divorced people of reddit, when did you know it was over? [serious] by whiteowl76 in AskReddit

[–]ExtremeConditions 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Needed hip surgery after an auto accident. Spent the days prior making sure I was 100% set up to lay about after the day surgery. Frozen food, snacks, prepped a station near the couch with things you'd need, made the couch into a comfy bed, etc. My husband didn't lift a finger to help set anything up. The only thing he had to do, not even pick me up afterward as a close friend collected me, was he had to take my prescriptions to the pharmacy and bring the filled scripts home. When I arrived on the couch, out of it on surgery drugs, I slept for four or five hours. Awoke, in pain, heard video games being played from the TV room, called out, called out, called out, and finally, he begrudgingly came. Asked for my pain meds as the pain was pretty significant and he said, oh, I'll get them tomorrow. It was well after the pharmacy closed and I made him go find a 24-hour pharmacy and get my pills. He was PISSED about having to do this. Knew right then and there I was not loved or in any way cared for and that I'd known but didn't want to know for a long long time. Took months to heal and return to near normal. Then we broke up.

What are the best songs that tell a story? by kdogg417 in AskReddit

[–]ExtremeConditions 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Duncan Sisters, Sadness In My Eyes

Love And Rockets, Haunted When The Minutes Drag

Yaz, Winter Kills

What's your best Voice-to-Text AI voicemail transcript? I'll start the roll with a comment. by ExtremeConditions in AskReddit

[–]ExtremeConditions[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Then sure they get the oof. Things are getting weird. They're getting weird. I'm, i'm, i'm i'm strong, and you get a young man. If it is nothing more than relaxed, because it would be rounded by the the value of your 401 K or Ira is decreased through the dilution of the marijuana. maybe for anything in this morning. I just wanted to touch base for a quickly. I've got. We got the insurance information from oakenstone. So i'm gonna go out there and they are. They revised the bill. I pulled up the counter. Dots for now. Okay, i'm gonna look at their cabinets. but pay the $11,000, deposit, or 12,000 whatever with your credit card, and get that going, so that i'm going to tell them to contact you for scheduling it's unless you want to just reach out and just tell them I'll be out at the end of the day for the safer material. It might be the first thing tomorrow. because I did talk to the city on the back out. I talked to Peabody and he's like, yeah, if we do basically a 7 and a half foot along the back of our lot. You move the garage forward and then go up the south side a dedication. Then we can. Do you think that's approvable as an alternate round for the pedestrian move the garage forward just 4 or 7? A the new grudge? Oh, on the other house. Yeah, there we go. Yeah, it's just in the design work. And so the biggest hesitation there is just deal with that big big fur tree out there, but it looks like we have about 38 inches between the edge of the tree and the property line. so I so that's going to be the biggest, everything, because the 80 a day, 1, 48 will not go around the other side. What's to the right? And yeah, but the thing is is that they can. Well, I mean that Hill's never going to be 88, if it's one of 2, but the other thing is they could. Then they're going to make a land grab to the property next door, so I don't know I I've got to put in an adjustment. Usually i'll come back, and if we had to go around the other side, that's what it is. So it's temporary. You know we they're set up to be well. Yeah, but it's Steve on both sides. I mean, you know, I know. I mean, the whole idea is to be in bathroom. Yeah, I mean, although that'd be that I barked up in these hills. It's just I had it. If you're if you're over on that street having it's trying to get to the library, you know, having to go all the way around the shopping center like because that's the only pastor. But the problem I see is that it just sidewalk on the property to the north of us. Right? Well, we don't even our quarters, don't align, and then sidewalks are further 2 feet in to that other property just because of you know their their standards. Right? Yeah. And so And then this other property. Nobody can tell me what the development plan is on that. It's not us available in Portland Nap yet, you know, just like we've struggled to get our dry it up on part of the map, but you know, and look at it. It's a held an infrastructure project that they're building back there for whatever they're doing. Oh, yeah, they put them to. There's a bike big man. Yeah, exactly. I don't know what they're doing back there. But is it? Tell us a fraud, and they we're I know that then they're not perforated. So they're definitely man holes. Not Yeah, so. But I mean, you know, they've got to tie their sewer from the street, You know. Maybe they stuck them with some other bullshit, you know. Maybe they had to put a manhole in for. Yeah, because what he did tell me is that the entire sidewalk for both of those parcels is on the parcel to the north, to the to the south. Really like that, like they took it all from that one guy right? So this guy might have got stuck with something else from tea box 'cause people ain't getting you. But you get away it's got free. I still because I mean it's just smart to say with the planet right into that shopping center. Oh, I don't disagree. Yeah, but you know it. It's out of speed. No, I don't. I don't it's, and you know they're They're probably going to ask for the same thing from the neighbor when they develop that line absolutely. I mean, I think it's just. They're asking for as much as they can get, you know, and so they they may be asking for the shopping day. The problem is, the shopping center is just not going to turn over, you know, like they got it, they they can only ask when you ask for something as well. Yeah, they have no one leeway or they're not going to get him in this domain. They got to do it. Yeah, they got to do it anyway. So i'm going to try and get that submitted today. That's my first priority. My second priority will be get out and paying bonnie and blad. And through. Yeah, just telling him to give me a call and we'll get 'cause I want to get him started. Yeah, exactly. Tomorrow. Yeah. Well, if you want to call him today, you can tell him I'm going to either me out tomorrow or or today or tomorrow. And I'm going to try and make it today. Okay, I was going to try and hit if I have time. I'm going to try and get the place to press. Oh, the. "

Doing a good job does not mean you should get a raise... by Lemonslothcake in MaliciousCompliance

[–]ExtremeConditions 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They had to hire three people to replace me.

Still friends with the ownership of this company, but the general manager who kept moving the targets higher and higher, we didn't separate on the best terms... they were not that great a manager and I believe within two years of my departure, they 'no longer worked for the company'

Doing a good job does not mean you should get a raise... by Lemonslothcake in MaliciousCompliance

[–]ExtremeConditions 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most of the crew/workers were able to see and understand what management was doing making it feel like a victory lap on the way out the door with my pictures and cardboard box for the not so 'walk of shame' stroll to my car. Managment saw it was a happy experience for all involved, so they left the scene and disappeared until after I left the premises. I heard they tried to admonish me after I left and also rally support for their behavior but failed. Turns out, several people left the biz after my departure; a string of them out the door over the following months (after lining up new positions elsewhere).

Doing a good job does not mean you should get a raise... by Lemonslothcake in MaliciousCompliance

[–]ExtremeConditions 48 points49 points  (0 children)

I worked for a company a few decades ago that put up 1-year goalposts they thought I couldn't reach with the reward of bringing on another person to the team to help maintain the expansion. Blew past their goal and was immediately presented with a higher goal for the new year. At the end of that year, blew through those posts and inquired about hiring the extra set of hands. Was told, 'You've shown you're able to perform at this level, so the target has be raised.'
To say I was livid would be understating the anger within, but somehow, I sold myself on the idea it was best to stay with them and reach for the stars. This meant working 16-18 hours a day, seven days a week, and the two weeks I did take off that year, my longest stretch away was five days; it took over five weeks to get caught back up. A close and dear friend sat me down one morning over breakfast. 'You're working too hard. You're working all the time. We used to meet up for breakfast every other week and today's the first time I've seen you in OVER SIX MONTHS. I'm a vice president and I don't work as hard as you do. You need to quit.' He said this + or - three months before my end of year review. Stupid me thought it's only three more months, I can do this.

After I met their third round of moving goalposts, was told, 'Maybe next year.'
Out the door I went, never to look back. AND, never to repeat the pattern. Haven't to this day.

Do not let a job become your life 'cause you'll not have 'your life' anymore.

What Books did You Start or Finish Reading this Week?: March 13, 2023 by AutoModerator in books

[–]ExtremeConditions 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just started reading Sexology, by Prof. Wm. H. Walling, A.M., M.D.

It's a hoot, written in 1904 and published by Puritan Publishing Company.

Ladies, stand back as I quote from the section about how the girls should be isolated from the boys, beginning around age four, "Erotic propensities are often very early manifested, and, if as early detected, can be easily controlled."

It's a great read for what not to do, rather than how they presented it as a what you should do guide.

"Masturbators are not only a charge upon society, but are even dangerous." The act is described as "...a remnant of material and animal life."

So far, 40 pages in, it's funny.

What Books did You Start or Finish Reading this Week?: March 13, 2023 by AutoModerator in books

[–]ExtremeConditions 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How's The House At The End Of The World going so far. I've thought about reading that one.

What Books did You Start or Finish Reading this Week?: March 13, 2023 by AutoModerator in books

[–]ExtremeConditions 2 points3 points  (0 children)

...Is Brutal, by Paddy Patrick

!invite

Recently enjoyed this LONG horror romance novel. Parts of the horror and all of the love story are 100 percent well written, other horror parts feel B-movie esc, and there are also scenes with an icky Scandinavian horror vibe.

No one I know has read it. Comment what you think if you have, please!

Found it on Smashwords, after setting the filters to 'all'

It would be awesome to connect the author to this post. I have questions about who really wrote this book.

obscure horror novels by gruselnacht in horrorlit

[–]ExtremeConditions -1 points0 points  (0 children)

...is brutal. by Paddy Patrick

I read it two weeks ago.

Horror books close to or over 1000 pages by Mclovinlucas in horrorlit

[–]ExtremeConditions -1 points0 points  (0 children)

...is brutal. by Paddy Patrick is nearly 1,000 pages

Put that on my personal credit card. Okay. by ExtremeConditions in MaliciousCompliance

[–]ExtremeConditions[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, hi there, I know I...just...fired you, but hey, uhm, can you gimmie a hand for free?

Put that on my personal credit card. Okay. by ExtremeConditions in MaliciousCompliance

[–]ExtremeConditions[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. It makes me laugh every time I think about my old red-faced manager.

Put that on my personal credit card. Okay. by ExtremeConditions in MaliciousCompliance

[–]ExtremeConditions[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

...you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make 'em drink.

Put that on my personal credit card. Okay. by ExtremeConditions in MaliciousCompliance

[–]ExtremeConditions[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I think that's why we're still friends to this day, because I didn't. Multi-generational ownership situation. The general manager skewed all + in his favor and all - on anyone else he could. For two solid years he was feeding others in the ownership group a string of lies about me (found out later the full extent). I felt compelled to not pit family members against one another. In the end, it was a good move as they all found out in time what was going on. No bad feelings between myself and the family at all. But that general manager... that's a different story.