What's your pet peeve in RL?

[DakAttack]

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My anxiety is really turning up its volume. When I walked into work this morning I felt like I was wading into a pool of stress. My doc is concerned my usual medication is losing its effectiveness and wants to change it, and for some reason that's just as concerning, to me, as the anxiety itself.

[Malacite]

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You need to chill out then.

Seriously, what you just said means your daily life is getting to you entirely too much and your body has gotten resistant to the medication - something that naturally happens over time to anyone taking drugs on a regular basis. I'd suggest asking for time off, but that's really a stop-gap measure; It sounds like you need to find a better coping mechanism or change up part of your routine. Easier said than done I know but that's the reality of it.

[DakAttack]

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Four more weeks until we kick this project out the door. I have to do everything I can to soldier through it. I can take vacation when it's over.

[Mezlo]

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Go! Go! Go! Go!

[Aksannyi]

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Ugh, feel you on the anxiety though, it definitely stacks upon itself. It's like compound interest.

[DakAttack]

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Ugh, feel you on the anxiety though, it definitely stacks upon itself. It's like compound interest.

For me, it spirals out of control. For most of the year I'm relatively anxiety free, but when I hit a bump in the road like this it can spiral out of control and leave me house-bound or highly medicated. Proper prevention and spot-treatment keeps me A-Ok, but the anxiety ramped up extremely quickly this time and my control methods couldn't keep up.

[Aksannyi]

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Work sometimes.

I deal with credit applications, many of which are for large companies, often parent companies of many subsidiaries.

So when they give me a credit application for ABC Company, I run the credit report for ABC Company and approve or deny terms for ABC Company. Then I'll have account executives bugging me to remove the credit stop for ZYX Inc., which usually goes like this:

Me: I don't have anything from ZYX Inc. I need a credit app from them.
AE: They're connected to ABC Company, you approved their credit.
Me: Nothing on the credit app for ABC Company says anything about ZYX Inc. How do I know they're related?
AE: Because I said so.
Me: That's not good enough. We need documentation from the company stating explicitly that they are related.
AE: Just remove the credit stop.
Me: I can't remove the credit stop, ZYX Inc. doesn't have approved credit.
AE: Okay I'll get something.
(two days later)
AE: Can you remove the credit stop on ZYX Inc. You approved their credit last week.
Me: (looks through e-mails and paperwork, remembers what the issue was because I deal with hundreds of accounts a week)
Me: ZYX Inc hasn't provided me with a credit application.
AE: ZYX Inc is related to ABC Company.
Me: The credit application for ABC Company only indicates ABC Company, not ZYX Inc.
AE: So can you remove the credit stop?
Me: Not until I either get a credit application from ZYX Inc. or something from the client stating that ZYX Inc. is related to ABC Company.
AE: Oh okay.
(three hours later)
AE: (sends me credit app from ABC Company that still only says ABC Company, the same one I approved the previous week) Here is the credit app for ZYX Inc.
Me: (bashes head through brick wall)
Me: (ignores request)
Me: (cries repeatedly)

This literally happens like 30 times a week. They don't understand that a signed credit application is a legal document. If I just go ahead and approve ZYX Inc. based on the AE's word that they're related to ABC Company and eventually we need to go after them for payment (like with lawyers and stuff), they can bring up our documents in court and say that we actually had no credit agreement with ZYX Inc., only with ABC Company.

And yet for some reason it never seems to matter how many times I say this.

Excuse me while I go hang myself ...

[cidbahamut]

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I think this sums things up fairly accurately:


http://www.escapistmagazine.com/arti.../11039-Grumblr

[Armando]

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Funny, my experience with tumblr is completely positive. I subscribe to the RSS feed of people who draw things I like and in exchange...well, there's no downside.

[Aksannyi]

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While I do see a lot of the social justice BS on Tumblr, I mostly just ignore it. I started a WoW-themed blog and I've been having a great time checking out the WoW fanart.

Also I'm really digging all the Rule 34 lol

[Malacite]

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Social justice is a huge thing for me, though it aggravates me to all Hell that only a few, intelligent people talk about it publicly and the rest are either conservatives defaming it or moronic hippies getting all pie-in-the-sky talking out their asses.

As for tumblr, I'd say it's 90% porn, 8% braindead ignorance and then the odd gem here & there.

[Aksannyi]

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My main beef with the Tumblr justice wagon is that they think that just because you're white, male, cisgendered, straight, Christian, <insert majority here>, you are not allowed to have problems, OR you are not ever discriminated against.

I'm all but one of those (well two, because I wouldn't really call what I follow "Christianity" anymore), and I've had plenty of discriminatory actions taken against me, but no one seems to care about that because of my "privilege." If we could just stop all the goddamn hate and discrimination instead of saying, "Well how do you like it, it's your turn now..." like WAIT WHY THE FUCK DOES IT HAVE TO BE ANYONE'S TURN TO BE PERSECUTED/DISCRIMINATED AGAINST? That's not how this shit should work.

That's my main problem with a portion of its userbase. But they have an ignore feature just like any other site, I also have a Firefox addon that blocks out a good percentage of posts that I don't care to see, so I mostly ignore it, since the site is 14-22 year old girls on average and when I was their age, I thought I knew a whole lot of everything but really knew a whole lot of fucksquat.

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Also, the period bitching there just annoys the hell out of me. I have had one every month (with the exception of two pregnancies) for 20 years, and it is not that big of a fucking deal.

[cidbahamut]

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“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster . . . when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes into you”

[Malacite]

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Oh lord let's not get into the white privilege rabbit hole (I agree with you though, tired of that shit. Everyone has problems.)

[Mezlo]

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Everyone has problems.

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