What really grinds your gears?

[Mercyknight]

im working graveyard shifts, driving a yard dog truck these days... literally passed out last night, woke up 10-20 mins later and suddenly my boss is trying to accuse me of laziness. like im sorry but how is it laziness to work your self to the point of passing out from exhaustion?

for real folks, there are some things that are just retarded in any workplace but really

[Rares]

im working graveyard shifts, driving a yard dog truck these days... literally passed out last night, woke up 10-20 mins later and suddenly my boss is trying to accuse me of laziness. like im sorry but how is it laziness to work your self to the point of passing out from exhaustion?

for real folks, there are some things that are just retarded in any workplace but really

I'm sorry you got treated that way, some bosses are just so out of touch. Can you maybe explain the problem go him?

[Mercyknight]

im working graveyard shifts, driving a yard dog truck these days... literally passed out last night, woke up 10-20 mins later and suddenly my boss is trying to accuse me of laziness. like im sorry but how is it laziness to work your self to the point of passing out from exhaustion?

for real folks, there are some things that are just retarded in any workplace but really

I'm sorry you got treated that way, some bosses are just so out of touch. Can you maybe explain the problem go him?

I tried and only got threatened for my trouble. this is literally 90 percent of why i would rather talk to people online instead of in person

[Rares]

>Go through featured Rarity fics
>Pick two
>Both of them are really nasty to her
I suppose I walked into that one...

[Shadow Step]

>Go through featured Rarity fics
>Pick two
>Both of them are really nasty to her
I suppose I walked into that one...

That's basically how I feel going through anything pony any more. "Oh, what's new on Derpi" *AWFUL HORRIBLE SHIT* "Ah, yes. I hate this fandom and wish it had never existed."

[Mercyknight]

>Go through featured Rarity fics
>Pick two
>Both of them are really nasty to her
I suppose I walked into that one...

That's basically how I feel going through anything pony any more. "Oh, what's new on Derpi" *AWFUL HORRIBLE SHIT* "Ah, yes. I hate this fandom and wish it had never existed."

its not so much the fandom. listen guys all fandoms have a few bad things or even alternate takes on characters. such is the case in general with porn or fan fics at all. the truth is these versions are not always the versions you know of.... i look at it like alternate universes. my luna may act one way, others may know a different one, but none of them can dictate the mind of mine. sure there are sometimes similarities and sometimes things are completely opposite but wishing the fanbase never existed is foolish. you would be wishing yourself not to be you or to have the respect for pony you have that has given you the beliefs you have... be yourself folks and dont let others in the fandom make ya feel bad, after all none of them are ever gonna truly know the pony you see the way you do.. none of us have ever seen the same pony even when watching the show... for me it is my own interpretation, my own personal pony universe, just like yall all have your own. in mine, my luna is found, but in yours she was never there but instead maybe another version was.... maybe in yours she is still banished, maybe she won against her sister and banished her to neptune in yours... but none of that changes the pony multiverse i see and tune into from watching the show, so why be mad about other multiverses existing from other fans? atleast thats how i feel about it.... I just mean like, i ignore it when art or something doesnt get it right.. like when they draw luna sad... i hate seeing my moonbeam sad but i know that is a different version and not mine.. mine is happy cause we work to make it together

[Shadow Step]

its not so much the fandom. listen guys all fandoms have a few bad things or even alternate takes on characters. such is the case in general with porn or fan fics at all. the truth is these versions are not always the versions you know of.... i look at it like alternate universes. my luna may act one way, others may know a different one, but none of them can dictate the mind of mine. sure there are sometimes similarities and sometimes things are completely opposite but wishing the fanbase never existed is foolish. you would be wishing yourself not to be you or to have the respect for pony you have that has given you the beliefs you have... be yourself folks and dont let others in the fandom make ya feel bad, after all none of them are ever gonna truly know the pony you see the way you do.. none of us have ever seen the same pony even when watching the show... for me it is my own interpretation, my own personal pony universe, just like yall all have your own. in mine, my luna is found, but in yours she was never there but instead maybe another version was.... maybe in yours she is still banished, maybe she won against her sister and banished her to neptune in yours... but none of that changes the pony multiverse i see and tune into from watching the show, so why be mad about other multiverses existing from other fans? atleast thats how i feel about it.... I just mean like, i ignore it when art or something doesnt get it right.. like when they draw luna sad... i hate seeing my moonbeam sad but i know that is a different version and not mine.. mine is happy cause we work to make it together

It is, for me at least, the fandom. Well, it's much more than that now but I suppose it doesn't matter anymore. I thought like that once, multiverse etc. But there are some things that simply should not exist, and they do, and people defend them. If believing in a multiverse means I must believe in these people's "takes" then there is no multiverse, simply so their ideas cannot be real. The fandom has driven away all of my love with their ideas and what they consider acceptable.

[Mercyknight]

its not so much the fandom. listen guys all fandoms have a few bad things or even alternate takes on characters. such is the case in general with porn or fan fics at all. the truth is these versions are not always the versions you know of.... i look at it like alternate universes. my luna may act one way, others may know a different one, but none of them can dictate the mind of mine. sure there are sometimes similarities and sometimes things are completely opposite but wishing the fanbase never existed is foolish. you would be wishing yourself not to be you or to have the respect for pony you have that has given you the beliefs you have... be yourself folks and dont let others in the fandom make ya feel bad, after all none of them are ever gonna truly know the pony you see the way you do.. none of us have ever seen the same pony even when watching the show... for me it is my own interpretation, my own personal pony universe, just like yall all have your own. in mine, my luna is found, but in yours she was never there but instead maybe another version was.... maybe in yours she is still banished, maybe she won against her sister and banished her to neptune in yours... but none of that changes the pony multiverse i see and tune into from watching the show, so why be mad about other multiverses existing from other fans? atleast thats how i feel about it.... I just mean like, i ignore it when art or something doesnt get it right.. like when they draw luna sad... i hate seeing my moonbeam sad but i know that is a different version and not mine.. mine is happy cause we work to make it together

It is, for me at least, the fandom. Well, it's much more than that now but I suppose it doesn't matter anymore. I thought like that once, multiverse etc. But there are some things that simply should not exist, and they do, and people defend them. If believing in a multiverse means I must believe in these people's "takes" then there is no multiverse, simply so their ideas cannot be real. The fandom has driven away all of my love with their ideas and what they consider acceptable.

but thats what i dont get. why does what they believe matter? you know your own beliefs right? we all have to choose our own, others may offer guidance or ideas, be each must choose if they accept or reject each one. none of them can make that decision for you. so as for certian things not being able to evist in a multiverse it is more a case by case basis i have to look at things rather than simply accepting all in the fandom.. some things are just silly.. like south park, other things wold make sense in a multiverse

[Shadow Step]

but thats what i dont get. why does what they believe matter? you know your own beliefs right? we all have to choose our own, others may offer guidance or ideas, be each must choose if they accept or reject each one. none of them can make that decision for you. so as for certian things not being able to evist in a multiverse it is more a case by case basis i have to look at things rather than simply accepting all in the fandom.. some things are just silly.. like south park, other things wold make sense in a multiverse

It's something that comes with an intense hate. A hate enough to transcend rational thought. A hate that reaches a fever pitch to such a degree that the ONE thing you want to do in life is to somehow bury these people and what they spend time on. Even if their AU is just some time wasting project to them that they wouldn't care about if it disappeared. It's a malice born of pure, unadulterated hatred that poisons everything it touches. And that is where I am at.

[Ice Cream]

I almost never get upset, but when I do I end up spending the entire weekend thinking about it. Waking up in the middle of the night pacing the house for hours. Taking notes on what I'm going to do and how I'm going to handle it when I get back to work.

I've been working at my current job for 7 years and there's only 2 times to date that I was really upset and both times were on the job.

The first time
Due to being in this position for so long, part of my job responsibilities is to review and approve work done by my coworkers. This is not something that I particularly enjoy doing but apparently damn good at it so that's how it became one of my job responsibilities. I'm 35 and we recently hired this 50 year old man. Being there longer it ended up being my responsibility to review and approve his work. I am not his boss. I'm a team leader that makes sure the work does not leave our team until it is of the proper quality and has the proper reviews.

So anyway, some of this guy's work comes across my desk and it did not follow our standard operating procedures so I immediately sent it back to him to fix it. I referenced the standard operating procedure that wasn't followed. So instead of fixing it, this guy comes over to my desk and he starts talking down to me saying that I need to approve this because it's urgent and i'm wasting time, making "busy work", and creating delays for an important customer.

As I explained to him, the fact that his work doesn't meet our standards of quality is not my problem. I don't have the time to fix his work, and he needs to go back and fix it himself and resubmit.

Then he gets right in my face and tells me "Here's what you're going to do...." Basically ordering me to sign off and approve something that is a pile of shit. At this point, I'm just done dealing with him and I tell him I'm too busy right now, I'll look at it later.

Inside I'm boiling. There is no way in hell I'm going to ruin my own reputation by approving a pile of shit. Stamp my name right on that pile of shit and pass it on as if it's an example of perfection. Lots of my coworkers overheard that conversation and they've always played by the rules. If it doesn't meet our quality standards, I kick it back to them, they fix it with no complaints, and I approve it. That's how the system works. That's how it's worked for years. It's never been a problem.

So anyway, the problematic coworker comes back to my desk and asks about it. So I open it up on my computer as if I can't even remember seeing it before and then point out to him right on the screen where it is lacking. So then he again just gets in my face and says "That's all bullshit and you know it. I'm going to talk to our manager and see what he has to say about this. The customer always comes first and you're creating the problem." .. So I'm like fine. You go do that. He talks to our manager and I get called into a 1 on 1 with my manager. He asks me what's going on here. I tell him exactly as it is.. The developers don't want it approved until it meets the quality standards and it's fully documented. It isn't yet so it's in my coworker's work bucket to fix, not mine.

Then my manager says tells me that the coworker reviewed it again and said there was absolutely nothing wrong with it and I'm just giving him trouble. Which once again, makes me boil. So then my manager says let's get the Development manager in here and see what he says about it. I'm like. Ok, I'm just following the guidelines that they made. Of course the development manager is in another building right now so I had to stress about this for the next 4 hours. Then we had a nice meeting with my manager, the development manager, and me, to review that documents that I refuse to approve.

So then during that meeting, the development manager looked at it. He looked at me, looked at my manager, then back at the document. And he says, "we can't work with this, it needs to go back to draft". FUCkIN' THANK YOU!

I got the privilege of going over to my coworkers desk to inform him that "Your work has skipped the review process because you told our manager and me that there was no problems with it. But then it got rejected by development because it actually did have significant problems. Also, any work you submit will go through the proper review process just like it does for everybody else that works here."

It was glorious.

So for a while there I felt relief, but then I felt angry again at that coworker. Screw that guy for trying to make me do something that I knew was wrong. For trying to ruin my reputation and worse trying to ruin my own self respect. Trying to get me to sign off on something that was garbage while everything the other coworkers were working on got kicked back to them for much smaller issues than this had. Also, the nerve and disrespect for this coworker to get up in my face like that. Just really upsetting. So yea, that's the story on how that guy became the only guy in the entire company, across all our locations, that I don't like.