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14607718:profa_212 said:
I am in an office that is tied to the education portion of who I work for, even though I don't work for the education portion..... So, for 3 months of the year, a majority of these people don't really have much or anything to do. Yet they are technically forced to come into the office for some reason?

In May their entire purpose becomes to annoy the fuck out of the other people in the office who have year-round jobs. I am dreading that day. It’s already bad with the school year winding down.
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My county health department doesn’t let us bring our pets to work anymore because someone brought their kid to the office for 5 days in a row and it was a distraction. Drives me insane, how am i supposed to bring my dogs in for vet care if i can’t bring them to work that’s one of the perks of working at the county shelter.
 
Ahhh fuck me, I walked myself into being an apprentice to do Irrigation Tech work on the course because I kinda like digging holes.

Pls give us new equipment soon I want some new Toro's please please please

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14607836:GayWolf420 said:
im not kidding I think about Holes every single day at work. All the homies are in the know as well. Its a brotherhood.
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Five feet deep five feet wide, gotta be able to spin your shovel on the bottom
 
Bummin about this injury, doctors said crutches about 2-4 weeks so of course I stubbornly tell myself 2 weeks. One week goes by I feel great, went crazy from feeling locked down so drove to Utah, couple stops for fuel, couple for scenery, I thought I was g2g.

fast forward 10 days im now 2.5 weeks from accident I don’t feel like I’ve progressed at all since, I can limp for a couple steps without crutches but pain rapidly gets progressively worse especially any jerking motion. We go on vacation around the 4 week mark and I’m feeling really skeptical I’ll be off crutches. Not to mention how useless I feel, wife mowed lawn for the first time in her life yesterday
 
Eagle Idaho, where you see a mother duck and her ducklings attempting to cross the most annoying ten lanes of traffic ever. Everyone patiently waits for them cross except the last idiot who runs over half the ducklings.
 
I think this is going to be my last summer living in the staff house at work. The transition to seasonal moving in is way more stressful every year than it needs to be. Someone’s gotta get off their butt and actually move so I get the house set up for arrivals and losing my autonomy is a strain every spring. The cheap rent and no commute just aren’t seeming worth it anymore.
 
14608892:WoFlowz said:
y is The Sensible Thing actually impossible to find a paper copy of
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I mean, it’s only about 30 pages long, not sure if you want an individual copy for the cover art/collection, but you could probably just find it in a mass print anthology pretty easily.

Like I wanted to buy a print copy of Harlan Ellison’s “I have no mouth and I mis scream”, but those are like $50-$200 depending on the edition and condition. So instead I bought a paperback collection of science fiction from 1968 for $2- and it so happened to contain a printed first edition copy of none other than:

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Realistically it’s gonna be hard af to find a standalone print of that book because they’re rare/expensive af, so just look for a collection/anthology that has it printed it it- plus maybe you’ll find other good works by Fitzgerald that you like.
 
14608900:Young_patty said:
I mean, it’s only about 30 pages long, not sure if you want an individual copy for the cover art/collection, but you could probably just find it in a mass print anthology pretty easily.

Like I wanted to buy a print copy of Harlan Ellison’s “I have no mouth and I mis scream”, but those are like $50-$200 depending on the edition and condition. So instead I bought a paperback collection of science fiction from 1968 for $2- and it so happened to contain a printed first edition copy of none other than:

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Realistically it’s gonna be hard af to find a standalone print of that book because they’re rare/expensive af, so just look for a collection/anthology that has it printed it it- plus maybe you’ll find other good works by Fitzgerald that you like.
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I have no mouth and I must eat chicken nuggets
 
Man I can't even bump relevant threads anymore. Fix the fucking feature. Shit doesn't just go broke. Obviously a update happened and some changed something. It's been months dammit
 
14608924:HypeBeast said:
Man I can't even bump relevant threads anymore. Fix the fucking feature. Shit doesn't just go broke. Obviously a update happened and some changed something. It's been months dammit
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It’s wierd how some are bumping and other nope.
 
Frog jolted on of his broken legs and rebroke it. Poor dude literally kicked in his sleep. It’s likely he has brittle bone syndrome— back to the vet tomorrow for more xrays, and a gut wrenching medical euthanasia discussion. I’m gutted.
 
Oh man

14609119:ModMommy said:
Frog jolted on of his broken legs and rebroke it. Poor dude literally kicked in his sleep. It’s likely he has brittle bone syndrome— back to the vet tomorrow for more xrays, and a gut wrenching medical euthanasia discussion. I’m gutted.
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14609121:FreakSchoolers said:
Oh man
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He’s not even 3 months old and has 4 broken long bones, and he’s been very well cared for. I’m so jolted and sick about how much pain he’s in. It’s one step forward and a few back every day. He’s so happy and bouncy but there’s clearly something very, very wrong.
 
14607349:partyandBS said:
my dad is a boomer. he’s never applied for a job in his life. growing up his brothers got him a job as a cady. in college he was offered a job at a bar he frequented. he worked part time and that was enough to pay for rent AND tuition without any financial assistance. he graduated with a degree in computer science in 1977 and was head hunted by multiple companies before graduating. he bought a house in colorado springs while getting his masters. once he completed that, his company sent him to europe and paid 2 living stipends. 1 for the house he owned in the us and 1 for rent in the netherlands all on top of salary. came back and imported my mom and bought another house out in the sticks. was headhunted again and then used the home equity of the first 2 homes to buy a foreclosure in 2009. now my dad’s smart and insanely frugal but the homie was handed a lot of privilege based on his birth time. boomers had it easy so you could literally just work full time in order to ‘pull yourself up by the bootstraps’

things are way different now. you can higher someone from across the global, there’s a shit ton of people everywhere, information is obtained at an insane rate, people aren’t dying, etc. things are changing at break neck speeds and we need to acknowledge that and adjust accordingly and that seems to be a struggle with boomers.

anyway, fuck fox news and cnn. 2 heads of the same dragon that profits on your divided views and fear/hatred for the other sides way of life.
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Reading this as a 22-year-old makes me feel like absolute shit. I'd dream of a story like that for me or anyone I know.

14607377:PartyBullshiit said:
Not saying anything different. I’ve been saying the same thing from the start. You just keep trying to inject a bunch of bullshit to fit your narrative. you brought up productivity in companies as if that’s a metric to show young kids aren’t lazy fucks. One has zero bearing on the other.

The only person who is mad here is you bud. This is a thread where people rant about shit.

maybe YOU worked hard and good for you to earning what you have and not looking for hand outs. That’s not the norm anymore.

yes things are harder now competition wise for jobs because the playing fields are so much larger now, but it’s also easier now than ever to get training in nearly any field you want to have a decent career that allows you to live a happy life. The problem is younger people don’t want to put in that work. They want to complain about how hard it is instead
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Maybe Gen Z is looking for help because of all the fuck shit the other homies pointed out (peak inflation, fucked housing prices, a horrible job market, etc...) It might just have something to do with it.

Gotta say, I'm personally pretty hopeless for my future and would love it if someone came and offered me a dank job that I could survive on, similar to what was more often seen 50 years ago. If I grew up when there was endless opportunity and things in the world were hopeful then I'd very likely have worked hard to achieve something for myself. Our climate predictions make things even more hopeless.

However, at work and school, I am not a lazy piece of shit and I work hard to give both work and school 100%, it's more a mindset than something actually seen in people my age IMO.
 
every time i go to kfc there’s always some fat fuck in a compact car ordering the whole menu holding everyone up
 
latest I've ever stayed up doing work (1 am). I better get an A (I half assed it)

anyways massive fucked spider shoots out from under my bed into the clothes on my floor. got the cutie but I will def make sure to keep my clothes off the floor from now on bc its just so creepy. at least it didn't hurt my sweet little arsenic beanie.
 
Having visa issues for Australia. 2 euros including my buddy got there's no problem but government is giving a few of us M'uricans some shit. Place in Africa i used to work for offered me a job.

Idk kinda a hard choice to wait on these visa issues or send it back to Africa.

Obviously Australia gig pays better and we'll build big shit. But building in Africa is pretty sick.

Idk
 
14609350:WoFlowz said:
never doing blow again.
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How old are you? Jesus dude. Then again I guess I dabble in plenty of shenanigans back in the day.

Yeah be safe my dude. I mean no judgement but be safe for real. Wild times these days
 
Ok here’s my take on the whole “young people are lazy” debate, I’m 30

first of all, the “boomers had it so easy” argument is a bit misleading. If you were a white guy, yeah it was easy. But I know very few women in their 60s who had lifelong high paying careers. And those who have divorced often seem to be struggling financially. Economic times were certainly good back then, but not necessarily for everybody.

young people have always been called lazy, people said it about boomers back then, then it was millennials, now I listen to millennials shit on gen z. That will never change. There have always been hard workers and lazy people in every generation.

what I think has changed is the type of work people are willing to do. When I worked in masonry, almost all of my coworkers of various ages were homeowners. There are really high paying welding and pipe fitting jobs out there. The problem is these jobs aren’t “fun” and often require you to live in the middle of nowhere. Go drive to some sleepy rural town. Who lives there? Boomers. And they didn’t move there for fun, they moved there for cheap real estate and a good job.

so why aren’t young people making this sacrifice? I think there are 2 reasons. One is that boomers all taught us that we should “follow our dreams!” And “do something fun!” You can absolutely do that, but most fun jobs people are willing to do for lower pay, so if you want to make it you have to work harder. I have a really fun job that I love, but the pay is low so I often work 60 hours a week. That’s the sacrifice you have to make. If you want to work 40 hours or less, be prepared to do some shitty, not fun work. the other reason is the 2008 financial crisis. When the first millennials were entering the job market, the jobs weren’t there, and that has kind of set the tone. It’s gotten better now cause the boomers are finally retiring, but at this point a lot of young people haven’t even considered working in the trades or manufacturing. These jobs are out there!

what’s really fucking up young people now is the cost of day to day things like housing and transportation. Cars and houses are so unaffordable. Housing would probably be cheaper if more people went into the trades, which would drive down labor costs. Cars are too expensive cause car companies like making money, that’s just capitalist greed pure and simple. Toyota makes a bare bones tundra that costs like 15k, it’s just not available in the us/Canada.

TLDR all our problems will be solved if we build a bunch of electric trains and cheap housing
 
14609350:WoFlowz said:
never doing blow again.
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maybe it’s because im excessively against narcotics but i just don’t understand why people even bother trying coke. especially nowadays when there’s a high probably that coke is very tampered with.
 
14609362:Jems said:
maybe it’s because im excessively against narcotics but i just don’t understand why people even bother trying coke. especially nowadays when there’s a high probably that coke is very tampered with.
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I mean, people have been getting fucked up as long as history existed. If the drug war worked and we got rid of all drugs. People would be dabbling in inhalants etc again.

It's part of who we are for better or worse.
 
14609350:WoFlowz said:
never doing blow again.
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I've been having chest pains on and off for 2 years and I am convinced that my prior use of stimulants has something to do with it. They're not great for your heart. Blow in particular is really bad though, it's the most cardiotoxic
 
14609352:theabortionator said:
How old are you? Jesus dude. Then again I guess I dabble in plenty of shenanigans back in the day.

Yeah be safe my dude. I mean no judgement but be safe for real. Wild times these days
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Think he's like 17. Even though it's not the same thing but my doc told me to try to avoid weed until 25. Said that it fucks people up before that age. (my med doc.)
 
This my first time getting SRAM and yea Imma just not do that again, xt is like the same price but I just had wheels with xd driver and I found the whole groupset for 300 so I had to

14609367:BallClapper said:
Thats wild. Just got a gx casset as well and it's not exploded yet.
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14609371:Newsheepers said:
This my first time getting SRAM and yea Imma just not do that again, xt is like the same price but I just had wheels with xd driver and I found the whole groupset for 300 so I had to
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Where you at? I got a buddy selling gx cassettes for $100. Brand new, overstock.
 
Do people under 25 just not know how email works? You can’t just send an email that says “rafting” and assume I know what day and trip you want to sign up for.
 
14609387:r00kie said:
Do people under 25 just not know how email works? You can’t just send an email that says “rafting” and assume I know what day and trip you want to sign up for.
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ran my intern program at work this year and its crazy how bad college age kids are at checking their email, let alone sending a professional email. would have deadlines or requirements being communicated through email that they would miss and their excuse would be, oh I dont check my email every day. like?!?!? youd better start fuckin checking it or youre not gonna have a damn job. Im 24 and understand the importance of professional communication but it seems lost on people just a few years younger than me
 
14609390:Dlonetti said:
ran my intern program at work this year and its crazy how bad college age kids are at checking their email, let alone sending a professional email. would have deadlines or requirements being communicated through email that they would miss and their excuse would be, oh I dont check my email every day. like?!?!? youd better start fuckin checking it or youre not gonna have a damn job. Im 24 and understand the importance of professional communication but it seems lost on people just a few years younger than me
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i check my email for entertainment, that being 20+ times a day lol
 
14609390:Dlonetti said:
ran my intern program at work this year and its crazy how bad college age kids are at checking their email, let alone sending a professional email. would have deadlines or requirements being communicated through email that they would miss and their excuse would be, oh I dont check my email every day. like?!?!? youd better start fuckin checking it or youre not gonna have a damn job. Im 24 and understand the importance of professional communication but it seems lost on people just a few years younger than me
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My other old man rant is the hand writing of college kids right now is straight pathetic. Like I have never hand good handwriting but I can address an envelope and it gets through the mail. The trip reports filled out by seasonal staff are straight up impossible to read. We also sometime have students on extended trips do a letter to themselves thing during their experience and I have to redo the addresses on the envelopes of half of them because they don’t know how to format an address let alone write it legibly.
 
14609390:Dlonetti said:
ran my intern program at work this year and its crazy how bad college age kids are at checking their email, let alone sending a professional email. would have deadlines or requirements being communicated through email that they would miss and their excuse would be, oh I dont check my email every day. like?!?!? youd better start fuckin checking it or youre not gonna have a damn job. Im 24 and understand the importance of professional communication but it seems lost on people just a few years younger than me
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HAhaha yep. I pretty frequently have to address poor performers/people with bad communication skills and I've heard so many iterations of... "email isn't a big part of my job" ...

I'm sorry you feel that way but I'm here to tell you, it absolutely is.
 
14609393:r00kie said:
My other old man rant is the hand writing of college kids right now is straight pathetic. Like I have never hand good handwriting but I can address an envelope and it gets through the mail. The trip reports filled out by seasonal staff are straight up impossible to read. We also sometime have students on extended trips do a letter to themselves thing during their experience and I have to redo the addresses on the envelopes of half of them because they don’t know how to format an address let alone write it legibly.
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I started journaling pretty much just for the sake of getting my handwriting back to were it used to be.

Besides writing a check like twice a year I literally don't think I have written anything in almost 4 years. Had to write up a bos the other day and did not have a pen lmao.
 
14609525:Lonely said:
I started journaling pretty much just for the sake of getting my handwriting back to were it used to be.

Besides writing a check like twice a year I literally don't think I have written anything in almost 4 years. Had to write up a bos the other day and did not have a pen lmao.
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I used to work with an engineer who started back when everything was done pencil and paper so he had perfect handwriting. I always felt so embarrassed filling out forms next to his handwriting. My handwriting is so bad that I can't read my own notes sometimes, thank God I don't have to fill much stuff out by hand anymore.
 
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