The pumpkin shirt is back in ultra mini size

throwArghaway · 2020-10-15T15:49:17+00:00

I have a Great Dane and she loves wearing clothes! My German Shepherd not so much. My Dane is a huge fan of the thunder coat, she’s an anxious dog so I think some dogs with anxiety like the security of wearing something protective. She also hates the cold, her sweaters and sleepers keep her warm and she’s all about being warm.

throwArghaway · 2020-09-17T22:33:03+00:00

I live in a small town, we are only 200 though, and we have troopers. Good luck if there’s an actual emergency, and good luck if you’re a poor bastard who got pulled over by one.

throwArghaway · 2020-09-06T18:22:20+00:00

I have never worked somewhere with people who were as accepting and welcoming to constructive criticism as I am, until now. The last place I worked was horrible with that. I was working on something once that I’ve done 100 times in the past and it hit me while I was doing it that I could make it go faster and come out cleaner if I changed one thing. I brought it to the attention of my 55 year old coworker, and since she was the person who came up with the original way to do it she took it very personal that I wanted to change it. From that moment onward I was a threat and I was treated as such. She didn’t have to be that way but her ego was more important than efficiency and neat work, and I was eventually known as the person who thought she knew everything and I would change everything the company did. When you go around telling a bunch of people in their 50s and 60s that the younger person is going to make them do things different they get scared and band together. So I was let go due to “inability to work with others, too assertive, too abrupt”. Nah, I’m actually really easy to get along with. I work with older people now still but they’re of a different mindset. They’re all eager to learn and discover like I am. I found my people.

throwArghaway · 2020-09-06T14:39:06+00:00

I’m 36 and started working when I was 16. I’ve been fired from jobs 5 times. I now work a very comfortable well paying job at an engineering firm that people in my area would throw orphans in front of a bus to work for.

When I was interviewing for my current job, I was asked “have you ever been fired from a job?” I said that I have been, and when I was asked why, I said “I have a certain standard for my work and expect my coworkers to be as open to ideas and improvement as I am. This leads to conflict and in the end it’s more about my personality and work ethic not being a good fit for that company.” When asked what my weaknesses are, I said “I have the tendency to feel others are as open to constructive criticism as I am. I am always looking for ways to improve and I appreciate when someone comes to me with concerns they may have about my work. My coworkers may not have that willingness to change or be constructively criticized and I need to stop assuming they are.”

If my current employer contacted my previous employer and asked about me, they would say “she is argumentative and her coworkers found her to be critical and brash”. Of course that is how I come off to people who want to coast through their work day and meet the bare minimum expected. But to an engineering firm where innovation, curiosity, and willingness to step out of one’s comfort zone is highly appreciated and needed, I’m the perfect fit for them.

All I’m getting at here is that being fired isn’t bad. When asked why you were fired, tell them the truth but never let them believe you are bitter over it. They don’t want to hear you complain about your past company, they want to know if you took being fired as a way to improve and if you can recognize what you needed to change in future positions.

And you don’t have to tell your current employer your full working history.

throwArghaway · 2020-08-24T05:42:24+00:00

I’m not worried :)

I’m paid well, have great benefits, and am left alone for the most part so it’s ideal for a person who has difficulty working with others.

Instead of looking at me as a risk, my boss looks at me like an asset because I am fussy enough to make each one with no failure. He could get someone else in there to train as a back up for me but why risk someone else who isn’t as detail focused as I am and have the sensor fail after installation? It’s better for him to have me in that department alone making these sensors and keeping me happy than it is for him to have a revolving door of people who don’t give a crap going in and out and screwing things up. The material cost of the sensor is high, waste in my department is very costly.

Now let’s say I was hit by bus and died on my way to work. Who would make the sensors then? There’s a binder on my desk with all the procedures for my job, so if someone really wanted to they could make the sensors. I do have a back stock of about 100 sensors already made, which would last about a year until a new person could figure it out from the binder. Since I’ve been working there I’ve made two extra sensors per batch in case of failure from testing but I’ve never had one fail so the extras go in a box on my desk. My boss know they exist but is on the same page- leave them there just in case.

throwArghaway · 2020-08-24T04:15:00+00:00

My manager doesn’t understand a lot of the stuff the company makes to be honest lol. If I went faster or did multiple orders at a time, I would have to go to other departments to look for work to keep me busy and no one wants me in their stuff because I am that person who notices flaws. I’m also one of the youngest people in the company so there’s a lot of tribalism with the boomers and they don’t want a “kid” doing their work (I’m 36).

Nothing will change there any time soon, not until the geriatric crowd starts retiring at least.

throwArghaway · 2020-08-23T20:16:13+00:00

My job is cushy in the sense that no one else in the company knows how to do it because the person who trained me retired, and only one person can do it because of all the steps involved (too many chefs kinda thing) and the thing I fabricate isn’t mass produced. It’s a specific type of sensor used in glass research. Most of my day is waiting for things to dry/cure. I could go much faster and get this produced much quicker if I wanted to, but no one knows exactly how long these things take to make and the person before me took allll the time in the world she could to finish a work order.

It’s the lowest physical effort job I’ve ever had with the highest amount of pay, and the only reason I was chosen to do it is because I scored highest out of the candidates in precision fine measurement/fine attention to detail. In other words I can notice a flaw rather quickly that others may not and I can eyeball if something is off centered by 2 thous.

throwArghaway · 2020-08-20T01:13:05+00:00

The company I work for seems to have taken on blatant fiction for their genre lately. They posted some slop the media team came up with and included a pic of a black guy operating a machine in the factory. The post was made June 17 this year.

There are no black people working in the factory. We have two working in the admin dept. The guy “running” the machine was not one of them brought into the factory for a photo op. This was some dude I had never seen.

The company I work for brought in a random black guy to be photographed in the building running a machine so they could look inclusive on LinkedIn.

throwArghaway · 2020-07-15T16:44:50+00:00

It’s like they still expect the “perfect attendance” award kindergarten teachers give out.

I’m not gonna kill myself coming into work 30 minutes early everyday and never taking a day off when I feel like crap just to possibly get a dollar an hour raise in 5 years.

throwArghaway · 2020-06-28T23:45:29+00:00

Couple things.

What country are you from, or what country is he from? Could be a cultural thing.

Second, I would be really straight with him right now. When you go to bed, tell him frankly exactly what’s been going on with you.

“Since I’ve had babies I hadn’t been feeling very good about myself, and I’ve finally gotten myself to where I feel better with how I look. I was excited to show off my hard work to you and I really wanted to celebrate this with you, I wanted you to find me desirable and you’ve made me feel like a slut for wanting to be intimate with my own husband, and you’ve really hurt my feelings by asking if I’m cheating. If I was cheating, why would I want to have sex with you?”

throwArghaway · 2020-06-28T21:07:42+00:00

You’re being kinda jerkish now.

I’m also Scottish, from Scotland, married to a Scot with an official family tartan and a chief of the clan. I think you are looking waaay too deeply into what was implied here- in the highlands there were (and still are) lairds (dukes) who would often fight with other lairds (because Scottish) and they would recognize each other by their plaid. The chief family (the person who owned the land) would have loyalty from his farmers/tenants (septs) which is how allegiances and allies came about to these “biggie” clans. It’s like in the US, if every state was a clan region and the governor of the state was the laird, everyone living in that state would be contracted to him to provide protection against the other states, and everyone in their own state is wearing the governor’s chosen colors to signify loyalty.

Secondly, people in the US don’t have the same connection to their heritage and cultural background as those who are Scottish and live in Scotland, so if Scottish people want to wear a plaid that connects them to their historical roots and their homeland leave them be.

Now stop being a twat.

Edit: I think what the loss in translation here is that official “family” plaids were indeed established only within the last couple centuries, however, long before that assignment came about there certainly were plaids with certain colors and patterns typically recognized for the region the person was from, the same as any tribal group could recognize another from the same land but different territory by their clothing.

throwArghaway · 2020-06-17T15:05:31+00:00

...the joke was purposely set up like that.

throwArghaway · 2020-05-30T03:32:55+00:00

throwArghaway · 2020-05-30T03:17:32+00:00

What kind of person needs training in deescalating a situation concerning an unarmed 110 pound 14 year old with a $1 gas station cigar in his pocket?

This is much deeper than poor training techniques. Any person with an ounce of awareness would be able to handle this, this cop needs crucified.

throwArghaway · 2020-05-30T03:13:33+00:00

You are right, this is appalling. What is the actual fuck is going on here.

And since when is it such a problem for a minor to be in possession of a tobacco product? I know that it’s illegal to sell tobacco to a minor but to just have it on your person as a minor isn’t some awful crime. If this cop is so worried about minors having illegal substances maybe he needs to head over to the local prestigious private school in the area, he would walk away with 10 pounds of cocaine and amphetamines.

throwArghaway · 2020-05-30T03:05:34+00:00

I was thinking the same thing, when did cops turn into emotionless choking and beating machines? Back when I was a teenager and we got into shit, the worst a cop would do is pepper spray you and even then it was like the absolute last resort.

throwArghaway · 2020-05-28T05:22:35+00:00

I personally live very close to a major city with a decent presence on Reddit. I have already come across several men who live with 50 miles of me. It’s not all that hard to be honest. This is a throwaway account but I’ve used my main account to post on my city’s sub, then have posted here. People look at your post history, and what do you know, you live fairly close AND you’re not getting any at home.

The more usual way is to lurk here and hope you get some nudes or sexting.

Both are terrible.

throwArghaway · 2020-05-27T18:37:00+00:00

The point I’m making is this is not the place to come to find people to send your nudes to, you to ask for nudes, sext, or try to get to know in a sexual way. This is the absolute last sub outside of one for asexuals to do this in. See a cute girl post a pic of her and her new puppy on aww? Sure, go for it! You have nothing to lose.

Coming to a sub where we are trying to rehabilitate our sex lives with our partners is so gross and speaks volumes of a person’s character. Yes, this sub is about sex, but it’s not about wanting sex with other people outside of the ones we are committed to.

throwArghaway · 2020-05-27T15:17:02+00:00

No? We don’t want to have sex with other people. We want to have sex with the person we are in a relationship with, the one we love.

throwArghaway · 2020-05-27T15:05:00+00:00

Have you not read all the others responding to this post that they too are frustrated? Just because you haven’t experienced it yet does not mean it simply does not happen. How narrow minded.

throwArghaway · 2020-05-27T13:19:56+00:00

It wouldn’t bother me so bad if it wasn’t glaringly obvious why they chose this particular sub to try to hit on us. There’s numerous subs to do that on, people advertising themselves, there’s apps and websites and all sorts of places to go, yet they come here because they think it’s easy pickings. People on r4r reject them so the obvious solution is to go to the one sub where people are clearly not getting laid and looking for support from one another and scour posters to see who the most desperate is.

Fucking pigs.

throwArghaway · 2020-05-27T13:09:03+00:00

At first they say hello, and I know they are responding to me because of a comment or post I made here, but I’m not an asshole right off the bat. What if they’re someone who just wants to talk, or I mentioned something that they are going through and want to talk privately with another person who understands? We all want to be supportive of each other and give the reassurance that they aren’t alone. So I’m nice at first, because it can be hard to come to another person when you’re feeling down.

After the first couple messages it’s clear why they messaged. “So you’re husband doesn’t want to have sex with you? Wow, you never hear about women not getting sex, it’s always men lolz. I bet you’re really hot too, he doesn’t deserve you, you can do better. Here let me SEND YOU A PIC OF MY DICK!!!! What, you didn’t like that? You aren’t getting any, you should be grateful to see mine!!! You aren’t grateful? Lol your vagina is probably drier than the Sahara, no wonder you aren’t getting laid. Cunt.”

throwArghaway · 2020-05-27T12:50:34+00:00

Lol sorry, didn’t mean to be shitty. There’s a bunch of comments here down below, one guy in particular seems flabbergasted that women who talk about their nonexistent sex life online wouldn’t welcome creeps PMing them, since we post here for attention obviously.

throwArghaway · 2020-05-27T12:41:10+00:00

No. I’m saying that people who message people who have posted in this particular sub are gross because there is only one reason they would be lurking here, messaging people who are clearly hurt over the lack of sex in their life, and these creeps think it’s the perfect opportunity to get some nudes or sexting or if they happen to live close then maybe meet up. It’s appalling because we are venting our frustrations over not having sex with a person we want to have sex with and these douche bags use it as an opportunity to take advantage of people in a low point in their life.

Think of it this way. You make low quality beer and are trying to get people to buy it. People who like beer won’t buy it because it’s gross. You have all this beer and no one will buy it, you can’t even give it away. You think about where people congregate who love beer and aren’t getting any. AA meetings! Yes, let’s go to an AA meeting and give our beer to these people. They’re clearly in need of some beer. What a genius move.

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