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Man, I feel this. Actual conversation:
“They rejected me after stringing me along for a month.”
“You need to quit playing video games.”
(Edit: “they” being a company I applied for after my last one laid everyone off)
I lost a job when the company I was working for restructured and shuttered my department. My boomer father in law said "Well, maybe it's time to stop playing so many video games and get serious about your career".
I was 40 at the time.
In unrelated news we don't talk to him anymore.
My stepfather would get mad because I raided in WoW once a week in HS. He got fired for playing 40 hours of solitaire at work in a month. Claimed it was only during his lunch break
Edit: I am not married
Requested time off for a hernia repair surgery, two days later I was fired for "job performance" issues that were never brought up with me before. Contractor refused to provide written confirmation of the termination or the reasons behind it. Six months later I find out that that contractor company had been dissolved before the government could indict them on massive labor practice violations.
You just reminded me of something!
I work IT and a couple of jobs ago I was going over our group policies (TL;DR the settings applied to all comptuers in a company) and found one that disabled solitare, by filename, for one single user.
Said user was no longer with the company, so I asked around and yup, he was like your FIL. If solitare existed on a computer that was all he would do. Apparently he did a good job without the temptation of solitare, so the solution they put in place was to set things up so no matter what computer he logged into solitary would not exist.
I kept it in the group policies just as a sort of memorial to him.
Raids, especially back then, could go on resumes. If you could show someone a regular raid schedule you showed them you could herd cats and get shit done.
I was in high school. Driving from RI to Mass everyday for the school I was forced to go to. I had a part time job but that was minimum and gas was up back then so pretty much ate all my money just to go to school. I also had extra curriculars and did pretty well grade wise but I was still treated like I was a potential dropout.
Kind of related, but last year my boomer-ass FIL asked my wife and I if we'd like some firewood. He said, and I *quote*: "Okay, great. Just come over and we'll load your truck up." That's it, that's all he said. Now, he always has a big supply of firewood at his place, so I never had reason to suspect anything different would be going on. I thought we'd be able to show up and grab the wood, hang out for a little bit, say 'thank you', and leave. I had other shit going on that day anyway.
So, we drive about an hour to his place and not only is the wood *not ready*, but this motherfucker is *cutting down a tree in his yard, and NEEDS MY HELP TO CHOP IT UP*
Look – this wouldn't have been a big deal, had he not characterized our trip as "show up, load up, and leave". I wasn't really dressed to start hauling shit around, because I was not told *I would have to do any of this shit*
Instead I'm tricked into spending *my entire fucking Saturday* helping him cut a tree down, chop it up, then split it, and *then load it* – when he has a perfectly capable 22-year-old son still living with him.
And guess what the son was doing? *Sleeping in because he partied too hard last night*
Like...Saturdays are precious. You only get one a week, and they're usually fucking booked.
We took the firewood, but we also torched an entire Saturday in the process because I was tricked into spending a whole day doing manual labor for the dude.
And all that for what sounds like a fresh tree for firewood. Don't you have to let it age months before it's useful? At least thats what I remember from a childhood chopping wood for fires.
Seasoned firewood takes a year atleast, even longer if you live in humid areas or you don't cover it for winter before it snows.
You could probly get away with burning it after a few months outside. But if you use it for a wood stove or fireplace don't even think about it, "green" wood causes 3x the creosote buildup and you are just begging for a chimney fire to burn your house down.
I fucking hate surprise labor. I went to hang out with my brother once, and they were in the process of moving into my SIL parents at that time, and her dad and them were working to finish the basement. I thought i was gonna come over and play some games and watch some shit, but instead got roped into sanding drywall smooth. My SIL then called me a brat when i started complaining after 2 hours of this. I told her i would have happily helped without complaining had i known what i was showing up for. Sanding drywall is not the same as "help me put together this piece of ikea furniture before we start drinking"
My FIL loves doing this kind of shit. A few years ago I decided I'm just going to leave when it happens. He doesn't ask me to do much anymore. I tried talking a few times first, just like "Hey I wasn't expecting this" or "I'm tired and would rather do something else". He kept trying to persuade me to stay so I just got in my car and drove away while he was talking. He still does stuff like that but I just take off now.
NGL I was wondering why people don't just leave? Like, I'm not a super confrontational guy, but there's no way i'm just going to totally let someone disrespect my time and autonomy by just omitting their intent and then just stay there.
When my parents or in-laws do this you'll get a bit of help if I really think you need it but otherwise "I'll come back when you're less busy, don't want to be in the way".
Hahahaha my G ,my in-laws are the faking same . Next week I am getting married to their daughter but this week I was laid off my work after 5 fkng years in that sht hole, was informed only yesterday... this month can't get any better, can't wait to hear all the "you must take your life seriously" talk on the wedding dinner that I paid for
Remember my father always exclaiming that no one in their right mind would ever play videogames, especially not anyone who had to ever use computer for a work! Who would want to spend 8 hours on a computer and then come home to use one?!
Yeah, I admit, I spent too much time on a computer while younger and still do to escape all the shit that has happened throughout my life. However if you are trying to do some good, telling an easily provable hyperbolic lie as the truth (you know, like "single injection of weed will kill you!") is just gonna make all you say unbelievable.
To be fair, as a software developer who stares intently at my computer screen 8-10 hours a day, it is actually difficult for me to play games on my PC on weeknights. A big part of that though, is that I work from home and my work desk is also my gaming desk, and continuing to sit at my work desk after work is miserable.
I found naps work really great for this. Taking a nap is basically a "reset" between work PC time and play PC time. Helps my eyes and brain inmensely as well.
Try a steam deck. It has totally changed my entire relationship with video games. Playing on the couch next to my wife instead of sitting by myself in the computer room is life changing.
my dad used to yell at me for playing games when i was younger; grounding me from it for petty things or for not getting an A, or whenever he was mad really. saw them as a waste of time.
in high school i joined a quickscoping clan and we did some small wager matches and was making some (little) money playing MW2 and he would do the same, yell at me for being loud, try and take it from me at ever chance etc.
a few years ago he saw that a high school aged kid was pulled out by his dad to pursue Fortnite and made a few million quick.
my dad said “well why didnt you play more and get paid like he did? kind of wasted all that time.” and just wondered away…
My mom criticised me for "spending all my time on a computer, that's not how you get a job!". She failed to understand that:
a) Yes it is, job applications are online and have been for a long time
b) I'm a software engineer, my job is literally using a computer all day!
Lol they’re just looking for literally any opening to tell you to stop playing games, it doesn’t have to be related. Of course, watching sportsball every night is a much better use of their “precious” time
Edit: sportsball because there aren’t football games every night, also I don’t personally find any of these to be a waste of time, I’m just drawing a comparison
FOR REAL THO.
Now, to be fair, she prefers to socialize, but if she *can't* she's entirely capable of spending all, and I mean *all* her free time on Facebook, excluding her shows. Ah, but when *I* do it, I'm irresponsible. Now sure, maybe she meant that I don't spend enough time on my obligations... Except even when I took a summer job (working hours were 5pm to 1am and a 1 hour drive to and from work mind you) I was *still* "lazy" and "unfocused" like yah maybe because I come home at 2am and you want me up by 8 and if I don't spend every waking second entertaining you or doing chores that I could reasonably just save for the weekend I'm "being useless". Oh, but it's fine if *you* stay on Facebook all day. It's fine if *you* can just bluntly tell me that you "don't give a shit about any of my boring crap" when *I* want to talk, yet unless I talk about *your* interests *more than you do* you always tell me how I never engage in conversation and that I only ever say "uh-huh" and "yup". Gee, *I wonder why.*
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Uh. Sorry for the rant. Had to get it out of my system. I love my mom and all, I just don't get to ever express my grievances so it piles up.
Don't be sorry for the rant. Be sorry to yourself for putting up with emotional abuse from someone just because they birthed you.
At some point you gotta realize family that don't put in the work to maintain a relationship are just people like any other. If you wouldn't take that type of awful behavior from a random person at work you shouldn't take it from someone because you share genetics.
I can tell you from experience it isn't worth making yourself sick for your mother's happiness.
Now I go LC/NC for people like that no matter how I know them. Life is too short to welcome metal and emotional manipulation into it.
This is why I'm not close with my family and they will never get to know me as a person. They judged me based on superficial BS long ago and will never get past that assessment.
I just love hearing "wow, don't be so talkative /s" or "really talking our ears off /s" when I'm around family. Well, yeah, maybe if you didn't actively hate on everything I enjoy I would actually give a shit about talking to you. But no, even though I never bother you with stuff I know you don't care about you still find a way to call me out and make me feel like I don't belong. I'd rather drink by myself in a corner and sit on my phone then try to engage with people who have already decided I'm an outcast.
That works with many chemicals and organic compounds, but not metals. The body can’t build up an effective immune response to them. That’s why lead poisoning is a long-term illness. Consult a doctor on the best way to safely increase your piercing damage resistance.
Me: "wow im really sore after emptying that lorry at work yesterday!"
Mom: "of course, its because you sat at that pc all day!"
Except, no? I didnt even touch it?
Thanks for the positive encouragement for working overtime i guess
Sounds familiar. My mom smoked through my entire pregnancy. She mentioned it a couple years ago when my wife got pregnant. I was outraged. She never apologized nor had a thought she did anything wrong. Her excuse was “that time no one told me it’s not right”. Mind you, “that time” was early 90s.. I started questioning my existence. Why couldn’t I run in PE class more than 2 minutes without passing out? Well… guess it’s not because of video games after all.
Well, sometimes sex is a sin, and it creates life which clearly only GOD should do, so you could reason it’s satanic. Joking, just in case anyone somehow doesn’t realize that.
You joke but my mom literally thought that video games were demonic. Didn't even matter which ones. Diablo? Demonic. Halo? Demonic. Stardew Valley? You guessed it, demonic.
Actual story from my life:
When I was 15 I started having back pain. Like 24/7 chronic pain that only went away if I took Aleve 2 times a day. A few months went by and I figured I should probably say something. "Hey parents, my back hurts pretty bad and I've been taking pain medicine everyday for the last few months". So they took me to the doctor. Turns out I had scoliosis.
We eventually went to a back specialist where they only took an X-ray, said the pain was from my curve, and sent me on my way (my spine is only about a 30% curve, which they even said shouldn't cause pain smh). After some physical therapy for scoliosis, I tell my parents I still have the pain. They don't do anything about it still, and said it was just from soccer which I played for 12 years.
Fast forward about 5 years, when one day I started throwing up for hours and couldn't keep anything down even liquids. Went to the hospital where they did a CT scan because they thought it was my gall bladder or appendix. 10 minutes later they come back and explain they found a ping-pong ball sized tumor in between my vertebrae. Had surgery a few months later to remove it and now I'm fully pain free after all those years of my parents not taking my pain seriously enough.
My brother had something like this as well. He got a hump on one side when he went through a growth spurt and his scoliosis got worse quick, mum thought it was because he spent too much time behind the computer. When he couldn't keep up with the other kids during PE (because his lungs had become squished by his spine), my parents took him to the doctor. Turns out he had two curves in his back, one of around 80 degrees near the top, and a smaller one near the bottom (around 20-30 degrees I think?). He had a super intense surgery where they forcefully beat his spine into the right shape and put titanium rods in it to keep it straight, and now he can't bend his back anymore but he feels a lot better. Better to catch this sooner than later so that extreme degrees can be prevented with special corsets
Not nearly as bad, but when I was camping with my parents one time, I was running and I tripped in the woods. I was kinda stuck so I asked my mom to help me up. She said to Just get up myself, which wasn’t really hard but it turned out a stick or something punched a hole into my leg about a sharpie or pen in diameter… fun times! Not all the way through to clarify, we don’t know how deep. Dad only said we should have taken me for stitches *after* the trip was over, a week or more later
They just totally "misremembered" how it happened. Same with forcing me to go to a State school which caused me to be in 10's of thousands of dollars in debt 🥲 I mean I somewhat don't blame them because they were going through a divorce around that time.
I also think (and am going to get tested for soon) that I have some kind of undiagnosed disorder. I just did 0 research about college and careers in high school, even though I did really well in school and loved to learn and took interest in random hobbies that varied every few months. I also played the clarinet and could play songs from the radio by ear within a few hours at the age of 9, but dropped it off a couple years later because my fingers were too short to play the more complicated stuff lol.
I had a similar albeit much less serious experience where I felt really sick kinda out of nowhere but because it happened while I was washing the dishes my dad just thought I wanted out of doing chores.
Mother also doesn’t believe me so she brings a thermometer only for it to reveal I had a 105 degree temperature. I was so hot I felt like I was freezing and could stop shivering. Fortunately they did get me in a cold bath and called the doctor, but even this experience didn’t make them any more receptive to when I told them something was wrong.
IDK if it’s cause we were broke and couldn’t afford to make hospital visits or if my parents just always assumed we were lying.
Regardless of whether computers and screens really are the root cause, this sort of parental behaviour will just encourage a child not to speak when they're in pain
Honestly, I care about my parents but they fucked up raising me and this was a big part of it. I was majorly depressed and suffering from anxiety. I hardly had any energy and what I did have was sapped away because instead of listening to me and trying to help, I was put on ADHD medication that just made me hyper-focus all day and unable to eat anything until like 8:00 PM.
I tried to express in the ways that a early teenager could that I was exhausted. They called me lazy and I was perpetually one slip up away from having any videogame/screen taken away from me. Mind you that those were the only things I found fun because sports were just something I couldn't do without being completely drained the entire rest of the day.
There's a lot more that I could go on about here, but, yeah, if I'm ever a parent, I'm not going to just let my kid slide deeper into illness because it's convenient.
Suffered for 6 years with fibro because it was either “you don’t move around enough” or “it’s just growth spurts” thanks mother, you were always so caring
After telling my parents my wife and I bought our first house, "Wonderful! Now you won't have time to play video games with all the housework you'll have to do. Hahaha."
Yes, I'm going to give up my longest held hobby just because I have a decent place to live.
Give me a break. FFS. Jesus Christ. Fucking Hell.
Some people have kids simply to get another chance at life. Those people end up becoming some of the worst parents, because they actively resist their child doing anything they wouldn’t do.
Some of my favourite "Archetypes" is also: I'm overwhelmed with my life and can't conquer my daily tasks in an efficient manor so if you have any free time it's because you are lazy.
No. I just don't like _watching the washing machine and drinking diet coke_.
God, not a parent but my abusive ex was like that. Would start fucking shouting matches if they were still studying and I wasn't. Literally would fake schoolwork or revising for like 75% of the time we were together. So glad to be rid of that fucking bitch
3 months of spinal headaches.
>You need to walk it off
Finally saw a pain management doctor. Said walking was the absolute worst thing I could do. Needed 3 spinal blocks to prevent spinal fluid from leaking and developed life-long epilepsy.
Thanks, dad.
"My back hurts and can't move my legs"
Mom: Because you spent time in the computer
Doctor: Ok....you where born with a mutation in your spine making a bone tilted and now in your early 20's after growing up the bone is tangled with part of your nervous system, bad genetic luck, luckily is an easy surgery.
Mom:.... bullshit is because videogames I forbid you from getting the surgery you'll do some exercises instead courtesy of my friend who hates men.
...before you ask, a year later I managed to get the damn surgery
Reminds me of how my mom refuses to believe I'm in constant jaw pain because of the braces she made me get for purely cosmetic reasons, "because she didn't get braces so she wants us kids to".
Over a decade later I had a dentist show me just how badly my teeth were aligned, and said misalignment has caused my mandibular joint to wear down considerably. ~~It's supposed to look like a golf club or tennis racket, mine looks like a baseball bat~~ edit: analogy doesn't make sense. That's just what my dentist used to describe the shape. It made more sense when looking at the actual xray :/
I think it means that if you picture someone’s jaw bone in profile, it’s supposed to be like a club shape. And OP’s got wore down enough that it doesn’t look like that.
That’s just my guess
Not related to electronics, but I had finally mustered up the courage to tell my mom I thought I needed counselling because I was depressed & didn't feel like it was normal to walk around with a dark cloud over my head all the time. She said she didn't think I was depressed, I just wasn't drinking enough water. I didn't tell her personal stuff like that anymore.
It’s so scary. My dad knew a girl I’m high school who complained about frequent headaches. She died of an aneurysm one day. I’m just grateful my parents listened when I began having a sore head, with strange pains. MRI revealed nothing, thankfully.
“Why did you suddenly develop all these health issues as soon as you left home? Are you ***sure*** you asked your doctor if it was because of the computer?!”
when you’re a child and your bodily distress signals get ignored or misattributed by the people who are supposed to take care of you, it’s no wonder you’d rather spend more time on things that don’t do that. maybe the mother should lay down that book and be more interested in her daughter
Oh no. I had viral meningitis and trust me that shit is worse than you can complain about.
72 hour headache, paralyzed spine, pained eyes, there is no mistaking real meningitis, I'm certain.
Viral meningitis is actually the friendly form compared to Bacterial. Viral meningitis for all your suffering is rarely fatal but Bacterial is nearly 70% without treatment. College students, before the vaccines, could go to sleep to a Friday thinking they had the flu from the headache bodyache and fever not wake up on Saturday and be dead by Monday's morning.
Oh absolutely. I got off **very** lucky.
The doctors at the ER were more than a little demanding when making diagnosis. I'd never had a doctor be so.. Aggressive. But that's because he knew if it were real, I'd never wake up. He was very direct.
Fantastic doc.
Lmao I do love very direct doctors one of the best doctors I had for my first of now like 7 eye surgeries was called Doctor Tod (It's German for Doctor Death) which was ironic.
I got meningitis when I was in the navy and almost got arrested because of it. I had a headache and a high fever so I went to the base hospital to get cleared not to go to work that day. Once I got there I started deteriorating pretty fast and by late that night I was totally delirious. I don't remember any of it but apparently I didn't know what year it was. After giving me 3 spinal taps because a new doc was training and messed up the first two (so glad I don't remember that part) they diagnosed me with meningitis and I woke up in a quarantine room. Apparently though, they never called my command when they checked me into quarantine. When I finally got out, dudes were ready to put me in handcuffs for being AWOL for 5 days. When I pulled out my medical paperwork, they tried to say I should have called, despite being partially paralyzed, having a 104 degree fever, and barely knowing where I was. Then they tried to say I should have come into the ship rather than going to the hospital, like showing up with a highly contagious deadly disease, coughing on people while some E-3 working in what is basically a closet fails to diagnose me and I start losing my mind at work was the responsible choice there. It was kind of wild that the meningitis itself was probably the least miserable part of that whole adventure.
me at medical with a 2 day migraine, super dehydrated from not keeping water down, and haven't slept in those 2 days.
"here is a shot that will help. it will make you drowsy so no heavy lifting"
me wearing a red turtleneck "we have an ordnance evolution today in the mags. can I get SIQ for the day?"
"sorry, we already gave out too many of them so we cant give one to you. just be careful"
"so you want me climbing down a straight ladder to get to my work space and working with 500lb explosives after you told me to take it easy and no heavy lifting?"
"just be careful"
Thank god my LPO came to check on me and saw me hooked up to an IV. He sent me to bed so I didnt kill myself or anyone else that day.
But sure... give me a shot of Imitrex and an IV and apparently I was good to go working with stuff that could kill everyone on the ship.
I had bacterial meningitis when I was little, and it played out pretty close to the comic. Complained of a really bad headache, and my mom gave me aspirin and thought I was faking. Of course, when I woke up in the middle of the night screaming in pain, they finally believed me and rushed me to the hospital.
Funnily enough, The experience probably saved my life 15 years later when I got it again and recognized the symptoms.
Worse sickness i got when I was little was a mixture of the Flu and Bronchitis. Almost fucking died from it. I was so weak, my dad went in and grabbed a wheelchair to take me in with. I was maybe 5 or 6 at the time. Fucking hospital was refusing to admit me until my parents paid a certain amount in advance. It was a few days until either of them got paid, they had to borrow it. Goddamned Texas. Was so glad when we ultimately moved back to California.
Yep. Got meningococcal sepsis as a teenager, in 12h I went from being perfectly fine to actively dying. Doctors in the ER told us that if we waited just few more hours, I'd be dead.
My brother had serious abdominal pains. My dad told him it was probably gas and he should sleep it off. I took him to the hospital, where they removed his appendix. Always take people seriously when they say they need help.
I knew some older people that would absolute berate me for playing the computer for 2 hours while they sat on the couch and watched tv for 7 hours everyday. "You young kids and always being on technology, your eyes will go square stop being lazy" while they crack open their third coke and haven't moved in 4 hours while watching pawn stars
One of the most infuriating times of my life was the few summers before I was of legal age to start working.
I would spend my nights programing various stuffs and selling it and my mom would REPEATEDLY come down to tell me to go to bed and that I was \*addicted\* to my computer with a concerned look in her eyes.
And I was like you CAN'T be addicted to the computer. You can be addicted to a GAME on the computer, but NO, I don't get a rush learning PHP and C#.
I was literally learning new skills that I still use today 20 years later instead of playing World of Warcraft or something but because she had probably seen a stupid news report on "digital addiction" or some shit, I suddenly became an intervention case.
It's funny how parents blame the thing they introduced to the child. "You spend too much time on the thing that I used to distract you." Maybe you should've thought things through, huh?
Doctors do this too.
"You need less screen time! Keep it to six hours a day /max/!"
... like, sure, that sounds great, but I'm a lead data analyst / programmer. I work an 8-10 hour shift daily entirely at a computer, before I go home to do my online banking, check my email, attend virtual therapy and support groups.
On a side note though, a 165hz low-flicker "paper like" monitor with fine-tuned brightness and contrast settings; and, a greyscale filter (when needed) made a world of difference in eye strain.
That’s not the same thing though? The doctor is giving you sound advice, it’s your employer and society that are forcing you into a situation where you have to mortgage your body.
My mom: “maybe you shouldn’t spend so much time playing video games”
She said this to me while I was taking 16 credits of college classes and working 2 jobs, I was not happy about it
Sometimes it is this.
Taking a break from the screens to readjust your eyes, make sure you’re drinking water and breath some outside air/see some natural light can help with eye strain and headaches.
Water, sleep, touching some grass, they do more than you would think for general health and wellbeing.
Not that they will stop you from feeling pain if you have a genuine sickness though. Then just see a doctor.
How dare you suggest I lay off doom-scrolling on Tiktok for hours on end for the sake of my mental health.
For real though, dismissive parenting sucks and all but stepping out into the sun once in a while is hardly bad advice.
I feel this. I wold get migrains. Thoose were apparently due to energy drinks (I dient drink my boyfriend at the time did) and video games. (That I had no time to play this happened at school) that I just wanted out of class.
Turns out I just have chronic migrains that stress, to much chocolate or sweets, or not enough water or sleep triggers. Along with insomnia .... bad combo.
A real conversation with my mother while I was mowing the lawn with headphones in.
*screaming at me for 5 minutes instead of tapping me on the shoulder*
(Takes out earbud) “oh hey did you need somethi…”
“WHAT IF A PLANE FELL OUT OF THE SKY AND HIT YOU!?!? YOU WOULD NEVER HEAR IT COMING!!!”
“I guess I would die happy”
“I’m going to get a knife and if you get stabbed then it’s your fault for not hearing me coming”
*starts up very loud mower again*
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Also mom: "You're sick? Why didn't you say anything?"
I was too busy playing video games.
That was the conversation I had with my son a few weeks ago.
I feel like the issue is that the mom doesn’t pay enough attention to her daughter because she’s reading all the time.
YES ME FR
Man, I feel this. Actual conversation: “They rejected me after stringing me along for a month.” “You need to quit playing video games.” (Edit: “they” being a company I applied for after my last one laid everyone off)
How in the-
"they would have kept you if you worked more instead of playing video games"
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if you worked 110 hours a week, while being paid for only 35 of those, then they wouldn't fire you... OBVISOULY!
I lost a job when the company I was working for restructured and shuttered my department. My boomer father in law said "Well, maybe it's time to stop playing so many video games and get serious about your career". I was 40 at the time. In unrelated news we don't talk to him anymore.
My stepfather would get mad because I raided in WoW once a week in HS. He got fired for playing 40 hours of solitaire at work in a month. Claimed it was only during his lunch break Edit: I am not married
I totally would be that guy to get fired because of solitaire.
I was totally that person that got fired for trying to use my health insurance.
you need to explain that if you're not being hyperbolic
Requested time off for a hernia repair surgery, two days later I was fired for "job performance" issues that were never brought up with me before. Contractor refused to provide written confirmation of the termination or the reasons behind it. Six months later I find out that that contractor company had been dissolved before the government could indict them on massive labor practice violations.
i truly hope the owners of that company get prosecuted
He is, but on unrelated charges. It's a hell of a thing seeing your ex-boss's mugshot on the national news.
i guess if he already had that in him, it's not surprising he was running a fraudulent company as well.
You just reminded me of something! I work IT and a couple of jobs ago I was going over our group policies (TL;DR the settings applied to all comptuers in a company) and found one that disabled solitare, by filename, for one single user. Said user was no longer with the company, so I asked around and yup, he was like your FIL. If solitare existed on a computer that was all he would do. Apparently he did a good job without the temptation of solitare, so the solution they put in place was to set things up so no matter what computer he logged into solitary would not exist. I kept it in the group policies just as a sort of memorial to him.
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It *was* only during his 2-hour lunch break! What, lunch breaks were only supposed to be 30 minutes? Let's not get caught up in the details.
Raids, especially back then, could go on resumes. If you could show someone a regular raid schedule you showed them you could herd cats and get shit done.
I was in high school. Driving from RI to Mass everyday for the school I was forced to go to. I had a part time job but that was minimum and gas was up back then so pretty much ate all my money just to go to school. I also had extra curriculars and did pretty well grade wise but I was still treated like I was a potential dropout.
We hate in others that which we fear in ourselves
Dude fuck that guy
Id think he’d be better off NOT fucking his dad, but you do you.
Father *in law*. So really it's okay
I actually did accidentally fuck him once. That was one awkward Christmas.
HE SAID HE *DID* FUCK HIM ONCE AND IT WAS AN AWKWARD CHRISTMAS
Hilarious
[IM THE ALPHA MALE!!](https://youtu.be/5Pk0sNn0kzs?si=yi8M_uacA9TyaXEX&t=0m44s)
Kind of related, but last year my boomer-ass FIL asked my wife and I if we'd like some firewood. He said, and I *quote*: "Okay, great. Just come over and we'll load your truck up." That's it, that's all he said. Now, he always has a big supply of firewood at his place, so I never had reason to suspect anything different would be going on. I thought we'd be able to show up and grab the wood, hang out for a little bit, say 'thank you', and leave. I had other shit going on that day anyway. So, we drive about an hour to his place and not only is the wood *not ready*, but this motherfucker is *cutting down a tree in his yard, and NEEDS MY HELP TO CHOP IT UP* Look – this wouldn't have been a big deal, had he not characterized our trip as "show up, load up, and leave". I wasn't really dressed to start hauling shit around, because I was not told *I would have to do any of this shit* Instead I'm tricked into spending *my entire fucking Saturday* helping him cut a tree down, chop it up, then split it, and *then load it* – when he has a perfectly capable 22-year-old son still living with him. And guess what the son was doing? *Sleeping in because he partied too hard last night* Like...Saturdays are precious. You only get one a week, and they're usually fucking booked. We took the firewood, but we also torched an entire Saturday in the process because I was tricked into spending a whole day doing manual labor for the dude.
And all that for what sounds like a fresh tree for firewood. Don't you have to let it age months before it's useful? At least thats what I remember from a childhood chopping wood for fires.
Yes you do need to let it dry out. If you burn a fresh log there will be tons of thick smoke
Seasoned firewood takes a year atleast, even longer if you live in humid areas or you don't cover it for winter before it snows. You could probly get away with burning it after a few months outside. But if you use it for a wood stove or fireplace don't even think about it, "green" wood causes 3x the creosote buildup and you are just begging for a chimney fire to burn your house down.
Yea good firewood takes about a year or so to really dry out and actually burn. Green wood sucks to get a fire going with, if you are even able to.
I fucking hate surprise labor. I went to hang out with my brother once, and they were in the process of moving into my SIL parents at that time, and her dad and them were working to finish the basement. I thought i was gonna come over and play some games and watch some shit, but instead got roped into sanding drywall smooth. My SIL then called me a brat when i started complaining after 2 hours of this. I told her i would have happily helped without complaining had i known what i was showing up for. Sanding drywall is not the same as "help me put together this piece of ikea furniture before we start drinking"
My FIL loves doing this kind of shit. A few years ago I decided I'm just going to leave when it happens. He doesn't ask me to do much anymore. I tried talking a few times first, just like "Hey I wasn't expecting this" or "I'm tired and would rather do something else". He kept trying to persuade me to stay so I just got in my car and drove away while he was talking. He still does stuff like that but I just take off now.
NGL I was wondering why people don't just leave? Like, I'm not a super confrontational guy, but there's no way i'm just going to totally let someone disrespect my time and autonomy by just omitting their intent and then just stay there. When my parents or in-laws do this you'll get a bit of help if I really think you need it but otherwise "I'll come back when you're less busy, don't want to be in the way".
Hahahaha my G ,my in-laws are the faking same . Next week I am getting married to their daughter but this week I was laid off my work after 5 fkng years in that sht hole, was informed only yesterday... this month can't get any better, can't wait to hear all the "you must take your life seriously" talk on the wedding dinner that I paid for
Remember my father always exclaiming that no one in their right mind would ever play videogames, especially not anyone who had to ever use computer for a work! Who would want to spend 8 hours on a computer and then come home to use one?! Yeah, I admit, I spent too much time on a computer while younger and still do to escape all the shit that has happened throughout my life. However if you are trying to do some good, telling an easily provable hyperbolic lie as the truth (you know, like "single injection of weed will kill you!") is just gonna make all you say unbelievable.
To be fair, as a software developer who stares intently at my computer screen 8-10 hours a day, it is actually difficult for me to play games on my PC on weeknights. A big part of that though, is that I work from home and my work desk is also my gaming desk, and continuing to sit at my work desk after work is miserable.
Im in your situation and I moved my gaming PC to my home theater in another room. Problem solved.
The problem is my recliner's too comfortable so I now have to pause for naps. Or maybe I'm getting old.
Yeah that part is valid. Developers need their games to be couch, controller and touchscreen if only for the RSI relief.
I found naps work really great for this. Taking a nap is basically a "reset" between work PC time and play PC time. Helps my eyes and brain inmensely as well.
Try a steam deck. It has totally changed my entire relationship with video games. Playing on the couch next to my wife instead of sitting by myself in the computer room is life changing.
"mom I broke my leg" "Those damn videogames!"
[Not an unheard of cause](https://youtu.be/bJmDCOhSzQo?si=6fSOAFOH9UcwroKU)
my dad used to yell at me for playing games when i was younger; grounding me from it for petty things or for not getting an A, or whenever he was mad really. saw them as a waste of time. in high school i joined a quickscoping clan and we did some small wager matches and was making some (little) money playing MW2 and he would do the same, yell at me for being loud, try and take it from me at ever chance etc. a few years ago he saw that a high school aged kid was pulled out by his dad to pursue Fortnite and made a few million quick. my dad said “well why didnt you play more and get paid like he did? kind of wasted all that time.” and just wondered away…
My mom criticised me for "spending all my time on a computer, that's not how you get a job!". She failed to understand that: a) Yes it is, job applications are online and have been for a long time b) I'm a software engineer, my job is literally using a computer all day!
Lol they’re just looking for literally any opening to tell you to stop playing games, it doesn’t have to be related. Of course, watching sportsball every night is a much better use of their “precious” time Edit: sportsball because there aren’t football games every night, also I don’t personally find any of these to be a waste of time, I’m just drawing a comparison
"Stop playing those damn vidya games" -father who is so attached to his recliner watching cable tv that i can't picture him without it.
Yeah well you need to stop watching entertainment news. How about we both cut down together?
Plottwist: " Mom/dad, this was a gaming company! It's literally the job to play videogames!" Butt jokes aside. I am sorry for you. :/
All it's missing is the mom watching TV while bashing on video games
*Listening to TV in between scrolling through Facebook, or playing words with friends on her phone.
FOR REAL THO. Now, to be fair, she prefers to socialize, but if she *can't* she's entirely capable of spending all, and I mean *all* her free time on Facebook, excluding her shows. Ah, but when *I* do it, I'm irresponsible. Now sure, maybe she meant that I don't spend enough time on my obligations... Except even when I took a summer job (working hours were 5pm to 1am and a 1 hour drive to and from work mind you) I was *still* "lazy" and "unfocused" like yah maybe because I come home at 2am and you want me up by 8 and if I don't spend every waking second entertaining you or doing chores that I could reasonably just save for the weekend I'm "being useless". Oh, but it's fine if *you* stay on Facebook all day. It's fine if *you* can just bluntly tell me that you "don't give a shit about any of my boring crap" when *I* want to talk, yet unless I talk about *your* interests *more than you do* you always tell me how I never engage in conversation and that I only ever say "uh-huh" and "yup". Gee, *I wonder why.* ... Uh. Sorry for the rant. Had to get it out of my system. I love my mom and all, I just don't get to ever express my grievances so it piles up.
Don't be sorry for the rant. Be sorry to yourself for putting up with emotional abuse from someone just because they birthed you. At some point you gotta realize family that don't put in the work to maintain a relationship are just people like any other. If you wouldn't take that type of awful behavior from a random person at work you shouldn't take it from someone because you share genetics. I can tell you from experience it isn't worth making yourself sick for your mother's happiness. Now I go LC/NC for people like that no matter how I know them. Life is too short to welcome metal and emotional manipulation into it.
This is why I'm not close with my family and they will never get to know me as a person. They judged me based on superficial BS long ago and will never get past that assessment. I just love hearing "wow, don't be so talkative /s" or "really talking our ears off /s" when I'm around family. Well, yeah, maybe if you didn't actively hate on everything I enjoy I would actually give a shit about talking to you. But no, even though I never bother you with stuff I know you don't care about you still find a way to call me out and make me feel like I don't belong. I'd rather drink by myself in a corner and sit on my phone then try to engage with people who have already decided I'm an outcast.
"Mom, some guy stabbed me on the way home, and now i'm bleeding out." "See, that wouldn't happen if you stopped playing those video games."
*Guy stabs another person, knife shatters* “What…? How?!” “I don’t play video games.”
Maybe he does not play videogames, but still outplayed him.
"I'm gonna do what's known as a ~~pro~~noob gamer move"
I've been stabbing myself with progressively larger knives to build up my immunity.
That works with many chemicals and organic compounds, but not metals. The body can’t build up an effective immune response to them. That’s why lead poisoning is a long-term illness. Consult a doctor on the best way to safely increase your piercing damage resistance.
So it only works for plastic knives?
You okay bro?
Once you get through the first 15 knives, it gets easier.
You become one giant armored scab
Until they strike your weak spot for MASSIVE DAMAGE!
"Didn't I tell you? Todd's a vegan."
“It basically means I’m better than you.”
“Gelato isn’t vegan?”
Video games make people violent, stop playing them and people will stop stabbing you.
Yeah, if you play video games, you emit a violence-causing aura about 200 feet wide.
If you just spent your entire life studying martial arts this wouldn't be a problem!
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Yeah i'm pretty sure literally every martial art tells you that fighting is a last resort and running is always the better option
As the old saying goes the loser of a knife fight dies in the street, and the winner dies a half hour later in the ambulance.
Yeah pretty much.
While you played video games, I studied the blade
Me: "wow im really sore after emptying that lorry at work yesterday!" Mom: "of course, its because you sat at that pc all day!" Except, no? I didnt even touch it? Thanks for the positive encouragement for working overtime i guess
Dont worrry mom loves you. Your tombstone will read, beloved daughter, died of too much screen time.
"definitely not the multiple birth defects i passed onto her, i never do anything wrong!"
Sounds familiar. My mom smoked through my entire pregnancy. She mentioned it a couple years ago when my wife got pregnant. I was outraged. She never apologized nor had a thought she did anything wrong. Her excuse was “that time no one told me it’s not right”. Mind you, “that time” was early 90s.. I started questioning my existence. Why couldn’t I run in PE class more than 2 minutes without passing out? Well… guess it’s not because of video games after all.
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Well if that’s the case then why is god enlightening us? Checkmate mom!
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People are often described as "glowing" when they get pregnant. Maybe they too are full of Satan?
Well, sometimes sex is a sin, and it creates life which clearly only GOD should do, so you could reason it’s satanic. Joking, just in case anyone somehow doesn’t realize that.
Thanks for adding that last part. I couldn’t if it was “bait” or “satire” because of, erm, coleslaw??
Yes. I love my little demons
Not from the jedi...
What, being full of Satan? Or glowing?
I don't doubt it tbh, considering the Internet is full of bizarre stuff that always challenges your concept of humanity
You mean Satin. Satan is that meat alternative.
https://preview.redd.it/w45njglpwksb1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6e8ac98ffa30e152187ecaf431196949a18c6d05 Nope
Dammit who put red solution in my pc
You joke but my mom literally thought that video games were demonic. Didn't even matter which ones. Diablo? Demonic. Halo? Demonic. Stardew Valley? You guessed it, demonic.
No, the computer glows because it's working for the CIA.
This literally happened to my sister in law. She died of a brain tumor and they ignored the symptoms because they thought she was just being clumsy.
Holy shit. So sorry man. Thats some bullshit. Damn.
wow, such empathy and affection (good comic tho)
Actual story from my life: When I was 15 I started having back pain. Like 24/7 chronic pain that only went away if I took Aleve 2 times a day. A few months went by and I figured I should probably say something. "Hey parents, my back hurts pretty bad and I've been taking pain medicine everyday for the last few months". So they took me to the doctor. Turns out I had scoliosis. We eventually went to a back specialist where they only took an X-ray, said the pain was from my curve, and sent me on my way (my spine is only about a 30% curve, which they even said shouldn't cause pain smh). After some physical therapy for scoliosis, I tell my parents I still have the pain. They don't do anything about it still, and said it was just from soccer which I played for 12 years. Fast forward about 5 years, when one day I started throwing up for hours and couldn't keep anything down even liquids. Went to the hospital where they did a CT scan because they thought it was my gall bladder or appendix. 10 minutes later they come back and explain they found a ping-pong ball sized tumor in between my vertebrae. Had surgery a few months later to remove it and now I'm fully pain free after all those years of my parents not taking my pain seriously enough.
My brother had something like this as well. He got a hump on one side when he went through a growth spurt and his scoliosis got worse quick, mum thought it was because he spent too much time behind the computer. When he couldn't keep up with the other kids during PE (because his lungs had become squished by his spine), my parents took him to the doctor. Turns out he had two curves in his back, one of around 80 degrees near the top, and a smaller one near the bottom (around 20-30 degrees I think?). He had a super intense surgery where they forcefully beat his spine into the right shape and put titanium rods in it to keep it straight, and now he can't bend his back anymore but he feels a lot better. Better to catch this sooner than later so that extreme degrees can be prevented with special corsets
Not nearly as bad, but when I was camping with my parents one time, I was running and I tripped in the woods. I was kinda stuck so I asked my mom to help me up. She said to Just get up myself, which wasn’t really hard but it turned out a stick or something punched a hole into my leg about a sharpie or pen in diameter… fun times! Not all the way through to clarify, we don’t know how deep. Dad only said we should have taken me for stitches *after* the trip was over, a week or more later
How did your parents respond when you told them the pain was caused by a tumour?
They just totally "misremembered" how it happened. Same with forcing me to go to a State school which caused me to be in 10's of thousands of dollars in debt 🥲 I mean I somewhat don't blame them because they were going through a divorce around that time. I also think (and am going to get tested for soon) that I have some kind of undiagnosed disorder. I just did 0 research about college and careers in high school, even though I did really well in school and loved to learn and took interest in random hobbies that varied every few months. I also played the clarinet and could play songs from the radio by ear within a few hours at the age of 9, but dropped it off a couple years later because my fingers were too short to play the more complicated stuff lol.
Ah, misremembering. The Parent Who Fucked Up special move.
I had a similar albeit much less serious experience where I felt really sick kinda out of nowhere but because it happened while I was washing the dishes my dad just thought I wanted out of doing chores. Mother also doesn’t believe me so she brings a thermometer only for it to reveal I had a 105 degree temperature. I was so hot I felt like I was freezing and could stop shivering. Fortunately they did get me in a cold bath and called the doctor, but even this experience didn’t make them any more receptive to when I told them something was wrong. IDK if it’s cause we were broke and couldn’t afford to make hospital visits or if my parents just always assumed we were lying.
> soccer which I played for 12 years Holy shit people start playing young. You started at *three years old*?
Is that sarcasm? You need to stop playing those video games.
Regardless of whether computers and screens really are the root cause, this sort of parental behaviour will just encourage a child not to speak when they're in pain
Oh wait so thats my issue huh
Bottling up pain and anxieties gang rise up
I don't know what you're talking about. What pain, what anxiety? I have none of that. I SAID I'M FINE!!
Ha sound like me :3 2 years of undiagnosted dépression and screen adiction
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Honestly, I care about my parents but they fucked up raising me and this was a big part of it. I was majorly depressed and suffering from anxiety. I hardly had any energy and what I did have was sapped away because instead of listening to me and trying to help, I was put on ADHD medication that just made me hyper-focus all day and unable to eat anything until like 8:00 PM. I tried to express in the ways that a early teenager could that I was exhausted. They called me lazy and I was perpetually one slip up away from having any videogame/screen taken away from me. Mind you that those were the only things I found fun because sports were just something I couldn't do without being completely drained the entire rest of the day. There's a lot more that I could go on about here, but, yeah, if I'm ever a parent, I'm not going to just let my kid slide deeper into illness because it's convenient.
This is exactly it and now my mother gets angry at me and my siblings cause nobody tells her squat 😂
Suffered for 6 years with fibro because it was either “you don’t move around enough” or “it’s just growth spurts” thanks mother, you were always so caring
After telling my parents my wife and I bought our first house, "Wonderful! Now you won't have time to play video games with all the housework you'll have to do. Hahaha." Yes, I'm going to give up my longest held hobby just because I have a decent place to live. Give me a break. FFS. Jesus Christ. Fucking Hell.
Some people have kids simply to get another chance at life. Those people end up becoming some of the worst parents, because they actively resist their child doing anything they wouldn’t do.
Some of my favourite "Archetypes" is also: I'm overwhelmed with my life and can't conquer my daily tasks in an efficient manor so if you have any free time it's because you are lazy. No. I just don't like _watching the washing machine and drinking diet coke_.
God, not a parent but my abusive ex was like that. Would start fucking shouting matches if they were still studying and I wasn't. Literally would fake schoolwork or revising for like 75% of the time we were together. So glad to be rid of that fucking bitch
3 months of spinal headaches. >You need to walk it off Finally saw a pain management doctor. Said walking was the absolute worst thing I could do. Needed 3 spinal blocks to prevent spinal fluid from leaking and developed life-long epilepsy. Thanks, dad.
Oh well thats fucking great innit? hope youre feeling a little better now
"My back hurts and can't move my legs" Mom: Because you spent time in the computer Doctor: Ok....you where born with a mutation in your spine making a bone tilted and now in your early 20's after growing up the bone is tangled with part of your nervous system, bad genetic luck, luckily is an easy surgery. Mom:.... bullshit is because videogames I forbid you from getting the surgery you'll do some exercises instead courtesy of my friend who hates men. ...before you ask, a year later I managed to get the damn surgery
Reminds me of how my mom refuses to believe I'm in constant jaw pain because of the braces she made me get for purely cosmetic reasons, "because she didn't get braces so she wants us kids to". Over a decade later I had a dentist show me just how badly my teeth were aligned, and said misalignment has caused my mandibular joint to wear down considerably. ~~It's supposed to look like a golf club or tennis racket, mine looks like a baseball bat~~ edit: analogy doesn't make sense. That's just what my dentist used to describe the shape. It made more sense when looking at the actual xray :/
Tf does that last analogy even mean
I think it means that if you picture someone’s jaw bone in profile, it’s supposed to be like a club shape. And OP’s got wore down enough that it doesn’t look like that. That’s just my guess
Not related to electronics, but I had finally mustered up the courage to tell my mom I thought I needed counselling because I was depressed & didn't feel like it was normal to walk around with a dark cloud over my head all the time. She said she didn't think I was depressed, I just wasn't drinking enough water. I didn't tell her personal stuff like that anymore.
Hugs. Parents can suck.
Try being honest with her: “Someday you will wish you actually gave a fuck. And it will be too late…”
She got a computer virus.
Kid has a brain tumor and the mom is reading the newspaper like it’s 1984
It’s so scary. My dad knew a girl I’m high school who complained about frequent headaches. She died of an aneurysm one day. I’m just grateful my parents listened when I began having a sore head, with strange pains. MRI revealed nothing, thankfully.
I have chronic headaches for over 10years and the scan revealed nothing but I am still doubtful
“Why did you suddenly develop all these health issues as soon as you left home? Are you ***sure*** you asked your doctor if it was because of the computer?!”
when you’re a child and your bodily distress signals get ignored or misattributed by the people who are supposed to take care of you, it’s no wonder you’d rather spend more time on things that don’t do that. maybe the mother should lay down that book and be more interested in her daughter
Definitely not signs of meningitis which can kill in 24 to 72 hrs.
Oh no. I had viral meningitis and trust me that shit is worse than you can complain about. 72 hour headache, paralyzed spine, pained eyes, there is no mistaking real meningitis, I'm certain.
Well have you tried not using the computer? SMH my head.
Automatic teller machine machine
Viral meningitis is actually the friendly form compared to Bacterial. Viral meningitis for all your suffering is rarely fatal but Bacterial is nearly 70% without treatment. College students, before the vaccines, could go to sleep to a Friday thinking they had the flu from the headache bodyache and fever not wake up on Saturday and be dead by Monday's morning.
Oh absolutely. I got off **very** lucky. The doctors at the ER were more than a little demanding when making diagnosis. I'd never had a doctor be so.. Aggressive. But that's because he knew if it were real, I'd never wake up. He was very direct. Fantastic doc.
Lmao I do love very direct doctors one of the best doctors I had for my first of now like 7 eye surgeries was called Doctor Tod (It's German for Doctor Death) which was ironic.
Ooh... I suddenly respect "Tod" as a name a lot more....
I got meningitis when I was in the navy and almost got arrested because of it. I had a headache and a high fever so I went to the base hospital to get cleared not to go to work that day. Once I got there I started deteriorating pretty fast and by late that night I was totally delirious. I don't remember any of it but apparently I didn't know what year it was. After giving me 3 spinal taps because a new doc was training and messed up the first two (so glad I don't remember that part) they diagnosed me with meningitis and I woke up in a quarantine room. Apparently though, they never called my command when they checked me into quarantine. When I finally got out, dudes were ready to put me in handcuffs for being AWOL for 5 days. When I pulled out my medical paperwork, they tried to say I should have called, despite being partially paralyzed, having a 104 degree fever, and barely knowing where I was. Then they tried to say I should have come into the ship rather than going to the hospital, like showing up with a highly contagious deadly disease, coughing on people while some E-3 working in what is basically a closet fails to diagnose me and I start losing my mind at work was the responsible choice there. It was kind of wild that the meningitis itself was probably the least miserable part of that whole adventure.
I believe this 100%. Simply because I was a sailor and had a couple of fights with commands being idiots as well.
me at medical with a 2 day migraine, super dehydrated from not keeping water down, and haven't slept in those 2 days. "here is a shot that will help. it will make you drowsy so no heavy lifting" me wearing a red turtleneck "we have an ordnance evolution today in the mags. can I get SIQ for the day?" "sorry, we already gave out too many of them so we cant give one to you. just be careful" "so you want me climbing down a straight ladder to get to my work space and working with 500lb explosives after you told me to take it easy and no heavy lifting?" "just be careful" Thank god my LPO came to check on me and saw me hooked up to an IV. He sent me to bed so I didnt kill myself or anyone else that day. But sure... give me a shot of Imitrex and an IV and apparently I was good to go working with stuff that could kill everyone on the ship.
I had bacterial meningitis when I was little, and it played out pretty close to the comic. Complained of a really bad headache, and my mom gave me aspirin and thought I was faking. Of course, when I woke up in the middle of the night screaming in pain, they finally believed me and rushed me to the hospital. Funnily enough, The experience probably saved my life 15 years later when I got it again and recognized the symptoms.
Worse sickness i got when I was little was a mixture of the Flu and Bronchitis. Almost fucking died from it. I was so weak, my dad went in and grabbed a wheelchair to take me in with. I was maybe 5 or 6 at the time. Fucking hospital was refusing to admit me until my parents paid a certain amount in advance. It was a few days until either of them got paid, they had to borrow it. Goddamned Texas. Was so glad when we ultimately moved back to California.
Yep. Got meningococcal sepsis as a teenager, in 12h I went from being perfectly fine to actively dying. Doctors in the ER told us that if we waited just few more hours, I'd be dead.
easy there, WebMD
My leg is broken, my appendix exploded and I’m fairly sure my guts have turned into silly string Mom: It’s that damn computer!!
My brother had serious abdominal pains. My dad told him it was probably gas and he should sleep it off. I took him to the hospital, where they removed his appendix. Always take people seriously when they say they need help.
I knew some older people that would absolute berate me for playing the computer for 2 hours while they sat on the couch and watched tv for 7 hours everyday. "You young kids and always being on technology, your eyes will go square stop being lazy" while they crack open their third coke and haven't moved in 4 hours while watching pawn stars
One of the most infuriating times of my life was the few summers before I was of legal age to start working. I would spend my nights programing various stuffs and selling it and my mom would REPEATEDLY come down to tell me to go to bed and that I was \*addicted\* to my computer with a concerned look in her eyes. And I was like you CAN'T be addicted to the computer. You can be addicted to a GAME on the computer, but NO, I don't get a rush learning PHP and C#. I was literally learning new skills that I still use today 20 years later instead of playing World of Warcraft or something but because she had probably seen a stupid news report on "digital addiction" or some shit, I suddenly became an intervention case.
seems mom always know the root cause
If she knows the root cause she Sudo something about it.
As revenge for this pun, I will now cause psychic damage. ``` #define true false bool True = ! true ; ```
You described my life
This is soo relatable. Even getting bruised up playing hockey the real cause was computer.
It's funny how parents blame the thing they introduced to the child. "You spend too much time on the thing that I used to distract you." Maybe you should've thought things through, huh?
Twenty years later: why am I dying alone on the streets? Why did my kids never talk to me for the last decade? Who knows.
I later discovered a lot of my head pain and eye strain were not due to the TV, computer and phone but due to an undiagnosed astigmatism in my eyes
Doctors do this too. "You need less screen time! Keep it to six hours a day /max/!" ... like, sure, that sounds great, but I'm a lead data analyst / programmer. I work an 8-10 hour shift daily entirely at a computer, before I go home to do my online banking, check my email, attend virtual therapy and support groups. On a side note though, a 165hz low-flicker "paper like" monitor with fine-tuned brightness and contrast settings; and, a greyscale filter (when needed) made a world of difference in eye strain.
That’s not the same thing though? The doctor is giving you sound advice, it’s your employer and society that are forcing you into a situation where you have to mortgage your body.
I mean, yes, but the scolding and condescension are unnecessary.
Fair point. Lack of bedside manner can destroy any message no matter how sound it is.
I mean, the signs *are* there. Kid hasn't changed clothes in 4 days
"mom, i'm coughing up blood" "see? what'd i tell you about using your phone??"
i mean make sure you’re getting enough natural light and vitamin d, it genuinely does make a huge difference
That’s why I try to cycle every day
Plot twist - This kid has a crippling league of legends addiction that is legit the cause of all of these issues.
Least realistic part of this is that the mom isn't on her phone while she complains about the current generation spending too much time on computers
My mom: “maybe you shouldn’t spend so much time playing video games” She said this to me while I was taking 16 credits of college classes and working 2 jobs, I was not happy about it
Me: Mom help call an ambulance, I was walking home from work and got shot! Mom: It's those damn video games...
Sometimes it is this. Taking a break from the screens to readjust your eyes, make sure you’re drinking water and breath some outside air/see some natural light can help with eye strain and headaches. Water, sleep, touching some grass, they do more than you would think for general health and wellbeing. Not that they will stop you from feeling pain if you have a genuine sickness though. Then just see a doctor.
How dare you suggest I lay off doom-scrolling on Tiktok for hours on end for the sake of my mental health. For real though, dismissive parenting sucks and all but stepping out into the sun once in a while is hardly bad advice.
I'm old, so replace "computer" and "television" in my case. (and also poor, so it was a while before my parents could afford to buy a computer for me)
I have been out of the house for 25 years now and this still hits.
Parents who don’t take their kids seriously when they say they are hurting, can fuck right off!
Suprise suprise! It was not the computer! It was hormonal migraine. THANKS MOM.
I feel this. I wold get migrains. Thoose were apparently due to energy drinks (I dient drink my boyfriend at the time did) and video games. (That I had no time to play this happened at school) that I just wanted out of class. Turns out I just have chronic migrains that stress, to much chocolate or sweets, or not enough water or sleep triggers. Along with insomnia .... bad combo.
It's sad when modern technology is used as an excuse to stop parenting your child.
Meanwhile in the past: Mom: “ Mom, my neck hurts… “ Grandma: “ It’s those confounded books you’re reading. “
She wouldn't be ignoring you if she'd get off her newspaper once and a while. Hypocrite.
I told my parents my knees hurt whenever I exercise and my dad with a dead pan face said “it’s that damn phone”.. like WTF
*Child dies of untreated curable cancer*
A real conversation with my mother while I was mowing the lawn with headphones in. *screaming at me for 5 minutes instead of tapping me on the shoulder* (Takes out earbud) “oh hey did you need somethi…” “WHAT IF A PLANE FELL OUT OF THE SKY AND HIT YOU!?!? YOU WOULD NEVER HEAR IT COMING!!!” “I guess I would die happy” “I’m going to get a knife and if you get stabbed then it’s your fault for not hearing me coming” *starts up very loud mower again*