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What’s something you’re putting up with?
You don’t like it, but you can’t necessarily change or fix it, so you’re stuck with it and have to, well, put up with it.
Tell us all about it.
You don’t like it, but you can’t necessarily change or fix it, so you’re stuck with it and have to, well, put up with it.
Tell us all about it.
My country.
Im pretty sure I know what you are talking about, but Id like to imagine that theres just some absolute nonsense going down in Bhutan that I dont know about
They're selling $37 million of Bitcoin.... So ...idk if that fits. They seem to be doing ok actually
Lemme guess, Russia ?
Airport pat downs because I still refuse to go through those millimeter wave scanners. I know they're not ionizing and are considered safe. I know I'm just old Bean shaking my fist at clouds at this point, but this is my meaningless one person resistance against dystopian-esque compliance.
Today was the first time they ever told me no I must go through. I hadn't considered they would refuse, so I'm not sure if I could have done differently....I just stood there and repeated "I'm not going through the scanner" until they checked with their manager and acquiescenced to my demand for pat down instead.
Like I told the tight lipped middle (my) aged agent today, I'm just old, and I remember when things were different, and I'm just being stubborn about it at this point. She loosened up and was kinder to me after hearing that. Perhaps she also remembers her job not being hated once upon a time, too.
Not getting paid even though I'm working. I work for the US federal government, in Dept of Homeland Security (not ICE or CBP). Which currently isn't funded because of the fight over ICE and CBP.
I have missed 2.5 paychecks since over the last 40 days or so. I will get back pay once we are funded again. But in the meantime, it sucks to work and not get paid. Even if I was furloughed like last time, not having been paid in over a month sucks. The bills keep coming, after all.
I agree in principle with what Democrats are trying to do, but I also don't really see a way forward for them to get what they want out of ICE/CBP. Which, by the way, are fully funded through the OBB from last year (Schumer, that asshole...). So those gestapo get paid, while the rest of us -- CISA, FEMA, TSA, USCG, and other components -- don't. Even though we're not the ones murdering people in the streets, among other heinous official acts.
And this won't be the last shutdown. This is, in fact, the third shutdown since October 1 of last year. I suspect we'll shutdown again when the new fiscal year starts Oct 1 of this year. And again at least a few more times until this presidency ends...
I guess I could fix this by finding a new job, but it's a rough job market out there. Especially in the DC area. So yeah.