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[mastahcheese]

Our debts are laid upon us at birth. Rulers or subjects, we are all prisoners of the great wheel. Escape is the fancy of a child, freedom, the cruelest illusion.

I want this on a T-shirt.

...I'd say 'tattoo' but I hate needles.

[Spehss _]

So I've mentioned it before, I got a part time job. One reason why I took the job was to get me out of my comfort zone and get experience working with other people to try and develop my people skills so I'm not a completely autistic robot hermit for the rest of my life.

It's been about 4 months of working this job, and I thought I was making some small improvements. Apparently according to coworkers I haven't changed at all and I'm still behaving the same as I did at the start of the job. Apparently among other things I give off a "don't talk to me" vibe. This isn't exactly news, I feel like that basically all the time when I'm in public, but I didn't realize I gave off a vibe like that, I didn't realize it was noticeable.

So shit, I don't know to improve my people skills and it sounds like I'm gonna be an autistic robot hermit for the rest of my life. I really don't know what I'm doing wrong or how to fix it.

Just kill me now.

[SalmonGod]

Our debts are laid upon us at birth. Rulers or subjects, we are all prisoners of the great wheel. Escape is the fancy of a child, freedom, the cruelest illusion.

I want this on a T-shirt.

...I'd say 'tattoo' but I hate needles.

Reminds me of one of my favorite van Canto songs.  It fits our generation so well, including the descent into cynicism and escapist self-isolation that plagues so many of us.  Funny that it's based on a centuries-old classic Norwegian play, Peer Gynt.

My father was a gambler
And we were his final bet
Once he put his cards on the table
Our destiny was met

[Baffler]

Today was pretty shit.

I lost my job, along with almost everyone else there, because the place is closing and they're moving everything except support services to Vietnam. Good for them I guess. I'm out in just a few weeks since I was nearly brand new (which makes me wonder how recently even the plant management found out about this whole thing) and they're shutting down gradually to keep the old-timers on until last, which I guess is a nice thing for them to do. There was also an incident just down the street, and there's a situation ongoing there. I didn't know the people, not really, but I've seen them hanging out on their front porch and made small talk a couple of times. Someone is in that house at this very moment, armed and refusing to come out, and the police apparently showed up less than an hour after I took the dog past. They said on the news that nobody is known to be injured, but I guess we'll see tomorrow.

[TheBiggerFish]

@Spehss_: First off, *hugs*.
Secondly: No, you are not going to have to be an autistic robot hermit unless you want to be.  It's just going to take a little more work than most people have to put in.
Thirdly: You are probably better at observing you than your coworkers.  So don't let them get you down.

@Baffler: *hugs muchly*

[TD1]

Firstly, 4 months is a short time for self improvement. It may seem a long time when going through it, but it's going to take longer than that.
Secondly, if the improvements are small, then they'll not be noticeable to people in contact with you over that space of time. Doesn't mean they're not there.

[McTraveller]

Windows 10 update over the weekend on the work laptop busted the VPN settings.   

[Hanslanda]

I am currently depressed and dark due to the rich family that owns the business I work for. I won't go into detail, but they're seriously stressing me out at the worst time, right before my wife has our baby.

[itisnotlogical]

I am so cockfucking shit sick of riding this goddamn bus. I got to the stop same time I always do only to see the bus driving down the opposite side of the highway, four stops ahead of schedule. All the people they hire are either psychotically early, pitifully late, or just don't know the route at all. That's cool I didn't need to go to class anyway

I am so sick of this. I have no independence or control over anything in my life that really matters. Seeing as nobody will teach me to drive (and not for lack of promising and would-if-I-could) I need to just get a bicycle, pedal my pudgy ass five miles to school, and accept that getting enough sleep is just a thing of the past now. At least with a bike I would be able to decide when I leave.

[martinuzz]

Bike sounds like a good plan. Five miles is not too much, and it's healthy excercise (unless you have to bike through smog covered asphalt landscapes). Bikes tend to get you to places faster than cars in dense urban environments too.

[Baffler]

It's not a marathon, but a 10 mile round trip is about at the upper end of what I'd consider reasonable for a daily bike ride. Not because it's especially exhausting, but with traffic it's probably between 30 and 45 minutes there and about the same back, though cyclists in the United States are typically forced onto back roads or the sidewalk so it might be longer. Much longer than that and it kinda stops being worth showing up sweaty to wherever it is you're going and dealing with motorists yelling at you for going 30 mph under the speed limit.

[itisnotlogical]

It's a lot of going up and down hills to start, then in the city proper there's a lot of waiting to cross at intersections, then more hills before walking it across the bay bridge with its really narrow "sidewalk." A sucky ride, but at least there's a proper bike lane for half of it.

dealing with motorists yelling at you for going 30 mph under the speed limit.

Around here I don't blame the motorists. Foot traffic is very low and there's usually a bike lane if there isn't sidewalk. Biking on the main street is just hassling highway traffic for no good reason.

[Hanslanda]

Which brings me to my sad. Fucking assholes who drive fifteen to twenty mph under the limit. If you do this you are an unsafe asshole with a sociopathic disinterest in the needs of other humans. And I mean this next part very sincerely. Fuck you.

I don't mean cyclists or truckers or gov't drivers. Just regular motorists that can't give one fuck about how shitty a driver they are.

[wierd]

There are fast and slow lanes for a reason Hanslanda.  Perhaps their vintage hoopty from 1920 simply cannot drive 80mph-- ever think of that?  Hell, some vehicles from the 90s top out in the 80ish mph range-- close to redline.

If they stay in the right-most lane, they are doing things correctly, and are driving at the fastest safe speed for their vehicle. Being butthurt that they arent doing 5mph over the limit is absurd.

[TheBiggerFish]

There are fast and slow lanes for a reason Hanslanda.  Perhaps their vintage hoopty from 1920 simply cannot drive 80mph-- ever think of that?  Hell, some vehicles from the 90s top out in the 80ish mph range-- close to redline.

If they stay in the right-most lane, they are doing things correctly, and are driving at the fastest safe speed for their vehicle. Being butthurt that they arent doing 5mph over the limit is absurd.

...He said under the limit, so more akin to going 30 mph in a 50 mph.
Respecting the speed limit is an entirely different thing.