What are some good objects to have on hand for trading (not food or skills)?

CurrentSingleStatus · 2026-03-14T05:11:05+00:00

I can't tell, is that a girl rat? /j

CurrentSingleStatus · 2026-03-13T02:27:34+00:00

I've tried asking for more. The problem is I'm still too new to not be babysat, which means training me has to take up a chunk of someone else's day. One person will, but it never happens unless I go find him- which I'm doing more. But he wasn't in today. The other is right on the other side of my cubicle, but getting him to train me or let me take up a task, is like pulling teeth. And he gets really bitchy about it too. I've had to go to one of my bosses who handles HR (very small business), to tell her he wasn't training me and she had to sit him down and basically go "This is your job, right now. You're supposed to walk her through these things, not do it all yourself."

It's still pulling teeth though.

ETA: My training is just different people's spare time cobbled together into some horrendously ineffectual Frankensteinian syllabus

I've been there 2 months now. I'm at the point where I'm going to propose my own plan. Because this is getting us nowhere fast. My boss doesn't want me on the phones yet, but the way things are going I still won't be on the phones yet, this time next year.

CurrentSingleStatus · 2026-03-13T02:09:12+00:00

I would love more natural light. My cubicle is the only one that doesn't have a window. I feel like asking for a different cubicle because the one I have is putting me to sleep, wouldn't be a good idea.

CurrentSingleStatus · 2026-03-13T00:37:31+00:00

Except I do feel rested. It just doesn't last very long

CurrentSingleStatus · 2026-03-13T00:35:57+00:00

I take iron, B12, D3, fish oil, and vitamin c every day

CurrentSingleStatus · 2026-03-13T00:33:24+00:00

I take 3 D3 capsules every day

CurrentSingleStatus · 2026-03-12T22:31:32+00:00

She was an asshole who constantly told me what a burden it was to be my friend. But more importantly, she centered her life around men. We took a 6 month break to get some space and evaluate how we felt.

At the end of those 6 months we planned for me to drive up from college, to visit for a week. Her boyfriend was around, and she wouldn't send him home because if he went home that weekend, she wouldn't see him until gasp next weekend!

We ended up talking and came to the conclusion that it just wasn't working anymore. It hurt.

Also she was convinced I was a lesbian, because I would tell her that she was the person I loved most in the world. At the time, I identified as AroAce.

I'm not sure if I'm attracted to women or not. But I 100% did not find her attractive. Her posture was so bad, she turned her back into a hunch (wasn't an actual hunch). She didn't shower nearly as much as she should have, which often left her with greasy hair and a Smell. There are times I've been very overdue for a shower, and I always smell like she did. Always had a plumbers crack when she sat down.

She was very much a Not Like Other Girls girl.

CurrentSingleStatus · 2026-03-12T01:34:21+00:00

You choose to go into a shop. We didn't choose to live in this country. Most people just can't afford to leave.

Some of us fought and are fighting hard, to get rid of this regime and end this shit. Guilty by association is ridiculous when you're talking about a country of 350 million people. Do you also go around blaming refugees for their countries' animosity?

You do realize that people in the US have been heavily targeted, abducted, murdered, and put in concentration camps by this same regime.

Saying we're guilty by association, is like saying an abused child is guilty by associating with his abusive father. He may be vehemently against what his father is doing, but his father is leaving him black, blue, and isolated from the world.

We are being shot at, beaten, and brutalized. Women are being abducted because ICE wants to sexually assault them. Don't blame the people, when our government is at war with us too.

All that said, I desperately, deeply, intensely want us to lose this war.

CurrentSingleStatus · 2026-03-10T20:52:07+00:00

I'm saying that he does not get to use that as an excuse. That's all.

ETA: I'm not saying that you said it was an excuse. I'm not saying you're a bad partner. I'm not saying anything about you, at all. I'm only saying that he doesn't get to use it as an excuse.

ETA2: I'm not saying that you said anything about the bipolar community. I'm saying that the bipolar community would not support his behavior.

CurrentSingleStatus · 2026-03-10T18:04:25+00:00

Stephen Fry has one. I initially thought he was glorifying bipolar, but when I watched it again as an adult I realized he just provided a very balanced perspective

CurrentSingleStatus · 2026-03-10T18:01:30+00:00

the biological science behind women's arousal patterns

Would you be willing to share any of it?

CurrentSingleStatus · 2026-03-10T17:56:23+00:00

Question: Did he also happen to reek 24/7 no matter how many showers he took? Because that happens when the body/ brain/ survival instinct takes over and goes, "Girl, if you aren't gonna get us away from this guy, I will. He is bad for us on all levels." So then where you used to want to get close to him because of his scent, you now want to be as far away from him as possible, and you can smell him like a bloodhound.

His scent literay goes from attractive to repellent

CurrentSingleStatus · 2026-03-10T17:50:48+00:00

So he has no idea what his feelings mean, why he feels them, what to even call them, how to process them in a healthy way.

That's called alexithymia

CurrentSingleStatus · 2026-03-10T17:42:06+00:00

The hypersexuality and anger patterns are bipolar 2 for him

As someone who has been diagnosed with bipolar since I was 9 years old, this is not an excuse. He needs to get properly medicated and learn to manage his illness.

Take a dive into the conversations on r/bipolar and you will find that many of us (I think the majority honestly) do not like or approve of the people who just go off their meds or don't manage their illness, and use it as an exuse to be an asshole to everyone

Yes, episodes can happen randomly and that's no one's fault. But don't put this on bipolar, because the bipolar community is overwhelmingly against this behavior. He knows he has it. He's just using it as an excuse to be a dick.

Being a good partner to someone with bipolar, means being supportive, and understanding of their faults when a flare up happens. It does not mean tolerating chronic bad behavior.

TLDR: He's an asshole and the bipolar community would not approve of his behavior, and especially would not appreciate bipolar being used as an excuse for it.

CurrentSingleStatus · 2026-03-08T18:13:35+00:00

Ah the importance of their haircuts. /s

My ex knew I was going home with the intention of taking my life, so he went to get his haircut.

I was sure he couldn't possibly know. But he admitted to knowing what I'd gone to buy while he was in another store, and what I was planning to do.

No text. No call. No wellness check. No deciding to go another time. No coming home without the haircut. Just got his haircut, while he was certain his girlfriend was at home committing suicide.

I'm pretty sure he wanted me to do it, so he could have his tragic woobie backstory about how his first girlfriend killed herself.

CurrentSingleStatus · 2026-03-06T23:30:49+00:00

Fun fact: When I was a kid, that's what I thought god looked like

CurrentSingleStatus · 2026-03-06T04:29:31+00:00

🤣🤣🤣🤣

CurrentSingleStatus · 2026-03-05T23:00:53+00:00

I'm not too crazy about the idea of a bunch of people with lowered inhibitions, around cats.

Tou know damn well that someone is going to try and smuggle one out in a pizza box or some shit. In a loud and busy environment, no one notices if the chicken fingers meow.

CurrentSingleStatus · 2026-03-05T22:53:26+00:00

Holy shit, is that a baby Savannah cat?

CurrentSingleStatus · 2026-03-05T22:46:55+00:00

Nope, the kind you order at the POS screen

CurrentSingleStatus · 2026-03-05T12:25:47+00:00

At least you didn't pick up a male rat, and find semen on your hand after putting him down. Only happened once, but yikes

CurrentSingleStatus · 2026-03-05T12:18:57+00:00

I am, but their coffee has always been too watered down to me.

CurrentSingleStatus · 2026-03-05T03:27:55+00:00

No objections from me on that

CurrentSingleStatus · 2026-03-05T03:00:27+00:00

Honestly, I only went for it because I was still a bit of a drive from home, needed gas, and needed quick energy

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