I know it’s just autism. But I get the train into work, I’m the 1st stop from the start of the journey and it’s a quiet train so I’m either alone in the train car or there’s 1 or 2 others.
Over the course of months taking that train I found the perfect seat in the car, optimal space and legroom, near the heaters, away from the bathroom and luggage racks, best side for the view etc. And I sat in that seat every day for almost 2 years.
Then out of fucking nowhere, this absolute piece of shit, this detestable rotting husk of a man, possessed by the faintest whisper of a some ghost that was lobotomised and abused in it’s previous life before crawling it’s way through ever circle of hell to be rejected by satan himself for being such pathetic waste of existence, before falling arse first back into the mortal realm and landing inside that hideous, cantankerous, deprived, and loathsome body, starts sitting in MY seat, of all the 50+ seats on that carriage, of all the 8 carriages of that train and he chooses to sit there every single fucking day. I once even tried waking up early to go to the station the train starts at. But despite getting there almost 15 minutes before it departed, that foul beat disguised as a man was already there in my seat.
I still do not know what I have done that was such an afront to whatever cruel god casts it’s scornful eyes on my life to cause it to unleash this plague of man onto me in order to torture me on such a deep and primal level. But no sin of man in heaven or on earth deserves this kind retribution.
Yeah I ve been pissed at this all summer, that people keep parking in my spot.
My street has street parking but everyone has driveways and garages so there are rarely cars parking on the street. Why the heck has someone been parking in front of my house?
The street is practically empty, much of the time literally empty, so they can park in front of wherever they’re going. But my house is the only one with a tree, creating one spot with shade on the entire block. Sometimes there is only one car parked on the entire street, and it’s in front of my house. While I know I’m not entitled to the spots in front of my house, this is just wrong.
You could park there
Actually I have been. I asked my kid to preferentially park their car there, but it just seems kind of silly
Kind of, but I get it. We have a neighbour that parks in front of our house while they have a 2 car garage 2 driveway spaces. It annoys the heck of me too lol
This is how I currently feel about the tree branches left on a bunch of parking spots the other day in my apartment complex. A tree was cut down and the crew left a bunch of branches to be moved later. That’s where we normally parked for like 20 years. It always feels weird when we see other cars there. Or in this case tree branches.
When we were called back into the office, at first we didn’t have assigned seats and had to reserve them in advance. It became a ritual to log in every morning and immediately jump to the reservation system to grab the same seat for two weeks hence.
One of my coworkers was grumbling jokingly that I took “her” seat one day (of course, someone else had taken “mine”, so that’s what prompted it). I told her, “It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there.” She laughed. The whole situation sucked, and we were all just trying to make the best of it.
My company has been threatening us with this, but the joke is on them: my current spot is the worst. The chair is broken, there’s a tear in the carpet that keeps catching the wheels of the chair, there’s only one monitor when most have two, and my docking station is glitchy with the monitor
But we rent the entire building, have extra desks, and can’t coordinate consistent work from home days. Something would have to change drastically for them to be able to save money on hot-desking
That sounds like corporate hell, wtf???
Heh. We can blame Trump, as I worked for a government agency at the time. (I took the early retirement and am now a photographer/bicycle mechanic.)
There’s a back story to how we got into that situation. During the pandemic, we were all teleworking, and they decided to renovate our building, so they had us go in and take all of our stuff home, or dispose of things we didn’t need. The plan, created and approved during Trump’s first term, was that we would shrink our footprint and move another agency into our building, and most of us would be teleworking most of the time, so the desks were set up with hoteling in mind, with fewer of them, because with hoteling, we didn’t need as many. Win for everyone!
Trump came along again and decided we should all be back in the office. It just threw everything into chaos. There weren’t enough offices and cubicles for everyone, and it was a mess.
Had I stayed, I would have gotten an office again (I had one before the pandemic, and was the longest-tenured branch chief in our division). But there were enough other issues going on with my job in particular that I took the opportunity to get out.
That really does sound awful. Someone probably complained about not getting a window seat,
Everyday you have to re-set up your work space, in a new spot and all. Even its just “log in” to the computer, you still have to adjust the display and chair to your preference. They’re probably loosing 15 min of labor per person everyday for everyone to unpack their stuff and adjust to their “new work environment”, not to mention the time spent finding any one.
I would do reassignment anually. If you like your spot, great you keep your spot. If you want to move, your spot is added to the pool. Seniority gets first pick. Any moves mid-year must have a valid reason such as medical needs, personnel issues, or a job change, or it’s just a vacant lot and you asked nicely.
man they really oughta tighten those chairs up if they’re loosing labour on them
Everyone sits different and will need to adjust the chair for an ergonomic seating position. Beside that, everyone has to pack their environment into a bag everyday? So no office decorations, physical calendar or sticky notes and whatever else people bring and can normally leave in their office space to make it a “home base” for their work.
If people are logging in to pick an assigned seat (which should be considered part of the work day), instead of actual work, that’s a waste of everyone’s time.
The problem with having favorite spots it that our enemies know exactly where to sabotage
My favorite seat is donald trumps face.
smacks you
Now that I have made an enemy here, I will give you a gun, and HOPE you don’t sabotage my favorite spot!
It’s not so simple. First, I need to see you in your favorite spot several times during reconnaissance. But don’t worry, your sacrifice will be remembered.
That’s it. Meow you’ve done it. There’s totally gonna be a bomb there when you sit down.
Did… did you say “meow”?
Are you kitten me right meow??
One of my neighbors has a disabled parent that baby sits for them. I get so fucking annoyed when they’ve managed to park in “my” disabled parking spot if I go out for an errand. It’s stupid, and I feel like an asshole for feeling annoyed. There are two disabled spots for my building (roughly 48 units), and I would rather push my walker across the whole complex than park in the other spot, because it “belongs” to another neighbor who has less mobility than I do. We don’t have assigned parking and I kinda hate it lol
even if you don’t have assigned parking, you have two residents who always use those spots, leaving none for guests. management should convert another spot without question, especially if they’re not even assigned spots. reach out.
I can do that today when I talk to management about something else. I doubt they’ll do anything, they’d have to tear out some curb to make it accessible. Guests aren’t actually allowed to park on the property, but that isn’t something that should apply to people with mobility problems
! ASDmemes
My spot is also taken in my last job. By AI.
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