Complaint List - 10/8/13 in Snark Files

A few things on my Complaint List today.

First: UPS vs USPS. Imagine me over the last week checking the tracking on my package daily to see where it was. UPS said the target delivery date was today! Oct 8th. I had a crappy day so I decided to check the tracking, expecting to see DELIVERED. Only it didn’t say that. It said, “As requested by sender, transferred to US Postal Service.” What the actual fuck is up with that? It traveled all the way here via UPS and they hand it off to USPS? Is this a kickback program?

Second: Waiting until the end of the day. I begin work at 8:00 am. I leave work at 4:00 pm. That is a full 8 hours. I don’t leave for lunch, I stay in every single day. I spent most of the day stretching out some tasks in order to not rip out someone’s throat just for shits and giggles. 7 hours and 50 minutes. Then in the last 10 minutes, I get two phone calls and a search & rescue mission. I don’t have patience for shit like that. I wanted to take care of all three things earlier (one last week!) but nobody was ready. So, you are ready ten minutes before I go home? Well fuck you, I suddenly have an appointment that I cannot miss.

Third: Things I Don’t Understand…about YouTube. I am a self admitted YT addict. I watch it all day. There is some interesting stuff out there. There are also a ton of nutballs whose videos are total train wrecks. And as much fun as it is to watch a train wreck and be totally over the moon that you are not THAT person, they can be the most irritating people in the world. Three minute “internal” discussion about having the same soup you had yesterday for lunch today with a video camera in your face and you don’t edit that out? Yeah, that is irritating. Telling people you edit videos, yet they continue to be 37 minutes long and all you have managed to do is sit on your couch and recall your wedding day and what you ate for breakfast? There is no editing going on there. Nobody could be that delusional as to think that anyone cares what you ate for breakfast six years ago! Well nobody except the Kardashians. Don’t worry after I turn full on homicidal, I turn the videos off. I also down vote them because I can and I should. Everyone should.

Fourth: Prices. While watching, what else, a YT video today, I decided to do a little research. The YT’er was reviewing/Vanna White-ing a score board with diagonal attachment plate. I checked the price. The score board is $30 and the attachment is $12 (and that is if you are “preferred”). $42 (no sales, no coupons allowed…apparently). Now I can go to a craft retailer and get a nice score board for $15 (on sale) that does not require the diagonal plate (it is included on the back. A savings of $27. And if I really wanted to make envelope making even easier, I can take $19 of that $27 and get an envelope board (no cutting of corners required and you can easily round corners). I would still have $8 left over for a Coke & a Ben & Jerry’s. And that is a pretty sweet deal. I love me some fun products and I would love some Stampin’ Up! Stamps, but that shit is way overpriced and while I may do dumb things, that is beyond dumb.

Fifth: Opinion = Bashing? So last night I was on Facebook, the root of all online social media evil. I belong to a classifies group on which people can sell things locally or as the way most things go around these parts, deadbeats ask for free shit. A woman was looking for a beater, a cheap car. A person mentioned heading to a local used car lot & the original poster simply said that she had been there and he was overpriced. The way the new moderator responded, you would have thought she said he was a pedophile who eats kittens. She chastised her for bashing people &/or businesses. Another level headed person questioned why we, as a collective, are not allowed to “help” others by warning them or offering an opinion. I responded to the topic that I don’t think having an opinion and saying that a business is overpriced counts as bashing. What they thought I said was “I am the anti-Christ, you must all bow down to me and offer me the blood of a goat.” That is the only thing that makes sense for the “verbal” lashing I took. I may have been banned. Seriously. I know the new moderator. She is on some weird power trip. She is an older woman and by older, I mean older than me. I am thinking late forties, more likely early to mid fifties, ugly as fuck and impressed with her two-year “degree” in administrative assistant as if it were a doctoral degree in rocket science. She was going to college when I was teaching college. Did you ever go to class and the professor was done in like twenty minutes and you were going to get out of class early and be able to catch a quick nap I mean snack in the sub before going to your next class? And the professor asks if there are any questions, as every person in class has their bags packed and butts are not even touching the seat and there is that one person who has a fucking question? This lady is THAT person. The person that made you late for your next class (and made you skip because you were not going to be the person to arrive late).

Sixth: Loss of mojo. I had such great plans for making things tonight. I don’t have any vision. I can’t think of one sketch/style I want to make. Every design I look at is meh…doesn’t inspire me. Why does this happen? I lost my knitting mojo sometime in April and my reading mojo in July. I basically lost my give a shit mojo in August. It’s just not there. Normally shit like this happens, lasts a month and then I am back at it. It took me a week to knit a dishcloth last month because it felt like I was being physically tortured with every stitch. If I try to read, I am pretty sure my eyes will disintegrate. And now tonight all I can get it up for is cleaning. CLEANING! Who gets it up for cleaning?

Six things to complain about. Actually the count is much higher, but writing this has me bumming hard. It is only Tuesday. Tuesday and I hate everything and everyone, except my bestie, my mom, sister and dogs. Everyone else can get bent.