If it makes you feel any better, it wasn’t only your contributions to the rant threads that went against you. One of the first few posts of yours that I encountered.
You’ve got that anonymous internet tough guy thing going for you too.
ETA: In your favor though, you haven’t been crapping out any l33tsp34k in any posts I’ve seen.
I believe I was agreeing with a poster about one of their rants and express what I would have done.
Dude, it’s not that you’re in the pit complaining. It’s your lack of empathy for people who work 2 jobs, people who prefer to eat alone, and your own mother…
All we have seen from you is how everyone else is always wrong or in your way or bothering you, and it rarely seems like they’ve actually done anything wrong from what we can tell. Did you ever think, “maybe there’s a reason that person acts like that?” or “maybe I’m the jerk here?” Allow me to modify an old saying for you. There’s an a-hole in every group. If you look around and every single other person seems to be the a-hole, it’s probably you.
Feel free to rant if you have a shitty day or someone actually wrongs you. If it’s just you thinking everyone else is the jerk and owes you something, this might not be where you get the feedback you’re looking for.
Dude, you’re being an idiot.
You’re free to rant. Nothing has stopped that.
But somehow, like self-entitled idiots everywhere, you seem to think an open forum to rant gives you immunity from criticism yourself. Not so. You can give all want. But nothing and nobody says the board has to take it.
You’re perfectly free to rant about how unfair it is (self-evident, since this thread is all about that), but other posters are also free to openly critique your inane complaints.
That may be how it started but here again are your exact words, where you say you would have kicked somebody’s ass for bumping you on the sidewalk.
No you wouldn’t, it’s something people say online when they want to sound tough. If you really would kick his or her ass for not paying attention, you have bigger issues than I thought.
If I am coming home from work and some goof runs into me on a bike when he is supposed to be on the street i am going to explode.
Well I thought someone would respond to me who was having the same issue at their job which is what I thought this rant thing was all about.
Strangers on the internet are a cowardly and superstitious lot.
Try dressing up like a giant bat or something.
Pics or it didn’t happen.
The OP’s posts are vapid. Entertaining synonyms are: insipid, feeble, flat, dull, boring, tedious, tired, unimaginative, uninvolving, lifeless, vacuous, bland, trite.
There are people who join the SDMB, post dumb crap as newbies, but learn quickly. There are people who come here, post crap that is interesting to no one, yet never learn, then continue posting crap that is interesting to no one. I was tempted to post in the mini-rants thread that you’re an idiot, because everyone else was insinuating it without actually saying it. I decided to say it but was on my phone at the time and couldn’t bother since I was out doing other things. And then this thread had arrived by the time I logged in at home. Perfect.
The people who originated l33t are middle-aged by now. It, like MTV, came from the 1980s, so people who were the first to jump on it would have been born in the 1970s to have been old enough to be the r0dentz and warez kiddies on the dial-up BBSes of the era. It survived for a while in the IRC and early Web cultures of the 1990s, but as far as I can tell it’s gone now, except as a self-conscious affectation among older people.
txtspeak seems to be gone as well, killed by predictive text and better keyboards on cell phones. Abbreviations are still used, but the highly compressed telegraphic style is dead.
The word “telegraphic” meaning “extremely terse” is itself something of a relic, dating back to when people sending telegrams were charged by length and therefore had an incentive to keep their communiqués as brief as possible.
Unlike on a modern message board.
cg16: Digressions are common. In case you hadn’t figured it out yet.
OK, look, I don’t know about everyone else but I come to the workplace rants to hear unique stories that have some component that we can relate to. Here is a good example that includes who, what, and why:
See how she didn’t just say “Boss is an idiot” ???
Your rants tend to be some generic thing that happens to everyone every day. The only response I would make is “yep. Me too. Happens to everyone.” You don’t invite engagement or interest because you don’t really tell the story behind them that makes them unique or funny or make me appreciate my own shitty workplace.
Not only generic, but (as already noted) seriously lacking any any attempt at empathy. You are pissed that people work a second job. You were ranting that someone cried at work because they had no money (Atm issues, i think? ) people don’t say hi in the hall to you. People don’t want to chat or be social on their lunch break. Coworkers who are “moody” piss you off too.
But yeah, “PEOPLE SUCK” isn’t much of a rant, nor does it actually contribute tip the conversation underway.
I didn’t see anything wrong with the supervisor rant since I explained why she is a fool. She acts like none of us are ever supposed to make a mistake like we are machines instead of humans. She speaks to you about the mistake like if you ever mess up again you will be written up or fired. So that’s why I was pissed because no job on this planet requires you to be flawless all the time. And again if that rant wasn’t unique or interesting I would think someone would ignore it.
Now I would hope and pray no one in this thread rants about getting fired.
But you didn’t explain, not in the original post. You’ve explained in the one above mine. And frankly, “my boss is horrible because she expects me to make no mistakes”, coming from someone whose very short posting history appears to indicate he accepts no mistakes and expects others to read his mind gets kind of schadenfreudy with a dash of inadvertent irony.
If the initial post had included something along the lines of “whenever any of us makes a mistake, she speaks to them about the mistake like if we ever mess again we will be written up or fired” and it gives that background info people reading minirants like to get while giving the impression that you actually ever feel sympathetic to your coworkers.
You were asked in the original thread what kind of mistake you were taking about. Serious financial error or forgot a cover sheet kind of thing. Did you respond? “Whenever i ask a question she quizzes me so she is stupid” doesn’t make much sense to me either. Is she quizzing you on what she thinks you screwed up this time? Is she using a (annoying) teacher’s trick to help you realize you already know the answer (or should)? if you ask her where the paperclips are, Is she giving you the third degree on your online dating practices?
It was a technical mistake I made when processing someone’s application which was good she brought it to my attention but I wasn’t expecting her to tell me about it in a way like “mistakes here are unheard of so don’t make another one again”.
Well, then, if you make a mistake, don’t let her hear about it. Quit squabbling with your siblings! Don’t make her come back there or she will turn the car around and there will be no House of Mud and no Happymeals for anyone!
I wanted to tell her so bad that I will be making more mistakes as long as I continue to work here since I am only human.
“A technical mistake?” Does it open the agency up to financial or legal liability?
It doesn’t really matter, though. I think the recurring theme that I detect is that you seem to have zero read on other people. I’m referring back to you were all pissed up that people don’t say hi, or want to be social with you when they are on break, or when someone has a bit of breakdown due to financial stress, or are tired.(either at the end of the day or because they are working multiple jobs) - at this ppoint, I suspect what your supervisor said was “Hey, you made a mistake here. Don’t let it happen again, ok?” Maybe even with a smile, or a laugh.