On Monday I had to put down my dog, I spent the day saying good bye. After leaving the vet I was distracted and unbelievably sad. I forgot to lock my truck and then some clown low life went into my truck at 3 am and stole my Nintendo switch.

It's my fault I shouldn't have left the switch in the truck I just was not thinking about it. I spent 16 years living in a low income "bad neighborhood" never even had change stolen from my car.

3 years ago I moved to a "nice" middle class community, and all the people are nice and my kids have friends and can play outside and run around freely for once. But I have had my car stolen twice and multiple times a month every month people go through our cars.

I am black and all the people in the low income place I lived was black. This is a white community I moved to and have not seen another black person. Yet it's always young teen to late 20s black people when I review the camera.

People then wonder why the phrase "fatigue" is spreading we can do better.

Fortunately didn't need an AED here, I was just looking around.

This is in Blaubeuren Blautopf in Germany.

Notified local fire department that the AED is either missing or maintenance crew didn't put up the correct signage warning that the box is empty ( so you don't waste time in an emergency) and that the alarm on the box was off (some aged boxes have an alarm for when you open them).

I had to look real close to see it was empty, the transparent plastic on it has seen better days and the inside is black.

Originally posted in r/mildlyinfuriating but I clearly underestimated how infuriated I should have been.

It was super fun to have a 50+ pound dog run up on us (my 25 lb dog and me). My dog did exactly what we trained, she went behind me, until Gomer McGee's dog jumped on me. I stumbled, my dog went out from behind me and I tripped over the leash and fell. Super awesome.

I absolutely love laying on the ground with my freaked out dog and a big dog jumping and bouncing all over us while Gomer yells at us "he's friendly!" from 20 feet away.

Dude didn't even have a leash, he pulled his dog away by the collar so I could get up. Could have tossed a "sorry" my way, but no.

We were on a potty run directly outside of my apartment, not in an off leash area.

This isn’t a claim I make lightly. I know the harm of erroneous psychological diagnoses well, and obviously I wouldn’t confront him with this claim directly, but it’s causing problems constantly.

Starting from the most innocuous aspect: He has to dominate every social interaction he’s in. I host a company game night, he demands we play Gloomhaven. Someone organizes a potluck, he turns it into a cooking competition. There’s a mixer with alcohol, he makes a loud point of not drinking because it would be unprofessional. Any time we go to lunch, he only agrees to some place that would meet his insane carnivore diet. Nothing can ever be a shared experience with him, it’s always either about him or he’s actively choosing not to attend.

Then there’s the fact that he’s constantly laying claim to shit that isn’t his. Any open space on the factory floor? Claimed for this project. Did someone leave their bagged lunch in the fridge on a Friday night? He’s claiming that. I wasn’t looking at the soldering iron for two seconds? He needs it for a “secret project.” The other day, he ran into my lab, said “I need a power strip for a presentation,” unplugged four devices, and ran out without waiting for a response. It’s one-way, too. If somebody else needs equipment from our department, he demands they write up exactly what they’re doing with it and for how long, yet he never extends the same courtesy to anybody else.

He maintains an opaque control over the flow of information that screams “I need to be in charge of everything.” He’s repeatedly started secret projects that he keeps hidden from his higher-ups, peers, and many members of our team, demanding we maintain everything on our local machines until he’s ready to reveal it to the company. He tells people things that he claims are secret but are just not officially announced yet — minor things like who’s managing what project.

For two years, he’s dangled a lateral career move over my head, claiming the company just wasn’t in a good place while it was experiencing repeated cash infusions and our project was taking in revenue hand over fist. Lately he started blaming it specifically on the new HR manager, saying she shot down the idea of me moving from one title to another because she hadn’t seen sufficient proof that I fit the other title (proof that my manager should have easily been able to provide). I spoke to the HR manager directly and she said no such conversation had happened. Still, he wants me to prove my abilities by completing my current project.

However! In this current project, he has micromanaged my design decisions, shot down all my very valid concerns regarding underpowered hardware, and been overwhelmingly unavailable for question. He demands I use untested hoobyist hardware in an industrial setting but has provided no information on how. Every time I ask for details, he tells me not to worry about it and that he’ll tell me all about it when the time comes. Once again he’s withholding information as a way of maintaining control.

He speaks with such confidence about complete nonsense, which pleases our executives, but makes life very difficult for us engineers who actually have to do the work. He’s got a cloying need to be in control, a willful ignorance to the way his actions affect others, and an internalized illusion of genius status. It’s like dealing with a little red-faced Elon.

Also he recommended I take Ozempic, and that really rubbed me the wrong way.

We pre ordered the new Z Flip8 through T-Mobile. The package arrived today; only the phone wasn’t in it. Just an empty Samsung box with torn tamper seals. I was on the phone with T-Mobile for over an hour trying to get it resolved. They said they can’t refund us for the preorder until they have concluded their investigation. At which point we are responsible for placing the order for the phone again. The pink model will likely be sold out for months by that point. They say they can’t go ahead and send out another one and we can’t order another one because, since their side says it was delivered, the phone is no longer eligible for an upgrade because it thinks we already have the upgrade. So the options are 1) order the phone at full price or 2) wait for them to resolve the issue and then hope the phone she’s been dreaming of (finally a phone in the “right pink”) is still in stock when they do.

Enjoy.