The Vent and Rant Thread

[wyndslash]

@dixiegal: i wish. i'm still finishing up my second degree and am doing a part-time job, but even when full-time, moving out is not usually done with most families here, especially chinese ones. we're supposed to only move out after we get married. i am just hoping to be able to get a job abroad. if i tell my parents i want to move out, it's going to open another can of worms...or snakes, either way xP

@monts: thank you i'm not sure if my family is close. i mean, i could never be comfortable enough to tell them anything emotion-wise, because my family doesn't do that, or at least my parents don't. in the past when i tried, my mom just called me melodramatic, so i tend not to tell them stuff anymore xP and sometimes i think they don't know how to handle certain things, so they resort to threatening us instead. mom keeps doing that to me if she thinks i have a boyfriend or something, and it's really traumatic @_@ she gets all in your face and demand you cut off all ties or something. she made me do it when i was in grade school and i lost a potential friend ._.;

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

Want me to punch your family for you? NOBODY messes with my friends!

Yes, but please don't tell them I knew about it.

Originally Posted by wyndslash

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@monts: thank you i'm not sure if my family is close. i mean, i could never be comfortable enough to tell them anything emotion-wise, because my family doesn't do that, or at least my parents don't. in the past when i tried, my mom just called me melodramatic, so i tend not to tell them stuff anymore xP and sometimes i think they don't know how to handle certain things, so they resort to threatening us instead. mom keeps doing that to me if she thinks i have a boyfriend or something, and it's really traumatic @_@ she gets all in your face and demand you cut off all ties or something. she made me do it when i was in grade school and i lost a potential friend ._.;

Oh, no, I didn't mean confide in them. That's feeding information to the enemy.

No, I only meant that confiding those visceral feelings with people or a person outside of your family you felt close to and could trust (people who understood you were venting the extreme feelings while also implicitly needing someone to hear your thoughts and reasons...sometimes, just people who understood they were an ear, and not an answer) can be a good thing. Sometimes when you put things into words, a way forward arises. Sometimes when you put things into words you can see how silly or meaningless or trivial they are. Sometimes when you put things into words you can find the deep core of the problem. And sometimes you don't need to put things into words but just into one long AAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!! because it feels good (and an empathetic ear will AAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!! along with you. ).

Cheers,
Marc

[wyndslash]

Yeah, I do do that. It would be nice to get to break things though too

[Stitchawl]

Wouldn't it be nice if we all had families like 'The Waltons?'

Goodnight MaryEllen...


Stitchawl

[phenomshel]

I am jinxed. Everything I have touched tonight has broken. The Western Union machine at work (which is also the way we sell money orders) tells me "out of docs". I don't know how to refill it, and neither does my night manager. Only Bookkeeping and our Customer Service manager are trusted with that job, because every single money order must be accounted for. So I put a sign on it saying "No money orders and no received Western Union transactions" (because for received WU, it prints a money order, which I then cash.). So this customer comes in and wants to SEND money. I figure, "Well, that doesn't require a money order, should be okay". Yeah, right. I punch in the transaction number, the machine asks for the paper form to print on, which it then refuses to take, but prints his receipt ON THE MONEY ORDERS IT JUST TOLD ME IT WAS OUT OF!!! Grrrrrrr..... I call my night manager and another Customer Service rep. who was working as a cashier tonight. Neither of them can even get the dang machine apart to unjam the money orders. And it's STILL telling me it's "out of docs". I finally transcribed the customer's transaction number off the ruined money orders for him and sent him on his way.
Our Red Box video rental machine is also broken. They're doing something to its computer insides remotely, and it's making this high pitched noise that sets every child in the store to wailing (I felt like wailing, myself), and probably every dog in a five mile radius to howling. Powerball is up to 200 million or so, so every time I turn around, someone's at the service desk wanting to buy tickets for that. Fortunately I managed to not break the lottery machine....

[wyndslash]

@shel: ugh, it's just one of those days, huh

mcdo's chicken nuggets rose in price. but that's okay. i need to get thinner anyway xD

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

My realtor does not seem to comprehend that we have been homeless for 5 weeks. Tomorrow I will fire the SOB unless he gets us into the 7 listings I sent him. i am doing his job because he is too darned stupid. GRRRR!

And he can take that Latino machismo and shove it up his @ss. I am the business end of this family.

you can certainly fire your realtor, just make certain you do not buy anything that you saw through him, you may owe him a commission as well. your realtor should have all of these properties vetted before taking you to see them. he doesn't even need to leave his desk to find out if there are issues with a property. Ft. Lauderdale is going to be difficult, while there are indeed a great deal of foreclosed and distressed properties in the area, the properties that are in trouble tend to be in bad areas, as well as the foreclosed ones. you may have to start seriously considering adjusting your search a little further north or south.

I think you are stumbling on the situation I found when I called the realtors down there. good luck and if there is anything else I can do, just holler!

[kindlekitten]

oh and DIXIE! if you haven't gotten anything yet and can wait through the weekend, it is the National Open House Weekend and a lot of properties are being promoted. it would be a good day to go to another brokerage, get a map and look at things on your own

[CWatkinsNash]

Something is bugging me about Amazon. Now, I love Amazon, and I don't think I've ever had a bad transaction there. I did have a pbook order come as an empty envelope once, but I just had to call order support and they happily overnighted me another copy of the book. So my issue isn't with products, service, support or any of the usual stuff.

My issue is being hounded for feedback on Marketplace transactions. "Please leave feedback for these transactions" emails from Amazon, and lately I've also gotten emails from the Marketplace sellers asking me to leave feedback. Since one order can contain items from 10 sellers, the emails add up quickly. I know that the feedback ratings are important. I get that, I really do. But Amazon is a retailer. It's not eBay. To me, it's the equivalent of cashiers chasing me down the aisle of a store saying "rate us!".

I would love it if Amazon would just send one email a month with a link to a list of unrated transactions for that month, and nothing from the seller unless there's an order problem. I can't be bothered to do it more often than that, honestly, and the more I hear about it, the less I want to do it. And by the time I finish rating the seller in the various categories, I've lost the desire to review the product.

So that's my rant for today. The cramps might have something to do with my irritability.

[wodin]

That's what the spam folder is for.

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

you can certainly fire your realtor, just make certain you do not buy anything that you saw through him, you may owe him a commission as well. your realtor should have all of these properties vetted before taking you to see them. he doesn't even need to leave his desk to find out if there are issues with a property. Ft. Lauderdale is going to be difficult, while there are indeed a great deal of foreclosed and distressed properties in the area, the properties that are in trouble tend to be in bad areas, as well as the foreclosed ones. you may have to start seriously considering adjusting your search a little further north or south.

I think you are stumbling on the situation I found when I called the realtors down there. good luck and if there is anything else I can do, just holler!

Today went better. We went to 5 places, 2 of which seemed good. Tomorrow, we are going to see a few more that he says are evenbetter. Then I want to make a decision and move forward. We could househunt forever. I need a home of my own soon.

[DixieGal]

And yes, Amazon is getting annoying about the ratings.

[wyndslash]

give me nuggets

[wannabee]

Originally Posted by phenomshel

I am jinxed. Everything I have touched tonight has broken..

Don't do the negative talk. It sounds like you turned a bad day into a triumph. The other day I got up to do a bit of work and said I bet this take forever. My wife said you've just made it happen and it did. I really believe in the power of positive thinking.

Originally Posted by DixieGal

My realtor does not seem to comprehend that we have been homeless for 5 weeks..

Making big decisions after a big trauma is never a good way to go. Personally, I'd sit it out a while and rent and watch the market over a couple of months. Then like a gator watching all the game come to the water you can pick off the best critter while nicely rested and all brain cells firing. Some times we can make the easy choice rather than the right choice when we are tired of the waiting or get bad service.

[wannabee]

Originally Posted by wyndslash

give me nuggets

Don't say that around Aussie NRL footy gorillas.