"Today was a terrible day because..."

[Rival Max]

My brother's fiance was like 22 when they got together, I think, and he was like 18. xD They're happy, been together 3-4 years now and they're getting married next year (sooo young to me haha). It really depends on the people. I think people change a lot between 20-25 in general, but the good thing is after that, age differences don't really matter so much.

Did you know that you are not considered a fully devoloped adult until 25? I enjoyed the mindset of 25 year old me. Age doesnt mean much but Ive always dated younger so I dont know how it would be to date an older person.

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

Did you know that you are not considered a fully devoloped adult until 25? I enjoyed the mindset of 25 year old me. Age doesnt mean much but Ive always dated younger so I dont know how it would be to date an older person.

Yeah I know... And as a 25 year old I couldn't have imagined dating anyone that much younger than me! xD Especially since girls are supposed to be more mature than guys at that age. My ex was 4 years older but I never felt like he was more mature than me haha!

My baby brother is pretty grown up. He's finished uni now and has a full time job in his field, and has put down a deposit on a house as well, which is pretty much unheard of for 22 year olds around here these days. xD We still freaked out when he got engaged at 20 though. o_o

[[Desolate Divine]]

Hahahaha Jacob going after the older ladies!

Hey I could pass for a 25 year old, right? Right?!?!

[[Desolate Divine]]

Double post because I am enjoying whinging too much.

Drivers. Amirite?

I kid you not, I witnessed so many counts of crappy driving on my way home from uni today in the half hour drive that I am speechless.

Now I'm no hypocrite so I am going to give my definition of bad driving.

I'll be the first to admit I'm a little bit of a hoon. I enjoy driving my car that little bit over the limit, taking the corners a little bit quickly, and occasionally doing a sneaky handbrakey. HOWEVER, I don't intentionally risk other people. I am a threat to myself and maybe the guard rail. When there are a lot of cars around, I don't drive stupid. I do it if I think it is safe to do so.

So today I'm driving home, and am on a main road. I am in the right hand lane as I need to turn later down the road, and see this idiot in a black Subaru wagon jump stupidly from the left lane to the center. It isn't gridlock but there is a fair bit of traffic. Then all of a sudden an idiot in a black Falcon Ute cuts me off. I slam by brakes to not hit the bastard, and hit the horn. Then before I have even stopped the horn, and have started to speed up again, the Subaru does the exact same thing, in an impossibly dumber fashion.

After that there were two instances of people wanting to turn onto the road I am traveling at 80kmph (50mph) on, and I have had to hit the brakes and drop my speed by about 30 (20).

Lastly (and this annoyed me) I was on a road and needed to jump in my left lane to turn left. There were two cars in the left lane. The one in front had just let someone in, so I went to go behind that, however the idiot behind him wouldn't let me in. I had my indicator on for a solid ten seconds, and the only way I could get in would be for this person to slow down a tiny bit to make a space. The person in front had a car in front of them and couldn't speed up, and I had a car behind me so I couldn't slow down and get behind them. Basically, because of this absolute dildo of a driver, I missed my turn and had to go past the schools during pickup time and got caught in that.

Honestly, why are people such idiots on the roads?

[Neo Emolga]

Welp, I just came back from a rather awful job interview. I'm not too bummed out about it because I had another one yesterday that was FANTASTIC, but wow, the difference between that one and this one is like Heaven and Hell. Absolutely no contest what job I'd rather have. XD

First off, I was kept waiting for quite a long time. I understand it happens sometimes, but it was like thirty minutes even though I was there early. So after a long while, I get welcomed into the conference room by one lady who was nice and great to talk to, but unfortunately, my interview wasn't with her, it was with someone else (we'll call her Debbie rather than use her actual name).

Debbie comes in, already wearing a scowl, and just sits right down with my resume in front of her and just says "well, I don't know where to start." So I just decided to politely open things up and talk about myself and my background and the last position I had. Almost all the interviews I've had in the past start this way, so I figured this was a good way to kick things off. Meanwhile, she sits there, uninterested in a slouch with her chin in her hand and staring at me like she just wanted this to be over with.

Before I get to finish going over my background, Debbie keeps interrupting me again and again. I haven't even finished explaining things yet and she starts interjecting strange and very specific and very complicated technical questions. Well, those are very hard to answer without a context or an example. I try my best, but halfway into explaining what I'd do and what I've done in the past, bam, more interjections with more confusing technical questions. And it gets progressively worse and worse until I just say "well, I don't know." I was honestly stunned at her rude behavior that I often didn't have a response. I've had a lot of interviews, only the worst of the worst do this kind of junk.

All the while, the conference room lights keep turning off because they worked on a motion sensor. She got angry and flustered about that and made it seem like that was my fault. The whole time, I was thinking "yeaahhhh, this is NOT a person I'd like to work for." I'd rather be cooking french fries or mopping the floor than working with someone like this.

When I got to ask her questions, she gave me very quick, uninterested, and very vague answers. Usually, I have a set of five questions I ask on every interview, but after asking my second question and only getting yet another vague and crabby response, I just decided to pull the plug on this whole thing and say I had no further questions. Really, this is how movies like The Devil Wears Prada get made. So boom, that's it, I stand up to offer a handshake and nope, she's just out the door and I never see her again. The same lady that took me up to the conference room comes back and she escorts me out. It's a shame my interview wasn't with her, because she was so much more nicer and professional about this.

Well, I talked to the recruiter, gave him the not so great news in the form of a voicemail when I got back to the car, and when I finally got back home, he told me they already decided to pass on my candidacy. They decided that fast. What a joke, why did Debbie waste her time with this if she was already that skeptical right from the first? Well, that saves me from having to write an interview thank you note.

You win some, you lose some, but no matter what happens, never give up. I found a bunch of other job listings today and they still seem way better than this one and I still have recruiters contacting me all the time. That and yesterday's awesome interview proves hey, I still have the touch. The rock still goes on. ;3

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

@Neo Emolga Ugh that's horrible. I guess they either already had someone for the job or they never intended to give it to you. I really don't get why they waste everyone's time in that case. And there's still absolutely no reason to be rude. :/ Glad you had an awesome interview before that though! :D

[Neo Emolga]

@Neo Emolga Ugh that's horrible. I guess they either already had someone for the job or they never intended to give it to you. I really don't get why they waste everyone's time in that case. And there's still absolutely no reason to be rude. :/ Glad you had an awesome interview before that though! :D

Yeah, I talked it over with my dad and we're pretty sure this is the case. They probably need to follow some kind of standard or protocol even though they already had their candidate in mind. It's still very inconsiderate to treat an interviewee like that and to waste their time and the recruiter's time only because this job economy is rough on job seekers and they can pull those kind of shenanigans with limited consequences.

And thanks, I had a great time with yesterday's interview. There's definitely always hope! :3

[Wookie Mistake]

wow, that sucks, I have to agree it sounds like they already had someone in mind, but they had to do their "due diligence". It's sad side effect of the litigious nature of society. If you weren't given a chance, you could argue that you weren't given an equal opportunity. Your interviewer could have handled it much better too, regardless if the first person she interviewed was who she wanted and then went through the motions with everyone else, she should have been professional about it. Even if you weren't going to get the job you applied for they should have done a thorough interviewing process in the off chance that you were a good fit for a different position or another position opened up.

But I agree, if it happened it's probably for a good reason, a better opportunity, or better pay is just waiting right around the corner for you. Gotta love that attitude you have about it all.

[Noblejanobii]

So, my professor is an absolute jerk. He's officially ruined my day and it's only 10:30.

So, this semester I was planning to take three trips, two of which would be university sanctioned and the other one is in a sort of gray area that I don't need to get into. Pretty much, all you need to know is, in total this would be been roughly four to five excused absences depending on classes and stuff like that. Now, most professors are fine if you miss and its excused, because its university sanctioned. But my philosophy professor? Nope. Everything's unexcused even if it's excused. So currently, I have three unexcused absences in his class, one because I was sick and two more because of the first trip I took this semester. His limit before he drops your grade a letter grade is five, and then following that its every two. I still have two more trips I was planning to go to, a trip to DC that was supposed to happen the weekend of March 10, and a trip for one of my POSC classes which is for a grade. In addition, I had another potential trip come up where I could go to the debate nationals. WELL GUESS WHAT. Because of this mother****er I can't go to DC or Nationals and I might have my grade dropped a letter grade because I cannot miss that POSC trip. I'll fail the class if I can't go. So I'm in tears while writing this because I have been looking forward to DC since last semester, and it was only when we got the agenda last night that I realized, I CAN'T GO BECAUSE OF THIS STUPID ****ING PROFESSOR. It's against university policy for him to do this too but because all the major grades in his class are papers I can't fight him on this for fear of him giving me an awful grade on those papers because he can. Great, just great. I've wanted to go to DC my whole life, finally got a chance to, and now this son of a ***** isn't going to let me go because he doesn't care.

And if you think I'm just being petty, I'm not. This guy literally brought a student to tears today because of a quiz grade. He assigns us these reading quizzes every week which have these awful vague questions and are just not good questions. Well he gives them to us online. So last night, the website we take these quizzes on crashed and most of the class could not connect. It was only because I stayed up past midnight that I was able to take the quiz. I was one of the few. So what happens to the rest of the students? Well instead of extending the deadline like a normal professor because it wasn't just one student's technical difficulties, he's just decided to give them all zeroes and then use the grace clause in his syllabus to drop that grade. Why is this bad? You might be asking. Here's why. That clause is meant to help students who just did bad on a quiz, not those who couldn't take the quiz. All those students have now just lost the ability to screw up another quiz if they haven't already, or be forgiven for screwing up a quiz. One girl was literally in tears from hearing this and left class, never to return, because she was so upset. She had made a 30 on a previous quiz and was now stuck with it because this idiot doesn't understand that when a website crashes a quiz's deadline should be extended.

[Neo Emolga]

So, my professor is an absolute jerk. He's officially ruined my day and it's only 10:30.

Take his email, name, and address, and use it to subscribe to as many online surveys to win gift certificates and as much clickbait stuff as you possibly can. The spam... the spam will be glorious. Legendary. He will know nothing but spam. Best part is he'll have no clue who did it.

You can also draw your professor as a Pokémon! But make him a terrible one. Muk, Garbordor, and Weezing are great candidates, but pick a bad one that fits his personality. And once you've picked one, make it worse. Give him zits or a missing chin or something like that. Maybe buckteeth. Buckteeth look bad on anything that shouldn't have buckteeth. Maybe a giant nose, a skewed eye, or a slack jaw. Or just put the pencil in your mouth, start laughing with it in your mouth, and let loose whatever scribbly thing comes out of it. That's his face. An ugly face fate. I think that's perfect.

Another thing you can do is take the names of everyone that's ever done you wrong. Bullies, bad classmates, terrible teachers, annoying coworkers, bad bosses, and so on, and gather them all into big one pool of terrible, evil people. Now, turn them all into zombies. Shambling, mindless, moaning, flesh-devouring husks of their former cruel and heartless selves. Now, give yourself superpowers and go all Dead Rising on them. Capture the vivid details. Be the hero. Save the day and become legendary.

I feel like we should have a whole thread devoted to these kinds of things. >:3