Thread: Rant and Rave, Cry and Complain

When the interviewers ask why you were laid off, do you tell them it was because you snitched on the employer or fellow employees? Maybe if you do that, they'll be less likely to believe whatever accusations your ex-employers come up with?

I snitched on a employee(supervisor) to the ceo, and no i didn't say it, nowdays employers don't want that from a worker idk why, everything is corrupted. I had a few jobs that put me off and each has their own story and employer.

That sucks, I feel for you. Maybe try mentioning it once to an interviewer that seems honest. Like mention how an employee was doing something wrong, you told the employer, and then he fired you for it. Idk, that's a tough spot to be in. =/

For what it's worth, interviewers care more about your appearance and how you carry yourself than they do about your resume, maybe make an effort to look super-duper pooper-scooper good (like yall gotsta get yo hair did, gurrrrl. fo realz). Like, even more adorable than you currently are. /positive vibes, maahn

I'm tired of feeling second best to everyone. It sucks.

LOVE the shirt WishfulThinker (love the skirt in the pic even more though I love long skirts)
And for feeling down.

I second what was said about music. I don't use it nearly as often as I should. "Pump up the Volume" (usually not my taste in music lol) always gets me rearing for a workout
Tommo

Hathor. That royally sucks. Especially if that's the job that gave you most of your experience. If it was one out of a couple or few jobs, I'd just omit them But it doesn't sound as if you can do that

I have a few rants:
It's friggin freezing today. I slept in the nude last night because I need to wash my clothes, but the waters frozen. The temp dropped to 9 (NINE!!!!) degrees last night, so I froze, sweat, froze even more, slept in a ball so tight my legs ached and kept waking me.
I had one interesting dream that I can recall, but it was confusing because I character hopped a lot. But I got to glide/fly using bandannas which I always enjoy. I also used some sort of strap to catch the air before it frayed too much. That was a first.

Another rant is my defeatist attitude. I went to Exxon the other day and the cashier was complaining to someone that she couldn't be at work every single day. I laughed and told her "If I had a job history and references, I'd be a happy to help you out." She told me she'd be my reference lol and then helped me fill out my job history. Burger King and Baby-sitting lol I told her I had applied before but the main office wouldn't even consider me. She said the main office is left out of hiring now-a-days and she'd put in a word for me with the boss.
Great. Left the store glowing. But then reality sank in. I'm an idiot. I'd never figure out the register. But I went out and spent $20. for cellphone minutes anyhow so they could call. Then I spent the rest of the night beating myself up for being so stupid. I get overwhelmed too easily. If there's a rush, what would I do? What if the power goes out (they stay open anyhow and use calculators lol). And then they'd have put all this work into trying to train me and end up wasting their time.
Because I'm an idiot

As an example: I've mentioned that I count my pulse until I fall asleep. It's very funny (yet sad) because whenever I reach, say, 39, 59, 79, my pulse stops for a moment because I get anxious about what comes after those "9's"
I mean I KNOW how to count lol but sometimes it takes a moment to process the whole thing.

So I concluded: If they call, I'll try. I'll never know what I'm capable of if I don't at least try. But I wont pursue them.
It hit me though... without child support, my budget is $200- $400. LESS each month. That's a big chunk of money. And yet child support was never supposed to be about living expenses. I got spoiled.

Another rant ties in to the first. There's no water because it's been so cold. Which means, no shower, no laundry. And I'm in desperate need of a shower. For that matter, I'm in desperate need of clean clothes too lol

The last rant is that my internet has been royally sucking. I keep getting lagged out of WoW.

An anti-rant is that I reached level 80 on my Druid
The rant in that is that I can get no higher until I buy the expansions... which I can't do without money

Oh well. Such little things. I have a roof over my head, clothes for the moment, and a wee bit of food until I go shopping tonight. I'll definitely survive.

Random questions:
Has anyone ever gotten a severe pain right behind/under their left breast? To me, it feels like 2 bones over-lapping. It hurts to breathe in or out too deeply. But once you breathe through it a bit, it sort of "pops" and the pain disappears.
I use to get those all the friggin time as a teen and occasionally throughout the rest of my life. It happened a couple times the other day which made me think of it again.

I forgot the second random question lol. I'm sure it'll come to me again later

Hathor. That royally sucks. Especially if that's the job that gave you most of your experience. If it was one out of a couple or few jobs, I'd just omit them But it doesn't sound as if you can do that.

Well i agree with omitting them, i am more on finding customer service jobs now and that's the only one closely similar to my previous jobs and also have 3 yrs exp in.

I hope everyone gets employed, and especially at a job they like! *Sends good will and good luck*

Zhaylin: Working the register just takes a bit of practice, and after a while it just becomes muscle memory. When I worked at Papa Johns most of the day I just worked on autopilot. You can do it! And in response to your random question - yes, I have had that, but more behind my right breast. Turns out it was gas cramps and an anti-gas pill helped It kind of surprised me since it didn't feel like gas but there ya go. I don't know if that's your problem, but if it helps, great. Though since it's near the heart I'd treat it with more concern if that isn't the case.

I have no rant today, just a major anti-rant and a minor complaint. We bought a bigass 55" TV yesterday It looks awesome! Before we had a 32" and it was pretty difficult to play games. My mini map was... too mini. I couldn't see a damn thing. So we watched Game of Thrones in all its glory Better yet, the TV was $200 off! Yay!

We seem to be really lucky when it comes to finding deals. For our wedding we kept going to stores for stuff we needed and finding things 50%-75% off. Whenever I need to buy pants I seem to go on the half-off day. We decided to get one of our big things (the TV) when it happened to be $100 off plus another $100 for President's Day. What's with that? (Not that I'm complaining.)

Now for the complaint: I hate not being good at stuff. My siblings are extremely smart, and in addition to that (and the rest of their many talents) my sister is really creative and my brother is insanely good at storytelling. I'm jealous. Highly jealous. Out of my whole family I think I'm the dumbest. I want to be able to write, write anything. But I'm not good at it, I'm not good at expressing myself or my ideas, and I'm pretty ham-fisted with the whole thing. My sister has been writing poetry, really amazing and beautiful stuff. But I can't do that at all. I've got an idea for a story and I've written a ton but it just doesn't sound good. Sigh. Feeling stupid sucks.

Aww Zhaylin. That sucks! I'm not very good with saying things to make people feel better so I'm hoping someone else will assist.

NewArtemis Don't think like that! Everyone is good at something! Scientists are good at Science (no shit! ) and even drug dealers are good at avoiding cops (most the time). I'm positive you're not stupid so don't feel it! Here, have a hug too.

I hope everyone gets employed, and especially at a job they like! *Sends good will and good luck*

Hope is all we got.

Wonderful. Someone posted an image URL from my server on Reddit and caused 42GB of bandwidth usage in one day, causing my provider to shutdown bandwidth to/from my server. The image was 55 kb and it was requested enough times to use up 42 gb of bandwidth... ...kind like the Slashdot effect, except on Reddit.

Oh well, juicy bacon images will be offline until my provider responds to my abuse ticket and can provide some kind of resolution, perhaps blocking all requests which reference Reddit as a referring URL.

I'm gonna post your post on reddit anderj

Originally Posted by GavinGill

Use music to sort of guilt/will you into taking action. Just like how surr....

That's actually a really good idea. I have tried it before, sort of, but not so specific. Like usually just turn on some music to get me motivated, but not actually using specific songs for specific things.

I guess it's worth a try.

Again, I'm doubtful, as actually putting songs on I would probably forget after a while. I could set an alarm to do that but I'd probably start ignoring the alarm too.
I'll try though.

Also I love Tupac.

Anyway can people stop replying to me coz I'm trying to leave!!!!

Hey guys! I just thought I'd pop in and say hello. It's probably gone mostly unnoticed among all the other stuff that pops up on the activity feed, but I've been around for the last couple of days just posting in a DJ entry (I haven't been checking my regular threads or anything). I'm thinking about coming back partially just to post in my DJ for a while so that I keep my motivation and recall up, without bringing myself fully back into the forum yet.

I just wanted to stop by because I've gotten a few PMs asking if I was alright and the like, and I just wanted to clear that up. I know I kind of disappeared quickly but I was kind of freaking out at the time, but I really am doing alright. There have been a lot of major changes in my life lately that have been hard to deal with, but I am making progress, and to those who are concerned I really do appreciate it.

So like I said, I'm not coming back to the forum fully yet but I'll hang around here for a little bit since I am doing this post.

How has everyone been?

Originally Posted by Alyzarin

So like I said, I'm not coming back to the forum fully yet but I'll hang around here for a little bit since I am doing this post.

How has everyone been?

Glad everything is going okay for you, I'm sure you just needed time to shift through those challenges. I've been swaying back and forth with optimism and just trying not to be lazy with goals and all that. I'm glad you got back to the DJ system again, I've practically destroyed any motivation to recall my dreams, though I do remember bits of them. Dreams just don't seem enticing in my life right now, and even if I could be more proficient with lucidity and using it to help with life goals, I always occasionally speculate to myself,

"The majority of people barely recall their dreams and can do just fine without using dreaming as a learning tool or to prepare for difficult situations."

I kept trying to use my dreams as an excuse to try and deal with things, when I'm probably better off dealing with the negativity and building and endurance and learning to cope with it. I've partially go on other sections and lurk, but the only things I respond to are in ED or just reading some DJs.


Rant:

Edit: Never mind

And brings me to the second rant.

edit: nevermind again.

Third Rant:

I feel so stupid in my Beginner's Runners Course (kinesiology something something section). Trying to build endurance on my ankles, since I'm sure that's pretty much the factor that prevents me from doing my best in mile runs and inevitably the timed 2 mile run by the end of this semester. I need to get real with myself and realize I need to devote at least a 1 hour time slot to practice running a mile, 1.5 miles, and ultimately 2 miles or more.

I know it won't take the whole hour, but that's including things like getting to the bus when I'm extremely exhausted, or riding my bicycle to get to the the perfect area to run.

And since I'm the only Black guy in the class, except the coach himself, ugh. The coach himself has an awesome personality for a coach. He's not the type to get down at your throat at all. He knows everyone has strengths and weaknesses for this kind of stuff, and just has the skill in being a good coach for running overall. I mean, I know it's not football, because I'm sure that has its own ways of training obviously, but I really want to just get better at running by at least waking up around 5:30 and riding my bicycle to the running area. And for the weekdays, maybe just do basic leg and torso exercises.

Fourth Rant:

My political science professor is so SCATTER BRAIN. It's WORSE THAN MY SCATTERBRAIN RANTS in here!!!

One moment I have to analyze some Graph/Table/Etc. based on results in 2008, then going 23485948329 pages forward to get one bit of information and 29584352953049859 pages backwards for something else. What the fuck?!?!

And in lectures, he only talked about the 14th Amendment. The fucking exam was....14th amendment and random questions from the scatterbrain studying I had to do (he has some study plan set up for the class, which is just horrible). God, I just need to get a B in 7 hours in my course load, and C's in the rest.

I'm really worried about this Political Science guy. This stuff is easy to memorize, but HE HAS NO BIGGER CONCEPTS for me to reflect on! I think I'm going to talk to him personally and see what I can do, but despite that, bleh.


Fifth Rant:

Engineering Calculus. Big mistake for me to slack off from studying from it with one of the attributes that makes this University hard is the fucking SCIENCE AND MATH. The professor said, "This exam is going to be interesting...."

It was most definitely "interesting". WHY is it that when they say you can study from older exams from the past, OURS suddenly is a new trend? Like seriously, ALL of the other formats were CONSISTENT. EVERY SINGLE ONE that I looked at. So it's not an excuse from me, it's just if that's the best way to study (so I know what concepts to practice and drill in my mind), what hope do I have?

Damn it, I was trying to be more social this semester, but it seems I just need to forget about that altogether ._.

I also can't stand my Omelette Du Formage Math TA. His 9's look like lowercase "g"'s. He's SMART as fuck, but god, he's so weird. I turned in my exam, and he asked me how it was, and I said, "Hard" along with showing a demeanor of hopelessness. And he laughs.

He laughs...he tries to do a fake laugh to make his question less awkward to him, and he just failed miserably doing that.

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Okay, best I get ready to get to the Math TA Class, since the O chemistry class I'm in, this heavy accent Asian guy just makes me want to scream. I understand it's his natural accent, but I have to squint my ears as if I'm trying to get a GPS on the content from his voice.
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Sixth Rant: I want to hang out with some people I met in my previous labs, but one used to like me, and when I shrugged her off, and she's been doing that thing again with the other girl who would always try and shake my hand to hint she can do something sexual with it from before.

Except this one has her posse of girls with her, so I can't pretend I didn't hear her. Even if we do meet each other again alone, she's going to be sooooooooooooo annoying.

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Fuck you genetics, fuck you biology. I hate that the only option for sociability would be to hang out with men. I don't want a Sausage fest. I want to talk to women, women are awesome friends if you can use the friendzone thing right. I feel so fucking weird that I could PhD in friendzone and redirecting it. Gadsafhgadkgksjkg bleh, I feel like shit now. And I can't just wish this away, since at age 30, I doubt I'll be like this, so I might as well enjoy the stupidity while I can.

Only 2 miles by the end of the semester? They're taking it easy on you, Link!

Make sure you do a warmup jog, then stretch, then run, then do a wind-down stretch or set of exercises. It'll help dramatically.

Originally Posted by melanieb

Only 2 miles by the end of the semester? They're taking it easy on you, Link!

I swear you people from Austin are like natural marathon runners or something when you tell me that lol. Even the girl that used to be in my Biology lab course that tried to date me was from Austin and did a Marathon race.

And yeah, they are making it easier, because there's no way anyone in the class can do a mile under 6:45 minutes, 1.5 mile in 8:45 minutes, or a 2 mile in under 11-12 minutes.

It's just this is THE class that people AVOID, because when I was registering for classes, ALL other slots for Kinesiology courses were filled except this one. This is like for the hardcore beginner runners who were all-stars in Varsity Track and Field in High School. It's a pre-warmup for them, but hell for the students who sit around all day doing magical things with their computer.

The thing is though, people usually get tired after giving it their all during a simple mile run, and most would just run out of endurance half way on 2 miles. So that should be an interesting thing later on to see who can still keep going.

Make sure you do a warmup jog, then stretch, then run, then do a wind-down stretch or set of exercises. It'll help dramatically.

And yeah, we pretty much going through that, but you see, my mind quits before my body quits. I found that out during the timed mile run, and started to forget about my body and focused on something else. Managed to beat the Indian Girl who always looks back to see if she's at least conquering someone else lol.

Now I just have to get past the chubby girls, and hopefully come up to this really big dude who is completely DEFIES laws of nature. He breezes through the courses like that..omg. I feel like I'm dreaming every time I go to this class lol. Okay, enough talking to you indirectly, I'll go back to reality now.

One of my friends killed themselves and my crush is with someone else now.

Originally Posted by Original Poster

One of my friends killed themselves and my crush is with someone else now.

Omg, sorry to hear.

I... I can't believe I'm saying this, but I actually have had nothing to rant about for like the past month.

Nice.

Hopefully things keep on going like this for a while!

I am on Day 2 of my attempt at Keto, and it hit me hard. I had two snacks after work (both carb conscious) and that helped a lot. I think my issue today was I didn't have enough calories overall, so I was going into a starvation sickness. I need to plan that out better, so I don't fail.

I was told I look noticeably slimmer, so that's encouraging.

Originally Posted by Original Poster

One of my friends killed themselves and my crush is with someone else now.

Wow. I'm very sorry to hear that.

That sucks, OP. =/

I just "lost" so much money, probably more than 1000 euros. Cause I just bought loads of festival tickets. But the line ups are amazing. I'm really looking forward to them

Green Day, 30 Seconds To Mars, A Day To Remember and Bloc Party at Rock Werchter:





Rise Against, Bring Me The Horizon, Attack Attack, Killswitch Engage and much more at groezrock:



Bullet For my Malentine, Asking Alexandria, Korn, Within Temptation, Slipknot, Parkway Drive,.. at graspop:

Originally Posted by Crashyy

I would pay as much as needed to be able to attend a festival like this, my whole family would enjoy it! Hope you have an awesome time!

I think I'm getting malware on my laptop.

I've been getting random hyperlinks for random words on a page. Look at this. Anybody has any good malware software to recommend?

Originally Posted by Carrot

I think I'm getting malware on my laptop.

I've been getting random hyperlinks for random words on a page. Look at this. Anybody has any good malware software to recommend?

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