grabyourmotherskeys

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Prepared to be roasted alive for this opinion but studies (undoubtedly of white, middle class, US undergrads) seem to indicate women find clutter and messes more psychologically distressing than men do.

I'm a man but I've had many deadbeat guys as roommates and I am definitely far more bothered by messes and clutter than they were so I kind of get this.

If you are the "mind it more" person, you will find yourself rage cleaning because the other person can wait you out as long as they want if they are taking you for granted and not concerned you'll leave over this.

So there are two toxic traits here:

  1. A willingness to wait out chores even if you know it's angering people you are with.

  2. A kind of willful blindness. "Honestly, I didn't think it was that bad."

The second one might be worse.

The first is excusable (plausible deniability) with the "men are oblivious" defense if the aggrieved party is not being overt in their request that a chore be done.

The second is a person (some women obviously do this, too) refusing to learn to empathize and recognize when things are getting to the point where it's bothering the other person. From an interpersonal perspective this is probably more infuriating over the years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This seems performative since you could already do this easily unless the drive was bitlockered and you didn't have a recovery key.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Celebrity gossip headlines and weather for a place you went on a business trip last year.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

There's a reason I still use lots of email in the age of IM. Permanent records, please. I will email a record of in person convos or chats on stuff like this. I do it politely and professionally, but I do it.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (9 children)

I have had numerous managers tell me there was no time for QA in my storied career. Or documentation. Or backups. Or redundancy. And so on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Leg warmers are back.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I was thinking that. The first time I saw this I didn't look closely and thought "yes, this is pretty much how I remember it, except I'd be scared that guy was going to ash out his cigarette in my burger and slap me on the back of the head as he leaves because he's probably one of my cousins".

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago

I'll just divert all my calls and texts to my wife's phone and have my son handle all my administrative tasks. I'm also refusing to check email before noon and I decline meetings because they are not productive.

Hang on, my wife just told me my boss says I no longer have to work at all now!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you think an LLM can beat you in tic tac toe?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

People are having a really hard time understanding that, yes, he is facing consequences at long last. The next step is seeing if the RNC will foot the bill.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Hey, it's been a really long time since I had to reboot windows to change my IP. /s

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