What's your pet peeve in RL?

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My peeve in RL is people who plan to hang out with you all week... only to blow you off at the last minute.

Or worse... when they call you at the last minute to tell you "Oh... I don't think I can make it today".

You know you can... you just don't want to. Why don't you quit being an asshat and admit that you don't like me... that way I won't feel nearly as guilty about setting your car on fire! How about that!

[Aksannyi]

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<--------- Likes this new person.

[DakAttack]

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Homoerotic relationship, GO

[Takelli]

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<--------- Likes this new person.

Haha, same goes here. I hope they stay on this site for a while and is fairly active. XD

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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God, can't people control their kids?

I was at Gamestop last night, hanging out. This is the one I work at. I wanted to check out MvC3 and they were going to start demoing it.

There was this couple with seemingly adorable children in the store. The father took a couple of the kids over to the 360 kiosk to play the FIFA 2011. The father was Mexican and the mother was white. The little boys had clearly watched a lot of soccer on the spanish version of ESPN with their father because each goal was accompanied by:

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLL!"

by the little kids, so that was cute.

Then the little boy in white got out of his dads sight.

He took the plastic cover off the Super Guide display and set it on the floor. Pulled down a plastic Wii gun along with the metal hanger, letting it fall to the floor and then he put the gun on some other shelf. Then he proceeded to open game cases on the wall and help himself to the instruction manuals that interested him.

And when mom and dad called to him that it was time to go, he tried to leave with the manuals.

Even though I wasn't on the clock, I had to step in on this one as they just got out the door. The mother told the boy to return the manuals.

The boy set them down on the sidewalk and tried to walk away before she repeated herself about handing the manuals back.

I dunno, maybe he just liked the pictures, but he also took those generic caution/detail inserts from the DS cases, along with instructions for Ventica, Puzzle Kingdom, and about five other games from different sections. He'd leave the cases on the floor, too.

When I was a kid that age, I was scared to even touch brochures because my parents would yell at me for taking them even though they were free, so I didn't dare touch anything that cost money. And even back then games were behind-the-counter or in glass or plastic display cases.

Maybe this kid should re-enter society after he reaches reading age. Or has watched two more years of soccer with his dad.

[Aksannyi]

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Phone numbers.

This is how my trail of phone calls usually goes:

1. Find a number for a company, in this case, the Department of Veterans Affairs, on the internet. This is a local office but not the one in this particular county, as I'm unable to find that one.
2. Dial this number.
3. Get referred to the number for my county, which was not listed on the contact sites I'd visited.
4. Dial this number.
5. Get told that their office isn't the one I should talk to, and be given another number.
6. Dial this number.
7. Be told that the VA itself doesn't assist people in job searches. Get a number for someone who assists veterans in employment but doesn't specifically work for veterans.
8. Dial this number.
9. "Do-do-dee ... We're sorry but the number you are dialing has been disconnected."
10. /headdesk.
11. Repeat.

This fucking shit happens to me way more often than it should. I know people do not want to be harassed with phone calls, but applying by e-mail is so impersonal, and I can count the number of times I've received a call back from an online application in thin air, because guess what: It's never happened.

Mailing resumes is also considered archaic. Knocking on doors? People are dicks about that, too. You'd think that showing the initiative to dress up all spiffy carrying a resume to a place and personally turn it in would make a good impression, but no. It rarely does, and as such, I've stopped that practice.

I really miss the days when newspaper ads were an easy way to get hired. You'd call, they'd set up an appointment, and all was right with the world. Nowadays it's so impersonal. I'm not what you'd call a social person by any means, but I'm easily a lot more charming in person than I am over the internet.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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They set things up that way to prevent you from calling them, I think.

I don't deal unless I get a human right away on the phone or via live chat.

If fact, I call the wrong company numbers on purpose because they'll either have to forward me to the right department or tell me the right number because its so far off the mark. If find this gets me out of jumping through the extra hoops when they've changed numbers.

So don't wait for them to annoy you, annoy them first.

[Aksannyi]

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I can understand why they do it, I just thought that the VA of all places would be a bit more understanding. Veterans preference my ass.

[NightShayde]

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Veterans preference my ass.

Was that one of those dirty easter egg things? 'Cause if it wasn't, I'm sorry I laughed...

[Aksannyi]

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Actually this time it was not, though in retrospect it definitely does fit. I have been too distraught the past few days to even think about being dirty. Which is bad. I just have so much going wrong right now. I don't even want to go into it all. Let's just say that everything possible has gone wrong this week. I seriously think God only keeps me alive to be his personal Butt Monkey.

[cidbahamut]

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Dear coworker,

You do not get to continue complaining about your wireless internet connection after I tell you to go plug it into the router if it's such an emergency. Neither do you get to bang your mouse and complain about your computer being slow when its hardware is perfectly adequate but you don't maintain it. Now please shut the hell up and run off to one of your meetings so I don't have to listen to your constant muttering.

[Aksannyi]

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Lemme guess. Middle-aged woman.

[cidbahamut]

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How did you know? D:

[Aksannyi]

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Because they are the ones who always bang their mouse like that's going to magically fix the computer problem. I never see anyone else doing that. Lol

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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You're not supposed to bang the mouse.

You're supposed to punch the monitor and kick the PC tower.

At least that's what I do.

Well, except I don't hit my HDTV like I do the old ones, its too thin for me to justify that. I might break it.

I did punch a monitor out of frustration at a job once. Screen went out and never came on again. Nobody was looking so I just whistled a little and went to ask for a new monitor. To be fair it was an old monitor, it had it coming