What's annoying you today?

[clairedunphy]

Apr 10, 2017 20:39:30 GMT -5 jane6672 said:

Apr 10, 2017 13:07:10 GMT -5 clairedunphy said:

H's univeristy spelled our last name wrong 

Okay, I chuckled

I edited this 3 times because I kept making typos.  I am done.  The typos stay.

[spindle92]

I am sitting in the waiting room at the dealership and this annoying lady is on her speakerphone. I DO NOT want to hear your entire conversation. Shut it down now!

[eb777888]

OMG, we got hail damage on BOTH fucking cars!!!! Ugh!! Sonofabitch.

[nicechicken]

Apr 10, 2017 15:20:55 GMT -5 lagom said:

Apr 10, 2017 13:08:11 GMT -5 nicechicken said:

My boss spelled my email and my log in credentials wrong. Two different ways. :/ I have to login to a completely wrong name every day.


    I'm stuck in the box, but this is terrible!  Do you have a signature line with a name that doesn't match your email, because how the hell does that work?  Is your boss ok with people being confused about how to contact you?  Ugh.  

I don't use my email. I use a catch-all email for my department as my email. It's fine because everything I email my managing boss has to be able to login and see. My name is spelled different (with a C, not a K) so he knew he got my login wrong, so he tried to "fix it" with my email but spelled the last three letters wrong :/

[litebright]

I am annoying myself.

I am so over me.

[sparkythelawyer]

Apr 10, 2017 19:41:58 GMT -5 berbles said:

Apr 10, 2017 19:25:52 GMT -5 @lauralynne said:

What are California common law laws?? Hmmm, you might check into that. Just in case.
Evil partners are evil.

Nice thought. He would NEVER let us.

She's the worst.

When I got married the first time, the first thing out of her mouth was, "What's your budget?" And when I told her we didn't know because we'd been engaged for 4 minutes, and that all we know is that neither of us is comfortable spending more than $20k, she said, "Oh pshh, can't be done. Not in the Bay Area, can't be done." I shot her daggers and telepathically told her that unless she was offering to pay she needed to keep her bitch-ass mouth shut.

Is he still competent to make the decision though?

[sparkythelawyer]

My name is prominently featured in a song played very often at crappy bars. I STILL, at almost 38 fucking years of age, get people trying to incorporate that song into conversation with me. It....doesn't go well.

I maybe threatened my DJ within an inch of his life to a lifetime of horrible Yelp reviews if that song played at my wedding.

[zaneyzoo]

April. The month of April is annoying me.


Why?

We owe a shiton of taxes
I've got a bunch of health shit going on
Work has been the suck


April can suck my hiney

[wambam]

Apr 10, 2017 19:48:41 GMT -5 Ohhmm(bligo) said:

H is insisting we add a twin mattress on to our full mattress and has left it to me to plan this.

So I have to come up with:
-a platform, which I've found
-custom sheets, which I've found
-an oversized king comforter, which I've found
-a custom headboard, which I think I can make
-a mattress connector, which I've found
-a pillowtop topper, which I have no idea how to do.

He is so freaking excited about this (and really, so am I, because then he won't TOUCH ME or put his SWEATY HEAD ON MY PILLOW), but jesus this is going to be a lot of planning. He has also enthusiastically given me free rein of designing all the garden boxes and expecting plans.

Why in the fresh hell would you not just buy a king bed?

[notsopicky]

My husband is NOT AT ALL supportive of the fact that I'm trying to go to grad school. I am over him interrupting me. DAMN IT.

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

Apr 11, 2017 12:26:23 GMT -5 wambam said:

Apr 10, 2017 19:48:41 GMT -5 Ohhmm(bligo) said:

H is insisting we add a twin mattress on to our full mattress and has left it to me to plan this.

So I have to come up with:
-a platform, which I've found
-custom sheets, which I've found
-an oversized king comforter, which I've found
-a custom headboard, which I think I can make
-a mattress connector, which I've found
-a pillowtop topper, which I have no idea how to do.

He is so freaking excited about this (and really, so am I, because then he won't TOUCH ME or put his SWEATY HEAD ON MY PILLOW), but jesus this is going to be a lot of planning. He has also enthusiastically given me free rein of designing all the garden boxes and expecting plans.

Why in the fresh hell would you not just buy a king bed?

Nothing larger than a full will fit up our stairs - we already tried it with a queen. This was only a few years ago, so he doesn't want to ditch the mattress.

[wambam]

Apr 11, 2017 12:32:20 GMT -5 Ohhmm(bligo) said:

Apr 11, 2017 12:26:23 GMT -5 wambam said:

Why in the fresh hell would you not just buy a king bed?

Nothing larger than a full will fit up our stairs - we already tried it with a queen. This was only a few years ago, so he doesn't want to ditch the mattress.

So is the platform in small enough pieces for that? I'm sure you've thought about this, but I'm curious now.

[Deleted]

So um. My roommate and I split bills. I pay electric and she pays internet and cable (which I hadn't had cable in 4 years and don't care to have). ANYWAY first bill of the electricity and I find our 40 bucks a month sewer bill goes along with the electric bill here. Whatev I was a bit upset she didn't warn me but in the winter our electric bill is 40 bucks and goes up to roughly 100 in the summer (the highest bill was 168).
My dog got her phone/cable/internet bill out of her purse and chewed it up a bit last night but I clearly see where she's been paying 60 bucks a month for internet and cable (on a bundle w/ cell service +10 bucks for the extra cable box in her bedroom). I am LIVID. We have been living together 1.5 years.

[princesscal]

Apr 11, 2017 12:32:20 GMT -5 Ohhmm(bligo) said:

Apr 11, 2017 12:26:23 GMT -5 wambam said:

Why in the fresh hell would you not just buy a king bed?

Nothing larger than a full will fit up our stairs - we already tried it with a queen. This was only a few years ago, so he doesn't want to ditch the mattress.

If you're interested, the "boxed mattresse" like Leesa come compressed so you could probably fit a king up the stairs with 2 twin box spring platforms. That way you wouldn't have to get custom sized sheets.

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

Apr 11, 2017 12:33:14 GMT -5 wambam said:

Apr 11, 2017 12:32:20 GMT -5 Ohhmm(bligo) said:

Nothing larger than a full will fit up our stairs - we already tried it with a queen. This was only a few years ago, so he doesn't want to ditch the mattress.

So is the platform in small enough pieces for that? I'm sure you've thought about this, but I'm curious now.

I'm going to make it so.

Also: GIRL, I KNOW

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

Apr 11, 2017 12:37:28 GMT -5 princesscal said:

Apr 11, 2017 12:32:20 GMT -5 Ohhmm(bligo) said:

Nothing larger than a full will fit up our stairs - we already tried it with a queen. This was only a few years ago, so he doesn't want to ditch the mattress.

If you're interested, the "boxed mattresse" like Leesa come compressed so you could probably fit a king up the stairs with 2 twin box spring platforms. That way you wouldn't have to get custom sized sheets.

Then we would have no use for the full mattress!!!11😱

[berbles]

Apr 11, 2017 12:20:46 GMT -5 sparkythelawyer said:

Apr 10, 2017 19:41:58 GMT -5 berbles said:

Nice thought. He would NEVER let us.

She's the worst.

When I got married the first time, the first thing out of her mouth was, "What's your budget?" And when I told her we didn't know because we'd been engaged for 4 minutes, and that all we know is that neither of us is comfortable spending more than $20k, she said, "Oh pshh, can't be done. Not in the Bay Area, can't be done." I shot her daggers and telepathically told her that unless she was offering to pay she needed to keep her bitch-ass mouth shut.

Is he still competent to make the decision though?

Yes, absolutely. He doesn't have dementia, just normal old age memory issues. Which apparently annoy the shit out of his GF. 

[TR]

Apr 11, 2017 12:36:01 GMT -5 @lemonlover said:

So um. My roommate and I split bills. I pay electric and she pays internet and cable (which I hadn't had cable in 4 years and don't care to have). ANYWAY first bill of the electricity and I find our 40 bucks a month sewer bill goes along with the electric bill here. Whatev I was a bit upset she didn't warn me but in the winter our electric bill is 40 bucks and goes up to roughly 100 in the summer (the highest bill was 168).
My dog got her phone/cable/internet bill out of her purse and chewed it up a bit last night but I clearly see where she's been paying 60 bucks a month for internet and cable (on a bundle w/ cell service +10 bucks for the extra cable box in her bedroom). I am LIVID. We have been living together 1.5 years.

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. You're mad she's paying for cable? You're mad she's paying less than you? You two didn't sit down and figure out an equitable way to pay bills at the beginning of living together? Or you did and now it's changed? I'm so confused. 

[sparkythelawyer]

Apr 11, 2017 12:38:49 GMT -5 berbles said:

Apr 11, 2017 12:20:46 GMT -5 sparkythelawyer said:

Is he still competent to make the decision though?

Yes, absolutely. He doesn't have dementia, just normal old age memory issues. Which apparently annoy the shit out of his GF. 

Dammit.

I'm sorry.  I hate asshole girlfriends. 

[Deleted]

Apr 11, 2017 12:42:00 GMT -5 TR said:

Apr 11, 2017 12:36:01 GMT -5 @lemonlover said:

So um. My roommate and I split bills. I pay electric and she pays internet and cable (which I hadn't had cable in 4 years and don't care to have). ANYWAY first bill of the electricity and I find our 40 bucks a month sewer bill goes along with the electric bill here. Whatev I was a bit upset she didn't warn me but in the winter our electric bill is 40 bucks and goes up to roughly 100 in the summer (the highest bill was 168).
My dog got her phone/cable/internet bill out of her purse and chewed it up a bit last night but I clearly see where she's been paying 60 bucks a month for internet and cable (on a bundle w/ cell service +10 bucks for the extra cable box in her bedroom). I am LIVID. We have been living together 1.5 years.

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. You're mad she's paying for cable? You're mad she's paying less than you? You two didn't sit down and figure out an equitable way to pay bills at the beginning of living together? Or you did and now it's changed? I'm so confused. 

So at the beginning of the lease, we split bills based on cost but it's not like I asked to physically SEE her bill as proof. She said cable/internet was 90 a month and her electric was 80ish (she moved from a 1 bedroom in the complex to our 2 bedroom). So with two people, electricity would go up a little which would even out the bills. I am annoyed I have been paying way more than she is and I don't even watch cable. She essentially lied to me saying her bill was more than it was and the electric bill includes sewer (our water is billed through the complex).

At minimum, I pay 80 a month while she pays 60 a month.

[ooglie26]

The job I accepted, and was to start on 4/24? I just withdrew my acceptance. There have been multiple issues with communication that I was willing to over-look until now.
1. At the start of the interview process, they scheduled me for an interview, and didn't tell me.
2. They said my minimum salary requirements were reasonable, and then made me a job offer $5K less. I wouldn't budge, so they met my minimum.
3. The position was supposed to be full time permanent. Over the last month, through multiple emails and phone conversations, it was never mentioned that this was a contract position (with another company). I didn't know it was contract, until I received email communication from this 3rd party to provide my personal information (DOB, SSN, etc) so that they could run a background check. Which I already provided to the company I THOUGHT I would be working for.
4. We agreed on a date for my start date. I just received a call from someone at the 3rd Party company, stating my start date was a completely different date.

I'm done. If they can't be honest right out of the gate, there is no way in hell I will put the future of my career in their hands.

Here's hoping that interview Friday morning closer to home goes well.

[vicky]

More sad than annoyed: when happywife and I were walking around the Gaslamp District last night we saw a swastika graffitied on the ground. I got physically sick to my stomach when we saw it last night and my stomach cramps and I tear up every time I think about it.

I'm trying to think what can I do about it. I'm sure the police know about it already. I'm about to buy spray paint and do some street art myself.

[happywife]

Apr 11, 2017 13:50:53 GMT -5 vicky said:

More sad than annoyed: when happywife and I were walking around the Gaslamp District last night we saw a swastika graffitied on the ground. I got physically sick to my stomach when we saw it last night and my stomach cramps and I tear up every time I think about it.

I'm trying to think what can I do about it. I'm sure the police know about it already. I'm about to buy spray paint and do some street art myself.

I keep thinking about it too. We should've painted over it. 💔

[wambam]

vicky - There was one on the building across from my work building a couple years again and it was nauseating. My BFF's husband is a police officer in the town where I work, so I let him know. The PD does training exercises in that building, so they had a strong interest in removing it.

[berbles]

ooglie26, JFC, that sounds like a nightmare. I'm sure you are doing the right thing by withdrawing your acceptance. How grossly unprofessional.

My annoyance for today:
My coworkers who neglect to send me their invoices for MONTHS, and then forward me the email from their vendor who is freaking out about their invoices being 60+ days overdue, with a note saying, "I assume all of these are in process, right?" UM, NO FUCKER, YOU NEVER FUCKING SENT THEM TO ME SO HOW THE FUCK WOULD I BE ABLE TO PROCESS THEM??

Oh and, one of the invoices is supposed to do to another department. When I asked to whom I should send it in the other department, he said, "Just give it to me, I will get it to them." WTF! I gave you that invoice 3 weeks ago and you gave it back to me and told me it needed to go to the other department. I've spent the last 2 weeks trying to figure out who it's supposed to be going to and now you want it back, AGAIN?

I hate invoices.

[princesscal]

The fact that damn United is getting more headlines than a freaking school shooting.

[mdgirl]

Apr 11, 2017 13:50:53 GMT -5 vicky said:

More sad than annoyed: when happywife and I were walking around the Gaslamp District last night we saw a swastika graffitied on the ground. I got physically sick to my stomach when we saw it last night and my stomach cramps and I tear up every time I think about it.

I'm trying to think what can I do about it. I'm sure the police know about it already. I'm about to buy spray paint and do some street art myself.

This happened in my neighborhood this past summer and a few people on CEP pointed out that in Hinduism they're sometimes painted in front of new homes as a good luck symbol. I reported the one I saw to the city but I still hope it was actually a good thing.

[katfco]

Apr 11, 2017 17:42:45 GMT -5 mdgirl said:

Apr 11, 2017 13:50:53 GMT -5 vicky said:

More sad than annoyed: when happywife and I were walking around the Gaslamp District last night we saw a swastika graffitied on the ground. I got physically sick to my stomach when we saw it last night and my stomach cramps and I tear up every time I think about it.

I'm trying to think what can I do about it. I'm sure the police know about it already. I'm about to buy spray paint and do some street art myself.

This happened in my neighborhood this past summer and a few people on CEP pointed out that in Hinduism they're sometimes painted in front of new homes as a good luck symbol. I reported the one I saw to the city but I still hope it was actually a good thing.

Hindu symbols are parallel and perpendicular to the ground. Nazi swastikas are turned. Not that a nazi would necessarily know the difference, but if it's not straight, it's likely a Hindu didn't do it. 

[katfco]

Apr 10, 2017 16:11:26 GMT -5 berbles said:

Oh man, I just remembered the time that I called someone by the wrong name, via email, several times. She finally corrected me and I felt like such a putz.

Her name was Yelena, and I called her Yolanda for like a month.

There was a gentleman at the church we used to go to who called my H by the wrong name for over a year, at least. There was another couple who moved there at the same time we did, the wife was going to the same grad school I was, and we were similar in age, so it's understandable that he got them confused. 

But my H never corrected him! He said he didn't want to make him feel bad. Finally, someone else told him. 

[berbles]

Apr 11, 2017 17:52:58 GMT -5 katfco said:

Apr 10, 2017 16:11:26 GMT -5 berbles said:

Oh man, I just remembered the time that I called someone by the wrong name, via email, several times. She finally corrected me and I felt like such a putz.

Her name was Yelena, and I called her Yolanda for like a month.

There was a gentleman at the church we used to go to who called my H by the wrong name for over a year, at least. There was another couple who moved there at the same time we did, the wife was going to the same grad school I was, and we were similar in age, so it's understandable that he got them confused. 

But my H never corrected him! He said he didn't want to make him feel bad. Finally, someone else told him. 

LOL the same thing happened to me at my old job. 

There was a guy who was hired at the same time as me; we had orientation together. We didn't work together, but he was often in my area to meet with the attorney whose office was right in front of my cube (but whom I did not support). Anyway, every time he came up see the attorney, he'd cheerfully say, "Hi Jennifer!" My name is Jessica. I didn't correct him because I didn't think it really mattered. 

But I made the mistake of telling the attorney he was working with about it. So the next time he came over the attorney walked out of his office and called the guy out right in front of me! OMG I wanted to die. For both of us. 

LOL, actually now that I think about it, all the people in this story had J names. Maybe that's why he got confused. He knew it was a J name, but couldn't remember which one.