So What's Bugging You?

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Canada
March 3, 2009 6:55pm CST
Now's your chance to get it off your chest and tell us just what's bugging you today? It doesn't matter how small or insignificant you think your gripe may be...it's important to us. Don't hold it in any longer letting it fester and multiply getting all out of proportion. What IS IT? What get's under your skin and stays there? It can be a person, a situation, even a dream... Last night I had a dream about a big UGLY BUG. I was about to eat a meal at a restaurant and there sitting on top of the food was a large orange GRASSHOPPER! I picked it off, disgusted, and put it in the ashtray. Well, the darn thing came to life and started flying around. It swooped back toward me, I ducked as it zoomed over my head. I woke up feeling YUCKEE!There, I unloaded that dream, I feel better.
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14 responses
• Philippines
4 Mar 09
i am no longer happy at work and want to leave but i can't because there are a lot of bills to pay. i am constantly applying for a job but since we're in a financial crisis right now, some people discontinued projects and hiring. i am so sad. i always force myself to come to work every day. i try to be patient with my boss who is the reason why a lot of people left this company. I'm stuck here until i can get a new job.
• Canada
4 Mar 09
Hi eabaterina, Thanks for responding. This may sound funny, but I'm going with it anyway...force yourself to cheer up. There, I said it. But it works. Smile a little. You may surprise the grumpy boss by looking happy and positive. See if his attitude might change.
• Philippines
6 Mar 09
that's all right, sometimes when i get away for a while, i come back with a new perspective about my work, i try to cheer up, but then when he demands us to produce an output we are not expert at and he expects us to give above average results even though he knows it is not our expertise, i get irritated again. can you believe he demands for us to submit a job description and key performance indicator that should have been established by the HR department when they hired us right? he is pressuring us for something that should no longer be our problem. =( i am just fishing for a different perspective here =) hope you see things differently and open my mind to other points of view, thanks!
• United States
4 Mar 09
Just about everything. There is this girl (where I work) giving me a hard time. No matter how hard i try to be nice to her, she always has to be really mean to me. There are times where I just feel like quitting on the spot or even putting in my two weeks. Half of the times, I don't even want to come into work, because of her. I have gone twice to the head boss and the girl got told about her attitude towards me and she is always going back to her old ways towards me. She'll scream at me (in front of the other workers and the residents) if I tell her a person isn't coming down to therapy. She'll think I'm lying about it (which I'm not). I even heard her call me a "fat b***h" and told her the other workers that "I can't go home until I get all my stuff done". She a;so said that "I sit on my fat a** all day long and don't do anything." I have to leave by a certain time, so that work can wait until the next day. The one day, she was just making me really angry, so I got an attitude with her. She said "oOoooh, don't you have an attitude today?" I replied back "Yup. I'm tired of you giving me attitude every day.". It about an resident who goes to psychical therapy first. She wants to throw a big hissy fit over that. No wonder why I came home crying almost every day. It's all because of her. Instead of her taking a smoke break almost every 2 hours, she needs to start working. Thanks for listening to the good ranting session. I should have another one coming up soon.
• Canada
4 Mar 09
Hi golddrizzle71 Thanks for responding to this. Glad you unloaded here. Sorry about this thing at work. Can I make a suggestion? Here goes: Ask a third party (a person at work that you both like) to act as a mediator between you both. The three of you can meet over a cup of coffee during break time and respectfully try to sort out what you all can start doing to get on better. Your job depends on it.
• United States
4 Mar 09
Thank you very much for the tip. There is a work "Christmas" party on this Saturday (don't even ask why lol) and she is going to be there. Hopefully, she'll be nice to me at the party; and if not; I'm saying my goodbyes to the other workers and walking out. If she's nice to me, I'll be nice to her. But when Monday comes around, she'll be mean to me.
@runeman (35)
• India
4 Mar 09
well ive got 9 more exams to do. They're horribly tough and i fail in them, ill fail the whole year and my is screwed for year.
• Canada
5 Mar 09
Hi runeman, Repeat after me, "I am going to pass", "I know it's tough, but I can do it".
@1rickyme (146)
• India
4 Mar 09
I was with my friends in a long drive on bikes, we went for a beach and enjoying lot, suddenly there was heavy rain and every one started to run away no one was on the beach expect me and my friends. We wear collecting all the articles on the beach of all the people who ran away from there because of rain. The next minute i woke up and i was at in my room, Really it was amazing dream.
• Canada
5 Mar 09
Hi 1rickyme, Hey, that's an interesting dream. You can find out what the dream means for free. here's the link: http://adreams-teller.blogspot.com.
@yaasir (37)
• South Africa
4 Mar 09
Presently unhappy in my job. My salary is not enough to cover all my bills. trying to make extra cash but keep on hitting a brickwall and lastly my car broke down again even after borrowing money from work to fix it. 2009 has been bad for me thus far hopefully things cannot get any worse. Phew thanks Bud.
• Canada
5 Mar 09
Hi Bud, Hang in there it will get better.
@genterx (110)
• Mexico
4 Mar 09
being sad and thinking bad things about mee!
• Canada
5 Mar 09
Hi genterx, Sad feeling will pass if you let them go. You are a good person. Believe in the power of You.
@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
4 Mar 09
It's bugging me that there are no jobs here. I get worried sometimes and would really like to have a job! Other than that, life is just ducky!
• Canada
4 Mar 09
Hi dragon54u, Sorry about the job situation. Times are real bad right now, but there's light at the end of the tunnel. Good Luck!
@JHEZ924 (119)
• Philippines
4 Mar 09
Its the budget.... :) I'm getting out of it and it makes me worried now and then. I still waiting for my money to come within this week or by next week. Huhuhu... I have to make ways for fix everything... that's bugging me!
• Canada
4 Mar 09
Hi JHEZ, You'll do it. Good Luck!
@cream97 (29087)
• United States
4 Mar 09
I am very concerned about my marriage. I am having doubts if I should leave or stay. I want to get my driver's license so that I can drive, legally. I want my SSI to come through. I can't work due to a painful Herniated Disc in my back. I am bugged by my family just trying to stay and get all up in my business, but none of them bothers to help me out. I want to move to another state and disappear. I am wondering how does my sil really feel about me. I have many concerns right now. I just want to be in a home with my family and not in a motel. I want to be stable never unstable. I want to have enough money saved up for a rainy day. I want to protect me and my family from harm. I miss being young and free with no worries. I want to wake up one day, and all of my problems will be gone..
• Canada
4 Mar 09
Hi cream97, I feel for you and the load that's weighing you down. Getting your driver's license is a good step forward for you. All a person can do is take it one step at a time. Ask them for help because you all have to work as a team and pull together.
• United States
4 Mar 09
I really like this discussion for I have had the biggest upset for the past couple of days. I have been going to this other site and I know it happens here to but I was at this other site and it's like mylot and we all do discussions and so forth well I have seen alot of cheating,lying,bashing going on in the site and it just really urkes me. Between Mylot and this other site I see the admin. do so much for everyone to try and make them all happy and noone can treat them with respect and have to go and do crazy things like they do and it's not right. I am good friends w/ the admin of the other site and we PM eacother alot and I told them out of respect for them I was gonna back out for a while and chill for I had a major flip out on one of the cheaters there and admin there dosn't need to see this so I am takeing a break on that site for a few days. They do Pm me to check up on me and I respond back. I just don't get why people have to feel they have to cheat in order to have a good time it only makes them out to look bad. Now I respect MyLot for all they do and how they handle things in the cheating, lying, situations here and they work truely hard for all they do "I want to thank you MyLot Admin for all you do keep up the good work and keep strong." And the same goes for the other site that I go to they know this for I have told them but now want to say it to MyLot Admin also.
• Canada
4 Mar 09
It's so true what you say about how some folks feel the need to cheat and stir things up. Lack of confidence in their abilities and just trying to get some attention...juvenile.
@blue65packer (11826)
• United States
4 Mar 09
What is bugging mr today? A few things! I don't feel well and been feeling off the last few days! I thought I lost my cellphone but found out I ddn't! That was a big relief! the other thing that is bugging me is I tripped on some pallets, fell on the ground and bruised my leg just under the knee! I've slipped and fell 2 other times in the past 6 months! All have been at work! The first time I bruised my right knee and the othrt time I scraped my right elbow! I feel like so clumsey!
• Canada
4 Mar 09
Hi blue65packer, Ouch! Sorry, no wonder you don't feel well. Good you found you cellphone. Get well soon.
• China
8 Mar 09
I always have many things bugging me but I don't want to list it .I want't to think it at all . I think everything will be all right.As long as I done up on whatever I can do now and whatever useful and practical.
@ronharold (555)
• Philippines
4 Mar 09
I have to submit my requirement in site where I volunteered today. So I hope to finish it before I go to school. I also have to finish my thesis this friday. I also have an exam in Saturday. I also need to pass a journal article to my groups so that our related literature will be finished before the weekend. And that's what I bugging me this morning. I can't find the proper journal article!
• Canada
4 Mar 09
Hi ronharold, You are at sixes and sevens...all wound up and running in all directions. Slow down and take a deep breath. Better?
• United States
4 Mar 09
My life. Money and never seeming to have any. My husband who dosen't care to try to find a job. My step son who is the rudest child I have ever met. Time...never having enough. Not getting to see my kids because I work too much. Having to work an evening shift. Having to work, period. Driving 3 hours a day just to get to work and home. Having to take my newborn for her first shots tomorrow. Getting my tax check and feeling guilty for spending it. My ex husband. My anxiety. Sometimes it just feels good to vent.
• Canada
4 Mar 09
Hi fotogirl525, Thanks for posting your response and getting it out. Hope it feels a little better. Making a list of things that bug us can help. It's out in the open instead of churning away inside. I found when I stopped reacting to people that bug me I felt better, rather than letting them drag me down. Sidestep and work around them.