How can you watch Futurama for any length of time and not think he’s incredibly self centered and narcissistic lol

Anyway…to the OP…a character that vibes towards that for my is Shawn from Psych. Not to the degree of having NPD, but there is definitely a lot of narcissism there.

Where do you live that eggs are $17 a dozen???

I’m sorry that I don’t have anything to add, but I just wanted to say that this is a fantastic post. Generational fighting has always greatly bothered me. The young people complain about the old people and the old people complain about the young people. Each generation feels superior to one another for bullshit reasons. Even some of my fellow millennial coworkers look down on gen z and whatever the one after it is (alpha?). I’m quite frankly sick of it.

Never used it until recently. Now I use it to vent because I’m a crazy person.

This is only tangentially related, but I just wanted to share a random anecdote.

I ordered a mobile pickup order at my local Taco Bell with their app. Since it’s nearby, I walked there and I had selected in store pickup. I walked inside and waited for a few moments. The manager comes out and this interaction happens.

Manager: “Inside was supposed to be closed. Idk who unlocked the door but you have to go through the drive through”

Me: “Oh uhh I already paid for an in store pickup through the app.”

Manager: “You have to go through the drive through.”

Me: “Uhhh…can I walk through the drive through? I walked here.”

The manager looks at me in total disbelief that someone would do that. “You don’t have a car???”

Me: “I mean I just walked here.”

Manager: “Ok hold on I’ll get your order.”

Lol. She looked at me like she had never heard of anyone walking some place to get some food lol. Granted I live literally a 5 minute walk from there which is probably not really the norm.

My supervisor is a bit of a bully at times, but it’s not so direct and frequent that I have much of a case for HR, unfortunately. Especially because I often act irrationally with her specifically when my buttons are pushed. If I was a better employee in terms of interpersonal relationships, I could potentially build more of a “case” against her. As it stands, she has plenty of “evidence” to get me fired if I spoke up.

In that particular instance, there was a miscommunication about the lunch schedule. My friend did something to attempt to be helpful, but there was some confusion and it did not go over as intended. My supervisor accused my friend of having a “conspiracy theory” about the lunch schedule, then proceded to lecture her about how much “time was wasted” in the confusion.

My supervisor actually often makes valid points. She just acts like a condescending bitch when she does so.

Recently, my supervisor at work was berating my friend over something ridiculous. I was standing 2 feet away when it occurred. I was surprised at how it oddly put me back into my childhood, reminding me of when my dad would scream at my mom and I was powerless to stop it. I ended up blubbering some nonsense to try to distract my supervisor, but it didn’t really work. It’s frustrating to not be able to protect those you care about. I guess it’s in my nature to want to fiercely defend the people who I am loyal to, but I also don’t have a way to do it without getting myself or the person I am defending in trouble.

As a kid, I would always flip on the TV for the evening episode of the Simpsons too haha! Except I swear for me it was 5pm.

Ah. I have always been the way that I am, so it is not caused by a medical disorder or substance.

Well for me, that’s why my social anxiety doesn’t really exist so much at work. I can simply do my work if I have nothing to say or if no one seems to want to interact with me. And then with the interaction with coworkers bit…I’m literally required to interact with coworkers to perform my job duties. So then branching out into casual chats isn’t weird because we were already just discussing work.

If I’m at say…a coffeeshop or something…interaction with other patrons doesn’t really make sense contextually…even if I start to recognize the regulars who are there. There is nothing we are doing cooporatively.

I don’t get discomfort from excitement so I’m not sure what you mean. I’ve spoken to quite a few therapists at this point. None of them seem to be able to have anything worthwhile to say. ChatGPT would probably have more substance to say in response to things.

What do you mean exactly?

Only women go on road trips. Duh.

I used to drink a fair amount of pop. I mean, not excessive amounts, but more than I do now. In all my years on earth, I’ve absolutely never ever able to enjoy diet soft drinks. The aftertaste is just absolutely disgusting and the entire flavor of the drink is ruined.

I actually like artificial sweetener in my coffee because coffee already has a very bitter and strong aftertaste. So artificial sweeteners are not as noticeable. But with soft drinks it just completely takes over and makes everything absolutely disgusting.

I didn’t like sparkling water at first, but over the years I’ve come to really enjoy it and I drink it far more than I do soft drinks. I’d pick a sparkling water over a diet soft drink 1000000%.

Yeah I appreciate that bit a lot. This is a casual internet forum, not a PhD dissertation. I don’t see why anyone should bother with trying to be so perfect all the time. Humans aren’t perfect! It’s ok to be casual and relax when necessary. :)

Most of my posts have a little “edit” mark icon next to them because I post things and then immediately notice something wrong or add more detail. And I know after I edit it there will still be weird typos! Oh well! Doesn’t hurt anyone!

Cry about the continued march of time and my mortality.

Then afterwards!!

1. Work on a project I’ve been meaning to put more effort into. I’ve had ideas for some time now of trying to “invent” a device to help me with a sometimes extraordinarily difficult task at work. Solutions for the task already exist, but are incredibly expensive (tens of thousands of dollars or more) and my workplace doesn’t seem to be inclined to go that route.

2. Work up the courage to ask my work bestie to hang out outside of work sometimes soon! It necessitates hanging out with children which I’m not necessarily always a fan of, but I can go through it if it’s important to my friend. Sometimes work gets a bit busy or stressful and it would be cool to make memories outside of work. We’ve hung out only a few times ever. Idk!

Yeah, the political shit sucks. But since there’s nothing I can do about it, I’m just a bit “meh” on the whole thing tbh. It’s not anything I have the power to fix. So I’m just going to do my best to ignore it! Not really on my radar at the current moment, but it definitely was during the elections themselves. Idk we’ll see. Always best to just try to think about other things!

Yeah and don’t forget that some people (although not necessarily a ton in the western world) don’t celebrate Christmas either. It was interesting to me because I met a young person the other day born in the US but to immigrant parents. Despite being born and raised in the US, he (and his family) don’t celebrate Christmas or anything.

In line with yours, I remember always being happy to work certain holidays like new years or memorial day or whatever because they aren’t holidays to me and I would get extra pay for being there.

I don’t know really. It’s mostly anything outside of certain scenarios. I am comfortable at work and with my parents. Anything else I am always uncomfortable. My discomfort can range from mild to severe depending on the scenario.

Yes.

But I do not experience it with my parents and I do not experience it at work.

I have seen quite a few of those because people say you’re supposed to keep looking if they aren’t helping you. I’ve spoken to maybe 5 different ones at this point. They never have much of substance to say but are very quick to deduct large amounts of money from my bank account. I don’t entirely understand what I am supposed to do to get something out of that. Not sure how many more I’m supposed to see or how much more thousands of dollars I’m supposed to spend before someone actually has any ideas of what to do beyond chatting with me and giving basic advice/platitudes.

I’ve honestly had similar enough chats with ChatGPT for free.