To my allergies - knock it off already! You’ve woken me up at 3:00 a.m. pretty much every day this month! I’m sick of feeling like there’s a walrus sitting on my chest!
To the returned students who, for reasons unknown to me, enjoy jogging along the allergen-infested route to my home – at least do so single-file! It’s a hilly, winding road, double-yellow lines all the way; I don’t enjoy taking my life in my hands just to get around your young, nubile selves.
last spring, I barely missed taking out the entire cycling team; if I hadn’t double-checked the view from the left & seen them flying down the hill towards me, clatter-clatter-BANG-clatter-clatter-ahhhhhh lycra everywhere!
I pit my teeny cubicle at work!
The thing’s only shoulder-high, maybe 5’ x 5’ and half of that is taken up with the desk-part that wraps around two sides. I can barely turn my chair around without backing out of the cubie first!
There’s also a metal shelf sticking out of the one remaining wall. This past Tuesday, I bent down to pull some file-folders out of a box. While I was bent over, my right shoulder had moved under the shelf (due to the aforementioned lack of space) without my noticing. Guess what happened when I sat up? (Are you wincing?) I literally saw stars! My shoulder still hurts! When I couldn’t sleep Tuesday night because anytime the slightest thing touched it the pain would wake me up, I reported it to Human Resources, who sent me to the Workers’ Comp doctor ( [suspend rant] who was actually very competent and nice, to my surprise [\resume rant]). Got an x-ray, etc. Diagnosis was a “contusion.” All this pain from a damn BRUISE?!
Yeah, kaylasdad99, I get it. No, we have no way of proving the money is still there. None of the about 2 dozen of us who have sent e-mails have received a response. This is the same City Council that is about to be sued by the School District because they won’t provide an accounting of funds raised by another SLOST to build a library. The library came in under budget. There is somewhere between $400,000 and $4 million dollars left over, which by law can only be used by/for the library, but the City won’t tell the library or school boards how much, or give it up.
The city recently lost over $250,000 in revenue from the landfill because the bills didn’t get sent out. Much, much more money is in jepordy because the people who owe it are disputing the amounts, and the records seem to have disappeared.
I hate this City. I am so sorry we bought a house here. I hate moving and swore I never would again, but I hate this City.
My Mom really needs to stop leaving her porno mags lying around the house.
I thought masturbation was supposed to be all secret and shameful-- you shouldn’t leave Jock Magazine, it’s ilk and other ‘devices’ under OUR bathroom sink. You have your own. Keep it in yours.
Sheesh. Y’know, all I wanted was some Q-tips fer cryin’ out loud.
Oh, and I know about the DVDs you have in the spare room, Mom. Don’t even get me started on that. Ugh.
Why is it raining the first week of class? I have a half mile walk from my dorm to my first class, so WHY IS IT FUCKING RAINING?! To add insult to injury, on tuesday it poured for the ten minutes it took me to run across campus to my first class, then when someone stepped outside to smoke five minutes into class it was bright and sunny outside?
And I say this as I glare at the rain and thank god that its saturday so I can drive to work rather than having to walk due to the rampant parking problems on campus, which richly deserves their own separate rant.
and also: I recently did some freelance work, for which the contract specified payment would be issued within 15 days of the completion of the work. Unfortunately, “completion of the work” means completion of the entire project, so the rest of the company has to finish the parts of the project they didn’t sub-contract out before anyone can be paid. And it’s taking much longer than they anticipated ( :rolleyes: ). Arrgh, hurry up, you jerks!
To our clients who are waiting in the reception area:
I know you can’t make it in on the weekdays because you have jobs of your own. Most people don’t like taking time off work to come in to speak to our people. That is okay. That is why we are opened on Saturdays. In fact, I appreciate people who like coming in on Saturdays, because it’s one of the reasons I have a job. So, I can greet people like you when you come in, because the regular receptionist does not (and never will) work weekends. We are a very accomodating business, but for the love of whatever deity that is popular nowadays, CAN YOU LEAVE YOUR SCREAMING TODDLER AT HOME?!?!?!
I really don’t appreciate the lack of volume control of your wittle pwecious, nor the fact that you refuse to silence him/her/it and keep on letting him scream on the top of his/her/its lungs. I don’t know why you thought it would be a good idea to bring a restless kid with you for your appointment, especially knowing that it may take upwards of an hour to do what we have to do for you. All the screaming and tantrum throwing is disturbing the fucking peace in this office, and I’m thiiiiiiiiiiiis close to smacking you in the face for your lack of discipline on your kid.
To the truly annoying idiots who schedule TV programs: Why, in the name of all that is holy, do you manage every single time to schedule the only two programs I want to watch in any given 24-hour period so that they are on directly opposite each other? Can’t you just for once have pity on those of us who’ve set aside a limited TV-watching window and let us actually watch what we want to watch when it’s actually on, instead of having to TiVo/tape it and then forget it even exists till it get accidentally recorded over?
Yes, you will have to drive all the way back to cover the graveyard shift you forgot you had. No, I can’t do the whole thing for you. I’m only here now so that the girl you were supposed to relieve can go home. If you don’t want to have to drive 3 hours in the middle of the night, freaking check the work schedule before you leave town!
Listen Install Shield. You make software that helps create installations of other software. *Your *software should install right out of the freaking box. I paid 2500 for it! I should *not *have to spend hours trying to find a tech support number and waiting on the phone to install your software! And then you have the nerve to try and sell me a “support” package for “incidents like these?”
Piece of crap! Next time I’ll stick with what I know and buy Wise Install.
Listen, I sit at the very back of the bus so that no one will sit next to me. There are only one or two other people on the bus, so most of the seats are empty. So there is no fucking earthly reason to come way back and sit on the same bench as me!!
Fisher-Price, why is it that you package your toys with hideously dangerous wires and plastic pieces that are impossible to remove without wirecutters?
Corvette car-show participants and Carlisle Events: I’m glad that you bring a ton of money into my borough. Really, I’m thrilled. But I’m not thrilled about the stupid behavior of same participants or the fact that the main intersection of town has to be blocked off for some stupid parade. I hate taking 30 minutes to go five miles.
I think it’s time you sent in a FOIA request for all the budgeting and related materials that you can get your hands on. I’m not an expert on it by any means, but it seems that there shouldn’t be anything confidential at all about the city’s budget, or even the contents of its bank accounts. That’s taxpayer money to be spent at taxpayer discretion. It’s no one’s private funds, and you have a right to know how it’s being spent, if it’s accruing interest, etc. etc. And they can get in a LOT more trouble for ignoring a FOIA request than they can for ignoring an e-mail. They may not care, since they’re already being sued, but if they have a halfway competent lawyer, they’ll honor the FOIA requests. And if they don’t, you have grounds for a lawsuit. Publicize the hell out of it. You might get a recall election, or at least get the bums out when their terms are up.
My husband just informed me that the boss has told him we need cocktail attire for a work function in Vegas, which we leave for early Tuesday morning. I don’t have any cocktail attire that fits me - hell, I haven’t got any at all. DAMN IT. So much for any other plans I may have had today.
