What pissed you off today? Mark II

[unregistered]

 

[seela]

Driving off this morning with my coffee on the roof of my vehicle. No coffee for me, and I loved that mug.

My brother has done the exact same thing. Don't know if he loved his mug, though. And my friend left her phone recently on the roof of her car. The phone had some rather compromising pics on it, so she's really hoping it's either trashed to bits or that no one has found it. She went looking for it, when she realized what had happened, but couldn't find it.

Maybe there should be an alarm that goes off if there's something on the roof that doesn't belong there?

I hope you'll find an even better mug soon! I know how it hurts to lose your favorite mug. Mine is a huge one with the periodic table in Polish on it, and I once thought I had lost it, but then a few weeks later it turned up. I was so happy.

 

[Seductive_Wolftress]

breaking a damn nail making the bed! NEVER FAILS!

 

[Endless_Night]

< Mine is a huge one with the periodic table in Polish on it, and I once thought I had lost it, but then a few weeks later it turned up. I was so happy. >

My favorite has the chemical structure of coffee etched into it. Team caffeine!!!

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Read your fucking emails, people.
JUST READ YOUR FUCKING EMAILS!!
Ok, all better

 

[Endless_Night]

Realizing I've all but missed restaurant month.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Realizing I've all but missed restaurant month.

Oh, bummer for you!
Wait! What is restaurant month??

 

[sereneone4u]

No shelter.
Literally and figuratively.

 

[Endless_Night]

Oh, bummer for you!
Wait! What is restaurant month??

Houston has restaurant month (August) instead of restaurant week. Don't ask me why.... Popularity, maybe.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Houston has restaurant month (August) instead of restaurant week. Don't ask me why.... Popularity, maybe.

Well, sounds like they need to do it again in September!

 

[Endless_Night]

Well, sounds like they need to do it again in September!

Yes, please!

 

[seela]

Houston has restaurant month (August) instead of restaurant week. Don't ask me why.... Popularity, maybe.

What's restaurant week?

Here we have a restaurant day four times a year. On restaurant day everybody can put together a pop-up restaurant for one day. There's a website that collects information of all the restaurants, with information about what's offered, where and when. It's become really popular here, and it's really awesome too, because then you can find all kinds of food that you normally don't get.

 

[Endless_Night]

What's restaurant week?

Here we have a restaurant day four times a year. On restaurant day everybody can put together a pop-up restaurant for one day. There's a website that collects information of all the restaurants, with information about what's offered, where and when. It's become really popular here, and it's really awesome too, because then you can find all kinds of food that you normally don't get.

It started out in New York as a promotional thing for fine dining restaurants. Twice yearly there are fixed prices for set menu options, lunch and dinner (typically 3 courses: appetizer, main course, dessert). Prices are inexpensive compared to usual, and it's a great time to sample food and restaurants you haven't patronized.

In Houston it stretches through the month of August and a portion of the proceeds goes to the local food bank.

To give you an idea here's a sample menu from a participating Indian restaurant. Indika.

 

[seela]

It started out in New York as a promotional thing for fine dining restaurants. Twice yearly there are fixed prices for set menu options, lunch and dinner (typically 3 courses: appetizer, main course, dessert). Prices are inexpensive compared to usual, and it's a great time to sample food and restaurants you haven't patronized.

In Houston it stretches through the month of August and a portion of the proceeds goes to the local food bank.

To give you an idea here's a sample menu from a Indian restaurant close to my new digs. Indika.

Ok, we have similar weeks here too, but it's not as widespread. There are only some restaurants that take part in it. Usually the restaurants have fixed plates that they sell for 10 euros, but some also have other special offers at that time.

And for the more high-end restaurants there are a couple of festivals where you can get their food without having to pay hundreds of euros for it.

The deal from Indika looks good! I think I'm gonna cook Indian today.

 

[MeekMe]

Medication induced rage. Immobilization. This all leads to bad things.

 

[midwestyankee]

Realizng how long it might be before I can clean up my wood shop and start making sawdust again. With little feeling in my fingers and sketchy balance, I'd be a danger to myself and mankind if I fired up any of my power tools.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I cooked the potatoes!!
I dropped the potatoes

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Realizng how long it might be before I can clean up my wood shop and start making sawdust again. With little feeling in my fingers and sketchy balance, I'd be a danger to myself and mankind if I fired up any of my power tools.

No outlet sucks
I hope your fingers feel better soon
(That was a fingers joke, get it? )

 

[Sir_Winston54]

The lack of media coverage on the Mike Brown case is aggravating, to say the least. I wish the media would show the pictures of police throwing tear gas at innocent bystanders. It's not right that most people are uninformed of what's going on in sOMEONE NEEDS TO WALK METHRU TH STEPS Of taking a new profil pic thru th built-in vamera on my laptop

 

[DVS]

Not at all happy with the job market. Where are all of the GOOD jobs for people my age? After being out of work for nearly three years (thanks to congress killing my high paying government funded job), I had a short lived computer tech job for 4 months and another short lived part time Loss Prevention job with Kmart until the store closed 8 months later. All Kmart stores are closing in my area, by the way.

I now have a part time, minimum wage retail job with Sears, and there are no benefits. There were benefits until last October, when Obamacare went into force, just like Kmart. They are both the same company. Now it seems like nobody is offering benefits with a part time job. Unfortunately, that's the only kind of job that's available. I've even seen the state doing the same thing with government jobs. Everything is part time, low pay, no guarantee on hours and no benefits. I have a lot of skills and abilities, but nobody seems to care about them any more.

It's not just Sears doing this, but it does make me wonder. 95% of Sears employees are paid this way. Sears is a very large company. Why do they treat their employees like this? I guess at least I can say I have someplace to go, but at this stage in my life, benefits would be nice. I'd like to be able to pay my bills, too. I lost money in 2008, so I can't retire yet. Is this the jobs we have to look forward to? These aren't jobs...they're a slow decline into bankruptcy.

 

[MeekMe]

Not at all happy with the job market. Where are all of the GOOD jobs for people my age? After being out of work for nearly three years (thanks to congress killing my high paying government funded job), I had a short lived computer tech job for 4 months and another short lived part time Loss Prevention job with Kmart until the store closed 8 months later. All Kmart stores are closing in my area, by the way.

I now have a part time, minimum wage retail job with Sears, and there are no benefits. There were benefits until last October, when Obamacare went into force, just like Kmart. They are both the same company. Now it seems like nobody is offering benefits with a part time job. Unfortunately, that's the only kind of job that's available. I've even seen the state doing the same thing with government jobs. Everything is part time, low pay, no guarantee on hours and no benefits. I have a lot of skills and abilities, but nobody seems to care about them any more.

It's not just Sears doing this, but it does make me wonder. 95% of Sears employees are paid this way. Sears is a very large company. Why do they treat their employees like this? I guess at least I can say I have someplace to go, but at this stage in my life, benefits would be nice. I'd like to be able to pay my bills, too. I lost money in 2008, so I can't retire yet. Is this the jobs we have to look forward to? These aren't jobs...they're a slow decline into bankruptcy.

Eddie Lampert. I worked for Sears a couple years ago. The benefits offered to part timers actually just "appeared" to be benefits. You got very little for what you paid for so I just went without insurance. Most of us did. Everyone was miserable. They refused to give annual raises (even just $0.10), constantly changed policies, and tried to trick everyone into legal arbitration contracts.

I've been waiting for Sears to crash for awhile. Every employee who worked for the company for long periods of time would shake their heads and sigh. It used to be a good company to work for. Now, if you aren't some kind of management your hours can range from 5 hrs to 40 hrs depending on if they're getting some kind of visit from higher ups. Chances are you'll only get 10-15 hrs a week and pray that your second job will give you more.

They aren't jobs at all. Sears isn't the only company like this, either. It used to be that you could make a living in such a job, but now it's just a stepping stone, or you need government assistance to make it. The turn over rates are so high that retail is always hiring. That's why the career/job posting pages have so many listed. Underemployment is a huge problem. In a month or two they'll brag about the jobs increasing, but that's a lot of seasonal retail jobs.

If you can't find anything in your field, try retail banking. The company I worked for paid well, had great benefits (even for part timers) and offered bonuses for reaching goals.

 

[Endless_Night]

I feel fat.

The result of only 2 workouts in the last 2 weeks. Darn move!

 

[DVS]

Eddie Lampert. I worked for Sears a couple years ago. The benefits offered to part timers actually just "appeared" to be benefits. You got very little for what you paid for so I just went without insurance. Most of us did. Everyone was miserable. They refused to give annual raises (even just $0.10), constantly changed policies, and tried to trick everyone into legal arbitration contracts.

I've been waiting for Sears to crash for awhile. Every employee who worked for the company for long periods of time would shake their heads and sigh. It used to be a good company to work for. Now, if you aren't some kind of management your hours can range from 5 hrs to 40 hrs depending on if they're getting some kind of visit from higher ups. Chances are you'll only get 10-15 hrs a week and pray that your second job will give you more.

They aren't jobs at all. Sears isn't the only company like this, either. It used to be that you could make a living in such a job, but now it's just a stepping stone, or you need government assistance to make it. The turn over rates are so high that retail is always hiring. That's why the career/job posting pages have so many listed. Underemployment is a huge problem. In a month or two they'll brag about the jobs increasing, but that's a lot of seasonal retail jobs.

If you can't find anything in your field, try retail banking. The company I worked for paid well, had great benefits (even for part timers) and offered bonuses for reaching goals.

When Sears crashes, it will be their own doing. Because they don't pay very well, and don't offer benefits to 90% of there employees, people able to find other jobs are doing so. That leaves those like me who can't get hired to a better job to take those crappy jobs. It does include people who have retirement and benefits from another job, but just want something for a little extra cash...and I do mean a little extra.

The store I work at has a normal employment of 9 people. It's a small store, but because they closed the other store that did parts, this is the only store you can get parts from, in the regional area. Sure, you can get parts online, but the price is sometimes more expensive and by going to our store, you are more likely to get the correct part.

Anyway, the store should be staffed by 9 people and there are 4 employees doing the work of 9. The manager is pulling her hair out, because Sears is demanding she keep up with everything necessary, with that limited number of employees. Sometimes we let the phone ring, because we have too many customers in the store.

Why they consolidated the parts store into one location, I'll never know. Customers come in complaining that they have to drive across town now, when they used to not have to. They have to wait in line while we help another customer and I understand their frustration, but we just don't have the employees to fill the need. We are all part time employees and are limited to the number of hours we can get.

So, if other Sears stores are anything like this one (which has a need to exist, if the number of customers says anything), there's no wonder that Sears is going to crash.

I was working at Kmart and all of those stores are closing in this area. When the lease is up, the store closes, even if it's making money. The store I worked at was doing quite well. It had been there since 1972. It's just a systematic process, to close the whole thing down, if you ask me. After the Kmart stores are all gone, I think they will start with the Sears stores.

And I don't understand it. We are in vacation time now. When a part time employee goes on vacation, Sears brings in a full time employee from another city, pays their hotel bill and car rental bill as well as their normal wages for the time they work in our store. If they just paid our employees a little better, they could get more people interested in working there and have enough people to fill in when someone is on vacation. But they are more willing to ship someone from out of town instead. That in itself tells a lot about Sears management. I could go on, but this is turning into a rant. What's wrong with the companies in the U.S.? They seem to be shooting themselves in the foot!

 

[Scrivener_]

Today? My health insurance pisses me off.

I have a $1500 deductible. In order for my insurance to pay for anything at all, it seems, I need to pay that $1500 out of pocket first. But I hardly ever get sick, am not in therapy, or on any long term medication (apart from birth control and a prescription for my eyes which is ten bucks a month). I've already paid $500 into it, so I have a grand to go before my insurance will cover anything - my prescriptions, my doctor's appointments, etc. Did I mention that I don't exactly have an extra grand sitting around on ice? Can't I just do copays like everyone else I know? Why does my insurance apparently suck balls?

/rant

Anyone figure out the labyrinth that apparently is the Obamacare website? Cause I sure haven't.

 

[Callmetim]

Today? My health insurance pisses me off.

I have a $1500 deductible. In order for my insurance to pay for anything at all, it seems, I need to pay that $1500 out of pocket first. But I hardly ever get sick, am not in therapy, or on any long term medication (apart from birth control and a prescription for my eyes which is ten bucks a month). I've already paid $500 into it, so I have a grand to go before my insurance will cover anything - my prescriptions, my doctor's appointments, etc. Did I mention that I don't exactly have an extra grand sitting around on ice? Can't I just do copays like everyone else I know? Why does my insurance apparently suck balls?

/rant

Anyone figure out the labyrinth that apparently is the Obamacare website? Cause I sure haven't.

Many corporate insurance plans have converted to high deductible as they save the company a good chunk of change, especially since the UN-Affordable Healthcare Act raised premiums around 15% for most companies.

Talk to your employer about setting up an HSA account to have money automatically removed from your paychecks into a non-taxed, interest bearing account from which you can pay those high deductibles off tax free. It is not much, but it could help someone in your situation.