Molly Posted February 27, 2017 Report Share Posted February 27, 2017 (edited) For the fourth year in a row, my parents forgot my birthday. They go to Arizona this time, every year. And every year they forget. The last few years, Michelle has seen me getting upset and reminded them. This year, I told her not to, and got a group text from my dad about how great their lunch was and nothing else.I know so much better than to let it bother me, but every time it crushes me. I had a great 30th birthday yesterday (thanks to many, many forumites for the well wishes, by the way), but I still went to bed with a bad taste in my mouth because I was forgotten, again. I don't mean to sound ungrateful, I don't want gifts, I just want them to remember me. Edited February 27, 2017 by Preston Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted February 27, 2017 Report Share Posted February 27, 2017 I feel you, bro. I know how that feels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted February 27, 2017 Report Share Posted February 27, 2017 I guess the best way to look at it is to know I'll never let Ben or the soon to debut Quinn Alice (three weeks) feel like this. If nothing else, I get that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teenalphabro Posted February 28, 2017 Report Share Posted February 28, 2017 I'm really sorry about that, Preston. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teenalphabro Posted March 1, 2017 Report Share Posted March 1, 2017 The next Tirades episode is The Spirit. Really, that's all I need to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted March 1, 2017 Report Share Posted March 1, 2017 (edited) Dude, no offense, but if your biggest problem is your favorite podcast covering an especially terrible movie, then your life is pretty chill. If you have worse problems, then hey, chin up, your favorite podcast is going to be delivering a very entertaining episode in the next few weeks. Edited March 1, 2017 by dc20willsave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teenalphabro Posted March 2, 2017 Report Share Posted March 2, 2017 I mean, for real, I do have a lot of shit I should be doing. But yeah, I do take your point, Will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted April 19, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2017 What do you do when you see a female colleague get rudely corrected by her male boss, even though she was right all along, and then watch as she apologizes for a mistake she never made?EDIT: He's not just her boss, but the president of the organization. Also, he's not my boss, as I do not work for the company; they rent space in our building, and I provide them IT support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted April 19, 2017 Report Share Posted April 19, 2017 (edited) Buy her a drink later.in all seriousness, gently commiserate with her, because she probably puts up with that a lot from him. Edited April 19, 2017 by Venneh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rjoyadet Posted April 20, 2017 Report Share Posted April 20, 2017 What do you do when you see a female colleague get rudely corrected by her male boss, even though she was right all along, and then watch as she apologizes for a mistake she never made?EDIT: He's not just her boss, but the president of the organization. Also, he's not my boss, as I do not work for the company; they rent space in our building, and I provide them IT support. I had the converse happen to me, a couple of weeks ago. A customer got angry to the point of screaming at my boss over a change in ticket prices. She got even angrier over the fact that she ,personally, did not get at least six months notice over the price change. My boss (who had no control over ticket prices) paid the $15 for her and her two children. The older of the two had gone away when she saw that mommy was about to throw a fit. Mommy dearest told my boss it was his fault her daughter got embarrassed by her tantrum. I took solace in the daughter not wearing her mothers glasses tinted so that every problem is a Lifetime Original leve crisis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted April 20, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2017 Buy her a drink later.in all seriousness, gently commiserate with her, because she probably puts up with that a lot from him.We spoke for about 30 minutes over coffee, during which she revealed much frustration and rage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted April 30, 2017 Report Share Posted April 30, 2017 So today, driving my son and his teammate home from baseball, the brakes went out on the car. Like, completely out. Thankfully i was able to realize it before we got moving too fast and was able to maneuver into the parking lot. So, I was a little shaken up and since we spent 1500 fixing that car up 2 months ago and swore we weren't going to spend any more money on it, I think I dropped 30,000+ on a Prius today.I will be shitfaced within the hour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted April 30, 2017 Report Share Posted April 30, 2017 Glad you're all OK. Sudden car faults whilst in motion can be terrifying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted May 1, 2017 Report Share Posted May 1, 2017 Thanks. Yeah, it turns out brake lines are actually really affordable (as far as fixing cars is concerned) so we're happy we got the loaner Prius for the weekend and will be able to return it tomorrow and pay 150 bucks to fix the brake line. New car in August when our van is paid off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Posted June 8, 2017 Report Share Posted June 8, 2017 So, I'm off to have a bit of surgery in a couple of hours. Nothing life threatening or the like, but something that does need to be done. Yeah, not exactly the best of times. I've been dealing with things since NYE, so a bit of time has passed. Yet, it didn't really hit me until I woke up this morning. Yeah, not happy about this. Not at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donomark Posted June 8, 2017 Report Share Posted June 8, 2017 Best of luck dude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted June 8, 2017 Report Share Posted June 8, 2017 20 minutes ago, Donomark said: Best of luck dude What he said - all the best, sir! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted June 8, 2017 Report Share Posted June 8, 2017 I'm sure you'll pull through this much better, dude! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Posted June 10, 2017 Report Share Posted June 10, 2017 So that didn't go as bad as it could have. So, I got that going for me. Bad news is the bills have already started to arrive and it is an absolute mess. Not having insurance has turned this very 'interesting'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted July 1, 2017 Report Share Posted July 1, 2017 Working for hours on an episode of Dread Media to bank while I'm away for all of July and then accidentally deleting it before uploading it to the server is EXACTLY what I didn't need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-T Posted July 29, 2017 Report Share Posted July 29, 2017 I live in a university community. As such, I expect I will see a lot of foot traffic and jaywalking as I am driving through campus on the way to or home from work. It's a trade-off of taking the most direct route. What blows my mind is that idiots who are driving think it is appropriate to stop their car in the middle of the street and block traffic to let someone out. Seriously? You can't pull into a parking lot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted August 29, 2017 Report Share Posted August 29, 2017 My school is a distributed learning school within a regular school district. That means that, even though students have access to their courses all year, there are not teachers there to mark over the summer. Every year, there's a student who fucks up so royally and consistently that they end up having to redo a course. Take the one I'm marking for right now, for example: she has decided to attempt English 11 as an entire course. I have marked about 20% of it and there has not been ONE. SINGLE. CAPITAL. LETTER. There is also nary an apostrophe I will re-iterate. This girl has taken an entire English 11 course and has, as of yet, never hit the shift key or any punctuation other than a period or comma. Painful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted August 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2017 You and Shana need to swap stories. She teaches college English and comes home all the time with stories of students who've typed essays on their phone (complete with texting shorthand), who've written multi-page documents without paragraph breaks, who randomly use exclamation points, and so on. And we're not talking first-year college students (who, admittedly, should know better); we're talking second-semester / second-year students who received faculty approval to advance to the next level. There's a systemic "meh, push 'em through" attitude that's gross and does a horrible disservice to the students, their education, and any chance they have at advancing in their careers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted August 31, 2017 Report Share Posted August 31, 2017 7 hours ago, The Master said: You and Shana need to swap stories. She teaches college English and comes home all the time with stories of students who've typed essays on their phone (complete with texting shorthand), who've written multi-page documents without paragraph breaks, who randomly use exclamation points, and so on. And we're not talking first-year college students (who, admittedly, should know better); we're talking second-semester / second-year students who received faculty approval to advance to the next level. There's a systemic "meh, push 'em through" attitude that's gross and does a horrible disservice to the students, their education, and any chance they have at advancing in their careers. Ha! Definitely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James D. Posted September 4, 2017 Report Share Posted September 4, 2017 On 8/30/2017 at 1:02 PM, The Master said: There's a systemic "meh, push 'em through" attitude that's gross and does a horrible disservice to the students, their education, and any chance they have at advancing in their careers. One of the main reasons our educational system is a joke in this country. I watch videos on Facebook of how students in, say, Japan attend school and I just marvel at how many light years away we are from even approaching that level of quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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