10 Things: Issue #6

10 Things I Hate About Moving

1. The total cost, especially if it's to another state.
2. The timing - meaning scheduling certain things to happen at certain times.
3. The driving...driving a UHaul or whatever truck for 20 hours is NOT comfortable.
4. Being single, because then you're on your own for pretty much everything.
5. Having to coordinate a place to sleep fresh after a holiday.
6. Deciding whether to take furniture, sell it or give it away.
7. If single, having to be at the place of pickup AND the place of delivery when you won't have exacting dates for either.
8. Trying to coordinate all pieces when you still have to work every day, and the weekends are holidays.
9. Getting gas, especially for UHaul trucks.
10. Leaving behind whatever friend(s) you do have.

10 Things: Issue #5

~10 Things I Hate About Dating~

1. Females who don't know how to appreciate a guy who opens doors.
   
2. The price of movie tickets.
   
3. The fact that you can never convince a female how to properly handle her finances.
   
4. The idea that just because you're dating, you're supposed to be "loyal".
5. The expectations for you - that since you're a man, you're required to treat a female a certain way.
6. The fact that females refuse to approach a guy and express interest yet they expect males to read their mind.
7. Females who are shy.
8. Females who only care about how a guy looks.
9. The fact that single females don't know how to act.
10. The fact that females who are married are always the easiest to be intimate with.
    

10 Things: Issue #4

10 Things I Hate About Being 30

1. Seems like you get sick easier, and for a longer time.
2. Girls in their 20's think you're too old.
3. Girls in their 30's almost allways have a kid to worry about.
4. Things you enjoyed just 5 years ago are not as fun now.
5. When you look at yourself in the mirror, you really don't look any older.
6. Hair loss.
7. You almost always feel like sleeping.
8. The friends you had when you were younger are still doing nothing with their lives.
9. The only real place to meet someone is at work...a bad move.
10. Gray hairs.

10 Things, Issue #3

~ 10 Things I Hate About San Diego, California ~

1. The home prices.
2. The gas prices.
3. The sales tax.
4. The state tax.
5. The property tax.
6. The Mello-Roos.
7. The home owners associations, their Draconian rules and blatant fees.
8. The fact that almost every employer wants to pay at the minimum wage level or hiring substandard talent (i.e. illegal immigrants), or they want a 4 year degree to do basic work such as Executive Assistant.
9. The gang exposure, including cholos and wannabes.
10. The fact that nobody out here seems to know how to drive properly. Everyone is always balancing a cell phone to their ear, hanging nasty cigarettes out the window, or driving illegally...which of course just encourages the city to put up radars, speed traps, and cameras.
    

10 Things: Issue #2

~ 10 Things I Hate About Females ~

1. If you tell them the truth, they think you're lying. If you lie, they get mad.
2. 90% of females are not ambitious, settling instead for that cozy job at KFC rather than getting a good paying office job - because they don't really want to work for money. Why work for it when you can just find a rich boyfriend who's stupid enough to pay your bills?
3. Every female is looking for a model-looking man, rather than accepting the fact that what really attracts two people is not the outside, but the personality.
4. Females don't really understand #3 until they've had at least one kid and been left by at least one guy they either married or nearly married...then they're open to finding a "Nice guy". But by then it's too late. Most men don't want to deal with someone who had someone else's kids, especially if that dude was a jackass and she knew it going in and didn't care.
5. Females are content to just have a male friend or boyfriend drive them everywhere, rather than paying attention to #2 and getting a car of their own (and no, not one your parents bought for you).
6. Females think it's okay to have 40 million male friends and no female friends because "Females are jealous"...even though it's well known that the reason they have male friends is the fact that it gives them options if they get "Hot" and "Bothered" without the bothersome commitment that goes along with.
7. Cute females must always have a fat, unattractive friend. That way they look even better.
8. Females never take solo pictures. There always has to be (1) an ex boyfriend, (2) a group of ex boyfriends or (3) at least one female friend. Guess what, we don't care about any of them.
9. Females always claim to want a guy who is "family oriented". Yet when they find a guy that is, they call him a "momma's boy". Hasn't happened to me, but I know quite a few it has happened to.
10. For some reason females are okay living at home until they're 30 because they're close with Mommy. Get off your butt, heed #2 and get your own place.
    

10 Things: Issue #1

Ok folks, here it is...the beginning of an era, to be sure.

Called "10 Things" it is simply that...multiplied X number of times to create an ongoing list of things that really bother me. I figured I would start out with some things off the top of my head, and see where it goes. Let's see if I can avoid overlap without thinking about it.

By the way, there is no priority order of the list; they're all equal in the eyes of whatever deity you praise.

~10 Things I Hate About My Job~

1. The fact that we have one upper manager (Director, Vice President, Senior Vice President, or "C" Level Executive) for every 10 employees.
2. The fact that we decided to change to biweekly pay to save money, yet we've downsized employees so much that the cost isn't there anymore, yet we don't go back to weekly pay.
3. The fact that 401k is only matched 50% of the first 6% contributed.
4. The fact that single employees with no children have to pay for medical benefits (we didn't before).
5. The fact that people who get the promotions get them because they complain for it, not because they earn it and are acknowledged.
6. The location (nowhere near a major freeway)
7. The changes in the industry and credit markets which make job security almost null and void.
8. Being forced to tell people what to do, only to have them not listen to me, and I can't do anything about it.
9. The Draconian way the company is managed (you can't use your PTO whenever you want, etc)
10. The fact that certain people will ask for a raise and get it, then quit...resulting in a total waste of money and illogical approval condition.