Aviandelight

Functionally yes mentally and emotionally no. I just got word this week that our bosses are taking away our hybrid work schedule and making us come back into the office full time. I like my work and coworkers well enough but it's not enough to keep me in an employer that's abusive. Now all I can think about is the next round of surprise layoffs that are sure to follow. Last year was absolute hell always feeling watched and expendable. This year is looking to much of the same. I'm already looking for another job and kicking myself in the butt for putting it off for so long.

I don't think you have misophonia. Misophonia is where you have an irrational stress/anger response to certain types of sounds. These sounds set off your fight or flight response. My personal triggers are eating noises and dogs drinking water. I don't make that my partner's problem though. I think your partner is being inconsiderate and the constant loud noises are overstimulating for you. You obviously need quiet time to recharge/concentrate and your partner is trying to drown the world out. The whole situation sounds unhealthy and unless you both are willing to work on the underlying issues together it will only get worse.

I agree. A small part of me was sad to hear of the loss of the architecture but I'm also happy for the people who see this as a celebration. There are things in this world that should not last forever.

Knitting, laundry, and gaming cat

To be fair this sounds dope.

Can confirm myself, my mother, and my maternal grandmother all have the same middle name. Call it a southern thing I suppose. I killed the tradition by being childess and my younger sister refused to pass it to my niece.

This whole thread is glorious. (Also did your autocorrect put up a fight or did it completely give up trying. I'd love it if this is how we fight AI in the future.)

I've been a participant of the PPMI study for a few years now and this year they changed up the quarterly survey to include questions about chemical exposure. This article makes that change make a bit more sense now. Coincidentally a lot of chemicals I used in the lab were on the survey too. https://www.ppmi-info.org/

Which is fucking hilarious because most private industries that are safety conscious use FAA regulations as the gold standard to build theirs against.

Hell yeah!

I thought he looked like an anatomy specimen. It's kinda freaky seeing that outside of a lab.

When my husband and I started dating he was a property manager of an apartment complex. Coincidentally they fired him within a month after I moved in since he was getting an apartment as part of his salary. As we were moving out of that shithole we still had people walking into our empty apartment after us both yelling at us that such and such needed to be fixed. Completely wild.