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offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2022-04-10 09:53 [#02618010]
Points: 25264 Status: Regular



3/4 of the people i work have just resigned. for sticking
around, they gave me so much nothing, that it needed
multiple rounds of meetings to explain how much nothing i am
getting: no raise, no promotion, no stock, no cost of living
increase. we're not going to send you to that technical
conference; it's not in the budget. i am to have a temporary
manager and then a new manager, who is filling for a new
manager that they are still trying to hire, after having my
manager resign, then my manager's manager resign. that a
thing i need someone with escalated privileges to
accomplish, i've had to find a new person three times in a
row because the previous ones resigned. that i am rapidly
reaching the point where i cannot psychologically handle it
anymore.

meanwhile, prices are insane. my rent will go up; only
question is how much, and if i can afford it. that i was
already weighing my options before this shit with work. it
is a band time to sign a lease agreement, like it was last
time i was essentially forced to move with the market being
Peak Shit. if i am going to move, i really need a car, and,
honestly, car prices are Peak Shit as well, and i have been
fine being carless but now i may be essentially forced to
buy a car.

i went to some urgent care place two months back for a
thing, that they really did nothing to diagnose, they
sucked, and tonight i open up a bill for $500 ["insurance is
only covering this part" etc] when they, apparently,
balls-out lied to me, and now i have to either decide to
just pay it, or fight the bullshit upstream, and maybe still
have to pay it.

there are some nice things like being really really fit
right now, having that lady fawn over me the other night,
but overall i'm starting to become concerned i could lose
everything again, and if i start to feel like i am not going
to beat this... well, i'll try to get my music archives on
somewhere

how are you.


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2022-04-10 10:21 [#02618011]
Points: 4899 Status: Regular



if 3/4ths of the people in the job just resigned (and
assuming one of them can't get you an in somewhere?)

that would probably be a pretty strong case for unemployment
benefits, if you could easily show why they all left as a
shit working condition.

That'd give you time to find something else (at least, I've
known a few others who got by on unemployment for a time).


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2022-04-11 21:36 [#02618027]
Points: 31038 Status: Regular | Followup to EpicMegatrax: #02618010



You should probably emigrate to Scandinavia,


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2022-04-12 02:35 [#02618029]
Points: 25264 Status: Regular



i'm actually trying to figure it out. it's quite puzzling.
with this level of shift, there is no way Those Upstairs did
not realize there was going to be a lot of leaving. that,
frankly, after they changed the bonus structure, a lot of
people left after that without waiting for a raise. one guy
suggested, like, maybe they want to fire me, but don't want
to pay unemployment? but that jives with another hunch i
had, that, like, it's just ambivalence, they don't care if i
stay or not, because everyone has left and i've no one in my
corner. but then, also quite possible, you go a bit more
mean with that and they are going to fire me, but,
like, let's just wait until this segment is finished before
we do that

i feel less, i dunno, existentially doomed today. that,
honestly, i woke up, and i was like... this is annoying, i'm
tired of thinking about it, i just want to keep working.
that i do get like work like i do music, kind of hiding in
there for hours. and not only has my manager quit, my
manager's manager quit, but the temporary manager, who is
actually, like, executive level... yeah, took us a while to
figure out today... he's on vacation? and didn't tell any of
us on the team? or put it on the calendar? i proposed a
betting pool on his resignation

but honestly, there is no one here, no one of authority, no
one asking me for status updates, that i can't ask anyone
about such and such decision because no one left will
know... and go figure, i easily put in 11 hours today, got a
shitload done. surprising what you can get do without that
bullshit


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2022-04-12 02:36 [#02618030]
Points: 25264 Status: Regular



but i'm still going to look for another job, because i don't
understand what. the. fuck. is going on, and given that i
cannot rule it out, it's prudent to just assume they'll fire
me in a few weeks or something for whatever archaic eldritch
bidness going on up dere


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2022-04-12 03:39 [#02618031]
Points: 4899 Status: Regular



"i feel less, i dunno, existentially doomed today. that,
honestly, i woke up, and i was like... this is annoying,
i'm
tired of thinking about it, i just want to keep working."

I think that's the right mindset, more or less. Here's the
thing- and this isn't serious life advice or anything like
that, I think it's more of a factual statement-

Assume you'll weather this storm, and fast forward 5 years.
You won't be dealing with this particular crop of shit any
more. Very little chance, that you'd have a 5 year
consistent problem with work that you were unable to
solve/fully escape from. 5 years is a long time. At that
point, you'll have an entirely different set of problems,
maybe some related like a domino effect, but more likely in
that time you'd have found a calm equilibrium in life and
THEN developed new problems.

This just helps me when I have a bunch of dogshit on my
plate. "Am I still gonna be dealing with this in a few
months? probably not. Just make the moves i can and get
through it now and see what happens"

Anyway don't read that as me trying to play therapist or
something, it's just a mindset that helps me personally.
good luck


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-08-17 14:28 [#02637765]
Points: 25264 Status: Regular



i could not even have imagined how much more poo things
would become. laid off. family fucking me out of inheritance
[did i mention that? not sure]. credit destroyed. harassed
by police. i could go on


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-08-17 14:29 [#02637766]
Points: 25264 Status: Regular



i was right about them firing me, btw. trying to get
re-hired is like... six motherfucking zoom interviews and
they're still not sure. shit can be more work than my actual
job was. and just yes, dick me around and wait to see if you
can find someone cheaper


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2024-08-17 14:39 [#02637770]
Points: 40005 Status: Regular



Why is your family trying the mess with the inheritance?

Good luck with the job search and the interviews, I know
it’s not always fun and easy but stick with it and be
strong, positive and give them the best Epixs there is, and
pray, that’s all you can do.

Good luck mate!!


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-08-17 17:57 [#02637774]
Points: 25264 Status: Regular



because it's money? and they would rather keep it than,
like, chip in a bit so i could buy a car and have access to
more job opportunities? and access to a grocery store that
is not mostly a liquor store?


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-08-17 18:03 [#02637775]
Points: 25264 Status: Regular



i don't know what's going on. but i can say i feel like
what's missing, by my napkin estimate, is in the high
six-figure range. possibly even seven. thus, it makes sense
to throw me under the bus, you see. try to get me to go on
disability, tell me to start looking up homeless shelters...
rather than, like, hey -- fucking keep it, maybe just help
me with a car? but that ship has clearly sailed. instead
they come back with "if you get a job, we'll help you out
with car" and thus a catch-22 that essentially allows them
to do NOTHING while simultaneously trumpeting what a wreck i
am, because that keeps me further away from the money -- and
they care about appearances, too. they don't want people in
our social circles to know what shit they are to me, so they
go around loudly trumpeting i'm a mess


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-08-17 18:26 [#02637776]
Points: 25264 Status: Regular



they have always treated me like that. i asked for help
when... year into the pandemic, my landlady sells the
property out from under me, never mind your lease, get out
in ~45 days. it's pandemic and i have to write checks for
all they money i had saved for a new car

to get into the only place i could find that wasn't
horrible... but it's a HOUSE and i was in a sane, 1-bedroom
apartment before... and i moved here thinking "i make $150k
a year and i am regularly granted stock options and i have a
working car" and that's all gone

the car, i might add, was a fucking beater from when someone
changed lanes into me before i landed that cush job. i
called up my mom and said: "can you give me a lift back to
my place?" and she's all "UGGGhhh UGHGHGHh TOO MUCH EFFORT"
and hangs up and my phone has 10% battery and i am at some
shitty tow place on the side of the highway

i crawl out of all that shit without their help, now i'm
washed back to zero again, and they still seem to think it
appropriate to claim some sort of moral high ground. i guess
because it's either that or have everyone around them be
appalled


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-08-17 18:28 [#02637777]
Points: 25264 Status: Regular | Followup to Wolfslice: #02618031



but more likely in that time you'd have found a calm
equilibrium in life


ahahahahHAHHA

...wait, you were serious?!
you people are daft.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-08-17 18:37 [#02637778]
Points: 25264 Status: Regular



it's not all poo. i walk five miles a day. i'm in incredible
shape. i got into clothes and i dress sharp now. i stay out
of the sauce, except for an occasional bout where they send
me back into it

...and did i mention i'm still an immensely talented
programmer that can do everything from C++ to PHP to ruby on
rails to react frontend work?

...that i've been building synths for years, i know
electrical engineering?

...i've been writing video editing software as consulting
recently [over now, pretty much] and i'm a wizard with
video?

...that i've been producing music for 20 years, and i can
dance like a motherfucker? did you know i can sing too?
holding out on people there, tbh

...this is before we get into my deep love of neuroscience,
psychology, language [and if some of my theories are right,
well.. that is BIG. NEWS.]

but no, go on disability and look up homeless shelters. you
dolts.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-08-17 19:22 [#02637782]
Points: 25264 Status: Regular



i could actually get into the precise psychological and...
christ, did i even cover this? that a family can function as
an organism with its own genome -- think immediate family.
all the little quirks that are kind of a family in-joke...
genome. from there you get patterns of [immediate] family
passed down like DNA through language. in between it
mediates hormones and whether you stomp loud or tiptoe
nervously effectively modulating epigenetics through.. this
thing, here, that i think i'm kind of newly up on. anyone
else have it yet?

anyways. this gets into families competing due to
evolutionary pressure. you can see how some of the more
fucked-up, gaslighting patterns could out-compete "healthy"
[immediate] family patterns. or how cycles of abuse form
through drug abuse etc [thankfully i was spared that].

from there you get into families perpetuating through women,
and... well, that's enough about me. let's talk about mom.
did you know alzheimers is a linguistic/epigenetic trigger
for a succesion fight? best manipulator wins. then sis is a
psychiatrist and i'm the earnest idiot that screams "can't
we just get along" with predictable results

i'm over it. i never had to deal with it since... either you
get trapped, as a slave of sorts to be the family emotional
toilet, or you gtfo. i've done the latter, i've done well
really, but now that i'm having trouble they have the taste
of blood... money... which are actually fungible if you
think about it




i could be right about all of this. or none of it. some of
these theories last two weeks, others five years. and at
this point -- most of it, i estimate.

and guuurgh. no one wants any of this? for real? fine i'll
just go to jail then


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-08-17 19:45 [#02637783]
Points: 25264 Status: Regular



...but that's the attitude that will get me there. so
perhaps i'll yeet a bitch instead

["yeet or be yeeted?" i had to look the word up. but oh. if
that's how you operate. i suppose there's no choice, right?
what a waste of time]


 

offline DADONCK from here on 2024-08-17 23:11 [#02637791]
Points: 3532 Status: Regular



is anyone reading these escapist diaries?

this guy seems to be afraid of alot of things


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2024-08-18 11:41 [#02637795]
Points: 12410 Status: Regular



"i'm too smart and talented, i deserve to starve instead of
accepting help" lol


 

offline Tony Danza from NAFO Suicide Hotline on 2024-08-18 12:07 [#02637797]
Points: 3647 Status: Regular



a very stable genius


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-08-18 19:00 [#02637820]
Points: 25264 Status: Regular



wow, just... wow. seeing the uglier side of xltronic, here.
must mean i've really hit a nerve, lol


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-08-18 19:08 [#02637821]
Points: 25264 Status: Regular



darius ~
i crawl out of all that shit without their help, now i'm
washed back to zero again, and they still seem to think it
appropriate to claim some sort of moral high ground. i guess
because it's either that or have everyone around them be
appalled


...and i mean social workers as well.

the software industry recently imploded. i've tried, i've
tried. six zoom interviews and they're still not sure.

being poor != disability

you crass shit.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-08-18 19:14 [#02637822]
Points: 25264 Status: Regular



in any case, i tried to spin up a brief list, first off -- a
brief list of some of my most interesting + economically
useful talents in the hope that i can, actually, find some
sort of work. or a place in the world. or something.

then, i just dropped some of the science, because i love
working on all that. along with trying to explain -- part of
why i'm into all that is from taking apart the nuts and
bolts of my own situation to try and survive.

the pandemic, the economy, those are really what's to blame
for my situation. and here's a short list of my long list of
talents and then a sample of how, i don't know... _good_ my
science nonsense is, actually? thank you

and i'm saying: isn't it such a waste to send me to jail?
does anyone have a job? want to buy my gear so i can eat?
etc?

instead i get a bunch children making light of a very heavy
situation. that might drive some people over the edge, you
know that? not me, i just find it sad


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2024-08-18 19:24 [#02637824]
Points: 40005 Status: Regular



Hi


 

offline Roger Wilco from Mo's Beans on 2024-08-18 19:25 [#02637825]
Points: 1998 Status: Lurker



Have you ever thought about growing a pair of balls? As
maybe a side project?


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-08-18 19:53 [#02637828]
Points: 25264 Status: Regular



dariusgriffin previously told me, "c'mon, join the rest of
the cripples" when speaking of disability.

i think this tells you all you need to know about him -- how
can this be read as anything other than an attempt to
convince me i am a cripple? that this is not help, this is
"help" -- from people who quite clearly want to see me
squashed down. it could be jealousy. or it could be to get
me to help replenish the working class or some shit... in
any case. that's all. you. need. to. know. that he told me,
"c'mon, join the rest of the cripples"

and that also implies i'm not a cripple, yet...


 

offline mermaidman on 2024-08-18 19:58 [#02637829]
Points: 8308 Status: Regular



whether you have mental disability or not being this
delusional should require some sort of help


 

offline Tony Danza from NAFO Suicide Hotline on 2024-08-18 20:15 [#02637832]
Points: 3647 Status: Regular | Followup to EpicMegatrax: #02637822



the trigger for all this is an officially unacknowledged
economic meltdown and of course you don't belong in jail but
you think you earned the nobel prize for having some vague
stoner thoughts about evolution and that ain't right

these constant reminders that you think you don't deserve
this because you're a genius, rather than you don't deserve
this because you're a human being same as the rest of us, I
mean cmon man. rejoin the human race and get whatever help
you can, lex luthor


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2024-08-18 23:33 [#02637838]
Points: 40005 Status: Regular



lol @ the human race

it’s not a good thing.


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2024-08-18 23:41 [#02637839]
Points: 14294 Status: Lurker



It doesn't sound like you've yet applied for food benifits,
which would be like step 1.

Btw is there bodycam footage of your arrest?


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2024-08-19 01:26 [#02637840]
Points: 12410 Status: Regular



Americans have only two modes

• I am the greatest most successful person on Earth and I
deserve special treatment
• I have seen the truth, life is awful, everything is
wrong and the world is ending


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2024-08-19 07:39 [#02637842]
Points: 40005 Status: Regular



Is there more than two modes?


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-08-19 14:16 [#02637846]
Points: 25264 Status: Regular | Followup to recycle: #02637842



are there more than two modes


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-08-19 14:35 [#02637847]
Points: 25264 Status: Regular | Followup to Tony Danza: #02637832



the trigger for all this is an officially unacknowledged
economic meltdown and of course you don't belong in jail but
you think you earned the nobel prize for having some vague
stoner thoughts about evolution and that ain't right


yes, that's... wrong? like, you're picking a detail or two
and running off with it. perhaps if you actually read it
before firing from the hip?

my mom was abusive. behind closed doors, screaming at me.
then she'd drag me to doctors and and tells them that i need
"help" and she has BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER.

in 2014 she began repeatedly showing up at my house
uninvited. after i didn't answer her phone calls she called
a welfare check and the cops are at my door. twice. then i
threaten to get a restraining order. finally I RESORT TO
MOVING PHYSICALLY FAR AWAY

i quit frozen pizza and went from 190lb fatass to a more
appropriate 175 or something and she was freaking out
because she thought i was starving. i was stunned.
with all her IMAGED NONSENSE i had hoped that seeing me
would be like... "oh, you're not fat now! i see you are
making positive changes in your life!"

...and, no, it's just interpreted as more evidence that i
need "help" -- leading to the stalking, the cops showing up
on welfare check because i wouldn't answer her calls, this
is all the same few months or so!

DISCLAIMER ~ I FULL WELL KNOW OTHER PEOPLE
HAVE HAD HORRIBLY WORSE SHIT TO DEAL WITH YOU ASKED ABOUT MY
ARC SHUT UP TONY


when my dad was "at the end" i came back, and then i'm in a
house with her again and... it's like all the old damage
came out of dusty corners.

i've mostly sorted myself out; cried it out on shrooms etc.
but that took a while and i'm real behind on life/$$ and
then the pandemic... forced me to move at great expense,
cost me my job, and... i really expected to find another
before it hit this point?

i'll upload some video footage of my mom being psyho perhaps


 

offline mermaidman on 2024-08-19 14:51 [#02637848]
Points: 8308 Status: Regular



when did he ask about your arc?
and your mom was probably right


 

offline Tony Danza from NAFO Suicide Hotline on 2024-08-19 15:00 [#02637849]
Points: 3647 Status: Regular | Followup to EpicMegatrax: #02637847



I'm sorry for whatever bullshit from your family and from
fate got you to this point. We're all the product of sheer
cause and effect more than we'd like to admit.

But you are compensating by posting about how smart you are
and how you can code an IRC server in a weekend and have
laser eyes that can understand the mysteries of how DNA and
sociology interact and what you really need to be doing is
getting food stamps and some kind of social services so you
don't end up posting to us from under a tarp behind the
7-Eleven.

I'm not a psychologist and even if I were I haven't met you
face to face so I can't say with any authority that you
appear to be having manic phases but that's what it looks
like.

Stop trying to justify yourself on a dead messageboard and
go. get. help


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2024-08-19 16:22 [#02637851]
Points: 40005 Status: Regular



go live with Tony, he’s a cool chap.


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2024-08-19 16:23 [#02637852]
Points: 40005 Status: Regular



not that there is anything wrong with a tarp behind
7-Eleven.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-08-19 18:28 [#02637860]
Points: 25264 Status: Regular | Followup to Tony Danza: #02637849



But you are compensating by posting about how smart you
are and how you can code an IRC server in a weekend


steve mcqueen or someone replied to one of my threads saying
he knew someone "who coded an IRC server in a weekend" and,
fuck you, dipshit. that's not something i said, that's
something someone else said in one of my threads. stop the
slander


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-08-19 18:29 [#02637861]
Points: 25264 Status: Regular



you appear to be having manic phases but that's what it
looks like.


this is libelous


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-08-19 18:44 [#02637863]
Points: 25264 Status: Regular



i mean, am i going to sue tony? probably not. instead -- if
i survive -- there are many other much more deserving,
cut-and-dry targets before i get to tony.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2024-08-19 19:25 [#02637864]
Points: 25264 Status: Regular



if i survive. it's a realistic level of bluster. because i
just might, in spite of you all. i certainly intend to try.


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2024-08-19 20:47 [#02637869]
Points: 40005 Status: Regular



If you do a civil lawsuit against Tony, I’ll do halfsies


 

offline Tony Danza from NAFO Suicide Hotline on 2024-08-19 21:18 [#02637876]
Points: 3647 Status: Regular



unfollowed blocked and reported


 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2024-08-19 22:36 [#02637877]
Points: 6550 Status: Regular



i reckon crack on with whatever you are doing
is that irc server stilll up ?


 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2024-08-19 22:37 [#02637878]
Points: 6550 Status: Regular



i mean "crack on with whatever you are doing" is a fucking
stupid thing to say, really


 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2024-08-19 22:44 [#02637879]
Points: 6550 Status: Regular | Followup to Tony Danza: #02637876



TONY DANZA FUCK your avatar is annoywing


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2024-08-19 23:23 [#02637880]
Points: 40005 Status: Regular



It’s cute in an irc kinda way


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2024-08-19 23:25 [#02637881]
Points: 12410 Status: Regular



What did I say, it's always school shootings with these guys


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2024-08-20 00:31 [#02637883]
Points: 4899 Status: Regular | Followup to EpicMegatrax: #02637777



To be fair, I only said any of that under the working
assumption that you were a relatively normal--if slightly
offbeat kinda guy.

It's clear to me now though that you are not hirable under
any circumstance, while you are in this sort of manic phase.
You are not someone anyone would want on any team. You need
treatment for a mental disorder, full stop. So I take back
everything I said. I don't like you and don't give a fuck
what you do any more, just wanted to clarify my own stance.


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2024-08-20 00:43 [#02637885]
Points: 40005 Status: Regular



Wolfy for the kill shot/ checkmate.


 


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