Thread: Rant and Rave, Cry and Complain

Thanks Melanie! And I do feel better (thanks again Auron!) - no trouble breathing at all last night. Heh - I picked up a little plastic squirt bottle of saline after looking at the netti pots and deciding I don't want to be constantly cleaning it out and then wondering where to keep it after I'm done with it, and also decided to pick up some Sudafed - both non-drowzy and nighttime formula (all cheap CVS knockoffs). It's cool as hell that CVS has a pharmacist there so late - it was almost midnight. But when I asked for non-drowzy Sudafed she gave me a hard disbelieving stare for like 20 seconds - like she honestly thought I wanted to go home and cook up some meth or something (which is a little ironic considering I dreamed I was Walter White the other night)! What the hell - I think you'd need it in bulk for that, not just a single box! And then when I asked her if the saline solution was basically the same as a netti pot she said no, not at all - but I think she's full of it, right? I mean, it's saline solution that you run through your nasal passages - the only difference is it's a plastic bottle rather than a ceramic pot. You can either spray it or tilt it and run it through. Derp - maybe late at night they have the bootleg pharmacists working..

Also I guess all the tea helped to get me hydrated - had to piss like a Russian racehore this morning!

Unplugging your coworkers ethernet cable and watching the IT department scratch thier heads for several hours before checking to see if it's plugged in is priceless entertainment. I never said a word.

Feeling pretty out of it recently, as if reality isn't real enough

I want to know what will happen next so i can know how to plan my future, but that isn't happening.


OH OH OH OH AND HI ALY SORRY FOR THE LATE WELCOME

I went to a meeting with my Academic coach, and she shows me how I could use the Multicultural Tutoring Program. She explains how there's some science with non-whites apparently performing well when paired with other races of their own or just someone else non-white basically. The way she tried so hard not to be so serious, like how she made these weird facial expressions, as if I was going to attack her or something kind of bothered me bit.

Maybe she's just naturally twitchy, because she does look like someone that has a lot of stuff to take care of, I don't know. As for this multicultural thing, I can understand how one might "feel" better with someone that's non-white, but for actual grade performances? I find the science between that is just bullshit psychological aspects applied to people who are so saturated with stereotypes and racism. It feels kind of awkward knowing that this University, which is mostly whites, compared to University of Houston that would have a far more diverse range, offers this. It feels patronizing, her overally tone is patronizing, and I know she doesn't mean any kind of harm to me, but still, "non-whites?"

Lol what the hell is this? Most of my teachers were white in high school, and every single Honors and AP class I went to had white teachers. I had no bloody problem doing well, I graduated 3%-4% by the end of my senior year, somewhere around the 20s. My English AP teachers, who were white, loved me to death. One even said that the classroom will be more miserable without me there when I had to move High Schools....I made high A's in that class. My Human Geography AP teacher was white, and he gave me a reward for the most outstanding students, because I didn't even talk in the class and made an A in that class too.

I took Dual Credit U.S. History from a white teacher, she fucking loved me. She told me my essays made her day, I made 103's from all of those essays. Even when I transferred to another school, I had a white teacher for the same U.S. History class, made a fucking A. Psychology AP, made a fucking A, had a white teacher, who was one of those who knew I did well because I would be the only one to do the extra credit and go to such great lengths to work hard.

Even in fucking Pre-Calculus, had a white teacher, didn't affect me whatsoever. I busted balls just to get a C+, same goes for all other maths where I had to work hard on. Biology Honors class, had a white teacher too, who WAS FROM A&M at college station. Made an A in that class, and even made a 97 on one exam where I didn't even study! Sixth grade, had a white teacher for a history class, she thought I hated her, but after she realized it was just me being quiet, she loooooooooved me.

So why am I mentioning this? Because my grades do not reflect my perception of whatever color teacher I have. It was through hard work and my willingness to sustain that, not by some person's skin color. Even with college, the only thing that would make me do "bad" is because money is at stake or that there's just anxiety issues with balancing life and planning for a career. There's no way in hell that I would be so narrow-minded to use a person's skin color affecting my academic performance....this is one of the most patronizing bullshit I've ever receieved from a staff member here.

I could care less about a professor's skin color, and even if there's a "science" for it, that's so bullshit. Even if a professor or teacher was racist towards me or any other race, I never had a problem with that! It's all me, all what I put into finishing and working hard towards, not someone's color. Fucking bullshit University! I should've taken the risk with Ivy League ._____.

FUCK MY LIFE. I feel so depressed how this University is just hinting prejudice in some shape or form. I wouldn't assume everyone is racist, but it's obvious that with the majority being white, people do tend to show their true colors in many ways, and it's easy to catch on. But still, racism is going to occur in some way, but there's no way in hell a person's race/color/ethnicity affected my performance!

And guess what? The slots for tutors for the so called Multicultural Tutoring are mostly (50%)white. Well would you imagine that!?!??!!?!? Two out of 4 are white, and my coach is telling me about this "Being exposed to a similar race has shown studies of increased academic performance and understanding"....


BULLSHIT!!!!!!

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There's this girl on YouTube that I love watching because she's funny and I can relate to her, and I've started to become a fan of her as well. I never became a fan of someone except Sawyer7mage and KingOfLightning, and she's so awesome, I just want to give her a thanks for being a cool person. She's honest with herself, and it's clear she's genuine, but I don't know if I should do what I would normally do for a female I have a friendly liking towards. Guess I'll figure that soon during spring break, hopefully.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!

So I went to this place which supposedly has jobs for fruit picking and stuff, never called me back so I called back today, went in and the guy gave me the number for this guy who should have jobs and just told me to message him so I did, he called up straight away and just asked me what jobs I've
done before and I was like "uhhh I haven't done fruit picking before, just work in a pizza shop" and he's like "what jobs have you done?" and I repeat "just worked in a pizza shop". He's like "ok thanks" and hangs up.

WTF???? The guy at the place I went to told me to message everyday the same thing. So I dunno if I should still message him again tomorrow or not.
I guess I'll have to ring up and ask if I should.

Why do I suck so much at talking to people? It's not like a can't do the job, I just can't convey to people that I can.
It's ridiculous that people associate sociability with ability to work. In all likelihood they're inversely correlated since social people will just talk all the time.

Originally Posted by tommo

FUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!

So I went to this place which supposedly has jobs for fruit picking and stuff, never called me back so I called back today, went in and the guy gave me the number for this guy who should have jobs and just told me to message him so I did, he called up straight away and just asked me what jobs I've
done before and I was like "uhhh I haven't done fruit picking before, just work in a pizza shop" and he's like "what jobs have you done?" and I repeat "just worked in a pizza shop". He's like "ok thanks" and hangs up.

WTF???? The guy at the place I went to told me to message everyday the same thing. So I dunno if I should still message him again tomorrow or not.
I guess I'll have to ring up and ask if I should.

Why do I suck so much at talking to people? It's not like a can't do the job, I just can't convey to people that I can.
It's ridiculous that people associate sociability with ability to work. In all likelihood they're inversely correlated since social people will just talk all the time.

This makes me so mad! they are not honest with you, instead this other guy says to call in everyday? hell no! your not suppose to do that you will just irritate the boss or w/e he is.

Originally Posted by tommo

It's ridiculous that people associate sociability with ability to work. In all likelihood they're inversely correlated since social people will just talk all the time.

Depends on the job - talkative sociable people are good on front counter jobs or anything dealing with the public, but silent types are great for working behind the scenes or labor. One problem I've seen a lot though with the talkative ones - in drive through they have a tendency to go through their little spiel "Welcome to ____________, can I take your order (+ whatever other robotic catchphrase is currently programmed into them)" and then immediately turn and start talking to their friend beside them while the customer is ordering, then when he's done they're all like "I'm sorry, can you repeat that?" - It's getting ridiculous.

And while you got me on the subject - I'm so tired of the drive through at Steak n Shake where I'll order a steakburger and they ask what I want on it - I'll go nice and slowly through it - Lettuce, Tomato, (pause for a moment) Mayonnaise, Ketchup and Mustard" then a long pause and "I'm sorry, can you repreat that?" - I do it again, even slower, with a couple more pauses. By this point a kindergartener just learning to write could have got it all easily, but "You said lettuce?" - and then when they finally do get it right they want me to sit there with my wndow open in the freezing cold waiting for 5 minutes till they can tell me what my freakin' total is! Screw that - too damn cold! So I just drive around and wait with my window closed until they step up. Makes a lot more sense to me! I guess they want you to have your money ready, but I'm gonna hand her a credit card anyway, and I got that ready to roll, sticking out of the heat vent right next to the window.

Ok, end rant. Man, that felt good!! ... and now I'm hungry for Steak n Shake...

Originally Posted by hathor28

This makes me so mad! they are not honest with you, instead this other guy says to call in everyday? hell no! your not suppose to do that you will just irritate the boss or w/e he is.

Yeah that's what I'm wondering. Maybe he'll give me a job because he wants me to stop pestering him haha
I dunno, I'll have to call the other guy and find out if I should I guess.

You're right Dark, it does depend on the job for sure.
Also I guess even if someone's not talkative they still need to be able to "sell themselves" as they say; communicate what they can do or whatever.

I need to work on that.

So depressing though. I really need to go back to Uni ASAP so I don't have to demean myself like this for much longer.
I know I'm capable of so much more, I just need one single job to get myself on my feet.

Bah, rant rant rant....

Oh I also have had that constant waking up, FA's etc. when blocked up. That sucks big time. The only thing you want is sleep
but it's never restful enough. Feels man.

Go pull some things out of some trees, and call that guy tommorrow and say "Maybe I never had an official job as a fruit picker, but I've picked fruit before."

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

Go pull some things out of some trees, and call that guy tommorrow and say "Maybe I never had an official job as a fruit picker, but I've picked fruit before."

ROTFLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!
HOW ABOUT THIS? >

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

I'll go nice and slowly through it - Lettuce, Tomato, (pause for a moment) Mayonnaise, Ketchup and Mustard" then a long pause and "I'm sorry, can you repreat that?" - I do it again, even slower, with a couple more pauses. By this point a kindergartener just learning to write could have got it all easily, but "You said lettuce?"

Originally Posted by mikeac

Feeling pretty out of it recently, as if reality isn't real enough

I want to know what will happen next so i can know how to plan my future, but that isn't happening.


OH OH OH OH AND HI ALY SORRY FOR THE LATE WELCOME

Hey. Don't worry about it, I'm really only coming in and out every now and then. I've been busy with stuff off the net, and while I'm here I've been trying to focus mostly on DJs.

I understand what you're going through. It's kind of an annoying feeling. But if you want to know what's coming next, why don't you go out and make something happen? Then you'll have a say in it.

Vague, I know, but... I don't really know that much about your situation, either lol.

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

And while you got me on the subject - I'm so tired of the drive through at Steak n Shake where I'll order a steakburger and they ask what I want on it - I'll go nice and slowly through it - Lettuce, Tomato, (pause for a moment) Mayonnaise, Ketchup and Mustard" then a long pause and "I'm sorry, can you repreat that?" - I do it again, even slower, with a couple more pauses. By this point a kindergartener just learning to write could have got it all easily, but "You said lettuce?" - and then when they finally do get it right they want me to sit there with my wndow open in the freezing cold waiting for 5 minutes till they can tell me what my freakin' total is! Screw that - too damn cold! So I just drive around and wait with my window closed until they step up. Makes a lot more sense to me! I guess they want you to have your money ready, but I'm gonna hand her a credit card anyway, and I got that ready to roll, sticking out of the heat vent right next to the window.

Ok, end rant. Man, that felt good!! ... and now I'm hungry for Steak n Shake...

This might seem like an odd question... but do you live in the north or the south?

I'm a Yank - why do you ask? I admit I may be totally ignorant of the real skills involved in fruit picking..

Oh wait - I just looked at the part of my comment you quoted - not about fruit! So I guess it's about the way I spelled either Mayonnaise or Ketchup?

Originally Posted by hathor28

ROTFLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!
HOW ABOUT THIS? >

And Hathor - I'm not sure what beating a dead horse has to do with it, but when I look at what the little yellow guy is doing and think about picking fruit, it becomes very disturbing suddenly..

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

I'm a Yank - why do you ask? I admit I may be totally ignorant of the real skills involved in fruit picking..

Oh wait - I just looked at the part of my comment you quoted - not about fruit! So I guess it's about the way I spelled either Mayonnaise or Ketchup?

Haha, don't worry, I'm not questioning your fruit picking knowledge. That's funny though. Actually, I just thought I'd ask because I live in the south, and an old friend of mine who went to several places in the north for vacations or visiting family or just other reasons would always complain of that same kind of thing, with people asking him to repeat himself or clearly not getting parts of it. He would talk about it both with drive thrus and with waiters and waitresses at restaurants, and then one time he told me he had a waitress in the north who didn't do that for once and he and his brother were so grateful that they thanked her, and she said she suspected from how they were acting so nice (though he said it felt neutral to him lol) that they were from the south. Obviously our city here doesn't represent the entire south, and I honestly can't even say for sure if it's like this more than an hour drive outside of here, but that literally never happens here, and that's why it was so obvious to him. I can't even remember the last time someone asked me to repeat myself in a drive thru or at a restaurant, unless it was from something genuine like me unintentionally mumbling or lots of noise like construction right next to the speaker. So I just wondered lol.

Then again, while at restaurants this doesn't really happen, a lot of fast food places around here can be pretty bad about getting your order right if you don't make sure to check before driving off after they give it to you... so maybe the people handling it are just as slow, but they just don't even care enough to double check.

Originally Posted by Alyzarin

Hey. Don't worry about it, I'm really only coming in and out every now and then. I've been busy with stuff off the net, and while I'm here I've been trying to focus mostly on DJs.

I understand what you're going through. It's kind of an annoying feeling. But if you want to know what's coming next, why don't you go out and make something happen? Then you'll have a say in it.

Vague, I know, but... I don't really know that much about your situation, either lol.

Well, it's basically that my parents are running low on money, and it's hard to accept it or change it, but I can change what I do in general, and I'm starting to feel more grounded to the world by restarting my social and academical life.

I don't really have much of a rant, but a couple complaints:
1. Choice Scarf is so damn irritating to get on vanilla Pokemon carts
2. I hate my Debate teacher, so so much. She's one of those people who talks about her students behind their backs, but then turns around and pretends to be nice. If you try to call her on it, she will ignore you for an indefinite amount of time.

Originally Posted by tommo

..."uhhh I haven't done fruit picking before, just work in a pizza shop"

Nowadays, it doesn't pay to be humble. You have to toot your own horn, cos no one is gonna do it for you.

You should describe exactly what you did in a pizza shop. Show your leadership skills, responsibility, attention to detail, ability to multitask, follow instructions and orders with exact details.

I'm sure you were in charge of something, responsible for something. Tell them you had x day sof training and after that you were making 10 pies an hour and never had a complaint while taking supplies deliveries, running the cash register, prepping food, ...

And I would google everything about how to pick fruit you suspect you would be picking. Then call a guy up and tell him "yesterday I knew shit about this, but today I know that grapes are snipped with shears, apples are not pulled but twisted, if I throw them they'll bruise, etc. You show me once, I learn quick, work hard,...

Hope you find something.

ok, my rant:
what's up with non-foaming toothpaste? I don't even feel like I brushed my teeth. And do you think there is a warning on the box? Who even came up with that idea?

Originally Posted by Alyzarin

a lot of fast food places around here can be pretty bad about getting your order right if you don't make sure to check before driving off after they give it to you... so maybe the people handling it are just as slow, but they just don't even care enough to double check.

^ THAT'S definitely true - I always check!! Those times when I forget to I usually end up missing something. I can tell you what a big part of the problem is around here though - it's ghetto attitude. I worked at that place for many years, and saw it go through lots of changes. At one point we hired a ghetto manager, and she started hiring nothing but her ghetto crew, and they all had attitude. They thought it was funny, and they definitely knew they were doing it. It was about being disrespectful on purpose, something they seem to learn as part of ghetto culture. And most of these people actually weren't from the ghetto - they're just regular suburban kids, some black some white some hispanic - but they all had the ghetto attitude - it seems to be a state of mind more than where you actually grew up.

Originally Posted by gab

Nowadays, it doesn't pay to be humble. You have to toot your own horn, cos no one is gonna do it for you.

You should describe exactly what you did in a pizza shop. Show your leadership skills, responsibility, attention to detail, ability to multitask, follow instructions and orders with exact details.

I'm sure you were in charge of something, responsible for something. Tell them you had x day sof training and after that you were making 10 pies an hour and never had a complaint while taking supplies deliveries, running the cash register, prepping food, ...

And I would google everything about how to pick fruit you suspect you would be picking. Then call a guy up and tell him "yesterday I knew shit about this, but today I know that grapes are snipped with shears, apples are not pulled but twisted, if I throw them they'll bruise, etc. You show me once, I learn quick, work hard,...

This is exactly what I hate. I worked in a fucking pizza shop, I didn't pick up any real skills from it lol
I know what you mean though.

Although in this case it didn't feel like there was much room to say anything. It was like "what work have you done" "pizza shop" "ktnxbye"

I just realised before though, I don't give a fuck about that guy, so I'm just gonna keep messaging like the other guy said to because I'm doing it for myself and I don't care if it does piss him off.

Originally Posted by mikeac

Well, it's basically that my parents are running low on money, and it's hard to accept it or change it, but I can change what I do in general, and I'm starting to feel more grounded to the world by restarting my social and academical life.

Ah, I gotcha.... Well, I wish you the best of luck. I understand that things like that can be hard to accept, but as long as you don't let it hold you back you can still bring yourself into a more positive place.

Originally Posted by mikeac

1. Choice Scarf is so damn irritating to get on vanilla Pokemon carts

I'm going to take a stab in the dark and guess that this means... not ROM hacks?

To add to what I just said - I also find a watered-down version of this ghetto attitude is spreading among the younger generation like my neice and nephew and their friends - along with a certain sneering sarcasm that's a bit disturbing. They seem to think it's normal. I'm not very optimistic about where the human species is headed.

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

And Hathor - I'm not sure what beating a dead horse has to do with it, but when I look at what the little yellow guy is doing and think about picking fruit, it becomes very disturbing suddenly..

Hahaha, ya true, but a dead horse means a dead end, WHO doesn't know how to pick fruit? lol it's an easy job for anyone to do. dead horse goes to the people running that company lol

+1!

Tommo, you probably don't want to work for the fruit picking guy anyway. It sounds like he treats people like shit anyway. Piss on him. Move on and have some repect for yourself.

Which Melbourne are you from anyway?