Thread for Things That Made You Frown Today

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Originally Posted by DCSL

Pfft. My boyfriend is almost always my DD. The last time he wasn't was in NYC for the last PC meet up I attended. Boy got hammered. Looked grey in the morning. Have you ever seen a grey-skinned Asian? Automatic zombie. We kept having to stop the next day for him to duck into a CVS and puke in their bathroom. And I had like seven more drinks than he did. Geezus.

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RIVETING TALE, CHAP

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Originally Posted by DCSL

Pfft. My boyfriend is almost always my DD. The last time he wasn't was in NYC for the last PC meet up I attended. Boy got hammered. Looked grey in the morning. Have you ever seen a grey-skinned Asian? Automatic zombie. We kept having to stop the next day for him to duck into a CVS and puke in their bathroom. And I had like seven more drinks than he did. Geezus.

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Asian skin turns blue with surface cold weather injuries like frostbite and chillblain. I thought it was pretty if somewhat unnerving. I'm shamed to say my first reaction to blue skin asian frostbite was not KROLVINS YEAH.

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Originally Posted by RojoDisco

Asian skin turns blue with surface cold weather injuries like frostbite and chillblain. I thought it was pretty if somewhat unnerving. I'm shamed to say my first reaction to blue skin asian frostbite was not KROLVINS YEAH.

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I think of them more as the Tau.

Frown: My brother, who is usually the perfect roommate in every way ever, parked his little blue car in front of the water line and the sewer people want to do something to the curbs or something and I don't know where his keys are. Booh.

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Originally Posted by diethx

$3 strongest-margaritas-ever-you-won't-feel-your-face night and no designated driver. :(

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If you lived in my area, you would have a DD, just sayin'.

But NO ONE FUN WANTS TO LIVE AROUND HERE. Not like I can easily go out until these rugrats are older anyway. I can see it now...

Mommy Me to 15- and 17-year-old children: You want to go out tonight? Great. Your curfew is 11:30 and your dad and me will be home by midnight. Your butts better be in the house by the time we get home or you're both grounded until you leave for college or the military.

That's very useful to me. :(

It's ok, I am making the best out of things with beer. /dramatic sigh

Someone here needs to bust out the RPtools and run a paper and pencil style RPG for me to enjoy. Being half a housewife is boring as fuck.

I am now sick with a completely different virus than I started the holidays with. I blame my extended family and plan to use it on my list of excuses to never see them again.

Three weeks ago, I convinced the Board that paying Christmas bonuses *before* Christmas is much more helpful to employees than doing so afterward. Using the money to shop is good and all. So everyone got their bonus on 12/8. This morning, I walked in the door to find a crowd of people waiting for me to ask why they never got a Christmas bonus... my Spanish isn't all that good and the spokesperson didn't translate it, but I know I heard a fair bit of "My kid didn't get X because I didn't have this money" type stuff going on in the complaining. Lovely way to start the day, let me tell you. Now I know the bonuses were really paid and not lost in some error, because I have to account for every penny of difference between what the time clock says everyone gets, and what they actually get. Bonuses are definitely part of that difference, and I had to list every damn one individually for the anal-retentive bookkeeper who reviews these things.

I wasted an hour printing out a copy of the check stub for all 53 employees, proving to each one individually that they got their pay (because not one of them actually looked at their real check stubs 3 weeks ago and noticed the extra line for holiday pay)... at which point they switched their complaints from "I didn't get paid" to, "We were paid X hours every year before this, why did it drop down to Y hours this year?" So then I got to waste another hour hauling boxes of old payroll reports out of the storage room for 2009, 2010, and 2011 and showing everyone that they did indeed receive Y hours every year, just like they did this time (which was a joy, because the report lists everyone along with their rates of pay and such, so I had to show people one-by-one, making sure to hide everyone's info but their own).

And I didn't even have to be here today! Holidays are optional for me. Fuckers.

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Originally Posted by Liagala

Three weeks ago, I convinced the Board that paying Christmas bonuses *before* Christmas is much more helpful to employees than doing so afterward. Using the money to shop is good and all. So everyone got their bonus on 12/8. This morning, I walked in the door to find a crowd of people waiting for me to ask why they never got a Christmas bonus... my Spanish isn't all that good and the spokesperson didn't translate it, but I know I heard a fair bit of "My kid didn't get X because I didn't have this money" type stuff going on in the complaining. Lovely way to start the day, let me tell you. Now I know the bonuses were really paid and not lost in some error, because I have to account for every penny of difference between what the time clock says everyone gets, and what they actually get. Bonuses are definitely part of that difference, and I had to list every damn one individually for the anal-retentive bookkeeper who reviews these things.

I wasted an hour printing out a copy of the check stub for all 53 employees, proving to each one individually that they got their pay (because not one of them actually looked at their real check stubs 3 weeks ago and noticed the extra line for holiday pay)... at which point they switched their complaints from "I didn't get paid" to, "We were paid X hours every year before this, why did it drop down to Y hours this year?" So then I got to waste another hour hauling boxes of old payroll reports out of the storage room for 2009, 2010, and 2011 and showing everyone that they did indeed receive Y hours every year, just like they did this time (which was a joy, because the report lists everyone along with their rates of pay and such, so I had to show people one-by-one, making sure to hide everyone's info but their own).

And I didn't even have to be here today! Holidays are optional for me. Fuckers.

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This is what happens when you try to be helpful. Our housekeeping department keeps thinking I am fucking them out of hours when I do payroll, because they don't know how to use the time-clock and I have to make corrections. My spanish isn't very good, so I have to rely on one of the bilingual housekeepers to translate... and she has (seriously) a shrine built up against on a tree on the property that she makes the rest of the housekeeping staff leave flowers at, because it is where God appeared to her. (She is on anti-depressants and hadn't eaten for three days and had to be hospitalized. I take her vision with a grain of salt.)

In any event, the fact remains that no good deed goes unpunished. I hope you learned that via this christmas miracle. =]