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neoak

neoak

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Oct 25, 2017
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Franchise in the making

Workplace guy here.

Except by here, I mean waiting at a train station in the middle of the day because I just had to take my assistant back home after she had a vertigo attack. Symptomatic of her MS. So yeah, there's that too.

I was in the room the day she got that phone call and probably cried as much as she did. What happened after was probably the beginnings of what has been escalating since. If she were to just sink into self-pity nobody would have blamed her. Instead she was defiant. "None of the past shit in my life broke me. This sure as hell won't either." This was quite some time ago now but I can pretty much point to that moment as to when things started to feel...different.

So anyway, I'm driving her back to her house today while having a bag at the ready in case she were to get sick. "You know it takes a sick kind of individual to actually be having fun right now" Sure does.

If neoak doesn't mind, I have a couple responses since it seems like this kickstarted everyone's Monday.

@alwayscrazybacon: I believe they either know or are at the very least suspicious. I've been around the block enough. The only thing going the other way is we've always had a chemistry so I'm not entirely certain there was a totally noticeable change but I'm fully aware blinders are a thing.

@EarthBound64: Of all the things I could have been ashamed of in that original post, that one takes the cake. My only defense is it was almost 2am when I was finishing that email. :)

@Redcrayon: You're definitely on point in the firing on all cylinders thing. Same thing here that I said to Bacon, it can easily be viewed as superficial and to a degree it likely is. Not to say we've never had our heavy stuff to deal with— in addition to the above, we've had challenges both in and out of the workplace. I was there for the closing on her house. We had an employee not show up to work because she had a heart attack on the way. For a small group, we've seen quite a bit.

@GAMEPROFF: Trust me, no you don't.

@viciouskillersquirrel: You summed it up so well you could have been me. It hasn't been a decade at home, but by the same token this is the first time I've ever had a mortgage with another person. Mortgages aren't sexy, no, but they come tagged with a 30 year commitment.

@battousai: Can't argue with anything there. There were still lines that were crossed that night but this has been more about the thought process than anything else.

And I'll leave with an added bonus that won't make me look any better at all. My ex-wife and I met through work. That was also ages ago and I've worked with plenty of others that I haven't had any romantic dealings with.

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neoak

neoak

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Alright here we go.

1. When I was a kid, I would pick my nose and eat the boogers. I am now an adult in my mid 20s, and I still do it. I know it's gross logically, but I still do it and I'm not completely sure why. Every once in a while a study will pop up saying that eating boogers is healthy because it introduces germs from the outside world to your body and can improve your immune system. That might be all baloney though.

2. I sometimes catch myself texting and driving. I'm usually good about it, put my phone in my dock and only touch it to switch songs at a red light (car doesn't have built in controls :(..) but sometimes I end up checking a text at a red light... I'm not proud of it, need to stop. I feel like I'm better at it than most people though. I don't use my phone if I'm moving.

3. I once won a gaming competition when I was 10 for $200. I used a cheat code.

4. I've ghosted a couple people. I don't feel good about it at all.

5. There are pictures of my penis on the internet somewhere, a few of them. On purpose. There will likely be more in the future.

That's all I can think of worth confessing. Nothing crazy, but it feels good to tell people the first one. It's not bad, but gross and I never tell anyone lol

1. That's baloney. All you're doing is making your immune system work more. Also, gross.
2. STOP TEXTING AND DRIVING FFS
3. I was left waiting for the actual cheat you used
4. I'm sure they were left wondering what was up
5. As long as you don't submit them to the confessional, we're gucci.
 

EarthBound64

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waiting at a train station in the middle of the day because I just had to take my assistant back home

We know where this is going...


@EarthBound64: Of all the things I could have been ashamed of in that original post, that one takes the cake. My only defense is it was almost 2am when I was finishing that email. :)

At least we know he's a man of principals.
Intentional misused homophone for comedic affect
effect ;)
 
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neoak

neoak

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Bonus one for the day:
Era,

I work at a start-up company.

At some point during my first year there the CEO authorized unlimited overtime for me even though I was salary. At the time I was working ridiculous hours as I enjoyed the extra money.

Over-time I started specializing in different fields of the company from Product Management, Operations and Consumer Analytics. During all of this though I still had the same job title and had been unable to secure a raise.

The unique point is that, once I started specializing my direct manager became a manager in name only. Mostly I worked under our COO and other than that I was left to my own will.

When I first started working I built a habit of working 40-50 hours overtime every pay period. At some-point it became so regular for me to work that much that the person that did payroll directly took my over-time. I never needed it signed off or anything.

Once I started specializing I became the only person in the company familiar with the work I did. At this point I was still working tons of overtime but it was wearing on me and I had not had a vacation in over a year. I had my vacation time converted to a bonus at this point.

Slowly though I was able to create incredibly efficient workflows that where semi-automated, so the amount of over-time I needed to work decreased. I got to a point where I got more work done but did not need to work over-time at all anymore.

It got me thinking though, I could easily decrease the amount of hours I submitted and it would seem I was working less but my work efficiency did not decrease at all.

Then I began my age of falsifying my over-time pay. At this point it has been going on over 5 years and I have had multiple raises and promotions but I am still able to submit the overtime.

The reason I kept doing this is that every-time I got a pay-bump it would only by slightly over or less then what I was making before with over-time.

I remember when my salary was $35k and I was making close to $50k with overtime and then I got a bump to $48k but didn't want to make less. That was just in my first 6 months and I've had close to 3 raises every year since.

I stopped doing it recently as my salary has tippled and it would probably be incredibly noticeable now if I still submitted overtime.

I probably made an extra $300k doing this over the years.

Do I feel guilty? No. I've made the company a ton of money and designed so much of our operational infrastructure. At this point if I decided to quit they would probably double or tripple my salary again.

Hats of to the whitecollar scammer though.

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EarthBound64

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Also:

only touch it to switch songs at a red light (car doesn't have built in controls :(..) but sometimes I end up checking a text at a red light... I'm not proud of it, need to stop. I feel like I'm better at it than most people though. I don't use my phone if I'm moving.

This is like the defense force that shows up in those texting-while-driving threads.
"I only do it when I'm stopped."
"I'm better at it than most people"
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Steel

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Oct 25, 2017
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Bonus one for the day:


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I.... Honestly did something similiar for a bit. But I was working 80 hours a week for a long time so I didn't feel bad about it(I was pretty much dead for a year after that stint, mind). Don't work for the company in question anymore and am not currently engaged in lying about hours so...

Ironically, someone actually got fired for it and they never caught me.
 

BLOODED_hands

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Oct 25, 2017
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Workplace guy has me intrigued. *Patiently awaiting for more*

Ew eating boogers?! Texting while driving?!?!! Got dick pics online and on purpose?!! Come on bruh.

Nice money you made confessor! Make that money.
 

Thewonandonly

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Oct 25, 2017
4,247
Utah
Welp this seems like the best place to do it but I need to vent really bad...

So it all started with my dad getting brain damage when I was 2. I love my dad and don't remember what he was like without brain damage so this didn't effect me much, but it effected my mom hard and they got divorced when I was 5. Then she met my step dad who I love very much I also love my mom very much. Anyway ever since they were together they have had a very unhealthy relationship.

When I was 7 I remember and argument they had where my step dad ripped the book out of my moms hand's and threw it in the back of the car accidentally hitting me. Then they just yelled at each other the whole ride. Then one time when I got dragon age 2 they were having such a bad argument I wanted to zone it out hard, but I couldn't becuase there was broken class being thrown and a drawer being tipped over.

The worse tho was when I was 12 still sleeping upstairs and my mom was just balling on the phone. Then I heard her run downstairs and grab a knife and threatened to kill herself. This was when my step dad worked night shift so he couldn't try to stop her. She kept yelling "imma do it" and I just sit in my bed paralyzed in fear. Then my step dad calls me but I don't awsner becuase I was to scared. Thank god she didn't.

So this led to me being depressed all my life until I hit about 17. Then I found this beautiful think called weed. It has levitated my depression so much, but I fear it's taking over. I'm not as crazy as some people but I have experimented with other drugs like molly and acid. Do those moderately like once a year, but weed I do everyday and it's kind of fuckkng up my life. I have gotten a better grasp of my stonerism, to where I at least study and don't procrastinate as much but I still feel bad. My parents have no idea I do drugs and I feel bad for it.

Anyway I just needed to vent as I'm writing this while my parents argue about divorce for the 8000 time. I'm about to go get high after I study a bit longer even tho it's hard to study when I keep hearing "I fucking hate you" and "I'm getting the divorce right fucking now". Really don't know the reason for this post but it does feel good to vent :)

Also I'm now 20 so this has been going on 15 years now.
 
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Welp this seems like the best place to do it but I need to vent really bad...

So it all started with my dad getting brain damage when I was 2. I love my dad and don't remember what he was like without brain damage so this didn't effect me much, but it effected my mom hard and they got divorced when I was 5. Then she met my step dad who I love very much I also love my mom very much. Anyway ever since they were together they have had a very unhealthy relationship.

When I was 7 I remember and argument they had where my step dad ripped the book out of my moms hand's and threw it in the back of the car accidentally hitting me. Then they just yelled at each other the whole ride. Then one time when I got dragon age 2 they were having such a bad argument I wanted to zone it out hard, but I couldn't becuase there was broken class being thrown and a drawer being tipped over.

The worse tho was when I was 12 still sleeping upstairs and my mom was just balling on the phone. Then I heard her run downstairs and grab a knife and threatened to kill herself. This was when my step dad worked night shift so he couldn't try to stop her. She kept yelling "imma do it" and I just sit in my bed paralyzed in fear. Then my step dad calls me but I don't awsner becuase I was to scared. Thank god she didn't.

So this led to me being depressed all my life until I hit about 17. Then I found this beautiful think called weed. It has levitated my depression so much, but I fear it's taking over. I'm not as crazy as some people but I have experimented with other drugs like molly and acid. Do those moderately like once a year, but weed I do everyday and it's kind of fuckkng up my life. I have gotten a better grasp of my stonerism, to where I at least study and don't procrastinate as much but I still feel bad. My parents have no idea I do drugs and I feel bad for it.

Anyway I just needed to vent as I'm writing this while my parents argue about divorce for the 8000 time. I'm about to go get high after I study a bit longer even tho it's hard to study when I keep hearing "I fucking hate you" and "I'm getting the divorce right fucking now". Really don't know the reason for this post but it does feel good to vent :)

Also I'm now 20 so this has been going on 15 years now.

All I can offer is seeing a professional. Sounds like you have a lot of things in your life it might be good to unpack and talk through. Got nothing against weed but if you're smoking so often as a coping mechanism maybe there's a problem, no?
 

GAMEPROFF

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Oct 26, 2017
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Just wanting to say, that I am not jealous of that affair, but the actual evening sounded really good, if you removed all the other stuff.
 
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Confession: On my recent US road trip, I did some driving after drinking beer. Always only after one or two, which would still be below the legal limit where we were driving but definitely above the legal limit of my home country (which is 0.02%) and definitely enough alcohol where I noticed that my abilities were slightly impacted for the first hour or so of driving before sobering up completely

Disgusting, I know. I felt pretty bad about it, but US beer is so amazing, I couldn't just refrain from sampling some
 
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NTGYK

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I wonder if Spark's confession turns out to be like... A Nicholas Sparks novel.
 

BLOODED_hands

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Oct 25, 2017
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Confession: On my recent US road trip, I did some driving after drinking beer. Always only after one or two, which would still be below the legal limit where we were driving but definitely above the legal limit of my home country (which is 0.02%) and definitely enough alcohol where I noticed that my abilities were slightly impacted for the first hour or so of driving before sobering up completely

Disgusting, I know. I felt pretty bad about it, but US beer is so amazing, I couldn't just refrain from sampling some

Anecdotally, I know way too many people who drive after a night of drinking. I don't understand why they would want to when all we go to are our friend's houses so there wouldn't be any awkwardness to sleeping over for a night. I guess they're more afraid of being judged for sleeping over at a friend's house instead of being a safe and sober driver :sadface:

I understand some people sober up quickly after some beers or some shots, but still you shouldn't be taking those chances!
 
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A few weeks ago, my friend was working late hours in order to secure a promotion at his work, he would complain to me that every time he came home his girlfriend was always too tired to hang out with him and because of that she must have been having an affair. His jealous got the better of him that he decided to sleep with another girl just to spite her, and he asked me for my help in looking for a casual hookup, so me being the good friend i did. He told her after and she explained that she was tired because she was working overtime in order to buy him an expensive gift for his bday and obviously wanted to keep it a secret. My friend is now single and depressed, but as a consolation he was right, he just didn't know it at the time or at the moment, he was right, she was having an affair, with me, for the past 3 months.

Quality friend right there. Funny enough, I've seen this kind of stuff irl.

Also,

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Hey, guys. This confession is nothing special, but sometimes you just have to get things off your chest.

I used to lurk the Mental Health OT back on GAF, and while I never really posed there myself, two users in particular always stick out: RoyaleDuke and neojubei. I don't know if they made the migration (I think neo is now yagyujubei?), but they've been in my thoughts and prayers for a while now. I hope they're doing okay. Someone's rooting for you guys.

As for the rest of ResetEra, love you! <3

I'll ask in the thread.
 
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I downloaded the entire discord chat log off of every ERA discord you guys let me into last night. And I gave logs to /pol/. And I've got multiple accounts on your site right now.

I hope you aren't from KF perpetuating the notion that its part of 4ch.

afaik, admins were aware some were doing this, but what could be done? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
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Any Questions

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Oct 27, 2017
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Thanks for this. I will recap on all the goodness over lunch. I might submit one of my own I have a couple of naughty stories from when I grew up. One involved me driving around in a police car looking for "vandals" on motorbikes. I was 8 or 9.... I think you can guess the some of the story.
 

Jpop

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Oct 27, 2017
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Would you prefer a replay of last year with the fakes?

To be honest there have been a ton of fakes the past years. I just think more people "admitted" to it last year.

This has always been once of my favorite threads on GAF since joining almost a decade ago though.

Glad it has joined the new ERA.
 

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I downloaded the entire discord chat log off of every ERA discord you guys let me into last night. And I gave logs to /pol/. And I've got multiple accounts on your site right now.
I wonder what type of issue people like these have. I'm admin in a local Facebook group and there's a few people like these who only want to watch everything burn down.
 

NTGYK

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Confession: drank way too much last night. My wallet and my head say I should never drink again
 
Oct 25, 2017
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China
I wonder what type of issue people like these have. I'm admin in a local Facebook group and there's a few people like these who only want to watch everything burn down.
Pathetic unsucessfull little man child incels playing to an audience of clapping seals they dont realise is made up of equally pathetic incels. If they actually had anything decent going on in thier lives why bother attempting to disrupt other online communities from behind the safety of thier touchscreens?
 

Dr. Dre's Dr.

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Oct 27, 2017
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Welp this seems like the best place to do it but I need to vent really bad...

So it all started with my dad getting brain damage when I was 2. I love my dad and don't remember what he was like without brain damage so this didn't effect me much, but it effected my mom hard and they got divorced when I was 5. Then she met my step dad who I love very much I also love my mom very much. Anyway ever since they were together they have had a very unhealthy relationship.

When I was 7 I remember and argument they had where my step dad ripped the book out of my moms hand's and threw it in the back of the car accidentally hitting me. Then they just yelled at each other the whole ride. Then one time when I got dragon age 2 they were having such a bad argument I wanted to zone it out hard, but I couldn't becuase there was broken class being thrown and a drawer being tipped over.

The worse tho was when I was 12 still sleeping upstairs and my mom was just balling on the phone. Then I heard her run downstairs and grab a knife and threatened to kill herself. This was when my step dad worked night shift so he couldn't try to stop her. She kept yelling "imma do it" and I just sit in my bed paralyzed in fear. Then my step dad calls me but I don't awsner becuase I was to scared. Thank god she didn't.

So this led to me being depressed all my life until I hit about 17. Then I found this beautiful think called weed. It has levitated my depression so much, but I fear it's taking over. I'm not as crazy as some people but I have experimented with other drugs like molly and acid. Do those moderately like once a year, but weed I do everyday and it's kind of fuckkng up my life. I have gotten a better grasp of my stonerism, to where I at least study and don't procrastinate as much but I still feel bad. My parents have no idea I do drugs and I feel bad for it.

Anyway I just needed to vent as I'm writing this while my parents argue about divorce for the 8000 time. I'm about to go get high after I study a bit longer even tho it's hard to study when I keep hearing "I fucking hate you" and "I'm getting the divorce right fucking now". Really don't know the reason for this post but it does feel good to vent :)

Also I'm now 20 so this has been going on 15 years now.
Hey there. I am sorry to hear the troubling experiences you have endured. That is rough and I can certainly understand personally. I write only to caution you that some research on the still developing brain of someone your age can show harm from chronic (Pun intended! See user name!) marijuana use. It is up to you if it is worth the risk but here is a link. Best.

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2015/11/marijuana-brain.aspx