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  • oppy1984@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldLamp detention
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    17 days ago

    In 1st grade I couldn’t spell worth a damn, the teacher told us to write “in the future I want to be” then write what we wanted to be when we grew up. I wrote mine, handed it in, and later that day my parents got called in.

    After a parent teacher conference they called me in and asked me to read what I had wrote, I read exactly what I was told to write them looked at them confused about what was wrong. The teacher calmly stood up walked to the chalkboard and wrote future, then explained that the word I had written was a bad word and I need to remember how to spell future. Later in the car I asked my parents what was the word I wrote, and they said it’s a bad word. After nagging all the way home my dad snapped and said “you wrote fucker, it’s a bad word and don’t ever say say it”.

    I’m 41 now and they still bring that one up from time to time. Turns out when the teacher went to the chalkboard she was trying to avoid looking at my parents who were trying not to laugh, and that was making her laugh, so she turned to the chalkboard to get herself under control.


  • oppy1984@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldIt's coming.
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    23 days ago

    Mostly it’s everyday stuff, stuff I used to stress about now I’m like, eh it’ll get done. Social acceptance is another one, I used to worry about people liking me and couldn’t get past it if someone I thought I was on good terms with didn’t like me. Now I worry about that much less, don’t get me wrong I still want people to like me, but if they don’t I can just accept it and move on.

    As an example, there was a guy in my office who hated me, I was never anything but nice to him, but he just hated me. The problem was we regularly had to work together on things. In the past I would have been going out of my way to try and get him to like me and find out what it was that he had against me. Now, ok you don’t like me, let’s just keep the interactions professional and to the point, and I’ll just leave you alone the rest of the time.

    Basically you just learn to accept yourself and be happy with the good people and events in your life, and learn to just accept and move on from the others.


  • oppy1984@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldIt's coming.
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    24 days ago

    Seriously, I’m 41 and over the last year I’ve slowed slipped into fuck it mode. Don’t get me wrong, I still have plenty of things I care about, but so many little things I’ve just stopped caring about and my life is so much more relaxed because of it. It’s amazing what hitting 40 can do to your mindset.




  • oppy1984@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldThe Future Is Now
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    27 days ago

    I work in international freight and this is still a thing. Most customs brokers are email now, but some still require documents be faxed. So our system takes the PDF that it auto generates for every shipment and faxes it to the number on file. From time to time those same brokers will email us a copy of the PDF we faxed them to have something corrected. So they are getting the fax in their email rather than having us just email the thing directly. It makes zero sense, like I understand keeping the fax capability for legacy customers and as a backup, but your primary should be email if it’s all going there anyway.