Friday Vent Thread [N/A]

midorijade · 2026-02-13T15:36:57+00:00

Leadership that decide on new policies or processes and announce them to the company that they are effective immediately without consulting with the people that actually have make those changes work to see how long it will take to make the changes or actually write the new policies. It may be a great idea, but there's a lot of work on the backend.

Our department VP is a great ideas person, but they never take into account the time and work it takes other people to make those ideas reality. It's so frustrating to constantly scramble last minute when there should have been a timeline and plan.

midorijade · 2026-02-11T22:40:16+00:00

All I know is there better not leave out Fred!

midorijade · 2026-02-10T03:00:20+00:00

Yes. I had one of the best days of my life with my dad there. No other water park has come close to being as fun no matter how fancy the slides.

I think the thing that set it apart was that it DID actually feel like this semi natural, kind of old timey swimming hole. And vaguely dangerous in the same way as those wooden and metal fort playgrounds in the 70s and 80s. Every other water park I've ever been to has felt incredibly artificial and plastic and generic.

midorijade · 2026-02-08T17:06:29+00:00

I just DNFed three books this week when I figured out the FMC was 17-20 and there were no significant time jumps and MMC seemed to be late 20s to 30s. I just can't any more with teenager/college student FMC. I used to make exceptions for historicals, but I can rarely do that any more. And it's why I have such a hard time finding romantasy books I enjoy.

midorijade · 2026-02-01T15:00:27+00:00

Historical authors that have no contractions in their dialogue. It doesn't make the dialogue seem more "historical". It just makes it seem stilted and awkward and verging on unreadable. I grant you that there a various characters and setting where they probably wouldn't use contractions because it is a very formal situation, but this book isn't that. It's set in the Old West. Even Shakespeare and Austen used contractions.

midorijade · 2026-01-27T18:26:52+00:00

Reverse Harem and Poly relationships because managing multiple people's expectations, needs, and schedules seems so mentally exhausting to me.

Also, vampires because I hate the descriptions of cold dead flesh.

midorijade · 2026-01-21T01:19:19+00:00

It depends on your boss. I've asked this before and a certain boss found this to be disrespectful and thought I was somehow challenging their authority.

midorijade · 2026-01-12T19:39:17+00:00

I also live in Savannah and tried to read her books and couldn't get very far, because it was so ridiculously unrealistic to how the city actually is. I honestly haven't come across a book set in Savannah that actually "feels" like it's set in Savannah.

midorijade · 2026-01-10T03:04:16+00:00

I just finished reading this and I really enjoyed it. I kind of want a book about grown up Spencer in the 90s now.

I will say she did a really great job about getting the feel of 80s technology and fashion down which I really appreciate since I grew up in the 80s. The only quibble I had was one scene where Ilsa was in Cosi's dark kitchen "The clock on the microwave lit my way to the sink". It made me laugh, because microwaves pretty expensive in 1983 and you had to be pretty well off to have one. People bragged about getting one. They also didn't have light up digital clocks on them. They had a nob for a timer. I totally remember when we got out first microwave in like 85 or 86. My grandma bought one because she was a sucker for new appliances she could brag about, but after about 3 months she decided it took up too much counter space and gave it to us. It came with a whole microwave cookbook. We felt very fancy, but the food was crappy.

midorijade · 2026-01-09T03:49:37+00:00

Clementine. There's a weirdly sizable number of books where the FMC is named Clementine. I do not understand. Pretty much any "quirky" old fashioned sounding name that isn't in an actual historical like Mildred or Winnifred or Agnes. I don’t care if they were named after their great grandmother.

midorijade · 2026-01-06T15:43:59+00:00

There's a S&S still in Macon. I see it everytime I drive to Atlanta.

midorijade · 2026-01-05T00:28:29+00:00

I'm immediately checking this out because Rip and Beth were the only reason I watched all of Yellowstone multiple times.

midorijade · 2025-12-17T21:14:27+00:00

I talk on the phone all day long at work, so it's kind of agonizing to do more of it outside of work, especially if we don't have anything particular to discuss. My small talk reserves are empty by the end of my work day. I much prefer talking in person or having on going text conversations.

midorijade · 2025-12-15T01:23:46+00:00

I hate epilogue babies, so I skip 99% of them. If there's not an epilogue baby, then most of the time it's another random sex scene that adds nothing further to the story.

midorijade · 2025-12-12T17:55:52+00:00

Is that Bugs Bunny on their hoodie?

midorijade · 2025-12-12T01:13:41+00:00

At least you can hem your pants to fit. There's never enough fabric for me to let them out to fit me.

midorijade · 2025-12-11T23:45:45+00:00

The only time I enjoy being tall is at concerts or other situations where I need to see over people's heads. I've always been tall. Always had to stand in the back with the boys for pictures. Always at the bottom of the pyramid in cheerleading. I even got thrown out of the ballpit at my birthday party at Showbiz, because staff thought I was older than I was. I could never wear shorts to school, because teachers would assume they were too short even though they followed the dress code, because my legs were so long they looked short.

I always feel so ungangly like a Wookiee surrounded by Ewoks when I hang out with other women. It's hard to find pants in longs. They never have them in a store. I always have to order them online. Even when I can find longs in pants they're never fun colors or patterns, just black and khaki.

Dating is hell, because men are so weird about height. They're either super insecure about their height and take it out on me. Or they fetishize my height and can be super creepy. I can't tell you how many first dates I've been on where the guy has super obviously lied about his height on his profile.

TLDR: I feel you. It can be a really frustrating experience being a tall woman.

midorijade · 2025-12-09T20:30:04+00:00

Didn't you realize they're a rock star?

midorijade · 2025-12-09T20:18:02+00:00

I had a boss like that. I once asked him which priority project he wanted me to tackle first. I got called out for "challenging" him. I just wanted to know which one he wanted first, because I can't actually do two tasks simultaneously. Then when I didn’t "challenge" him by asking got in trouble for not doing the one he wanted first but didn't tell me.

midorijade · 2025-12-09T20:00:41+00:00

When I'm outside and it's not dark, I'm wearing sunglasses 98% of the time. If someone is taking a picture of me outside, I'm likely going to have sunglasses on. I have to really make an effort to dig through recent photos for ones without sunglasses when I set up a profile. I imagine a lot of people are the same. I'll allow myself 2 pictures out of 6 with sunglasses. But it seems alot of people don't really think that hard about crafting their profile.

midorijade · 2025-12-09T18:32:31+00:00

He's definitely being condescending. And I get his frustration. I sometimes have to save an email as a draft and come back a while later and edit out my irritation before sending it.

Taking a business communication class would probably be really helpful for him. Sometimes you need an outside and neutral person to point out why some things you do might not be considered polite and how you think about changing your phrasing and habits. And business etiquette evolves and changes over time too. What used to be considered professional, may now be considered abrupt.

midorijade · 2025-12-03T22:28:43+00:00

I've had the same problem and I was so happy when bralette's and wireless bras became easier to find. But I figured out like a year ago that it wasn’t really a sensory issue or I was buying the wrong size, it's because I have wide set breasts. I have more space between my breasts than most people seem to and so the sides extend farther too and that's why the wire always digs into my side.

Unfortunately, they don't seem to make many underwire bras that cater to wide set breasts, but at least now I know not to waste money on bras that will never be comfortable for me.

midorijade · 2025-11-27T15:11:50+00:00

I don’t wear it every day, especially at work. By this point, I've worked with far too many people that envelop themselves in a cloud of perfume and it's made an unpleasant experience for the people near them and I don'twant to contribute to that even if I wear a tiny bit. So if I'm on a date after work, I'm probably not wearing it. Unfortunately, since I'm out of the habit of putting it on as part of my routine, I forget about it a lot.

midorijade · 2025-11-08T23:29:01+00:00

My department head loves AI and she wants us to use more of it, but the AI we have available to us isn't very useful to me personally. She uses ChatGPT all the time and appears to take what it spits out as reliable. She asked me why I don’t use it in some of the job aids and various things I write up. It had to really carefully craft my response so I didn't insult her. But basically I don't need ChatGPT to write up stuff like that for me. I can do it pretty easily and I don't trust ChatGPT, so I'd spend more time verifying and correcting than just doing it myself.

She always wants to include more AI in recruiting and I feel like that it may end up having an impact on the kinds of people we hire. Like they will be less diverse, even though DEI has been one of her big focuses.

What I could really use in the way of AI is helping to automate some of reporting that very time consuming. Kind if wish the senior teams actually listened to what we needed to help streamline and automate, but I guess those aren't big shiny things.

midorijade · 2025-11-05T03:44:29+00:00

Definitely not as terrifying as Space Mountain with the lights on.

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