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[–] [email protected] 195 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Guaranteed that manager has had a toddler. You either get used to handling unreasonable anger or develop anger issues of your own

[–] [email protected] 99 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

This is also how you handle psych patients ...and psychiatric workers ...and Healthcare administrators. I started getting much better work reviews when I started treating my boss how I treat my patients. It turns out just fundamentally expecting pretty much everyone to behave wildly irrationally with no warning is shockingly accurate.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago

Heartbreakingly accurate assessment of humanity

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Arousal cycles (The mental health kind, not the sex kind) are absolutely useful info to use, not just on low functioning individuals, but on everyone to a degree (ONCE AGAIN, NOT THE SEX KIND)

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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 59 points 3 months ago (3 children)

That reminds me. I ordered Uber eats and the driver, a black girl, drives up and it's hysterical. She's telling me how her last delivery was a racist PoS, threatened cops on her, and she's so sorry about my order but angry about the situation. I'm just standing there hungry for my food.

We sat on the porch and I let her calm down, then I dont know why, but I asked if she wanted a hug. She was taken back but she agreed, and it was a super weird hug. But she felt better I think. I dunno.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 months ago

I just had a mental image of an awkward hug while shoving french fries into your face over her shoulder and fuckin lost it.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Resonate this super hard, and I'm in the second camp.

Everything seems to set me off at home. I just want to rage against everyone and it's fucking shameful.

[–] Seleni 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sometimes it’s just as simple as changing your perspective a little.

My uncle has pretty bad anger issues. Almost every workday he’d have to drive downtown, usually when the traffic was the worst (and he hated downtown driving to begin with), and he’d get super stressed and rage about it. He’d try to make it so he didn’t have to go downtown, but almost without fail something would come up and he’d be stuck doing it.

He told me he realized it wasn’t healthy, so he tried fixing it by changing it from thinking of it as ‘goddamnit I have to drive downtown again after I tried so hard not to!’ to ‘oh well, have to do my daily downtown trip’. And then when he occasionally didn’t have to go downtown, it became sort of an extra bonus treat.

He was amazed at how much anger he lost, just with a small change in thinking.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Knowing that is half the battle

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

The best way I've found to deal with deep dark rage without collapsing into a broken ghost is to focus on gratitude. Thinking on your blessings can be the antidote to the poison of anger.

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[–] Zachariah 113 points 3 months ago

WAAAAY better than the fantasies I see posted of revenge for someone’s behavior. It’s possible to be the bigger person and still not tolerate bad behavior.

[–] southernbrewer 69 points 3 months ago (3 children)

What's a home fries? Isn't fries just short for french fries? I don't speak american

[–] SlopppyEngineer 44 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I think home fries is when you cut the potato in cubes and wedges (the recipe says 1 inch chunks) and then fry them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Almost. Home fries, in my area, are flatter. So 1*1 square but 1/2 to 1/4 tall.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

We just call those chunky chips.

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

Isn't that called "country potatoes"?

[–] SlopppyEngineer 9 points 3 months ago

Those are baked in a skillet, not fried, says the cookbook. But YMMV.

[–] MeaanBeaan 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Depends on where you're eating honestly. Some places call long flat fries home fries and other places call just like cubed fried potatoes home fries. Basically any fried potatoe shape that's not shoestring French fries might be called "home fries".

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Asking the real question

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