You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?

[BTM]

Hear, hear. Another gem is, of course, "It's all in your head." Um, not quite. In quite a few cases, it's quite possibly in the genes or the result of something going on their lives.

Btw, thanks mass media for making it seem like people with depression are just doing it for attention by inadvertedly equating it with emo teens. Way to trivialize a serious mental illness that can destroy a person's life as well as the lives of everyone around them! I mean, hell, it's not like there are ever any underlying issues that need to be addressed or anything; they can just take a "happy pill" and make everything better, right?

Well, that's another thing that bugs me, waaay too damn many people think anti-depressants are "happy pills".  That is, you take them, and you're just goofy, bouncing off the walls, giggling like the teenage schoolgirl at a Justin Bieber concert. 

Uh, no.

Anti-depressants (IF they actually work), just balance you out, so you can feel NORMAL.  So, there's not that huge, dark cloud hanging over your head (or at least, it's not as dark as normal.) 

Makes you really hate the damn "normals" sometimes, huh?

[3mnkids]

Being nickel and dimed to death.     The school raised their bus fees to 25.00 per child. So, 75.00 a month for the kids to ride the bus to school..

So you are paying 5 dollars a day to take you kid to school and back home. Do you get a refund on sick days, school day's off and snowdays?

Although I'd often wonder what the school bus drivers so while the kids are in school, I do think many are also doing something else... at least I hope thay are... It's quite silly/wasteful if they are waiting 4 to 6 hours doing nothing.

Nope, no discount. I thought about letting the two oldest ride the bus in the morning but walk home in the afternoon but it would still be the full amount so why bother. I also paid 155.00 in book fees and 39.00 for a PE uniforms. I guess its a good thing my kids aren't into sports or I would be paying another 100 bucks.

I know I shouldn't complain since the state of IL is in such rough shape financially and the schools are suffering because of it.. Their school is one of 29 in the state that is in dire straits financially but ya know what, so am I.   

[Skull]

Being nickel and dimed to death.     The school raised their bus fees to 25.00 per child. So, 75.00 a month for the kids to ride the bus to school..

So you are paying 5 dollars a day to take you kid to school and back home. Do you get a refund on sick days, school day's off and snowdays?

Although I'd often wonder what the school bus drivers so while the kids are in school, I do think many are also doing something else... at least I hope thay are... It's quite silly/wasteful if they are waiting 4 to 6 hours doing nothing.

Nope, no discount. I thought about letting the two oldest ride the bus in the morning but walk home in the afternoon but it would still be the full amount so why bother. I also paid 155.00 in book fees and 39.00 for a PE uniforms. I guess its a good thing my kids aren't into sports or I would be paying another 100 bucks.

I know I shouldn't complain since the state of IL is in such rough shape financially and the schools are suffering because of it.. Their school is one of 29 in the state that is in dire straits financially but ya know what, so am I.   

I would be happy if the money is actually going to the bus driver, the gas and the maintenance... Saddly it doesnt. When you can count the number of students on the bus and ask what the driver does after the rides.

[BTM]

I know I shouldn't complain since the state of IL is in such rough shape financially and the schools are suffering because of it.. Their school is one of 29 in the state that is in dire straits financially but ya know what, so am I.   

Good ol' Illinois! 

Some days I really miss living in Missouri. 

[Trevor]

Anti-depressants (IF they actually work), just balance you out, so you can feel NORMAL.  So, there's not that huge, dark cloud hanging over your head (or at least, it's not as dark as normal.) 

I was put on a course of 'happy pills" in 2009 and I flipped out several times, so they didn't work for me at all: the one thing that they did do was stop me smoking for some very weird reason. I'd been trying to quit for years since 1984 and I haven't touched a cigarette since April last year. 

[BTM]

I was put on a course of 'happy pills" in 2009 and I flipped out several times, so they didn't work for me at all: the one thing that they did do was stop me smoking for some very weird reason. I'd been trying to quit for years since 1984 and I haven't touched a cigarette since April last year. 

Weird.. don't think I've heard of anti-smoking side effect  (course, I don't know all the possible effects of meds, mainly just ones I'm on of have been on.)  How did it stop you from smoking, exactly?  I mean, did it eliminate the nicotine cravings, or did cigs just not "taste" the same afterwards?  (I'm a non-smoker so I may not fully understand your answer.)

[Flick James]

Anti-depressants (IF they actually work), just balance you out, so you can feel NORMAL.  So, there's not that huge, dark cloud hanging over your head (or at least, it's not as dark as normal.) 

I was put on a course of 'happy pills" in 2009 and I flipped out several times, so they didn't work for me at all: the one thing that they did do was stop me smoking for some very weird reason. I'd been trying to quit for years since 1984 and I haven't touched a cigarette since April last year. 

They put me on Zoloft once when I tried to quit smoking. It didn't work. The only thing that ever worked was my wife and I trying for kids and me wanting to be completely rid of cigarettes before my first child came. It worked, and I quit cold turkey almost 4 years ago, completely on my own. However, Zoloft may have helped. I personally don't think anything will truly help a person quit smoking unless they're really ready to quit. I would imagine you were ready to quit and so the anti-depressant really helped.

[Flick James]

You know what grinds my gears?

Managers who try and overstate their influence on the success of the people they manage. I love how managers are very quick to take some credit for an employee who performs well.

What happens when that employee fails? Well, the manager is even quicker to point and document how much they tried to help the employee, offered guidance, did this and that, in an effort to prove that they weren't responsible for the failure. Well, doesn't that actually suggest the opposite? The first guy didn't need much if any help from you, so you can't very well claim influence over it to prove how great a manager you are. And if the failed employee failed even after all the guidance you gave him/her, doesn't that suggest you're a s**tty manager? 

[JaseSF]

The ever-growing gap between the rich and the poor. Employers who are robbing me and other workers of hard earned wages meaning I get less now than I did 10 years ago. My father gets less than he did 30 years ago...there's sometimes seriously wrong with that in a world where the inflation is through the roof and major companies are making so much funny at the top, stealing it out of working people's very pockets and don't kid yourselves that's not what's happening. When working class people try and organize and get together, it's actively discouraged. Bailouts are nothing but big companies stealing money out of your and my pockets to keep a status quo that is making rich people riching and giving them more and more money to steal out of our pockets.

[Skull]

Paying 175.00 a month for comcast! All we have is cable and internet... 

[Leah]

having the background laughter for things that aren't funny. Proof- NICK! WTF happened to the good o' days when Nick was awesome?

[Mr. DS]

People who state the obvious (this could actually go under the "nice things people do to tick you off" thread) just to make conversation.  For example.......

Rain will be pouring and someone will say "Wow, it sure is raining..."

I'll be walking in with a bag of tomatoes and someone will say "Wow, thats a lot of tomatoes..."

Theres a volunteer in my workplace that works at the giftshop.  I always go in and by a couple atomic fire balls.  Every time I see her she says, "WOW, you like the hot stuff..."

A coworker of mine brought up a good idea.  I should say something ridiculous back to scare people away.  I was thinking next time that volunteer does that I'll make the metal signs with my fingers and say in a high pitched 80s power METAL voice, "YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH". 

[Flick James]

A coworker of mine brought up a good idea.  I should say something ridiculous back to scare people away.  I was thinking next time that volunteer does that I'll make the metal signs with my fingers and say in a high pitched 80s power METAL voice, "YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH".

You can't pitch an idea like that and not do it. Now you're obligated. Not only do you have to do it now, but you have to post tomorrow and tell us the reaction.

[Mr. DS]

A coworker of mine brought up a good idea.  I should say something ridiculous back to scare people away.  I was thinking next time that volunteer does that I'll make the metal signs with my fingers and say in a high pitched 80s power METAL voice, "YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH".

You can't pitch an idea like that and not do it. Now you're obligated. Not only do you have to do it now, but you have to post tomorrow and tell us the reaction.

Yeah I'll get back to you.  The woman has to be past 80 so seeing a heart attack is possible I'll probably chicken out.

[Trevor]

Weird.. don't think I've heard of anti-smoking side effect  (course, I don't know all the possible effects of meds, mainly just ones I'm on of have been on.)  How did it stop you from smoking, exactly?  I mean, did it eliminate the nicotine cravings, or did cigs just not "taste" the same afterwards?  (I'm a non-smoker so I may not fully understand your answer.)

I can't say why I stopped altogether, it could be a combination of the meds and the fact that my office is no longer in the Union Building gardens which is almost a huge park. All I know is that I haven't touched a cigarette since April 09 and I can't explain it.