[QuickTidal]

There is this older woman who works in my office. She actually works mostly in the back warehouse area, but occasionally comes up the front office area for one reason or another.

She drags in her wake a smell that makes me sick to my stomach. It's not BO or anything though, it's something altogether different. Imagine, if you will, the STRONGEST underarm deodorant smell, and amplify it to 100x. You know the antiseptic-y smell that accompanies whatever flavour (ex. Aqua Wave) they slap on current deodorants, yep that one...dial that up as far as it will go. Then don't just make it something that hits your nostrils when you are in a certain area, but it actively PRECEDES and SUCCEEDS you as you move. Like a time bubble of scent that leaves a smeared, horrid trail for at least a half hour afterward wherever you've gone...like some kind of VileScentSnailTrailTM.

That.

That is what is messing with me at the moment.

[worry]

You gotta fight fire with fire, QT. Open up your stink glands and spray away.

[Mezla PigDog]

Sorry QT but I'm laughing at your expense. Sounds awful. I worked with a lady who had the traditional BO version of VileScentSnailTrail.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Briar King, on 11 September 2014 - 11:51 PM, said:

Everyone from Destiny thread knows I'm having a very shitty go around ATM.

I bought the white PS4 Destiny bundle on release day and I've no luck getting it to play. I've done(atleast I think) all the tips to fix. I'm so upset that today I've given myself a stress headache. I want to play the machine I dropped $500 on not just look at its sleek white body...

Take it back. My ps4 shit the bed on day one, I went straight to best buy and got a new one no problem.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

I was going to post a picture to the forum, so I uploaded it to imgur. Imgur won't even let me look at it though, because I don't pay so I can only see a certain number of my pics and I am not paying. So, I guess create a new account? It's either that or delete some pictures, which I don't want to do. Anyone know what I am talking about? Am I just being stupid?

[Illuyankas]

I post loads of images with imgur and I don't have an account, try uploading via an incognito window from its front page.

[Ukjent]

Having a lecture in semiconductor physics in Swedish. Everything would have been easier i English,

[Tiste Simeon]

Graablick, on 17 September 2014 - 08:58 AM, said:

Having a lecture in semiconductor physics in Swedish. Everything would have been easier i English,

If it helps I wouldn't understand it in either language...

[Gothos]

I really need a different job. Contract ends by Jan 31st, hopefully I'll have something ready before that. Another year here and I'll end up dead or in the psychiatric ward.

[Mezla PigDog]

I was royally shafted by a colleague in front of multiple other colleagues and my boss today. Specifics are too boring to detail but why are people such fucks and how do they always seem to get away with it? I begrudgingly admire those that make a habit of it. I would love to cruise through life solely looking after number 1.

[QuickTidal]

Messing with my groove is the new METAL GEAR SOLID trailer.



In which we see a microcosm of all that's wrong with video games and portrayal's of women.

New female character Quiet gets a bikini top guys. She's like a super stealth military sniper in AFGHANISTAN...and she gets a BIKINI TOP, TORN FISHNETS, AND some straps to attack in?

Fuck you Konami! Fuck you Hideo Kojima.

He claims there is a reason she's dressed as she is. I can't fathom any logical reason whatsoever. In fact, it's probably going to cause me to skip playing the game.

[Tiste Simeon]

Maybe the reason is "this game doesn't have any sey scantily clad assassins with lovely large boobies... yet..."

[Puck]

So, we had a D&D session scheduled this evening.. To which everyone was looking forward to, because OMG, D&D AND THE PEOPLE ARE AWESOME!

Then the new guy that's been with us since the last session goes like 'Oh noes, sorry, guys, but I got plans for tonight!'

Eh, dude.. this was planned for how many weeks?!

So, what we're gonna do is play tomorrow (yay!), but one of the players who's been with us for heaven knows how long will have to cancel his plans for tomorrow. Which sucks, because the fact that he had plans for tomorrow was the reason we scheduled the session for today in the first place - WEEKS ago.

As the GM just put it: Puck is burning with righteous proxy rage. Because the GM can't. She's got to be nice. I don't have to. And I'm playing a paladin with a degree in asskicking. Ooooh, just you wait for tomorrow...

[Gwynn ap Nudd]

Puck, on 19 September 2014 - 06:41 PM, said:

So, we had a D&D session scheduled this evening.. To which everyone was looking forward to, because OMG, D&D AND THE PEOPLE ARE AWESOME!

Then the new guy that's been with us since the last session goes like 'Oh noes, sorry, guys, but I got plans for tonight!'

Eh, dude.. this was planned for how many weeks?!

So, what we're gonna do is play tomorrow (yay!), but one of the players who's been with us for heaven knows how long will have to cancel his plans for tomorrow. Which sucks, because the fact that he had plans for tomorrow was the reason we scheduled the session for today in the first place - WEEKS ago.

As the GM just put it: Puck is burning with righteous proxy rage. Because the GM can't. She's got to be nice. I don't have to. And I'm playing a paladin with a degree in asskicking. Ooooh, just you wait for tomorrow...

I hope his character's death is gruesume. Hopefully the DM can drag it out for a session or two. And he better be buying the snacks/refreshments tomorrow.

On the what's messing with my groove front, my grandma has lost it. She was admitted to the hospital a couple of weeks ago, but at first they thought it was due to an infection she had. That's been cleared up and now she has been diagnosed with senile dementia (they have a new term for it now, but I can't recall that). She has little sense of reality, frequent paranoid delusions and we are now waiting for space in a secure ward for her.

It's messed with groove for two reasons. First, my mom is distraught, and I hate to see her like that. Since we don't live in the same city it is hard to try and help or comfort her.

Second, I don't really feel as bad as I think I should for my grandma or about the situation at all, other than the pain it is causing my Mom and other relatives. My Grandma's in her late nineties, has a had good life by all accounts, has had many children and grandchildren - all of who loved her and have been a part of her life (as much as the recent one or two year olds can be in a couple of cases). I certainly don't want to see her like this, and wish she could soldier on as she used to, but I can't help but think of how happy she has always been and how great her life has been. Maybe it's because I am more distant from her now, but I have this nasty feeling inside that I am a bad person because I find myself already thinking things like "you had a great life and we will love you forever." I dunno, it just seems I should feel worse about this than I do. But I would rather dwell on the life she had and the happy moments we had together, then deal with the reality of how she is now.

Edit: Oh, and the other thing, my meds aren't working. Weeks of side effects for no return.

This post has been edited by Gwynn ap Nudd: 20 September 2014 - 03:54 AM

[EmperorMagus]

Something in my room that looks like a reptile and moves like an amphibian which I saw for 2 seconds and then vanished under the bed.

O, gods above and below, all powers here present, save me from this demonic apparition that has infested my humble abode.

[amphibian]

Wuzn't me.

[QuickTidal]

Briar King, on 20 September 2014 - 09:03 PM, said:

I went to get a iPhone 6 Plus but they were out already. That thing is truly massive in person.

Indeed, I popped into the store today to hold it and it's BIG...too big for my pocket, so I think I'm going to go with just the 6, not the Plus.

[LinearPhilosopher]

Im not usually the type to post about crap like this, however i feel i need an objective perspective on this.

I started a new part time job this week. I go to sobeys (grocery store) wander the aisles, and try to get individuals to sign up for credit cards. I don't mind talking to people, going out and connecting. What i do mind is that in order to get credit card sign ups Im being trained to be pretty aggressive. I simply don't think I can do this job. I empathise with people however i still have to go over the objections with them and at the end of the day i feel as if im treating others simply as a means to an end, not an end in of themselves. I don't think it's ethical, and im not comfortable pressuring people into getting the credit card, simply because credit cards do have a well earned stygma, and most people shouldn't have them.

Im also not comfortable that compensation is both quota based and commision based. Im paid a certain minium per hour but it's not great/. As someone who has studied compensation contracts for CEOs and the like, I don't think it's a fair system as a good compensation system ties rewards to performance (future and present). Comission in this business make little sense as I can give every customer i see 110% and still not get a sale.

So i started my trainign wednesday, ben doign on site training thurs friday and I had a 4 hour solo shift today. I have tomorrow off as i've other things to attend to (i help a friend with his business i do his books/taxes etc.) and monday is an 8 hour shift with my supervisor to conclude my training. Im thinking of resigning at the end of my shift. Give it a last solid hoorah and see where it goes. Thoughts?

(oh and for any1 concerned about future jobs, im trying to get a full time position in the accounting business, i did this for part time money on the side and to learn about marketing and sales which is useful in the long run. Im also currently living with the folks and while they're currently on vacation i doubt theyd mind.)

This post has been edited by BalrogLord: 21 September 2014 - 01:35 AM

[Slow Ben]

There is no freakin way I could do that job. I'm like you, I could handle just talking to people and giving them he opportunity if they wanted it. But the other stuff? Being the guy people just want to go the fuck away because I don't want your damn card? No way, sounds awful. I'd be uncomfortable all the time.


Unless its a job you have to have, I say get out early.

[Silencer]

Slow Ben, on 21 September 2014 - 02:02 AM, said:

There is no freakin way I could do that job. I'm like you, I could handle just talking to people and giving them he opportunity if they wanted it. But the other stuff? Being the guy people just want to go the fuck away because I don't want your damn card? No way, sounds awful. I'd be uncomfortable all the time.


Unless its a job you have to have, I say get out early.

This.


I have a friend who worked at a call centre (*shudder*) for rather dubious credit cards. Fortunately, he was on inbound calls only - but even that was soul-destroying. To be on the sales side, let alone the in-person sales side? Yeah, I don't think I could do that unless it was absolutely necessary to my continued existence. :S I just wouldn't be happy with selling people things they don't need, and are likely to hurt them.

(Bear in mind, I work for a bank. There is a reason I am not frontline staff at the bank - I hate the concept of 'referrals', which is what we call 'sell the customer other products than what they are there for to get your performance index'. I hate it as a customer, I'd hate it more as staff.)