Rant Thread

Black Friday is a very contrived marketing ploy, but even more contrived in countries which don't actually celebrate Thanksgiving. Now I've just seen an offer for pre Black Friday cut-price meals in a UK restaurant for everyone building up to the big day....which is a pretty standard working weekday following on from another pretty standard working weekday.
 
I work for a major telecom, and my division provides a program that many people rely on, in a sector of technology in which peoples' lives can hang in the balance if the program is broken.

So why oh why are our data centre people doing hardware changes during fucking business hours? Today we had our second outage this week because of changes during business hours. My team handled incoming complaints very very well. But this shit should not happen.

Fuck. I'm going to the local and I'm going to drink.
 
Three weeks ago I meet up with my uni (and high school) friend and I'm like "Are you taking the Modern State test on the 18th? " and he's like "Yeah..." and I'm like "I'll send you the shortened version I made of what we need to study" and he's like "Cool". Anyway, 2 weeks ago I ask him if he started studying and he's like "Nah" and I'm like "WTF dude, get your shit together, it ain't that hard, plus I sent you the notes". One week ago he still didn't start studying. This morning at 11 AM he texts me "Hey can you send me those notes again, wanna try skim through them before the test". The test is at fucking noon. The notes are 53 fucking pages long. I'm not sure why I even bother... I already gave up on helping him multiple times but every time I see him I can't help myself trying to push him to finish the fucking uni. He's been there 2 years longer than me yet he has 12 exams to go and I have 7.

Also, not to brag but I think I made a pretty awesome version of the notes, seen lots of people today using it to study.
 
I would want to rant about some shit happening at work right now, but I can't without giving away specifics that would make it pretty easy for someone to identify the case should they stumble on this post and get me into trouble. Hence, just allow me to say that some people seem to be born with lower and upper parts of their body reversed.
 
Footheads? Not good first thing on a Monday.

First ticketing rant of the week: I get that there's always some sort of service charge/admin fee/whatever on concert ticket bookings. But a service charge of £7.40 per ticket, a facility charge of £2.40 per ticket, and a delivery charge of £3.25 per ticket (for paperless ticketing)?:angry-:
 
Brigantium said:
Black Friday is a very contrived marketing ploy, but even more contrived in countries which don't actually celebrate Thanksgiving. Now I've just seen an offer for pre Black Friday cut-price meals in a UK restaurant for everyone building up to the big day....which is a pretty standard working weekday following on from another pretty standard working weekday.
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And apparently the Black Friday offer ends on Thursday.
 
Mom's manfriend has way too much free time so he used to e-mail stupid innapropriate shit to everyone for years. But with the rise of smartphones he moved to his phone instead and now does it via Viber/Whatsapp/Facebook. So I get to the library yesterday, turn on the laptop and when it booted up I get a Viber message. I open it and ofc, he sent me porn. I managed to close it before anyone saw, and text him "Man stop sending me that stuff on Viber, I'm in the library", which IMO is more than reasonable for me. He's like "I'll never send you stuff again" <_< Then I see both of them in the mall by accident and he's like "WTF so rude" etc etc.

Usually I wouldn't give a fuck, but now I'll have to go smooth things over and pretend I did something wrong (which I didn't) because if I don't, there's a high chance I won't get the tickets for the Scorpions show from my mom/him, because they like blackmailing me <_< (They got the tickets as present but hate metal/rock)
 
Night Prowler said:
Mom's manfriend has way too much free time so he used to e-mail stupid innapropriate shit to everyone for years. But with the rise of smartphones he moved to his phone instead and now does it via Viber/Whatsapp/Facebook. So I get to the library yesterday, turn on the laptop and when it booted up I get a Viber message. I open it and ofc, he sent me porn. I managed to close it before anyone saw, and text him "Man stop sending me that stuff on Viber, I'm in the library", which IMO is more than reasonable for me. He's like "I'll never send you stuff again" <_< Then I see both of them in the mall by accident and he's like "WTF so rude" etc etc.

Usually I wouldn't give a fuck, but now I'll have to go smooth things over and pretend I did something wrong (which I didn't) because if I don't, there's a high chance I won't get the tickets for the Scorpions show from my mom/him, because they like blackmailing me <_< (They got the tickets as present but hate metal/rock)
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That sounds like a bit of a odd dynamic you guys have - why dont you call him out for sending you it in front of your Mum?
 
I did, but she doesn't want to antagonize him. He also says how I get easily offended because he sent it to someone else my age and that guy was like "Lol so funny XD".
 
Night Prowler said:
I did, but she doesn't want to antagonize him. He also says how I get easily offended because he sent it to someone else my age and that guy was like "Lol so funny XD".
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Ahhh I see.

Well maybe be the bigger person like you said so you dont jeapordise your tickets!! Thats the main thing right?

I'm an 'anything for an easy life' kinda guy
 
Night Prowler said:
Mom's manfriend has way too much free time so he used to e-mail stupid innapropriate shit to everyone for years. But with the rise of smartphones he moved to his phone instead and now does it via Viber/Whatsapp/Facebook. So I get to the library yesterday, turn on the laptop and when it booted up I get a Viber message. I open it and ofc, he sent me porn. I managed to close it before anyone saw, and text him "Man stop sending me that stuff on Viber, I'm in the library", which IMO is more than reasonable for me. He's like "I'll never send you stuff again" <_< Then I see both of them in the mall by accident and he's like "WTF so rude" etc etc.

Usually I wouldn't give a fuck, but now I'll have to go smooth things over and pretend I did something wrong (which I didn't) because if I don't, there's a high chance I won't get the tickets for the Scorpions show from my mom/him, because they like blackmailing me <_< (They got the tickets as present but hate metal/rock)
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Isn't he supposed to take you fishing or something instead of sending you porn?
 
Although my job has become considerably more tolerable lately, most of it consists of a working on a flood of emails containing such petty little requests that people treat as the most important thing in the world. Every other time, I have to restrain myself from writing back, "guys, I really don't give a fuck." Obviously, I'll never be married to this work.
 
Night Prowler said:
Mom's manfriend has way too much free time so he used to e-mail stupid innapropriate shit to everyone for years. But with the rise of smartphones he moved to his phone instead and now does it via Viber/Whatsapp/Facebook. So I get to the library yesterday, turn on the laptop and when it booted up I get a Viber message. I open it and ofc, he sent me porn. I managed to close it before anyone saw, and text him "Man stop sending me that stuff on Viber, I'm in the library", which IMO is more than reasonable for me. He's like "I'll never send you stuff again" <_< Then I see both of them in the mall by accident and he's like "WTF so rude" etc etc.

Usually I wouldn't give a fuck, but now I'll have to go smooth things over and pretend I did something wrong (which I didn't) because if I don't, there's a high chance I won't get the tickets for the Scorpions show from my mom/him, because they like blackmailing me <_< (They got the tickets as present but hate metal/rock)
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It's kind of your fault for allowing yourself to be blackmailed over tickets to see Scorpions. Have some integrity man.
 
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