Sigh. Here we go again. I'm fed up of listening to some people in my life talking. Feels like we have the same conversations over and over
Come and share your moans, niggles, gripes, whinges, rants, tirades and complaints.
I'm all ears.
by a-liquid-sky
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Going to work and had someone overtake me for daring to do 50 in a 50. Now have a new Stone chip because they drove through all the bits in the middle and kicked something into my door. All to get to the petrol station down the road a few seconds quicker.
I’m back at work today for the first day in three weeks. So _why_ have people filled my calendar with Teams meetings? I know fuck all about what you’re going to be talking about because I haven’t been here for 3 weeks so I am wasting my time listening to babble instead of spending all day deleting literally thousands of emails.
Also there is still a hosepipe ban and I need to wash my car after being parked next to a runway for said 3 weeks. Fuck buckets
Home ownership has been stressful so far! Snaked the drain and I’m still stood in water in the shower, and the got the first quote for the roof which is going to be about £10k
But I knew this going in and got a good deal so just need to get on with it. But eurgh, I can think of much more fun things to do with ten grand
I left the washing on the line yesterday. It’s currently raining
I can not get a job and I’m so burnt out, I’m applying and getting interviews but for admin work the market is tough and no one will bleeding hire me. I’m so fed up of not working and feeling a bit like all I do is moan about it.
Road closures, bus diversions, and having fellow passengers saying “the bus is going the wrong way!”.
No, the bus is going that way because it’s been _diverted_ (it states this specifically on the display board at the front of the vehicle). I don’t think the road workers would appreciate having their job interrupted by a double decker charging towards them.
People who put their legs and feet up on the chair in front of them at the cinema. please Fuck off
They’ve changed the Reddit app. Again. And it’s hideous. You’re now confronted with a giant search option when you open the app.
I vaguely recall seeing some headline somewhere about how Reddit supposedly wanted to replace Google as the main way of searching for things. But given how absurdly bad Reddit’s search has been historically, I thought someone was talking bollocks. Alas…
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Mother is constantly going on about someone at work who is constantly going on about her divorce. Like. Mother is constantly going on about how the colleague won’t shut up about it and how annoying it is. Pot calling the kettle black.
I’m covering two colleagues today because of summer holidays (and 3 of the 5 doctors we work with are also off), and the phones have been insane this week. And all the usual abusive people have been sending emails. Not looking forward to work today, and I’m really hoping people aren’t going to phone up and shout at me.
Didn’t have enough annual leave to take the whole week off, decided to just take the 4 days off and would WFH (at the Airbnb we booked for the week) today.
Nope. Manager decided I NEED to be in the office for that one day.
So drove from Bournemouth to my office in Stevenage this morning. Spectacular.
No meetings on-site of course…all on Teams with Clients…
…sigh.
People on the road, I hate driving but it’s so much worse when you get idiots driving ‘their way’ regardless of the world around them.
I’ve been out and about a lot more this week, so have seen a lot more idiots than usual, including:
* An old woman visibly angry at me for not giving way to her. She drove the wrong way down a one way road. I was just getting the hell out of her way before she hit me.
* Idiots who can’t drive the speed limit. 66, 70, 63. Constantly having to slow down when they stop paying attention. Pick a speed and stick to it, or get out of the way.
* People on phones, just arseholes the lot of them. It’s so obvious too. Especially when they are drifting back and forth.
* People who overtake at 1mph over the speed limit. Then gun it, as soon as you then try to overtake them.
Low water pressure in the area. No water coming from the taps. Got the shits.
disabled drivers on double yellows…..
There’s a bend at the bottom of our road with a junction on the outside apex forming what’s essentially a horseshoe T junction.
opposite the junction OFC its double yellow and there about 5 cars all with disabled badges that use it all day every day as parking.
The amount of bother with buses and people turning that causes is acute and yet the parking enforcement do fuck all about it despite it being 100yards away from the bloody enforcement office.
complete 1st world problem but it annoys me non the less specially as one of the fuckers runs just eat delivs from it and I suspect has the badge to cart his mum about although I’ve never seen her in the car with him.
Everything in my bank account starts with a minus, including the balances. Payday is 18 days away.
I knew I’d put on weight the last 12 months, especially this year as though I kept up with my exercise I ate and drank my way through my grief in the months after mum died. Didn’t have any scales so I bought some yesterday and oh dear. 1.5 stone more than I was last time I weighed myself maybe 18 months ago.
Still suppose it gives me something to focus on…
My job used to just require me to sit at a desk in the same place each day.
Now, because people won’t pick up a phone I have to travel to different sites and sit at places that aren’t really proper desk spaces, ‘incase someone needs help with something’ and they can come and find me in person.
Note: 99% of my job and the support I give can be done fully remotely.
I hate having to travel for work. I moved to the area and specifically chose this job so I could walk to work. Now they’ve got me going all over the fucking place. It’s like extreme hot desking.
Managers of course get their own desk they can be at all day. Have everything set up comfortably for them.
I’m going back to work Monday after 2 months off due to a stress induced heart issue.
It’s not helping my stress and anxiety 🙄
I have to deal with some right idiots. One in particular is a pain in the arse, she demanded that I sort out a tree and fix the pathway it has damaged. I couldn’t figure out which tree on our grounds (block of flats) she was talking about.
Well it turns out that it is a tree on the pavement. I pointed out the tree is the council’s responsibility. He reply was “are you going to work with the council?”, I told her no. She started with various rants about who she knows, and it people like me that bring the entire area down. I ask if she would work with the council, her reply “that’s not my responsibility”.
Karen was told to fuck off.
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was made redundant and im working the notice to get my severance pay the woman who sits next to me still defends this shit company despite the fact she has no job and she has heart radio on every single day I have music playing in my headset all day and she always gets my attention to tell me some pointless thing someone did I just want to get through the next 3 weeks and be left alone and not hear the same 20 songs over and over again
I broke my toe on Friday and yet I feel like I’m somehow blagging it for using sick days this week while I recover.
I’m having to live off meal replacement drinks as I’ve lost the ability to swallow solid foods.
Waiting on the referral to come through so I can get a camera down my throat to see what’s up.
First they need to rule out a physical issue before deciding it’s a mental issue, and the stress and anxiety from the whole ordeal really isn’t helping.
I’ve just spent two and a half weeks in Europe with my extreme long distance partner (Scotland and Peru), in southern France and then Budapest. Perfect weather, good food, surprisingly good sleep schedule, not a single thought of work.. and now I’m sitting on a bus home in the rain from a nightshift that I got asked to cover as I was traveling back, with two extra cover shifts this weekend as well.. at least I’ll pay back the holiday expenses quickly.
I thought it was Friday 😭
On the hunt for a cat owner, who is either oblivious or unable to deal with the chonk that passes through (my hedgehog cam picks it up) that has a multitude of ticks that keep multiplying weekly
If not, then an epi pen and a crate are lined up because as much as they can kill me, I can’t see it like this anymore
Sick of having a bandaged hand.
Haven’t slept properly in 2 weeks.
Had to shampoo my hair 3 times this morning (with one hand, due to the aforementioned bandaged hand) and it still feels oily after the scalp massage I had yesterday.
Need to write a job application and just cannot motivate myself to do it.
**Urgh.**
We have a mouse behind the sofa so I need to get a trap today. It was a gift from the cat.
We also have a fly which has been annoying and refusing to go out of the window for what seems like a year. Mentioned it to someone at my volunteer gig and they told me to put dog poo in a wine bottle on the mantlepiece. Would rather have the fly.
I bought a new android phone off eBay, that had screen burn and I had to return it
I’m really thinking of ditching Reddit completely. It’s just not worth it for me most of the time.
There are sometimes some good laughs in the CasualUK sub. But that’s not really enough. And frankly the downvoters are just another needless reminder that a fair percentage of the people in this world are just unpleasant human beings. Spiteful, cruel, and – perhaps most bothersome – cowards. Hate to start off any day with a negative opinion, but there we have it.
Five Thursdays until my holiday and selfishly my best mate has this week off work so I’ve got no entertainment other than Reddit 😂
Spent 45 minutes last night trying to get a bat out of my living room. Those buggers are fast and agile.
The job market. Received another rejection email yesterday, this time for a role that was part of a recruitment drive for a new department where there were 75 jobs available for my location. Five years ago I would always, always be shortlisted and interviewed for roles I applied for, now I’m feeling very confused and down about it all.
How did I not even get to interview when there were 75 jobs?? I suppose I can take solace in the fact it was civil service, which seems to be down to pure luck as to how you’re scored sometimes.
I had a bitnof a re-arrangement of my bedroom furniture to create a bit more space and flow through the room, but even though it’s the same bed just in a different position in the room I just can’t get comfortable, like *at all*. I’m going to have to change it all back to how it was.
I got rocked by nostalgia from the weirdest source. There was nothing on TV so I was watching old Great British Bake Off episodes from 9 years ago (the year with adorable redhead Andrew, big guy Selasi and won by Candice with the lipstick), and it got me strangely sad. Not because Bake Off peaked when it was on the BBC, but everything seemed better back then. What I would give for a time machine.
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