There are
certain topics I do not talk about at work.
I have such a fucked up sense of humor and pessimistic outlook that a
lot of people would have a problem with me.
Basically, if talking about a topic will disrupt the day-to-day business
of the people I work with, I don’t do it.
One or two people around me could be way too uptight not to go to HR, and
I like getting paid too much to risk fucking it up.
- Politics.
I hate them in general and I flat out will not discuss them. No one else around me is dumb enough to
either, so let’s just continue on getting through the work day.
- My social life.
I’m an introvert, but there are a few lucky groups of people who can get
me out of my shell occasionally. Social
life is separate from work life. As
such, I don’t ask coworkers what their night life is like. That has nothing to do with getting our shit
done before 5pm. At a previous job, I
have known 2 coworkers who hooked up and had a kid. I didn’t say a word about it because it
wasn’t my business and should not have affected how they did their job except
when the kid wasn’t feeling well. I say
“should not” because that’s the ideal. I
have no idea how others actually treated them afterward. I hoped for the best.
- Money I make and money I have. I have needed to explain to by manager the need
of being absent to close on buying a house, but not how big or where or how
much. That’s my business. I haven’t even told coworkers I bought a new
car. It’s common courtesy, but also I
don’t like the idea of bragging when I’m pretty sure a lot more people who work
here don’t make as much as I do.
Consequently, I feel awkward when my wife says how many square feet the
house is to those whom I don’t give a shit enough to remember their last name. I think she forgets poor people exist.
- College sports.
Long Island did not have any major college sports teams. I can only say Stony Brook was a 16-seed in
the NCAA basketball tournament some years ago.
Whoopy-fricken-doo. Besides, they
play real sports in NY, so why should
I give a damn about 99% of players who don’t turn pro? That’s what college is for, getting an
education in case you’re not good enough to get paid to receive
concussions. Residing in South Carolina,
I don’t care about Clemson vs. USC, nor about Alabama vs. Auburn. I’ll cheer for whatever school gives my kids
the most money to go there.
Speaking of
no-no’s at work, I have some t-shirts I do not wear to work. They are mostly concerning the topic of
beer. Today, I saw a guy at work wearing
breast cancer awareness t-shirt saying “I Run For Boobs”. I think it’s funny. I’d wear that in public, because if someone
was offended, it would be stupid of them to tell the police that they were
uncomfortable watching me wear a t-shirt that said the word “boobs”. I would not
wear that at work, just because I wouldn’t want to be bothered by a small
fraction of people going to HR and complain about me. HR will do something that a cop would laugh
at because they protect the company from liability from employees. A stupid liability is still a liability to
them.
I have very
little trust in HR departments because I’ve only recently become aware of their
true purpose. Honestly, I feel stupid
for not figuring this out earlier.
“Human Resources Department” is a misleading phrase for the true
purpose. To me, the phrase sounds like
it deals with the liaising management’s processes and policies of to the
employees having to do with things like conduct, benefits, prohibitions, and
career advancement. However, as I
mentioned earlier, HR is meant to protect the company from liability caused by
its employees. It is not meant to protect or advocate for the
employees themselves. This is why I hear
personal stories of people being fired for complaining about harassment or
fired for taking legally protected medical leave. It is less risky for some companies to
terminate people for making waves than it is to provide a decent place to work.
I like scary
movies, but they’ve gotta stop with this reboot/retcon stuff. I bring this up because they are releasing
another Halloween movie that completely ignores everything in the series that
happened after the original in 1978.
Well, fuck! What a waste of time I
spent watching that shit! It’s like
creating an alternate universe like they did with Star Trek in 2009 or when
they declared the Star Wars Expanded Universe non-canon. This will be the 5th different
iteration of the Halloween continuity:
- Halloween 1, 2, 4, 5, 6;
- Halloween 3;
- Halloween 1, 2, H20, Resurrection;
- Rob Zombie’s Halloween 1 & 2;
- Halloween 1, 2018, and subsequent sequels
It’s getting
harder and harder for me to suspend reality to be entertained by this shit when
I have paid attention to one story, and now have to differentiate it from a
totally new universe they are creating.
This is the same reason why I don’t like the latest round of X-Men
movies with Fassbender and McEvoy headlining.
It’s not their fault, but Deadpool said it best: it’s hard to keep up. It is especially worse for scary movies
because, like I said, it’s harder to suspend reality.
And
goddamnit, I am sick and tired of these non-numerical sequel titles! Make it even harder for me to follow the
sequence of the full story, why don’t you!
Fuck! X-Men, X2, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse, X-Men: Dark Phoenix.
In that last sentence, we’ve gone off storyline chronological order 4
times and completely erased one continuity.
It’s a cash-grab. Here are a few
more titles that I’ll incorporate or make up just to fuck with the timeline
even more: X-Men: Onslaught; X-Men: Cheese Danish; X-Men: Wait, I forgot, Cyclops is supposed to be
OLDER than Havoc; X-Men: X-Force;
X-Men: FINALLY Something with Mr.
Sinister, like cloning Jean or something, leading to…; X-Men: Let’s Finally Acknowledge That Cable is
Cyclops’ Son; X-Men: Light Roast; and
just to fuck with everyone all over again and start another continuity,
Ultimate X-Men.
Here’s a
quote from Wikipedia about Hurricane Florence:
“The death toll rises to 35. Also, about
3.4 million chickens and turkeys and 5,500 hogs were killed in flooding from Hurricane
Florence as rising North Carolina rivers swamped dozens of farm buildings where the
animals were being raised for market. (CBS News) (Washington Examiner)”
Holy shit!
Firstly, that is a shit ton of dead animals. Secondly, there is sooooo much more detail
about the millions of dead farm animals than there is about the dead people.
Following up on a comment I made earlier
this year about the US finally having a conversation about sexual harassment,
HOLY SHIT, did social media blow up during and after the testimonies about
Dumbo Trump SCOTUS nominee Kavinaw (I don’t want to remember how to spell
Kavanaugh, so until I do, he’s Kavinaw).
Honestly, I’ve been trying really hard to think of something that has
not been already said, but I keep going back to:
- Why
him? Why not someone else who doesn’t
have an allegation of being a douche? (although the obvious answer is political
affiliation and the abortion argument)
- At
least do an investigation and try to prove or disprove Ford’s story.
My wife and I are registered
Republican. Please understand that when
I turned 18 and had to register to vote, airplanes were flown into the twin
towers. Also, at the time, NY
Republicans were not that bad. They
didn’t 100% shit their pants when gay people wanted to be treated like everyone
else. They shit their pants a little
bit, but not 100%. Then I escaped that
bubble when I went to college and learned to think for myself. My wife, on the other hand, has been stricter
with voting along party lines. When we
started dating, she asked me via AOL Instant Messenger (and now I’m
paraphrasing) “You’re voting for McCain, right?” It was harsh for her to comprehend that I
couldn’t vote for someone who was endorsed by the worst US President of all
time (at the time) and who had a retard of a running mate like Palin. However, in the past year, I won’t say my
wife has flipped political affiliation, but she openly proclaims her regret of
voting for Trump. Personally, I’m happy
she came to this conclusion by herself without any influence from me. The victim-shaming and abuser-enabling
rhetoric that has dominated and been documented and publicized finally pushed
her over the edge. She started turning
when the Trump Tariffs started costing her job a couple million dollars. Now the argument that the current
presidential administration is anti-woman is really grabbing her attention. I understand not voting for Hillary. I didn’t vote for either of them, and to be
perfectly honest, I forgot which 3rd party candidate I voted
for. Oddly enough, I was not upset at
her voting for Trump. I was upset that she
voted for Trump and lied to me about
it. She initially said she also voted
for some forgetful 3rd party candidate. She accidentally let it slip months later
while we were driving. My in-laws are so
pro-Trump it makes me nauseous. That
sort of naïve blind devotion should only be reserved for children ogling over
Paw Patrol and Doc McStuffins and adults ogling over Red Lobster Cheddar Bay
Biscuits. Fuck, those things are good.
On a personal note, now I don’t feel so
bad about me being a too scared to talk to girls or go to parties in high
school. All you had to do was let me
jerk off and give me WWF No Mercy on Nintendo 64 and I stayed the fuck out of
trouble. Notice that I didn’t put the
wrestling video game first before the comment about jerking off in that last
sentence. Just wanted to make that
clear. I did not… have… jerk off…
relations… with that video game… WWF No Mercy.
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