So we found more kittens today. 
Two apparently from the same litter as the ones from yesterday. We were not successful in catching them. They were under an abandoned truck parked in a wooded area right behind our building. They got scared and climbed into the underside. I’m not going to crawl up under that. The area is tick invested. We are going to wait until tomorrow to try again. Of course, they are about 6 weeks old and have been out there probably since the weekend. They may not even be alive tomorrow. Everyone was looking to me to make decisions and it seriously depressed me. I just want to go home and cry. Fuck people who do this to their animals. If they believe in hell, I hope they are afraid they will rot in it.
Thank you for that pic! She looks so sweet; its like she’s doing her best to protect you from Evil String!
PS- Yes, DOB is date of birth.
Ah, shit. Can you put out some cans of kitten food or something and try to catch them again tomorrow (and hopefully they’ll get a good meal tonight when all the scary humans aren’t around)?
I just put out some food and water. Hopefully, they are still up inside the truck. I walked around and didn’t see them anywhere else. The weather is pleasant and it’s not going to rain so I’m hoping they will be alright until tomorrow. I just feel sick, my heart hurts. I don’t know how wonderful people like SeaDragonTattoo can deal with this kind of thing every day. I’m so thankful that she and others can. It would kill my soul.
Many apologies, Kolga! I’ll blame the sudden change in the weather for my brain freeze. It was 48 degrees this morning, that’s October weather.
I’ll also blame the change in the weather for my sinus issues. At least they’re draining finally and not clogged and making me dizzy anymore.
Not really a rant, but a sad and worried. One of my friends at work is in the hospital, they’re testing her for West Nile. She’s young and athletic and normally healthy, so I’m hoping she’ll be ok, but I’m still worried about her.
I misread this as “Ladies” and was very very confused.
This may or may not belong in mini-rants, but it doesn’t warrant it’s own thread and this is the best we’ve got.
I feel like a bit of a jackass. Whenever I’m a pedestrian and I see a bike or a car about to turn down a lane I’m crossing, I jog a little/walk faster just to get out of their way so I’m not blocking their turn. I did it today to a bicyclist who thought I was running away from him :(. He had dark skin and apparently thought that I thought I was afraid of him because of his appearance, he was very nice and introduced himself to me (I actually thought he was going to sell me something because I didn’t realize what it looked like). I told him what I was doing, but I jogged across the lot outlet, not the inlet, which meant it didn’t affect his turning at all :smack:. So I don’t think he bought it. I also was embarrassed and slightly confused so I kind of mumbled and acted sheepish, which probably exacerbated the problem.
I know it’s just a silly misunderstanding, and I’ll probably never see him again, but I feel like an asshole now.
Today was retention raise day.
I work at a distribution center. I drive a truck. I distribute things. The work is hard, the hours are long, the pay sucks, and I don’t particularly like it most of the time.
Within the last two months about a dozen of my colleagues have left. They’re getting hired at another distribution center, driving trucks, distributing things. My company provides very time consuming 100% complete “kiss the customer’s ass” service, this new company provides 100% sufficient “dump the shit and run” service. They’re paying a starting rate of about 60% more than I currently earn.
My company went through several stages WRT the exodus. They ignored it, denied it, badmouthed the new company, badmouthed the “traitors” who want to make better money, they even went so far as to claim the significant increase in pay will raise your tax rate so much that “these guys are begging to come back because they’re working more, taking home less, and the only one coming out ahead is OBAMA!”
Things used to be really good. I made a fair wage nearly 10 years ago. I got regular raises and they were significant. That stopped 5 or 6 years ago. We have chugged along and shown double digit percentage growth every year through the economic downturn, but I ultimately work more and earn less than I did in 2007.
My experience is very typical. A lot of guys have been demanding raises. In response management has been giving away Dave Ramsey books to teach remedial personal finance basics. Of course if you can’t get by on a pittance it’s your own fault, right? You must be ignorant. I’ve read Dave Ramsey a little and I don’t think he’s all that bright, but even he recommends finding better paying employment as a crucial step in living a financially sustainable life.
This morning I thought someone in management finally got it. My supervisor was calling people one at a time and to a table in a corner of the break room and giving out raises.
He called my name.
He wrote a number on a sheet of paper and slid it across the table.
It’s an additional $11 every two weeks :mad:
Really?
Q: Will that even cover your tolls? Sorry, man. For 60% more, calc out your loss of vacation time & seniority and if the trade off to money is right, jump ship.
Long version short, my former husband has suggested finally coming to meet our daughter when he’s in town next month (she’ll be nearly 34 months old by then, but y’know, he’s been busy!). And of course he’s suggested my birthday as the time for the meeting.
Unanimous reply from my friends & partner have been “tell him it’s your birthday and you’re busy” (with a side dash of “is he taking the piss and just trying to suggest dates you’ll have to reject, so YOU look the bad guy?”).
I’m tempted to call his bluff and agree, and lay money on him cancelling an hour beforehand, as no doubt he’ll have been out on the piss with his mates the night before, and that’s why he’ll even be in the same city as us.
But that makes me sound bitter.
So, Repel mosquito repellant – if you’re selling a chemical, maybe you should package it with a plastic cap that doesn’t * dissolve in your product?*. Also, DEET doesn’t work worth crap against gnats and no-see-ums, so fuck gnats. It’s no fun trying to enjoy nature with bitey things chewing on your legs. And why are bites from practically invisibly tiny things so painful?
Let me guess. Your owner/boss is listens to a lot of Rush/Beck/Fox News.
Get a job with the other company. When they ask why you’re leaving, tell them you’re pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and their wages are no longer competetive in the industry.
I’m tired of getting spam from addresses that I cannot block for one reason or another (but not so tired of it that it’s worth it’s own thread). The worst offender is my credit union, who send me at least three or four unwanted emails a week. Most of these are letting me know about their new mobile app! Which I can install! And use to do…uh…banking stuff, I guess! It will work on my (completely nonexistent) smart phone! And, hey, I guess you didn’t get the first thirty thousand of these emails, because you still haven’t install the app - so have you heard about this new app?!! They also ask me if I want to get the app or sign up for automatic bill pay or some other nonsense every single time I log in to the website. The “don’t ask me again” checkbox is a hilarious touch that does exactly nothing.
And I can’t just block them as spam, because on the off chance that they ever do need to contact me for a legitimate reason, I really really really don’t want that email to go to the spam folder.
Decided to let my new little girl sleep in my room last night. She came in and plopped down beside me. We both slept great until 4am (which was exactly when I expected) and then she decided to play. After about 20 minutes of being in and out of sleep, I got up to use the bathroom and just didn’t let her back in the room when she followed me out. She’s doing very well at this apartment living thing.
Since this is a rant thread;
Went to lunch yesterday. Two women standing just outside the door about 6’ behind the last person in line. Wasn’t sure if they were in line or not and was preparing to walk around them when the person in line moved and they followed. But still kept that distance. Both were just inside the door. Then someone tries to walk out the door. Instead of just stepping or leaning to the side, they both backed up - without looking - out the door and into me (and into a high traffic public area (the skyway). I took one step backwards (noting that there were people behind me and I wasn’t going any further) and then put my hand up and said “whoa!”
Yes ladies, there are other people on this planet.
Then I’m trying to walk out of the building and this guy walks right up to the doors, and then, still looking outside, turns to his right and walks parallel to the doors, right into me. Because of course, there are no other people in the world and there’s no possibility that, in the middle of the lunch rush with a dozen or so restaurants in that building, people might be trying to walk through those doors.
I swear to god, I want a clue hammer…
…This shit drives me CRAZY. There’s this percentage of people, and they just go through like completely fucking oblivious to anything going on around them. They go into the dunkin donuts and despite the fact that more people can fit in the line if they line up this way, they line up this other way so we’re all standing in the doorway. They stand directly in front of doorways when they don’t have to. They stand in the middle of the aisle and ponder their Chef Boyardees and look surprised when asked to move. They turn really slow into parking lots and then stop with their ass half out in traffic looking for a spot, not realizing everyone else has to go too. They end up having to wait for an extra light cycle and then go throuh the light really slowly, even though they KNOW the light is short and the wait is long.
They just have no idea that there are other people in the world.
Can you opt-out of the unimportant emails? I’ve done that with my credit card and cell phone so I don’t get all the “hey look at the new latest thing we’ve done!” crap and only get the important stuff I care about, like my bills.
Kind of the same thing happened to me last week; I was walking home, preparing to cross the street at a particular intersection (due to shade on one side of the street, etc.). As I approached the place where I planned to cross, a man with dark skin came around a corner and started walking towards me. Now it looks like I’m crossing the street to avoid HIM! I just mentally said, “Fuck it.” and crossed where I intended and didn’t give it much more thought.
And you’re still working there because…? 
Yup.
This is one of the tops on my peeves list, too. It seems to me that it would be so simple to figure this shit out at some point, since they do these things on a regular basis - there are ALWAYS other shoppers in Walmart and Safeway, so you will ALWAYS be asked to move your cart, so just don’t block the aisle in the first place, etc. They either have not got the mental capacity to make that huge leap, or they just don’t friggin’ care. It doesn’t bother them when they block traffic, so it isn’t a problem.
The food was gone this morning but there are all kinds of animals out there who could have eaten it.
This situation has actually gotten worse. One of the kittens is trapped in a coworker’s car. She said it cried all night and she could not see where it is. She drove in this morning hoping we could get it out but we don’t see it under the hood and the car is too low to get under. We have heard it so if it did not fall out on the drive or come out during the night, it is trapped somehow. She is taking the car to the Lexus dealer at lunch to see if they can get it out. I don’t want to think about that failing.
I put some more food out today but haven’t seen the other kitten. I sent an email to everyone to keep an eye out because it could be anywhere at this point. I think it will be just luck if someone spots it.
:(:(:(:(
Semi-related: yes, clueless idiot blocking traffic in the parking lot, we KNOW you’re just TOO important and special to walk a few extra feet, so of COURSE you’re totally entitled to just stop dead and block a whole traffic lane while you wait for that close-in space.
You know, if you’d at least move over enough to allow a car past you, someone who isn’t totally lazy could get around you, park, and get into the store, but apparently if you can’t get that prized perfect parking space, we ALL have to suffer along with you.
(I actually got so annoyed by such an instance that when I did manage to get around and park, on my way into the store walking past the offender, I actually did “casually” comment “amazing how fast you can get parked if you’re not too lazy to walk an extra few feet”.)