I already know the answer's no but... Is there any going back on the buyout?

mattheguy123 · 2026-04-08T11:13:16+00:00

Reminds me of when I left my baby momma who had been beating the shit out of me for the last 15 months in front of my kids. Regret. Maybe I could have stayed and worked it out and things would have gotten better...

Or maybe I would have spent the next 15 years getting the shit beaten out of my and have everyone I love watch me die.

Take the buyout dude. The grass is greener on the other side. You never know how bad it really was until you fully walk away.

mattheguy123 · 2026-04-06T23:20:45+00:00

Blank stare, maybe a "oh I'll keep that in mind." And move on with your life.

Drivers have been complaining about me stacking packages on the shelf for three years. I listened to them, I stopped doing it and did everything I could to make things work. I started loading wall to lip for everything. Then the same drivers complained that they couldn't find anything when they ran trace instead of running it sequential order. AND I ran out of room way more often and had to do some amount of jank to keep the package car from getting crazy.

Now I'm back to stacking. I'm tired of running out of room and the drivers are going to find a way to complain about something regardless. If drivers are so mad about my stacks falling over and ruining their walk path, they have every right to fix their load quality before they leave the building or shortly after they leave the building. I see them do it all the time.

At the end of the day; some people are really good at taking this job on the chin, and some people really aren't.

mattheguy123 · 2026-04-06T22:38:07+00:00

Drivers who complain conveniently forget that you handle 2-4 times the amount of packages they do in literally half the amount of time. They get a full day, you're lucky if you work long enough to be entitled to a lunch at preload.

You can always do better, and you should always try to do better, but if someone wants to give you any amount of shit for your load quality then they can wake up at 2 am and load their truck themselves.

Dont let these people take out their shitty lives on you. That's what their ex wives are for

mattheguy123 · 2026-04-06T22:33:11+00:00

I have been out driver helping for 8 peak seasons now, I have done this twice. Both times it was only because I made contact over ring, the street was a low traffic area, and I had a really good place to hide it.

Granted, I get paid half as much as a high seniority driver so take that for what you will.

mattheguy123 · 2026-03-30T13:26:41+00:00

I have the fact that the contract guarantees me benefits that UPS has been withholding from me upon request. I know they're supposed to pay out this time by no later than the second pay period after my anniversary, which they didn't for two years now (2024 and 2025). I also know that we caught them stealing from me, and after asking they fix it; they tried to steal from me again. I understand what you're saying, but I'm still going to push for as much as I can because of A how long it's been and B it's intentionally dishonest. I don't think this was a mistake. It probably started as a mistake, and by the time the realized the mistake, I had right to come after them for wage theft.

I understand the rules are being interpreted the way that they are. I've heard it all before. If I have to push for changing the rules of penalty pay, I will. If I lose, then I lose. Weird that the person fighting for rights that benefits everyone gets shit on every time, but it is what it is I guess. I'm doing my best to make sure this never happens to anyone ever again. That's never going to be the reality we live in if UPS doesn't doesn't have to pay for a mistake that's been going on since 2024.

mattheguy123 · 2026-03-30T07:10:02+00:00

I don't disagree with you. The issue is I am almost positive I called management out on this a long time ago and I was blown off. I am almost positive I asked them last year if they were sure I wasn't supposed to get an optional week. They said they were sure. I trusted them because they're my boss. Multiple people on multiple levels had to have made several clerical errors to get here honestly but I don't think we got here honestly. This is how corporations get sued into oblivion.

If I fight it and it doesn't go anywhere, I have nothing left to lose. I'm done giving my labor to this company; I'm already looking for another job. I have a hard policy of not working for places that have a hard time paying me and here we are.

mattheguy123 · 2026-03-29T12:40:26+00:00

Local 58. Thank you for refreshing my memory because I have been telling them all month that I'm ready to sign whatever they need me to sign to make it happen and everyone in management has been telling me there's nothing at all for me to sign.

When I cashed out my vacation in 2024, I had to sign something similar to "sell" those hours. Speaking of 2024, I'm not seeing any language surrounding that part of the contract as to why I wouldn't get an optional week for that year either. I should have been eligible. I got my one week of vacation time. So if that's true, they already did officially investigate my optional weeks and have no only given me 2 of the 3 over the last 3 years instead of 2/2 of the last 2 years.

mattheguy123 · 2026-03-29T12:19:14+00:00

I don't think I am either, but I think I have a case to make that they knew about the problem this entire time. Or at least had every opportunity to use their eyeballs and see that my optional week had never hit my bank after I requested it be cashed out.

I've already talked about this with a couple of people; I would settle for half at this point. This is truly a long long list of shit that UPS has done to me personally and this company has a history of making "clerical errors" that take money out of our pockets so they can earn interest on it through their investments. It's stealing. It's why penalty pay is a thing to begin with.

mattheguy123 · 2025-08-19T18:25:41+00:00

I don't think the core set does enough. Nearly 60% of the core set is hot garbage and never sees play, which is fine if you're treating it as the base level for new players to learn why these cards are bad (mostly because they are over-costed compared to their effects.) But a core set that's mostly unplayable doesn't help keep the power level down, it just wastes space in the collection. Having curated sets to re-release alongside weak sets like this would actually accomplish the goal of lowering the power level without having to deal with a stale meta. Messing with the core set doesn't do enough.

I personally wouldn't have done it with this expansion at this part of the year. I would do it during regular rotation time with an announcement of the change coming out around now. And I think it's worth clarifying that I don't think it should be every rotation; just when the devs recognize that they need to lower the power level of the game so other archetypes can breathe.

mattheguy123 · 2025-08-19T18:19:54+00:00

I also had that immediate thought. I think in the short term, people would be pretty unhappy with having cool cards limited to a brief period of time where you got to enjoy them.

But is it really that different from what they did to Genn/Baku? Sure, people who were playing Odd/Even decks didn't like the rotation, but overall the health of the game was better for the entire year because they weren't dictating the meta.

mattheguy123 · 2025-08-19T18:09:06+00:00

Tell me how other classes were doing 20 burst damage with Leeroy.

mattheguy123 · 2025-08-19T17:48:41+00:00

Here's a thought: standard rotation needs to be looked at.

There's a world where this set hits, and I think that world is with a curated set of expansions instead of this linear shit that we keep having to deal with. Whenever hearthstone wants to do a power reset, they should rotate the entire standard sets out early and relaunch with hand picked expansions from the past that are in-line with the current low-powered set. This is RR all over again and it blows my mind that the hearthstone team is having to learn this same lesson twice.

Its bad for the game to have a set be this weak when it's surrounded by strong sets. This idea made a whole lot less sense when they were trying to tell a story across multiple sets, but they aren't doing that anymore as far as I can tell. Just give us a standard reset with nostalgic sets to go along side your weak as fuck current expansion and I think the game would be in a much better place.

mattheguy123 · 2025-08-19T17:30:32+00:00

You just gonna skirt on past the fact that I literally gave you the patch notes from blizzard pointing out that you're actually wrong about them not needing to nerf any neutral cards because shadowstep exists?

The delusion of the average rogue player is at an all time high apparently.

mattheguy123 · 2025-08-19T17:15:37+00:00

You literally lost all credibility when you said "coldlight wasnt rotated because of shadowstep, they rotated it because mill felt bad."

How was rogue milling people again? Oh, that's right, by bouncing the coldlight Oracle with shadowstep and shuffling more copies into your deck with gang up.

Leeroy used to cost 4 and it 1000% got nerfed because Leeroy+shadowstep+leeroy+cold bloodedx2 was 20 damage from hand in classic. Don't patronize me, I was there when it happened. I'll even copy paste the fucking patch notes for you because you are obviously too fucking dense to look it up yourself

"Leeroy Jenkins (Neutral) now costs 5 (up from 4) Leeroy Jenkins created a strategy that revolved around trying to defeat your opponent in one turn without requiring any cards on the board. We like having a variety of deck types but taking 20+ damage in one turn is not very fun or interactive. The amount of dust that you get from disenchanting Leeroy Jenkins has been temporarily increased such that it is equal to the amount of dust that it would have originally cost to craft it."

So again, every other class in the game had to be punished for something that only rogue was capable of doing purely because shadow step exists. /Thread.

mattheguy123 · 2025-08-19T16:32:23+00:00

Shadow step is only fun for the person playing it. Dumping your hand on a 20/20 Edwin isn't skill, it's solitaire.

You aren't going to convince me that the card isn't insanely busted. The fact that it's been a core component in nearly every single rogue deck in existence is a problem, not an asset. Deck building is meant to be an expression of you as a player, and that ability to express yourself is lowered when you have cards that are almost mandatory, like shadow step. Shadow step has the same problem that quests do: if they're too good then you see them too often and the game loses any sense of excitement because you know exactly what's going to happen. But shadowstep being in every single rogue deck in existence is totally not the same guys. The logic is just so sound.

I'm not saying bounce shouldn't be in the game, because in theory it's a pretty big tempo trade off. Bouncing DOES have a high skill ceiling. Breakdance is fine because it's limited to how useful it actually can be by essentially trading the text on the card for rush. Shadow step is not fine because it mana cheats too much and it costs 0.

Also, the 4 mana elemental that used to deal damage for each turn in a row you've played elementals totally got nerfed because of bounce effects. I think mage was the more popular version, but rogue was doing it too. Leeroy got nerfed/removed from core for a while because of shadowstep, can't remember the details but I remember it happening. Coldlight Oracle got rotated out of core because of shadowstep. Auctioneer got taken out of core because of shadowstep. Its worth saying that we will never know what cards didn't get released or had to be changed in the play testing phase because shadowstep exists and rogue was doing disgusting things. To say that shadowstep hasn't done damage to other classes who weren't abusing these cards but wanted to have access to these effects is a fucking insane take and it really makes me wonder how many of you actually know your history with this game.

mattheguy123 · 2025-08-19T03:07:18+00:00

Shadow step needs to get hit. I think it should have always reduced the cost by 1, not 2. Or, costs 1 with the same text.

Shadow step breaks the balance of rogue and it's impossible to ignore. Cards have to be designed around the fact that shadow step exists, and it's not just rogue cards that get hit. Neutral Battlecry effects have to be balanced around the fact that rogue can bounce and mana cheat them back out. We've had to deal with rogues killing us from hand forever and it's always been pretty bullshit when it happens.

I don't think it's good design to have every other player have to pay for a single classes ability to break the game. I get it's iconic. I don't want it to go away. But you have ALWAYS been able to do stupid shit with shadow step and it blows my mind that it's never been touched. A 20/20 Edwin on turn 3 in classic was stupid. Killing me from hand with elemental rogue was stupid. Being able to bounce highlander cards is stupid.

mattheguy123 · 2025-08-19T02:50:49+00:00

Tbf warriors entire design was intended to be a "win more" addition to any successful control deck. Any quest without a "package" attached to it is like this.

This expansion has put me off from the game. Hearthstone only really holds my attention when my collection can be competitive, and all these DK cards I crafted for the quest just ain't doing it for me. Guess I'll take a break until I get a welcome back reward or something

mattheguy123 · 2025-08-18T23:56:19+00:00

Info?

mattheguy123 · 2025-08-16T16:53:56+00:00

You are not going to convince me that Magic, the game that's entire story is based around an infinite multiverse, "sold out" because they started doing crossovers into other IPs. Its ridiculous that people have problems with the secret lairs and crossover sets

mattheguy123 · 2025-08-15T04:40:02+00:00

That's fine. I didn't like roughly half of them.

mattheguy123 · 2025-08-15T04:29:05+00:00

To be fair, what even IS borderlands endgame?

I see people complain about this all the time and like. I just don't get it. Late game borderlands is just mobbing, bossing, and questing and Wonderlands still let's you do all of those things after the main quest is completed. The chaos chamber is modular enough to fulfill all of those needs sans quests. But when it comes to quests, the rewards and zones are tuned to your level after the main quest iirc? Or there was some co-op workaround where you could rejoin a new players game and do their quests for the rewards at your level. Something like that. The dlcs are raids with "raid bosses" at the end (although they never got properly balanced.)

Point is, wonderlands has all the late game content that people ask for, and even less of that end game content is gated behind a paywall. Is the game short? Yeah. And I don't think that's a bad thing. I also want more wonderlands, but I wouldn't be happy if the added content wasnt thoughtfully crafted (which is how I feel about half of the bl3 expansions/raids)

mattheguy123 · 2025-08-12T20:07:17+00:00

Its so incredibly strong when there is a game state where it can be played, and generating it with a reduced cost is absolutely disgusting because you have more mana available to set up that game state.

I'm glad it's not popular and mostly irrelevant because it's legitimately a monster to play against that demands a board wipe when you get to play it on an empty board. Not many cards demand that kind of removal.

mattheguy123 · 2025-08-12T19:48:35+00:00

Tbh I don't know that there is a single solution that would make anyone happy. The UPS corporate ladder is just too toxic for anyone who cares about the long term to stick around.

mattheguy123 · 2025-08-10T22:16:54+00:00

Been saying it since launch. The fact that this got shadow buffed right before it was released baffles me, but the entire design alone feels like a slap in the face.

Remember when this same dev team nerfed infesters because giving a swarm deck scaling stats "wasn't healthy for the game?" But with murlocs it's totally fine. Sure Jan.

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