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What's been on your mind lately?

It was cold today. I thought winter was coming but now it is going to warm up again. UGH.

Are you in Texas? I thought the same damn thing.

I am in OK and I feel the same way.

Same deal here -- boyfriend said it's supposed to be 70F tomorrow and my response was UGH. The 30s-50s weather of the past few days was nice. I don't want 70. :(

I applied for another wave of jobs last week. Hopefully I get a callback. :( I think I might have to start leaving my degree off my resume so that people don't think I am overqualified.

Also a bit sad that it looks like no one else watch It Follows. Hopefully I get some replies soon. :c

This is a little long so I don't expect many people to read or comment to this, but I just wanna get this off my chest.

Someone I was close friends with as a teenager posted about our falling out drama on reddit the other day...13 years after the fact. I happened to see it because it was one of the higher ranked posts on a popular subreddit.

At first I was incredulous because her version of events were so extreme and full of half-truths that I barely recognized myself, but the dates matched up, and she's kept her username the same this whole time, so no doubt. It's also her highest-rated comment btw.

Anyway, her talking about what a shitty person I was as a teen isn't what bothered me. We were 16. I was shitty, and so was she for that matter. That's whatever.

But what sucked is that I reached out to her once when we were young adults--not really intending to be friends or even acquaintances, but more of a curiosity to see what kind of person she became and to maybe just clear the air once and for all.

I basically googled her internet handle from when I knew her, found her dreamwidth account on page one, saw a recent entry, and left a comment. It was a brief greeting along the lines of, "This is anon. Just wanted to say hi. How have you been? Have you been playing x game?" I had an old mutual friend check it for tone before I posted it.

WELL, her response was to hit the nuke button, hide everything behind private settings, put up some random smarmy gif, and pretend she didn't see it.

I got the message and never tried to contact her again. This was like....6 or 7 years ago, fyi.

Going back to the reddit post, she even brought THAT up, except she portrayed it as me hunting her down just to snidely mock her years later in a fit of trollish behavior.

It's just unfortunate to see her badly twist something that I did sincerely. It also sucks to see just how demonized I've become to her. The level of anger and bitterness she displayed for something that happened over a decade ago was honestly stunning. She really sees herself as a complete victim and apparently has talked and is talking about what a villain I am to this day. And the replies she received about ~what a witch I am~ were also something else.

Of course my first instinct was be like, TAPPITY TAP TAP "well actually," but I know that won't do anything constructive so I'm just letting it go. But lmao. What a thing to just see after 13 years. That's all.

Was this in r/relationships, by chance?

Nah, r/askreddit.

man, that sucks :c I notice there's another post in r/askreddit about coming across a post about you, you could go in and talk about the absolute half-truths if you wanted to vent there too

Thanks for commiserating, lmao. I appreciate it. I showed it to the mutual friend that the ex-friend and I shared, and she was as shocked as I was because it sounded so surreal.

Are you talking about the one from a week-ish ago? I saw that, and then the comment about me popped up conveniently a couple days afterwards so it's a little too late to do it, but I did think of it. My missed opportunity!!

My co-worker told me yesterday that one of the skeevy men who keeps coming in to my work and attempting to chat me up has started doing to same to another staff member. Who is sixteen. He's apparently aware of her age. She's super sweet and shy and I guess he's taking advantage of it. I'm now trying not to let her out of my sight when we're on duty together because fuck that. I'm going to the manager on my next shift to talk to him about it because, ugh. Not cool. At all.

Good. Good. Good. God, so gross.

Seriously. He's known for making creepy/inappropriate comments to the female staff but I didn't think he'd actually try it with a sixteen year old (he's in his fucking late forties). I'm hoping this will be grounds for getting him banned entirely because I'm really tired of seeing how uncomfortable all our girls are around him. Ugh.

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syncing_feeling - 2017-10-29 00:16 (UTC) - Expand

That is really gross. I hope your manager takes it seriously.

I think he will, he's been really supportive with stuff like this in the past and is pretty protective of his staff. I'm guessing no one's told him about this issue yet because he probably would have drop-kicked the guy into the sun by now! Fingers crossed for when I speak to him on Monday.

It's really great of you to look out for her and speak to the manager. Have you told her that you've all had problems with this guy and warned her not to give out any personal information?

This happened at a place I used to work. The manager didn't see a problem with letting the guy in because he was a paying customer and one of our part time girls (15 or 16) thought it would be safe to tell him what movie she was seeing later (he asked what she was doing later) AND THE FUCKER SHOWED UP AT THE CINEMAS. Ugh.

I haven't had the chance yet, but I think we're working together on Monday so I'm going to take her to one side and make sure she tries to keep him at arm's length. I don't want her to feel I'm babying her because she's our youngest staff member but I don't trust this guy one bit (he's really loud/obnoxious and at least three times bigger than her.) I just want her to know who to look out for. We have a few creepy customers like him but he's the worst offender.

Ugh, that's gross. It's so easy for details like that to slip out in conversation and skeevy men like him will fucking etch your routine into their minds. It's so creepy. I hope he backed off eventually? :(

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syncing_feeling - 2017-10-29 04:23 (UTC) - Expand

Not having money sucks. I had to return a bunch of stuff today because I found out I can only be refunded 25 from my group for Halloween party stuff. I was all excited to go all out and make the room really spooky. Now it will be okay, but it could have been awesome.

Also, I'm on day 3 of this pesky migraine. Please go away.

Aw, that sucks. I'm sorry. :( It's disappointing when plans don't come together properly. I'm sure you'll still make it look great though.

And I can't imagine having a three day migraine, that sounds hellish. I've only ever had one for an afternoon and I was inconsolable for the whole thing. :( I'm guessing pain meds aren't touching it?

Pain meds take the slight edge off, but mostly they just knock me out. Which is helpful, but makes it hard to get things done. Ice helps a lot, but I can only keep ice on my head for so long.

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syncing_feeling - 2017-10-29 02:28 (UTC) - Expand

So I had an 8 hour shift today from early morning to 4 in the afternoon. I had planned since my workplace is close to a bus stop and I went and spent money ($12 but still) on a week long bus pass, I would go down to the shopping center and look for stuff to get friends this holiday season.

The day comes and I am SLOGGING through , getting by thinking about my outing. Until my meal break around noonish. One of managers asks me if I knew about being scheduled for a three hour customer service class...right after my shift. No! I did NOT know about this. What the fuck? One of the department managers tells me they're supposed to tell me a week in advance.

So much for my afternoon plans.

Ugh. That sucks, and a shitty lack of communication on their part. :/ I'd definitely consider making a complaint, it's not fair for your schedule to be fucked up without any warning.

I used to work with someone who would occasionally just cross out her shift on the rota and put it under someone else's name (usually mine). I complained to my boss because I thought she was the one changing shit around without notice, then my co-worker just went "oh sorry I just fancied having the day off, lol."

Sorry for being slow to respond.

That's horrible though! I'm pretty sure that behavior would be against the rules at a lot of places.

Minor one, but I went to get new lightbulbs and all they had was 'soft white'

Fuck, why would I want my new high tech energy saver space-age bulb to be tinted yellow to look like my old shitty bulbs?! I like the cool white!

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