The Letting Off Steam Thread - Page 102

I'm not entirely sure this would qualify as "burning off steam" as much as letting out a puff of smoke, perhaps creating a smoke signal, with the hope anyone sees it and can nod in agreement so I don't feel like I'm the only human in the Universe thinking the same as I do, and I don't break the nose of someone.

As of writing and as of the past year or so I've been hating the country I was born and raised in and currently live in. Hating is perhaps not the right word to use here since not everyone puts the same effort into disliking something as others do. I put quite a lot of effort into it these days I'm afraid.

All of this probably requires a little explanation.

I'm currently a 21yr old engineering student and is about to start on my second year in two weeks. I'm an introvert person that thinks a lot about what happens around me. I've always been a positive person as well, perhaps using this self-reflectiveness to be able to see the positive outcome of more or less every situation. I just don't have that skill these days and my lack of motivation for doing anything constructive is severely lacking. I work part-time at the biggest electronics store in the country and normally I'd say I really like my job since it's (relatively) diverse and it's very flexible so I can always fit it around whatever I'm doing. I have no girlfriend and I'm not the type of person that has 2.000 friendships on Facebook, but the friends I have are very close and loyal friends. The way I like it.

Now, it could just be me or perhaps society's changing around me, which would surprise me since a lot would have changed in this slow-mode country the last year or so.

People are whining. Society's whining. This might sound very hypocritical of me since you'd argue I'm whining right now, but hang with me for a minute. People in this country are whining for NO obvious or logical reason! "Why's there only one bus an hour in my (edit: shithole) town of 200 people", "Why does my school only serve white bread to my children", "Why do I have to pay 20cent more for my milk than I did five years ago?". Seriously, people, what kind of fairytale life are you living in if THAT'S what keeps you awake at night? I cannot fathom how little meaning your life must have if it's complete gibberish like this that can turn a perfectly good day into a shit day.

My job's probably not helping my case here either. I get tons of customers coming out and complaining about some kind of malfunction on their product. Sometimes it's justified, sometimes it's not, and sometimes neither and they just deserve a 2x4 to the groin. Sure, if your $1,500 LG plasma somehow managed to break down after a week or your iPhone disintegrated while you were rocking Angry Birds, sure, I'll be more than happy to help and you can have a new one without questioning. But if your fucking $50 Doro + Show Spoiler +drops a call or the screen breaks after you FUCKING DROP IT, then please, for the love of everything sane, don't come and waste everyone's time and patience with you wanting a replacement model. This is only the tip of the tip of the iceberg but I'm not gonna bother you with more ranting on how much I hate bitchy customers.

Oh, and then there's our whole welfare and taxing system. I honestly love our welfare system, and it's probably one of the best (if not the best) in the world, but sometimes there's loopholes/flaws in it that could make me line up everyone in charge of it and hurl an asteroid into their faces. Technically it's possible for you be on government support from when you're young (18+ years) and until you're sixty-something and your pension kicks in. This is obviously very rare, BUT IT'S POSSIBLE! I know a guy who's 31 and has been on support since he was 25. He's somehow managed to persuade whoever was in charge of his case back then that he was mentally ill and couldn't work. Fact is, he's just dumbass lazy and because he never got an education, he gets more money from the government than if he took a job. That's right, people, you can get yourself in a situation in Denmark where it's NOT WORTH IT to get a real job because of the insanely high support from the government and the insanely high income taxes. I hate him and everyone else exploiting the system for it and hope they get run over one day by a bus full of people who actually need the help. That would be Karma in its most beautiful form. I'm not even going to talk about all the people who didn't get themselves in a good job or get a proper education when there wasn't a recession (which is very small in Denmark) and are now whining because all they can get is shit jobs at a conveyor belt or cleaning the streets. Please, people, take RESPONSIBILITY of your own life. Thank you.

Two weeks ago I came back from a month in Korea. The first thing I heard on the NATIONAL radio when I got home was that some parents at some random school were FURIOUS because the school cafeteria had decided to offer cake and "that wasn't proper food for their children BLARGBLARGBLARG". Well, then perhaps the parents shouldn't have taught their children that cake was fucking food in the first place, and thus contributing to our almost 50% obesity in the adult population!

Also turns out a month was just enough time for me to get used to being there instead of the usual tourist "HOLY SHIT GRAND CANYON"-rush, if that even makes sense lol. That only fueled my despise for this place. Most people are raised to be individuals in this country, which often results in a every-man-for-himself-culture and even though everyone hates the very popular "Janteloven" (read: you're not better than us) when you ask them, I'm gonna bet that a surprisingly large amount of people partially lives by it. I can't even put words on how much I hate this aspect of our culture. People generally don't give a fuck about anyone or anything else than themselves and what's in their immediate way of achieving a better life. Oh, and the streets! The streets look like SHIT! There's litter EVERYWHERE and I find this the perfect manifestation of how little people cares about anything but themselves. As long as you're not in some corn field or some tiny crack of a town, I'll bet you that you'll be able to spot a trash can no matter where you are, but still, people simply don't care and just throw their shit wherever they think it fits into the landscape. The concept of respect simply doesn't exist in a lot of people.


Now, some of this might be exaggerated (though you'd be surprised of how much isn't) and of course there's a lot of nice people here as well. It's always the idiots who screams louder than gets the attention, but as I see it, there are more idiots here than there should be, and I've temporarily lost my ability to see the positive outcome of shit and it ruins my motivation to do anything at all.

To anyone who managed to read through all of this, here's a bonus: + Show Spoiler +

Ah yea, on the welfare thing that's the justification people give here in the states as to why we're pretty much against welfare as a rule, to a very distressing level. Unfortunately, there are douchebags everywhere, and there's no foolproof system. Shit like that pisses everyone off.

I had never heard of Janteloven before. Thanks for that.

Those dogs were adorable. Thank you.

I HATE TERRAN!! Fucking EZ mode noob race! Make 2 bunkers and repair with SCV and you can hold any pressure/all in in the entire fucking game. Fuck this shit. This shit makes me want to just cheese all my games.

I hate, that I cannot know that I am right. There is just no external evaluation possible other than from other humans. I know that I am right and still reason tells me that everybody thinks that he is right. But it's not really possible that everybody is right, only in a relativistic sense, but then I could do whatever I wanted to, it just wouldn't matter. So why should I be right, or why should I follow any rules? Just because I am used to and think it makes sense? But Hitler thought his view made sense too. Why am I not Hitler? How do I know the Golden Rule or Utilitarianism is right? Shall I just assume? But on what basis? fml

I fucking hate haters that just try to rain on your parade and don't respect you as a fucking person, I want to be nice to people but It irks me when I Don't get a chance to

FUCK LAG GIVE ME LAN

I'm worried, not mad. I can't find my work laptop. I thought I left it in the cabinet but it wasn't in there. For all that I dislike my job I'd still rather keep it. Losing a work laptop is something I could see myself being fired over.

The only thing comforting me is that it may be at home. If someone took a laptop from an unlocked cabinet and left the charger and mouse it'd mean they didn't mean to sell it. It is encrypted but the password is pretty stupid. The only reason someone would steal the laptop would be for company secrets. Of which as an intern, I don't have many.

It wasn't security that took the laptop, they would have left a card.

This is just very worrisome as I don't want to not have my work laptop. I do have my home laptop with me so I will be fine to work today.

So I've started my new job about 2 months ago as a business intelligence consultant for an IT firm. I've been doing primarily orientations and learning about the company and how they conduct business, how dimensional modeling works, and how to create and design a functional dashboard. They've put me on this small "sandbox" project with a client they're working with. At the same time, I've been put on a project with a much higher priority client that is significantly more important.

The BI division for this company isn't that big (for this specific software) and they are going to be expanding it greatly due to the increased exposure and development of this BI tool, but for right now there are only a handful of people that are true experts in the software in my company. I'm feeling really lost in the software. I'm on a small team and my project manager has only worked with the tool a few weeks more than I have. I can make the software work, but it isn't as elegant nor as functional as I would want to present to a client as a return on a million dollar software investment. At the same time, I have to try to be all smiles with the client assuring them that we are suitable for this kind of project.

Very stressed because my project manager is putting a lot of pressure on me to learn basically everything. There are user manuals that he's pointed me to that are a couple thousand pages in length. Although they are very detailed and helpful, the sheer length requires me to skim through most of the material in order to be well rounded enough to create a functional product. I love my job but I have no idea what I'm doing and I don't want my first project for this company to flop or be postponed or extended. I don't want to spend 60 hours a week either. I try to ask questions, but they just refer me back to the training manuals. I'm really trying to work hard but in the end the result is a half-assed looking webpage displaying some of the working data required by the client.

Remember to put your FUCKING RANTS IN SPOILERS!!!! Thank you :D

Anyways my personal rant. I'm moving into college as a freshman next sunday. I'll be living with 3 other guys. One of them emailed me on August 8th. I replied just only a few hours after, it would have been sooner, but I had to go to the Apple store and get a replacement for my brother's iPod touch. 12 days later....NO FUCKING REPLY YET WHAT THE HELL!!! And I'm supposed to be sleeping next to this guy for the next year? FJEIOANIOEWNAGONWOWNARGIGNAG. I don't understand. He writes a formal email that I was really impressed by, and then decides not to email me back. Even though he wanted to get together with the other guys to figure out what we should all bring. Yet still nothing and there's SIX days left for me, and eight days for them because I move in earlier than they do. Gosh sometimes I just don't understand this world. On a side note I FLIPPING HATE MY 1.5 MBPS INTERNET. I CAN'T WAIT TILL I MOVE IN, AT LEAST NOW I'LL BE ABLE TO STREAM AT THE SAME TIME WITH 50 MBPS INTERNET EJAIOGJEIOAWGAOEIHGEO

Fucking hate this! Where is my laptop? There's the charger and the mouse but no laptop.

That fucking sucks. I hope you figure it out!

WHY DOES EVERYONE FEELS THE NEED TO RING THE DOORBELL 12 TIMES EVERY TIME ? IF I DONT ANSWER IT IT'S THAT I CAN'T, I'M NOT GOING TO OPEN IT AT THE 11TH TIME ALL OF SUDDEN. FUCK THAT PISSES ME OFF SO MUCH

I can't stand Apple sometimes. They make nice shit, but their suing wars against Samsung are idiotic. I can't believe the U.S. patent system allows you to patent things like a shape. Yep. Apple has a patent on smartphones with a rectangular design and rounded edges. Obviously Samsung needs a triangular smartphone. That fits well in your pocket. Oh, and they have a patent on the "bounce" animation. Remember when you dropped that tennis ball the other day and it hit the ground? Apple is probably going to sue you for having something that bounces. They might as well sue nature. Who the hell pulls something from nature, one of the most observable phenomena ever, and patents it? How the hell can they patent it? I wish I could patent something that stupid someday. Like breathing. Or something else pretty common to the laws of physics. What the hell. Oh well. I mean, I'll probably get Windows Phone 8 anyways, especially since they might ban the S3 now. Apple really needs to get a grip on themselves.

Seriously, the monopolistic implications on this are huge. They ban the largest smartphone seller in the U.S? The only REAL competitor from Android? (HTC is making a rebound, but they're much smaller still, motorola as well through google) Now apple has practically, or will soon, a monopoly. Isn't that what the patent system was supposed to prevent? Fuck you apple and your greed. Seriously.