I am soooooooooo mistreated - complain about * - thread.

[Maz]

This is a 'rant thread'. Feel free to express your frustration - sometimes it even helps.

A few weeks ago I had my annual 'car inspection'. (I do not remember the correct word). Well you know, one of those compulsory inspections which your car have to pass if you wish to be able to drive it.

I am currently driving Nissan Primera SLX from year -99. A nice car with 2 litres and (about) 135 hp engine. It has worked well, and I've had no probs with it. So I was quite confident when I drowe it in. Well, naturally one of the rear plate lights were dead, but that was not so critical... Suspension and exhaust was ok, engine was clean (no oile leaks), those things where wheels are connected (and which usually broke way too often) were just fine... Brakes worked like charm...

Suddenly the guy noticed the seatbelts... I tend to wear a jacket made from same stuff as jeans, and it has large metal buttons. aone of the buttons rubs against the seatbelt when I drive, so half millimeter of my seatbelt has been worn (from the side). Guess what. The guy decided that I need to change my seatbelt! Goddamti! I haven't even f*** noticed that.

When I expressed my opinion the guy just said that the seatbelt can now be torn down by fingers.. I was not answered when I asked that: "Why the hell do you suppose I would tear down my seatbelt?" and "If I wish to tear down my seatbelt, I can use knife even if it was new". No avail, I need to change my seatbelt.

Now I just visited a local place where they tear down badly damaged cars, and sell the parts. Hell, the used seatbelt was 120 euros! Shit. I told the shopkeeper that in my opinion it is way too expensive. Guy just looked at me, and told that the new would cost twice as much. Since this was the only place which had correct (used) seatbelt for sale, I had to buy it. I wished to be sure that the belt fitted in my car, so I and the shopkeeper visited my car and checked out the original belt. When I was paying the new (old) belt, the guy just smiled and said: "it seems like your car inspector was quite a pedantic fellow". Hell. I am pissed.

[Scythe]

AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

There. That's better.

Oh, that wasn't the expression of frustration you meant?

[Chroelle]

Well two can play that game (Three it seems).
There are a few things that I need to vent.

First: I cannot seem to get the edit function to work and I feel like a fool everytime it sned me an error message that I am apparantly the only one who gets. (I suspect Maz of putting something in the code about userid=2 and errors.) (Nah...Its just me and code...)

Second: I have to vent my annoyance with my back that seems to be giving in, and so is Tanjas, but as much as I love her, I still hate when she tells me that she cant lift the kiddo because her back is hurting... I love the girl, but heck, why does she think I visit a physio? And when I was down with my back for 4 days I still carried the kid as much as I could, and now Tanja has gotten away with it for a week and a half....
Still love her though.

[Maz]

@C:
1. It seems I should test it and then also check the code... I do not remember.
2. I know the feeling Isn't it funny (no, actually it is far from funny) how little things turn out to be big at that phase... Well, just hang on mate, it'll get easier when she (not Tanja) learns to walk Mmm.. Also a 'walk learning chair' is EXCELLENT at some point. Usually lil ones like to be in it before they learn to walk. Just do not keep lil ones in a such thing too much - that may cause some problems with development of legs (That's what I've heard at least).

@Scyth:
I'll second that.

[Chroelle]

I thought I would revive this thread with something that happened during the week for me:

I have been more than a lot busy at work lately trying to get everything done before people go on vacation. I have been saving my computerwork and homepagework for the vacation because I need to do a complete overhaul of the whole thing. I am looking forward to this. Then my boss introduces me to a whole new system he heard of, which another institution has been using. And this is absolutely not the thing that pisses me off, because the system is a well-worked, brilliant, rather new, did I say brilliant yet piece of work. This is so great that I call the guy that has invented it (who has the same work as me) for a meeting and he shows up with a coder as well. We talk for 2½ hour and decide that as soon as my boss gets my recommendation he will go on with getting permissions to use this. They end up telling me that they would love to work with me, since they can hear that I think outside the box, and have enough knowledge of how things work that I dont come up with some unrealistic requests. I did come up with a lot of ideas for them during the meeting.
We were all exstatic! My boos was glad I liked it and decided to meet up with the School-leader to get the permission to use it (in his words this would be no problem). WHILE they are in a meeting - the boos in between the school leader and my boos decides to show up and tell me that:
1: I have to work our homepage in under their boring-ass conservative lousy websystem.
2: I have to delete our pages.
3: I have to do it this vacation (or else)

I was so furious that I decided to go to my boss and tell him about the incident, and at the same time tell him that I volunteered to be the IT-guy for my department, and thereby help it get up to speed. I made him understand that if I was going to be forced into doing what he said, then I would have no srouples UN-volunteering again.
The pay-rasie I get for this is so miniscule that I can live without it, but I cant do this and still love my work as much as I do now.

[SFault]

I'm not exactly mistreated but pissed off alright...

I haven't been training (martial arts) much for a half year now because I've been busy and had a minor knee injury. About a week ago my summer vacation began and I still have couple of weeks left. I was going to train last Saturday but there was nobody with keys so we couldn't get in to our training room. So I was quite irritated and bought some beer. Today I was out biking and decided not to buy beer today 'cause I have been drinking that sweet nectar quite much lately. Instead I decided to go training. All went well and I was quite happy because I didn't get too tired from the rough hour lasting warm up. But then it happened. First I lost my balance while carrying my mate on piggyback which I adjusted with my hand, but then my hand slipped and all the weight got on my thumb, which bent into unnatural position. Didn't hurt much, but it was end of training (which didn't even got into actual training yet).

So two weeks of summer holiday with sore thumb in my primary hand. Luckily it seems to be rather OK, but still... no more guitar playing, no more biking(bough me new bike a month ago), no more training and most likely no more swimming. Good thing is that typing on keyboard is quite hard (and painful), so likely I won't be sitting too much on the computer either, although I should finish my diploma work. So, happy holidays, see you at the beach, but not in the sea!

[Chroelle]

That is always annoying when bad things happen like that and end up destroying ones plans...