Things that are pissing you off. - Page 2470

I am in my office working on a paper that I have to present at a conference next week. I would rather not be using my weekend to do that, but c'est la vie I guess.

(The paper has to do with Jean-Francois Lyotard's 1974 book Economie Libidinale, which may actually be my favorite book in the world. I'm not pissed off about that.)

Well it's fucking sunday and I'm just finishing up work right now.

Y'all mofos need to stop working on Sundays.

I just finished (half) of my work and I'm going to do the rest on the plane. This may or may not be a good idea.

But fuck it, it's Sunday.

I'm on call all the entire weekend...technically I'm off at this point, but I have paperwork to finish up and file away...haven't had a weekend off in eight months or so. The week and weekend blur together, there is no difference anymore; I'm either work working or doing school work. Free time is spent studying for post-grad career.

I think of weekends as the time for me to get real work done. It's been a very long time since I've thought of weekends as time for relaxing. (That's because I teach on weekdays. It's harder to get research done on teaching days, which means the weekends are ideal.)

OK WTF so I got a reply back from my boss and he completely ignored my questions about our apparent misunderstandings. Then he wrote something about Monday being my day off, and I definitely shouldn't come in for this meeting, and we'll talk Tuesday/Wednesday. Ok; so, this (Monday) morning I get a call from the office- the president is there, and they are asking where I am and if I am coming to the meeting. What the fuck?! Am I being trolled?

Is there a version of Candid Camera in Hong Kong? That's the only hypothesis that makes any sense of the things you've been describing.

Sometimes when people are acting in ways that I find absurd or inexplicable, I get up and start looking behind doors and curtains. After I find nothing, I say "Come on, where's Alan Funt? I know he's here somewhere."
Edited by L'Incandescent - 10/7/12 at 10:30pm

padded room. build a padded room.

I think I'm coming down with a case of man flue.

So exhausted when i got home from work i just conked out without setting my alarm... Made it to class, but didnt shower and literally ran here.

No time or energy for a shower but doesn't fail to post about the experience on SF

every now and again my wife has pms as I am about to leave on a trip, and I have to hear all the bitching about how I am leaving her to have fun. she goes on and on about why can't she do all the fun travel and I stay at home with the kids. one of these days my patience will snap, and I will mention that she chose to study art history, and I chose to develop a career in international business.

This would be the wrong answer. Resist it!

Sounds like my day today. It started with a run and workout at 4 this morning, a speech at 8, meetings, and I'll have another speaking role at 7 tonight. Will get home around 9 or so. Btw, speech this morning was awesome, not sure the one this evening will be though.

Are you in Toastmasters?

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I have to say...most of the time my job is relatively satisfying, considering the exchange of effort for money that most jobs entail. But one of the things that's guaranteed to get me cranky is to point out and escalate computer issues that have no easy or obvious fix. Particularly because I'm not the computer guy.

OR worse, point out an issue that's really a training issue, and the reason it's a training issue is because you decided to do things differently because today's a bank holiday, or you thought the procedure was pointless, or you thought because you're wearing bedazzled pink flip-flops that you could invent a new process that strangely didn't yield the results you were hoping for. I mean, really. Don't tell me that you're doing it differently because it feels like Tuesday.