The Complaint Thread

docsilence said:
So UPDATE: Partner says we gotta cancel because the airline is desperately trying to get people to cancel. Two options: push it back a week or move it to the spring. Pushing it back one week makes me want to shoot myself in the head because I've got three jobs and rescheduling a vacation is a nightmare. Pushing it to the spring makes me feel like I'm letting her down. Also who knows if we'll be allowed to cross borders in March of 2026, right? We're a plague ship. So my morning will be deciding how badly to ruin our vacation plans.
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Do you not work from home? Take a longer vacation and work from vacation. Then never come back to the US because.. you know.. ~gestures vaguely~
 
Damien said:
Do you not work from home? Take a longer vacation and work from vacation. Then never come back to the US because.. you know.. ~gestures vaguely~
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That would've been possible two years ago, but I picked up work for a sanctuary city and do pop into City Hall a few times a week now on top of the book stuff and my writing/consulting work. I could just do the consulting stuff from anywhere (my funniest memory of living in Ireland is running around Dublin trying to find wifi for a conference call and literally taking a call in an empty pub at 11 a.m. with a Guinness in my hand). The city work is fuxxing me up. Though it's also the most ethical organization I've ever worked for.

EDIT: And Steph's decided to push the trip to the spring because rearranging our lives next week is too much stress and who the fuck knows if we'll even have any air traffic controllers a week from now. I feel like this is somehow my fault because I wasn't looking forward to the flight and I somehow asked the universe to fuck up our vacation, even though logically I know that's impossible.
 
docsilence said:
I feel like this is somehow my fault because I wasn't looking forward to the flight and I somehow asked the universe to fuck up our vacation, even though logically I know that's impossible.
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You shut your face or I will shut it for you.
 
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Damien said:
You shut your face or I will shut it for you.
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Logically I know this is impossible, but this is why that one line from Sons of Anarchy is one of my favorite single line deliveries in TV History, Tommy Flanagan's character saying "I was raised Catholic, everything's a worry for me." My brain will invent shit to be guilty about.
 
docsilence said:
Logically I know this is impossible, but this is why that one line from Sons of Anarchy is one of my favorite single line deliveries in TV History, Tommy Flanagan's character saying "I was raised Catholic, everything's a worry for me." My brain will invent shit to be guilty about.
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Yeah, that really resonates hard.
 
Nothing to apologize for, doc! Very kind of you to think of her in this time, but you deserve to have a good start to your vacation too, and there's nothing worse than starting off what's supposed to be relaxing, special time on a sour note. Don't know where I am on the spiritual spectrum, but I do often think everything happens for a reason, and for whatever reason, life is telling you now ain't the time. But it's great that the airline is giving you the out and you're not just forfeiting the money. Now it'll be even more special when it does happen!
 
My power is getting shut off in 10 days.

My brakes are just metal grinding against metal.

I'm not going to survive 2026.

And a police officer "checking in on me," is just going to piss me off & waste my time, especially if I'm trying to figure out things to do to earn money.

Eat the fucking rich.
 
I picked up a Halloween special comic book from a franchise I like, the cover was good but the interior art depressed me so much I couldn't wait to put it down. I understand that every artist has different styles, but I don't consider "warm up sketching" to be a style, nor do I consider it something an employer should pay an employee for OR a company should ask a customer to pay for. This comic that I paid $8 for had line work that a beginner could whip up in minutes, outlines of characters with the bare minimum of detail and zero shading, backgrounds that are suggested with a few swipes of a brush pen but not actually drawn. Garbage art all around.

My pull list is down to like 3 books a month and if I weren't so interested in supporting the family owed book store that I've bought my comics from since 1990, I think I'd be down to exclusively back issues and some choice trades.
 
I don't want the economy to collapse, but if the culture that forces every person who uses LinkedIn to sound like a psychopath could come to a crashing end I would be delighted. Just logged in to make sure I was opted OUT of their "permission to use your profile to train AI" option (which we're opted into by default, BTW) and people I know, respect, and like so often sound like absolute corporate bootlicking robots when they post there.
 
Y'all heard my epic shitshow tale of the broken treadmill that led to needing my entire electrical box replaced that led to discovering a pipe near rotting through... was just lubing up the NEW treadmill in preparation for bad weather tomorrow so I can hop on it during my lunch break. HUGE crack of thunder while I'm mid-lube. Go upstairs check on the dog who is terrified, get him settled, go back downstairs to let the treadmill run for ten minutes to get the juices flowing...

Fucking thing is stuck going up and down on the incline/decline option and won't stop. I just shut it all down, unplugged it to try to reset it, hoping it was just a weird power surge or something from the storm, and it SEEMS like it's working, but my gawd I'm just an old man who wants to run six miles a day for my mental health, please gods of enshittified home workout equipment, don't take this away from me...
 
joshsquash729 said:
There's your first problem- NEVER stop mid-lube, my dude. Boy, if I had a nickel!

Maybe the ghost in your house is just trying to get their steps in too. Can't expect the old Victorian child to know how to properly work modern equipment.
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Clearly the ghost was like "treadmill go up! Treadmill go down. Treadmill go up! Treadmill go down."

I'm absolutely, 100% an exercise addict so being able to run rain or shine is the only thing keeping me from crashing out, so I'm hoping this was just a momentary glitch cos otherwise I'm gonna have to pay to have the damned thing serviced.
 
So, this is a very "first world" complaint, but can I just take a moment to bitch about how seriously SICK of Christmas crap I am when it is only early November? Seeing holiday stuff in stores in early October, as well as ads on TV, and now hearing the songs being played in stores the day after Halloween? Lawd, I miss the days when the Christmas Season began the day after Thanksgiving. I mean, I head up a local Krampus group, so it's not like I actually hate Christmas...I just hate the early launch of everything. When I took my niece trick-or-treating there was a house in my sister's neighborhood that had full lights, wreath, etc. all lit up...ON HALLOWEEN! I've never been so tempted to commit arson in my life.

Oh, and I really want to see Mariah Carey meet Art the Clown. I'd pay good money to see a psychotic clown saw that smug, annoying woman in half. Who elected her "Queen of Christmas" anyway? I loathe her in a most irrational way...she just triggers a rage in me whenever I see her face or hear her voice.
 
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