u/ShinyBuizel22

Funnily enough this isn't the first time I needed to vent about someone in the drive at my credit union job here. But yesterday someone came in drive, only sent out cash, no ID or anything for me to identify him. He gives me the account number, but I have a hard time hearing what he says. So I do ask him for his ID so I can look him up. I tell him I'm having a hard time finding the account number, since I don't want to say "I can't hear what you're saying."

Look, when I go to my bank's drive up, they do ask for my ID so I thought it wasn't a big deal. But he sends the ID, I look him up and do his deposit. A few minutes later, I see the same person walk inside and talk to my co worker. He directly tells her the "Let me speak to your manager" line. My manager was also there and took him to his office right away.

Later we're in a group talking and he says I'm not in trouble (at least there's that), but he came in upset I asked for his ID, so my manager had to explain why we sometimes ask. The customer also alleged I asked for his name multiple times. We are supposed to use the person's name a few times in the interaction, but my manager says he said I asked for his name instead. If I had to take a guess what he meant, I assume when I was trying to ask for the account number, which was when I had a hard time hearing. Except he probably stretched the truth to me asking for his name (would it be a stretch for me to call that lying?). At least did all I was supposed to, but this interaction is why I say some people have too much free time/need something occupy it. Since they seem to have too much where they can go and complain to the manager over small things like asking for an ID at the bank/credit union.

I just want to see if anyone else feels this way. They are hyping something for SDCC and I'm sure people have seen the supposed leaks (whether or not they're real), and I'll 1000% take a Mane 6 reboot of G6 over it being connected to G4 now that we've seen what G5 did.

I'm not sure if the leaks are real or not. And yeah, I'm nervous for what they'll reveal at Comic Con. I'm not saying a reboot itself is inherently a bad idea, look at franchises like TMNT or Superman as a recent example (loved the movie that came out last year), and again I'll take it over connecting to G4 like G5 did. But I mean, the original G5 leaks of what the Mane 6 would've looked like before they introduced Sunny and her friends, I had my reservations about them. I guess it's still kinda there.

Admittedly I also had my reservations about James Gunn's Superman until I saw it (which again I loved; and I mean superhero movies aren't really my alley), and I'll keep an open mind for G6, but the memories of G5 past are still there and I'm just really nervous until we get some confirmation what's going on tomorrow. Just want to see if anyone else was feeling like this.

I work 8 hour days, have an hour lunch, and probably spend 30-60 minutes driving to and from work. Depending on if I want to stop and do a quick errand before going home. Doubt anyone's up 19 hours on when you have a work day/night, so more than half of my day when it's a work day is for the job!

I'm just mentally exhausted. If you count my drive and lunch, 9.5 hour work days, in work I feel like an empty husk since I'm doing the same thing every day, I had a manager who wouldn't listen to feedback I gave, but yet kept adding new rules we had to follow (the "Because I said so" mentality I guess), plus I work in customer service and that itself is stressful. You never know what person will come in waiting for an excuse to fly off the handle.

I feel like there's no time in the day to do what I want and even weekends I just feel like I'm recuperating from work. I try not to think about work and enjoy my days off when I have them but I can't seem today for instance, and I realized even when I do enjoy those days off they inevitably end and I'm back to the grind on Monday. Weekends are just me trying to recuperate and thus not do anything "fun." I want to participate in activities at my church, but work does so late into the day compared to when they have the activies they may have already gone on for so long by the time I'm done. My co workers are good people, but I can't see us hanging out outside of work. I miss having time to be with my real friends like in college. And I don't know how to meet new people outside of those church activities. I'm surrounded by people constantly but this is the most isolated I've felt in my 26 years alive. Also apparently as Americans we only spend 45% of our work day actually being productive. So what's the point of keeping 40 hour work weeks on life support?

I have passions, I like to draw and ride my bike in the neighborhood, but they don't seem to be alive lately. Like I'm a hollow shell just surviving. I don't want to do this for another 30 years or so. This really can't be healthy can it?

I didn't notice it until the other day, I'm know I'm late to the party, when the save feature wasn't with the other options and I had to click on the three lines. It's honestly making me want to close my Instagram account since when I look more into it, I see it's on my content too (I didn't consent to that), and regular posts, not just reels! And it's just so frustrating that I don't get a choice in the matter but to be exposed to it. So why are we not allowed to turn them off at least for our feeds?

Personally I was thinking Don Bluth or Rob Reiner. Maybe Joseph Kosinski too (since I mainly know he does big budget movies like Top Gun Maverik or F1 and just curious on Schaff's opinions on them). Also maybe for actors; Mike Meyers or Ryan Gosling.

Edit: I'm going to add Robert Zemeckis just because I'm curious on Schaff's opinions on The Polar Express or Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Basically there was a wreck on the freeway. I called the assistant manager right away to let her know.

​ Later got called into the manager's office why I clocked in 7 minutes after opening. And I explained why. Assistant manager even vouched for me I made that phone call. But she still decided to count it against me. She said something like I should've looked up traffic before leaving the house that day. I felt like I was being gaslit honestly (how many people are looking up traffic on the route they always take before leaving anyday), since the notes from our monthly meetings say to let one of them know if we're going to be late as well. A wreck on the freeway is not my fault.

And honestly at work I've kinda shut off since then. They seem to play the favorites game and I'm not one of them. That's just the post

The other day I saw a video Saberspark made in 2024 about the state of YouTube, and I think he said something like the situation would get worse since they are now turning a profit after so many years (referring to the ads), and ironically I got three separate ad breaks in the 15 minute video! But I think this show something to me. I mean ads and brainrot are getting worse. Kids shouldn't be on YouTube beause of the brainrot, but does it seem like kids content is overtaking YouTube, and the ads are just terrible. There is one company I keep getting ads for no matter how many times I push "show less," and I have to assume they're a scam because of 1, how often they want to advertise, and 2, one ad I got from them you can tell was AI generated. But for some reason, like I said, I keep getting their ads no matter how many times I don't want the ads. I'm sure on cable TV the advertisements have to follow certain guidelines to air, but not YouTube. And they can push 6 ads in a 15 minute video.

I was thinking "YouTube is just the platform, if creators leave I will to." I wish there was somewhere for people to migrate to like we had Bluesky for Twitter, but we know with Google it's like toppling a giant. But the platform isn't making it fun to watch creators like it was from 2019-2024. I think the main factor was AI, I know of the drama at least with AI's age verification or their mass demonization of creators. I don't want to contribute with my own videos to a platform that makes decisions like that, that AI takes center stage, but honestly, it seems like they are also recommending niches less, what happened to fandom content like when I was in high school? Shorts I guess are also cannibalizing YouTube, so more people are probably being buried in the algorithm huh?

Can we all agree Google is terrible with it's AI implementation? I swithced to DuckDuckGo because of it for searching, but YouTube is being affected the same way. The problem for me with "walking away" is sunk cost fallacy. Because it really did seem so fun in 2019, and in this decade we have Glitch Productions, a studio like them couldn't become as successful on any other platform. But the 2020s for YouTube so far doesn't feel "fun" like it used to, anyone else feel this way, thinking of just leaving the platform for other things to watch?