Confession is good for the Hype. - - - Part 12

[Warhammer]

Damn that.

 

[Anubis]

Well, I hear ditch digging's not as bad as it sounds. Pays not bad either. Depending upon the State of course.

 

[Warhammer]

...actually, retail sounds better than that. At least you don't have to sweat your ass off. Plus, it looks better on a resume, I guess.

 

[Manic]

I decided I was done with retail a few years ago, and I've been doing nothing but physical labor ever since. It's exhausting as hell, but it's much MUCH less stressful. No nasty customers or worrying about making enough sales for the week; I just have a list of tasks I have to do everyday, and I only get in trouble if I don't work safely.

 

[Bruce Banner]

I was robbed on August 26th. I checked my bank account online to find out I was in the negative amount of a couple hundred bucks. Upon further investigating, I find out that a check was written, my signature forged, the works. My little brother (21), a drug addict with seven years hanging over his head, was home for less than 10 minutes August 26th. While I was cleaning up and getting ready to go to class, he went into my room, into my desk, and stole them. Only for him later to admit he did, once I pieced it together, he hasn't been home since.

I confess I feel cold, because if my mother hadn't had pleaded with me, charges would be filed. I've had 6 years of listening to the same thing, and I'm getting older, more weary, tired.

 

[Anubis]

So is your mom gonna compensate you for what your brother stole?

 

[Warhammer]

Your brother or not, the man stole from you. Family isn't supposed to steal from family. You're not cold in wanting to press charges. You are being just. Y'all are grown ass adults. Honestly, f*** what your mother says. It's your responsibility to put the hammer down because if you don't, he'll never learn. It's disgusting that he would steal from his own flesh and blood.

 

[ComicChick]

maybe pressing charges and him getting locked up will help him get the help he really needs

 

[ComicChick]

alas, i confess life is royally kicking my butt right now

 

[The Original Bamfer]

Mine too.

People make big mistakes, but it doesn't make them a bad person.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

www.mentalpod.com

Sounds like a lot of you cats could benefit from some of the episodes. 100% Spoons approved

 

[Bruce Banner]

So is your mom gonna compensate you for what your brother stole?

Got the money back, but it still pisses me off. Granted I'm 25, I should have moved out already, but I'm hardly home since I travel so much for work so my room is basically my storage space. My privacy feels violated since now I know he'll go through my **** when I'm on the other side of the USA.

Your brother or not, the man stole from you. Family isn't supposed to steal from family. You're not cold in wanting to press charges. You are being just. Y'all are grown ass adults. Honestly, f*** what your mother says. It's your responsibility to put the hammer down because if you don't, he'll never learn. It's disgusting that he would steal from his own flesh and blood.

It makes me sick because he makes about 6-700 hundred bucks per week working at a Diesel Mechanic shop, while I'm stretching money till break when I go back to work, and he blew all his money over the course of the weekend and had to rob my *** Monday morning. If it happens again, he's ****ed, no pleading will stop it.

maybe pressing charges and him getting locked up will help him get the help he really needs

He's been locked up for 6 months already.
My father is the only one who would stand by my decision. I'm looked at as cold, distant, withdrawn in the family to begin with, but because I'd put him away, considering the seven years over his head if he gets in trouble, and he can't get a good job if dad hadn't set him up with this one, they all think I'd basically be condemning him. But you're right, he hasn't learned.

 

[Warhammer]

For your sake, I hope you don't lack the courage to do what is necessary if the time arrives. Sorry to get all Ra's Al Ghul on you.

 

[ComicChick]

can you padlock up your room while you're gone BB?

 

[Anita18]

I confess it's going to be really awkward when I next see the gf of this client who blew me off after fishing for a design.

So the story is, someone got my business card from his gf, who met me at a meetup. (It is a small enough community that I can be assured I will meet her again.) He makes like he's really interested in working with me, then blows me off after I hand in a sketched design, because I didn't magically read his mind about what he wanted.

I email him back, merely suggesting that he pursue a graphic designer, and not the kind of designer I am, because I actually do want to have a conversation and not just be a telepathic Photoshop monkey. I really should have told him to go to a contest site like 99designs so he can fish among hundreds of designers at once and trick them for free work, but I refrained.

Today he leaves me a voicemail, offering some feedback about how to "help me" as a beginning designer. He then goes into this mini-rant about how I'm so difficult to contact (ie, call - I'm always on email) because I must be "so busy and important" to take calls um, during my actual day job doing cancer research where they PAY ME, or in class trying to get the design experience that he says I need.

I do kind of want to clear the air, because I know this guy works out at the same gym I do (so I actually might bump into him again), and I KNOW I'm going to meet his gf again, who should have known better than to enable him to victimize other designers. She was nice when I met her and I don't know how their relationship is, but seriously. She should have known better. He fished for a design and tricked me into giving him free work, then bailed without so much of an explanation. However, I am somewhat pleased that he can't reuse my work because it was a sketch. He must have done this before, because he showed me other designs that other people had made for him and he rejected. Yeah, I should have seen this coming from a mile away, huh?

Basically, I don't want to call him just to get chewed out. Even a beginner has got to recognize when it's best to just walk away. I know I should be better on the phone, but seriously, I have two other happy freelance clients, and they don't care that I don't call.

But I know I'll see his gf again. Sigh. If I see her, I'll just be civil. But give her an internal extreme side-eye.

 

[The Original Bamfer]

I confess I'm a bit wierded out by Anita's eight arms and woodpecker fingers. So much, um, stuff, so little time.

 

[Manic]

When I first signed up for Tumblr 6 months ago, I told myself I wouldn't use it for porn.

I was a naive man 6 months ago.

 

[MrMaooz]

Lmao!

 

[Schlosser85]

I confess I'm leaving Kmart for Circle K and have no idea if that's an improvement or not.

But Kmart has me scheduled 16 hours a week for 3 weeks in a row, and I'm tired of collecting carts in 95 degrees or, in a few months, snowstorms.

 

[Erzengel]

I watched a 12 minute youtube video on a woman and how she gets ready in the morning, because I thought she was attractive.

 

[Anubis]

Nothing wrong with that. I followed a chick with a big ole booty 4 blocks and almost got hit by a bus.

 

[E-Man]

I just confess that I have had similar moments as Anubis when it comes to the booty. I'm always lookin' at booty. I'm walking about a woman's butt.

 

[ComicChick]

i confess i can't figure out how to tie a scarf like this and it's pissing me off:

 

[The Original Bamfer]

That would look stupid on you anyway. Just put an earplug in your head hole or stick a pencil in it or something.

 

[Anubis]

Did you check Youtube?