Rant Thread

Night Prowler said:
He was solid until 6th grade or so until puberty kicked in. I think another problem is that he's in a class of 30+ kids, and professors don't have time for everyone. Smaller classes would suit him better, but he already changed school once.
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Maybe start by asking him if anything's the matter or he's struggling in some way? It lessens the chance of him crying because he think's you're accusing him of pissing about. If he is, then turn up the pressure!
 
BBC's Ski Sunday has become really crap. It used to be a solid no-frills Sunday evening winter sports programme, fairly low key with no OTT hype or hours of punditry. They've turned it into a trendy magazine show. Now the actual sports coverage involves very concise highlights with highly excited commentary, interspersed with the odd state-the-obvious comment from a model-like presenter in trendy gear with a permatan. Add to that a couple of glossy features about the life, inspiration and lifestyle of a couple of little-known British sportsmen, and maybe show some high-action winter sports sequences with some dance music, and there's your programme.

I hope they do justice to the Winter Olympics.
 
Professor: So how come you got a 10 in this other subject, but you don't know this question that I'm asking you?
Me: The literature is totally different, I studied the other one more because I had more time for it.
Professor: SO YOU DON'T LIKE MY BOOK, HUH, THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT?!

So insecure SMH
 
Big company client sends angry email about some stupid issue that could be resolved if the guy sending the mail was a bit more observant. Not his job, I agree, but still. My first thought: "Pay your taxes in the country you claim to be representing, and not in a tax haven. Maybe then I'll give a fuck about your issue." I'm so wrong for my job...
 
Night Prowler said:
Professor: So how come you got a 10 in this other subject, but you don't know this question that I'm asking you?
Me: The literature is totally different, I studied the other one more because I had more time for it.
Professor: SO YOU DON'T LIKE MY BOOK, HUH, THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT?!

So insecure SMH
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Tell him that's the case, yes, and you're formulating a response to his key points, but it's going to take at least six years to write.
 
This week has been hardly anything but the following email exchange repeated ad infinitum:

"URGENT: Fix pls immediately, I will escalate"
"FW: Please fix"
"Dear Partner, thank you for your email. I am currently out of office. Please forward your requests to (...)"
"URGENT: Fix pls immediately, I will escalate"
"FW: Please fix"
"Dear Partner, thank you for your email. I am currently out of office. Please forward your requests to (...)"
"URGENT: Fix pls immediately, I will escalate"
 
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Once upon a time, a young Diesel actually thought biology was mildly interesting. Then there was trouble.
 
A team member got sick on Friday and has left the rest of the team deal with her issues for this week. My backup role involved a very difficult issue which I was working on all week. I had no clue what to do, nobody gave me any advice, and I had been mailing backward and forward for the better part of the week, navigating through ooo notices, people who told me they were not responsible, angry clients who resorted to personal attacks and others who kept mounting pressure. I was never actually told what my role in this was, or even if I had a role in all this, and my boss was in cc in most of the mails. I had to do everything to the best of my approximation, and I was left completely alone. Yesterday afternoon, I did something which I thought might fix everything, and last night when I was in bed, I did the mistake of checking my inbox to see what awaits me today, and saw a mail I literally lost sleep over. Today, I continued trying to fix. Suddenly, my boss sent out an email to another guy in the team with me in cc saying, "please take over, this issue is too important to leave to Perun". I sent them both all info I had, and told them I'm working on a solution with mounting pressure.
Half an hour later, the guy sent an email saying he'd fixed the issue. My boss sent him a mail with a very soppy thank you.
My role in all this was completely ignored; my path of solution was probably wrong looking back, but I had no way of knowing. No word of acknwledgement, no apology for leaving me alone to deal with this, not even anything telling me that I was wrong to go this way. Simply nothing. Just mails with me in cc talking over my head, in one even just referring to me by my last name only.

I know I shouldn't take it too much to heart, but I actually feel hurt by this.
 
At least my boss approved my absence request for Monday/Tuesday. Maybe I'm just being a bit dramatic because I haven't had a proper break in a long time.
 
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