Things That Annoy You

[Camazotz Automat]

Job stress.  How do you handle/ deal with it?

I refuse to answer on the ground it may tend to incriminate me.

[onan]

Job stress.  How do you handle/ deal with it?

Depends, too much work or too much asshole?

[ManiacMatt]

For work stress, I use serenity now...

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[Heather Wade]

I can't answer that on the grounds it may incriminate me.

No worries, Cam.  I relate, but can neither confirm nor deny that my current stress-relief methods may incriminate me.   

Depends, too much work or too much asshole?

Too much asshole.  Too much work, that I can handle.  It's the asshole public I'm having difficulty with.  There may be no real answer to this... just curious how others deal with it.

[ManiacMatt]

Be kinder than necessary because everyone is fighting some kind of battle.   

[Heather Wade]

Be kinder than necessary because everyone is fighting some kind of battle.   

Good advice.  Time to remember the teachings of Buddha.

[chinaclipper]

personally....I drink!!!

[jazmunda]

Job stress.  How do you handle/ deal with it?

BellGab. It's good for what ails ya. *

* may also cause butthurt.

[ManiacMatt]

BellGab. It's good for what ails ya. *

* may also cause butthurt.

The butthurt is a tolerable side effect that I'm willing to accept.  I'm at work right now typing this worthless statement when I should be working.  Ahhhh, serenity now, serenity now.  The stress just rolls right off.

[Heather Wade]

BellGab. It's good for what ails ya. *

* may also cause butthurt.

Maybe the best thing is a good laugh.  Thanks Jaz, chinaclipper, ManicMatt & onan!   

[onan]

Too much asshole.  Too much work, that I can handle.  It's the asshole public I'm having difficulty with.  There may be no real answer to this... just curious how others deal with it.

Yeah that is a tough one. I have little experience with retail or customer service. I'm usually the "public" guy. It is little compensation to realize the asshole more than likely has a miserable life.

[Heather Wade]

Yeah that is a tough one. I have little experience with retail or customer service. I'm usually the "public" guy. It is little compensation to realize the asshole more than likely has a miserable life.

Actually, that is helpful.

[wr250]

No worries, Cam.  I relate, but can neither confirm nor deny that my current stress-relief methods may incriminate me.   

Too much asshole.  Too much work, that I can handle.  It's the asshole public I'm having difficulty with.  There may be no real answer to this... just curious how others deal with it.

must be mouthbreathing norrized davebots ....

[Eddie Coyle]

    So I shovel over 100 inches of snow in the past six weeks...but it's a sneeze on March 16 that throws my back out. 

[b_dubb]

Job stress.  How do you handle/ deal with it?

I reach for good old pharma. Works every time. And bourbon. But not at the same time.

[eyenoeyeno]

Job stress.  How do you handle/ deal with it?

smoke a fatty before you go. Sit back and let it go man.  It's easy to find one thing to like about everyone, especially on the weed. Then laugh at those mother suckers when you get home And smoke another one.


Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley.

Or some shite like that

[albrecht]

Job stress.  How do you handle/ deal with it?

It depends on the job and situation. Usually I'm on the other end of this but I've found that simply slowing down, a smile, and not being rude goes well in situations with people in crappy jobs (like at airports with delays. You really think the person there can change the weather or corporate delays?) Or the minions who work for cable and cellphone companies dictate policy? No. But you might get a better seat or discount or rebate if you treat them like a person. I love watching someone yell and conniption at the airport desk and then I get the standby, or other flight, during a delay from previously asking, nicely, about the situation. Or a "cable guy" who got me new router, modem, and told me don't buy the settop box and went into a spiel about Roko (?) boxes, digital antennae, and ways to get tv etc without boxes and fees.

On the other side. I say also being honest. It is tough with a bad boss. Or fellow employees. But, then again, it might surprise you once you become a boss (or an owner if a small business which amplifies the problems because more personal.) In any position nobody likes a liar. As a "boss" there are things you have to do and often alone.  I hate to say it but even middle-management deserves, some, praises (more found in larger companies and organizations.) It sucks. You get the shit from both sides. Better is upper (best is consulting or some kind of "fire fighter" not tied to results) but their normal lot is always in question. Even though, in many circumstances, if good,  they really can influence the profit and organization but can't quite be "friends" with either. In any event good luck!

[PB the Deplorable]

...  It's the asshole public I'm having difficulty with...

Just keep in mind whatever they're doing has nothing to do with you, they're just telling you who they are

[PB the Deplorable]

...but it's a sneeze on March 16 that throws my back out. 

Are you a baseball player?

[Camazotz Automat]

    So I shovel over 100 inches of snow in the past six weeks...but it's a sneeze on March 16 that throws my back out. 

Life is senseless. 

[pate]

MTV's The Matrix Parody - Ft. Will Ferrell, Justin Timberlake and Seann William Scott

nah, I think it makes me laugh more than it annoys me...

[Camazotz Automat]

Job stress.  How do you handle/ deal with it?

I should go ahead and mention voodoo dolls. Approach it as an art project with possible paranormal benefits. It helps if you obtain something personal from the asshole and place it inside the doll.

Then, using various psionic or occult procedures or Harry Potter-fu, eff up that effigy's reality.

The construction of the doll(s) alone is very therapeutic, whether you use a sewing machine and cloth, armature and clay, blocks of wood, paper mache, or translucent wax.

If you make enough of them, you can have them displayed in an art gallery.

I'd pay good money to see your dolls. 

Yes, this is more lefty path than strutting the Buddha boogie.

It's all about balance. No one wants a tilted caduceus! (in either direction)

[pate]

I personally would pay top dollar to see the dolls of the ones that "really annoyed" you.  Specifically, their (the dolls) condition when yer dun!  Hehe. I think I'd like that, even a charlatan's version would give me a nice personal memory...  Not to annoy you, I'd hate to see my own 'doll's demise after I died?  What?

Would you dig me up and place the doll in my casket?  That seems Sikh, I'd rather you hand the doll to my sis or bro, that'd get the message across...

Awful people like me deserve such treatment, so no worries.  Consider it written in the (my) will that no one will read...

[Camazotz Automat]

I personally would pay top dollar to see the dolls of the ones that "really annoyed" you.  Specifically, their (the dolls) condition when yer dun!  Hehe. I think I'd like that, even a charlatan's version would give me a nice personal memory...  Not to annoy you, I'd hate to see my own 'doll's demise after I died?  What?

Would you dig me up and place the doll in my casket?  That seems Sikh, I'd rather you hand the doll to my sis or bro, that'd get the message across...

Awful people like me deserve such treatment, so no worries.  Consider it written in the (my) will that no one will read...

hahaha

The next thing we will see is Red's rapid ascent in the art world.

We'll be like, WTF just happened here?

[Heather Wade]

I'm in awe of the awesomeness of your replies. 

[pate]

Anything and everything is allowed:


Scotland the Brave / The Black Bear ââ,¬â€ The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards

(today)

[eyenoeyeno]

My day started by trying to light my hot water heater,  which is a total piece of shit,  only to realize that the stupid potatoes at the gas company had shut me off, apparently deciding that they were not obligated to stick with my payment plan (like I'm expected to do) OR notify me.   Like dude's,  I get it, you don't pay you don't get gas, but wtf.  If you tell me when to pay then you stick to it too! And they know I have an adorable little kid and my own tendency to cry in stressful situations,  so why not be the nice small town company with personal customer relationships that you claim? Just tell me if I'm not going to have hot water dammit!  I'll get the money! Argh

drop off kid and advise ill be picking her up early because I have a tax appt, taking her with me to avoid late pick up fee at school.  Pick her up, and she's eating a HUGE bowl of ice cream.   Set a single mom up for failure,  why don't you!?
By the time we get to town, toddler is INSANE.  Tantrums at the lunch I tried to have with her, tantrums in the store getting toys to entertain during my appt, go to appt, realize favorite life long stuffed animal got left at the store.   Tantrums through tax appt, get stuffed animal back, finally going home.
dog vomits on child and car seat and backseat and floor while driving in curvy narrow hwy towards home.  Lots of vomit.  Kid crying, me crying, pull over, strip kid of dog vomit soaked clothes, keep going.  Windows down to let vomit smell not kill us, but this causes a balloon we've bought to almost kill us instead.   Pop balloon on accident while trying to see, kid crying again.
get home clean up vomit console kid and stupid sick dog, whom I will mention I also had to help get a pair of my panties he ate a while ago unstuck from his butt Earlier in the day.  He has trouble pooping out clothes, for obvious reasons.

Amyways, put dinner in front of kid,  and try to sneak a smoke in.  Of course,  I dropped my bong.
mommy needs a backrub.
Que tomorrow please

[aldousburbank]

I liked the pulling the panties from hound's butt part though, sorry. Tomorrow will be better.

[eyenoeyeno]

I liked the pulling the panties from hound's butt part though, sorry. Tomorrow will be better.

I swear,  sometimes,  that fucking dog...he's so wonderful,  except for when he's eating my panties.  Which is all the time. So he's mostly an asshole.  Don't worry,  he likes asshole, that's why he eats panties.  What's kimd of fascinating is that I've determined he doesn't care if they are out of my dirty or clean clothes.  I think he jumped up on top of the dryer to nab these ones.  they're as tempting as a pizza, or individual cheesecakes and key lime pies on the counter.  He either just loves me to not have any panties, or he really loves them.  Maybe he's trying to put them on, and lacks the arms to do so, and they end up lodged in his digestive tract on accident.   Either way,  there I was, on the some of the road with a stick trying to pin the exposed end on the ground without touching it, and the other hand on the dog to squat him down to "butt wiping level" and keep him from walking in circles.  Trust me, the circling wasn't helping,  I let him try for a while.  The stick intervention was necessary.  Finally, my pin and push dog away technique worked amd we continued on, both a little less proud than we started.

[aldousburbank]

Ok stop now please.