Are you pissed off? I'm pissed off. Vent Thread.

[Aaron]

I love energy drinks (and I kinda live on them... I love coffee, but only in the winter months.) And while Red Bull isn't my favorite (green rockstar=is my favorite.), I like it. I hate how much it is thought... In fact I just paid 20 bucks for less then a gallon of it (100fl oz, a gallon is 128 fluid oz, and yes I know that with out having to look it up.) Which is a lot of cash for less then a gallon of something (that isn't aged) I find it funny how people bitch about gas prices, but energy drinks or starbucks or bottled water and people don't seam to notice or care... Maybe its cuz its an item that you can cut out if need be but transportation is important to getting that cash.


Also the amount of typos I have been making as of late is amazing. Like the last week my typing has gone to complete shit. And I don't mean misspellings. (woohoo for chrome/firefox having spell checks)

[sin]

I love coffee, but only in the winter months.

I'm not a huge coffee drinker, but enjoy an occasional cup (I like my coffee like I like my men: hot, black and strong).  I am, however, looking forward to winter so I can start drinking vodka with piping hot Earl Grey tea, which is a serious baller drink that is amazing, but again, only when it's cold outside.

[Aaron]

Huh. I like my ladies like my beer. Chalk full of booze and desperation. (not really sure how beer can be desperate, but lets just go with it.)

Earl Grey and Vodka? Never would have thought to combine the two... Gona have to buy some and try it...

[sin]

just make a cup of tea with a finger or two empty at the top, and top it off with the vodka when it's hot.  It's got a nice, smoky pleasant flavor without the bitterness normally associated with strong, clear booze.

[Aaron]

I will have to try that.




While I like having a job, and getting paid. I think it's fucking bullshit they can fuck over my shifts like they are. I close and open GRANTED its not close then open so at lest that is a good thing. Kinda, well no not really. If I close, I know what all I have to do when I walk in. I also do as much as I can to make it stupid easy for when I walk in. My start times are different each week. And my days off change each week as well. Ugh. I can't wait till I move and start school. And its not that I hate closing or opening. I just like it being all of one kind. Then at lest I can have a set sleep pattern.

[sin]

I feel you; I was just complaining to a fellow co-worker the other day how 3 Senior Counselors (Senior Counselors = Managers, basically) ago, I had the same schedule EVERY WEEK; EVERY MONTH.  I dug that.  I knew exactly what I was doing, and what I would be paid.  The last 18 months or so though, my shifts have been all over the map, and it is BUGGING me.  It's impossible to develop a rational sleep schedule, so I'm exhausted and useless for several shifts a month.  Having to go into work on a Saturday night and working until Sunday morning, and then having to come BACK on Sunday Afternoon to work another shift... ugh.

Although, as my dad told me when I bitched about it "That's the price you pay for not finishing college" and I can't legitimately disagree...

[r00]

I love energy drinks too and have never been a big coffee drinker.  I had to cut my energy drink habit back to weekends only because it was killing my wallet (and god knows what else inside me  lol).

[luna]

omg B started drinking red bull...he insists on spending $40 on a case every time we go to costco

[Aaron]

Tell him to get Rockstar instead, I think it tastes better, and its cheaper for more. Then again, I don't know how much they are in Canada... But here at lest, you can get double the amount for the same price...

[r00]

omg B started drinking red bull...he insists on spending $40 on a case every time we go to costco

OMG I went through that same phase for a while.  hahaha  Costco rules.

Boom and Theo introduced me to RedBull + Jägermeister many years ago and I never looked back. <3

[rynne]

How to tell that your friend has a drinking problem:  He's drunk enough to think it's a good idea to call to chat about a random movie he's watching.  At 3:30 in the afternoon.  On a Monday.

"Are you drinking?" "Only a lot." "Um, you still have a job, right?"

[Aaron]

So I have been going in early all this week 7am is the latest I go in. I used to start at like noon. So my sleep times are all sorts of fucked up. And I have issues with going to sleep. And at like 10pm I'm still wide awake. So I have been taking melationin. However it doesn't help that much... So I take a lot. And then pass out. There is no middle ground for me with it. Either I don't take enough or its enough to where I get into bed and pass out... I really think I may start drinking more...


I also work 8 days in a row. But since half is in one week and 4 is in the next I get no OT. BUT I have new socks. So I won't have to wear the same ones over and over. So that is good.

[r00]

another option is that you do live in a MMJ state and there are lots of strains that help with insomnia.

[r00]

GML's latest thing at work is completely interrupting conversations I am having with a workmate.  I can be in a deep, personal conversation with him and she just walks in and starts talking to him like nothing else was going on.  At that point I usually just turn around and walk back to my desk.  She knows exactly what she's doing, but I am giving her a break from any verbage at the moment since I found out she is also currently dealing with a major health issue that her husband has.

[rynne]

One of the post-docs at my school was found dead on a DC street two weeks ago. I just found out about it. The police initially ruled his death as natural, but a couple days ago it was announced that it was a homicide. There's a good possibility it was an anti-LGBT hate crime.

I didn't know him that well but he was an all-around good guy, really smart and was in all likelihood going have a great life. It's fucking tragic that he was killed; and if it turns out that it was solely because he was gay, that's pure, idiotic, senseless bullshit.

Fucking shit, people suck so hard.