STUNT_GRANNY

joined 2 years ago
[–] STUNT_GRANNY 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I've also filtered the word "slams" out of post titles.

[–] STUNT_GRANNY 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Bill Paxton, holding hands with a slightly taller Bill Paxton wearing sunglasses. They're standing in front of a poster for the movie Twister, but the title has been replaced with the logo for the board game.

My roommate made it during a literal fever dream over a decade ago, he was in bed, fiddling with his phone's photo editor mumbling "I have a vision" over and over again. The tag line "he called me a ne'er do well, he's dead" was something I said while playing GTA next to him at that time, and he added the quote to the final image.

It's weirdly cropped since I've used it on different phones over the years, here's what it looks like now.

[–] STUNT_GRANNY 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No waiting; the email was in my inbox as soon as I applied.

[–] STUNT_GRANNY 59 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I stole some bullets from my workplace once.

I was unloading a truck at work one day, many years ago. One of the items on my trailer was a pallet of rifle ammunition. Whoever loaded this trailer on the other side of the country did a shitty job of it; plastic wrap was shredded, several boxes were torn open, the cardboard "do not stack" cone was crushed under the weight of a car engine, among other things. When I managed to exhume this pallet from the trailer, the plastic gave way, spilling dozens of boxes and hundreds of loose bullets all over my trailer and loading dock. While I was cleaning up the mess, I impulsively pocketed a few bullets for myself. Nobody ever asked me about it. I don't even own a gun. But I have a few bullets.

[–] STUNT_GRANNY 1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I was able to make my account immediately, just this morning. Not on Google Play yet though, had to download the apk manually.

[–] STUNT_GRANNY 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

With our current calendar system, anything other than a 7-day schedule is going to shift from week to week. My schedule at that company was 8 days long, so it shifted ahead by one day each week. Your proposal would do the same, just in the opposite direction. Having employers stick to fixed schedules is a much easier ask than having the whole world change how we keep track of time.

[–] STUNT_GRANNY 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I've worked a schedule like this before (4 on/4 off) and while it's nice at first, it wreaks havoc for long-term planning, since your schedule shifts from week to week.

Whenever I'd try to make plans with friends, I'd have to cancel 75% of the time, because I'd either be at work, or I'd have work the next day and I couldn't be out late. Extrapolating my schedule didn't really help anything; there'd be entire months at a time where I simply wouldn't see my friends with normal 9-to-5s.

3- or 4-day work weeks are great, but they should be fixed in place on the workers' end.

[–] STUNT_GRANNY 18 points 2 weeks ago
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[–] STUNT_GRANNY 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm starting a new job on Tuesday. Normally, I would've started on Monday, but day 1 at this company is just about watching training videos. So I've convinced my recruiter to let me watch those videos from home, instead.

It's barely an hour of footage overall, no quizzes to take or paperwork to fill out. I would've spent more time on the commute. I have no idea how I'm going to fill the time after this.

[–] STUNT_GRANNY 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was playing video games with my little brother, until about 4 AM. Made no effort to keep track of time, although we were probably setting up a heist in GTA when midnight rolled around.

[–] STUNT_GRANNY 2 points 4 weeks ago

After growing up with a bunch of retail workers and hearing all their horror stories, I generally try to avoid all the "classic" Christmas tunes as long as possible - the only ones I ever seek out are Christmas At Ground Zero by Weird Al Yankovic, and Straight No Chaser's album from 2009.

 
 
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