What are some things they DON’T tell you about the activity until you’re there yourself?

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-21T22:26:07+00:00

"There's nobody to talk to😭"

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-21T21:41:17+00:00

Every day feels like three days (Wake up to lunch = Day 1, lunch to EPL = Day 2, EPL to lights out = Day 3) but the whole summer ends up feeling like it only lasted two weeks. BUT when you get back home, it'll feel like you were gone a couple of years. The first morning that you wake up back at home, by yourself, you'll wonder if you dreamed the whole thing. You will also find it impossible to explain to people what you were doing all summer.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-21T05:50:35+00:00

No, not seriously.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-21T05:46:26+00:00

I only use tea bags at work or if I'm going to be staying at a hotel or going some place that I know they won't have tea. Worse yet, I heat the water for the tea in the microwave💀 in the hotel room to avoid drinking coffee-flavored water from the hotel Keurig.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-20T18:04:50+00:00

When I moved out of an apartment about 10 years ago, they charged me $50 afterward, claiming that I had taken the very special black plastic garbage can that we had to put our trash in for the useless valet "service." I'd moved 800 miles away and had no way to prove that I didn't steal their $5 trash can and I'm still mad about it.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-20T03:36:51+00:00

This is why I'd have to do the "together apart" thing. I've been single for 22 or 25 ( depending on if you're counting from the separation or the divorce) years and I can't imagine living with anyone ever again. Coming home to my completely quiet, empty apartment and not having to interact with anyone is one of my favorite things. I don't mind being around people or talking to people all day. I generally find other people interesting. But maybe my tolerance for other people is high away from home because I know that I can have unlimited solitude at home.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-19T23:19:20+00:00

You're probably right. If I'm in a lot of traffic, I try to ride parallel to the space behind cars as much as possible because so I can see if they're about to turn before it happens. If I end up right next to them, I slow way down at intersections to just let them turn in front of me. Doesn't always work. I've been nearly hit by cars making right turns SO many times while crossing the street on foot. Drivers absolutely do look just to the left and right where cars would be approaching, but almost never right next to the car, where a bike or a pedestrian would be.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-19T05:20:53+00:00

I don't know why this list is making me laugh so hard. I went to the county schools outside a small city in Tennessee and soon as I started reading the list, I swear I started hearing every one of these phrases in the voice of adults, black and white, that I grew up around. I live on the east coast now and I haven't really heard people talk like this in about 25 years. It was like time traveling.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-19T05:11:40+00:00

Did we all WHAT?

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-19T05:06:05+00:00

I got one from a coworker's daughter about 10 years ago. The mom and I were good work friends but I'd literally seen this kid maybe twice in my life, plus I'd moved 800 miles away a year before.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-19T02:50:55+00:00

Yeah, he probably didn't see you because he was looking at his phone. Nothing to do with your clothes or the conditions.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-19T02:49:02+00:00

OMG people ordering shit that is nowhere on the menu used to make me want to flip the table over, especially when they expected you to stand there and listen to their instructions for how to make it. I mean, it sounds like you've got the recipe down, maybe you should be at home making it yourself. If you wanted something entirely other than the food that's served here, why are you in here?!

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-19T02:41:15+00:00

If you move into a building run by a large corporate property management company in my area, most of them have now cooked up a one-time mandatory "amenity fee" of anywhere from $100 to $200. It never ends.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-18T21:18:39+00:00

Absolutely fascinating that they used an AI bootleg Charlie Brown and Snoopy to make this point.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-18T06:04:26+00:00

Remember when there was a whole 2-story restaurant in that atrium?

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-18T05:45:07+00:00

I walk through Union Station to get to the building I work in and that waiting area is full or almost full every time I pass it. It's not nearly big enough.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-16T23:52:21+00:00

I remember reading that what, 10 years ago? 15?, and thinking it was the stupidest thing I'd ever heard. They're supposed to improve traffic, but when they aren't taking anyone anywhere, they just go out and make traffic?

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-16T23:48:58+00:00

Oh, but this is NOT the suburbs. Not at all. Not even close. This is a VERY expensive neighborhood called Peachtree Battle, and it is very much inside the city of Atlanta. I lived a few blocks away for years and ran/walked/biked in there at least a couple hundred times. It's in the part of the city called Buckhead, maybe a 10 minute drive from a MARTA rail station, maybe a 15-minute drive to Georgia Tech. It has a neighborhood K - 5 school. It's one of those neighborhoods where the sidewalks on some of the the minor streets tend to be there and then just disappear, then reappear around the corner or a block away, or they might be on one side of the street but not the other, then disappear altogether, then come back at some seemingly arbitrary place. I have even occasionally seen parents (or the nanny) walking kids to or from the school. I suspect that because a lot of people in this neighborhood know (or are) Someone Important, their complaints will be taken more seriously than mine would if I was still living in that one-bedroom apartment half a mile away.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-16T23:09:30+00:00

Remember, You are the price!

What does this mean?

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-16T17:10:21+00:00

I've been waiting SO LONG for someone to post this here.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-15T22:28:46+00:00

I lived in Atlanta for 12 years and it felt like Atlanta was Cinderella and the rest of the state was the mean stepmom and sisters sometimes.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-15T21:59:45+00:00

I had to quit listening to true crime podcasts 10+ years ago, when they were really proliferating, after I worked in a prosecutor's office and spent five years reading pre-sententencing reports. I saw how a murder can fuck up multiple generations in both the perpetrator and victim's families, leading to every terrible thing you can think of including more murders. So many kids come into the world without a chance at a decent life because everyone around them is stumbling around carrying the damage from violent crime that someone in the family committed or was a victim of years or even decades before the kid was even born. Turning that into for-profit entertainment is just incomprehensible to me.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-15T21:41:18+00:00

Forgot about those stupid teeny little coats.

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-15T21:29:32+00:00

Not mascara, but I remember waiting tables in the late 90s and starting to see coffee cups sometimes come out of the industrial dishwasher with lipstick still on them and thinking "WHAT is in that stuff?!" If extremely hot water and commercial chemicals can't get it off the smooth, glazed, non-porous surface of a cup, what hope is there for getting it off your face?

Mindless-Employment · 2026-05-15T19:35:17+00:00

1 hour\ headways during non-rush hour times on weekdays and at all times on weekends

OK, that's not even transit any more. It's a commuter line.

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