The Whining and Bitching Thread
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Krow
Garbage Connoisseur
Been taking a brutal beating from work. We keep losing people and we are overloaded on workflow. I finally took today off but worked the last 8 in a row for a total of 93 hours. They've already told me we are maxed out on jobs tomorrow and to expect the same this week. What makes it all shitty is we are so low on people instead of just being a driver, I'm driving and helping to build the containments.
Dak
mentat
The Ozzman
Melted by feels
Does anyone else ever rebuy albums multiple times when they release better versions of them? I do this a lot and it is hard to keep track of everything.
I'm also mad because someone ruined my copy of Black Sabbath Vol. 4.
I'm also mad because someone ruined my copy of Black Sabbath Vol. 4.
viewerfromnihil
Vein-Marbled Tower
It was something you mentioned on the first page, along with procrastinating the GMAT.
CiG
Harbinger of Metal
The Ozzman
Melted by feels
I took the GMAT years ago. I would have to retake it again at this point if I want to get an MBA.
CiG
Harbinger of Metal
CiG
Harbinger of Metal
Can't understand the appeal of cigarettes.
Though speaking of whining and bitching, I fucking would take a piss on these cringe worthy anti-smoker people.
Though speaking of whining and bitching, I fucking would take a piss on these cringe worthy anti-smoker people.
Taking up smoking is far and away the stupidest thing I've ever done. However, when you mention the appeal of it all, there is no greater feeling than being deprived of nicotine, going through an incredibly stressful situation, and finally being able to light up.
I just started rolling my own a couple of weeks ago, which is saving me about $8 a day (I'm a pack and a half a day smoker, and used to smoke American Spirit full-flavors, which retail around ~$8 a pack). So, now I'm just killing myself, and not my wallet. I'm fine with that.
I just started rolling my own a couple of weeks ago, which is saving me about $8 a day (I'm a pack and a half a day smoker, and used to smoke American Spirit full-flavors, which retail around ~$8 a pack). So, now I'm just killing myself, and not my wallet. I'm fine with that.
CiG
Harbinger of Metal
I used to be a wretched addict of other substances so trust me, I understand how good it feels relieving the stress of withdrawals.
Matt
Active Member
My only vice is Dr. Pepper, which is awful too.
I just had punctul plugs inserted into my eyes to help with my dry eye problem. It was unpleasant as fuck.
I just had punctul plugs inserted into my eyes to help with my dry eye problem. It was unpleasant as fuck.
Matt
Active Member
Guy - I would love to know what caused you to start smoking. You seem to be a reasonably smart person and I've never understood why smart people make decisions like that.
viewerfromnihil
Vein-Marbled Tower
I got whacked in the face with Morgan State bullshit earlier today. I'm tutoring an elementary level German student and we use an unused classroom for our sessions. We've met in the same classroom at the same time for weeks now for these tutoring sessions.
Today, midway through the tutoring session, about the time that classes change over, one a man walks in while I'm tutoring my student. He's young and was casually dressed, so we paused (my student, I found out later, knew who the man was, a professor of Arabic, because he had taken an Arabic course) and asked him if he needed help. He said no, he had a class to teach. I asked him how long this course had been taking place, and he responded the whole semester, which is total bullshit because, at least for the last few weeks, I've been tutoring my student in this classroom and my student told me that he had had lunch in the classroom at the same time time of day since the semester began.
I was infuriated. My student and I walked around the building to find another classroom, while I stewed about the situation--there's always at least one empty classroom so it wasn't really a big problem, but I was pissed that this so-called professional blatantly lied and, in the process, interrupted actual education (his student he was tutoring never showed up). If he had just said that he were a professor and he was tutoring a student, I wouldn't have cared, but he didn't. Talk about a total lack of courtesy and respect.
To make matters worse, I found out from my student that the professor is shady. Apparently, this professor had allowed native Arabic speakers to take his elementary Arabic courses and not only passed out academically dishonest grades, but alienated non-native speakers in both the classroom and direction of the course. My student, along with others, took this to the administration, and they followed by noting the obvious: that native speakers of a foreign language cannot get credit for taking elementary courses in their native language. And he has non-native speaking students visit costly third-party tutors (which now apparently includes himself, god forbid) if they need extra instruction, and he directs the whole process. What a fucking joke.
I've been appalled by some of the shit I've seen so called professors get away with since I enrolled at Morgan. I think this event has set me off. I was scared to voice concerns last year because I'm the white guy at a black college and don't want my concerns to be written off as such, but I graduate in the Spring, so I don't care about any stigma that can be stuck to me for speaking out. This event was petty and ridiculous, and it highlights issues going on at HBCUs across the country: there are problems and nobody is willing to speak-up about them. HBCUs suffer from terrible academic records, and I've been (successfully) helping a student to pass a course that exists only because of the music department, and my efforts got thrown off by an excuse for a professor. I don't plan to walk into the dean's office the next day I'm on campus, but if this guy interrupts us during my next tutoring session, then I'll have had enough.
Today, midway through the tutoring session, about the time that classes change over, one a man walks in while I'm tutoring my student. He's young and was casually dressed, so we paused (my student, I found out later, knew who the man was, a professor of Arabic, because he had taken an Arabic course) and asked him if he needed help. He said no, he had a class to teach. I asked him how long this course had been taking place, and he responded the whole semester, which is total bullshit because, at least for the last few weeks, I've been tutoring my student in this classroom and my student told me that he had had lunch in the classroom at the same time time of day since the semester began.
I was infuriated. My student and I walked around the building to find another classroom, while I stewed about the situation--there's always at least one empty classroom so it wasn't really a big problem, but I was pissed that this so-called professional blatantly lied and, in the process, interrupted actual education (his student he was tutoring never showed up). If he had just said that he were a professor and he was tutoring a student, I wouldn't have cared, but he didn't. Talk about a total lack of courtesy and respect.
To make matters worse, I found out from my student that the professor is shady. Apparently, this professor had allowed native Arabic speakers to take his elementary Arabic courses and not only passed out academically dishonest grades, but alienated non-native speakers in both the classroom and direction of the course. My student, along with others, took this to the administration, and they followed by noting the obvious: that native speakers of a foreign language cannot get credit for taking elementary courses in their native language. And he has non-native speaking students visit costly third-party tutors (which now apparently includes himself, god forbid) if they need extra instruction, and he directs the whole process. What a fucking joke.
I've been appalled by some of the shit I've seen so called professors get away with since I enrolled at Morgan. I think this event has set me off. I was scared to voice concerns last year because I'm the white guy at a black college and don't want my concerns to be written off as such, but I graduate in the Spring, so I don't care about any stigma that can be stuck to me for speaking out. This event was petty and ridiculous, and it highlights issues going on at HBCUs across the country: there are problems and nobody is willing to speak-up about them. HBCUs suffer from terrible academic records, and I've been (successfully) helping a student to pass a course that exists only because of the music department, and my efforts got thrown off by an excuse for a professor. I don't plan to walk into the dean's office the next day I'm on campus, but if this guy interrupts us during my next tutoring session, then I'll have had enough.
I have no earthly clue, to be quite honest. The worst part is that I didn't even start until I was 20, or so. It began in a typical fashion. Bum a smoke off of someone at a party a few times, then graduate to buying a pack for social drinking occasions, then have 3-5 every week, then a couple every day, until you find yourself blowing $8 every day on a pack.
There's no applicable logic to it whatsoever. It's a terrible addiction that is really, really difficult to kick. I haven't even entertained the notion of attempting to quit, because I know it just isn't going to happen.
I can't afford to buy a pack a day. I buy a bag of regular tabacco and sometimes cig tabacco and papers and roll my own.
The Ozzman
Melted by feels
I know of no other place to put this, but what are some good recommendations for external DVD-RW drives for a laptop that doesn't have one? My older Dell laptop is slowing to a crawl and I need an alternative solution to booting that up any time I want to rip something to my computer.
