Vent Your Frustrations • Page 115

I was PISSED. It is hard to clean and idk what nooks and cranny’s need cleaning. I’ve had my car for about 2 years and it does need both an exterior detail and interior detail. It’s not really dirty on the inside, but the mats a good scrub and the rest wiped down. The outside needs a ceramic coat or whatever they use because water doesn’t bead like it should. I also would love to get a pain correction for the tint child and ppf. I’m going to see how the carpet extract works and perhaps call and see if they can just clean the carpet and exterior detail. It’s just so expensive

 

I organized a repair of a communal part of our house with my neighbor that we had discussed prior. Didnt take any money from them for the repair I paid for. Then he randomly said, "Seeing as your complaining, can you sort your hedges out". Literally, didn't complain once about his house or anything, and paid for the repair.

Should have split the bloody bill, lesson learned.

 

The classic unexpected car repair bill.

took my car in for an oil change and when I came back was told they had to replace all the lug nuts because 6 of them were “really bad”. There are 16 total, and you can’t just replace some. And they’re $13 a piece, so my expected like $40 oil change became a $300 bill.

 

$300 to replace some fucking lug nuts?! That sounds insane

 

Getting ghosted by 2 recruiters in one day and getting another interview cancelled because they hired someone. yay job hunting...

 

Last time I went in for an oil change, the subaru dealer I go to tried to fleece me for like an extra $1400-1500 to do my front brakes/rotors, wheel alignment, and replacing 3 control arm bushings ($700 just for this for some reason, turns out I didn't need this done at all). I like getting my oil changed there so I can get a free diagnostic but I always deny service at the dealer. Bough the parts I actually needed on my own and had my dad help me with the work since he has tools, for a fraction of what they wanted to charge me.

 

I do the same, or if it’s something I can’t fix I’ll shop around and I can usually find a mechanic who will do it for much less.

 

Oh man I'm jealous you or your dad know how to do brakes. Labor is insane. I recently spent $850 to replace all 4 pads and rotors at VIP Tires. A different local mechanic quoted me $1300 lol

 

Even better, my dad is an actual mechanic with like 35 yrs experience and access to a garage with lifts and legit equipment which is all amazing but the kicker is I have to drive from Maine to Cape Cod any time I need his help with stuff. I'm a dummy with car work so luckily he can just coach me through it the whole time. If its an emergency I usually just have to bite the bullet and pay someone up here. Labor costs are fucking bananas with car stuff, not to mention the crazy markup on parts so they can make a few bucks on those too. I could get a full set of front and back brakes and rotors on rockauto for around $200 probably while it would cost me at least twice as much for the parts at any shop plus the labor cost which blows up the total price.

 

Somehow the light in my car didn’t turn off. You know the one you press the button to see in the dark (idk the name of it) it usually turns off by itself when I lock my car bc I’ve forgotten about it before, and then when I start it back up again I remember. Anyway I went to my car to get something and on notice a light but thought the carpet light was maybe shining on it a certain way. Nope. The light stayed on. Did I forget to lock my car? I’m always paranoid and lock it twice. But that means the light was on all last night and all day today

 

When you work at a metrics based customer service/help desk phone job, and you realize the secret of success is to just stop giving a shit about helping people and just dial numbers as fast as you can.

My boss just gave me the "you know what you have to do and you have the ability to succeed, it is just an issue of willpower. You are just not putting in the daily effort."

The actually issue is I am putting in too much effort to help people and it is slowing me down. I am forgetting my job is just to dial numbers as fast as possible so my stats look good, so that my bosses stats look good to their boss, so that their bosses stats look good to their boss, and so on. I just got to remember it is a hollow numbers game, if I try to do what my job is actually supposed to be it is just going to hurt me.

 

Kinda realizing I'm resenting my parents for my upbringing even though they're very kind and loving people.

Kids grew up watching Ghostbusters, listening to Queen and ACDC, and playing sports. I grew up on Christian AM radio, "Bible Man" and them hiding my Harry Potter books I got for my birthday from my friend because the radio told them that witchcraft is a sin. Hell, they threw away my untitled blink album because of the curse words in the lyrics and bought me the clean version instead lmao

I was an outcast. I never fit in. I remember being really little and my parents made efforts to have us hang out with the other parents and kids in my neighborhood, but that only lasted a few years and they ended up pariah's in the neighborhood themselves

 

Quoting this post I wrote earlier today about my life so that I can edit it later just in case I - waitaminute

 

But truly, I am so, so sorry. I know how you feel. Very much so. I harbor some specific resentment toward my father because he grew up an athlete and he partied in high school and did drugs and drank alcohol all under his super religious parents’ roof, and then he grew up, got married, had my sisters and I, and then turned into a devout conservative who was always disappointed in me for not being an athlete like he was and crammed his ideology down my throat. I have very few friends as an adult and there’s a reason.

 

I sure do love being punished by ex-friends for things they even say were "not my fault" but I have to suffer the consequences and nearly have a panic attack because of it.

I guess I'll explain the context: it was a friend I used to visit at the Middletown, NY Round1. We had common interests in rhythm games and weeb shit. A while back, I brought a friend from work with me to Round1 and there was an incident where some drunk asshole was giving my other friend grief about wearing a mask and followed us through the arcade. We reported him to security and he was thrown out. I thought things were fine after, but then the friend I would visit in Middletown completely ghosted me. Fast forward to this past weekend and we're both at a DDR tournament in at a Round1 in Ohio. He's very obviously trying to avoid me the entire time, so I politely ask him "hey, can we talk" and I asked what the issue was. Apparently whatever happened in Middletown was too much so he felt the need to create the distance. I didn't press the issue any further than that, I just said I would leave him alone and wished him well. But afterwards I was pretty shaky and sat in silence in the party room trying not to cry. Someone did eventually ask what was wrong and they were like "you should go be around people you do want to be around, sitting in here crying isn't going to solve it, but I also get that you probably needed the time to process everything". They weren't like, being a dick about it, and their suggestion was actually helpful. The rest of the weekend was back to being great from there on out, but it still fucking angers me that I basically get punished for something that the ex-friend even says was my not my fault. And I wouldn't even be so mad about it if they had just fucking told me the issue in the first place months ago instead of ghosting me about it.

 

I’m in a really dark place and it’s starting to feel comfortable

 

I feel like all I do is just shove people away by being myself

 

It sucks to want to vent about someone you care about but you can't because you don't want people to see them in a negative light. I need a therapist.

 

I hate that I can see people for what they are but it doesn’t matter to them

 

This is always so hard! And I'm not the type who gushes about someone when I'm happy with them, so it can seem like I dislike someone or am always complaining about them when in reality I'm only venting my frustrations with them, but not how i view them as a whole person.

 

If I could magically see my nephews without having to see my brother again, I would do it in a heartbeat. I am so fucking sick of him and his hateful bullshit. Went to his Halloween party, I'm in the back of the house in my one nephew's room. I hear my brother yelling about something (what's new). Later on I go out and see my mom is there and is visibly upset. I assumed it was because unfortunately her sister died yesterday but no. It was because my brother is a terrible person. My one nephew went outside to help my mom carry stuff in for the party. He was talking for a bit outside and for no reason at all this set my brother off. He started screaming at my nephew that if he wants to talk, he needs to do it inside. Why? What is it hurting for him to stand outside and talk? So my mom naturally tells him to calm down and stop yelling at the kid. So then my brother screams at my mom, calls her a fucking asshole, tells her she has no right to tell him how to parent his child especially in his home (which LOL you are in your 30s and have never had a job and your wife pays all the bills so FUCK OFF with the "your" home bullshit!!!). Then he tells her she needs to shut up or leave his house. First, who the hell speaks to anyone that way let alone THEIR MOTHER. Second, he knows she just lost her sister and is already very upset. He is so fucking mean to my mom and we get into it constantly about it. He has been mad since she divorced our dad bc she "broke up the family." No, she didn't. My dad did by being an abusive piece of shit. And I swear my brother has to defend our dad bc if he admits he was abusive, he will have to own up to the fact that he is too. It doesn't matter if you hit someone or not. Constantly screaming at them and verbally abusing them is still fucking abuse. He was mad my mom got alimony. She deserved every fucking penny she got for putting up with that shit for 26 years. Needless to say, I did not stay at the party long. I hate him so much. That's all he does. Sits there like he's some super tough macho guy and then complains about everything. He seriously hates everyone and everything and is bitter beyond belief and I just do not want to be around him. And everyone in the family caters to him constantly. My grandma has paid all his car payments basically his entire life. He screamed at me over the phone a few months ago and made me cry and everyone defended him. It's getting harder and harder to even justify going to any family functions. I want to see my nephews but idk if I can keep doing it. And it really sucks bc I have no partner or friends so these people are literally all I have.

 

Once again I cannot get through half of this practice quiz without the web page refreshing on me to a different page. Also it literally takes me hours to try to complete because how slow it is. Doesn’t work on my phone because I’ll get 20 questions in and then it auto refreshes. Fuck this shit

 

So frustrated with my "bar manager" (coworker who's desperately wanting to be bar manager, hired the same week as me, have been coworkers the whole time and now has 'faux power' over me)... not taking ANY responsibility about anything she does wrong. Some new hires are doing that, which is annoying, but it's worse because she's establishing the precedent that "deflect and point fingers about other issues" is what you do if someone confronts you about fuxking up

I haaaaate that. "Hey, why wre there 5 open cartons of half n half in the fridge..let's try and not do that lol" (says domotime)

Bar manager who is 100% responsible for this, "yeah, its because you wanted the coffee station to be near the fridge, that was bound to happen..I'll talk to management about it in the morning"

Da fuck. How about "whoops my bad, yeah let's try and make sure there aren't other cartons open before opening another"

Fuck i hate her so much. Ruining an easy, chill gig

 

I got prime video to watch some movies you can only get on prime, then to find out I have to pay for them!!?

 

I hate that stuff so much! I pay for Showtime through my cable package, but the only way to watch some of the shows that air on Showtime via an app is the Paramount Plus app. Which costs more money. The streaming model doesn't benefit anyone except the network execs who can now avoid having to pay a middle man at the cable company.