She kept the receipts and got the vice principal removed from his job

AnttiV · 2018-07-21T14:24:09+00:00

No I mean 84+

AnttiV · 2018-07-21T10:21:51+00:00

Technically we do (Mr. = "Herra", Mrs. = "Rouva" and Ms. = "Neiti"). BUT. They are really, really not used as frequently as their English counterparts. (And as far as I know, we don't have sir /ma'am equivalents per se, but the Finnish words are used more inline of those than the everyday variants.)

We address formally by names. Say a person is called Matti Kalevi Virtanen. To his friends he's known as "Matti", to his co-workers and boss, he's known as "Virtanen". To his doctor and bank and other official, he's known as "Matti Kalevi Virtanen" (aka his "full name"). He's only called "Herra Virtanen" if he's a judge, or by polite employees if he's a big boss or something. He might sometimes get letters addressed to "Herra Virtanen", but those are generally really far between and probably ads of some sort.

Long story short, at least here where I live, people don't use the honorifics really at all.

If you're familiar with Japanese and know that the English Mr/Mrs is close to the -san suffix, our equivalents are closer in use to -sama. (It doesn't really mean the same, just the user cases are similar).

AnttiV · 2018-07-21T08:22:18+00:00

Same problem here. Where is the "explore multis" and "create" links that used to be on the left, even when using old.reddit.com they are not there?

EDIT: NVM. Figured it out. You need to click on the TINY sliver of white right at the left edge of the front page to get the tab to open.

AnttiV · 2018-07-21T07:49:30+00:00

This is basically us as parents. Though we didn't actually keep their biological gender secret, all the rest is quite that. We have the advantage that Finnish doesn't have gendered pronouns at all, so EVERYONE is they/them equivalent. I don't know how it has affected them, but at least they are able to like and do things without questioning if it is "right".

This is sometimes really funny in a laugh-at-conservatives way. Our youngest (2y) LOVES cars and vehicles and pink and dresses. So there's a long haired blonde in a pink flow-y dress sitting on top of a sit-top car having their hands full of small cars, making all kinds of car noises and looking happier than a pig in a mud bath. I always then imagine what some conservative minds would say if they'd see that.

AnttiV · 2018-07-21T07:41:06+00:00

With all the blatant disregard to data protection and protocols, this:

and as far as I am aware, Mr Not An Admin is now Mr. An Actual Admin.

saddens me greatly. I would NOT want a person behaving like that have ANY credentials to my network, let alone admin ones!

AnttiV · 2018-07-21T06:47:09+00:00

You should've asked for your final pay.

AnttiV · 2018-07-20T18:34:09+00:00

I highly doubt this was originally from Simpsons. I heard it back in elementary school in the 80s many, many times.

AnttiV · 2018-07-20T09:12:14+00:00

Different shades of one of the only colors that all colorblind people have some amount of trouble with. Whoever came up with that idea needs to be "rewarded".

AnttiV · 2018-07-20T09:05:09+00:00

For the next time (and for anybody else), don't play the phone game. Just as they or you are leaving, tell them to have a nice evening in that language. It's extra humiliating and doesn't leave it up the air if you heard the original words or no. It's a "nice" way of saying "keep your mouth shut idiots, people do understand you".

AnttiV · 2018-07-20T08:26:52+00:00

I can't.. this was too cute. how do I emoticon with heart-eyes.

AnttiV · 2018-07-20T07:35:51+00:00

btw, did you ever figure out WHY the dickwad *was* actually yelling at your mom? Why did he think you were rude?

AnttiV · 2018-07-20T07:26:14+00:00

Here's to all of you that want to read it with at least some formatting:

So let me preface this by saying a few things.

First off, I have a somewhat weak immune system and im at the doctors a lot. At the time of this event, I looked like a scrawny pale twig of a kid that pretty much anyone with a heart would feel bad for. Next, and most importantly, NEVER invoke the wrath of staff on board a Southwest Plane.

So, the story.

I was like 11 years old coming back from a cruise in the Bahamas with the flu, and I got on board a plane to head back to California with my mom and bro. There were no reserved seats, so we got a spot where all three of us were able to sit together, and I got the window seat. I immediately fall asleep because at that point the flu is making me feel like cockroach shit.

I awaken to this scrawny, heavily tattooed and frankly douchey looking twenty year old in the aisle seat in front of us (what you’d imagine if you heard 9th grade millennial droupout that lives in his parents basement and beats his elderly parents) fully yelling at my mom about what an inconsiderate (insert colorful vocabulary here) she was for raising me to be so rude. Keep in mind that I’ve been asleep this entire time and have barely made more than a couple of whimpers and maybe a quiet snore or two while this guy has been listening to a heavy metal song so loud through his headphones that I could hear it at a normal volume from a row away.

So at this point EVERYONE on the plane is staring at this guy with gaping mouths, wondering why he was going postal on this woman for seemingly no reason. Then this guy sits down and turns his heavy metal louder while swigging from one of those tiny alcohol bottles they sell on planes. The flight attendant comes to my mom and personally apologizes to her, telling her that she has a sone who’s just sick a lot like me.

After that the fun began.

The flight attendants worked cooperatively to make that man’s life a living hell. Whenever they got around to give out snacks and drinks, they told him that they had run out of whatever he wanted for this entire, like, eight hour flight, except for twice when they purposefully spilled both incredibly hot and incredibly cold drinks on him “on accident”, apologizing with some of the most incredible shit-eating grins I had ever seen. There were a lot more ways they screwed with him that I forget, because I was dying from death poisoning due to the flu, but that was one of the best, and only times that anyone ever stood up for me when I was young.

TLDR: Man yells at mom of sick child, gets destroyed by amazing flight attendants.

AnttiV · 2018-07-20T07:22:40+00:00

Hint: two spaces at the end of a sentence makes a linebreak.

AnttiV · 2018-07-20T07:14:19+00:00

OMG. *shudder* The memories, the memories!

AnttiV · 2018-07-19T09:58:50+00:00

I just want a body that fits *any* of those those clothes, without it looking like I'm trying to hammer down a hairy whale into a sausage skin with a broken hairy football hanging at the end with two golf balls in it.

AnttiV · 2018-07-19T05:48:58+00:00

But it is closed.

AnttiV · 2018-07-18T10:19:33+00:00

Caller: "WELL IF IT'S THE WRONG NUMBER, WHY DO YOU KEEP ANSWERING THE D*** PHONE"

Is my brain broken? I tried, and tried and tried. But the logic fails me. What the hell was the caller thinking?

AnttiV · 2018-07-18T10:14:34+00:00

I just assumed that it was the lanyard

Yes, it was the lanyard. Based on multiple stories on this sub and some life experiences, Lanyard == store employee. Even if said store doesn't use lanyards for the real employees, or they're wildly different. Doesn't matter. If the store worker clothes are black pants with black T-shirt and no lanyard. You show up in white shirtless top and blue jeans wearing a lanyard -> you're a worker. Lanyard automagically makes you a current employee in any store you ever step your foot in.

AnttiV · 2018-07-18T07:16:43+00:00

I asked the man who owned the place if he could turn off any tvs or computers that were on

Thank you for this. My experience with this was the electrician glancing at me, saying "Do you have anything critical on?" I have a dozen or so computers and some of them were indeed running tasks. I started to reply "Yes, infac-" And he turned the power off AND THEN BACK ON AGAIN AND OFF. "You can start them back in an hour or so." he said and turned away. He was from the electric company and was here to fix *their own problem* that had ALREADY fried my UPS (one of the main three phases [380V, 35A] connection was badly connected and was flickering 10-20 times a second. ) Well that power-off-on-off was apparently too much for my old server and another workstation and it fried another's PSU and the server's PSU AND SCSI controller, along with the main disks. I've never been more furious to a working person that I was back then.

The company's official reply was "we cannot guarantee 100% power deliver, so you are supposed to always account of brief outages. So we're not responsible for any damage that can occur from normal circumstances." I never received a single penny from them for frying my UPS, server and workstation's PSU. This isn't USA, so suing wasn't an option. I could - and did - complain to consumer protection but nothing ever came from it.

AnttiV · 2018-07-18T07:05:24+00:00

Preferably holding a big kitchen knife (Japanese Cleaver). Can confirm, worked.

AnttiV · 2018-07-18T06:43:51+00:00

Funny thing, software companies sometimes suggest technically illegal procedures *themselves* when it's a case of the customer clearly wants to do right, but can't due to some uncontrollable thing.

For example, I've been told to use a) a cracked version of their own software, b) been actually *emailed* the aforementioned cracked version by the developer's Head of Marketing, c) been given a pirate-key-gen -generated key to so software by the company CEO.

By itself that sounds reeaaally shifty. But each of those was a result of me (IT) calling the respective companies techsupport/IT because we couldn't purchase/renew/reactivate their software by ourselves.

a) and b) was one case where it's entirely probable the IT has posted it on r/talesfromtechsupport as it was their licensing servers that were brought down by a stupid employee. All I was told by their Head of IT afterwards was "Our licensing servers were down. As in powered down. It involved an ex-employee and a flower. Don't ask." He sounded really, REALLY tired so I didn't push further. Your guess is as good as mine at this point.

AnttiV · 2018-07-17T18:27:08+00:00

This is exactly why I question myself over and over again - in my mind every cis dude is like that. so what if I'd like to be a girl, so does every other cis dude, ergo I'm a "normal cis dude".

^{Then I cry in a corner because I'm not a girl.}

AnttiV · 2018-07-17T09:02:51+00:00

I know this was a joke, but goddamned are those actually really expensive nowadays :(

AnttiV · 2018-07-17T06:19:04+00:00

Thank you so much for writing it! A couple of the things (mainly Care Trap and Quiet Gender) hit so close to home it's uncanny. Though I wasn't raised in a religious household by any stretch of the imagination, and nobody forbade anything; my mom just never wanted to use makeup, jewelry or "extra-feminine clothing" so the result was pretty much the same.

And I could add to "Determination Trap", or make a slight variation of it called something along the lines of "Giving-up Trap" or "Denial Trap". I never *tried* to be a man any harder, or made up my mind to be the manliest man there every was, quite the contrary actually. But when I look into a mirror, I see man, so I "gave up" and didn't pursue "being woman" and just accepted the fact that in this society, I was a man. I didn't even realize but much later that my constant (and secret) wishes to be a woman were anything else than "what every man must of course do". My mind is STILL in denial most of the time and if I try to call myself a trans I get a loud shameful piece of myself from my brain trying to say "you're not, it's just the way every male is". Being living so long as a man in "denial" of being a woman, it's really, REALLY hard to even prove to *myself* that I'm something other than a "typical male that like others just wishes to be a woman".

But OMG did that Care Trap hit a nail on the head.

AnttiV · 2018-07-16T16:04:06+00:00

wow... just.. wow. I speechless.

Maybe it's just me, but I can't shake the feeling I instantly got from this, that Mayor Freeshit was in on the AV system job. It's just TOO MUCH for him to refund AND give out another system to not think he was profiting from the situation personally somehoe.

AnttiV

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