RL Peeves

Jumpscare

@Pyrephox Thank you. I appreciate it. And I enjoy reading your posts, too.

IoleRae

My therapist has introduced me to “IFS”; internal family systems, as a way of addressing/coping with/healing from complex trauma (like childhood abuse). I highly, highly recommend it, if you can get over how silly it seems at first. Think, “Inside Out”, where you’re addressing parts of yourself as – things that need a particular kind of attention from you to go from their agitated state to something calmer. If you can’t get a therapist there’s a LOT of workbooks about it.

Cornpopped

First World Problems: When you need your morning coffee to get started in the morning, and the coffee you bought to treat yourself with tastes like ugh

coffee

Testament

Also a First World Problem: when starting an all-team meeting with your entire shift, you Director insists on having an icebreaker and I can just feel my soul leaving my body.

Pavel

@Testament said in RL Peeves:

Also a First World Problem: when starting an all-team meeting with your entire shift, you Director insists on having an icebreaker and I can just feel my soul leaving my body.

Okay so we’re going to go around the forum and have everyone introduce themselves and speak just a little bit on an event that really best describes how they overcome workplace stress…

Testament

@Pavel

internal screaming anime

ETA: I really hate the ones like “What’s your dream job.” Or “Movie you’ve seen ten times.” Just some of the cringiest stuff.

Pavel

@Testament said in RL Peeves:

Or “Movie you’ve seen ten times.”

Oh that one’s easy for me. I can honestly say Schindler’s List and that drags the mood of the whoooooole conversation down. It is hands-down my favourite film.

Testament

@Pavel To my Director’s credit, she actually gave a somewhat interesting one. “If you could bring back one musician or band, who would it be.”

And I said Lane Stalely, because I really miss 90s Alice in Chains and was too young to really appreciate them when Lane was alive.

Pavel

@Testament Oooh, that is a good one.

Assuming they’d get to live a healthy life after bringing them back, I’d probably go with Freddie Mercury.

RightMeow

@Testament

I am not a fan of ice breakers. I mean, I kind of like listening to the answers, but I don’t like to be in the spotlight. It makes me nervous. I also don’t like birthdays for this reason. I feel you. Also ‘my dream job’ sounds like bait to be asked at work. LOL.

As to the wedding. It’s YOURS. Invite who you want or don’t. It’s a day to spotlight your relationship. Your decisions in that relationship and celebrate with the people that loved and supported you. My opinion anyways. Take that as you will.

Also, could you stand up - state your first name and describe yourself with a word that starts with the first letter?

Juniper

Car battery ran out again. I’m like 70% sure I didn’t leave a light on this time and it’s a brand new battery. FML.

Testament

@RightMeow I hope I never hear that one at work.

junipersky

We are required to have an ice breaker for every. Single. Meeting.

It has yet to bring us closer together…

Meg

@junipersky one of my coworkers decided it’d be fun to play two truths and a lie for our ice breaker this morning. i am currently playing the game of ‘don’t answer and see if anyone notices’.

i don’t have two truths that are interesting enough that i also want to share with my coworkers.

Aria

@Meg said in RL Peeves:

@junipersky one of my coworkers decided it’d be fun to play two truths and a lie for our ice breaker this morning. i am currently playing the game of ‘don’t answer and see if anyone notices’.

i don’t have two truths that are interesting enough that i also want to share with my coworkers.

I, in all of my normal social incompetence, am actually good at this one. Specifically because:

The Dalai Lama once elbowed me in the stomach.
Kurt Vonnegut replied to an email about a term paper question I sent him.
I accidentally ate lunch with John Nash.

And these are all true.

dvoraen

@Meg You should tell your coworkers you only do that icebreaker in Among Us. Then see who bites THAT bait.

junipersky

I’ve only been in the shelter world a little over a year now, but I’ve decided that in a majority, bordering on almost all, the phrase “<animal name> just seemed to choose us!” Is bunk. Most of the time the animal is naturally gregarious or was really well socialized. They jump on ~everyone~. They play with ~anyone~. When we ask, “Why did you love this cat?” Please tell me what the cat DID that you enjoyed. Don’t just tell me it felt like they chose you. That doesn’t inform me at all, and honestly makes me wonder if you will cope well when they might be shy living somewhere new for a bit.

Now, that said, sometimes God does intervene so that a particular animal goes with a particular person. My pot babies where shy af and had hid for every single person who entered that room. The first person they ever came out for after going back to the shelter was the woman who adopted them.

But most of the time, nah bro, they didn’t choose you. You loved their personality.

KarmaBum

On Friday, I had a three-hour training session at work.

About when to send an email instead of hold a meeting.

tsar

@KarmaBum said in RL Peeves:

On Friday, I had a three-hour training session at work.

About when to send an email instead of hold a meeting.

well, what have we learned

dvoraen

@tsar That depends on whether or not you received an email from @KarmaBum about this topic.