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Same, one of my first days in retail back when I was 20 some guy was talking to me about the product and then grabbed my shoulder and said “you’re really hot.” Then walked away. Yes I look very hot in my big corporate mandated logo shirt.
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Oh, then I've probably never seen it because I'm male. 
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It doesn't help that too many dudes think us being nice means we like them, as opposed to it being our job. I also have bad hand tremors and that's been interpreted as nervousness due to me being attracted to them. I lose patience with that and just bluntly state I have a medical condition and it would be nice if they ignored it like I try to.
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Sep 6, 2018 23:05
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This just reminds me of when I'd go to big lots and every time there would be this one worker there who would creep up behind us and start talking to us in a real hushed voice, all whispery and poo poo, and he'd just say like hey... I see you're looking at the pillows... we're gonna be having a sale in a week... you should come back then... that way you'll save money We always got the hell outta there after that. I have no clue if the dude was purposefully trying to creep customers away while technically not breaking any rules or what
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Sep 6, 2018 23:14
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Oh, then I've probably never seen it because I'm male. Nah, it can happen to guys too. Definitely not as often but it happens. Similar things happened to me a few times and I'm a dude. I am very happy that my job doesn't even require I say much to my coworkers and I never, ever deal with the public. The public is terrible.
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I think the male version of it is the death grip handshakes and the "friendly" roughhousing. I used to work in a sales industry and every once in a while I had some 80s relic crush my hand as hard as he could, it was loving obnoxious. I also had to ask my boss to stop clapping me on the back and play-punching me - I didn't like it to begin with, but he would always do it WAY too hard. (And then mock me when I ask him not to.)
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Rotten Red Rod posted:I think the male version of it is the death grip handshakes and the "friendly" roughhousing. I used to work in a sales industry and every once in a while I had some 80s relic crush my hand as hard as he could, it was loving obnoxious. I also had to ask my boss to stop clapping me on the back and play-punching me - I didn't like it to begin with, but he would always do it WAY too hard. (And then mock me when I ask him not to.) No, I'm not talking about that; I'm talking about the stuff mentioned before. You know, grabs your hand, won't let go, demands a date or something; that sort of nonsense. It was mostly gay dudes but a couple of women as well. I'm a misanthropic recluse for many perfectly valid reasons. My experience with dudes that roughhouse like that is that very few of them will give you poo poo if you ask them not to. Then again I've never been in the sales industry other than telemarketing so maybe I was never in a situation to experience that sort of thing. That's probably dudes that are all I AM THE ALPHA MALE! KNEEL BEFORE ME!!!!!!! I HAVE A FANCIER CAR THEN YOU SO I WIN, FUCKER! Dominance struggles like that are the dumbest loving thing. edit: Now that I think about it probably the worst offense was the lady that offered me a $20 tip for a kiss. How anybody thinks that sort of thing is appropriate is a mystery to me. ToxicSlurpee has a new favorite as of 01:53 on Sep 7, 2018 |
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ToxicSlurpee posted:No, I'm not talking about that; I'm talking about the stuff mentioned before. You know, grabs your hand, won't let go, demands a date or something; that sort of nonsense. It was mostly gay dudes but a couple of women as well. Yeah, I know, I was just talking about a different version of it. Also this quote:My experience with dudes that roughhouse like that is that very few of them will give you poo poo if you ask them not to. Then again I've never been in the sales industry other than telemarketing so maybe I was never in a situation to experience that sort of thing. That's probably dudes that are all I AM THE ALPHA MALE! KNEEL BEFORE ME!!!!!!! I HAVE A FANCIER CAR THEN YOU SO I WIN, FUCKER! Dominance struggles like that are the dumbest loving thing. Was my former boss to a T.
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Picnic Princess posted:I had a nightmare so upsetting I still feel despair an hour after waking up. Strangely, same. I was stuck in an Albertsons, couldn't find the bathroom.
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I got hit by a motorcycle today. Although, to be honest... I don't know if it made my day particularly lovely, since every one of my days is lovely, and I got away pretty lightly with only some surface bruising / swelling and a very sore left wrist (assuming nothing else develops over the weekend). It was at least an interesting experience as nothing like that has ever happened to me before. As consolation I bought a giant apple strudel at one of my favorite bakeries on the way home, so on balance maybe it's evened out. Overall just your average lovely day then I guess.
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Queen Combat posted:Strangely, same. I was stuck in an Albertsons, couldn't find the bathroom. My husband died.
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It's a really busy summer level day at work but we lost 3/4 of our staff due to entering shoulder season so it's been friggin overwhelming.
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I literally have a running tally of how often my one coworker leans over like a massive creep to ogle women's asses. I've already flipped out over him about this once before, and tried to have a more civil discussion about it by attempting to paint it in a beneficial light how stopping his gross behavior would work out better (think about what happens if you get spotted, or the boss sees you, just glance, don't ogle and be weird, etc.) just because I thought that would be more effective at stopping it. It worked for all of a few days and then he was back at it. poo poo is insanely disrespectful to do it someone, going to hit up the boss about it when he's here next week because it's seriously getting on my nerves massively.
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I'm on a new anti-anxiety medication and it makes me dizzy and nauseated at unexpected times. This is to be expected, it's a common set of side effects that should pass after a couple weeks, but I've been basically useless for the time being and absolutely miserable. I can't drive or workout or eat for about 3/4s of my day. What really chafes my balls about it is my doctor prescribed the exact dosage - 7.5 mg - that just happens to cost 10x all the other dosages. Seriously, if I were to get the same monthly amount of this drug in 5 or 10 mg pills, I'd pay $20 rather than the $200 (after insurance) that I am at the moment. I hate my doctor, I hate pharmaceutical companies, and I hate that this medication is *working* because otherwise I'd have a really good reason to quit and try another one. Also I hate the fact that I could probably solve the nausea problem with some THC/CBD edibles, but even though I live in a legal state I also live smack dab in the middle of an rear end-backwards county that banned recreational sales, and I can't drive the hour + round trip to the next county without putting myself and others in danger. I'm 20 loving minutes from Denver and I can't buy weed because of all the old white people and Coors executives who think getting high isn't olde timey enough for their racially pure western tourist town. drat, I'm so dizzy even my rants aren't making much sense. gently caress. Edit: Oh, and I'm weaning off Xanax too, so gently caress me again; that's got me in a great mood.
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I've been living in a foreign country for the past four years with my girlfriend of five years, but since she never made any effort to learn the language or integrate into the country she's decided to now move to Korea to teach English for a year or two. She thinks having a long-distance relationship with a twelve hour timezone difference will not be a problem. Other than her I basically have no friends whatsoever here and in three months I turn thirty which I'm certain I'll spend alone in my lovely apartment. I also feel trapped living in this country, being isolated and treated like a weird foreigner and not being able to socialise no matter how hard I try. Yet I'm stuck in this country (let's call it country X) and can't go back to my "homeland" (country Y) because although I grew up in Country Y my nationality is actually Country X. So when my student visas for Country Y ended I had to move "back" to Country X with practically no chance of moving back to Country Y because of how difficult they make it for people to get work or residence visas. I don't belong here, I don't belong there, I don't belong anywhere. It's a complicated story. About a week ago I started taking anti-depressants so I'm trying to stay optimistic they'll help but in general I feel I have no control over anything, that I'm a weird freak that doesn't belong anywhere and therefore I shouldn't exist. Also weed is crazy expensive here and not very good.
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The company provided cybersecurity course i got accepted for had to turn me away because management at my current job didnt want to have anyone fill in for me while i was on day release doing the course. Basically gently caress my career i guess, they need someone to operate the telephones.
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My dad’s cancer is back. He sees his oncologist Friday l, till then I can only worry. His last bout of chemo hosed him up bad, so even best case he’s in for a rough time.
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Had a terrible day a work becsuse my brain decided that the the last few days of sleep decided not to actually count as rest, so ive been exhausted all day in a haze of not being able to function, nearly falling over, and forgetting things within minutes of them happening. like, I had to text my not-there boss today about somerthing and it took me 20 minutes to get my fingers to make the words. driving home last night was a nighmare driving home, because I was literally seeing things. slept for like twelve hours. didnt help. still exhausted. tonight I got into a car accident on the way home.  rammed straight into someone I didnt have the reaction time to avoid. shes fine, my shin is killing me (possible broken leg?) that hosed up my front end pretty badly. i've got insurance on both my car and health, but this really sucks.(I'll take a probe if this counts as seemingly drunk-texing, I'm having trouble typing even after five hours of resting afterwards. I am so very tired. MisterBibs has a new favorite as of 11:56 on Sep 13, 2018 |
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zerozerozero posted:I've been living in a foreign country for the past four years with my girlfriend of five years, but since she never made any effort to learn the language or integrate into the country she's decided to now move to Korea to teach English for a year or two. She thinks having a long-distance relationship with a twelve hour timezone difference will not be a problem. Other than her I basically have no friends whatsoever here and in three months I turn thirty which I'm certain I'll spend alone in my lovely apartment. Have you thought about moving to Korea with your girlfriend?
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I had to be on light duty last night, with a weight limit of 5 lbs/2.2 kg, and it was super duper really loving boring. Even the prep supplies for my coworkers in my department weigh more than 5 lbs! I cut cardboard tubes for another department until they didn't need any more, then I trimmed photopolymer plates until there were no more to trim, and then I read my ebook in the break room for 8 hours or so even though all I had loaded were 1-a printing press manual and 2-a depressing book about neglectful parents. A 12 hour shift of this poo poo. I've got to do it again tonight and for the three nights after that. I can't even take off unpaid until my doctor's appt next Tuesday, because that would turn my injury into a lost time incident and we can't have that! Ugh.
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Glare Seethe posted:I got hit by a motorcycle today. I have pretty bad anxiety but an interesting effect of that is how calm I get during actual anxiety-inducing situations. Like my brain goes, “Aha, validation!” and just chills out. Today I was feeling sick on the bus and as soon as I stepped off I hurled all over the sidewalk. Mid-day downtown, a lot of people about. Then I had to rinse out my mouth and go to work.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Have you thought about moving to Korea with your girlfriend? I have, but the problem is that working there would pretty much only mean teaching English, something I have no qualification or interest in doing as I love what I do and want to focus on that as much as possible. I also worry about having this gap of who-knows-how-many-years of doing something so unrelated to my field when I get back to it. Plus, it's easier for her to come and go as she's got family back home, and me here, to leave her stuff with, but since I'm pretty much on my own I don't have anywhere or anyone to leave our poo poo or our cat with and she's decided to do all this within two weeks, hardly enough time to take care of everything. At the moment I'm trying to quell all the anxiety I have for the future and just try enjoy our last days together, but to be honest I am pretty scared of the oncoming loneliness I feel is coming, afraid of myself and how I'll handle it. But who knows, maybe it'll all work out and this is just the anxiety talking.
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MisterBibs posted:Had a terrible day a work becsuse my brain decided that the the last few days of sleep decided not to actually count as rest, so ive been exhausted all day in a haze of not being able to function, nearly falling over, and forgetting things within minutes of them happening. like, I had to text my not-there boss today about somerthing and it took me 20 minutes to get my fingers to make the words. You may have something neurologically wrong with you please see a doctor
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Neo-nazis tried to burn down a gay married couple's house not even a hundred kilometres from where I live, and the government is doing nothing about it. It didn't even get mentioned by any public official. gently caress this country.
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One of the guys on the farm-- dude has a huge history of abusing people and lying about serious things, which multiple people in his life including his father just confirmed-- just got kicked out for not paying rent. He decided it was a great idea to try to wreck everyone on the farm. He spread nasty lies about my fiance and I. Unfortunately the landlord believes him even though we have solid proof he was lying. No one else believes him. She wants to kick the two of us and another guy out today. Her kids are coming over to try to sort it out...apparently she has attacks of PTSD and she's done this before. Guess all bisexuals are just filthy predators because her dead abusive ex was. I want to cry and I have to hold it together. I'm stuck at work all day as a caregiver and I can't do anything to worry my client. No one is free to take my shift.
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Had our bookkeeper come in today to work on an issue I discovered with us over-paying benefits to employees. When I found this issue, I brought it to my boss first (because my boss loving asked me to do it) and then to her. She responded by I calculated it incorrectly ,and, "I still don’t understand why you don’t pick up the phone and coordinate with me so that we provide an accurate accounting. It is my ultimate responsibility to provide accurate reporting to [owners]. You don’t have the back ground nor the experience." Guess what she discovered today? I was completely correct and she completely missed it. gently caress you. I'm so sick of people assuming I don't know what I'm doing.
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Sep 18, 2018 23:24
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My wedding was in 10 days. WAS.
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DrBouvenstein posted:My wedding was in 10 days. Congratulations!
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The Sexual Shiite posted:Congratulations! Well, it was because my fiance died, so thanks, I guess. No, she's fine...well, she's alive, but I bet you'd feel like real poo poo if that WAS the reason the wedding was off, eh?
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Yo, safe space goes both ways, and with a vaguepost (which is okay) whaddya gonna do?
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Queen Combat posted:Yo, safe space goes both ways, and with a vaguepost (which is okay) whaddya gonna do? You're right, sorry to you goons. Just working through poo poo and shouldn't be taking it out on others. Already had to make a bunch of awkward phone calls to friends and family last night, now I've got to make a bunch more to the wedding venue people, photographer, etc... to cancel and say goodbye my money. And to top it off, my dog still isn't able to walk after slipping a disc and having emergency surgery last month, and I twisted my ankle REALLY bad on Saturday and I"m still limping along and in a bunch of physical pain to match my emotional pain. It's been a real fun month. EDIT: Well, just left the ER...the twist/sprain of my ankle is a break... I've been walking on a loving broken ankle for 4 days. Just a real nice topper to everything else. DrBouvenstein has a new favorite as of 16:05 on Sep 19, 2018 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:You're right, sorry to you goons. I’m just glad it happened before rather than after.
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DrBouvenstein posted:You're right, sorry to you goons. poo poo dude... I’m really sorry
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Some drunk lunatic was following me on my nightly walk after work. I work in a super rich neighborhood but it’s in the city so there are some weirdos around. I walk through the tree lined streets cause it’s relaxing but I had to walk super fast to the main/big street to get away from this guy. 2nd time this has happened within the past 5 years; first time, I ran into the garage of my building cause a rapist was following me. Speed, direction, side of street, etc. I enjoy being a woman  (I have pepper spray in my pocket so I can blind them but still ugh you ruined my walk you gently caress).
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a very wet possum posted:severe alcoholism, divorce Welcome to the club
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