Life is teh suck today because (a.ka. the official B_tch & Moan thread)

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#1925

Life sucks this week cause on Monday we had layoffs. I survived it but it was (still is) pretty horrible. One worked for me so I had to sign the papers and be in the meeting. He looked at me and said I’ve been with the company for 23 years, now I have to go home and tell my wife I’m unemployed, how do I do that. It was heart breaking. Closed doors, grown men coming out crying cause they were just laid off. This week has sucked.

Mostly I’ve been coming home at night and just curling up in bed. Thankful I still have my job and sad for those that lost theirs.

#1926

You are not alone…at my office seems people are getting laid off weekly (and we aren’t that big). The woman who trained me 3 years ago left today, and I spent 1/2 the morning learning the rest of her job that is left. I felt awful; she was senior to me & had 6 years with the company. I am not complaining about having a job, but how did I get spared? “Suvivor’s guilt” in a way…:frowning:

#1927

you ain’t alone man, i thought I was food poison’d but no-one else at last night’s dinner is sick. what the frak, this sucks.

#1928

There’s been a lovely stomach flu going around here. I had it. It really frakking sucked. But I’m all better now. :smiley:

#1929

Sis in law is in the hospital for depression. When ever she is ill, often because she stops her meds, she strikes out at her brother and never wants to see us again. The thing that gets me is she has been doing poorly for months but no one tells us. She fakes being OK around us the few times we have seen her in the last few months, but somehow we are insensitive. I guess the hardest part for me is it may be not seeing her ever again may be the best thing for her. I will loose two nephews in the mix. How to explain to small children why their aunt and uncle love them, but are not able to bother to see them.

#1930

Since it was a nice warm spring day today (finally!), I decided to clean out the attic.

However, with the warmer weather, the ladybugs are becoming active, and apparently decided to make upstairs their home, and they have been spreading throughout the house.

I was making coffee this afternoon, and I feel something crawling on my beard. You guessed it, ladybugs. It freaked me out.

I got some humor though, as I settled down and watched my lab eat one. She chewed on it for a while, and then made the strangest face I have ever seen a lab make. She spit the ladybug onto the floor, and gave me a look that said “you think this is funny human? Why didn’t you warn me? I know whose socks I will be chewing on when they leave…”

Then I sipped my coffee, and saw what the fuss was all about: a lady bug fell into my cup, and it was the most God-awful, bitter coffee I have ever drank.

I need to get a T-shirt that says “I survived the lady bug incursion of 2009.”

Not as bad as what some people on here are going through, but what the hell am I supposed to do with a few hundred lady bugs??!! :confused:

#1931

Find a few hundred dude bugs?

#1932

Heh. I was going to go the “hey Pegasus, why don’t you eat the rest of them” route, but I think she is too smart to fall for it.

At this point, now that they are becoming less active as the night air hits them, I have been sweeping them out, but they are like an unholy plague…

#1933

The simplest solution would be to burn the place down and collect the insurance money :smiley:

#1934

As a former sapper, I can’t argue with your reasoning. I don’t know what line of engineering you are going into, but it sounds like you would have done well in the combat engineering world—“if we are going to have an explosion, how can we make it more awesomely explosive?” And of course “what the hell is ‘P’ in this equation craaap? Does it stand for plenty?”

Anyhoo… I am losing hope. I keep sweeping the little bastards out, but a dozen more take their place…

#1935

I’m a biomedical engineer, and one of my friends is an electrical engineer. Everyday in Cal III last semester, we would come to the same conclusion: we should drop out of school and commit insurance fraud.

#1936

Survivor guilt is part of it. Although there is nothing to feel guilty about, its simply a very sad situation that we are powerless to change.

I think the key to hanging on as long as possible is being as flexible as possible. Be the one that can do and is willing to do many different things, you need a really big head so you can wear as many hats as possible. I’ve removed the word “no” from my vocabulary.

#1937

I’d say some sort of chemical warfare is in order. If that fails, go nuclear. That should take care of the little buggers (and everybody else within a 6 mile radius).

#1938

Exactly. I am not assigned to one specific area of the office whereas most others have a specialty. I do a little bit of everything, and almost never say no to taking on or learning a different task.
Sometimes not fitting in is the best place to be. :rolleyes:

#1939

My mom suffers from depression and paranoia, and she stops taking her meds and thinks they are a plot to poison and control her. And since we are not buying into her view, we are working against her and are pawns of the plot. Family gatherings often generate interesting stories.

#1940

Send the lady bugs to me. They eat the bugs that bother my orange and grapefruit trees.

#1941

I think I was mostly shocked, since I thought except for the money issues that we all have things were going well. She was going back to school and taking temp. jobs to help with the money. Sis does well on medication. So when we were told she was finally going to the hospital I was confused. I was told she did not want to go because she felt everyone would just leave her there and not visit her. We were given her phone number and code number and visiting hours. This was all through mom. We go to the hospital to show her we were not leaving her and we were there for her. We check in at the desk and are let in. Hell breaks out because no on told us we were not suppose to visit and no one stopped us at the desk. Keeping the family harmony by not telling anyone that someone is not doing well strikes again. I am not sure if we would have ever known except that the brother in law was going to do some work with my husband and had to cancel.

#1942

I’ll take some too, usually I buy them and release them into my garden. They help keep the mealy bugs that invaded my garden under control.

#1943

Good idea. I don’t think anyone will miss my neighbor. I am nearly 100% certain that he is a vampire—seriously. The dude only comes out of his house between midnight and five Am. Atomic fire might take care of the damn bugs and him.

They might survive the trip to Jersey, but not florida, I think. At this point, I have pretty much given up. My cats, however, have not. They seem to enjoy stalking the lady bugs.

#1944

Lady bugs are one of the best at eating destructive bugs. Sorry you can not send them my way.