1) IBM is taking 4 days to accomplish their “same day service” on my company laptop
2) I fled to the coffeehouse today and was visited by the Joan, who as usual walked right up, disrupted a perfectly good conversation I was having with someone else, drove that someone else away, and then talked at me. She’s the kind of person who will tell you some mind-meltingly boring story about her life, and as you’re responding with something about your own life, will then tell the same story again worded slightly differently. Example:
Her: My boss really annoyed me today. I sent her detailed information in an email and then she was very patronizing and told me I hadn’t given her the info because she hadn’t read the whole email. I was very upset. I hate that.
Me: Bosses do that because they have power. I’ve had a boss before who would…
Her: And what really gets me, is that it was in the email the whole time. But she was so patronizing. I hate that.
Me: [annoyed] Like I said. Bosses do that. It’s part of work.
Her: It was in an appendix to the email, and she could just have read it.
Me: Yeah. I find that many bosses can’t use email properly. Sometimes they..
Her: I wish I could do something about it now, but I just need to tell her that the email…
[..continue for 30 minutes..]
She also gratuitously insulted the person I had been talking to before. I wish there was some way to transmit I DO NOT ENJOY TALKING TO YOU MOST OF THE TIME REALLY without being an ass about it.
3) I had a bad dinner (burger).
4) People are being mean to all my friends. It makes me mad as hell.
RAAR.
eep
Who is being meaned at?
Re: eep
just the usual bullshit, nothing dramaworthy
I wish there was some way to transmit I DO NOT ENJOY TALKING TO YOU MOST OF THE TIME REALLY without being an ass about it.
As Penthesilia, astride the moon-white queen mare, said to Cassandra, “I learned that I shouldn’t pretend that I can deal with someone socially when I can’t; I should just say it isn’t working and even be rude! In person! Instead of just being pleasant and burning up inside.”
You should consider her advice. Those warrior-women know a thing or two.
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PENTHESILIA!! So right, that gal. I should listen to her.
Or you could just try talking nonsense to her. She says what she wants, respond to her with something about the texture of squash.
Nice guys finish last!
#2 really calls for some variant of “I really couln’t give a fuck about you if I tried.” Sounds like she preys upon whoever is too nice to object to her “company”.
It took a while, but we eventually got rid of Dave M…
while reading this, i visualized a moment from Slacker: the woman in the restaurant, constantly babbling “You should never .. you should never traumatize a woman sexually. I should know. I’m a medical doctor. I have a mansion, and a yacht.”
blah blah blah blah BLAH blah Blah blah blah
I can’t decide whether kennfusion gives better advice than genericus/eyeteeth or not. I’m torn, but then again sometimes I really enjoy being very rude to people who deserve it.