The Peevery

Locals

To: The people moving here from out of state

From: Those of us who have been here for several generations

Re: Your disgust with our area, lack of entertainment and public schools

You have two choices:

A. Get the fuck out

B. Shut the fuck up

I'm Looking at You

I love me a good devil's advocate, really, I do. I welcome having an intelligent conversation with someone who might see things differently than I do. I actually enjoy learning someone's point of view on a subject that I may have overlooked. That being said, don't you just want to strangle those people who have to argue every. single. thing. that every single person says, no matter what the subject? Like they have a Masters degree in EVERYTHING? Those know-it-all people can suck it.

Primary...or Secondary?

The State of California just had a political primary a few months ago. Now I'm getting mail for another primary in June for a bunch of judges and other politicos, most of whom are running unopposed, plus a couple of Propositions. Can someone explain why we are having another primary? The state has no money. They are talking about adding new taxes. And yet, they schedule two primaries just a few months apart. So now they have to print all this literature (and I usually get like five different booklets before the election), mail them, and pay people to work the polling places. Did any of the geniuses who run this state think, hey, why don't we have just one primary and put all the elections together? Am I missing something?

I'm talking to you, Marlboro Man

If I see one more person butt their cigarette out on the ground and leave it or throw their cigarette butt out the car window, I'm going to lose my mind. The earth is not an ashtray. It's like throwing any other piece of garbage on the ground or out the window and that is not cool.

Maybe It'll Improve if Microsoft Takes Over-Bwaahaha!

PM's peeve below about Yahoo mail reminded me of a peeve that I've just experienced again with Yahoo's new, "improved" My Yahoo page. I like to keep up to date on sports scores so I will refresh the page to get the latest score. Except that oftentimes instead of an updated score, it reverts back to the time before the freaking games even started and they are all in "preview" mode. And no matter how many times I refresh, clear the cache, it never goes back to the current scores. I know we'd all like to turn back the clock every once in awhile, but this is ridiculous.

Pivot! Pivot! Pivot!

When asking friends to help you move here are three things to remember:

1. Pack your shit into boxes before we arrive.

2. If it snowed out the night before, shovel the walk. No one wants the guilt of sliding on ice and smashing your grandmother's good china.

3. Carry some stuff yourself. It makes us want to kill you less when you forget items one and two.

Neat Invention, those Garbage Disposals

Last night I had some friends over for the Oscars. One of my biggest peeves is when people throw food in the trash can instead of leaving everything in the sink. Since I am one person, my trash can doesn't fill up fast enough to have food rotting in it. It's one thing if I serve using paper plates. Then it can all go in the trash and it fills up fast. But otherwise I have a garbage disposal that enjoys being fed.

Coming Out of the Dark

To say the last two and a half years have been extremely difficult is an understatement. Having my best friend suddenly stricken with brain cancer, taking care of him, then losing him way too soon. Getting laid off with no warning and twenty minutes notice. Taking a job so miserable I quit after three weeks. Followed by a temporary contract position that, while it would keep getting extended, the worry was always wondering if I would be working in a couple of weeks. So this week, with two new job offers, my social networking website (link to come soon) about a month from public beta release, and some new investment opportunities on the horizon, I'm feeling like things are finally turning around. So what's my peeve? Why did it have to take so fucking long!

Recruitment Strategy

I have started to write a book and am devoting an entire chapter to job recruiters. There may be some good ones out there, but I have yet to find one. I met with a company today through a recruiter. Said recruiter neglected to tell me that he had altered my resume. So like on any job interview, I bring a copy of my resume and include it with an application. This recruiter had taken out the additional experience section without telling me. Yes, it is unrelated to the specific job, but it shows a well-rounded person with outside interests, something I look for when I hire people. The guys with whom I met said they were glad I gave them my copy because the resume from the recruiter had them concerned that I would be such a dry person that I wouldn't fit in with the company. Why do recruiters feel that anything extraneous should be removed from a resume? What a freaking moron!

The Worst, Fattest, Ugliest, Unfriendliest Magazine List

I subscribe to a lot of magazines as previously noted:

I have now decided that to cut down on subscriptions, any magazine that publishes another freaking City list, the subscription will be canceled. Which city is happiest, fattest, least friendly, ugliest, healthiest, blah, blah, blah. They are so moronic and magazines that do this deserve to end up on the list of magazines that are circling the drain.