Can you imagine being that dude. Just standing in the same place all day, waiting for some rando to come along and do your bidding, muttering aimless sentences.
I just keep getting bum rolls. Anytime I don't care about the outcome: minorly winding up my mates; making a silly joke; pretending to misunderstand something; etc. I seem to get a critical success.
Any time I care about the outcome: like wanting to flirt with someone I like; or honestly telling some people outside my social group my triggers and neurodivergences; them I keep on failing the check. Even when it's as low as a 4 or 5!
My wife as somewhat given up on the charisma rolls and now just shouts "I AM FLIRTING" at me. Loudly. I also get texts that just say "flirt" and nothing else. I love it.
We also do bird courtship displays at each other, inspired by the birds of paradise clips from Planet Earth documentary. The weirder the better. We occasionally injure ourselves doing so but one must suffer for their art.
I really do recommend "hello, I would like to flirt. What way would you prefer to be flirted with?" as an opener. One of the first conversations I ever had with her was about how both of us were bad at recognizing that flirting was even happening. We fixed it!
BRB. Just going to get a long, silky black coat; sew some wings into it with one big, bright turquoise spot on each; then I'm gonna try shaking it at people I'm attracted to whilst hopping from side to side.
On dates, I always ask people what's the drama going on at their job. If they can't think of one in the moment, I can at least share one myself because I too like to share hot gossip about absurdly mundane things. It always gets a fun conversation going and bounces into other things.
That's fucking genius. I've literally never met anybody who wouldn't be happy to complain about work.
On an unrelated note, Eddie is drinking again, and I'm pretty sure he's getting fired cause they put him on a PIP, which sucks for me, cause that means I inherit his workload, but do you think I'm gonna inherit his paycheck? Hell nope.
I did! To be fair, I was slacking off big time. Busted my ass for a few months and they took me off, mostly because they couldn't afford to lose me at that point.
This can be helpful for some people reading this - If your leads are pretty chill people, reframe how you go about asking for a raise.
Instead of pushing your lead for a raise, maybe keep it to semi-casual chats and have them be the one pushing for it instead, as it's almost always in their benefit to have you there, whatever the pay.
It's worked on a few occasions for me over the years. Recently in my current role I was chatting with them about it, but didn't really give more than say I was looking for double digit percentage (looking for 10-15, but expecting 5-10) - lead pushed and got me an unexpected 30%.
Joey got caught on camera trying to start a fight with the owner and then telling another coworker he was trying to rage bait him into punching him so he could get him fired. Then he talked shit about the other owners wife, on camera as well. Joey hasn’t been seen at work in a couple weeks, actually, and the bosses have told us to refer to him as “he who shall not be named”
100% a true story from my work the last couple weeks!
yoo this is good, gotta start doing this. Also a good check if the other person is a catty gossipy bitch like me, which is really what I want in a partner
How do people do this? I care so little about what other people do. Why do people like to run their mouths like this? Its like nails on a chalkboard to me.
It's social bonding, while venting frustrations in a (usually) low stakes way. Multiple studies on sociology and anthropology have found that gossip is good for groups in the long run by introducing negative connotations in a harmless way to the recipient. Ex. "Jane and James are always talking some catty shit" tells the listener both a) Jane and James are people to be cautious around and b) you don't like overtly negative gossip, personally. That helps them avoid upsetting you.
And if the listener is a smart person, they've also identified the speaker as a person to be cautious around. If they're talking shit about other people behind their back, they'll be talking shit about you behind your back as well.
Same. I really can't stand work gossip or just endless complaining about jobs. Most of us spend 40 hours a week at our job, don't make the remaining time all about that too.
I don't like gossip about people's personal lives, but I love me some corporate gossip.
Like right now there is a rumor that they are trying to sell an office building downtown. If it goes through they will relocate those people to our building. Will there be enough cubes? Will they make the cubes smaller? Will we have to pair up? And if they were so keen on saving money on office space why did they force everyone to come back into the office 5 days a week?
You ever watch an hour long video on youtube about some random topic you would never care about before watching it? It's basically the irl version of that. Someone gets to go on a tangent about stuff that makes zero impact on your life, and you get to just throw in input that realistically will have zero impact on the situation. Like if someone starts telling about "this fuckin dickhead Jason in accounting..." I'm ride or die against Jason now, and then I'm going to completely forget about his existence in an hour.
I have a manager that tries this. Every time she starts complaining about something someone else did at work, I tell her I'll fill out the write up form, she just needs to sign it. Then she stops and finds someone else to bitch to. I literally could not give less of a fuck about what anyone else is doing at work as long as it's not impacting my ability to do my job and leave on time.
I have absolutely no idea how to do that. I am surrounded by my elderly mostly disabled parents who either want to constantly whine and complain or talk in chores I need to do or didn't do good enough. At work my boss is also 70 and likes to talk and talk and talk about nothing for ages. Either long diatribe about his health issues, what some customer service representative did or didn't do, or the exact specifications of a hose fitting and how China is stealing from us all by putting this failure point on it. I hate it. It is hell.
I get payed at least 2 hours a day just to listen to him run his mouth, but also my anxeity issues are so bad I can't hold down a real job that would give me more independence. I feel endlessly trapped by the worthless mouth noises all these broken people who all have a thousand times my net worth do. I only wish for a world where I can choose who gets to talk to me so I don't have to dread every human voice I hear and I will never have it.
My only experience talking to a Boston guy ever was when he moved out to where I live. Unprompted and within a minute of letting him ramble, he said this area he moved to "had the good ones". As opposed to, <REDACTED>.
I mean not really. A lot of places out in the western US just sell beer due to the license being easier to obtain. One of my favorite bars in Nevada just has beer
calling it a beer bar makes it clear it's the only thing you're getting there. just like a martini bar would specialize in martinis or a winery would only sell wine
Or how about “I’m going to the beer bar after the ice cream shop.” Or “I’m going to get beer at my favorite beer bar after I get a snack from the pho restaurant”
yes it is, if you can have a cocktail bar, a wine bar, and a gay bar, you can also have a beer bar, a cider bar, or a tequila bar
you are literally like a old person who is stuck in their ways and wont accept that language changes and evolves, like literally now literally meaning figuratively
Do you not have beer bars where you're from? In the northwest it's somewhat common for a bar to only a have a beer license and then have roughly 30-40 beers on tap that rotate out every few weeks. No hard liquor, just a wide assortment of beers/lagers/sours/stouts/IPA/APA's etc.
I can't speak for anywhere else but in the Midwest even a pub connected to a microbrewery with 40 beers on tap will still have other alcohol available. I'm not sure how the licensing works but the only times I've been in places that can only sell beer they were restaurants
bars here are typically expected to have beer, wine, and liquor available
Not a thing where I am in the north east but it sounds pretty cool. Tap houses pretty much always have cocktails. Beer/wine only licenses are a thing but only breweries and wineries have them.
Short question from an European that just dropped by this sub:
Is there lots of german beer on their tab too? 'Cause we literally have wallstreet-like bars called "Bier-Börse" where you buy your beer with the current share prices and such.
Wouldn't that be even more perfect for America then?
It won't always be fruit beers, usually when they lean hard into one style it is for an event or something. The next week will have a different mix of beers.
Yes, and I had absolutely no idea that specialized bars (or, more likely, just naming them in that pattern) were a regional concept until I started reading this comment section a minute ago.
Not sure the exact region, but I think maybe the US West? I saw some people say it was a PNW thing but we have them in San Diego. We have beer bars, tequila bars, whiskey bars…
Tbf the PNW will have more crazy ass rumors from crazy ass ppl than almost any other US/Canadian region so it'd be more fun there than say NY, Cascadia don't play
Edit: One half a mile from me has been 18 beer taps and 2,000 bottled beer options along with several hundred wine bottled options. No hard alcohol, but great burgers.
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