Random Rants

[sysyphus]

My supervisor is an incompetent control freak who is ruining my career development by keeping me in the dark and giving me no leeway to do my work, and only letting me do miniscule tasks, dictated in every detail by him.

He's a politically charged self-promoter, who takes all credit for anything that goes well (or more accurately appears to go well), and fingers the blame in my direction everytime something goes wrong, regardless of whether I had any involvement or not.

Of course, he leaves me to get things from people, who hate his confusing and overbureaucratic expectations, leaving me to demand things from people which I cannot justify in the slightest.

And he's ugly.

Our loathesome manager refuses to hear me out and is also a politically charged self-promoter who only believes in maintaining the stupid bloody hierarchy despite his complete and utter incompetence.

Fortunately I have a job interview this week, one step closer to escaping from these useless scumbags.

 

[newfangle]

You work for a Crown corp, don't you? If so, you practically sign up to have bosses like that!

Good luck finding new employment. I recommend moving to a certain Western city that has immense bandwagon pride for its hockey team.

 

[sysyphus]

Yes, Vancouver is very nice.

 

[Sophie 378]

My candle went out during the carol service. We do Once In Royal David's City as a processional, lights off and carrying candles. It was so cold I decided to keep mine lit all through the service (also I'm a pyromaniac), but it blew out after just three carols. And then I had to walk home in the freezing cold night. Why is the uniform all black? Walking in all black is not safe at night, the local drivers are quite insane enough already when they can see you.

 

[Renata]

My boss makes us do the Secret Santa thing every December. I keep drawing the name of someone I either barely know or can't stand. It reminds me of boarding school.

 

[marioh]

Some idiot in a truck just took out the awning in the front of my work building. He effectively brought the entire steel and concrete awning down along with ripping the front doors off and shattering all the glass in the front door area (since they were all attached to a steel beam that was attached to the awning). The guy had to have been doing around 20mph+ to generate the type of force to take down a concrete and steel structure, though he claims he was only going 5mph (if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you). Luckily, no one was under the awning or near the front door, so no one got hurt. It scared the crap out of our receptionist though.

 

[bhsup]

*Grr* Why must barbar shops be closed on mondays? I drive 7 miles to my barber only to smack myself on the head and say, "oh yeah, barber hours are in effect!"

 

[Atlas14]

Saw this one kid, about 18 yrs. old, in the mall and he was wearing his Virginia Tech hat sideways, and half-off his head. I absolutely can't stand people who try sooo hard to look "cool". It defeats the purpose of "coolness" when you have to try to look cool. Typically, coolness is something you are or you aren't, and wearing your hat sideways and half-off your head (in my mind anyway) makes you look like a fool. It is just irritating to see "college students" behaving and dressing like a ******** highschooler eager for popularity and attention. You aren't fooling anyone when you do that. I still think you are an idiot. Thats what I thought in my head.

 

[mitsho]

My rant is that time is closing up, as I still don't know what to do in January (until mid-march), and I do nothing but read books at home now (we got the oral exams next week).

 

[sysyphus]

My boss makes us do the Secret Santa thing every December. I keep drawing the name of someone I either barely know or can't stand. It reminds me of boarding school.

You have my sympathies. I hate those stupid things.

 

[Pasi Nurminen]

You work for a Crown corp, don't you? If so, you practically sign up to have bosses like that!

Good luck finding new employment. I recommend moving to a certain Western city that has immense bandwagon pride for its hockey team.

Do you mean Calgary, the team that was openly discussing moving before their one and only winning season of the decade?

 

[Neonanocyborgasm]

Go on, get it off your chest.

What happend today that makes you wanna punch the daylights out of something?

Or just tell us about those everyday buggerups that really roots yer boot (pet hates).

Although this thread is meant to be an inferno, it's a therapeutic inferno, so keep your flames aimed at concepts, not other posters.

It didn't happen today, but last Wednesday, while driving home from work, I got in a bad car accident when a 94 year old man wasn't watching on-coming traffick (me) and tried to make a left turn on a 2-way street. Now I'm stuck with a rental while my insurance company attempts to sort things out. They are sympathetic to me (the guy is supposed to yield when turning), but that doesn't make me feel better.

To top it off, the rental had a flat tire the day after I rented it! Now that made me mad! Today I switched it for a different car, a Dodge Neon. This one's nicer. Oh yeah.

 

[newfangle]

Do you mean Calgary, the team that was openly discussing moving before their one and only winning season of the decade?

I included the word 'bandwagon' for obvious reasons.

 

[Mathilda]

Burned a part of my arm on Friday, second degree burn.
It seems to be hurting more and more every day

 

[The Yankee]

Up another night. Thankfully, this is the last paper of the term.

 

[Abaddon]

jus found out i have a 3000 word essay in for friday, 4pm. oh ****!

 

[Sophie 378]

I hate having PMT. I am really stressed, angry and pissed about loads of things I normally wouldn't even get annoyed about. I hate the stupid arses who spend hours every night yelling and shouting and laughing drunkenly outside my window, waking me up and disturbing me. Today they started just after 4am, and didn't stop until nearly 5. Tonight they've been wandering around while making all that racket, so I've been hearing them for maybe ten minutes in every hour ALL EFFING EVENING.
I hate being overloaded with anger and frustration, curdling in me, when it's obviously hormonal (happens nearly every month), it's so stupid being a slave to chemicals, so frustrating, and I know it's the hormones which makes me even more pissed.
I wish my effing sister had told me before yesterday that she wouldn't come to see me until after Xmas; it's ruined my entire planning for the next few weeks. I'd got everything organised for her coming in this coming week, and now she finally condescends to tell me that she won't be coming after all, despite having made two spur-of-the-moment other overnight visits to friends during the week, so her excuse is just stupid. Now I have only tail-ends of nasty food left over, which I now have to eat before I go, which I'd been planning to turn into lovely food by buying new stuff and cooking them up together and now I can't because I'll be going in a couple of days and it'd be wasted. I just tried to use up some stuff and it's actually the first time I remember ever cooking something that tasted bad. So frustrating. I want to go on a rampage and kill people, which makes me feel alarmed and guilty, which makes me even more pissed.
Another thing that's driving me mad is my left ear. For the last two days it's been tender and painful; I can't see anything wrong with it (as far as I can do an inspection with two mirrors), but it aches all the time and is really tender to the touch around the ear canal. Even the skin around it is starting to be affected, and the muscle in my jaw. I've tried looking for a boil to lance, I've tried filling it with hot water while showering, I've tried a hot compress, I've tried a cold one, I've tried ignoring it, and next I am going to try asking someone to look at it.

 

[Ultima Dragoon]

Stuff Squaresoft.

Damnit they freakin put back Advent children for until next freaking year.

I've been waiting for that for 1 1/2 years already.

And It was put back on the day that it was supposed to come out on.

 

[Renata]

@ Sophie -- I don't get PMS (what it's called in the US) very often or very bad, but I feel exactly the same way when I get too short on food or sleep. And I hate it. I have so little control over how I act then; everything's this constant anger and annoyance. All I can do is try to prevent it by always having something decent to eat near me (real food -- sugary crud only makes me feel worse) and trying to get enough sleep. With my personality, both those things are difficult. Frustrating.

 

[The Yankee]

I can sympathize with Sophie. It's not as bad as 4 AM, but whoever is right above me has been moving and banging things on the floor for hours each day this week. It's not even during working hours...which I'd understand if it were some kind of moving or work.

On another note, for some silly reason the final exam for Managerial Accoutning is actually two exams. And I get to be stuck from 9 am to nearly 3 pm. At least there's a 1 1/2 hour break in the middle.