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

It's the "feel good" activism of the year!

-- Rex Reed --

I have no idea what's going on in the office today, but my two coworkers are having serious issues shutting the fuck up. Yes, it's Friday. Yes, it's payday. Great. We all work for the same company, so we're all aware that tomorrow is a day off and we now have a lot more extra money than we did yesterday.

STOP. FUCKING. TALKING. ABOUT IT.

Just stop fucking talking altogether. Shut the fuck up. Nothing that is being said —even things relating to the job— is necessary by any stretch of the imagination.

And so loud. Fuck sake.

My immediate cubicle neighbor went off to me some weeks ago about they can't handle me playing music from my computer speakers, even really mellow stuff (mostly classical and jazz) at a very low volume. So, I was accommodating and I don't play music when they're around. Seriously thinking about just putting on John Coltrane Om at not a high volume, but a noticeable one, when they get back from their lunch break.

https://media.makeameme.org/created/They-said-I-yx4kpg.jpg

I used to listen to one earbud while at work.

I just don't get the obvious hypocrisy. This person may not like music (what a fucking weirdo), that's fine.

But to turn around and just basically have a borderline yelling conversation with someone else is just incredibly oblivious; on the cusp of stupidity.

At a previous job, a coworker was playing techno pretty quietly on his computer, and it didn't bother anyone. Except for the boss. He said to the guy, "You're not allowed to listen to music at work! Only I'M allowed to listen to music at work!" whereupon he played a Jimmy Buffett CD on his boombox at full blast. This was in a tech support call center, and none of us could hear the callers, so we all had to put people on hold until our boss had finished his bizarre little tantrum.

i wouldn't want a colleague playing music in the office at all.

if people are being too loud while im trying to concentrate on something i have a quiet word in their ear about it (this rarely happens to me because i am good at tuning out chatter)

yeah, I find it hard to concentrated w/ music

I would go fucking nuts if a co-worker were playing music at any volume, no matter how quiet. Use headphones for gods's sake

do you all work in a kiosk or something

No music on the speakers, but definitely no endless chatterboxxing either.

I don't think the constant yammering would bother me if they weren't being so carelessly loud.

Playing music without headphones at work anywhere other than a private office with the door shut seems obviously incorrect to me.

ime you can adjust the volume knob and the sound won't travel so far

My experience differs.

Barely audible sounds are worse than actually audible sounds so cranking it down doesn’t help

Personally if I am not choosing the music I don't want to hear it. I don't care whether the player believes it is "mellow." It could be Yanni or Slayer or Coltrane or Vivaldi; I don't want to hear it unless I've chosen to hear it.

I don't think I've had an office space where playing music on speakers would be at all acceptable for like... 16 years

and that was when we had what now seems like insanely tall cubicle walls (in one building, I didn't realize there were windows along one wall until they reconfigured the cubes because I hadn't walked all the way to the end). and there were still some actual offices with doors. and the white noise machines were cranked up way too high, so if someone was talking ten feet over I wouldn't even hear them

now I'm mildly irritated because I can hear all the conversation over the wall from me, but I can at least throw on headphones. however, I wasn't wearing them the last couple weeks and I now know all about a dude in the next aisle's quest to buy a dishwasher

...white noise machines!? :|

yeah? they're not necessarily white noise, but every office building I've ever worked in has had some sort of electronic device doing sound masking, usually installed in the ceiling. you don't really notice it, and a lot of people think it's just noise from the air handling system if they don't know

talkimgs good.music isnt

My office space is huge, has high ceilings and there’s hundreds of people in it

All you hear is indecipherable background chatter and teams celebrating “wins”

yeah? they're not necessarily white noise, but every office building I've ever worked in has had some sort of electronic device doing sound masking, usually installed in the ceiling. you don't really notice it, and a lot of people think it's just noise from the air handling system if they don't know

That's also how they bombard you with subliminal messages to keep you docile iirc.

BEHAVE

OBEY

CONSUME

SUBMIT

Just received post from the building society dated 28th April...

they're not necessarily white noise, but every office building I've ever worked in has had some sort of electronic device doing sound masking, usually installed in the ceiling.

Huh. I suppose it is possible such a thing exists, and I've assumed it as aircon.

i have never heard of this before & it’s weirding me the fuck out tbh

I've mentioned my loud as fuck open office before, not just here but also t my company president. I got a new desk by the window away from everyone, so that's why I haven't been on the "hat your coworkers" read as much anymore.

But the boss did bring up white noise machines. Said he had been at some utility company headquarters where they had 'em. "You don't even notice that they're on," he told me. And frankly, I had no response to that.

I hat this iPad, btw.

i am

not sure

that every workplace in america is running noise interference

https://cambridgesound.com/learn/sound-masking-101/

the more you know

At my last office they were too cheap to install a real system so we just had interns walking around going WHHCHSCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I've mostly worked in open plan offices (playing peekaboo over monitors) or had to share my office with someone else. The last one I worked in was so deathly quiet that you could hear people chewing, stomachs rumbling. I felt weird about opening a bag of chips. I hated it.

I worked with a woman who kept the radio on all day to an FM station. Some people complained but I didn't mind. I don't think I would have ever heard a lot of top 40 music in my life otherwise. Another woman kept a fan on for the white noise.

When the current temperature displayed on a weather website/app falls outside of their predicted range of temperatures for the day. Definitely 'I' but probably only 'A' because it reminds me of people who very confidently double down when they're demonstrably wrong.

Completely rational but I felt you lot would appreciate this.

I got a warning due to a severely overdue parking ticket in the mail the other day. This was perplexing cos I haven't received a parking ticket in nine years - I am meticulous about checking for signs prior to dumping my car anywhere. Also, the license plate cited was from the car I wrecked last year but the date of incident was just two months ago. It's not registered to a vehicle currently.

So I go online to look at the ticket and the idiot officer listed "unknown" for the make and model of the vehicle. Then lists the color as white and type of vehicle as "truck", which I've never driven.

So it's obviously mistaken identity but I realize there's corresponding pics from the incident. I open them and it's a motherfucking FedEx truck parked in a loading zone only. Well, that explains why I never got it.

So I'm expecting that this guy has a plate with similar characters with a digit off or something. But it's even stupider than that.

The vehicle was ticketed in mid-delivery, with packages hanging off of the back of the truck. Which leave only the first three license plate characters visible - the fourth is partially obscured, fifth and sixth not at all visible.

The first three characters match my old plate - the fourth one, while partially obscured, is still clearly is not an "E" like mine was.

So in the officer's hurry, it appears since he didn't want to disturb the packages for liability reasons, he merely did a search for vehicles with my first three characters and merely guessed that it was my plate, and sodded off, assuming the dummy would pay it.

But he/she didn't pay it, so parking division looked up my records and mailed me the ticket, conveniently ignoring that it was not registered to any vehicle at the time of the ticket. And someone internally signed off on the officer's ticket, despite his pictorial evidence clearly demonstrating the entire plate was not visible.

I got it voided on Monday, fortunately, more easily than usual. Guessing they were embarrassed. And they voided the entire ticket so FedEx guy got away with it lol

ugh that would make me lose my shit
parking tickets are $$$ enough without wasting everyone’s time cuz the parking officer is too lazy to do due diligence & ticket the correct vehicle ffs
morans

cyclist stops from crossing road as car is there, while his girlfriend stops behind him and says

girl: why did you stop!! (time is money)
guy: i was sooo worried my bike would get hit by the car
(girl is annoyed)

man affluent fucks in this city can f off

A weird lawyer-lady decided that the hallway outside my office is a "confidential zone" where she can talk to her clients by phone. Ok, except that I can hear everything you're saying. What pushes this over to Rational Anger is that when we step foot out of the office she starts yelling, "Give me privacy! This is a confidential zone!"

Today in IA: Pedestrians.

like everyday, pedestrians are super variable in being dumb fucks or decent

people who walk on the left side of the sidewalk and wonder why people keep almost slamming into them

I mean I hate everyone equally: pedestrians, drivers of cars, film set crews, delivery trucks, construction sites. Hate. Haaaaate.

fair

People in general have just become completely careless about how they interact with the world.

we gotta care more to counteract

i care because U do

I had a pedestrian in Cocoa Beach a few months ago start crossing A1A in front of oncoming traffic, nowhere near a crosswalk, during rush hour on a Friday. Kept walking despite the onslaught of vehicles only to stop walking at the last second as I approached, seeming to think I was going to slam on my brakes at one of the busiest streets and risk getting plowed into to let her finish jaywalking.

So she was basically standing in the middle of the road while cars on either side rushed by her.

fuck man

recently a rogue bus driver ran a red light while i was half way through the crosswalk. called transit police and said we need keanu cuz there is a rogue driver on yer network

I hate it when someone leaves the vacuum on button depressed when it's unplugged, so that as soon as I plug it in it vrooms right to life and scares the shit out of me (even if it's usually my fault).

What pushes this over to Rational Anger is that when we step foot out of the office she starts yelling, "Give me privacy! This is a confidential zone!"

Because I'm a dick like that, I'dve just replied with "oh really? Cuz we can all hear every word you say and btw Ive recorded most of it, its pretty hilarious"