What's your pet peeve in RL?

[cidbahamut]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

The last time we tried that the forum broke and Ping had to come fix it.

[Firewind]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Honestly the only thing keeping me in the UK is my little sister really. She's only 13 and my father is a single parent who is constantly having to work later and later to pay the bills. I practically raised her after my mother decided to vanish when she was about 5, and if I just up sticks and leave the country then she's pretty much going to have no family there for her. She has plenty of friends sure but they are all as immature as me so you can probably guess why I would be worried there.

As soon as she's 18, I'm frankly just going to be on the first boat/plane/train to "Any country that isn't the UK".

[Yellow Mage]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

As soon as she's 18, I'm frankly just going to be on the first boat/plane/train to "Any country that isn't the UK".

That's a pretty irresponsible way to expatriate. At least have somewhere in mind first.

[cidbahamut]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

I hear New Zealand is a pretty chill place.

[Firewind]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

That's a pretty irresponsible way to expatriate. At least have somewhere in mind first.

Eh I have 5 years to work that out, plus with my sister at 18 she could come along with me if she really wanted to.

[Aksannyi]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

I really wish people from work would stop calling me.

I am not my job.
I am not married to my office.
I am not chained to my desk.
There are people who work at night that are responsible for taking care of this shit when I am not there.
Leave me the fuck alone.

/fume.




In other news, I have started the hiring process elsewhere. If all goes well, I will be putting in my two weeks by Friday.

[cidbahamut]

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Turn your phone off.

and congrats on finding what's hopefully a better job

[Aksannyi]

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I can't, because there are people in the universe that I actually want to talk to after hours.

Well I could, but seriously, I shouldn't have to. The laws of nature haven't changed, they just want to take advantage of me and I'm not falling for it.


And thank you. I hope it turns out to be better, too, but really anything where they're not throwing ridiculously unreasonable requests at me (like asking me for 300 officers when I have 200, um, no matter how you change things around, you're not going to make that one fit, it is actually impossible, and I warned you about it, too...) Oh well. I don't hate being management or in charge of my own system, but I kind of just don't want the pressure anymore. I just want an easy ass job I can do while I go to school so I can just focus on that. Because truth be told, that's what's important.

[cidbahamut]

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1TB file servers. We are down to literally a couple hundred MB of space left.

[Firewind]

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Tax logic...

HMRC: "Our records show you had two jobs over that period"
Me: "No, just one. What do you have on record?"
HMRC: "I can't disclose that information."
Me: "You can't tell me where I'm working?"
HMRC: "No."
Me: "..."

[Aksannyi]

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I pissed off my boss today ... lol. It was so stupid but they want to yell at me over dumb shit that I actually can't fix because manpower well then, they're dumb, and they should feel bad.

I'm just keep clicking over to the e-mail resignation letter draft I've got saved and smiling. Soon. Soon.



At least I was able to buy back my unused vacation time. It should be on this week's paycheck. Which is good, because once I verify that the funds have hit my account, the resignation letter is being sent.

And I'm not even sorry.

[Aksannyi]

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Dude what the fuck.

I put my notice today and I asked the HR manager to keep it quiet, and keep it so that only essential personnel know about it. I put my phone on mute because I don't want to be bothered by work. And I happened to check it and there's three massive texts from the old Boss Lady telling me how she can't believe I put in my notice and if I need to talk, just let her know.

Boss Lady and I don't work in the same department anymore. I work near her, but not for her, so there's no reason for her to need to know.

Thanks HR lady, for telling the person with the biggest fucking mouth in the agency. Because all I wanted to do was put in my notice and leave quietly, with no fanfare, and now Boss Lady's gonna try to A. guilt me into staying and B. throw some huge-ass party which is the last thing I fucking want.

What the fuck man.

[Firewind]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

The closer the number people you tell something you want to keep secret is to zero, the more likely it is to stay secret.

[Aksannyi]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Well I had to tell HR. I just didn't expect HR to blab this shit, considering I asked for discretion. The only person I told was the HR manager.

[Firewind]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Direct Debit Bill payment logic:
Me: "Can you tell me when the last payment you received was?"
Customer Service: "It was on the 1st of July"
Me: "Okay, seems fine since I have payments setup to go out on the 29th and that was a Saturday. But why does it tell me that I'm in arrears since June?"
CS:" Well sometimes the Direct Debits mess up so it's no fault of your own but I see that you have made payments for last month and this month anyway, but I can set up a new Direct Debit if you want."
Me: "But you didn't inform me of this until I was two months in arrears?"
CS: "Well this sometimes happens with the system so it's no fault of your own but all of our Direct Debit payments got cancelled."
Me: "And you didn't say? Is that why no Direct Debit payments to you are on record?"
CS: "That is correct..."
Me: "Well the letter I got from your Solicitor has your bank details on them, I can just set up a Standing Order. Can I confirm the details [reads out account stuff]"
CS: "Yes that's right."
Me: "Okay I'll be switching to Standing Order. This is the third time I've been in arrears because of issues on your end. I know it's not your fault personally but you can probably guess what I want to say right now..."

It's also the third time that a clerical error has fucked up my credit rating too. Well there was another time but that was when one of my sisters stole my identity for a finance plan, and defaulted on a payment but we look back and laugh at that now.