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

i felt like I was in an SNL sketch

Lol

people who ask "is anybody sitting here" in a movie theatre with assigned seats.

these are assigned seats. either your ticket is for that seat or it isn't, and if you're asking that question that's probably not your seat.

sat behind another vehicle waiting to collect my elder daughter from drama class ... and the driver ran the engine on idle, reading his phone, for a solid 10-15 minutes. Let's run a 6 cylinder internal combustion engine on fossil fuels so that the interior temperature doesn't fall by a single degree while we browse our FUCKING PHONE FUCK.

these are assigned seats. either your ticket is for that seat or it isn't, and if you're asking that question that's probably not your seat.

that reminds me of an Irrationally Embarrassing incident for me, possibly an Irrationally Angry incident for the people behind me, when I arrived a little early for a film and saw my pre-booked tickets had assigned seating, so I went and sat where it said, right in front of the only other people there so far, but hey, no big deal, right? It'll fill up shortly

Then the film started, and we were still the only two groups of people in the cinema, and I was beginning to feel kind of weird and antisocial abt sitting right in front of this youngish couple, prob early 20s, maybe a date... but like it would be even worse to move

not sure if rational or irrational embarrassment, but when I whispered "should we move?" to my viewing companion I was told I was being super-weird to even still be thinking about it etc and tbh the answer to the question "am I currently being super-weird and/or overthinky about something" is usually yes, so prob irrational. (I can only imagine how super-weird it is that I still think abt this incident sometimes like 3 years later. I have no memory whatsoever of what the film was btw)

it would be super-weird NOT to think about moving imo

yeah when the theatre is empty I'd do the same thing. assignments not real important when 95% of the theatre is empty

similar IA - when general admission seats are 99% full and a late arriving person still wanders down to the front section asking if a seat is taken
of course it is
clearly wishful thinking on their part, like they just cant comprehend the possibility that they might have to sit in the back

lol I alawys used to punish myself with the worst seat for late arrival.

"this feel good, Neanderthal? you craning your neck? this is what happens when you watch an extra episode of Urkel before leaving your house"

went to a data entry job interview. They set me up with a typing test and their special keyboards. Both the program/keyboard seemed to delay after pressing/depressing the caps key which obviously will slow one down/fuck up their accuracy. Asked for another keyboard, appears it's the program. I've done other typing tests for government jobs etc. and there's no way it's this difficult. So I just told them I know I can do better and left. But it was pretty frustrating

knowing you can do something good and the conditions don't allow it is prime IA for me

justifiable rational anger!!

hahah suppose so :)

I had one job interview once where they set me up with a really blurry and flickery monitor on the other side of a massive wide conference table, way further away than you'd ever have a monitor you were actually trying to work on. Oh, and it was a different version of the software to the one I'd used before. I didn't even finish the task they'd set.

They still said I did better than anyone else on the practical test but actually they wanted someone to do sales calls and knowing how to use Crystal Reports was just incidental, despite being the only thing they asked for in the ad or tested me on. ???

I actually work a block away from there now and that company isn't there any more so I guess I was better off not being hired there anyway.

I was told when I interviewed as an entry-level customer service rep at my company, 13 years ago, that I had to pass a Windows 95 test. I thought for sure this was a typo (it was 2004, after all).

Lo and behold, I get to the Math/English/word processing tests, and there it is, a Windows 95 test. Which I hadn't used in, like, almost a decade.

None of the machines in the office used it either. Never figured out why we had to pass that, but it didn't factor heavily into our final score.

nowadays if you can say your name without drooling acid into a spitoon, you pretty much get hired

^ wish that was true. it's insane how much targeted resume/cover letters + fitting into the company culture you need

I only mean for my company, natch - getting in as entry level suddenly became easy. Well, if you're young (neither of my folks got even close to the final interview). kinda found it ridiculous how hard a time both my parents had finding any kind of employment after being continuously employed for decades.

almo(ld)st as if there's a reaso(ld) fo(ld) that

the companies that use those screener tests with multiple choice personality questions are the worst. basically have to lie to even pass those cos it only accepts perfect robotic human beings. except you don't know the right way to even 'lie' on them going in.

ah, gotcha neanderthal.

yeah multiple choice ones suck, also most government jobs involve a lot of scenario question answering. It can take several hours to apply for like 2 jobs nowadays, it's pretty ridic

applicant tracking systems (that screen out PDFs) and only look for key words used to make me IA, but now I just try to beat them

The way Imgur links open in my Imgur app without my realizinf and then the "back" button takes me to Imgur instead of back to ilx

when tenants above you pound the floor. nothing makes me angrier

gooooooooooooooood I hate that

i think the kids are over upstairs. unfortunately i just take it, instead of blasting noise

https://i.imgur.com/1BdMGCs.jpg

Hep design ruined by poor reflection.

UK Bullitt

Back in the late seventies I lived above an older single woman. I would spend the evening sitting quietly in a chair reading a book until perhaps 11 pm at which time I'd stand up and move about a bit, getting ready to go to bed, setting the woman below me to pounding the ceiling with a broom handle. I finally knocked on her door and explained that I'd tried walking around without placing my feet on the floor, but nothing I'd tried had worked and I was open to suggestions.

^ I weighed about 135 lbs at the time.

not for long with such a sedentary lifestyle I bet

xxxp Mirror Signal Manoeuvre Burn Rubber

I just saw someone on Twitter asking how people "recreate joy and gratitude every day" and I kind of want to sprout venom-dripping fangs and tear out his throat. I mean, just a little.

I was walking down By the sea today and there's gates to enclose the path. Cyclists are in both lanes and totally not paying attention to lanes. Shit

I am IA that someone in the SCPA decided that, of all the possible names for a giant iguana, they'd choose "Iggy".

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/15/iggy-the-giant-iguana-rescued-after-being-found-in-scottish-layby

People who don't pronounce words the proper way. Like, they say the word as if it's spelled a completely different way. Example: saying the word, "button" as if it were spelled with an i, not an o. And then, to top it off, it seems like they go out of their way to make the most of their ill pronunciation. So, it comes out like "butt-in." And, overwhelmingly, this is native english speakers who have no excuse.

A true moment of irrational anger this week: when I suddenly realized my over-ear headphones were switched around (because a solo was playing in the wrong ear).

nb: the spelling of a word in English isn't necessarily a good guide to its pronunciation

Always mad at people riding bikes with no hands, but extra angry when they are egregious about it. Like, hands in their pockets, or (impressive or not) the guy I was biking behind the other day who was air drumming while biking. Yeah, that takes balance, good for you, but at the same time, why tempt fate? Why add an extra step or two if you need to brake or swerve? This dude was all chill and air drumming, but he was also going so slow, and I couldn't pass him without startling him and getting closer to traffic and putting us both at risk because he was so into his music, air drumming along.

Incidentally, when I was up in Canada I learned it's apparently illegal to bike with headphones on. Canada=rational.

i probably complained about this before and i'm not one of those people who feels they have a right to park right in front of their house but whenever i have that spot and i leave for a short time, my neighbor goes and moves her car into it. it's like she's watching out the window for me to leave. today she did it and she was parked about 100 ft away before. weird.

Where I grew up, the proper response to that would be to slash her tires

Irrational in the sense that I spose I am a bit of a control freak: we have 2 dishwashers in our fancy new work kitchen, and yet people persist in just rinsing off a plate/cup/spoon and putting in the dishrack.

More irrationally, I get mad at these people because they toss the spoons into the rack bit where the plates go instead of popping them into the cutlery holder. ARE YOU LOT SAVAGES? I swear some people I work with must have maids or wives who do all the work at home.

That's probably the best you can hope for in a work kitchen.

Compared to our old work kitchen it certainly is - at least this one being brand new and fancy is making people take a bit more care and not leave 2 week old slimy mugs in the sink :/

Hulu's new Roku app is a UI nightmare

to follow up on my last IA about the grocery baskets, people who throw theirs in the stack under the conveyor belt but allow it to sit at an angle so no one can stack anything on top of it without properly fitting it in first are THE WORST

otm

ppl who just assume you are up to speed on everything in their lives always, no matter how much time has passed

my friend always starts her conversations in the middle, like "i am so stressed about the trip" etc

WHAT TRIP? we havent spoken in a month, what are you talking about.

she's completely detail/noun deficient. it's maddening.

My mother does that to me all the time lol. We only speak once a fortnight or so and she assumes I just know eeeeverything that happened with Mrs smith up the street and her carbuncle.

lol