First World Problems

2025-07-14 02:28:36

#11326

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,824|6556|eXtreme to the maX

Not asking for microsoft to make software backwards compatible, just keep up with security updates so millions of PCs aren't left wide open or have to be dumped.

"Yeah, we can't be bothered making brake-pads any more, you should think about scrapping your ten year old car and buying a new one
BTW that new one will force you supply all your location and speed data, have cameras installed inside and outside connected to the cloud and we will be able to brick it at any time of our choosing if we want more money or don't like your political opinion, in 8-10 years we'll brick it anyway - for the greater good"

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2025-07-14 02:33:08)

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2025-07-17 17:10:57

#11327

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,746|7188|Cinncinatti

More bachelor party news. It's in 2 weeks. I heard plans might change but it's doubtful.

Plus the cigar bar expects you to buy because this one you effectively rent out the place and the owner gives the groom a bottle of bourbon.

2025-07-17 17:22:42

#11328

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +660|4170

Time to take up smoking

2025-07-17 17:27:33

#11329

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,746|7188|Cinncinatti

At least half of us don't smoke anything lmao.

2025-07-17 17:49:33

#11330

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +660|4170

It sounds like this is sizing up to be one of those millennial disappointments where the bachelor party vibes don't live up to the stuff you saw on TV as a kid.

2025-07-18 10:13:32

#11331

pirana6: Go Cougs!; +698|6741|Washington St.

Gen Zer at work came up to me, a near exact middle of Millenial age, and said "hey youre a boomer right?"

FUUUUUCK

2025-07-18 10:41:10

#11332

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +660|4170

What do you think about the "Gen Z stare?"

Having primarily taught Gen Z, I think that a lot of the criticism of their generation is the same old stuff they said about previous generations.

2025-07-18 11:37:19

#11333

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,993|7082|949

Every generation does it. It's pretty fucking annoying.

I sound like a broken record, but the whole "participation trophy" criticism of millenials completely dismisses that it's the fucking parents (boomers, mostly) pushing for those, not the kids.

The idea that each successive generation of youth is "softer" than the previous generation is hilarious. Don't most parents want their kids to have more opportunities, less struggle, and an easier path to success than they had? Why push the blame down?

2025-07-18 20:26:43

#11334

pirana6: Go Cougs!; +698|6741|Washington St.

Ive never experienced the stare. Is it supposed to happen when you ask them something or when you walk in a store an expect them to say a greeting?
I give 0 fucks if Im not greeted by some poor person getting paid min wage to deal with the public, but I would be annoyed if I asked them for something and they just stared back, but again, never experienced

2025-07-18 22:04:54

#11335

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +660|4170

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
Every generation does it. It's pretty fucking annoying.

I sound like a broken record, but the whole "participation trophy" criticism of millenials completely dismisses that it's the fucking parents (boomers, mostly) pushing for those, not the kids.

The idea that each successive generation of youth is "softer" than the previous generation is hilarious. Don't most parents want their kids to have more opportunities, less struggle, and an easier path to success than they had? Why push the blame down?

Participation trophies have always existed throughout time. They didn't call them participation trophies though. They instead called them campaign medals and ribbons.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_W … tory_Medal

Participation trophies are excellent for encouraging engagement. For example, the year is 1999 and your parents spent thousands of dollars on soccer camps and equipment. The leagues wants your kids to sign up again so they give everyone something to take home after the tournament. The trophy has nothing to do with social justice or liberal weakness. The trophy is so the coaches can continue to make money and fuck soccer moms on the weekend.

https://i.pinimg.com/474x/f2/5e/10/f25e10f3fe7994cc25eb259c402703ac.jpg

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I don't fully understand the gen z stare either. Ithink it might be an anxiety thing that most will grow out of. I admit about a year ago I totally flatlined when the assistant superintendent wanted to talk to me about baseball. I was wearing a Yankees baseball cap because that is my culture and all.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/88/7c/89/887c892029abe56556bcd64dc9484582.jpg

He actually wanted to talk about baseball and I was trying desperately to remember what I know about baseball (I don't know about baseball or the Yankees.) So I stumbled through that.

...

I made a mistake when I first started moving my girlfriend into her place in Pennsylvania. I wore the Yankees hat in the neighborhood which instantly told everyone I was a gentrifier from the NYC area.

So I bought an Eagles hat.

https://www.topperzstore.com/media/f6/46/3e/1721671265/520259-196502050749_1.jpg?ts=1721671265

I don't know shit about football.

2025-07-19 05:45:24

#11336

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,074|7222|PNW

i don't think i've not seen blank stares from any generation deployed against people for various or who knows what reasons.

context probably matters for the gen z stare. if someone is asking a retail worker to go check the non-existent back room and won't back down until the clerk literally walks through a door beyond which nothing is stored, this warrants a blank stare while said clerk is processing whether they're actually talking to a real person. totally deserving of the dead mackerel eyes.

or maybe i'm totally wrong and microplastics are ensuring human extinction by the 2100s.

2025-07-21 06:46:32

#11337

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,074|7222|PNW

re: gen z stare

2025-07-21 07:05:01

#11338

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,824|6556|eXtreme to the maX

In countries outside of America people take 4 weeks every year.
Amazing.

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2025-07-21 07:46:53

#11339

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +660|4170

I am contracted to work only 180 days a year. My salary growth is slower though pension, benefits, salary cap and union are good.

2025-07-21 16:58:04

#11340

pirana6: Go Cougs!; +698|6741|Washington St.

I genuinely can't imaging taking 4 weeks off a year.

I probably take less than 2 weeks off and it's scattered over the whole year.

I have friends that live in Australia and took a week and half off last Spring for Europe then another 2 weeks in Fall for Japan. That's at least two years worth of vacations, if not 3.

2025-07-21 17:32:40

#11341

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,824|6556|eXtreme to the maX

pirana6 wrote:
I genuinely can't imaging taking 4 weeks off a year.

Also long service leave.
Work 10 years -> Get an extra 13 weeks of leave.
It accrues pro-rata after 7 years.
https://safework.sa.gov.au/workers/wage … vice-leave

So work 10 years - take 17 weeks that year.

Americans really do bend over and take it from employers.

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2025-07-21 18:53:16

#11342

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,074|7222|PNW

there are americans still with toxic work ethics who cannot wrap their heads around the idea of a person giving only as much job effort as they think their pay is worth. i don't care if a clerk dawdles in my presence. they should have cushy office chairs like the fat managers. drives others nuts. i could go on at much length with anecdotes and paraphrasing. all the "in the old days" nostalgia waxing from people, who blow a gasket if someone suggests $30 hourly for UnSkIlLeD LAbOr, can go sleep in the dirt with the fleas and the car dust.

generations of people have been viciously hoodwinked by exploitative employers. if you're going to work for money, work for money. in that kind of work environment, take pride in your job well done secondary to the pay. bare minimum should get bare minimum. you're not a volunteer.

"but the firefighters" shut up. that always comes up too. emergency services. not everything has people's lives in the balance. they should always be paid fairly, too. imagine that!

some bosses will have their house as the venue for an office party. imagine showing up with bags under your eyes just so the dickhead can make you look at all the cool toys you'll never afford. fucking diabolical. "sure, mister peon, your son can ride the awesome quad!" "missus peon, how do you like the waterfront view?"

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2025-07-21 18:54:41)

2025-07-21 19:43:03

#11343

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,824|6556|eXtreme to the maX

Most of the problems in my current company have stemmed from two fat operations managers being in the jobs for ~30 years and having coasted for at least the last 15.

No, how it was done in 1995 wasn't really good enough then and isn't good enough today, 2005 not even.

No, I'm not putting a shit load of effort into fixing it for you, I can't recover 20 years of slack effort in a few months.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2025-07-21 19:44:11)

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