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[scrdest]

I'm having a ton of anxiety today about like absolutely nothing. My leg keeps twitching and my chest feels a bit tight and I don't know why because there is literally nothing that I should be worried about right now. Few more hours of class and then I'm going to curl up in a ball on my bed. Till then, caffinee.

That's... actually kinda worth keeping tabs on. Considering the caffeine remark, might be low magnesium.

Oh, not like muscle twitching but like restlessness and tapping my foot non-stop for extended periods of time. Sorry to cause undue worry!

...that's called Restless Leg Syndrome and is even more worrying with the chest tightness, actually o.o

[TheBiggerFish]

I'm having a ton of anxiety today about like absolutely nothing. My leg keeps twitching and my chest feels a bit tight and I don't know why because there is literally nothing that I should be worried about right now. Few more hours of class and then I'm going to curl up in a ball on my bed. Till then, caffinee.

That's... actually kinda worth keeping tabs on. Considering the caffeine remark, might be low magnesium.

Oh, not like muscle twitching but like restlessness and tapping my foot non-stop for extended periods of time. Sorry to cause undue worry!

...that's called Restless Leg Syndrome and is even more worrying with the chest tightness, actually o.o

I think that it's voluntary.  But eh.

[scrdest]

I'm having a ton of anxiety today about like absolutely nothing. My leg keeps twitching and my chest feels a bit tight and I don't know why because there is literally nothing that I should be worried about right now. Few more hours of class and then I'm going to curl up in a ball on my bed. Till then, caffinee.

That's... actually kinda worth keeping tabs on. Considering the caffeine remark, might be low magnesium.

Oh, not like muscle twitching but like restlessness and tapping my foot non-stop for extended periods of time. Sorry to cause undue worry!

...that's called Restless Leg Syndrome and is even more worrying with the chest tightness, actually o.o

I think that it's voluntary.  But eh.

RLS is voluntary. What it does is make you feel like moving your legs, not actually moving them as in twitching where you can't control if it  happens.

[Orange Wizard]

Apparently Microsoft decided to throw the whole 'We log all you keystrokes and searches' shit into 7&8

Ewwww

[GiglameshDespair]

Apparently Microsoft decided to throw the whole 'We log all you keystrokes and searches' shit into 7&8

Now I'm on a little intrusion update genocide.

They did?
How get rid of?

[Emma]

Don't type anything.

[itisnotlogical]

 I want some silence and peace and quiet more than anything else. Im sick of the dumb inane shit people say to fill the silence. I just want it to be quiet for a bit. I ain't getting any quiet time today though.

[ChairmanPoo]

Don't type anything.

Yeah. Use Gmail motion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu927_ul_X0

[Baffler]

Apparently Microsoft decided to throw the whole 'We log all you keystrokes and searches' shit into 7&8

Now I'm on a little intrusion update genocide.

They did?
How get rid of?

http://imgur.com/gallery/Dy79J

Checking the updates, they keep going on about it being all about telemetry and improving user experience. I think they're throwing some words in to confuse people and others to make them think 'Oh, well it's helping!'

Thanks for this, I don't need that kinda stuff cluttering up my computer.

[Bohandas]

This is why you should always turn off automatic updating. Leaving it on is a security risk.

[Orange Wizard]

The inverse is also correct.

[Bohandas]

The inverse is also correct.

Perhaps, but my antivirus programs won't detect windows components.

[TheBiggerFish]

The inverse is also correct.

Perhaps, but my antivirus programs won't detect windows components.

Hoo boy.

[Bauglir]

And your antivirus won't protect you from a lot of malware that isn't a virus, although it may warn you once it gets rooted in. Seriously, dude, don't disable operating system updates, that's how you get your shit fucked up real bad. Disable the particular ones you know to be undesirable from things like this. Your argument is akin to insisting on eating raw chicken because the last time you had it fried you got food poisoning.

[SalmonGod]

I need to do something about work, but I'm really at a loss as to what...

It's been about 4 months since my promotion, and I don't think I can keep it up.  I probably feel way more pressure than I really should, but I don't think I can help it.  I guess I underestimated just how much this position would conflict with who I am.  But every time something goes wrong and demands are passed down to fix it, I just feel ill.  I just glanced at e-mail after being out sick for two days, and immediately broke out in a sweat.  I've never had that reaction to anything before.

Maybe it's not the position itself that's getting to me, but the constant contradictions I have to deal with.  I'm told to delegate and utilize my people more, so that I can be free to take on higher level tasks, but I'm still working with 4 out 5 people being new employees.  So naturally, there have been some mistakes, and the result of those mistakes is it's been mandated that I audit the majority of the work that the team does, which is even more time-consuming than doing it myself.  I feel like Atlas right now.

And I know that situation is going to get better with time, but there's still a very long way to go... and in the meantime, this is tearing me apart.  It's also pissing me off that I'm being told constantly to "hold people accountable" without being given any direction as to what that actually means.  If it means tearing into people and making them feel awful, I simply can't do that.  I don't have it in me.  If it means handing out warnings like candy, I refuse to do that.  And I don't know why I'm being told to do this so often, when things really aren't even that bad.  Operationally, there is less frequency of crisis than there has been in a long time.

But the worst issue is there's no good way out.  If I step down, I'm stuck in a horrible social situation in the office, having failed at an attempt at being my team's boss.  If I quit and find work elsewhere, it will forever appear on my employment record that I got a promotion and immediately bailed - obvious failure and red flag.  Plus, we really need the money and I'll be taking a major pay deduction no matter what I do.