What grinds your gears?

[hilaryfol]

It has been 3 weeks since i have asked for a rise at work. I have been a long time since i Call off . I need a rise to. Make ends met

[the_termin8r]

Get in touch with paypal, they’ll sort it out.

[evooba]

Why PayPal?

[the_termin8r]

Didn’t you pay with paypal?

[evooba]

No, I’ve never used it.

[the_termin8r]

Right, get in touch with your bank then.

[evooba]

But if they don’t refund it what can the bank do? The money’s out already.

[the_termin8r]

The money’s out, but you haven’t received what you paid for and the person (in this case, company) you paid isn’t giving your money back, so the bank is the next level you go to, especially if you used a credit card.

[evooba]

I’ll see, I’ll probably email HQ as well.

[the_termin8r]

It’s worth a try, you don’t have anything to lose in getting in contact.

[claritea]

I hope you get it

[the_termin8r]

@the_termin8r

My mum recently bought one of those idiotic “Himalyan” salt lamps and it’s driving me up the wall. If she’d just bought it as a decorative knick-knack I wouldn’t mind it, but she bought it because she believes all the bullshit written on the box. First off, it’s not from the blasted Himalayas, it’s a block of mostly salt, a bit of rust and some other bits and pieces that has been mined in Pakistan some 200 miles away from the Himalayas.

The most annoying thing though is that they claim it can purify air, help you sleep better, reduce stress and make you live forever reduce allergies. It’s ironic I think, that thing has been sitting in the living room since yesterday afternoon and it has done nothing but piss me off and flare my allergies up, because I’m violently allergic to bullshit , but I digress.

The main reason my mum bought the lamp (in her words) is for it to deodourise the living room. That is total bullshit, the lamp can’t do anything. Yes, salt has the ability to absorb a bit of moisture, but that’s usually in granulated form where the surface area to volume ratio is big, and even then, it can’t absorb that much moisture before it gets saturated. In the case of the lamp, it’s a massive block of hard-packed and probably processed salt with a small surface area to volume ratio, it can’t absorb shit.

Let’s hypothetically say that it can absorb moisture, how long before it gets saturated, stops taking in moisture and starts outputting it instead as the bulb inside heats the thing up and the mositure evaporates? Then there’s the fact that it absorbs moisture, not odour, not 100% of odour is contained within the water molecules in the air.

My mum basically bought 3kg of snake oil. I don’t even know why this has pissed me off so badly.

@the_termin8r

I told her about the Pakistani salt mine not actually being in the Himalayas and she was in denial. It’s typical of her every time someone proves her wrong. LMAO

Quick update on the salt lamp. My mum made a comment the other day of how the xmas tree still had a strong smell. Took the opportunity to do some mild trolling, I told her that this is proof that the lamp is BS. She said the lamp only takes away the ‘bad’ smells . So apparently this magical lamp is now sentient and can distinguish between good and bad and has the exact same definitions of good and bad as my mum. LMAO

[IronSoldier16]

Welcome to the century XXI objects can distinguish between good and bad and human not

[rickvanmeijel]

@the_termin8r

So apparently this magical lamp is now sentient and can distinguish between good and bad and has the exact same definitions of good and bad as my mum. LMAO

@IronSoldier16 Also never underestimate the power of mother’s logic, they’ll prove you wrong

[the_termin8r]

My mum’s logic drives me batshit crazy sometimes. Like, for example I was talking laptops with her recently because my sister got a new one. My mum knows exactly nothing about tech, yet she still argues how Macbooks are better because they look better. Given the choice between a Macbook that costs £X or a laptop of any other brand that costs the same, but is objectively better (better components, hardware, etc…), she would still go for the Macbook just because it looks better.

[IronSoldier16]

I’d like to see two moms discussing about the same subject, who would win?

[the_termin8r]

I’d be running for the hills.

[IronSoldier16]

Are you still up?!

[hilaryfol]

Working 6 to 7 day’s without a day off and do everyone else work and nobody say thanks . My boss is a good person but he always asks me to do things for hem that not my job. It gets on my nerves and when i told hem. That i need my break to relax not to work when other play around

[evooba]

What I’ve learnt from my work is, the nicer you are the more you are expected to give from your superiors. One of my main weaknesses is that I always look out for people and I care for things that I shouldn’t, that always leads to others taking advantage of you. We just need to learn to say no.