It's 2026 and there's still some dumb bitch I see around my work that wears a mask.
To be fair, COVID's peak turned a lot of seniors who already worried about catching something into full blown germaphobes. I'm willing to cut the seniors some slack for that, but the younger crowd who still wear masks daily out of indoctrination deserve a head shake of disgust.
It's funny when you see someone wearing a mask while they're driving in their car alone.
Even when mask wearing was mandatory around here, I never drove masked up in my own car. If I was driving between two places requiring masks, I might keep it on but off my face for convenience, but I thought it was stupid to be masked up in a vehicle - especially driving solo.
A few weeks ago guy from my bank calls me and tells me he's my new rep. He's white. This is amazing since all my bank seems to do is hire jeets these days. We set up a meeting so I can discuss some things I need.
Today the manager of the bank calls me to tell me the guy is out of the office and can she swap another person in for the meeting. "Fine," I say. She tells me it's someone named "Avi".
Avi? Am I getting one of the Chosen People?
Avi calls me and it's a woman. I'm confused by her accent. She tells me to submit all of the documentation I already submitted to the first person. So that means nothing I asked for to be done a few weeks ago, was started. She gives me her email address.
I Google her last name. Sure enough, she's a fucking jeet. I delete her email. No way a jeet is going to take control of the Zyklon C fortune. I'm still pissed that nothing got done that I fucking asked for.
As local and regional banks were acquired by or merged with bigger banks, they were no longer staffed with locals you knew and trusted because they worked there for years at a time. Heavy turnover and more minority hires became the norm so much so it seems like one never sees the same rep twice over any extended period of time. This happened at my bank where I personally knew a rep for years before she took a buyout in conjunction with a merger. Since then, it's been a revolving door of random people who rarely stay long-term and care more about performance metrics (thanks, Corporate America!) than genuine customer service.
I kinda hate it when people with very thick accents have zero self-awareness and get offended when others don't understand what they are saying. Having an accent sucks ass, I get that. I have a Nordic one when I speak English.
When Russians fled en masse and many took residence in the nearby senior citizen tower, none of them spoke a lick of English but they could say "two boxes" and shove two fingers in the faces of the volunteers distributing monthly food boxes to low-income seniors. Meanwhile, they overwhelmed the only bilingual resident in the building when nobody understood them waving and ranting in Russian.
It's cold as shit and I have to dress in layers again.
The weather here has gone schizo: cold to warm and back again near-daily to the point the people I know with seasonal allergies are sniffling and struggling with sinus headaches.
X will be the name of someone I work with who is a contract worker - and is proud to boast about that fact - who thinks she some how gets to boss bona fide employees around when the owner is out of the office. When the owner plans time off, we get reminded X is not the boss and has no authority over anyone else no matter how much X believes otherwise.
Being told I have "too much free time" by family/coworkers whenever I talk about xyz autistic personal projects I engage in after work that aren't doomscrolling on my phone or watching netflix or whatever the fuck.
I've been told something similar by friends I otherwise get along with. I can understand someone having little to no interest in my leisure activities, but they can't expect me to take any sort of interest in theirs if they want to be dismissive of mine.
Time change each fall and spring. I don't care about the change itself, but it really grinds my gears to hear people talk about it every goddamn six months, see a million articles about, hear faggot politicians bloviate about abolishing it. I'm over it. Get fucked. Shit or get off the pot.
I hate the doomposting about DST causing harm and health issues every single time we change the time. How did people manage to adjust in the past with no adverse effects? Probably because the media didn't sow so much doom and gloom over it and everything else back then.
I am fucking disgusted, not with BAFTA, but with every single solitary cunt who made that man feel unwelcome on what should have been a great night for him.
I agree with whomever said nobody wants to stand up for the disabled in situations such as these. For all the people who fling the word ablist around as freely as possible, they are same ones acting ablist themselves with their unrealistic expectations that this guy somehow control tics that happen at uncontrollable times and locations.
Finding a basic office supply that isn't terrible took no time, effort, or thought a decade ago. Now everything has gone to shit, and I have to devote brainpower to fucking paper weight and notepad sizing standards.
I've seen the same decline in office supply quality firsthand when I order stuff. From thinner paper and packing tape to plastic storage bins that crack just by looking at them the wrong way, it's frustrating to see quality decrease in inverse proportion to the rising prices. When I do have to pay more for something of acceptable quality, it feels more like a splurge than buying an everyday essential item.
Brick and mortar stores trying to become amazon. If I'm looking for an item at a brick and mortar store, it's because I want to go and physically pick it up. I don't want to see "online only", or I would have gone to an online store you fuck.
I can't agree enough
. My mom wanted the most basic, old-school style cassette player to replace the one that stopped working. Every brick and mortar store I checked had it as a online-only item with the in-store stock being larger models with unwanted and unnecessary features. I really hate how anyone wanting the simplest of items is now treated as an outlier with needless bells and whistles being the norm.
Uber is a waste of money and a fucking scam.
A month ago my car was in disrepair, and I planned on taking an Uber to work and back. That shit would have cost me $80. I only live 20 minutes away. I just took the day off and repaired my car.
I don't understand people that live in cities, give up having a car, and take Uber everywhere. Do they mostly just rely on buses and trains? Uber is a fucking scam and I'd rather just pay for a car. It's more convenient too.
Someone I know has the misguided belief it's cheaper to take Uber to/from work than it is to maintain a vehicle of their own. Somehow, I'm doubting the math on that.
Similarly, I'm hearing many teens are choosing not to take driver's ed because they think it's easier or better to use Uber type services than it is to drive themselves anyplace.
I'm not buying them a $110 trash can. Fuck that. I'll still get them something, but that does grind my gears.
I hate any sort of gift list (birthday, wedding, etc) that has overpriced items such as this with the absolute expectation everyone will buy those items. Even if it may be seen as tacky, I'd rather give cash commensurate with how well I know/like the person as someone else posted.
Could be worse, it could be a recurring weekly meeting on Monday at 10am to talk about what you're going to be doing for the week.
Before it went belly up, one place I worked at had two status meetings a day even when there was nothing new to report. On top of that, I was also required to submit an end of day status email which I proved went unread when I was called at home on a day off about a topic that would have been resolved without calling me had the senior staff read the email I sent the day before in which I explicitly explained what to do about it in my absence. I don't think they liked me pointing that out the next day, but I didn't care at that point.
TT: The city allowing a main roadway to fill with potholes and bad driving conditions to justify the road diet it wants to do in the near future. Worse is the fact the project would add bike lanes when there are underutilized ones on a parallel road a couple of blocks away.
(Edited for spelling and clarity.)
