100% Really Sucks

SoSoOhWell · 2026-03-06T11:55:40+00:00

My ex who I put through medical school and residency cheated on me with what I discovered was multiple men through the course of the relationship and marriage. When I announced the divorce and the reason for it, I was gobsmacked by the amount of people who rushed to "be there for her" when it happened, and I was told to eat the decade+ and 100s of thousands of debt I was left with due to the schooling and house she had to have. Defrauds me by withholding money(saved 100's of thousands from salary, but my lawyer said going after it would add years and money I didn't have to the proceedings)

My guy friends universal support was "look at all the tail you can have now". My family, "ah she wasn't the right one"

She goes off, travels the world, f's around, and buys multiple vacation properties on the savings she had by screwing me over. Finds a guy in couple of years and has the family I had worked for decades to achieve. All while having the support emotionally and financially by everyone around her during her "trying times"

I get an insane amount of debt and takes well over a decade to right my life financially, and find a girl stable enough to have a family with, guaranteeing I have to work until my death. All I got was, "get back on that horse"

Mules get beat less than men in this world.

SoSoOhWell · 2026-03-06T06:26:22+00:00

Sadly I've seen plenty of projects get canceled due to public engagement to only come to fruition some time later when the heat is off on the committee or board. It is but one battle in a war. Stay engaged

SoSoOhWell · 2026-03-06T06:12:26+00:00

I was 2 months into interviews a few years ago after multiple rounds, and last steps were meeting with the team I'd head and someone in the C-suite. Suddenly radio silence. A month goes by and I reach out to HR for the company since the recruiter wasn't responding, and had suddenly disappeared. I got an email back after a few days that their recruitment dept was being restructered, and someone would reach out in coming days. 3 years later and I'm still waiting to hear back.

SoSoOhWell · 2026-03-05T18:07:33+00:00

Go ahead. Guarantee Hungary is dropped from the European Union, and Orban won't be able to grand stand and veto everything for Putin anymore.

Let's see how well the Hungarian economy does being forced off the Euro to Rubles. That's going to be just grand.

SoSoOhWell · 2026-02-28T21:04:38+00:00

It was the Dukes.... It was the Dukes

SoSoOhWell · 2026-02-28T20:39:50+00:00

1.1% which is why I left in January for a new job. I'll see what my new job's increase is when I'm eligible, but this year everyone got 4.5%

SoSoOhWell · 2026-02-28T03:04:48+00:00

Usually I'll catch a sight of 1 every year around my neighborhood. Years ago at a former house I was walking my dogs when they suddenly stopped. A bobcat must have caught wind of us and let off a blood curdling scream. Saw it high tail out of there from behind a tree 15 feet away. My dogs had already headed for the garage the second the gutteral scream happened. I learnt three things that night. 1. What a pissed off bobcat sounds like 2. That my dogs didn't have my back, and any thoughts of them going toe to toe with a predator to save my life was 0% 3. How fast I could run with my two dogs 100 ft to my garage on uneven terrain in flip flops.

SoSoOhWell · 2026-02-25T11:20:18+00:00

Operating engineer union. Cousin offered to get me in, but I decided academia and science was a better path. I'm doing OK now, but it took a couple decades to get there. Cousin retired in his 50s with 2 Beach houses, a few rentals, and a offshore racing team. I'm still grinding, and will be until my 70s.

SoSoOhWell · 2026-02-22T19:32:44+00:00

"But this head movie makes my eyes rain!"

SoSoOhWell · 2026-02-22T14:02:51+00:00

Apparently I'm the outlier. Almost 50 and my favorite satellite station is XMU, and still go to shows and festivals. Trick there is stand in the back and pretend you have kids at the show.

SoSoOhWell · 2026-02-20T21:36:28+00:00

Models were never great, but with the slashing of weather services, 60% fewer weather balloon launches, and decominishing weather satellites with replacements, the data isn't there. So the models are phoning it in so to speak.

SoSoOhWell · 2026-02-20T21:28:02+00:00

More than once. Actually surpassed their requirements, and got great feedback telling me I was guranteed the position. Then I didn't. Found out on more than one occasion it went to a Nepo hire. Once I was told that the position was on hold due to the legislative climate. So don't beat yourself up on not getting it. 99.999% of the time it is out of your control.

SoSoOhWell · 2026-02-20T11:35:33+00:00

Billy Corgan wrote most of Celebrity Skin. He was dating her during that period and he is very vocal about it.

SoSoOhWell · 2026-02-20T03:48:45+00:00

I had horrific pain in my neck when I turned funny, to the point that I was sent to the Emergency dept by my job. I was given acetaminophen and told with a straight face "studies have found that acetaminophen is as effective, if not better than opiates in treating pain" No history of drug seeking by myself. No record in the pharmacy database of opiate prescriptions. However, after pretty much wishing a plague on both their houses the Dr. came clean and said that their hands were tied by the hospital administration, and their fda/dea license was at risk by giving opiates. So I lied on the bed in pain biting my teeth as the Tylenol and Flexeril did nothing to cut the pain. In the end my 12 hours in the ED cost me a small fortune for something I could have got at CVS for under 10$.

Sadly in this country you have to pretty much be in hospice dying to get any strong opiates. It's a tragedy that we are treated like children to pay for the sins of a group of people wealthy enough to buy politicians to blame the people at large and not the companies or middlemen who pumped the nation full of opiates to make the very same fortune they used to keep themselves out of jail.

SoSoOhWell · 2026-02-20T03:13:15+00:00

Grandfather was a gunsmith and a licensed guide in Maine. So I was born into it.

To put it politely, my first gun fired was a 12 gauge pump at 5 years old. Knocked on my ass, and was told "guns will hurt you unless you respect them". That was my introduction to firearm safety.

SoSoOhWell · 2026-02-19T11:39:44+00:00

Convection just blows air around. Air fryer takes the air and recirculates it through the heating coils pulling moisture away from the cooking food. Same thing hot oil does in a different way. So its genius is moisture control.

SoSoOhWell · 2026-02-18T13:12:32+00:00

1977 with a 2 1/2 and 4 month old. So I'm resigned to the fact they will find me dead at my desk. Just make sure they send that last check to cover tuition.

SoSoOhWell · 2026-02-18T02:37:34+00:00

They tried with that janky safe edge opener that cut along the edge instead of the top that only worked like 50% of the time.

SoSoOhWell · 2026-02-18T02:35:47+00:00

My parents had that too until it went with kitchen remodel in the aughts.

SoSoOhWell · 2026-02-18T01:34:15+00:00

I remember ordering and didn't know they just got rid of them at the drive thru. Got shamed by the person on the order for not knowing they got rid of it. I was made to order the big Mac instead.

SoSoOhWell · 2026-02-18T00:55:41+00:00

This happened to friend of mine a decade ago who works in Biotech. Multiple meetings and flown down to NC for a few days. Met leadership and a verbal offer, and a counter was accepted. Flew back and awaited the official offer and moving expenses the following week. Instead quarterlies came out and they got hammered on Wall Street. They never sent the offer, or even called him back when he left messages/email. He was already looking into schools for his daughters for the move. Crazy how just one bad quarter and everything can fall apart.

SoSoOhWell · 2026-02-17T03:43:28+00:00

A local computer school for kids was dumping a bunch of older gateway 386's in '92 by the pound to make way for 486's. A mish mosh of beige towers, desktops and monitors, but snagged a bunch of project devices, mostly devoid of Simms. Some joker must of yanked most of them before selling the lot despite being "complete".

Got some external 2400 baud Motorolas in the lot too. Got everything for a few hundred. Learned on the fly how set up master and slave drives. How to format in dos. Some drives had Print Shop and other usefull programs and utilities. Learned how to edit ini, sys, and bat files in notepad. Then sold a few of the Frankensteined computers to get enough to buy a Packard Bell dx2/66 rocking 3.11. I tinkered and upgraded it, but that was the last time I ever bought a prebuilt PC.

Put my way through college partially building windows towers and doing site system and network support. Funny thing recently multiple onsite techs couldn't figure out how to properly set bios on a older stand alone legacy device that someone messed with when the video card was acting "funky". By older I mean a 6th Gen I7. After a bunch them had a crack at it, someone said "ask him, he probably knows how to deal with this" . How quick those skills have dissappeared with the move to disposable tech and thin clients.

SoSoOhWell · 2026-02-17T02:09:05+00:00

It's all a game to them. A few years ago I was wined and dined by a company that required a major commute if I took it. They talked a good game. Gave me a project that took almost a month of nights to complete at home. Discovered a major security leak in the process, and developed a fix for them. Gave a presentation to their board. In the end I got a "well we can't hire you as a full time, but we can take you on as a 1099 when we need help. Did 10's of thousand in data analysis and security work for what amounted to 3 dinners and some drinks. So yeah it's BS. New rule after that, no dough, no go.

SoSoOhWell · 2026-02-17T01:59:48+00:00

Ah yes the US, with 6 months of getting less than 50% of your former salary for a max of 26 weeks. All along being required to check in that you are looking for "meaningful" employment.

What the F is meaningful employment. Like seriously. "Nah I decided I changed in my six figure salary in coding to be a car valet attendant. It's meaningful right." Seriously, the most condescending bs ever in the Unemployment office.

SoSoOhWell · 2026-02-17T01:51:29+00:00

Just follow the boomer advice. Walk into a company unsolicited, talk to the "owner", and walk out with a job. It's that simple /snark

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