Random Rants

[_priapism]

Nobody tell Carlson Tucker that Barbie’s boyfriend Ken is a trans, who sits to pee, please.

[Shiela_M]

It's a quick one.

The sexual abuse I had endured years ago was really bad for me, but do you know what I never did, not once?

Blaimed pepe' Le Pew.

I'm offended by cancel culture, so can we cancel it now?  That's how it works right?

[Dirtymind]

So I had a mammogram done today.  My first one ever, and I'll tell you right now, it isn't the most painful thing that has happened to my breast, but it is very uncomfortable.  The machine alone looks like it's going to smoosh it flat and then try to twist it off.  How is it, that when I need a checkup of my bits, I have to either face down industrial machinery, or get cranked open like the doctor is about to go mining, yet the most complained about medical procedure I hear about is when guys have to get a prostate exam...

MsSlave you're excused from this rant love

Oh doctor stuck his finger in my bum...  when your butt doctor uses a speculum to open your butt to check things out on a regular basis then complain. Or, when you get checked for testicular cancer... use the mammogram machine.  Then maybe, just maybe I'll feel for you.

I had a colonscopy a couple of years back. The doctor was deeply offended that I first wanted to see the size of his hands.

I was deeply offended by the 7k bill for a 29min procedure

[msslave]

I had a colonoscopy several years ago. The Doctor was Italian, judging from her voice. I wasn't in a position where I could see her. Several months later I had an office visit and by her voice, I recognized her as the doc who'd shoved a camera up my butt. I said I remembered her by her voice, as I hadn't seen her face. She laughed and said. "Yes, I didn't see your face either."

We both got a good laugh from our shared experience. A few weeks later I was with my Primary Care Doctor and related our exchange and shared laughter. He was quite surprised, as apparently she has a reputation for being very serious.

Made me glad the thought of remembering my old butt brought her some amusement.

[_priapism]

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Work is just not very good right now. No one wants to pay the lawyer, when times are lean.  The family has cabin fever.  Social media is dead to me.  Just a bunch of QAnon idiots and antivaxxers.  Girlfriend is moody.  Foster child is not coming this summer, because the border is closed.  I still don’t have a car.  And Covid cases are climbing again in Texas, because Republicans refuse to get vaccinated and refuse to wear a mask.  So yeah, I’m kind of pissed off at everyone and everything.

[Dudester]

So, I work for a marketing company and our current client is a homeschool company. I'm doing the customer service thing. Just finished a l-o-n-g call with a Karen about how the website is constructed. Apparently she got a sweetheart deal 6 years ago and cannot accept that because of the pandemic there has been an explosion of business and she cannot accept that I can't make changes to the website to tailor make something that she wants (a 2 for 1 deal). She wanted to parse over every single word on the website and she's the prosecutor and I'm the shady Bernie Madoff type trying to rip off everybody. About the fifth time I told her that I am customer service and therefore can only do a few things she got highly indignant and finished with a threatening:"Well, I'll just have to call back."

Apparently this woman doesn't understand is that six years ago things and the world were quite different. Because of the pandemic the company has added 96 customer service agents (something they didn't have before) and the company doesn't have to bend over backwards for a nit picky Karen with an attitude. This isn't the first time that I've had to deal with a customer from the long ago who doesn't understand that change has happened in the world. What is with these people?

[Clitical Thinking]

What is with these people?

Plenty of narcissists out there that are incapable of looking at anything from the point of view of another person. I'd like to think I'm usually a calm and understanding person, but I'd probably get fired sooner than later if I had to work in customer service 

[_priapism]

What did you expect from “home schooling Karen?”  I bet she thinks Trump is still President, and Bill Gates put a microchip in the Covid vaccine.

I’m going to move you over to the “random rants” thread.

[Dudester]

Reference the above-who I work for. Just got a call. An account manager in my department called me to ask how to apply a discount to a particular account. I am not trained to handle that type of account. Why would I know how to handle an account that the manager doesn't know how to handle? These people make no sense.

[_priapism]

Reference the above-who I work for. Just got a call. An account manager in my department called me to ask how to apply a discount to a particular account. I am not trained to handle that type of account. Why would I know how to handle an account that the manager doesn't know how to handle? These people make no sense.

They obviously think you are...

[Rainwater]

In the shipping department of the company where I am gainfully employed, the rule about radios or the playing of music is to keep it at a personal level.  In other words, your music is for your ears, not your neighbor's or anyone else's.  I have always found it to be a fair rule.  There have always been those who think the rules don't apply to them, but for the most part they are gone now.

The exception would be the mental case that is one of our order pickers.  Oh, the problem is not that he plays his music too loud, no, not at all. It is that he sings along with it all day long.  He must truly believe that a)he's got a great voice b)that we all want to hear him c)that he works in a karaoke bar and not a warehouse.  As far as I am concerned, he is violating the rule about music just as much as the person playing his radio loud enough for all of us to hear.

When my wife asks me if anyone has said anything, I feel funny.  I always think that you should be able to bring your grievances about someone breaking rules to the manager, but the manager never wants to do his job, whether it's a loud radio or a co-worker acting in an interfering manner.  As for me, I just want to go to work, do my job, and maybe listen to a little Miles and Coltrane quietly while I work and I don't want to hear some sixty-something year old jerkoff pretending he's Elvis. 

 

[MintJulie]

It is that he sings along with it all day long.

I'll jump on the bandwagon here.  While we do it in the house with family, it's fun.  At a concert?  NO!   In public?  NO!   At Rainwaters job site? OH HELL NO!
There was one lady I used to run into at Krogers all the time.  Airpods in and just jamming away.  Oblivious to everyone around us.  And she wasn't just singing in a quiet voice.  Girlfriend was belting it out, loud!  One good thing about the pandemic is I don't go on a regular basis to Kroger anymore, just on an as needed basis, so my schedule is off from hers.
Give me the number RW, I'll call and report anonymously. 

[Shiela_M]

Whoever came up with these stupid spider jump scare videos needs to be slapped. My friends will send me on, and I'll start watching, and ar some point I'll think, "what is the point of this video?" And then BAM, that stupid spider graphic comes jumping out at the screen.  It's fake, and it's just a video, but it doesn't stop me from jumping and dropping my phone or tossing my phone, and my "friend" that sent it to me is perfectly safe miles away where I can't teach out and smack the bitch.

[watcher1]

Whoever came up with these stupid spider jump scare videos needs to be slapped. My friends will send me on, and I'll start watching, and ar some point I'll think, "what is the point of this video?" And then BAM, that stupid spider graphic comes jumping out at the screen.  It's fake, and it's just a video, but it doesn't stop me from jumping and dropping my phone or tossing my phone, and my "friend" that sent it to me is perfectly safe miles away where I can't teach out and smack the bitch.

The kids will send Mrs W a bunch of similar type vids but no spider ones yet.  I am sure they will be popping up in the near future.

Along with you jumping and dropping your phone, I bet there are a few choice words also yelled....

[Clitical Thinking]

Whoever came up with these stupid spider jump scare videos needs to be slapped. My friends will send me on, and I'll start watching, and ar some point I'll think, "what is the point of this video?" And then BAM, that stupid spider graphic comes jumping out at the screen.  It's fake, and it's just a video, but it doesn't stop me from jumping and dropping my phone or tossing my phone, and my "friend" that sent it to me is perfectly safe miles away where I can't teach out and smack the bitch.

Here's an example of instant karma.. after I read this, I thought it would be funny to see if anyone has made some naughty GIFs with spider jump scares in them. Lots of Spider Man themed GIFs, but the first one I found with an actual spider was of a spider crawling out of a woman's vagina. I'm sure it was photoshopped and usually spiders don't bother me anyway, but that gave me a nice jump scare and I don't remember the last time I closed a page that fast 

[Shiela_M]

Last one I got was with a guy who dropped a flower in the water and it went into a hollowed out log. He walked to the other side and as he got down, I knew it was a scare thing. I friggin knew it. So says to myself, I says self, don't jump there's going to be something scary in that log, but then that fake spider comes jumping out before he looks inside and scared the ever loving f@#% out of me.

[Dudester]

People unclear on the concept. So, I do customer service for a marketing company and our present client is a homeschool company. The first week of February we started taking orders for standardized tests, scheduling dates in March and April to complete the test. Tomorrow is the last day to get in the test (has to be in possession of the homeschool company).

Her: What do we need to return?
Me: Everything that was in the packet we sent you.
Her: Does that include the instructions?
Me: Yes. Everything.
Her: Does that include the score sheet?
Me: Yes, everything that was in the packet needs to be returned.
Her: Does that include test questions?
Me: Ma'am, every single item that was in the packet, all of it, every last item has to be returned.
Her: Does that include the list of items?
Me: (trying desperately to hold on to my patience). Ma'am, every single item, every list, every booklet, all of it, every single thing that was in the packet we sent you, every single item, all of it, has to be returned.
Her: When does it have to be returned?
Me: By tomorrow.
Her: Don't we have a turn around time?
Me: Ma'am, we started taking orders for the test back on February first. We explained then the start dates, the last of which was April 30th. The test was supposed to be started no later than April 30th.
Her: But what if we got a late start?
Me: Ma'am, we stopped taking orders on April 15th and we instructed people to start no later than April 30th. It is now May 13th.
Her: But what if we had someone else taking the test?
Me: Ma'am, the test has to be returned by tomorrow. Tomorrow is the last day to get it in. It has to be sent in.
Her: Can you check when the tests were sent out?
Me: Ma'am, the last of the tests were sent out on April 16th. We told people then and before that the tests have to be started no later than April 30th and back to us by May 14th. We sent out reminders by email and physical letters. The test is due tomorrow.
Her: Are you sure about that?
Me: Yes ma'am.
Her: What time does it have to be back?
Me: five PM
Her: I thought we had a turn around time.
Me: Ma'am, the test is due back here tomorrow. It is the last date to get it in.
Her: Let me check, hold on
(Very long pause)
Her: What if we don't have everything?
Me; Send back whatever you have, everything that was in the packet.
Her: (moan) ooookay.

[MintJulie]

People unclear on the concept.
So, I do customer service for a marketing company...

I was customer service for a health insurance company for many many painful years.  Oh, I could write a book.
I only snapped a few times.  I got called into my supervisors office a few times too.  Big insurance company records all calls.

[Shiela_M]

People unclear on the concept.
So, I do customer service for a marketing company...

I was customer service for a health insurance company for many many painful years.  Oh, I could write a book.
I only snapped a few times.  I got called into my supervisors office a few times too.  Big insurance company records all calls.

BIG Ben used to work customer service with health insurance, but he works with a company that deals with discounts and such between doctors and insurance. He hates it so much, but now he does something else, think he reviews calls now

[staci]

Dudester, you're going to have to stop sending tests to Texas A&M. Aggies only understand instructions with pictures.