The unofficial bad day thread.

[Doc Harleen]

Oh my goodness, the STRESS. I came into work a couple minutes late yesterday, only to find out that our meeting at 1pm has been moved up to 9am, and I have to walk in late in front of everybody. It turns out the reason it was moved was to do with a bunch of false accusations made about our department by a disgruntled ex-employee, and this could cause a lot of problems for us. AND I have to create an action plan this week for a project, which I've never done before and I'm worried I'm going to fail at, AND my time to work on it is being taken away from me while being pulled in on special projects and helping re-train staff. AND I start school again tonight, so the next seven weeks are guaranteed to be extra-stressful. I just feel like I don't know what I'm doing, and it is only a matter of time until I'm caught.

And big *hugs* for everybody, and hoping things get better.

[Trefle]

Oh my goodness, the STRESS. I came into work a couple minutes late yesterday, only to find out that our meeting at 1pm has been moved up to 9am, and I have to walk in late in front of everybody. It turns out the reason it was moved was to do with a bunch of false accusations made about our department by a disgruntled ex-employee, and this could cause a lot of problems for us. AND I have to create an action plan this week for a project, which I've never done before and I'm worried I'm going to fail at, AND my time to work on it is being taken away from me while being pulled in on special projects and helping re-train staff. AND I start school again tonight, so the next seven weeks are guaranteed to be extra-stressful. I just feel like I don't know what I'm doing, and it is only a matter of time until I'm caught.

And big *hugs* for everybody, and hoping things get better.

Oh my, that's a lot of things. *hugs* Good luck on doing them all!

I don't want to add more pressure, but...I guess what I'm going to say can be seen as one;
please make sure you ate and rested well....? And watch your mental state; do whatever you do to relax and unwind sometimes!

[Doc Harleen]

Oh my goodness, the STRESS. I came into work a couple minutes late yesterday, only to find out that our meeting at 1pm has been moved up to 9am, and I have to walk in late in front of everybody. It turns out the reason it was moved was to do with a bunch of false accusations made about our department by a disgruntled ex-employee, and this could cause a lot of problems for us. AND I have to create an action plan this week for a project, which I've never done before and I'm worried I'm going to fail at, AND my time to work on it is being taken away from me while being pulled in on special projects and helping re-train staff. AND I start school again tonight, so the next seven weeks are guaranteed to be extra-stressful. I just feel like I don't know what I'm doing, and it is only a matter of time until I'm caught.

And big *hugs* for everybody, and hoping things get better.

Oh my, that's a lot of things. *hugs* Good luck on doing them all!

I don't want to add more pressure, but...I guess what I'm going to say can be seen as one;
please make sure you ate and rested well....? And watch your mental state; do whatever you do to relax and unwind sometimes!

Thank you - and that is totally understandable. I actually eat and sleep pretty poorly when I'm in school, relying on disgusting energy drinks to keep me awake through night classes and snacking to deal with the stress, and I usually end up with about 5.5 hours of sleep a night (which I am just too old for that to be enough). I've gained a fair bit of weight over the last year because of this. But thank you, I will try to relax here and there, when I can. At least this coming weekend is a long weekend here!

[Hexr]

Dear teacher,

I hardly ever bother with hate. Mostly I feel it's waste of time and energy that could be used better by directing it to liking, maybe even loving, important people. The people I don't like usually receive indifference or mild dislike.

It is quite evident that you love the subjects you teach. Your enthusiasm shows in the way you speak in class. It also shows in the way you deem anything not concerning you or your subjects "unimportant".

I think you are incompetent. The way you handle your lectures turns the students away. You cannot take criticism. You are completely unable to look at anything from any other viewpoint than your own (I think it's called "empathy"). Your methods, general conduct and favoritism are unprofessional. The last straw was the way you decided to give me individual feedback today in front of class. It was humiliating, and I took it as a personal insult.

I hardly ever hate people, but you made it to a very short list of people I actively hate. Congratulations.

I hate you.

Bitch.

-Hexr

[Black Cat Godess]

*hugs for everyone* Seems like this week is extra stressful for everyone, me included.

I am doing slightly better than yesterday. Went into work after waking up fresh and ready, only to go home after five hours because I was nauseous, needed to eat but couldn't due to said nausea, and just generally feeling ill. My coworker said I looked pale (well...she signed it to me. Protip: having a deaf coworker is a good excuse to learn ASL.) and said she was worried because I was hot and I'm NEVER hot in our lab. So yeah, went home and am generally still feeling terrible. Managing to eat though, even if it's something terrible like chips and cheese dip. Queso, you make all the hurt go away. *snuggles Queso jar*

Not only that, but since I missed work yesterday and worked only a part day today, I'll only be able to accrue 21 hours of work this week. I need to bolster my checking account since I recently moved and needed to pay for things related to that, so being sick and taking off work isn't really helping in that regard. Oh well, that's what over time is for, right? Plus, I'll be in Disney World this weekend to see my family and I get to go to a convention next weekend. Some bad to balance the good.

[Otaking]

Dear teacher,

I hardly ever bother with hate. Mostly I feel it's waste of time and energy that could be used better by directing it to liking, maybe even loving, important people. The people I don't like usually receive indifference or mild dislike.

It is quite evident that you love the subjects you teach. Your enthusiasm shows in the way you speak in class. It also shows in the way you deem anything not concerning you or your subjects "unimportant".

I think you are incompetent. The way you handle your lectures turns the students away. You cannot take criticism. You are completely unable to look at anything from any other viewpoint than your own (I think it's called "empathy"). Your methods, general conduct and favoritism are unprofessional. The last straw was the way you decided to give me individual feedback today in front of class. It was humiliating, and I took it as a personal insult.

I hardly ever hate people, but you made it to a very short list of people I actively hate. Congratulations.

I hate you.

Bitch.

-Hexr

Once I received a public dressing down for questioning my teacher who was teaching us that escape velocity was the same as terminal velocity. I think any teacher of quality would use any questions to uncover more facets of the multi-faceted gems which we call truth. Even established truths are often times relative and questioning them can certainly produce knowledge. It would be better for teachers to take this tact instead of getting defensive about shit.

[Valerie]

I just feel like I don't know what I'm doing, and it is only a matter of time until I'm caught.

I'm pretty sure that's the entire adult world. None of us really know what we're doing, from what I can tell.

[Artemisia]

I just feel like I don't know what I'm doing, and it is only a matter of time until I'm caught.

I actually don't know what I'm doing, and I usually get caught not knowing what I'm doing all the time. Unless everything is broken down for me into little tiny steps, I get lost. It constantly gets me into trouble, and I really need to have a very regimented life.

[LadyObvious23]

Today I awoke with a headache so bad that I felt like I was gonna vomit. (Sorry for being so gross.) Went to work and was stuck with a metric ton of dishes (my co-worker apologized for there being so many because she couldn't clean them due to the fact they were packed this morning.)they took me two hours to clean. Then I had to wash about at least double the amount of dishes once I got home. My feet hurt from standing in one place for a long time and despite the two Extra Strength Acetaminophen I took my head still hurts. DX

[svenman]

I just feel like I don't know what I'm doing, and it is only a matter of time until I'm caught.

I'm pretty sure that's the entire adult world. None of us really know what we're doing, from what I can tell.

In fact, you only are given that secret instruction manual when you turn forty.

Turns out it's totally out of date and completely useless so that you're actually better off continuing to improvise like before.

[Hexr]

Two exams today. Spanish is already over, only the Marketing exam is left. It's definitely the more difficult one, and it's for the teacher I told about earlier. You know, the one I hate.

[Muttley]

I just feel like I don't know what I'm doing, and it is only a matter of time until I'm caught.

I'm pretty sure that's the entire adult world. None of us really know what we're doing, from what I can tell.

In fact, you only are given that secret instruction manual when you turn forty.

Well, that's what they tell you to keep you on the hook. When you get there, it's just been withdrawn for revision. Don't hold your breath

[Doc Harleen]

Val, Artemisia, svenman, and Muttley - glad to know I'm not the only one to feel this way.

Today was such a pain in the ass. Not even getting into the continued craziness, pressure, and mind games at work, let's see... Well, my credit card has been compromised somehow and closed, I sat down and split a seam in a brand new dress (unfortunately not an uncommon occurrence for me, and one of the downsides to having a large bottom), a homeless woman rubbed up against me in the subway, and my right leg is hurting A LOT. There's more, but those are the highlights of the day.

[Trefle]

/mental whining
/musing

..I am quite afraid that I might be / am proactively using cognitive dissonance just to get by, these days.

......That doesn't sound quite healthy, mentally speaking.

....but it -is- effective. And emotionally secure.
What should I do?

Namely, the effects; the weaving of the patterns. I have found out that I have acted in a certain way because my mind is wired in that specific way.
(in a RPG term : Status Effect Cognitive Dissonance : +50 mental resistance +50 elemental defense to all elements, -10 Int, -15 Wis, -10 Cha, randomly changes elements and attack type)

In a way, it's like Wrong Genre Savvy; doing A in a situation because you're so used to think that these types of situations leads to A.
But opening my eyes...is a reprise of the old song. And it's a song I don't want to hear anymore. In fact because I don't want to hear it, I danced and created a mist.

Or am I just trapped in another, more meta, Wrong Genre Savvy?
Is there another way to get through it with clear head and clean conscience, with a full heart and non-damaged mind?

I
don't
know.
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Also, getting more (what I considered useless, redundant, and ultimately just-- an attempt to extinguishing some fire) responsibilities, without more pay?
Fun.

But I couldn't expect any less, from the bosses.

[Zanosuke Kurosaki]

Yow. I hope you find your reason to not be emotionally disconnected, Trefle. I know that feeling.

I was having a reasonably decent day so far. Then I checked my twitter feed and found this, from a Let's Player I follow.

http://fatuglyorslutty.com/ (ignore the non-indicative name, this isn't a "rate the person's looks" site.)

Before the site Zano: After reading just the first entry Zano: As a gamer and a human being, I'm sad that this site has to exist to serve as a chronicle to how many people never got the smack in the head they needed. =\