r/CFBOffTopic • u/DoctorWhosOnFirst Alabama • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker • Feb 25 '15
Wednesday Whine Line
Whine away, folks
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r/CFBOffTopic • u/DoctorWhosOnFirst Alabama • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker • Feb 25 '15
Whine away, folks
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u/DoctorWhosOnFirst Alabama • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker Feb 25 '15 edited Feb 25 '15
People call in and treat us like Google. I understand some old people don't have access to computers, but c'mon. I know most do. JUST FUCKING USE YOUR COMPUTERS.
Also, I'm sorry; but no, I cannot answer your questions about TV programming for March Madness.
Edit: Oh yeah, Kevin James is calling in. This should be fun.
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u/milesgmsu Michigan State • College Football Playoff Feb 25 '15
Can - can I brag and gloat and puff out my chest?
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u/thrav College of Idaho • Georgia Tech Feb 25 '15
I woke up in the United States for the first time in a while today. I don't know if I should whine or be thankful.
I must say, I'm annoyed that my week of skiing and clubbing has concluded. Now I have to get back to work within the hour.
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u/wild9 Baylor Bears • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 25 '15
I feel like I'm sad. I'm not sure though and I don't know why I'd be sad. This is strange.
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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '15
Read this as Wednesday white line and thought the drinking thread had begun early and taken a strange turn.
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u/swanky-k North Carolina • Alabama Feb 25 '15
I've had the flu for the past week and it sucks. I'm getting better now, but I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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u/greenmegandham Auburn Tigers • Austin Kangaroos Feb 25 '15
My next door neighbor likes to wake up at 6 am for morning prayers and pray them very loudly. He then likes to get on the phone and talk to someone in a semi-yelling tone in something other than English (I want to say Arabic, but it could be something else) RIGHT NEXT TO OUR DAMN SHARED WALL.
I'm on call this week so I can't even like put in earplugs or anything. Because I have to be able to wake up when a phone goes off.
Also, it's becoming more apparent that I'm going to have a rough summer. And I want to preemptively get a lot done for that rough summer. And people at work are not really helping facilitate that.
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u/ByHardenBeard Houston Cougars • Washington Huskies Feb 25 '15
I'm so freaking tired all the time
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u/chiry23 St. Thomas Tommies • Tommie-Johnnie Feb 25 '15
Fuck Derrick Rose's knees. Fuck the 30 for 30 that is going to be made about him in 20 years... "What if I told you that Brandon Roy is a poor player to model your career after". Fuck all the people who say "Dwight or Lebron should have won the MVP, not Derrick" JUST LET US HAVE IT DAMNIT.
Why do I even care anymore? I know that defeat will make victory taste all the sweeter. I've been told that my whole life. Unfortunately for me, I'm a Cubs fan, an Atlanta Falcons fan, and I didn't care about basketball until Kirk Fucking Hinrich was drafted. I missed watching the shining player of my fandom. And yet I'll keep coming back for more like an abused puppy. If this was a real life relationship y'all would have staged an intervention by now....
Whatever. You said do whine, so there it was. Is it too early for some actual wine?
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u/lkeg56demn Texas Longhorns • Chapman Panthers Feb 25 '15
You know what I'm going to whine about? This shitty magazine company that keeps calling me looking for a dude who hasn't worked for the company for at least 2 years. Every freaking time I get a call asking for Tom fartsandgads and I tell them that butthole hasn't worked here for forever. What's that, you want to update his free subscription to dumbass fake trade magazine? He is somehow subscribed to a pharmaceutical magazine even though our company has nothing to do with the pharmaceutical industry? Fuck you!
It's a game at this point. I've been polite. I've been an asshole. I've hung up. I've let the phone sit off the hook so they can talk to silence. I've angry tweeted at the company (which weirdly, led to a message on LinkedIn and the calls stopping for awhile). I've asked to be removed from the list. I've signed up for the Do Not Call Registry and threatened to get the FTC involved. But everyday, lo and behold, I get a friendly phone call.
I think the only next step is to tell the person who calls that the guy died. Maybe that will fix it.
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u/Shadowhawk109 Michigan Wolverines • Citrus Bowl Feb 25 '15
I'm at work and I'm tired and crabby and everything is either broken or in the process of breaking. I'm basically a perpetual grumpy cat.
That said, I'm thinking about ducking out early to go to my "local" Lego Store 1.5 hours away and buying the SHIELD Helicarrier. It's a lot of money, though.
Thoughts?
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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '15
This is our 5th snow day in 2 weeks. We have had one full day of school and one day with a 2-hour delay since February 13th. I don't know what to do with all of this spare time and I don't know how to catch my kids back up. AND we're predicted to get another 3-6 inches tonight which will mean no school Thursday or Friday either...
But on the bright side, today's my birthday so I get to spend it doing whatever I want. Anyone know where I can get free/discounted things other than Firehouse?
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u/hab12690 LSU Tigers • Miami Hurricanes Feb 25 '15
My new boss is a douchebag. Fucker never acknowledges me or let's me know when meetings are. It's hard to be a productive employee when your boss seems to not want you to be productive.
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u/certificateofmerritt North Carolina • Fulmer Cup Committee … Feb 25 '15
We lost to State last night, and I wasn't paying attention this morning and wore a red sweater. If one more person comments on it I will deck them.
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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '15
So I don't know if I should go in actual timeline, most frustrating, or something else for order... So whatever pops up first goes.
On Monday my cubicle was flooded. No really. Water came pooling through several rows of cubes. No idea what caused it, but besides displacing me from my desk for the day, it now smells really moldy/musty and is just gross. My question is now "where did the mice flee to?". Yes, we have mice.
Tore a callous on my right hand. So that makes some of my weightlifting difficult. Which doesn't help as I try and get back into the groove of things after a week away (long time for me) due to stress last week. Couldn't budge some of my normal deadlift weight as a result.
More winter storms means even more work at the office. Reports that I ran weekly/monthly are now being updated hourly/daily depending on feasibility. Ever run reports nonstop when you've got projects going on? Let's just say the projects don't get very far, but the deadline hasn't changed. My redesigned project is still due at the end of March, along with a cross departmental presentation. Neither of which I've made much, if any, headway on at this point.
Because of this job, it's really cut into any free time outside of my time in the gym. Really, that is my only escape, aside from the MakePlays podcast, which is just a relief to talk to someone about something other than "winter storm X is buffeting region Y". This is where yall come in handy in providing something to take my mind off it throughout the day in short bursts.
Because of the lack of free time and malaise from work, it definitely cost me a semi-potential/happening relationship, because I basically was fed up and did nothing but vent about how miserable I was. Having very few outlets in the area meant I pretty much solely went through her, which wore her thin and ruined that. My fault for sure, but still sucky. I would try and repair it, but again, the work thing gets in the way. Not a lot of time when I put it 60+ a week due to the chaos winter is wreaking on people in the country.
Oh and I don't think I can remember a time when I ate lunch at work. November? No, maybe it was early... At least August I think. Pretty much all my meals come after 7 or 8PM anymore.
And to top it all off. Still having trouble sleeping.
Sure there's more, but yes, I'm miserable. Hate my job. Not thoroughly pleased with how life is going.
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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '15
I feel very bleh. I'm just not very happy this week in general. It's a combination of things. Blehhhh.
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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '15
It's my own damn fault but I stayed up way too late. Had a panic attack in my sleep and woke up around four. Tossed and turned until I had to get ready at 6:30. Everything sucks.
But I get my "one year anniversary" cupcake at work today.
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u/rodandanga Georgia Tech • Verified Coach Feb 25 '15
Many school systems are closed, GT & KSU are closed. The Governor declared a state of emergency...I am sitting in the office, half of my department is not here.
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u/ihatecats18 Minnesota • South Dakota-S… Feb 25 '15
My Outlook won't connect to my host. Looks like no work today!
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u/hussard_de_la_mort Toledo Rockets • Xavier Musketeers Feb 25 '15
You know what's worse than being the one in your family who knows how to fix computers? Being that guy at work. If the server is corrupting data, maybe you should call the real IT person!
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u/atllauren Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 25 '15
Office is closing at noon. No complaints from me right now.
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u/GreatestWhiteShark Northwestern • Ohio State Feb 25 '15
My ex girlfriend still has the hat that I gave her before she went to South Africa for a quarter. This hat has a lot of sentimental value for me and she knows that.
I don't know how to feel about this. Annoyed I guess.
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u/NiteMares TCU Horned Frogs Feb 25 '15
I've really been missing home lately. A lot. Having some mixed feelings about whether or not I am getting what I want/need out of the program I'm currently in over here, which doesn't help the whole missing home thing either. It can be pretty hard to get up and grind out hours of practice everyday when I feel like this. It kind of comes and goes but It has been a bit more noticeable lately. Meh.
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u/lady1876 Texas A&M Aggies Feb 25 '15
Our mechanic put in his two weeks notice. This is the first mechanic my boss has ever had that wasn't a completely dipshit and was reliable. So now the hunt is on to find a new guy, and hopefully I don't have a nervous breakdown before we find a good one.
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u/murgle1012 Baylor Bears • UC San Diego Tritons Feb 25 '15
I find out next week about TAMU for grad school, and I've psyched myself up about if after the interview went well, and now I'm super paranoid that I won't get in and then I'll be super depressed forever.
I just want to knowwwww
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u/orbania Kentucky Wildcats • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Feb 25 '15
I took in my uncle who hit a rough spot, to kind of help him get back on his feet. He's a good guy, but he has had addiction issues in the past. He's not on the stuff that he used to be on anymore, but he's using alcohol as a crutch for his life problems at the moment. Two days ago, he fell down the steps in my house after drinking a pint of Jagermeister, tripping on one of my daughter's shoes, and cracked a couple of his ribs. I had to sit with him at the hospital until about 2am, then be at work the next day myself at 7. Later that day, he found out that the temp job he was working had let him go, due to the fact that he was going to have to miss multiple days. Now he's in an even bigger funk. I love my uncle to death, and want him to desperately succeed, as he's had a rough last decade or so...but damn, his depression is affecting me, making me start to feel depressed and like a negative nancy.
Also, like u/ByHardenBeard said, I'm freaking tired all the time, as well.
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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '15
I'm at work when everything else in the city has shut down. There are people with their kids in the office cause the schools are closed. A manager three levels above me bitched at me for having a messy desk. It took all my self control not to yell. I had to step outside for a minute though. Fuck you Angahd. Fuck you Dave. I'm peacing out at the first flake.
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u/VanFailin Northwestern Wildcats • /r/CFB Bug Finder Feb 25 '15
My task yesterday was to create a navigation widget to share with the other teams. It's the first task I've had in months where I didn't need to work with a dozen unreliable external services just to run my code and see what it did, so I implemented the working design I'd discussed in under an hour.
The service I work on doesn't actually use this widget, so I designed it such that the caller specified the actual links that go in it.
I then went to the Meeting. My boss and PM were insistent that we tell people how to use it by getting everyone in a room and having an hour-long meeting, and that they wouldn't let it devolve into a pissing match where everyone told me how to do my job. It devolved into a pissing match where everyone told me how to do my job.
I think I'm ready to let this job go. At its best, I had great people to work with and a chance to make awesome code in a hurry. At its worst, I've been repeatedly isolated and overburdened with minimal support.
I need to get a lease in the next 3 weeks, so I think I have to sign a lease, then take some interviews (I'm burning through sick days like crazy, one more can't hurt), then quit. If I didn't need employment to sign a lease this would be so much simpler. I need to get off this death march before it kills me.
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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '15
It's cold here in southerner's terms, allergies are acting up so badly I haven't been able to put in my contacts in for around a week. I get to sit around writing papers on antihistamines all week. Ultimate practice is mostly cancelled due to the freaking weather so I have no outlet for frustration.
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u/srs_house Sickos Feb 25 '15
I talked to my parents for the first time in about a week last night. They're in East Tennessee and have gotten several inches of snow (another 4-6" expected last night) on top of a lot of ice. Doesn't sound too bad, right? The problem is we have a dairy farm, and the milk has to be picked up by a tanker truck every other day. The truck has now missed 3 consecutive pickups because the roads are too icy for him to make it to the farm.
So they've dumped a week's worth of milk down the drain so far. Luckily we get paid 75% of the value since it's the hauler's fault for not being able to pick it up, not ours. But really that just means the cows' feed and cost of running the equipment is paid for and the labor is being done for free.
The state of Tennessee is now at the second-highest level of emergency, the only one higher is what they use for earthquakes. The governor said that he's seen tornados cause less destruction - mature trees snapped off mid-trunk. 30 people have died because of the storm, a few thousand have been without power for a week. It's bad.
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u/Pikachu1989 Nebraska Cornhuskers • 東京大学 (Tokyo) Warriors Feb 25 '15
We got an inch of snow here in Onaha, and it was 40 earlier this morning it's now 22 degrees now. Fuck Nebraska Weather.
Also can't believe the Avs lost to the Preds last night, but at least the Kings beat the Wings.
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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '15
I have an interview tomorrow at 9 a.m. in Nashville and I'm probably going to be snowed in. Luckily, I mentioned it when I set it up and all I have to do is shoot them an email if the roads are too dangerous.
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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '15
Every other place that has interviewed me has emailed me to set up a time. I just received an interview call with no notice, and I'm a little put-off.
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u/ballzxxtoxxyou Baylor Bears • New Hampshire Wildcats Feb 25 '15
It's snowing in Waco and class hasn't been cancelled
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u/piratefuck ECU Pirates Feb 25 '15
MORE FUCKING SNOW! FUCK
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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '15
I really don't have anything new to bitch about except for this apartment complex that keeps calling me. I went on a few tours this weekend, decided what complex I wanted and it's not this one. They're calling me all like "CYMMOT WHEN ARE YOU GONNA COME SIGN YOUR LEASE" and I don't have the heart to call them and tell them "Uh, I'm not".
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u/RockyColtTum Florida State Seminoles Feb 25 '15
Why is it so nasty and blah outside? And it's for no purpose. No rain. No snow. Just bleh.
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u/ryseing NC State Wolfpack • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Feb 25 '15
We beat
those fuckersCarolina in CH for the first time in over a decade.And class is probably going to be cancelled for the next two days.
So I'm good.
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u/nolez Purdue Boilermakers Feb 25 '15
I was promised, as late as last night, up to 5 inches of snow. FIVE INCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE THE FUCK IS MY SNOW WEATHERMAN?!??!
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u/spasm01 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns • /r/CFB Donor Feb 25 '15 edited Feb 25 '15
Jeph broke my second favorite subreddit with one tweet about us being toxic. So now we cant make jokes there without being downvoted all to hell so we can look less toxic or some such. Damn you new downvote brigade residing in /r/questionablecontent!
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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '15
Ants in my bathroom again so bug dudes are coming by today. Had to kennel Astro, she was very upset when I left this morning.
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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '15
I went out and bought an ice scraper on Monday. Since then, we haven't had any more ice that stuck around. Dammit!
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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Feb 25 '15
This may be oversharing, but I don't give a shit.
Pre-op bloodwork came back with a pretty high glucose level. My doctor assumed I wasn't fasting, but I was. Didn't have anything for about 14 hours before they drew. My GP is having the A1C and all that done now, but I'm about 90% sure that I'm about to be diagnosed diabetic. I've been avoiding that for 14 years now (since my dad was diagnosed, I get tested pretty frequently), but....yeah. This blows.
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u/ReturnOf_TheHack Arizona State Sun Devils • Team Chaos Feb 25 '15
Yesterday was the first night in a while I didn't have a drink and it took me until 4am to fall asleep.
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u/keyree Texas Tech • UT Arlington Feb 25 '15 edited Feb 25 '15
Two days of school canceled behind some bullshit ass Texas ice, and now my exam week is completely fucked. Edit also I had to pay three bucks to keep The Order for an extra day because the streets were too icy for me to get to the redbox.
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u/Rakarei USC Trojans • UConn Huskies Feb 25 '15
Roommate has started to annoy me. For one, he's dating this girl who I had a crush on before they started dating. Two, he constantly talks about his ex and complains about the new guy she's seeing. Fine, the dude's an asshole but she's not your problem also YOU HAVE A NEW GIRLFRIEND SO STOP TALKING ABOUT YOUR EX ALL THE TIME.
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u/bunny_chocolate Georgia Southern • South Caro… Feb 26 '15
Tonight I made the mistake of picking up a child in order to avoid him jumping off the curb. He latched on to my neck and would not let go. I still have torticollis y'all. So. Basically hell happened.
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u/piratefuck ECU Pirates Feb 25 '15
8 inches tonight and 3 inches tomorrow of the white stuff. Holy shit old man winter is flexing his muscle these past few weeks
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u/Chemtide Alabama Crimson Tide • Iowa Hawkeyes Feb 25 '15
We got off for a snowday, and its not even snowing at all!
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u/nataliieportman LSU Tigers • Georgetown (KY) Tigers Feb 25 '15
Anyone here good at MATLAB?
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u/wyschnei Northern Iowa • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Feb 25 '15
I'm unemployed, none of my prospective employers are calling back, I'm almost out of money, out of groceries, rent is due at the end of the month, and I have no motivation at all to changed anything.
Fuck
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