# Fuck off March (minirants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 1, 2018, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-march-minirants/809819 "2018-03-01T15:17:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-march-minirants/809819/261 "2018-03-16T00:41:09Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > My business manager is paid a salary _plus_ a bonus based on the business’s profit compared to the previous year (or something). It has generally worked well, giving her an incentive to increase profits. > > She recently approached me with an idea to increase profits that would require me to work more hours. She thought I’d be cool with that, because I currently put in just 5 or so hours five days a week. But I don’t want to. I’m happy as things are. I’m lazy, whatever. > > So now she is angry. The thing is, I don’t give a fuck, which makes her even more angry. > [@Morgyn](#): > > Unless you’re getting a bit of that bonus, there’s no incentive for you to work extra. Tell her if she thinks a few extra hours will help, she’s welcome to work them herself. AIUI, **kayaker** is the owner of the business, and is content with the compensation-to-effort ratio he’s currently at, and doesn’t see the benefit in disrupting that simply so his employee can get a bigger bonus. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-march-minirants/809819/262 "2018-03-16T02:20:54Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > If I were ever threatening to jump off a high ledge, the smartest thing anyone could say to me would be, “What about all those books you still want to read?” Or even worse (or better considering the subject) whisper from rooms away "Cool, I just got my pre-ordered copy of (favorite writer’s) long awaited first book!) I’d be off the ledge and 3 rooms away before thinking. Way back when, I had a 6 foot tall kitty tree in my living room that the cats all loved, and their love showed. It was pretty tattered and ripped up. I saved my pennies until I had enough to buy a similar tree and happily brought it home and moved the old one in the bedroom. They went on strike and refused to use either of them. After a few days, I gave up and put the new one in the bedroom and the old one in the living room. Every couple of months or so, I tried to switch them out. Every couple of months they started using my couch instead. Finally I gave up and left things they way they liked them. Until we moved out of state. That old ratty one didn’t survive the cut, but the move was so upsetting that they now liked the “new” one and snubbed the real new one that my BB bought them as a welcome home gift. **Beckdawrek** you have moved into dangerous territory volunteering at a library. I spent a number of years working the technical services department for a library. I ended up with 4 bookcases of books and patterns. Not that I regret having them, but books and bookcases are cumbersome and heavy to move. It also doesn’t impress gentlemen callers when all surfaces are either covered with books or cats or both. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-march-minirants/809819/263 "2018-03-16T03:30:23Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > A foot?? We got 26" on Tuesday. And 15" a week ago today. We’ve run out of places to pile the white shit. Did you get anything from the one this past Tuesday? Our friends on the MA/NH border got over a foot and maybe then some judging from the photos they posted. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-march-minirants/809819/264 "2018-03-16T03:36:38Z")
A gentleman who doesn’t appreciate books and cats has a lot of groundwork to make up to be considered civilized company IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-march-minirants/809819/265 "2018-03-16T03:37:44Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > Or even worse (or better considering the subject) whisper from rooms away "Cool, I just got my pre-ordered copy of (favorite writer’s) long awaited first book!) I’d be off the ledge and 3 rooms away before thinking. > > Way back when, I had a 6 foot tall kitty tree in my living room that the cats all loved, and their love showed. It was pretty tattered and ripped up. I saved my pennies until I had enough to buy a similar tree and happily brought it home and moved the old one in the bedroom. They went on strike and refused to use either of them. After a few days, I gave up and put the new one in the bedroom and the old one in the living room. Every couple of months or so, I tried to switch them out. Every couple of months they started using my couch instead. Finally I gave up and left things they way they liked them. Until we moved out of state. That old ratty one didn’t survive the cut, but the move was so upsetting that they now liked the “new” one and snubbed the real new one that my BB bought them as a welcome home gift. > > **Beckdawrek** you have moved into dangerous territory volunteering at a library. I spent a number of years working the technical services department for a library. I ended up with 4 bookcases of books and patterns. Not that I regret having them, but books and bookcases are cumbersome and heavy to move. It also doesn’t impress gentlemen callers when all surfaces are either covered with books or cats or both. Yep, I am afraid of the book situation, I just ordered 3 today. Luckily, Mr.Wrekker doesn’t care what I do about books or cats. He’s pretty o.k. with my sensibilities anyway. What he doesn’t like is for me to be bored, I cause trouble when I haven’t much to do. ETA. The Siamese have gotten in their new bed, with alittle chemical help, my old friend Catnip.😉 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-march-minirants/809819/266 "2018-03-16T10:47:46Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > AIUI, **kayaker** is the owner of the business, and is content with the compensation-to-effort ratio he’s currently at, and doesn’t see the benefit in disrupting that simply so his employee can get a bigger bonus. Exactly ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-march-minirants/809819/267 "2018-03-16T15:52:56Z")
Holy fuck, new Facebook group I just joined. It’s useful to me, being both local _and_ specialized in a side hobby of mine. But the group rules specifically go against Facebook rules. The group admins will remove your post if you don’t include X but the Facebook algorithm automatically remove posts with X. (The loophole is to comment on your own post with the additional detail.) One of the admins is getting a bit snippy about the confusion and I’m just petty enough to wanna go tattle to TPTB at Facebook. (It’s one of the local pet adoption/sales groups. FB specifically prohibits charging money for live animals, but these admins insist on a price. Anyone concealing the costs must be shady, or something.) ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-march-minirants/809819/268 "2018-03-16T17:22:51Z")
So, I’m out of town providing technical coverage for a product made for us by a toller. It was supposed to be two batches done in one week. We’re at 5 days, and only partway through the first batch, so just had to reschedule everything to stay another week. I’ll run out of clean clothes two days before then, and out of thyroid meds the day after; hope it doesn’t go even longer (as seems likely)… Meanwhile something is pollinating the Houston air, so my eyelid eczema has flared up unexpectedly with me without the meds for that. So my eyes are puffing up, and one is likely to swell shut by next week. AND feeling somewhat ill from eating out for the whole week. To add to the joy, I _jus_ had my first ocular migrane, ever. I’m 50. I’ve never had migranes. No one in my family suffers from migranes. But, sure, why not enjoy a scintillating blur over my vision while I’m trying to visually evaluate samples on this hell trip that will never end. Way things are going, this will turn out to be an aura precursor to a headache-type migrane. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-march-minirants/809819/269 "2018-03-16T19:02:59Z")
We are currently under a winter weather advisory but it is partly cloudy and sunny out. They are getting really bad weather to the south and west of us though. I just hope the weather stays good until after the Styx/REO Speedwagon concert tonight that I have tickets for. It wouldn’t be so bad if it did get bad during the concert except that I live 20 miles away and would also like to make it home tonight. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-march-minirants/809819/270 "2018-03-16T19:25:51Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > We are currently under a winter weather advisory but it is partly cloudy and sunny out. They are getting really bad weather to the south and west of us though. I just hope the weather stays good until after the Styx/REO Speedwagon concert tonight that I have tickets for. It wouldn’t be so bad if it did get bad during the concert except that I live 20 miles away and would also like to make it home tonight. For the past month, my brother in law has planned on heading out to Mitchell to see his father, who was critically ill. Every weekend, except last weekend, he couldn’t due to weather. I90 closes if you look at it crosseyed. Of course, his dad died last weekend. He thought about heading out today to work on the estate and nope. Hope you can get to the concert! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-march-minirants/809819/271 "2018-03-16T19:35:22Z")
Hey it’s 81° here:) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-march-minirants/809819/272 "2018-03-16T20:01:58Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Hey it’s 81° here:) Do people realize how pointless it is to say “here” when the vast majority don’t know where that is? Sorry, pet peeve: “Yeah, well WE got an inch of snow here!” (Ummm, for Gibraltar that might be a problem, but I thought you were the gay lumberjack cat lady from Reindeer Station…) Or, maybe you ARE from Gibraltar, so you’re using Celsius, and it IS a problem. Sorry, **Beckdawrek** , don’t take my problem personally. From what I’ve read, you’re a wonderful person. By the way, where ya from? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-march-minirants/809819/273 "2018-03-16T20:05:59Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > I90 closes if you look at it crosseyed That’s the weird part, it used to be they very rarely ever closed the interstate unless it got really, really bad. Like 4 or 5 feet and 50 or more mile per hour winds. Now, as you say, it doesn’t take much. Thankfully I live, and the concert is, quite a bit farther north. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-march-minirants/809819/274 "2018-03-16T20:08:29Z")
NM ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-march-minirants/809819/275 "2018-03-16T20:21:54Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Do people realize how pointless it is to say “here” when the vast majority don’t know where that is? Didn’t you kind of almost do that in post #110? If you hadn’t added the link of the house moving pictures, no one would have any idea where your ‘local Historical Society’ and ‘Richfield Historical Park’ where. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-march-minirants/809819/276 "2018-03-16T20:30:41Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > Didn’t you kind of almost do that in post #110? If you hadn’t added the link of the house moving pictures, no one would have any idea where your ‘local Historical Society’ and ‘Richfield Historical Park’ where. Wow, good catch! I missed the edit window and thought “Is it really worth it to go back and add a post that says ‘Wisconsin’, and does anyone really care where my grandmother’s from?” But someone did! Oh, and good catch on my hypocrisy as well… (Hey, we’re having a few “flurries while the sun’s shining” here – stop by and see it!) ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-march-minirants/809819/277 "2018-03-16T20:34:03Z")
Still 35 and partly cloudy. Northern South Dakota, BTW. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-march-minirants/809819/278 "2018-03-16T21:12:37Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > A gentleman who doesn’t appreciate books and cats has a lot of groundwork to make up to be considered civilized company IMHO. Hear! Hear! (Bookkeeper, who appreciates books AND cats!) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-march-minirants/809819/279 "2018-03-16T21:40:48Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > Still 35 and partly cloudy. > > Northern South Dakota, BTW. > > 😃 Not that far from Hoople! Say hello to Professor Schickele for me, if you get the chance. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-march-minirants/809819/280 "2018-03-16T21:53:06Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Do people realize how pointless it is to say “here” when the vast majority don’t know where that is? > > Sorry, pet peeve: “Yeah, well WE got an inch of snow here!” (Ummm, for Gibraltar that might be a problem, but I thought you were the gay lumberjack cat lady from Reindeer Station…) > > Or, maybe you ARE from Gibraltar, so you’re using Celsius, and it IS a problem. > > Sorry, **Beckdawrek** , don’t take my problem personally. From what I’ve read, you’re a wonderful person. By the way, where ya from? 😃 So sorry, I am north of the tropics, in good old Arkansas. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-march-minirants/809819.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-march-minirants/809819.md?page=15)