I’m 20 and I work as a lunch monitor at an elementary school. Let me tell you, almost everyone here is horrible. There are 3 lunch monitors I can tolerate and 2/3 don’t even work w me, they work w k, 2nd and 4th. The staff are horrible. The principal and one woman from the main office is super nice, other than that, everyone is horrible. Specifically this one woman, she is prob like mid-late 40s. This woman is such a miserable person. She She genuinely is so unhappy, she seems to always beat me down and then out of no where at a random time be all friendly for a good minute and then back to her being her. She is nice to everyone except for me. I don’t know what her problem is. We all sit in the cafeteria for the first hour and she is all friendly with everyone but me, doesn’t try and speak to me or look at me. If I try and speak her face like drops. There have been things i’ve said, something she made a point about, basically me agreeing with her and all of a sudden she switches up. Apparently i’m not the only one that doesn’t like her tho. She makes this job miserable. I’m just gonna assume from my age she is the way she is with me. It’s like she babysits me while I’m watching kids. She always has to criticize everything I do. If I do something she tells me, it’s wrong, if I don’t, its wrong but if someone’s does or doesn’t do what i’m doing, it’s not problem in her eyes. It’s my first year here and it is horrible. I’m with 1st, 3rd and 5th graders and these 5th graders make it miserable aswell but to be fair, they’re 5th graders. I cant lose this job tho or quit. I don’t know what to do. I spoke to the principal and he had mentioned if he wanted me to have him speak with her, I didn’t know what to say because it’s so early in the year and she already for no reason has a problem with me and I’d feel awkward, especially since it’s my first year. Nobody really takes me seriously, I’m lost and it’s how I have to start my mornings off right away 5 days awake. It’s really bringing me down.

I feel like I'm getting into lifestyle creep. It's so frustrating because it feels like you're being nickel and dimed to death. Just like the adage about raising the temperature of the water in a pot very slowly to boil the frog

I just went to In n Out to eat and walked outside from the bathroom and the lobby smelled like essential oils and it was POTENT. Of course the woman wearing the essential oils met the description, wearing tie dye and all. No hate, I used to be a hippie in high school, still am in spirit. But damn, people think because essential oils are natural that they are safe and cannot be strong. I felt so dizzy from the smell and needed to grab my food and go outside to eat.

I remember one time I went grocery shopping and this hippie boho style looking couple came inside and smelled like essential oils. The whole store smelled like them. Every aisle, nook and cranny. The store wasn't huge but the smell was strong enough to linger throughout it. I remember getting a panic attack due to how strong the smell was.

I just cant with people sometimes and their obsession with fragrances.

Can the people who love to douse themselves in fragrances go live somewhere else so the rest of us who actually prefer natural air enjoy it and not have our noses and sinuses violated??

Or for the love of god, learn to use LESS.

I personally think the reason that illiteracy is skyrocketing so much to the point that its becoming normalized and to some extent expected from students is because as generative AI is becoming more prevalent, less and less people are taking the time to actually think about how to write something. And as AI is quickly becoming more and more unavoidable, more children use it, and those children turn into teens and then those teens grow into adults that are unable to write a simple sentence properly, let alone a summary or something similar that would actually be used in the real world. This is coming from a sophomore in high school btw.

So supposedly it’s routine procedure, “just wednesday” for business to tell job candidates that they’ll be contacted later and then intentionally ghost them because the business is to childish and cowardly to say to candidates that they did not get the job.
Or they do not want to spend time and resources telling them, but still tell them they will be contacted anyways.
Why isn’t there been mass protests, riots, why isn’t anybody doing fucking ANYTHING?

I made an original voice acted audio with someone I know. I wrote the script and it was completely my original idea. I sent it to them and asked if they could voice the lines for me rq. They seemed cool with it but not too hyped. I asked them if they could redo one of the lines that was kinda off and they said no and they didnt have time so i just used it. I just voiced the other character then i proceeded to animate the entire thing by myself. I ended up posting it on my tik tok account and it blew up. It got over 25k views in one night. People are now reusing the audio for their own videos and people in the comment section are asking for me to make a sequel which I have started working on the script for but idk if I will finish. The person who helped voice act suddenly seems interested now that my video exploded. they are going around replying to everyone's comments acting like they are the main star of this. The comment they made that finally set me off was boldly claiming that "we are making a sequel right now" as if they played a much bigger part in makinh the original with me. I am doing 95% of the work. writing the scripts, coming up with ideas, animating it entirely by myself... and they seem to be treating this like they played some huge role or like this is some huge collaborative project we made when in reality all they did was voice a few lines for me real quick. They are hyping everyone up aboht this sequel that i'm supposedly gonna make where i'm again goinf to have to do all the work. I do all the work and they take a bunch of the glory and start expecting me to make more so they can get more popular.

So I'm 31 years old and am the caretaker of my mother who is disabled. I have no car and we live in a small town miles away from anything.

We've been without a car for four or five years now and our washing machine broke. I've been washing all our clothes by hand for over a year.

Caretaking itself isn't so bad but it's being stuck in this house almost 24/7 for years that's getting to me. I get no break.

I have one friend who once every month or so takes me to a writers group for an hour or two. He doesn't contact me outside of that, but no one does.

I don't really have many other friends. I have one other one that lives in another state and the rest never text call or invite me anywhere to do anything. But I see all the fun shit they do with their other friends online.

Then I had another friend group I played online dnd with who decided to have a group vacation. They not only didn't invite me they flat out told me that they had a vote and that I couldn't come. So I stopped being friends with them and quit my online dnd.

Idk. I'm just so tired and alone and need a break and a chance to go do normal things. And I know my mom needs that too even if she doesn't say so.

Yes, it was a brutally unfunny opening monologue.
Yes, he went way too misogynistic.
Yes, it’s been three days now so
Yes, it’s time to move onto the next societal horror of the day.

I live in a place where there are a huge number of stray cats. Rescuers are overwhelmed by the amount of strays needing help and kind residents try to do as much as possible, but there are these idiotic psychos who cannot help but continue BREEDING AND DUMPING CATS. Breed and when they’re sick or not what you want, or you cannot fucking find them a place to get adopted, you fucking dump them. I cannot fking deal with this, its so disgusting and done so discreetly. And frankly theres so many cats on the streets you dont even need to fucking breed, every breed is up for free adoption on rescue pages already you scum of the earth.

And then there are people who wont neuter/spay their cats because they want their cat to have kittens and when i ask what the FUCK do you plan on doing to the kittens, their reply is we’ll see at that time… the fuck. There are so thousands of cats on the street and thousands more abandoned everyday and you iust want your selfish desires met and you dont give a rats ass about them suffering on the roads in the heat and without food/water or a safe home. F U ASSHOLES SCUM OF EARTH.

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I can't listen to people talk. Every 14th word is a trending buzzword or one from years past. Idky it bothers me. It probably shouldn't. There's many bigger issues in life that deserve attention but my brain immediately stops and processes the buzzword of the day being used in conversations.

I work for a title company. We insure people buying properties to make sure there is no extra mortgages or liens on the property before it’s transferring into your name making it your problem, deeper than that but that’s just the gist. I type a report after someone searches through court documents about everything on a specific parcel/piece of land. Compared to my coworkers I am consistently getting the most corrections ( documents are typed in specific formats and each file can have something new or confusing but it doesn’t seem to effect other people like it does to me ) , I’ve worked here for a couple months and just feel like I’m not the greatest. I’ve never been fired before and even though I love my job I just feel like I don’t belong because I’m not the greatest at it. My boss doesn’t work in my office but 30 minutes away and every mistake I just feel like I’m closer to getting kicked out. It’s frustrating and I know this is my fault, I haven’t gotten officially in trouble or anything like that but isn’t this still enough? not being that great at my job? This is the best job I’ve ever had it’s just frustrating feeling like this and every time someone extra works in our office or stops by to visit to drop off supplies or whatever just being paranoid it’s because of me.

i like some geese songs but i hate cameron winter’s vocals on most songs especially his solo music why is everyone glazing this greasy looking mfer so hard all the time

the most hipster thing is this new concert film. directed by the white man savior PTA is just the cherry on top.

FUCK.

WOO SA but FUCK.

if anyone is weird about this you’re getting blocked. This isn’t a fetish post, this is my actual life & it’s distressing for me. If you’re a creep, fuck off, you won’t get what you’re looking for.

The first instance I’ve noticed weird comments was when my fiancée and I had sex in my old bedroom at my parent’s place. The walls are decently thick, and it was later in the day, so I didn’t expect my mom to hear us. If she did, I didn’t expect her to say anything.

The next day, she said, “I heard you guys by the way.”

I raised an eyebrow & thought it was weird to comment, especially so casually, and she wasn’t setting any boundaries. But whatever, not a big deal right? And then she says, “I was jealous,” while laughing. I didn’t find this funny, and I said something along the lines of “That’s so gross and not funny, can you not say that about my girlfriend?”

She got annoyed and just walked off. Maybe a one-off weird comment…. But she’s never done this before, except for snooping through my sex toys when I was like 16-17.

Now, she keeps making comments about my fiancée being beautiful and cute and talking about her hair, saying she wants to get her nails done with her and that I should stay at home like a man and do “man things” while they have fun.

Every time she gets drunk, she asks where my fiancée is and tells her that she needs to come over more often/that she misses her/that she doesn’t care if I’m there, and that she just misses my fiancée.

My mom is currently in an abusive relationship with my dad but no matter what, won’t leave him. My mom’s mentioned throughout my teens that she’d be with a girl if they had penises…. how convenient, my fiancée is mtf.

I don’t know if this is a weird way of her trying to bond with my fiancée, but she’s really uncomfortable around my mom for her intrusivity. But I don’t think she thinks my mom genuinely wants to have sex with her.

I don’t know if I’m just being sensitive or if this is an actual issue? Either way, the comments she makes about my fiancée are definitely gross even if she doesn’t have a crush on her. I would say I’m the jealous type if someone is giving me bad vibes or is openly flirting with my fiancée.

I’d like it if someone could either snap me back to reality or validate my feelings.. just feeling super gross and insecure about it. How would I even go about having a conversation with my mom about this? I really just don’t want to bring my fiancée around her at all anymore.

Second time Go Puff cancelled my order mid-delivery for non license and they never even reached my door to check the license.

They cancel without coming to the door but still get tips. This fucking tipping before delivery is nonsense.

I'm currently a junior. Registration for the spring 2027 semester opens up soon, and the course selection is looking hellish. I'm a finance major, and need to take multiple finance electives as a part of that. There's a selection of 6 electives that I can choose to take to fulfill the requirement (I only need two.) The problem? NONE of those 6 electives are offered for the upcoming semester! Not a single one!

I also need to take two more economic electives to finish my econ minor. The problem? There's only TWO econ electives offered out of all of them that are on the course list, one I already took and the other is impossible to get in because they prioritize econ majors for that specific one, so most times its already full before everyone else gets a chance to register.

Next, I still need a phys ed requirement. The problem? The only ones that don't require with the one core finance course I have to take (which I will manage to get into regardless of seating) are courses that are once a week for 2 hours each. Those courses don't count towards a phys ed requirement. The only ones that do are twice a week for an hour each. Why should it matter??? It's still 2 hours regardless!! And I can't take any of the twice for an hour each because they're ALL at the same time as my required core finance course, which only has one section.

Finally, I need one more course to finish my marketing minor. Of course, they're just not deciding to offer it for some reason.

My college requires I take 4 courses per semester. I can only take one that pertains to my major/minors. This wouldn't be an issue if they didn't force me to spend the first 3 semesters taking bullshit Gen Ed courses that I already took in high school. Why the hell is that still a thing? Because I basically was forced to piss away 3 semesters, I have limited time to get all these graduation requirements. If some of these are only offered in the fall, that makes it impossible. Why would they stack a bunch of courses together (and so many of them overlap in the same timeslots!!!) instead of spreading them out? That makes it much more difficult to complete. I already finished all my Gen Eds, so I can't even fall back on those.

I don't know what I'm going to do. I guess I'll just have to be stuck in random courses that don't pertain to anything I'm studying. Wasting money for absolutely no reason.

And the 8+ times ive been in acidosis or alkalosis or mixed acid base

It feels just as bad, every single time the nausea frustrates me, the leg pain keeps me up at night and is panic inducing on top of my other chronic pains, the air hunger and trouble breathing exhaust me, standing up and my heart rate immediately hitting 150+ is tiresome, sitting up 130+, god forbid i turn over in bed and it spikes again

Confusion brain fog my heart itches and feels weird bc of the hypokalemia

I amad myself with a pottasium of 2.6 bc i had to see my active duty fiancé it was the only chance ive gotten since February so I left the 2nd day of my stay despite being in the icu step down and not at all stable

I still cant tolerate j tube feeds, my weights almost below 100 and oral intske isnt working atm bc i got too high and for the first time in years binged on alot of food and ive made myself so sick

I didnt have a paralyzed stomach during my BED days so it never really impacted me that much but omfg that was such a bad move

I look weird bony thin

"Very malnourished" my gi doc says yet we are all playing this cat and mouse game of how many more times am I going to be critical before being out on at least temporar tpn to stabilize my body so I can work up to tolerating tube feeds

He says it may be pysch, visceral hypersensitivity I dont give a fuck what the origins of my intestinal dysmotility are, treat it so I can gain my 50 lbs back and go back to not being in the hospital every week

I was hospitalized most of September

I spent like 4 days home, the rest hospitalized

Ik October is going to go that way, November as well

Im just exhausted

Im never home

Im always at hospitals

Im always there and I don't feel good

Im always in kidney failure, UTI, metabolic crisis, severe qt prolongation from severe electrolyte imbalances, low pottasium, low albumin, low protein, high anion gap, critical critical abnormal low low high critical

Everytime I go to the er I get admitted

"Just go get some fluids and iv zofran" they will admit me they never let me go home

Went from "your labs look great" to "yeah i dont know jow long we have to keep you but theyre really bad do you have an advanced directive by any chance"

Im 22

I dont have a life im alwags so sick sick sick

In hospitals sick

When im home im sick, dizzy, nauseous can't breathe can't even hold a conversation witj me bc of it

Im very tired

I want to end it all sometimes I stay alive for those who love me and fear ill fuck up and become a vegetable and be even more miserable

As someone that is a google drive/workspace person, I feel like a freaking boomer (no offense) when is comes to sharepoint/drive/office etc. Like, I hate it. It takes a million years to load a document. I can't delete people accidentally given access to a document or folder. I can't easily send the doc to trash from the doc itself. I can't find anythingggggggggggg. Excel sucks when it comes to selecting a column vs dragging.

Now, maybe some of these things are because of the organizational settings, but I don't care. I miss google. I feel so ineffective at my job because I cannot figure out sharepoint crap. Am I an old dog that cannot learn new tricks? Or does sharepoint just freaking suck. I think its def a combo lol.

It's like a lot of people online forgot to show appreciation without needing to make everything into a popularity contest. You like something? that's great, you can just comment about what you liked specifically, thank the author, start a conversation, etc.

Now everyone will just comment shit like "underrated post/comment", "why does this not have more upvotes", "it's been a full day and not even a hundred likes? cmon people", etc.

I get that posting "I like XYZ" sounds too personal and won't get much of a conversation going compared to "XYZ is literally so underrated 💀" because you're making it everyone else's problem to prove you right or wrong, but honestly who needs this drama

I just logged into my old Flickr account, clicked on a random photo from my feed and saw this comment (I'm pasting the text because I don't know if pictures are allowed): "What is Wrong here? Only a few People Apprecate this Fantastic Gallery!? Keep up your Work!"

Like, why? You're just here to show your appreciation and open by asking about something being wrong, which has nothing to do with the picture and everything to do with your own expectations and perceived importance of online popularity.

I teach high school art. I returned to the classroom after a break and now the district is fully online with everything. I need to order supplies for my classes so I went to the bookkeeper who gave me a packet of my options for ordering. Great. Went back to my classroom and read through the packet only to find it's not very explanatory. I go back to the bookkeeper who gives me the name of a person to email my questions to. That person is no longer with my county. I go back to the bookkeeper who promptly answers everything with 'I don't know.'

How are you able to do your job if you can't answer basic questions so I can order supplies?!?!

How would you like me to send the list? I don't know

Who do I email to request authorization for orders? I don't know

Can I use this form (held form up for her to see) to write my order that I'm supposed to submit to you? I don't know

There were several other questions that she had the same answer to. I also got food poisoning at lunch. And there was an issue with my portion of the grading program. It saved grades on my end but not on what my students see so I'm getting barraged with emails from kids who think they have 0's when they don't. My admin sent out a mass email to my students to let them know things were fine and to be patient. But I'm still getting angry emails. Im not mad at my students, I'm sure they're as frustrated with the situation as I am but I am ready for this day to be over

It's mind blowing how every time someone has an insecurity, people will bash to EAT them like they made the biggest sin on the planet. It doesn't matter what you are insecure about, people will treat you like you are the most stupid person in the planet and like you choose to complain and be sad for no reason. Because yeah, of course some people choose willingly to not be happy and enjoy life because the like complaining! You know better than them of course!

And some of the people that get it so hard are short insecure guys. I just saw a post (not posting l i n k because I can't) about a girl complaining about insecure short guys (typical) and some of the comments were saying things like how "pathetic" some of them are and how insecure guys can "get bend", among other crazy things and proof that they actually care about it. The dehumanization was crazy...

I understand not wanting to date or be friends with someone that is insecure (I cut some "friendships" because of that) but at least don't say too much and be civil, unless people actually bother and attack you (then sure, f them!). People are insecure for their own reason and even if they are "stupid" or "immature", we should not make things worse and a lot of times even prove them right.

But let's be honest, nobody cares! Nobody is going to read this and for those that will, very few will care to actually understand and change. For once again, humanity does not fail to absolutely disgust and disappoint me! YOU can be better guys, come on!

Just driving home yesterday on a road with a running trail/sidewalk beside it. Father is running with child in carriage and I'm driving roughly 30mph aka speed limit, in the same direction. Guy literally makes a quick 90 degree turn to the crosswalk off the running trail, without stopping or looking any direction, completely oblivious to my car, and full sprints into the road.

I slam on the breaks and he looks shocked to see a car so close as he finally breaks out of his own little world. Idk how, as a father, you can at any point full sprint into the road with your infant child, without even glancing to see if the road is clear. It's as if he thought the crosswalk was an impenetrable forcefield that would protect him and his kid from all harm. Sometimes situational awareness and keeping your kid safe > getting your evening workout.

In the first year i went to a dif uni to her but she never rlly went into her classes regardless and her only friends was her boyfriends sister and her friends. But we saw each other pre much each week here n there for a hang out.

Anyways now in second year uni something gen just changed in her not to be dramatic or anything. but she said she never would want to be popular but she only talked to the kinda cliquey girls at uni which I thought was kind of weird but idgaf if they get along then that’s good yk.

(Also I have no resentment towards these girls or anything they’re lovely but it’s just like she’s always made it so clear throughout high school n life in general that she does not like these type of ppl so her only friending ppl like this is just different to see yk?)

And following this she’s changed her style, wants all her old photos of her (when she had red hair n like tees over long leave top style) deleted and gone and like she’s reposting stuff on tiktok about her and her best friend trying to find the uber after coming out of the club but she never goes out and talks about how she hates it and the culture of going out.

now her and her other uni friend hang out all the time and have inside jokes and like she knows stories I don’t know (and no this isn’t me being jealous) but they won’t tell me the story and it’ll be just the three of us. and I’m also the issue cause I’m “too quiet” but I make jokes and make an effort with the other friend but she doesn’t rlly interact with me or even look at me when I speak and sometimes even ignores me. But yeah sometimes I’ll say something and my friend will repeat it and her uni friend will laugh at it even tho I just said the same thing.

I will admit I am shyer around ppl I just met but i get comfortable with ppl quite quickly n sometimes ill let them talk if my battery runs out but I dont mean to be “quiet”. I think shes saying this as well because her boyfriend says this too as I dont rlly talk to him if we all hang out cause i just see her as an extension of my friend yk? Cause like she would have invited him so i dont rlly care it’s not like it’s on his terms with his friends cause if so then id make more of an effort to talk and get involved. But I do say hi n stuff so it’s not that awkward but idk apparently it bothers him. This also never bothered me cause I’m my true self around her but it rlly hurt my feelings when she said I wasn’t cause she knows I’m not and she said this in front of the uni friend

Also in front of this one friend she will sometimes say things that like directly point me out like “oh yeah [my name] isn’t coming but everyone else is” and it does make me feel uncomfortable cause like I would of told her I wasn’t going separately and like only to her just for her to say it in front of this other girl or a group of ppl but like she’s never acted like this before

I genuinely don’t know what to do other than distance myself a bit but like I just think I need a need a better mindset rn cause like I’ve never rlly been through this before and I feel pretty down about it.

If we had every thing we wanted?
Anything that ever popped into ur mind
That dirtbike that truck? Thats home? That freedom of not having to need to work to buy stuff?

Would you be happy?

I personally feel like if you had the top thing in ever thing you like you wouldn’t be happy.
Like ever do a money glitch in Forza 5 for exp and buy every car and every upgrade just for the game to feel boring

If you didn’t have to work to buy stuff you wouldn’t be happy I see a lot with retires they work there whole lives so 40 to 60 hours days every week every year till they retire and they loose meaning in life.

You can find meaning in kids or a hobby or something
but I think true meaning is something you’ll do with ur hands everyday

So if you had everything would you be happy?
Hell I would I would buy a place up north with a atv and a truck and a dog and just live and see the world