In movies, the boss only tells someone to take a day off when they're about to get fired if they don't calm the **** down.

Micro,

Not sure what your point is. Of course "don't come in today, not giving you any hours today" is very different than "thanks for working so hard, here's your day's pay, take the day off!"

I guess I was pointless. Teasing Suzzer fail.

BigPoppa went along.

I did go off on my boss about four months ago when I was in the throes of the thing that I'm not going to mention anymore. He's been super nice to me ever since then, which kind of scares me.

Is the thing you're not mentioning your diet? Or like a "he who must not be named" scenario?

Because if it's the first thing, then that pisses me off that the posters here are so good at stifling any interesting conversations for the sake of having their quiet little forum never be disrupted by people having actual conversations on it.

He called for his own head if he talks about dieting.

This is like the Louis CK bit on the n-word though. He put the idea of diet talk in our heads without taking any responsibility.

It was relevant to the topic about your boss telling you to take a day off.

I might have had a right to be annoyed at him that day – but I went way over the top and pretty much bit his head off. That's not my usual personality at all. The **** I was seething mad about was not that big of a deal.

I had to back off after that and find a new strategy, for the sake of my career.

I know. I'm just bored.

You want to come to the Mira Costa football game? Just started. My youngest is here with the middle school band - they are playing.

What are they playing?

Oh, and update on you and your daughters flower headband scam business that I dodged a bullet from investing in? It's a slow night...

The venture was a success. All investors made a profit, except somehow me.

*grumble grumble*

You're first in line for the next time one of my kids has a biz op.

Beer with a garnish.

Its beer.

That's the way its supposed to taste.

Leave it alone.

Sissies.

Any time life advice is posted somewhere when it's just some college professor or celebrity spouting off at the mouth, with no evidence whatsoever behind their claims. "Jim Carrey NAILS what's wrong with Americans today" and it's like "People don't think positively enough!" and everyone laps it up as if there's a solution there. There is research out there with actual evidence on how to become happier, more successful, etc., stop following the bs.

Closely related to this would be the Quora digest emails, where the top-voted answers are always feel-good crap.

People want to believe everything is simple, which it clearly isn't. But it makes them happy to imagine a simplistic universe.

Simple deity created simple world where simple solutions fix simple problems.

I don't even think it's that, there are plenty of simple solutions to becoming happier or more successful. (Write down 3 positive things that happened that day each night before bed, shorten your commute, exercise - with numerous simple tricks available to get you started in the habit, etc.). And the "solutions" that are nonsense like "think positively" or "be yourself" are not solutions AT ALL. What the **** do those things even mean?

Example from Quora today, the top chosen answer to this question:

(Emphasis mine).

K first of all, what does "know who you are" mean? **** you.

Be brave enough to ask questions? Sure maybe that's good advice, maybe that's one tiny percentage of what made the other girl "smart". Also notice how the story trails off into something vague about the other girl "picking schools that taught people how to think"? What the ****. This answer is so ****ing bad and I hate so ****ing much the 5,800+ people who "upvoted" it and selected it to go out in an email to millions of people. It's ****ing worthless.

You have to meet yourself and ask yourself stupid questions.

Stupid questions piss me off, especially when I ask them.

You must know that you're a stupid *******.



jkjk!

Gyachachachacha girls like that basically ruin school for anyone with a brain.

Stupid bitch wastes everyone's time asking dumb questions in the supposedly "advanced" class, gets bonus points. Kids with an IQ over room temperature disengage and are never challenged.

Women who die their hair impossible colors. I don't mean pink and blue (those are lame too), but colors that may exist in nature, but not for that ethnic group. Considering my location, I mostly mean Chinese girls dying their hair various shades of brown. Nearly always looks bad.

Dyed blonde hair with roots intentionally left dark always annoys me.

Any dyed hair that you can tell is dyed annoys me.

Quora answers and questions ("I'm 14, how do I become a billionaire by age 20?") should piss you off most of the time.