How are you doing? - Kiwi Farms Wellness Check

[JustStopDude]

I'm kicking myself. I thought I went to the hotel website to get a room and instead, it was one of those fucking hotel slop companies that just add fees and shit. I feel like a boomer and didn't realize it until I checked out.

This is going to complicate my fucking expense account to no end. And even though my boss doesn't actually pay for this, I'm on expenses plus 10% to the customer, I will never hear the end of this from his cheap ass. Seriously, if the guy could get me into the cargo hold of a plane, he would make me travel that way. This is a guy that rips into anyone that doesn't just eat fast food for every meal on the job.

"Bill, this is why you, and almost everyone in the department, has diabetes". The dude is worst than UseMeOnlyBlade in terms of maintaining his health.

On a bus to a private airfield. Then two plane trips to the artic circle. I swear, whenever I work in Canada, something always goes wrong.

 

[Getmeout]

 

[Squanto Airi]

I confess that I feel guilty about losing/abandoning my Christian faith, but... it is odd for me to say it was because of all the doomposting they do these days? On my end, a lot of the Christians I deal with are the type that are constantly talking about how "the end of the world is going to happen ANY DAY NOW, it's happening right now, we're the ones that're going to heaven while everyone else is going to hell" sort of types. And... it just gets to the point where they're really not that much different from the woke sometimes, what with the fearmongering, the smugness, the inability to accept questioning, the whole "we don't ever need to do anything because God will always win no matter what" bit. Truth be told, I've got nothing against the religion itself, but... the way a lot of the local followers make it sound have me wishing that some towelheads would show up.

I'd like to renew my faith at some point, truly; I admit I've lost it twice, now, but the Christian faith is honestly something I would really like to stay behind. It's just hard to when the "faithful" act more like a damn cult.

Simple answer is to begome Ordodox DD

Tax: Still feel burned out by life.

 

[Not A Bunny]

My company is having an all-hands this week. The management said to wear jeans and a neutral shirt (no t-shirts, something for a reasonably professional environment).

This does not bode well. It screams of "team-building exercises".

I could skip out because I gave my notice, but I'm trying hard not to burn bridges in case I need my professional acquaintances for something in the near future.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

My company is having an all-hands this week. The management said to wear jeans and a neutral shirt (no t-shirts, something for a reasonably professional environment).

This does not bode well. It screams of "team-building exercises".

I could skip out because I gave my notice, but I'm trying hard not to burn bridges in case I need my professional acquaintances for something in the near future.

Showing up to an all-hands for employees or to team-building exercises after you've given notice seems the opposite of a good idea. Maybe you have a very personalworkplace, but no (large) company I've had experience with would want you there.

 

[nycifer]

My interaction with my apartment management has pushed me even more against the side of families and children. I'm so fed up with how over-prioritized families and children are over just about everyone else who is treated and looked down upon because we're not choosing to pop out more kids.

I got an e-mail from them yesterday afternoon, that I've been issued a second and final warning before presumably a 7-day eviction notice, for reported behavior of me yelling through the walls at the little shit who is allowed to run through the hallway everyday.

I go to confront management and we got into an argument about it. They're complaining that I'm having "issues" with people who simply walk through hallways, like they're just dodging the main complaint that I have. I'm arguing back to them that there is no such thing that these things can't be avoided, because the parents here are so fucking lazy to be a parent.

And the male of the management decided to get personal with me because at somepoint after he claimed that this is a family-community, that if I wanted the peace (despite them telling me to my face last year that I deserved it when in a issue with the niggers next door to me) that I should 'be on my own'.

Oh I'm sorry, but here I was raised to believe that being on your own meant that you're living on your own. Paying for your own vehicle. Paying for your own bills. Paying for your own expenses. Paying for your own rent. Living by your own because I fucking have no one to live with and I don't fucking want that right now at this time. I don't even get a single drop of help with everything I pay for, save for the past couple times but help doesn't always come when I need it because I am expected to handle things on my own. THAT'S what being on your own is all about in life, you camp-counselor looking, teeth-shuffled motherfucker!

And now suddenly, you're going to tell me that all of these buildings people are renting from is some fucking family-community? Where was that when I began to rent from you leeches? No where to be seen, no where to be heard. So, take your family values and shove them all the way up your ass.

Go ahead, fucking evict me. You're going to probably raise the rent on me again and price me out just to satisfy the entitled shitheads you allow to rent from you.

 

[Not A Bunny]

Showing up to an all-hands for employees or to team-building exercises after you've given notice seems the opposite of a good idea. Maybe you have a very personalworkplace, but no (large) company I've had experience with would want you there.

Eh, I thought about skipping out, but because I work from home, I might need the face time for professional references later...I'm quitting to pursue education for a bit, so I'm going to be effectively unemployed for a while. I may even need to come back to this place at some point.

 

[Otterly]

I could skip out because I gave my notice,

Go, for a very short time. Wander round, say hello and be polite to various people then leave as soon as you can. This ticks the ‘notabunny was there’ box and allows you to leave before everyone’s drunk or stupid stuff is asked of you.
I am so tired I can barely function. So so so tired.

 

[The Feline Solution 2]

Found the local schizo bum in my backyard (not mine so to speak, it's a bughive dwelling) sleeping in someones wheelchair while i was bringing out the trash. Didn't have it in me to wake him and tell him to fuck off. He hasn't been around for months, last time i saw him on the streets he looked completely fucked, no doubt on some depot injections that keep him docile. On the other hand i've been finally getting rid of the drug dealers plaguing my stairwell, been more than a week now since i got into it with them and told them to fuck off and not to come back, so far not one of them did. Helps that the dumb cunt that lives in my house who let them bunker their stuff at hers got raided by police for the second time in a year. Beyond me how they thought it was a good idea to continue dealing here after the first raid, i was involved in that trade in my youth and not a single one of us would've bothered doing business in a spot that was previously raided, especially not as indiscreetly as these cunts were doing it.
Saw one of them earlier when i was shopping for groceries, kid gave me the evil eye something fierce Fuck them, finally there's some peace and quiet (at least somewhat) in my house. This summer looks to be a nice one so far.

 

[Not A Bunny]

I am so tired I can barely function. So so so tired.

Is it a lack of sleep thing, or something else? Because I've had that problem and it took a BIG change in diet, supplements and probiotics to fix.

 

[Otterly]

Is it a lack of sleep thing, or something else? Because I've had that problem and it took a BIG change in diet, supplements and probiotics to fix.

I’m a terrible sleeper. Minor health issue which is hopefully being (slowly) sorted but makes me very fatigued, total overwhelm and burnout at work to the point I want to throw myself off a building at the thought of another twenty years of it, and just generally finding life a sad, unrewarding depressing hell. The usual really. I’m burned out, and tired and I just want to get off the ride .

 

[Not A Bunny]

I’m a terrible sleeper.

It's not the answer for everyone, but tried magnesium and/or melatonin?

I had to get past the "freaky weird dream" stage of melatonin use, and I'm 3 weeks on/1 week off, but I'm doing better at sleeping now. The magnesium is also helpful for relaxing.

 

[Otterly]

It's not the answer for everyone, but tried magnesium and/or melatonin?

I had to get past the "freaky weird dream" stage of melatonin use, and I'm 3 weeks on/1 week off, but I'm doing better at sleeping now. The magnesium is also helpful for relaxing.

Yeah. Melatonin does nothing for me. I use magnesium. I dont think it works either. Husband snores at a volume that can break steel. Kids and livestock are up at dawn. Never sleep well, o wake maybe a couple of dozen times a night and am usually awake 2-4am then get woken early.
Work are trying to kill me with stress. Everything’s shit.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

I was told a doctor's note for a new driving license was a tenner but you can add a 5 in the middle of that. No biggie, I'm aware it'll cost a lot of money, but man. Coworker's dad fell on his MTB and broke his spine in two places, held still by an anti-masturbation T-cross in some hospital. You can die at any point from anything so it doesn't turn me off a motorbike but still.

I could skip out because I gave my notice, but I'm trying hard not to burn bridges in case I need my professional acquaintances for something in the near future.

I sort of had something like this. Enjoy it; think towards all other such exercises they'll have to suffer after you move out. My old company had a hiring freeze for the forseeable future after I left. Was hilarious seeing the color drain from their face when they asked "so when do we hire someone new?".

I had to get past the "freaky weird dream" stage of melatonin use, and I'm 3 weeks on/1 week off, but I'm doing better at sleeping now. The magnesium is also helpful for relaxing.

I finally went to the doctor about my sleep but he was roughly my age and seemed incompetent. I was told to get my blood tested and write a sleep journal for a week. I said I had bright red eyes before/after sleeping and he just didn't react at all. I asked about magnesium etc. and he said people by default don't lack it. I'd like to think I could just Bryan Johnson my way through it, but even then I've read of people following his sleep routine to a T and not sleeping well. I go to bed without issues, don't get angry when I do wake etc, so I simply don't get the sleep I deserve. It'd be something else if I overdosed on coffee at 9pm and didn't care, but I do. And I try.

BIG change in diet, supplements and probiotics to fix.

I eat well and varied, latest 6-7 hour before bed. I bought a new pillow, use a mask and a weighted duvet. So much effort and just no pay off. But yet, I don't follow the guides. I don't turn off my pc an hour before bed nor do I go for a walk and do a hot shower, but doing all that just to sleep poorly? Just earlier today I read a long PhD-inspired post and it basically said "women are more conscious of waking up at night; most men underrate how often they wake and forget about it". So sometimes we just sleep poorly and that's how it'll be. Cool.

Husband snores at a volume that can break steel

I read of earplugs that should be magical, only to try them and hear basically everything. Like, I got more cancellation from earbuds. "oh but it's only certain frequencies and-" oh so I'm better off cupping my ears? Great.

 

[Scream Aim Fire]

I understand how you feel, I knew some Christians growing up and they kinda looked forward to the end of the world. One person considered Covid as a sign that the world would FINALLY END

Maybe this is looking too deep into it, but I always saw it as kind of sad. Like it just sounded very suicidal if that makes any sense.

Yeah, they sit around and practically worship the end of the planet in some cases; apparently, being "guaranteed paradise" is a perfect excuse to do nothing about the issues plaguing the world. Yes, they acknowledge shit like the trannies, the child grooming, all the crap going on in the world... but state that, since this was all "foretold in the Book of Revelations", that they don't need to do anything accept pray and wait for God to show back up and fix everything.

Seriously, my dad outright said that God told the Christians to "run away and hide" during times of strife, and I still see a lot of locals acting like the Crusades weren't justified. What's worse, is that you can't ask/question them on anything, as they'll go completely feral and shut you out the moment you try and say anything. Almost makes the Reddit Atheists look outright justified in some cases, which is seriously pathetic...

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Anyways, enough about me and my faith issues for now; unfortunately, it's not the only thing that I've been having issues with.

Over the past two weeks I've suddenly started getting headaches constantly; originally they were fairly spread out, but now there's a near-constant pain in my head. The weirdest thing is that the pain is seriously inconsistent; I'll have a dull, mild ache in the front of my head for a while, then it'll gradually travel to the back of my head and intensify. The severity and location of the pain is pretty much random, and no matter what I do, it never goes away for long. Trying to get a doctor's appointment scheduled; not sure what the issue is, internet's no help - saying everything from tension headaches, to diabetes, to sinus issues. Hoping it's nothing serious, but... I'm nervous.

 

[FatalTater]

A little over six weeks ago I had my gallbladder removed, and I've been bitching about the recovery time in another thread but I'm bitching about it here too because I'm having to sit around today and it's making me cranky.

If you look up "recovery time for laparoscopic gallbladder surgery" it will say that most patients can return to normal activities in 1-2 weeks, with full internal healing taking 4-6 weeks.

It's been over 6 weeks. Why am I not in perfect shape yet? Is this age discrimination because I'm old as balls? Should I sue my own body? Should I only sue it for this surgery or for all the other nonsense it's been doing for the past decade or two?

 

[Otterly]

It's been over 6 weeks. Why am I not in perfect shape yet?

You had an organ removed and it takes longer than six weeks to recover. The world wants you up and about like the productive colonic unit you are, not the human you want to be.
ETA: well colonic is an odd autocorrect but I’ll leave it there. I meant economic

 

[long waters]

Yeah. Melatonin does nothing for me. I use magnesium. I dont think it works either. Husband snores at a volume that can break steel. Kids and livestock are up at dawn. Never sleep well, o wake maybe a couple of dozen times a night and am usually awake 2-4am then get woken early.
Work are trying to kill me with stress. Everything’s shit.

I've only started experiencing sleep issues over the last year or two but it's sucked a lot when I've had problems sleeping. I can't imagine how hard it is having to live with that all the time. I guess you're just built tougher, I think I simply wouldn't survive your kind of life.

 

[Otterly]

I've only started experiencing sleep issues over the last year or two but it's sucked a lot when I've had problems sleeping. I can't imagine how hard it is having to live with that all the time. I guess you're just built tougher, I think I simply wouldn't survive your kind of life.

Men sleep better, apparently testosterone is very conducive to deep sleep, and I suspect part of the female brain is wired to listen for cave lions

 

[Troon Petty and the 41ers]

I have innumerable Indians bothering me over email and LinkedIn about an open job in my department. An open job which I have already referred someone I've actually worked with to.