This might be a problem, lol.
Ironically, when I posted that, I was letting someone go for not being a good fit. It’s come to light since posting, that they haven’t been using their computer time, at the office, very well.
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Do tell.
Reading the news?
Shopping?
Looking for other work?
Spamming co workers with time wasting instant messages?
Porn?
Hacking the CIA?
Reading news and shopping aren’t big deals. I do it.
He did look for work. In fact, he tried to work for one of our large clients. Not the firing offense.
He did IM employees annoying shit.
Watching Netflix, YouTube, hours of porn and downloading movies via BitTorrent.
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110% agree, I had to fire a few douchebags with cause and had to hold back a smile. But when I’m told by the executives I need to cut so/so for cost cutting and I know the guy has 3 kids he supports, that sucks.
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Yeah. I got a job as controller with 5 direct reports. 3 weeks in they lost all their customers and got sued. The foreign owners asked me to lay all 20 people off (including the president) and liquidate the business. Yuck.
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I can see why that would be tough. Not something that I would like to do. Not a nice thing for anyone 
Have a great week.
Walking into a bathroom after someone else, knowing they took a shit, but the sink is completely dry.
No, sir, I don’t think I will be shaking your hand.
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how do you feel about that scenario except it’s a #1?
When someone throws up in the exam room, in proximity to you, but you must continue taking the exam with a putrid smell resonating all around you.
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I feel uncomfortable, but not as uncomfortable. Easier to dismiss mentally haha
I feel like this thread is deserving of a bump
Getting change back at the grocery store…
Trying to quickly shove the bills into my wallet as fast as possible because the person behind me in line is obviously going to start yelling at me because I didn’t move fast enough.
(this was intentionally written as a run-on sentence, there’s not enough time for punctuation in this scenario)
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Video meetings make me uncomfortable. I usually don’t pay attention, and then have to ask what the question was if I get asked about something.
Also, one of my dogs likes to masturbate. It is horrific. The sound, the visual, all horribly uncomfortable.
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Thursday after a club meeting I met up with my contractual counterparty and he walked me to my class. Well, my friend (that one) was vaguely headed in the same direction so he also came along.
The two of them followed me all the way to class and basically spent the entire 10min walk exchanging stories about the shit I’ve done or said….
They were super nice about it. I just never thought I’d be in this situation
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I was at the grocery store just now and doing the self-checkout (because I’m that anti-social). As I’m bagging my groceries, this lady rolls up with 2 kids in the basket on the next terminal over. Her like 3 year old son STARTS TOUCHING MY GROCERIES. I realize he’s trying to help me bag them, but me and my germaphobe ass are in full blown panic mode.
I say “thanks little man, but i got it from here”
*kid reaches further over to help*
*I strategically start bagging the stuff he’s closest to so he can’t reach anything else*
*HE STANDS UP IN THE CART TO REACH FOR MORE STUFF*
His mom looks over and casually says “don’t do that” and continues to ignore her offspring who literally didn’t even pause to listen while he proceeds to keep infesting my groceries with germs.
And I’m stuck there screaming inside, helplessly watching some child ruin the confidence I had in my food’s chain of custody.
On a totally unrelated note: anyone know if you can wash broccoli with dawn dish soap? 
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I’m helping coach an under 10s girls football (soccer) team and just as they get older we’ve got to start picking our best team for various tournaments and opportunities/trials etc. Lots of girls being left out, lots of parents not being happy. It’s super tough as of course we want them all to have a good go and we will try to rotate some in but the fact is there is a massive gulf in talent between them all and I’m not the kind of person to believe in participation trophies. I’d much rather try to motivate them to train harder and force their way into the side but the parents moaning because their little princess didn’t make it makes everything incredibly uncomfortable. Life doesn’t work like that and it’s better they learn at a young age.
Welcome to parenthood, and all of the shitty aspects of it.
I never coached my kids (I did coach other kids) because I wanted to just be my kids dad and not be their coach. I spent most of my time watching my daughter play travel soccer in a lawn chair with the paper down by the goal, well away from the bat shit crazy parents that were yelling at their kids.
Most kids quit playing sports because of the car ride home - when mom or dad critique their game.
I had a deal with my daughter - did you have fun? Did you play hard?
As an eight year old some of the competitors called her a cunt and played dirty.
Just a suggestion - never talk about playing time on game day.
Good luck!
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Heh, it’s actually only my niece but I still hear you on everything. Right now there are 23 girls and only 10 places. If I had the time and energy I’d suggest a B-side, problem is most of these girls don’t even watch the sport and only go because their friends do or because the mums see it as a good way to all get together. I will grow with this side and I know that as the months/years go on, most will drop out for various reasons and it’ll become less of an issue. Right now it’s difficult to try and do an admirable job without everyone getting irate about these kinds of things. It’s volunteer work, I don’t have to do it, I do it because it keeps me in touch with the sport I love. It adds an immense purpose to life and is at times super rewarding.
If they want to carry on about this and that, I might just suggest they figure out ways for their girls to play more and not treat us volunteer coaches as if they were our employers.
Parents are literal heroes. How do you guys put up with this shit?
You cannot imagine the amount of joy your kids are able to bring to your life.
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