stupid first world problems you're dealing with

i don't mean literally heh. jeebus. I just find that anything that can and will be perceived as a slight (even if it's perfectly logical, reasoned and appropriate to the circumstance) can lead to misapprehension with an untold shitstorm of consequence. This is from personal experience and from the experience of others i know in a few workplaces. There's so many landmines out there i tells yah and the office environment is especially thick with them. [-;

i deal with people like this at work all the time, when i tell facilities about it they have this hazard tape they wrap around everything. get some?

Some co-workers need hazard tape wrapped around them.

Of course when i got to the sink holes thing the whole post appeared to be parody no?

wrap some hazard tape over their mouth, no more speaking, problem solved.

Then we put them on a spacecraft and ship them off into the sun.

i also vote duct tape, or in extreme circumstances, full kidnap and torture.

the sinkhole thing is ridiculous but the guard thing does sound sensible.

  On 8/11/2014 at 2:28 PM, Papillon said:

For the past few weeks I have been pursued by a member of our office occupational health and safety committee for many small matters that I would consider to be non-issues. She is an (entry level) employee who may not have had many opportunities to directly engage management.

 

Yesterday she approached me while I was talking on my mobile phone and eating my lunch in my car, she saw me sitting there and wandered over and knocked on my window. She was concerned about a very small rust spot on a metal handrail outside our office (the actual rust spot is the size of a quarter). Later when she confronted me about it I told her I didn’t see any danger to our employees, her response was “tetanus”, when I looked back at her (I was walking away at this point) she said something about if I had a paper cut and touched the rust spot on the handrail I would likely get tetanus.

 

At our quarterly OHSC meeting she raised the issue of sinkholes, she had heard about sinkholes on the news and had come to the conclusion that our directors had a responsibility to investigate for the presence of sinkholes in the vicinity of our offices. I’m not an expert but I gather sinkholes are extremely rare and investigating for the existence of sinkholes involves very expensive geophysical testing, like earth penetrating radar, seismic surveys, and soil borings etc. I didn’t know how to respond to this request immediately, other than to point out in a nice way that without evidence or some indication of the existence of sinkholes it would be unreasonable to conduct an investigation.

 

The biggest and most painful unresolved discussion point for our committee is how to address the matter of employees working afterhours. From a OHSC standpoint the fear is that an employee might get injured or killed and not be able to get help if they are working alone afterhours. Many organizations can mitigate this risk simply by having an onsite security guard, unfortunately our office is small and there is no need to hire a full time security guard. Recently at a meeting one of the management members suggested that perhaps we could just hire a security guard to come in a do a walk through the building at midnight, I guess the logic is that if someone had injured or killed themselves at work the security guard would find them and be able to help. (I jokingly suggested that we should hire a second security guard to come in after midnight to make sure the first security guard wasn’t killed during his walk through the building). My comments were not appreciated.

 

I’m looking for advice on how to deal with this person. Ideally I would like to convey to her (respectfully) that I’m not interested in speaking to her about matters that don’t pose an imminent threat to the health and safety of our employees.

 

I realize this is a music forum but I wasn’t able to get many suggestions from an HR forum I posted this message on, and also I’ve heard some very good feedback about other first world problems on here before. By the way I work in an office environment, the biggest health risk to our staff is carpal tunnel syndrome, and ergonomic matters.

This one is simple. I'd have her join me in my car for a serious chat:

"Hey I was listening to BBC International this morning, and apparently local news hasn't been covering a major outbreak in this area of a new virus. It's highly contagious and fatal if not treated, and symptoms include..... Oh, shit. Oh, SHIT. My elbows are getting itchy-- HURRY!!!!! UNZIP MY PANTS AND START LICKING MY ERECT PENIS!!! You first lick it, then you have to make me orgasm in your mouth, it's the only- DAMMIT CLAIRE I DON'T HAVE TIME TO ARGUE- I'M GONNA FUCKING DIE, HURRY!!! BE MORE SCARED AND WORRIED-- HURRY!!!!! ...Yeah, that's nice..... Thaaaaat's nice..... Do it fast and hard cuz there's no ti-- Oh, shit- Claire, your elbows are starting to swell! It's spreading fast!!!!! Hurry, we have to jump in the back seat! WE HAVE TO GET IN 69 POSITION OR WE BOTH DIE!!!!! *tear off her skirt and panties* We have to both orgasm- FAST!!! Our lives depend on dithis s. .s.. mm mm mm mmmm..." 4min37sec later: "Claire- you acted fast and were very smart and intelligent in the matter. Thank you for saving both our lives. Just for that, I'll paint over the rust spot tomorrow out of my own pocket. Our aggressive grinding might have also prevented the spread of sinkholes... I'm keeping your panties."

  On 8/9/2014 at 8:46 PM, Bechuga said:

I drank all the milkshake and now it is gone ;;__;;

Peak Milkshake

Tell her you'll sink her hole.

Just to let you know I bought more milkshake today ♥

But I drank that up too so fml

Now i want a fucking milkshake god damn it. FWFP . actually fuck milk shakes, i only drink thickshakes and there's your problem right there bechuga, if you'd had a thickshake you'd probably still be going on it, long after the milkshake would have been drunk away to nothing. And then if you add like shards of flake or something, oh my.

i wanna flake thickshake damnit. Been like a year since i've had one. /has shower /gets in car and goes to get one. maybe.

  On 8/11/2014 at 11:02 PM, Bechuga said:

Just to let you know I bought more milkshake today ♥

 

But I drank that up too so fml

you're gonna get chubby with all them milkshakes my friend

then you'll bring all the boys to the yard or summat loike that

madame: How did you get a picture of me?!?

Delet: Thickshakes sound amazing. I'm imagining a milkshake but it's as thick as clotted cream ♥

Stephen: actually I've lost a bunch of weight so I'm in celebratory mood, plus they're on sale. When they go back off sale, I won't buy any more due to being a massive cheapskate.

  On 8/12/2014 at 2:10 AM, Bechuga said:

madame: How did you get a picture of me?!?

 

Delet: Thickshakes sound amazing. I'm imagining a milkshake but it's as thick as clotted cream ♥

 

Stephen: actually I've lost a bunch of weight so I'm in celebratory mood, plus they're on sale. When they go back off sale, I won't buy any more due to being a massive cheapskate.

Congratulations on the weight loss! =)

I want a milkshake now.

thickshakes just have an higher icecream to milk ratio. So in effect it's like more cream yes, icy cold chocolatey cream spurting onto your tongue in a food orgasm.

I went to get the thickshame^, but when i reversed out of my driveway i must have done something to my number plate because one of the screws came off and it was dangling down and dragging on the road, so i went to an hardware store to get another screw. Then to the supermarket to buy a shitload of water. And finally to the thickshake establishment. But i didn't like the look of the girl that would be making it so i walked on. It's funny, when i was in the supermarket on three occasions when coming past the end of an aisle to park my trolley so that i could walk down the aisle to grab stuff (it's more efficient this way and i create less of an impediment for my fellow shoppers whilst not having to negotiate my trolley around their slovenly placed shopping carts, win win). Anyway, each time i went to do this a woman with a trolley and small child in tow would zoom out of the aisle and try to fill the closing gap between me and the row end where i was going to deposit my trolley as they try to exit the aisle on their way to the next. Displaying neither a lack of patience, foresight nor ability to change direction midstream, each actually sped up as they approached, leaping as if from out of nowhere. On the third occasion i mentioned it to the woman, my thoughts on the unpleasantness of her endeavour, in a kind but kind of cocky way, she wtf fucked a little but on the other hand seemed pleased to be interacting with me. Perhaps this was their plan all along, they went as team single mother to snare manmeat, and i was unwittingly on the menu for their harebrained scheme that involved some kind of collision that each time i neatly foiled by avoiding.

Anyway, in an ironic twist, as i pushed my trolley through the car park towards my vehicle, two pigeons were gently meandering into the direction that i was travelling and suddenly one decides that it doesn't want to wait for me to pass so starts dashing as smartly as an over stuffed shopping centre pigeon can waddle forward, in an attempt to cut me off and get past before my trolley and i can. Well not this time i thought, i've had to acquiesce my forward momentum to three bird brains this morning, you will not be the forth my feathery friend. So i leapt forward with the trolley and won one for dleetr as the pigeon stopped in it's tracks and politely let me by.

^(i wrote it like that by accident, hi freud)

delet: I was that child! It was my plan all along!

Mesh: man that sucks. I have the occasional night of not being able to sleep but not being able to do it perpetually must be maddening.

I dare not suggest anything you may already have tried but there's an artist who made music to combat his own insomnia, called Sleep Research Facility. Likely futile and another suggestion that may not work but here's the link: http://www.resonance-net.com/ I highly recommend Stealth or Nostromo if interested. If not feel free to tell me to fuck off.

Lying down with eyes closed got me through years of insomnia.

Then they recommended 'Mirtazpine', which fucking works, but makes you demotivated and fat.

Now I just adhere to several rules:

Wake up at 6am no matter when I get to sleep, no coffee after 12 noon, no red meat after 3pm or so.

Works for me. Oh and exercise.

Surprisingly, what everyone said all along 'diet and exercise' are wonder drugs for getting to sleep. If I leave it too late, though, and forget to nod off when I am tired at like 9-11pm then I am often forced into this weird brain state where I want to do everything BUT sleep.

are you regularly exercising like fenton said. That would certainly help diminish your daily stock of adrenaline and set up the chemical processes for sleep to happen. Now whether or not it does i'm not a doctor, but apparently they don't know very much either. I'll say for depression and anxiety though, exercise is a great suppressor of those strange things. Also, taking things like sugar out of your diet, and looking at other things in your diet, definitely no carbs in the latter half of the day cause that's just more sugar as well, kind of like how you don't sleep as deeply on a big meal.

I would think that your body needs to be in reset and repair mode for sleep time to go smoothly and so setting up the conditions for this by quietening down all the other tasks like digestion and by having exercised seem to be a good start towards this end.

bon chance on your mission, sounds like hell. i do a lot of shift work so when there's a transition in hours i can have trouble remaining asleep for the correct length time and have found that exercise was kind of number one at helping my body cope, followed by the diet stuff. And definitely fuck caffeine off, that stuff is evil.

i'm having such a time finding a satisfactory barebones video editor that i may just learn code & create one myself

  On 8/12/2014 at 4:39 PM, Cryptowen said:

i'm having such a time finding a satisfactory barebones video editor that i may just learn code & create one myself

videopad works for cutting and arranging, and it has some other functions. there's a trial, and it only costs 40 bucks or something

^heey thanks, that might be just what i need

biggest issues i was having with other programs was inability to import animated gifs, and things looking mad crowded on my 1024x600 monitor

  On 8/12/2014 at 1:17 PM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

yeah you get 'wired' that's the adrenaline pumping to keep you up. i get an adrenaline rush whenever i feel tired because i get so excited that i might get a decent sleep. it's a bad cycle that i'm well aware of but it is hard to break. i think my body clock has been fucked and it thinks night is day and vice versa. with work it's kind of hard to reset.

Holy shit- I was gonna start a thread about this. Is that what it's about? Adrenaline? My thread was gonna be about feeling more awake when "tired". It's Wednesday morning as I type this, and WHAT THE FUCK-- I just realized I've mostly been up since Saturday. Dude, what the fuck.

  On 8/12/2014 at 6:17 PM, peace 7 said:

 

  On 8/12/2014 at 1:17 PM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

yeah you get 'wired' that's the adrenaline pumping to keep you up. i get an adrenaline rush whenever i feel tired because i get so excited that i might get a decent sleep. it's a bad cycle that i'm well aware of but it is hard to break. i think my body clock has been fucked and it thinks night is day and vice versa. with work it's kind of hard to reset.

Holy shit- I was gonna start a thread about this. Is that what it's about? Adrenaline? My thread was gonna be about feeling more awake when "tired". It's Wednesday morning as I type this, and WHAT THE FUCK-- I just realized I've mostly been up since Saturday. Dude, what the fuck.

 

Release or magnum opus and the IDM man will let you rest.