The Whining and Bitching Thread

[Sophii]

The pains mostly gone today, thankfully. Ive been using the shit you get at walmart.

 

[EternalMetal]

Interesting discussion about being employed and unemployed.

I'm much against the working class sort of "having a jerb" societal fetish, by which I mean people who look down on someone who's relaxing during working hours and they get all salty with "what are you doing, have nothing to do, you don't have a jerb?", I mean that's stupid as fuck. It's usually shitty people with shitty jobs who don't identify as someone specific but rather just as a "person who actually WORKS in contrary to SOMEONE who was LUCKY". It reminds me of a different thing I spotted in some comment box not long ago, where heavy smokers argued that they're the ones keeping the country running because they pay so much on tobacco tax. I mean, sure.

Oh look, a liberal shitting on the working class. I honestly don't care what job it is, if im an employer and im paying someone to work, I want them to be working when they are on the clock. Employees who get distracted and fuck off for an hour or two each day are bad employees. I guess I can add some leniency to salaried workers, who oftentimes work much more than the standard 40 hour week and only get compensated when the boss is feeling lenient and throws in a bonus. Ive met way too many people who are slackers at their job though, and when you tell them to do something they act like it is a favor rather than it being what they are there for. If you don't want to have good work ethic, fine, but don't act like it is only shitty people who arent fans of that attitude.

 

[Onder]

Oh look, a liberal shitting on the working class. I honestly don't care what job it is, if im an employer and im paying someone to work, I want them to be working when they are on the clock. Employees who get distracted and fuck off for an hour or two each day are bad employees. I guess I can add some leniency to salaried workers, who oftentimes work much more than the standard 40 hour week and only get compensated when the boss is feeling lenient and throws in a bonus. Ive met way too many people who are slackers at their job though, and when you tell them to do something they act like it is a favor rather than it being what they are there for. If you don't want to have good work ethic, fine, but don't act like it is only shitty people who arent fans of that attitude.

Oh, a misunderstanding.

I was talking about working hours in general. Like it's wrong not being at work operating a machine when it's 10AM. Because you know, it's possible to make a living in different ways.

 

[Onder]

I obviously don't defend people who're slacking when they're paid to work.

I also find it stupid when there's a job where there's nothing to do yet people have to be there for 8 hours a day. These are usually government jobs from what I've seen.

 

[EternalMetal]

Oh ok.

I also find it stupid when there's a job where there's nothing to do yet people have to be there for 8 hours a day. These are usually government jobs from what I've seen.

Yea, It really is insane how much waste there is with government jobs. And then as a citizen you need their service, they sit back, sigh heavily, and act like you are bothering them on lunch break. Then again, I have to give props to my IRS representative. The guy is always willing to help, and gets back to my calls even if it is something petty. Called me back a few days ago (it's tax season), and you can tell that he probably hasnt slept in days. Not like I particularly admire that (he said hes going away for a couple months soon, so he gets his respite), but at least some people in government jobs arent a waste of space.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

that said, what you and i have in common is being extremely hobby-oriented (read: autistic), to the point where we could probably spend 16 hours straight just diving into our hobbies/interests and go to bed satisfied, which i don't think most people are capable of. most 'normies' i know who like to work do so simply because they get bored at home, and to be honest if i lived the lives they do at home i'd probably feel the same way.

This, basically. Doesn't really add much to the conversation, but really I have no issue whatsoever just hanging around the house and being an autist, watching movies, reading, listening to music or derping around online.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i know so many people who went through some kind of existential crisis and quit the internet and became much happier lol. fair enough i guess, but i don't think it'd do me much good.

 

[EternalMetal]

If I get bored I just do something I want to do and I stop being bored.

 

[CiG]

I have playlists saved with hundreds of videos I plan to watch at some point. I guess I understand quitting social media, but the entire Internet? That's mental. That's like boycotting libraries in the pre-Internet era.

 

[Sophii]

The internet is such integrated into society i dont see how anyone could just up and quit it, to be honest.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Yeah I don't see myself quitting the net anytime soon. The one thing I have scaled back on somewhat is overdosing on news videos and yes, you do feel better getting away from that.

 

[Sophii]

News videos are garbage, though I'm not wholly political anyway.

 

[EternalMetal]

Yeah I don't see myself quitting the net anytime soon. The one thing I have scaled back on somewhat is overdosing on news videos and yes, you do feel better getting away from that.

Seriously, I took a major break from that once the Trump election was over. Im still recovering from all that garbage.

 

[CiG]

Post-Trump politics has been my favourite show of them all. Love it.

 

[Sophii]

I think this era has some of the most batshit politics, since everything is basically a temper tantrum.

 

[CiG]

Elizabeth Warren getting called Pocahontas so much that she takes a heritage test to prove she's part Native American only for it to backfire and have Native Americans shit on her for it is pure comedy gold. Couldn't make that kinda shit up.

 

[Sophii]

That almost sounds like a South Park episode if you add even more abstract bullshit into the mix.

 

[CiG]

American politics has become a South Park season TBH, the insanity is catching up with South Park at a rapid fucking rate.

 

[Onder]

Yeah I don't see myself quitting the net anytime soon. The one thing I have scaled back on somewhat is overdosing on news videos and yes, you do feel better getting away from that.

Yeah I can see how that would help.

I avoid news videos personally, I don't own a TV and I wouldn't play a video like that on the internet. However, I do read news stories and the problem I have is opening the comment boxes and seeing the opinions of the public. Sometimes I play a little game and try to guess what the stupidest reaction to the article could be, but I always lose to the first or second comment on top. I just hope that this is not a representative sample of our population, and I should probably stop clicking on those. But sometimes the first two comments are just openly visible straight away on social media, so the stupidest possible opinion is somehow already a part of the news story.

Crazy times.

 

[Onder]

I will have to buy some new clothes, I really walk around like a homeless. I haven't bought anything in such a long time that I would have to buy everything at once to feel mildly well dressed fml. Do we still use fml or is it too 2000's.