Just a quick rant about one annoyance I've had with shift in culture over the years at my job.

Not to toot my own horn, but I've got one of those 'golden voices' that I used to get lots of compliments for. The standard from old folks like "You should get into radio!" or some other people telling me I should do voice acting or readings.

I dont get those compliments anymore. Now, instead, the first thing people will ask me instead is "Are you an A.I.?" "Is this a real person?" "Talk. To. A. Representative."
I dont get recognized for being professional sounding as a good thing anymore, I just have to awkwardly explain that I am in fact human.
I dont sound like a radio host, or an actor. I sound like a machine. Its disheartening.

Perhaps it bothers me more than it should.

In the first year i went to a dif uni to her but she never rlly went into her classes regardless and her only friends was her boyfriends sister and her friends. But we saw each other pre much each week here n there for a hang out.

Anyways now in second year uni something gen just changed in her not to be dramatic or anything. but she said she never would want to be popular but she only talked to the kinda cliquey girls at uni which I thought was kind of weird but idgaf if they get along then that’s good yk.

(Also I have no resentment towards these girls or anything they’re lovely but it’s just like she’s always made it so clear throughout high school n life in general that she does not like these type of ppl so her only friending ppl like this is just different to see yk?)

And following this she’s changed her style, wants all her old photos of her (when she had red hair n like tees over long leave top style) deleted and gone and like she’s reposting stuff on tiktok about her and her best friend trying to find the uber after coming out of the club but she never goes out and talks about how she hates it and the culture of going out.

now her and her other uni friend hang out all the time and have inside jokes and like she knows stories I don’t know (and no this isn’t me being jealous) but they won’t tell me the story and it’ll be just the three of us. and I’m also the issue cause I’m “too quiet” but I make jokes and make an effort with the other friend but she doesn’t rlly interact with me or even look at me when I speak and sometimes even ignores me. But yeah sometimes I’ll say something and my friend will repeat it and her uni friend will laugh at it even tho I just said the same thing.

I will admit I am shyer around ppl I just met but i get comfortable with ppl quite quickly n sometimes ill let them talk if my battery runs out but I dont mean to be “quiet”. I think shes saying this as well because her boyfriend says this too as I dont rlly talk to him if we all hang out cause i just see her as an extension of my friend yk? Cause like she would have invited him so i dont rlly care it’s not like it’s on his terms with his friends cause if so then id make more of an effort to talk and get involved. But I do say hi n stuff so it’s not that awkward but idk apparently it bothers him. This also never bothered me cause I’m my true self around her but it rlly hurt my feelings when she said I wasn’t cause she knows I’m not and she said this in front of the uni friend

Also in front of this one friend she will sometimes say things that like directly point me out like “oh yeah [my name] isn’t coming but everyone else is” and it does make me feel uncomfortable cause like I would of told her I wasn’t going separately and like only to her just for her to say it in front of this other girl or a group of ppl but like she’s never acted like this before

I genuinely don’t know what to do other than distance myself a bit but like I just think I need a need a better mindset rn cause like I’ve never rlly been through this before and I feel pretty down about it.

I don't understand it, how do you forget that you ordered food? Outside of falling asleep/passing out from a wild night I don't see how it's possible.

I saw a post about someone complaining that raccoons ate their pizza. Yea no shit you left a box of pizza outside on your porch, what did you think was going to happen? I had a roommate once that ordered a burrito and then forgot about it and had to contact the driver to come back and drop it off. He got it but they were calling him when the driver was outside and he was like who the fuck is this number calling me, I said he should answer it if they called you twice in a row it's less likely to be a spam call(thats another rant, people afraid of answering their phone for numbers they dont know, so what if it's a spam you hit the red button and hang up).

Almost 15 minutes later he realized it was the delivery driver. You were hungry, you ordered food, then forgot you ordered food? Then today, I leave to run errands and notice a driver at the apartment door, I'm assuming he was there for a while already cause he looked annoyed and flustered. He asked if I was picking up an order and only said their first name. Here they require a code so they can't just hand it off. I said no. I come back 20 minutes later and this saint is still there waiting for the customer. I'm not sure if he left and came back but even then When I order food I watch my phone and the GPS feature like a hawk cause my fat ass is hungry and I want to eat.

I'm so tired of this. Having conversations with people and they say "oh yeah i'll totally do this!!" and then they dont. Businesses who say theyll call you back and dont. People saying they want to plan events with you and dont. People saying "i should probably do this soon" and never do. It sucks the joy out of life. I look forward to these things people say theyre gonna do and then it falls on me to plan stuff every. single. time.

I live in North America on the edge of the Great Lakes region. We have humid summers with slightly hot but not that hot of temperatures (usually no warmer than 31c in the summer) and cold winters. For reference, we can go multiple weeks at a time without being above freezing. I hate the cold. It's so miserable. I also hate the short days but the cold is worse.

I don't care about the classic "you can always put on more layers" argument. Yes, I feel warmer, but I still don't want to be outside. I'd rather be sweating and every breeze being hot than be outside in a cold environment bundled up. I just don't like it and nothing can fix that. Not to mention most days in the winter are just gray... no blue sky or sun in sight for days at a time.

Not only am I depressed for 3+ months at a time but also I feel like I have to be outside all day when it's nice outside. Today we had a peak of 30c which is not normal for October and because it's one of the last hot days of the year I have felt like I should be outside the entire time just to enjoy it. I wanted to call off of work just so I could take advantage of the nice weather. Luckily I get off in the mid-afternoon so I didn't miss much but I have been outside 98% of the time since I got home.

This happens every spring until around the end of June when the novelty has worn off and I'm not scared that tomorrow will be chilly and gray. It also happens in the fall when we're having our last days of heat and in the winter if we're lucky enough to have a warmer day (around 15c usually). It's so exhausting. I want to take a nap but instead I'm out here taking in the nice weather since I won't be able to experience this for a long time. If we had hot weather year-round I wouldn't have this feast or famine mindset because I wouldn't be starved of nice weather for months at a time. Unfortunately if I move I will be by myself which would not be easy financially as I'm barely even surviving living with my parents so I'm stuck living like this.

I am so over the whole making content crap realtors do. I always see the performative aspect of the job and it really drives me nuts . The drone footage of the house , the chatGPT description of some sh*t box they’re selling , the same 10 AI generated images about current market etc

It’s just so over played . I have bought and sold many houses in my lifetime and now some 22 year old fresh out of college kid who thinks he knows the “meat and potatoes of a home “ is just putting the damn MLS listing through chat gpt and uploading some brain rot content . Will never work with someone who does this

I'm obese, I stutter, I'm ugly, and I'm shy. I'm not even going to bring up my age because I am already embarassed asking help here. I'm tired that every person I meet, be acquainted with, or even work with tends to become someone who makes fun of me or takes jabs at me. I hate the fact that even retail workers try to be subtle with how mean they are to me.

I thought all of this would be gone when I get older but it didn't. How do I respond to people being mean? I want to be able to fight back by saying something mean as well. I want to be able to roast people for trying me. I don't to be hurting anymore. It's eating me up inside all my life and I want it to end.

Well I started a new job a little over a month ago. It’s in the same industry as the job I held for 3 years prior that I was terminated a few months back. Well I’ve been kind of waiting for the shoe to drop since things have been going so well. Well today, that shoe dropped. I got called into a meeting with the managers. They didn’t like the way I said some things in that conversation. So yeah even though I knew it was only a matter of time, it still stinks.

In work, go for lunch. Not much money to spend so I grab one of those cold ready to eat chicken pasta meals.

Everytime. Everytime there's either NO chicken or this time I got lucky and found one small chunk of chicken!!! Delicious!

How do they get away with this shit lmao???

I'm pushing 50 years old and this is my #1 "it wasn't like this in the old days" rant. I'm a small business owner, and that means sometimes dealing with companies like Facebook and Amazon. On the one hand it's nice to be able to sign up for everything without ever interacting with a human, but when things go wrong, my god is it a pain to fix anything.

I had my first exposure to that with Facebook. Someone hacked my account and locked me out of my business pages. You can appeal - and the appeal is rejected instantly. You can fill out forms - but the forms don't work. There's no way to speak to a human. It took me five weeks to get access back and I only did it by going to the attorney general and filing a complaint.

Now it's Amazon. My seller account is deactivated today. My inventory will be destroyed. I was sent a notification - in Portuguese - from Amazon Brazil saying there was a problem with my Amazon Netherlands account. I've never purposely signed up to sell in either country; apparently I was opted in. From there it's a runaround. Multiple customer support calls, half of which didn't go through because their "enter this 3-digit code" verification doesn't work 75% of the time. NL support blames the UK account. UK account says it'll take a week to look into anything. In the meantime no, I can't close any accounts.

Half of the links I'm given don't work. Help links are broken. Feedback forms give errors. I get "please try again later" when trying to submit information for Brazil. There's no escalation path. There's no way to opt out until I find what's wrong and fix it.

This has become the new norm for how you deal with these companies. They don't care if they lose 20% of their customers for bad service. It's cheaper than paying to fix things. They'll get by on the easy 80% that their automated systems can successfully keep from getting through to a human.

And we're conditioning a whole generation that this is normal. They try to do something through the app and it rejects their appeal and they give up because that's all they know. They never knew a time when you could call an 800 number and talk to a human. And it used to be if all else failed, you could write a letter to the company and be almost guaranteed a meaningful response.

Today? You can't send mail to Meta. I sent them two certified letters. They were never signed for. The postmaster just sounded exasperated on the phone; apparently that's normal for Meta. In fact the government of South Korea once issued arrest warrants for senior Facebook/Meta leadership because they never answered their inquiries about violations of game ratings. That fact makes me happy.

They're just going to keep wearing down the holdouts like me who expect to be able to talk to a human with the authority to fix things. The whole populace will be conditioned to accept whatever the faceless corporate overlords grant us

My Life has fallen off, everything I tell them something personal or anything I do, they always get upset, go off on me, or even take away what I bought for myself or the secret I share with them, and share with everyone they know.

And now, It's got to the point where, I'm no longer comfortable sharing anything personal with them anymore. I can't trust anyone in life anymore, AND NOW THESE MFs are afraid.

Like, It's your fault for not knowing shit about privacy, and now you're mad that I can't talk to you about my personal life anymore.

And now you niggas are saying we're afraid off you because you don't know me anymore, it's just hypocritical and selfish at this point, they only care about themselves, not me at all!!!

YT recently changed the way they cound their views, I don’t know why the hell they even did that. What is the point of making the views cound as soon as you play the video if you’re just gonna EAT the small creators’ view count???

I posted this one video a month and a half ago. It was doing just fine, I went from 30 views to 70 in the first week, in the second one it went to about 80 only. Why did I open YT studio today to find that the video only has 30 views??? Are my views being flagged as spam or what? Wth was even the point of that update?

I-39 F- do not have kids, willingly. I am so sick of going to breweries and being around a bunch of terrible parents letting their brat kids run free. A brewery is still a bar. Dogs, totally fine on a leash. Kids should not be at a brewery. They may have kids games and whatever, but it also has a lot of very drunk people especially on a game day. Also, how are you getting home.

I am constantly feeling like I want to "go home" even when I am at home, and I have been for a while, and I don't understand why, it kust makes no sense to me

I have mobility issues. I can still walk around but I tire out very easily. I'm going to PT to help with my issues and have gotten to the point I don't need a walking aid. Why in the hell do stores not have places to sit anymore! My local Walmart used to have a Dunkin donuts in it so then you could go and sit down if you needed to then continue shopping. Or you could go and sit after you were done shopping and wait for someone. They got rid of the Dunkin and just filled the spot with more products. There also used to be benches by the bathroom and outside. THERE IS ONE BENCH NOW it's at the pharmacy where I was told the other day "this bench is for people waiting for prescriptions". I know people are going to comment "you're there to shop not sit on your ass" I know! But sometimes I need to sit a moment before going around shopping again.

It's not just Walmart. I went to hobby lobby the other day and after walking around a bit I needed to sit a moment before continuing and had to go to the bathroom to sit because they didn't have anything.

Also! There's no where to sit outside of stores anymore. I went to a local plaza and after I was done was waiting for a friend to come pick me up and there were no benches outside.

I’m only in college so I’m still living with my dad and older siblings. I don’t have the money to move out but if I did I’d be GONE

They’re all so untidy it makes my skin crawl. Maybe I’m a germophobe or it’s my anxiety/ocd but I can’t stand the way they live. I’m the only one without a job, so I take on the responsibility of cleaning the main living area and keeping it organized, but every one of them doesn’t know how to pick up after themselves. I get they have jobs but it’s so easy to just put your dish in the sink. Who wants to walk around the house looking for old coffee mugs??

As much as I love my dad, he claims he‘s SO clean but he literally isn’t. He’ll spray a toilet with bleach, not scrub it, and call that clean. He goes to a grocery story basically everyday after work and gets junk we don‘t need and it just piles up in the pantry/fridge/laundry room. We have multiples of so much stuff because he wants anything and everything that’s on sale. He thinks he’s saving money but he isn’t with how often he buys absolute crap

I just cleaned out the fridge and pantry and somehow its shoved full of 800 tubs of yogurt, cream cheese, random healthy juice shot things, granola, peanuts, and whole loaves of bread that he can’t even eat because he’s diabetic

It seriously gets to a point. I can’t even open the fridge without getting nauseous from the look of it. I can’t even get myself food or snacks because there’s no room for anything

My siblings are better at not being hoarders, but they’re definitely messy. They act like they’re so much better than my dad but they’re honestly on the same level. They’ll do their laundry and just leave it in the hallway outside the laundry room all over the floor because they’ve already filled the clean laundry basket. It just sits there for weeks and most often I fold it for them, set the clothes outside their room, and it just stays there for days

I feel bad complaining because my dad pays me for all that I do, but it feels like I’m being taken advantage of at this point. No matter how many times I tell them not to do x, y, z, they still do it. I don‘t want to just stop all together because they won’t realize and think to pick up their slack. They’ll just let the house get gross and I mentally cannot handle that

It was a surprise situation that he has to go back. Something with his visa, long story short. He'll be gone for a little over a month if things go right, but if the visa rejects him, it'll be a year. If they reject him again, he wont return.

I love him so much, Idk what to do. Being separated because of immigration is terrifying. Its heartbreaking. His country is so impoverished than he sold his car and some belongings to make it in case he has to stay for years

What if I have to go through his room because he cant come back, and I gotta send his stuff over

What if if I gotta clear out his room because he isnt here anymore

We have our stuff for if we move in together in his room. Boxes of little cooking appliances, dishes, things like that. What if we cant share these things together one day

Certain factors have made immigration harder in the US. Im afraid he cant come back. I'm really scared. I love him so much, I cant bear to see him leave

Yes, Ill wait for him. But its illogical to wait two years or longer. One of us will move on in that time, almost certainly. I dont wanna move on. Ill never find another guy like him. I wouldn't change a thing. Me and him dont even argue, because we work together so well that disputes are solved quickly. I dont wanna go through trail and error with someone else. I only want him.

I could never afford to visit him in his country. Im a college student who struggles to work 4 days a week with how much homework I have. I could never afford it

One time, I was in a little debt. I couldnt pay it off quite yet. He gave me $300 in secret to pay it off. Another time, my car broke down, and he paid $250 to fix it. Hes helped more times than I can remember. I dont deserve him. When I tried ti pay him back, he told me no- yhat if I really want to pay him back, to wait until I'm making good money. Well, I sorta am now. Im giving him $800 in the same envelope he gave me once.

I regret valentines day with him. Our second year. I got mad at him for something, and yelled, telling him to go away. He got quiet and I ruined it. While I honestly do think my anger was justified, I wish I never yelled. We've talked about it since then, but I still regret it. I dont think Ive raised my voice at him since.

Idk what im gonna do without him

As a girl gamer I love a good cozy game, but I also want to go out and slay monsters possibly destroy a town before coming home to my cute cottage and garden. Why can’t I be a necromancer with a loving family and wholesome relationship? Sure sims lets me somewhat psychotic but it’s not enough, yeah Skyrim lets me adopt and build a house but it won’t let me marry Brynjolf. I need something cute and cozy where I can create a beautiful cottage, be a beautiful lady in cute dresses but also go out and make morally questionable decisions.

Why the fuck am I listening to leaf blowing for hours. If it's not faster than raking why are we doing this. I live in an apartment complex on a steep hill. Why does it matter that there are leaves in areas no one walks. It's not a lawn. It's insufferable. I hope this guy and every other fucker that obsessively blows leaves around gets a sleep deprived night shift healthcare worker when they need it. I don't care that it's hours other people are up. The world can't run exclusively within 9-5 hours. Either clear the walk ways and be done or use a rake for god's sake.

I have nothing against beans, truly a versatile vegetable that goes with many dishes.

That being said, every time I visit the UK public transit is just rank with people ripping ass. It’s gotta stop.

I'm deathly sick, all drs are closed today, yesterday. I took children's Tylenol bc regular wasn't working, Actually made me feel better bc liquid vs solid suspension is different.

No One seems to know what a placebo is.

I saw a woman comment thinking there is LITTLE TO NO, MINIMAL METH PROBLEM IN MY COUNTRY. Despite Several people saying otherwise. Then someone chiming in saying, I've never seen or known Any addiction here Ever, Stop saying we have a drug problem !!

Guuuuuuuueejhhhnnneeeess ppft..

Normally either, idc. Dont bother me etcetera, etcetera. But in Literally at an 11 on the pain scale and know hospital won't do much except have me sit for 12 hrs to get Tylenol, Maybe an inhaler.. if lucky .

AAAAHHHhh.. . aaahh. . rant Over.

Myself Ayush and I'm a CS student, I'm the type of guy who always values honesty and connections but I don't understand why I can't find any meaningful conversations and people.

I don't understand what's wrong with me too, I see people enjoying their solitude but I can stay alone , I tried many times but I can't.

People have lectured me all the time to be in solitude and all but i don't understand why I am like this ?

All i can just ask for meaningful connections and people turn as some sort of sages always lecturing about " learn to stay on your own, learn to do this , do that blah blah blah "

Okie i understand I'm mentally the same as those people, maybe I'm not mentally strong maybe i don't understand, but just demanding a good connection? Is it really too much to ask for? Or are people really shallow nowadays?

They can spend the whole time on Instagram or Netflix but really have no will to seek the actual human value or connection, tell them about this and they'll eat you.

Really speaking, I'm so tired and done..

Depression, social anxiety and other stuff have ruined my life , I have no peace.

I don't understand why people like me are even alive, all the time I see cheaters, liars, un-trustworthy and dishonest people, i don't know how people manage it , I can't.

Maybe i studied too much philosophy, i became too idealistic, i don't understand anything or something like that.

I'm tired of living alone, actually tired..

I don't know what to do

Where to go.