfoundation.org/the-robert ... -nominees/

Neat

the names are confusing though, I don't see the correlation between Hyrkanians and print essays.