Random Rants 0x52: [Obligatory rant about title]

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Welp my friend and I just got laid off without warning
I'm so sorry Lexicus :( I hope you're able to find something new (and maybe better!) quickly.

Rant: Mr KB hasn't been using his breathe right strips when he goes to bed, so he's been snoring something awful. When he's wearing his strip he at least snores softly enough that my sound machine can block it out, but last night he kept waking me up constantly. I had to take a two-hour nap yesterday afternoon because I haven't been getting enough sleep.
 
Welp my friend and I just got laid off without warning
That sucks. But also.. Congrats, you were chilling and now you can hustle up.
 
That's a red flag right there. You should probably leave him.

Yep.
He's also failed to give me a baby after almost five months. I know I shouldn't start worrying until after a year, but I'm impatient ... plus, my sister literally was pregnant barely a month after she got married.

I've decided to take today off from work, I'm just too tired. I have tickets to see Frozen 2 tomorrow, maybe I'll go see A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood today?
 
That sucks. But also.. Congrats, you were chilling and now you can hustle up.

Yeah I was stagnating there so I think it'll turn out for the best. I'm mostly just disappointed with my direct supervisors, they handled it in the most cowardly way possible...none of them were even in the office, and we got fired by the HR director and chief counsel.
 
Yeah, that sucks. Whenever I had to let people go I always did it myself. Once HR told me they would handle it but I convinced them to let me do. An employee at least is owed that.
Maybe you can come over to the dark side and join a management team. :lol:
Good luck though.
 
Wow, I'm so sorry @Lexicus, that really does sound awful, and really doesn't reflect well on your bosses :(

What kind of work are you thinking of looking into next?
 
My friend even texted our boss letting him know it officially happened and wishing him well and afaik he didn't even respond. That's a slap in the face.
Wow, just wow. What a dick move.
 
What kind of work are you thinking of looking into next?

I'm planning to apply for a couple of different positions in the Bernie campaign today, also a temp job at the American Federation of Teachers, and intend to leverage my contacts from college to see what else I can find (while also scouring the internet for job openings). I also already (actually, Wednesday, the day before we got laid off) started looking at masters degree programs for social science and public policy.

Wow, I'm so sorry @Lexicus, that really does sound awful, and really doesn't reflect well on your bosses :(

Yeah, you can say that again.
 
I would ask if you sent a text message but I've always been a proponent of not burning bridges. :lol:
 
I would ask if you sent a text message but I've always been a proponent of not burning bridges. :lol:

No, I did not. I'm not going to be consumed with bitterness and resentment over this. I just thought better of them, that's all.
 
Yeah, the couple of times it happened to me, it seemed that there was no plus side to wallowing in bitterness and resentment.
 
As one notable "fake Buddha" quote says, "Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else."
 
As one notable "fake Buddha" quote says, "Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else."
As a certain Daedric Prince once said, "Why turn all that hatred inwards at yourself, when it can so easily be turned outwards at others?" :p
 
Rant: Mr KB hasn't been using his breathe right strips when he goes to bed, so he's been snoring something awful. When he's wearing his strip he at least snores softly enough that my sound machine can block it out, but last night he kept waking me up constantly. I had to take a two-hour nap yesterday afternoon because I haven't been getting enough sleep.
Sounds like my brother.....sometimes you could hear him snore from outside the house
 
Sounds like my brother.....sometimes you could hear him snore from outside the house
Me too unfortunately. One of my classmates lived in the apartment above me but thought she lived above someone else. One day she complained about how loud that other tenant was when he snored and they could hear him through their floor. It made me cringe and feel really bad but I had no control over it.

It got a lot better when I cut back drinking, stopped smoking and lost a bunch of weight. Like a lot a lot
 
Gave my sandwich press a test spin today. It went a lot faster than I expected (rave). The reviews said it takes at least 15 minutes just to heat up, and then the heat level itself is low. But it got to cooking temps within two minutes. Gave my sandwich a golden brown texture after three minutes in the press.

It was... mediocre. Wonder bread doesn't seem to work very well. The texture and taste of it is off. The cheese was unnoticeable. The meat was okay. I could have kept it in the press for an extra minute, but the first test run is what I would consider a failure. I did not use tomato or anything else this time.

Still, the speed of it is promising. My motivation plummets further and further in direct correlation with how long something takes, and knowing it'll take ~10 minutes instead of ~20+ is nice.
 
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