What pissed you off today? Mark II

[gypsy*seer]

Feeling empty,
tired of crying,
tired of trying.

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

Feeling empty,
tired of crying,
tired of trying.

*Big squishy hugs for the beautiful gypsy*

Just try to remember to pause to breathe deep and then feed and water yourself. Then when you are ready, just turn the page. Just one page. It's enough.

You really are going to make it through all this. Parts will probably even be funny someday. Really.

 

[LallyH]

Repeating a pattern of behaviour and still expecting a different outcome

 

[gypsy*seer]

*Big squishy hugs for the beautiful gypsy*

Just try to remember to pause to breathe deep and then feed and water yourself. Then when you are ready, just turn the page. Just one page. It's enough.

You really are going to make it through all this. Parts will probably even be funny someday. Really.

Thank you my sweet Cali friend. That's just what I need to do.

Men!!! Who needs 'em? Hrumph!! Stomp Stomp Stomp!!
(he just knows how to push all the buttons - incessantly! And it is getting SO very old. Not that I don't have enough to deal with right now...)

 

[gypsy*seer]

Repeating a pattern of behaviour and still expecting a different outcome

Lally...isn't that the definition of insanity?

 

[Stella_Omega]

People who speculate on my motives and tell me I must be lying when I tell them plainly what my beef is.
What is it with the labyrinth in some people's minds? They ever find their way out?

 

[midwestyankee]

People who speculate on my motives and tell me I must be lying when I tell them plainly what my beef is.
What is it with the labyrinth in some people's minds? They ever find their way out?

This may or may not be the kind of case you've encountered, but it seems to me that many, many people are highly invested in always being right. To compound matters, they form their own theories about others' lives (which, of course, must be right) and when their theories turn out to be untenable, they can't handle the truth.

 

[Stella_Omega]

This may or may not be the kind of case you've encountered, but it seems to me that many, many people are highly invested in always being right. To compound matters, they form their own theories about others' lives (which, of course, must be right) and when their theories turn out to be untenable, they can't handle the truth.

Does seem that way.

I'm not talking about anything that's going on here, by the way, but elsewhere on the internet, where a trans guy has been publicly critical of another guy's life trajectory, something that seems to me to be beyond the pale. We get enough of that from the transphobes.

This morning, though, I am noticing that I like my elderly mother more because I have stopped respecting her. her whims and rages used to affect me-- now it's like listening to a poodle yapping, and I can smile and indulge or ignore as the moment requires. There's nothing of intellectual substance in her, and hasn't been for a very long time. Nothing but childish cleverness and reactions.

That pisses me off. She was the one who raised me to learn and think and understand, and she is the one who drew into herself, stopped socialising, reduced her life, minimised her own mind.

 

[Bramblethorn]

People who speculate on my motives and tell me I must be lying when I tell them plainly what my beef is.
What is it with the labyrinth in some people's minds? They ever find their way out?

God, I hate it when people do that.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Working on a project, supervising a guy - let's call him Bob. We had a couple of months to do this one, with a hard deadline next week, so at his request I drew up a plan that set out milestones: this long for footling around on how we're going to do the project, this long to do the heavy lifting, this long to write up the report.

Bob really enjoys the technical side of things, so he's still trying to improve stuff long after the point where we both agreed it was time to stop fiddling with those bits and just get some results with what we already have. Just before I went away for the weekend I left a long job running; when I got back on Monday I found it had crashed because he'd tinkered with stuff that it depended on. (And I'd told him "my stuff depends on X, please don't change it.") We spent most of yesterday fixing that up. And he's still trying to expand the scope of it, when we're six days from deadline and ought to be writing up our results!

Wait, did I say I was supervising Bob? Officially he's supervising me, and paid accordingly... and yet I feel like I'm the only one who's trying to apply any sort of project management beyond "Shiny thing let's do that right now who cares if it's deadline next week!"

 

[Stella_Omega]

When someone says they are libertarian ... but are also getting disability income from the state.

"I am almost a libertarian..."

"I would be a libertarian if I had the money..."

 

[Bramblethorn]

When someone says they are libertarian ... but are also getting disability income from the state.

"I am almost a libertarian..."

"I would be a libertarian if I had the money..."

Hey, if it's good enough for Ayn Rand...

 

[feistyphoenix]

Getting a hard jolt through my hand from the electric fence and then not ten minutes later getting kicked by a horse...at least i kicked her back.

 

[BiBunny]

I'm trying to figure out when "tired" stopped being a temporary state of being for me and morphed into a personality trait. >.>

 

[Sweetdaisymae]

After a 3 hour conversation with a potential customer, I still have no clue what she wants.
Text speak, abysmal grammar, and rambling dialogue are all at play.
She keeps talking about single tails. I don't make whips. I have told her numerous times, I don't make whips, floggers only, and yet I still don't know what she wants and could have made 2 simple floggers in the time she has taken.

 

[LallyH]

Lally...isn't that the definition of insanity?

Well, I'd like to think it was the triumph of hope over experience but......maybe you're right

 

[LallyH]

After a 3 hour conversation with a potential customer, I still have no clue what she wants.
Text speak, abysmal grammar, and rambling dialogue are all at play.
She keeps talking about single tails. I don't make whips. I have told her numerous times, I don't make whips, floggers only, and yet I still don't know what she wants and could have made 2 simple floggers in the time she has taken.

A customer contacted me about a job they'd had done which wasn't working for them. We came up with a clever solution (courtesy of my staff, not me) but the customer needed a fast turnaround. They HAD to have it by the following day. So I called in a load of favours and managed the almost impossible task of meeting their deadline.

That was ten days ago.

I'd heard nothing so I rang the customer yesterday to check that it had worked.

"Oh, he's going to try it today if he has time, otherwise it'll be tomorrow. I'll let you know."

 

[Sweetdaisymae]

A customer contacted me about a job they'd had done which wasn't working for them. We came up with a clever solution (courtesy of my staff, not me) but the customer needed a fast turnaround. They HAD to have it by the following day. So I called in a load of favours and managed the almost impossible task of meeting their deadline.

That was ten days ago.

I'd heard nothing so I rang the customer yesterday to check that it had worked.

"Oh, he's going to try it today if he has time, otherwise it'll be tomorrow. I'll let you know."

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!

 

[Stella_Omega]

A customer contacted me about a job they'd had done which wasn't working for them. We came up with a clever solution (courtesy of my staff, not me) but the customer needed a fast turnaround. They HAD to have it by the following day. So I called in a load of favours and managed the almost impossible task of meeting their deadline.

That was ten days ago.

I'd heard nothing so I rang the customer yesterday to check that it had worked.

"Oh, he's going to try it today if he has time, otherwise it'll be tomorrow. I'll let you know."

http://clientsfromhell.net/ helps me keep my sanity.

 

[LallyH]

http://clientsfromhell.net/ helps me keep my sanity.

That's brilliant! And horrific! All at the same time!

 

[Bramblethorn]

http://clientsfromhell.net/ helps me keep my sanity.

If you like that, you may also like http://notalwaysright.com/ .

 

[gypsy*seer]

Thanks, Stella and Bramblethorn, for making my day complete!

 

[BiBunny]

After a 3 hour conversation with a potential customer, I still have no clue what she wants.
Text speak, abysmal grammar, and rambling dialogue are all at play.
She keeps talking about single tails. I don't make whips. I have told her numerous times, I don't make whips, floggers only, and yet I still don't know what she wants and could have made 2 simple floggers in the time she has taken.

A customer contacted me about a job they'd had done which wasn't working for them. We came up with a clever solution (courtesy of my staff, not me) but the customer needed a fast turnaround. They HAD to have it by the following day. So I called in a load of favours and managed the almost impossible task of meeting their deadline.

That was ten days ago.

I'd heard nothing so I rang the customer yesterday to check that it had worked.

"Oh, he's going to try it today if he has time, otherwise it'll be tomorrow. I'll let you know."

I'm going to tell myself that we all do work for the same people because it makes me feel better to think that than to believe there are really that many incoherent nutjobs running around out there.

 

[Sweetdaisymae]

Client : I want my flogger made in pink and green

Me: what shade of pink and green would you like?

Client : there are different shades?

Me: yes, lots of different shades, baby pink, magenta, coral, you know, dark and light. You can choose the ones you want and I will purchase the leather in the colours closest to what you want.

Client : Umm, I just want pink and green

Me: how about you find a picture online of the colours you are looking for, and send me a link to it.

Client : I can do that?

Me : sure, just so I get an idea of what you like

Client sends link

Me: this is gold

Client : yeah, I really like the picture.

Me: do you want a flogger in gold leather?

Client : oh no, I want pink and green, I told you that, I just really like this shade.



This is a current discussion!

 

[LallyH]

Client : I want my flogger made in pink and green

Me: what shade of pink and green would you like?

Client : there are different shades?

Me: yes, lots of different shades, baby pink, magenta, coral, you know, dark and light. You can choose the ones you want and I will purchase the leather in the colours closest to what you want.

Client : Umm, I just want pink and green

Me: how about you find a picture online of the colours you are looking for, and send me a link to it.

Client : I can do that?

Me : sure, just so I get an idea of what you like

Client sends link

Me: this is gold

Client : yeah, I really like the picture.

Me: do you want a flogger in gold leather?

Client : oh no, I want pink and green, I told you that, I just really like this shade.



This is a current discussion!

Welcome to my world.....

If someone had told you that story a year ago, you wouldn't have believed that anyone could be so dense, could you?

Wait till you get asked for "Christmas green"......