Random Rants noventa y tres: The Incredible Hulk will not be presented this evening.

[Takhisis]

I know that you've lost your job, but a job that seems to be pirates disguised as investors who're looking to get into crypto of all things and ‘surveillance’.

I'd keep the baked goods for myself, frankly, and just get out while I can.

Itr would be terrible if facts could influence an election.

This post is a gift that keeps on giving!

People are suddenly waking up to the fact that the ministry of education is a total failure (46% of third-grade children cannot understand what they read) so the minister complains that a) it's the previous government's fault and b) why are people bringing it up when the misgovernment has already mentioned it somewhere obscure on a 32nd of February?

 

[Lexicus]

@Ajidica There are specific issues that I see with all this: one, your coworker specifically went to corporate-level HR instead of the HR person for your workplace; that raises red flags to me. Second, corporate HR made no effort to do any kind of due diligence including getting your side of the story, which seems like another huge red flag.

I reiterate I would at least talk to a lawyer; they may tell you what you said at the top of your post but on the other hand they might say you have a good case. If I were you I wouldn't want my old job back but maybe you could get a settlement.

 

[Ajidica]

I'll keep it in mind, thanks!

 

[Birdjaguar]

@Ajidica Perhaps get a new job before you take any action against your old company. If there is a legal case, it won't disappear if you are working somewhere new. Being involved in legal action with a former company will not help you get a new job. Likely it would hurt.

 

[The_J]

Seems in my surrouding it's currently the time of bad news. My mom is just out of hospital due to an inguinal hernia, the mom of a friend has now breast cancer (she only survived a melanoma a while back), a friend has a "benign" tumour, which might lead to hysterectomy (low chance), and she's going through a breakup, and the mom of another friend just broke her leg while on a visit.
I think that's enough bad stuff for a month or hopefully more.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I know that you've lost your job, but a job that seems to be pirates disguised as investors who're looking to get into crypto of all things and ‘surveillance’.

I'd keep the baked goods for myself, frankly, and just get out while I can.


This post is a gift that keeps on giving!

People are suddenly waking up to the fact that the ministry of education is a total failure (46% of third-grade children cannot understand what they read) so the minister complains that a) it's the previous government's fault and b) why are people bringing it up when the misgovernment has already mentioned it somewhere obscure on a 32nd of February?

Our Minister of Education can't understand what she reads much of the time. She hasn't much in the way of critical thinking skills, and can't read a speech without stumbling over the words. She posted some photos a few years ago of her "reading" a picture book to some school kids.

I've read Black Beauty - the unabridged version that doesn't have pictures. It's considerably thicker than that one full of pictures that she "read" to the kids.

 

[Ajidica]

Seems in my surrouding it's currently the time of bad news. My mom is just out of hospital due to an inguinal hernia, the mom of a friend has now breast cancer (she only survived a melanoma a while back), a friend has a "benign" tumour, which might lead to hysterectomy (low chance), and she's going through a breakup, and the mom of another friend just broke her leg while on a visit.
I think that's enough bad stuff for a month or hopefully more.

That sounds really terrible; my sympathies.

 

[TheCleanerDragon]

Spent almost an hour remodeling my house in the Sims 3. Didn't save at all while doing it, and the game crashed when I reentered live mode.

 

[H4run]

I feel I want to jump from the balcony now, ugh. So I'm inside my wife reseller group and I operate both my number and also her number so I can help her answer the customers which is 90 percent females btw. So I answering her friend as her, talking with all the girly emoji and stuff with love and hearts I feel their reaction is still bit formal and respectful but distant, and I realize I'm not using my wife number but I'm using my own numbers. I feel really dirty now, God help me.

 

[Farm Boy]

Just think of yourself having a really friendly day. Like you're in a really good mood and you can't explain why. I remember those used to happen.

Feel no shame.

 

[H4run]

Just think of yourself having a really friendly day. Like you're in a really good mood and you can't explain why. I remember those used to happen.

So I used both whatsap web on my edge (my wife's whatsapp) and also whatsapp business application (my number that's now become a business number), man, my brain just farted, and it's so embarrassing, now there's an awkward silence in the air I can't delete the previous conversation but I delete the last reply where I told them "Of course sister :heartemoji always happy to help! :smileywithhalostupidemoji" after I delete it, I rewrite it again with my wife's number to make sure that this is my wife the one is replying. Where's ctrl-z in life? where's that magic button!

 

[Farm Boy]

Well... erm. Brothers, have, erm. sisters too?

Maybe your kid did something cool today, like learning to use a fork in the socially expected way before they can drive a car or something. It's just a good day?

But seriously, I am hella amused at your misfortune if that's ok.

 

[H4run]

Well... erm. Brothers, have, erm. sisters too?

Maybe your kid did something cool today, like learning to use a fork in the socially expected way before they can drive a car or something. It's just a good day?

But seriously, I am hella amused at your misfortune if that's ok.

Yea, I should get up from my laptop and punch airs till my heart content.

 

[Farm Boy]

Look, you're embarrased for trying hard when you're working for your family. It's frustrating when it doesn't go right, but you were probably doing a great job. Just you were getting responses to you, when you were expecting the (typically) less proper and more just nice and excited responses your wife gets. Don't feel bad about that. Get up, run around, yell a bit. Then realize you're a damn good husband and father.

 

[Hygro]

I’ve started using more emojis the past few years in a relationship with a language difference. Then I started using them with my friends and family, definitely my sister. I’m back to a gayer prose too, for lack of a better way of putting it. Honestly like yes hearts and stuff I get it that’s a little embarrassing but overall it’s pretty okay and pass it off like Farm Boy said like it’s just an exuberant day.

 

[Takhisis]

I feel I want to jump from the balcony now, ugh. So I'm inside my wife reseller group and I operate both my number and also her number so I can help her answer the customers which is 90 percent females btw. So I answering her friend as her, talking with all the girly emoji and stuff with love and hearts I feel their reaction is still bit formal and respectful but distant, and I realize I'm not using my wife number but I'm using my own numbers. I feel really dirty now, God help me.

So I used both whatsap web on my edge (my wife's whatsapp) and also whatsapp business application (my number that's now become a business number), man, my brain just farted, and it's so embarrassing, now there's an awkward silence in the air I can't delete the previous conversation but I delete the last reply where I told them "Of course sister :heartemoji always happy to help! :smileywithhalostupidemoji" after I delete it, I rewrite it again with my wife's number to make sure that this is my wife the one is replying. Where's ctrl-z in life? where's that magic button!

How cute!

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I need to accept that I'm just completely unlikable and there's nothing I can do to change that. All I do is make everyone around me angry. It's further proof of how I fail at everything. It would be better for everyone if I never existed.

To everyone here I'm sorry. I've been too much of a irritating burden on everyone and it's unfair that anyone should have to put up with me. I'm just too stupid to notice when I make people angry but as I'm always told, "it's too late for sorry".

 

[Kyriakos]

I need to accept that I'm just completely unlikable and there's nothing I can do to change that. All I do is make everyone around me angry. It's further proof of how I fail at everything. It would be better for everyone if I never existed.

This kind of sense doesn't lead anywhere other than doom.
The problem with there being time to change things in one's life, is that it requires persistence. Which usually is extremely difficult. People who are depressed can fall back to depression - but one still should try to get out of it.

Far easier said than done, of course.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I feel I want to jump from the balcony now, ugh. So I'm inside my wife reseller group and I operate both my number and also her number so I can help her answer the customers which is 90 percent females btw. So I answering her friend as her, talking with all the girly emoji and stuff with love and hearts I feel their reaction is still bit formal and respectful but distant, and I realize I'm not using my wife number but I'm using my own numbers. I feel really dirty now, God help me.

Okay, I'm confused. This is a business the two of you are engaged in, and you (both of you) use hearts and "girly emojis" when communicating with customers?



I might go as far as a basic if I were conducting business online. I would never do hearts or some of that other stuff.


So help me, I will never forget the time an employee at the vet's office put "Have a nice day!" at the bottom of my receipt - yeah, sure, I'll "have a nice day" when the reason I was there was to have my cat EUTHENIZED, and I'm an emotional wreck and can barely function at that point.

I’ve started using more emojis the past few years in a relationship with a language difference. Then I started using them with my friends and family, definitely my sister. I’m back to a gayer prose too, for lack of a better way of putting it. Honestly like yes hearts and stuff I get it that’s a little embarrassing but overall it’s pretty okay and pass it off like Farm Boy said like it’s just an exuberant day.

At least I know that if someone drops a heart on one of my FB posts, it means definite agreement with what I said (my FB posts are mostly confined to provincial political stuff, though I occasionally make a useful or encouraging post on one of the 3-D needlepoint groups I belong to and someone wants to convey sincere appreciation).

 

[H4run]

Okay, I'm confused. This is a business the two of you are engaged in, and you (both of you) use hearts and "girly emojis" when communicating with customers?

Well.. yess, it's an online business, we set up an online shop, whatsapp group, social-media then we sell stuff, and the nature is not at all formal, the theme is mostly friendly and familiar, and it's not only unique to me, we just copying others as well.

I even make games once in a while to keep up peoples engagement in the group, and we also buy and promote whatever product they sells, let's say you sell cakes I might buy your cake and post the picture of it while tagging you, telling every member that I buy this cake from you and it's so delicious. So it's more like, community setting, we either know our customers before they become our customers or we ending up getting to know them after.