Look at me, I'm 19 and yet I find myself stressed over a website. Its not even real. All the threads today about the new mods and if they were going to "do their jobs" got me to thinking... a lot... Where do we come off saying that mods aren't doing their jobs? Its not like we can peek into the inner workings of Gaia and see who is doing what. Just because we can not see them working, doesn't mean they are not. What you can tell is if the users are doing THEIR job... When you go into a misplaced thread and 7-10 posts are flames and the other three are redirection ( not even to the correct forum most times. ) and not a SINGLE of those people have reported the thread.... How can the mods even do their job if it is not reported.
Mods can not control what someone gets in their head to post in any givin forum. Blaming them for the state of a forum is pointless and silly. When mulitiple people post porn and other rule breaking posts, all that CAN be done is report it. The forum helpers CAN NOT move those. Why do you feel the need to post in rule breaking threads? It only keeps them bumped, and the problem keeps going. The list of reported threads is long, just because the thread is not moved/deleted right away DOES NOT mean mods/helpers aren't doing their jobs. While helpers do not get thread reports, there are still OTHER threads that need to be moved. Where do users get off saying "This is wrong, that is wrong, its all the mods fault!" Get a clue. The people who post the threads, and in the threads are the ones a fault.
I guess what I am trying to say is, while I'm sure there are mods who are not doing their job, most mods are. Give them a break.... not everything ( or really most things... ) can be blamed on them. It is up to US to get reports in to them to be delt with accordingly. There are too many rule breakers and not enough mods to find them all without OUR help.
On to Amanda issues. Tonight I had to draw the line at work. They gave us new guidelines on who we could give money to and who we couldn't. Lastnight I helped five people with money. 5 ******** people out of nearly 50 people that called in to me alone. I got yelled at, cussed out, threatened, and all sorts of other fun stuff because the Red Cross is running out of money and only helping people who had serious damages to their house and can not live in it still. Excuse me. I don't think so. So I came home, logged on the PC and found out that I know nothing about anything anymore. I went to bed and yet again only got about 5 hours of sleep before someone called and woke me up. God forbid anyone else in this damned house can pick up the phone... or even buy and AM so it only rings 4 times rather than 15 times. After I woke up I kind of piddled about until about 10:30 then filled my car up with gas and drove in to work. FIRST call I get, the lady is flat out lieing to me. When I say "We'll set you up with a home visit" the little b***h gets all emo on me and tells me 100000000 different sob stories of how she can not go back to her home ( Which by the way is only because the power is out rolleyes ) then when I tell her again that we can not assist her and she can go to her local red cross for assistance she starts to cuss me out and demand to talk to my sup. So I tell her I'll put her on hold so I can get one of the free sups she starts going off again on me. So I'm sitting here with my little red card in the air trying to get a sup over to talk to this lady and explain what is going on and about 10 min of verbal abuse later someone comes over talks to her and tells me to put my phone on "aux work" so that I can't get any more calls. So I do and then the ******** red cross lady yells at me for wasting her time "She said you already told her everything I did? Why didn't you just end the call when she was being irate." So I just stare at her blankly wanting to rip out my hair. So I talk to the red cross lady for another 5 min and once I'm done with that, one of the people that monitor our calls comes over and asks me why I've been in aux for so long when I'm still on the clock and not on a call. So I have to explain to that ******** why. I get yelled at by him some more... then I just lost it. I was like "Sir, rather than yelling at me for this and making me stay on aux work longer, why don't you just let me get back to taking calls humm?" He takes the hint and leaves.
SO The next call happens. This lady is in the hospital and I can't give her money either. So again. Hold, call red cross over, have them explain what is going on. Get yelled at by a lady I wish to GOD I could have helped. Then I take two more calls, get yelled at some more cause I can't help them. Blah blah blah. Its now past time for my break so I log out of our systems and go up to the team lead to sign out. GUESS WHAT?! I get yelled at again for not taking my break on time. So for those of you who read this, and really don't know much about me... I have what people like to call and irish temper... or a red head temper. Whatever. So my temper is lost and I am trying REALLY hard not to b***h these people out for their lack of organization and s**t.... so I go outside to cool off. Now keeping in mind that I have NOT slept well in weeks due to the unsanitary conditions of work making me sick like 5 times... mixed with now being on grave yard and my mother not knowing how to NOT make a lot of noise... My stress level is at an all-time high... I start to throw up. I went to the bathroom to do it. Really not a big deal. Stress + me = throwie upie. Now because I was in the restroom throwing up I was late getting back from my break. Whatever. I figured I would explain it to them. That didn't work out to well. Yeah. So, long story short. I quit. Yes, I let my temper get the best of me, and yes I know whem y mum wakes up in the morning I'm dead AND paying rent. I don't care. I could not take being yelled at for another 8 1/2 hours. Every day.
Though a bit of sunshine in that story. The lady I talked to to quit was really nice. xD
So I got into my car and cried for a bit. ( Like the little crybaby I am. ) Then drove home. It was nice. Monday I will go job hunting again ( which is what I was going to do on my days off because I knew quitting was pending, I just wanted to get some type of other job first. sweatdrop ) Tomorrow I will just take the day to de-stress... maybe go to church. Maybe actaully eat. xD ( I've been eating once a day for about a week now. xD ) Figure out why my hair is falling out in large amounts.... all that fun stuff.
Edit at 8:50 pm PST
And to make this EVEN LONGER xD
I just got a PM from Lull... and it HAD to be the BEST PM I've had in a long long long time. Okay, not really a long time. xD But it was a kick a** PM. Lull PM'ed me to give me giftart that made me go "Squeeeee" xP
I should have asked who did it... but that kind of ruins the fun. xD
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But yeah thats right, just cause we dont see it, dont mean it aint happenin. I mean I speak with a few mod's and they're constantly workin on reports etc. Just look at Arwens journal. Now that shes completly quitted moddin she says she's resurect the Gaia Times. She also said that she needs to get back to the community cause she has noc lue whats happenin and what the members are like anymore. SO yeah, that just goes to show how much of a job it is.
Doesnt stop me from dreamin xd