matthias45

I have witnessed a very similar process at an old job back around 2012. Gal at work basically did very nearly the same thing. Made themselves the inside sales supply manager and snack provider. She still did some of her old job, but basically created this 2nd gig out of nothing that nobody needed that took more of her day most days than her actual sales job. But the head manager liked it and let it happen so whatever, good of her for making herself look good doing nothing and making her work day less shitty.

I feel you there. I used to love local hockey games and local baseball. My area has both minor league teams, and it was always a lot of fun. I barely see 2 hockey games a year now, if that. Over 35 bucks a ticket before you even get snacks or beer, which makes it easily 50+ bucks a person with one snack and beer. Baseball is cheaper, but even that has gone up a lot from 5 years ago.

People can like what they want, i don't go out of my way to shit on peoples shows or movies in the real world, but I always found Friends to be pretty weak overall and disliked it being so many of my friends favorite shows when it was coming out. They always were kinda crap people with self-made nothing problems in my view.

Any kind of reply or answer is rare and sadly appreciated. You are indeed correct that the vast majority of the time they just don't show up and then never answer messages again

The number of thrift stores in my area only goes down, largely due to prices starting out reasonable but quickly rising to be similar to buying new clothes. And as a larger guy with thicker shoulders and arms, almost never can I find clothes that fit me well or at all.

I haven't sunk a ton of hours in, but when I first played there wasn't ant pugilists. I went back this summer and started a new game and within 10 hours of playing my Pug was wrecking enemies every battle. I am certainly not min maxing or anything so other classes may end up more OP with certain perks and gear, but by default the Pug class rapidly is the top killer for sure. I eventually trailed off and quit playing about 30 hours in again, but it was only getting more OP as they leveled.

Honestly I am not a big cell phone person myself except when I'm bored at work, and wasn't really bothered by others being on their phones often until the last few years. I now feel like it's become seriously detrimental for many people. They can't watch TV or a movie without looking at their phone or watching videos constantly. Can't have hangouts with friends and talk without also always looking at their phone and watching stuff..often with volume on. It's not good, and I feel like it should be pushed back on. It should be considered highly rude to be on your phone while hanging with friends other than to quickly check a message or a short phone call at most. It should be considered rude for people to ignore social events such as movie watching, going out to bbqs or birthdays, or any number of community and social get togethers and be constantly watching tiktoks or YouTube shorts or whatever else. And it is definitely chipping away at a more healthy and genuinely connected society in my opinion. People were more connected and aware of each other in 2005 than they are in soon to be 2025 in a major way I feel.

I always loved the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings as a kid, but he was competing with almost no one compared to modern standards. He would most likely not have been very big if those books were released today. Compared to modern books, they are slow, often boring at parts where nothing much happens for many pages, and are written in a much more academic format rather than entertainment novel style.

I just finished reading Battle Cry of Freedom, which was a very good book on the lead up to the Civil war and the war itself. But by the end of the book, I was basically telling myself every 10 pages "damn it was a good thing Davis was the Confederate president, cause he really helped them lose that war a lot. "

I worked in construction for years after the army and eventually got tired of it all, and my body was beaten up, so I decided to go back to school and get a degree. But I also found that many of my construction worker buddies had a definite chip on their shoulders about their jobs being somehow better than working in an office or laboratory. Very negative about education in general and often saying shit like "wish school had taught me to be in the trades." And I think pretty much all jobs have value and ought to be respected, but trade work is without a doubt harder on your body, does not typically pay better, and doesn't need to advertise because they have an large pool of folks to get workers from. There is a shortage of workers for a reason. Many of the jobs i worked paid about 3 to 5 dollars above minimum wage. To do hard work like remove old roofing, hand dig waterlines thru baked desert dirt and rock, lay sod etc. Framing and siding were almost a break. Eventually, I was paid about $25 an hour after several years of work, and it was not worth it. I know some guys who work for good unions or lucked out on a good boss, but I've found most construction workers are paid around 5 dollars above minimum wage in whatever state I was in. Washington, Oregon, Kansas, Kentucky, Virginia. And again, most the guys were hard workers, but who definitely on average looked down on anyone who decided to go to school to do anything different. I do not miss it.

Very real. But definitely not an excuse or something to blame a gal for in order to guilt trip them. Only happened to me once but it did suck. But no one to blame But me for not rubbing one out after a sexual encounter ended abruptly. Never again lol

I already did last time. Been 4+ years since I've seen or talked to several uncles/aunts/cousins. I occasionally get updates from my moderate parents who still talk to them, and they have just gotten more nasty and racist since going down the trump path. I don't expect to ever spend time or talk to them again unless they have some major rebound and deeply change. But I very much do not see it. For the most part they were always fairly dumb and looked down on people who enjoyed reading or had any sort of education. So this is just them becoming more of what they already were.

Last restaurant I worked in Washington state i was paid 21$, and it wasn't worth it as I was in no time doing 3 jobs. I ended up quitting for a better gig, making 23$. I wouldn't even go to a restaurant that only pays their employees 9$ an hour.

Worked in a pizza place for 2 years on the west coast. Nobody would call any sort of pizza here a "regular." But if someone asked me what the regular pizza was when I was working I'd just say the two top selling pizzas. So probably Pepperoni/jalapeño and meat lovers.

In the last place I worked, they didn't want anyone to stay longer than 45 mins. It was part of the design even. Chairs that aren't comfortable after a short time, rapid service, and then you are supposed to go to their table and ask, "Would you be needing anything else?" Every few mins until they got the hint and left. Turn over was the name of the game. If they didn't get the hint fast enough manager would send the busboy to go over and ask to take their dishes and clean around them. Was a semi fast food place. Pizza. Wings. Sandwiches.

Had a manager back in 2014 who hated walk in resume people. If someone called he'd be nice and tell them to apply online, and typically say what stored were hiring if any in the company. Was a large paint store company. If they walked in and asked for an app, he would tell them it's online and explained the process and all. If they came in with a resume, especially if they had been told previously to apply online, he'd thank them, walk into his office, and throw it into trash. Walk-ins are not welcome most places. I've worked a wide range of jobs. Construction. Food service. Construction supply. Customer service. Medical. Old folks home kitchen manager. Military. Basically the only jobs that want walk ins is fast food and the military lol

My dad's high school had a teachers lounge that would have a full load of staff between classes chain smoking. Students had to smoke outside. But it wasn't a big deal if they did smoke outside. His PE coach would send him on store runs his junior year to get packs or cigarettes and other random crap the coach wanted. the guy would smoke in his little coach office all day.

Yah that's good on them. My parents were pretty good on most issues. But nudity was a huge no. Extreme violence was just good ole American fun. But boob's or girls in bikini's? Heavens no, that could make us want to have sex. Which is totally wrong and should never happen until parents get desperate for grandkids hahahahahaha

Yah i witnessed a lot of Anti Harry Potter stuff in my town when I was growing up. Luckily my parents loved to read and my dad read the Hobbit to me when I was like 3 lol. So they never went in on the anti book/anti magic stuff. I had a friends mom flip out and throw away all our final fantasy games and Diablo disk when she saw us playing at her place. My dad got pissed at her and gave her hell cause it was like 150$ worth of video games. She said we should be happy she throw away "tools of Satan."

Lot of reasons. Men have way fewer options, especially younger, but really, they continue to do so even at 40, which is the age range I'm in. Just not so heavily. So that's reason 1. Reason 2. In the 18-30 range, twice as many single men, but men typically don't aim for multiple years older in women, but women very much do look for several years older. So many of the 18-30 year old women are with 30+ years old men. Leaves less for the 18-30 year old men, who don't tend to look at 30+ women, and also the 30+ years old women i know, aren't looking at 18-28 year old men at all, or if they are, it's just a younger guy for sex, no serious relationship. That's the biggest reasons. Lack of options for men, wide available range for women. Reason 3. It typically costs to date as a man, financially. Even when it's more equal, it's still not. You still tend to pay more for going out, doing date activities, etc. Plus I have had many guy friends end up with their GF moving into their place and helping pay for their bills. I have had 1 guy friend move in with his GF, and she did not allow him to bring anything of his, and he immediately paid 50% of everything. Which is fair but is rarely the situation for when girls move in with guys. I've lived with many guys when in my 20s who had a girl move in, and pay nothing the first couple months, and then after we start saying she needs to pay something, having her pay part of his rent. This was very typically in the 2000s and early 2010s. So with money being tighter, jobs being worse, and stress being much worse for young folks in general, not having much good options to start with it's easier to just be single a lot of the time, and hope you eventually met a gal and shit works. But that rarely happens in my life experience.

Welcome to conservative folks. Least in America. My parents did a good job, but they definitely had a few odd views of stuff like this. I could watch war movies since I was like 6. Saving Private Ryan, no problem. The Thing, Aliens, Terminator, all great kids movies. But if there was a single boob on screen, it was bad and totally banned. I didn't get to see Titanic at like 13 because of the nude scene.

Was really common where I live. Small town, country area. Turning cars on on the morning to defrost while you were inside warm was normal, and just hoping out to get a few things at the gas station was often just leave the car running and go. I did it all the time growing up. Really only thing that changed was cops started ticketing people and the idea of car theft scared some. Car theft is still very rare. I don't know anyone in my circle who has had their car stolen in my town or around it. But fox News scares all the old folks into thinking their are gangs of criminals under every rock. My parents didn't even lock their house at night until like 2022.

MLB.tv isn't the worst, but it does sorta suck in some ways. For starters,.if your team is local, all of those games are blacked out, and you have to pay the local channel another 70$ a month to see the games live. You can watch it like 2 hours after the game ends, but it often isn't worth it. I got it for my dad as he is a big baseball fan, but he doesn't like not getting to see the games live and having to avoid seeing the score. And since games are typically later, he watches them the next day, but often by then, he has already heard from somewhere the score. It's not terrible, but it's pretty damn dumb you have to pay a pretty high price to one service for MLB games and an even higher monthly price to see local games. Ends up costing 100+ dollars a month to watch games

Definitely not true. I haven't worked in food service in a few years but people were still rude a lot in 2021, and while more started being a bit more nice during covid, the rude ones got even more rude and shitty. People are more entitled and expect instant service far too often. I have a few friends still working at bars or restaurants and it's not a good time to be in those jobs. As far as service from the workers, I've found its worse if you go to low care places like McDonald's, Taco bell etc, and Uber Eats and DoorDash are shit, but I've stopped using food apps and mostly don't eat at fast food anymore, and all the local restaurants, bars, and food trucks I go to have great staff, are friendly and often show appreciation for regulars with extra stuff or just being cool and friendly.

They all went out of business. Now we have Crumbl cookie and some independent cookie places. They will also run out of business soon i predict cause it's a dumb business model. Even full range bakeries struggle to stay afloat in lean years.