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2015-08-16 10:54:31 pm

Tried to check out some night life and quickly remembered why I don't go clubbing any more.

We made our way to the coolest room of the club, and I see a very fancy looking bottle on a table. I bent over to read the label on it out of curiosity, and this creepy short 21 yo latino comes out of nowhere and literally puts his face three inches from mine and screams: See something you like! I said 'Excuse me? Wtf is your problem?' Stay away from my booze! he screams. This little leprechaun apparently thought I was moving in on his pot of gold. I told him I don't drink and held up my bottled water. 'Yeah right! Keep walkin'!' Not sure why he thought I was on a walk,or why he thought I was a homeless alcoholic that spent my $3 I earned panhandling on a bottled water because I got confused? What a freakin' idiot. I got away from him and sat on a sofa with a friend. Then some really drunk nasty dude sits with us and starts hitting on my friend. She politely turns him down, so then he starts talking to ME! Wtf is wrong with people? We move again and some tweeker tells us this long story about why he needs $20. Move again. Some girl comes up and starts a friendly chat. I thought, well maybe not everyone in here is crazy. She was very inquisitive, though. She asked me a question every few seconds it seemed. Some of the questions were pretty personal for someone who doesn't know me, but I just figured she was laid back, so I didn't mind. Then I asked her ONE question and she gets pissed off at me for being intrusive! I swear I was in the twilight zone. People are fucking terrible, stupid, disgusting, psychos. No wonder I had to be wasted in order to enjoy clubs. Never again!

Tried to check out some night life and quickly remembered why I don't go clubbing any more.

We made our way to the coolest room of the club, and I see a very fancy looking bottle on a table.  I bent over to read the label on it out of curiosity, and this creepy short 21 yo latino comes out of nowhere and literally puts his face three inches from mine and screams: See something you like!  I said 'Excuse me?  Wtf is your problem?' Stay away from my booze! he screams.  This little leprechaun apparently thought I was moving in on his pot of gold.  I told him I don't drink and held up my bottled water.  'Yeah right! Keep walkin'!' Not sure why he thought I was on a walk,or why he thought I was a homeless alcoholic that spent my $3 I earned panhandling on a bottled water because I got confused?  What a freakin' idiot.  I got away from him and sat on a sofa with a friend.  Then some really drunk nasty dude sits with us and starts hitting on my friend.  She politely turns him down, so then he starts talking to ME!  Wtf is wrong with people?  We move again and some tweeker tells us this long story about why he needs $20.  Move again.  Some girl comes up and starts a friendly chat.  I thought, well maybe not everyone in here is crazy.  She was very inquisitive, though.  She asked me a question every few seconds it seemed.  Some of the questions were pretty personal for someone who doesn't know me, but I just figured she was laid back, so I didn't mind.  Then I asked her ONE question and she gets pissed off at me for being intrusive!  I swear I was in the twilight zone.  People are fucking terrible, stupid, disgusting, psychos.  No wonder I had to be wasted in order to enjoy clubs.  Never again!

Idkbutlike2

2015-08-16 11:05:10 pm

Eh, drunk people are always annoying.

tomatobob

2015-08-16 11:23:02 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Quote from Poision Envy:

eh well, it's not so much my lungs, more of the chest pain and when you smoke/vape weed it actually helps with breathing

From the sound of it any sort of anti-inflammatory would do the trick lol, doc's a real bro.

Poision Envy

2015-08-16 11:45:35 pm

Club 27 Goals

It also helps that my family on my mother's side has a history of migraines and each of them got a green card for that

but yeah I mentioned I didn't really want to just be taking prescription-strength alieve constantly and waiting 30 minutes for it to work

Opium

2015-08-17 12:22:13 pm

Is it the type of chest pain that comes with inflammatory asthma?

Turtle

2015-08-17 03:55:16 pm

I like turtles.

So my doctor tells me that because my heart rate is a little above 100 BPM during my appointment, she's worried about hyperthyroidism. I try to explain that my heart only races like that when I go to the doctor because of white coat syndrome, but she orders a hormone test lab anyway. Last couple days, I've had some heart palpitations that have made me awfully nervous, and making me awfully nervous has only compounded the issue.

Today I get the results of the test back, hormone levels are not only not too high, but flagged slightly lower than normal. Heart rate hasn't been elevated since. Hm...

Poision Envy

2015-08-17 03:56:51 pm

Club 27 Goals

Ya gotta stop whackin off all the time!

Poision Envy

2015-08-17 03:57:42 pm

Club 27 Goals

Quote from Opium:

Is it the type of chest pain that comes with inflammatory asthma?

I don't think it''s asthma, she said it was something to do with my muscle spasming in my chest causing pain and irritation, which in turns makes it sometimes hard to breathe

Opium

2015-08-17 04:03:07 pm

Quote from Poision Envy:

Quote from Opium:

Is it the type of chest pain that comes with inflammatory asthma?

I don't think it''s asthma, she said it was something to do with my muscle spasming in my chest causing pain and irritation, which in turns makes it sometimes hard to breathe

Strange. Did she say what muscle(s)? The ones that constrict/spasm during asthma, your diaphragm, or...?

Poision Envy

2015-08-17 06:16:28 pm

Club 27 Goals

It's in an odd place, it goes from under the ribs in my left armpit to under the ribs just below my left booble. Depending on how much it hurt's it's stretched longer across my chest

arkarian

2015-08-18 12:42:10 am

red chamber dream

straight outta compton was surprisingly good, yall should go see it

Poision Envy

2015-08-19 03:28:18 am

Club 27 Goals

I've got some applications and interviews starting to get lined up for a half decent job, and I was talking about how one presents themself in an interview with my buddy. He mentioned how for tech jobs, depending on what you're looking for and what they're looking for, what you wear can play a huge role and how a lot of people can be really discriminitive (without telling of course). He even mentioned how I should pick up or borrow a really nice watch, wear some glasses, and change up my hair style to really drive home the nerdy look.

that whole conversation made me curious about the state of smart watches these days, I know there's quite a few and they're pretty dang handy now. I'm getting more active again, so fitness tracking was definitely necessary, but also getting notifications and being able to control my music from my watch was also definitely necessary.

I was gonna go with the Moto 360, since it's a very very sexy watch, but the battery life is horrible and the fitness part of it is lackluster to say the least. I considered the Microsoft Band, since its fitness bit is the best around, but the fact you have to wear it upside down and it has that stupid stretched vertical screen makes it look stupid.

So in the end I went with the Samsung Neo Gear thing: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JBJ3I4Q/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Seems like the best of all the worlds, looks nice, and I'm gonna swap out the band for a nice solid metal one.

I've got some applications and interviews starting to get lined up for a half decent job, and I was talking about how one presents themself in an interview with my buddy. He mentioned how for tech jobs, depending on what you're looking for and what they're looking for, what you wear can play a huge role and how a lot of people can be really discriminitive (without telling of course). He even mentioned how I should pick up or borrow a really nice watch, wear some glasses, and change up my hair style to really drive home the nerdy look.

that whole conversation made me curious about the state of smart watches these days, I know there's quite a few and they're pretty dang handy now. I'm getting more active again, so fitness tracking was definitely necessary, but also getting notifications and being able to control my music from my watch was also definitely necessary.

I was gonna go with the Moto 360, since it's a very very sexy watch, but the battery life is horrible and the fitness part of it is lackluster to say the least. I considered the Microsoft Band, since its fitness bit is the best around, but the fact you have to wear it upside down and it has that stupid stretched vertical screen makes it look stupid.

So in the end I went with the Samsung Neo Gear thing: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JBJ3I4Q/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Seems like the best of all the worlds, looks nice, and I'm gonna swap out the band for a nice solid metal one.

Poision Envy

2015-08-19 03:28:24 am

Club 27 Goals

I'm gonna skip on wearing fake glasses though

arkarian

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arkarian: 2015-08-19 12:14:05 pm

2015-08-19 12:13:40 pm

red chamber dream

at any good tech company your personality is going to be way more important than what you wear. just wear something clean that looks nice and you'll be fine. borrowing stuff and trying to appear to be something you're not could only work against you.

Poision Envy

2015-08-20 02:52:23 am

Club 27 Goals

yeah I mean tbh if it was a company that was hiring just based on appearance that heavily I probably wouldn't want to work for them to begin with

arkarian

2015-08-20 02:58:08 am

red chamber dream

totally

i don't think most companies in the tech sector are like that though

Opium

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Opium: 2015-08-20 10:26:39 am

2015-08-20 10:21:22 am

I think it has more to do with the person making the hiring decisions than the values of the company. Homophobic men will almost never hire an effeminate man, women very rarely hire a woman that they think is better looking than them, etc etc. There's tons of prejudices that you can't do anything about even if you're by far the most qualified candidate. Just sell your abilities and your personality as best you can and hope for the best. Hell, some people will only hire mediocre or average talent because they have an insecurity that they themselves or mediocre or average and don't want anyone to outshine them. You can't win.

arkarian

2015-08-20 10:57:19 am

red chamber dream

not everyone is awful though, and most companies have multiple people who make that decision

at my job the developers do interviews and we all vote on whether to hire

Opium

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Opium: 2015-08-20 11:13:16 am

Opium: 2015-08-20 11:12:30 am

2015-08-20 11:07:19 am

That's good that multiple people are involved. When I hired people, the interviews were only a couple of minutes long. I usually had my mind made up before I even laid eyes on the person because their experience was all I cared about.

I just gave them a quick run down of the subtle differences between our club and the other clubs in town. Then told them a bunch of stuff they already know because of their experience, but I still have to tell them so that they can't say 'Nobody ever told me that!' I spare them all the dumb questions because I don't care. If I see that they have at least 5 years experience with a competitor then I know they can do the job.

arkarian

2015-08-20 01:56:58 pm

red chamber dream

man tech companies aren't like that at all. we do multiple rounds of interviews, by phone, in-person, and we take them out to lunch if we're still not sure

Opium

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Opium: 2015-08-20 02:00:35 pm

2015-08-20 01:59:42 pm

Sounds like a much better way to do it. We just didn't have time for anything like that. I literally told a client to hold on a sec while I went into another roon to hire someone. Talk about multitasking. I'm not exaggerating when I say it took two minutes.

Opium

2015-08-20 02:05:32 pm

Most apps went in the trash, but people with experience were put to the side. One of my employees had been in the business for 35 years and had incredible connections, and I would ask her to look at the names and tell me if she knew anything about the people or their references. Not exactly rocket science, but like I said there was no time.

Poision Envy

2015-08-20 08:40:33 pm

Club 27 Goals

man this watch is fucking rad. The quality is surprisingly good too. It probably helps that I waiteda c ouple years before jumping on this bandwagon.

arkarian

2015-08-20 08:50:36 pm

red chamber dream

what did you get, the 360?

arkarian

2015-08-20 09:01:21 pm

red chamber dream

oh lol you said it in your post

yeah i've heard good things about the gear watches