Yippee-IA, Motherf***ers! IRRATIONALLY ANGRY PT. 2: Irrationally Angrier

http://lifeinbiglaw.tumblr.com/

^ the worst

My colleagues enjoy circulating posts from that site. It's not quite as bad as getting religious email forwards from my former coworkers or pro-gun forwards from my family, at least.

ok well now i have to mention the best tumblr ever http://gifandcircumstance.tumblr.com

it collects random tweets that start with "when" and combines them with random gifs and it's the greatest u'll love it

Hah

http://gifandcircumstance.tumblr.com/post/59097548679/when-you-believe-in-yourself

OTM - http://gifandcircumstance.tumblr.com/post/59273806177/when-im-sitting-butt-ads-naked-in-my-solid-gold-hot

http://gifandcircumstance.tumblr.com/post/59412177590/when-its-29-celsius-outside

http://gifandcircumstance.tumblr.com/post/59219261325/when-people-throw-things-from-your-past-in-your-face
http://gifandcircumstance.tumblr.com/post/59144132618/when-people-let-me-down-nowadays

Oof that first one.

a little less bleak

http://gifandcircumstance.tumblr.com/post/58536697387/when-you-fuck-her
http://gifandcircumstance.tumblr.com/post/59239216181/when-i-had-to-say-goodbye

every time, amirite?

http://gifandcircumstance.tumblr.com/post/56919613665/when-im-sleepy

we've all been there

New one:

"FEE FIE FO FUM, I SMELL THE BLOOD OF AN AMERICAN!"

Hanging out around beanstalks?

"Want to writer better police scenes? Need help with interrogation or dialogue chapter? Two new webinars are coming soon to help you get your police procedural scene done right!"

not ANGRY really but the word WEBINAR in this facebook ad that popped up got me a little peeved. irrational peeve.

Worst word ever.

YES I hate "webinar" so much. Also "e-learning," particularly as a noun.

Fucking smokers who exit my building's revolving door, immediately light up and leave a huge cloud all the way to the designated "smoking area." (Which is directly in the path of anyone entering our building.)

So sorry that you're a pathetic drug addict but if you can't wait an extra two seconds for a fix maybe you should consider rehab or suicide.

It doesn't happen where I work now, but in my old building, people would habitually light cigarettes while still in the revolving door so that I would get to step into a little triangular smoke hole on my way into the building.

ALL OF THESE SHIRTS

wow, the chest sayings. that must have been some brainstorming session.

oh god carl

those are terrible

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41FDHjuUQLL._SL246_SX190_CR0,0,190,246_.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2047/2326633259_0ee29a1f80.jpg

I might wear a shirt that says PREGNANT AND FAT OH AND FUCK YOU.

lol @ hyphen

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Hf3HeseTL._SL246_SX190_CR0,0,190,246_.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515TsHfbmLL.jpg

HAND'S

lol didn't we have a thread about how british people use "yummy mummy" and it's gross

ONE TASTY MOTHER

So wait, an apostrophe in "hand's" but not in "whos?" What a world, what a world.

carl you should get one that says FUCK YOUR STUPID TSHIRT

A red, glowing uterus/tubes graf with neon-look LOT FULL underneath.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5184/5624448227_7b21c8fe56_z.jpg

^ would wear

why, how original, you have a tongue piercing, and now you stick your tongue out in every photo taken of you for eternity, amazing

Grandads, eh, who'd ave em

when you need just one red light to rearrange yrself or scratch yr foot or whatever and all you get are endless green lights

- Telemarketer pretending to know my boss (but calling her "Liz," which would make her rip his throat out if she heard it) and saying he knew she would be pretty upset when he told her that I was screening her calls. He told me "Buddy, listen, take a deep breath."

- Recorded telemarketing call where the guy kept stumbling on his words and going, "and uh..."

- Server crashed at work AGAIN. Partners were up in arms. "Unacceptable! We must have computers that work! This will not stand!!1" IT consultants have been telling them since 2008 that the server should be replaced SOON. IT consultant today: Yup, it's working exactly as expected.

When employees at my job send email from their computers, the sender's name is noted as Pleasant Plains.

If employees use a mobile device or go through the website that hosts our emails, the sender's name is noted as 'Pleasant Plains'.

Makes searching in the archives of my Thunderbird very... unpleasant.

when someone i don't usually correspond with writes, "hi la lechera, how are you? _______" followed by a request for something i am not capable of giving (sometimes advice i am not qualified to give or a request to help someone else who i don't know personally)

it's ok to just totally ignore the "how are you" because obvs the person doesn't actually care, right? but if the "how are you" is intended to indicate an interest in my life (when there has been none for years upon years) it is having the exact opposite effect.

i'm not irrationally angry so much as hellbent on never telling people who ask how i am in this fashion how i actually am. i just ignore it and answer the question they are actually asking.

yeah I don't like that either, happens alot with business emails I get

some salesreps just have a steez of trying to be overly familiar to ingratiate themselves.

I have to write sales emails (aaagh kill me) and stick to "hi la lechera, hope your (name of current season) is going well, but seriously let me just get to the point"

Some time in the late 90s there was an annoying beer ad that featured lots of presumably italian-american young men repeatedly saying, "hayooDOO-in?" as a greeting to one another in a bar, as they assembled to drink the cowpiss beer being advertised. Not long afterward I noticed that more and more people started greeting me with "how's it goin'?" or "how you doin'?" instead of "hi", until by c. 2005 this sort of greeting seems to have infected over 80% of the people who make an effort to greet me. I expect it to remain firmly entrenched for at least another dozen years.

I have to write sales emails (aaagh kill me) and stick to "hi la lechera, hope your (name of current season) is going well, but seriously let me just get to the point"

this is fine!
it's "hi la lechera, how are you" (particularly in writing, not so much irl) because i expect more from most people who would write to me than "hi how are you" i expect something a little less robotic/2nd grade letter writing tips -- not a genuine interest in my life because i don't really want to talk about that, just "sup -- here's my q"

my 90 yr old grandpa writes better emails than that

and he writes to me once a year on my birthday!

Aimless, it wasn't that "wassup?" thing of a few years so?

No, I remember this, there was a "how you doin?" commercial as well.

neither of those things are what i am talking about though
(not that it matters)

Some time in the late 90s there was an annoying beer ad that featured lots of presumably italian-american young men repeatedly saying, "hayooDOO-in?" as a greeting to one another in a bar, as they assembled to drink the cowpiss beer being advertised. Not long afterward I noticed that more and more people started greeting me with "how's it goin'?" or "how you doin'?" instead of "hi", until by c. 2005 this sort of greeting seems to have infected over 80% of the people who make an effort to greet me. I expect it to remain firmly entrenched for at least another dozen years.

― Aimless, Thursday, August 29, 2013 3:49 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is because of "friends," not a beer commercial

IA at ppl who write overly conversational waaaaaay too long instructions
It's cool when explanations are needed but don't be chatty and don't lump a whole bunch of steps into one paragraph.

I'm learning a whole bunch of new tasks that were written up by my predecessor and no shit it's written like some kind of Martha Stewart special. "So now that we're done with that we then take the ...'

And this is just, like Excel stuff. boom boom boom step BY step do you not understand how LITTLE I want to read your flowery too-long explanations JUST GIVE ME THE STEPS FFS

It's like Yelp went into the instruction manual business.

it's "hi la lechera, how are you" (particularly in writing, not so much irl) because i expect more from most people who would write to me than "hi how are you" i expect something a little less robotic/2nd grade letter writing tips -- not a genuine interest in my life because i don't really want to talk about that, just "sup -- here's my q"

better

QUERY: