start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

Yay!

The fridge at work is disgusting, everything that's been in it stinks, my hands stink after touching anything that's been in it and the stink won't wash off

if I get a quiet moment I'll wipe the shelves down myself, but
a) I live in fear that the big boss will come in and roar "we pay you too much for you to be cleaning fridges!"
b) I'm not sure it will actually make much difference, I cleaned the top shelf a while ago after something leaked on it and a few days later it was just as horrible as ever

(also the freezer section has several inches of ice on the walls and ceiling, there's barely any room left to put anything. so in need of defrosting. there's a weekend-long power shutdown in August so I suppose it will defrost then, whether people want it to or not...)

Is there a suggested life of a fridge the way there is of a mattress? Been wondering.
Watched Hunkin talking about the fridge and the door being the main thing that goes but wondering if that is long out of date.

Duration I meant, mattress is supposed to be about 8 years ideally before replacing.

David Attenborough's The Life of Fridges

Sounded like spacedcadet's office on was turning into an ecosystem of its own.

Also annoying me today:

2. someone forwarded a quick off-the-cuff email I'd have phrased more diplomatically if I'd known it would get forwarded directly (nothing v rude, I just said "we can't do x, can you persuade the other team to do y instead" and would have written it in a more floral way had they been copied in or had I not been in a hurry to deal with someone else's stupid crisis)

3. had filled an online shopping basket with a few almost-late birthday presents I forgot to order in a timely fashion, then spent 20 minutes dealing with someone else's said work crisis, by which time my basket had timed out

I read that article y/day about Amazon being a de facto monopoly and thought "yes I should try to buy more things not through Amazon" but then you remember the world of online shopping outside Amazon involves lots of little piss-you-about things like baskets timing out or payment systems/address forms that don't quite work right and the dark side is so tempting

basically today is really annoying, or I'm really irritable, not sure which

2. Yes! I hate this.

I treat emails like everyone can read them. Ain't supposed to be this way, but here we are.

I got publicly called out on a status call by the project leader once thanks to someone doing this - cos I left him off, and someone forwarded to him, and he claimed I was 'keeping him in the dark'. when really, I had already planned to try one last ditch effort on my own that morning, and get him involved in the afternoon, only to have that plan thwarted by forward-person.

there've been more than a few times where people have insulted other people and fwded the email in question to the person they were insulting by mistake.

I literally just did this like two weeks ago. I thought the email I was replying to was sent just to me, so thought I was replying just to the individual, and said something unkind about the other two people included on the email.

WHOA

― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 23:02 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

woah

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Same fp, different reasons

fair

many xps re communal fridge

this one woman is the WORST. she buys a bunch of grapes, eats half and then lets the rest sit in an open bag forever. or she'll just leave half a lemon on the shelf, forgotten. right now she's got an costco-sized bag of celery sticks that's been sitting open for a week

fucking store your shit properly you lazy asshole

she's 100% of the reason why the fridge has to be cleaned twice a month because it always smells like a compost heap

that's one of the few things that's great about working somewhere large enough to be corporate -- the cleaning people throw every open container away that's in the fridge every weekend and once a quarter they just throw away everything and wipe it out

At one place I worked there was a woman who was in treatment for leukemia and on a special diet. Her stuff took up a lot of space in the staff fridge and there was an employee who constantly complained to management about it. Then the woman died. At her memorial service I remember thinking, "I'm glad I'm not that asshole who was always complaining about her food."

jesus christ

you can take up the whole fridge if you store your food properly afaic

letting fresh vegetables rot slowly in open bags is gross

A new Jay-Z album? Oh, goodie.

Fucking stupid music.

I think a lot of people who complain about things like that are deeply uncomfortable with illness and relating to those that are ill and the complaints are the most basic coping mechanism -- take this out of my sight so I don't have to confront it. People do the same things with poverty or even social diversity: I don't understand this or it makes me uncomfortable, so I am going to make sure it's nowhere in my sight.

otm

celery fridge lady is just someone who has bad habits and probably needs to be shamed into not falling into them in public

I hate small appliances like irons and popcorn makers that don't have an on-off switch. You just plug them in to turn them on and unplug them to turn them off. Freaks me out, especially when you see the little spark jump from prong to outlet.

she gets shamed on the reg but she's such a balloonhead she just laughs it off, like it's part of hrr charm or something

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If you need your own fridge for whatever reason the you or your employer should be providing that...
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Just sayin

Stores that only open one side of double doors. The other is kept locked, only you don't know WHICH ONE IT IS, SEE?? Invariably I hit the push bar at top speed and bounce off.

new restaurant, displayed store hours say "open sunday noon -9pm" still closed at 12:30

restaurant website: hours for new location *coming soon*

restaurant facebook: open sunday noon - 9pm

restaurant yelp: closed on Sunday

GET YR SHIT TOGETHER MORANS

did you know the secret code word to enter?

lol

IA at when movies and tv shows have some offensive or dumb but they have a scene where they point it out and there is this modern rule where if you are self aware about something then you have "addressed the issue" and we now should indulge you twice over. once for the original offense and again for your self promo masquerading as a privilege check.

like let me applaud you for realizing you could have done the right thing and then just decided that calling yourself out was easier and also makes you look like you learned something while doing the opposite

(I am sorry, Ilx, I truly am, and this is not *you guys*, but...)

American tourists in Europe... -_-

By god... American tourists are the absolute worst. And they are everywhere, extremely loud and incredibly close (Safran-Foer pun intended). They are like Jackson Pollock throwing paint all over the finesse, subtle beauty of a Monet, Matisse, Miró. (and I love Pollock, just not when he desecrates other great works). Disturbing, obnoxious, and SO LOUD, scorching the non-American earth they walk on. Demanding things, shouting orders, no effort whatsoever to adapt or even, at the very least, try - however flawed - to speak the local language (in this case Spanish, but it's the same where I'm from, Dutch). I let it slide in Amsterdam, I get it, excitement and all. Used to it, Amsterdam has turned into a tourist fun fair anyhow. But living as a foreigner myself in Spain, I really got to see your digs, American tourists. I don't mean to or want to generalize, but jeez Louise, way to kill the mood. The chewy Yankee-English echoing around a picturesque village square in Spain where I stayed for two months really managed to put a dent into local morale. All was usually fine (French, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish tourists), until a Murican came round shouting and demanding stuff. "Oh.. A shouting Murican again.... El sigh...": energy levels of bar and restaurant staff: drained. Fellow guests drained as well. Turn it down a notch, will you? Try not to destroy the beauty you see by being so loud? Try and leave behind what and who you are for once? What is wrong with you people? Why so loud, all the bloody time? Ffs.

yall better speak english in the god dam country of europe comprende amigo?

tbf to our amigos americanos, wait til u meet chinese tourists. we could post videos and pictures til the cows come home if ilx weren't so pc

Khhhhhheeeerarrrd is otm but really needn't have gone beyond the first line.

It need not be stated, however, that yank ilxors would not be expected to fall under the derogatory heading "American tourists"

otm

If an ilxor visits Spain, it's just to look for those bombs the Clash were on about

We all know people go to barca in search of a party, beefcakes and cheesecakes

I was at Warwick Castle when I was in the UK in the 90s and we did a tour that took in the dungeons as part of the walk - actual fucking dungeons, walls carved with counting-off day lines done by 18th century knights, it was so intense... and then from out of the dim, damp atmosphere comes this loud american voice that asked "its not very safe in here is it? Wheres the fire exits?"

Everyone else laughed at him to their credit.

when i was on a jack the ripper tour there, a guy came up to us (whitechapel has a strong bangladeshi population) and said "you want jack the ripper? i'm jack the n***a!" all the americans went pale all at once. (this didn't make me ia obv, just a related anecdote)

Everyone going on and on about Selena Williams and her nude magazine cover when she's obviously wearing underpants and that's not nude

Demanding things, shouting orders, no effort whatsoever to adapt or even, at the very least, try - however flawed - to speak the local language (in this case Spanish, but it's the same where I'm from, Dutch)

I tried to speak some basic phrase-book Flemish in Belgium but strangely enough they all identified us as English halfway down the street and started talking to us in 100% flawless English before we opened our mouths, so it felt a little redundant and maybe even rude to continue with my faltering mispronunciations

still tried to thank them but when you're English and cheerily mispronouncing "dank u" you do start to think, am I recognisably attempting a foreign language or do I sound like I'm just speaking English in a silly patronising accent for the foreigners

although tbf I was there with my parents once and I tried to order in Flemish but my Dad embarrassingly decided that it was basically the same as German so he'd order in pidgin German instead. so I gave up and spoke English and waited for death tbh and would like to apologise to the entire continent of Europe and all Dutch-speaking countries for our terrible behaviour

Haha I have had exactly the same thought in regard to "dank u" and so tend to go for the "dank u wel" for clarity's sake.

American tourists are the absolute worst.

OTM on the loudness but also the unrelenting quality, they just won't shut up.

At least we're fair about it. I have vivid teenaged memories of my dad in NYC walking up to people in the subway and loudly asking them asking where the Empire State Building was.

asking asking asking.

No doubt American tourists are among the worst, if not the worst, but I often wonder when traveling if as an American my embarrassment and desire to keep clear of other Americans heightens my sensitivity to the American voice. Especially in a place where I don't understand the native language—the language you do understand has a way of cutting through the rest. At the risk of more (!) generalizing there are def tourists from a few other countries who give Americans a real run for their money in this department

you know who you are

I know, those Germans, eh?

They can be rough and they are not alone