What Makes You Angry Today?

[JarHed]

Hey Docrock

Saying that it hasn't changed much isn't going to help but I'd suggest this. Get your resume together, what ever it is you decide to pursue as a career. Go to a counseling service and headhunters, they get paid getting you interviews and seeing that you get a job. Do not dwell on this for very long, can't change it and you don't want to waste too much energy on being mad about it. You've got skills, drive and know how to get a job done. That's what will get you a job.

I'm proud to be a vet, but sadly that just doesn't seem to cut it today or even yesterday. Expecting that the VA or anyone that won't hire you because you're a vet to change is an unrealistic expectation. I don't mean to be harsh or brusk but I'd like to see guys like you in the work place and making a good living. Go online and do your research and homework, be prepared to make it work. Don't beat yourself up about all this, it really won't help. You deserve better but you're going to have to go out and get it. Best of luck.

Jar

 

[docrock]

I've used chapter 31 vocational rehabilitation benefits to go through training on resume building (specifically for federal positions); I'm thinking that the things she said would be considered highly discriminatory if you changed the word veteran to black or hispanic; as I am a veteran, I take a bit of offense and I'm considering a formal EEOC complaint if I find out I was passed over for the position.

I scored 110 out of 100 points for the position - with veterans preference I should be the top candidate for the position. If I am passed over, after the things that were said in regards to "you people" I think I have a good basis for a complaint.

 

[combatgoldfish]

"We never go out anymore!"

PTSD monster is winning, I'm not going out. I rarely want to go out. They take offense and think it's because of them even though we tell them otherwise. Endless cycle that I'm not benefiting from. Actually yelled for the first time in quite sometime. Just so over it all. Can't wait to pack up and go camping.

 

[docrock]

feel ya, whenever I want to have any free time and do something by myself I get the

"you never..."

"you always..."

 

[Raven]

I always want to go out and do something fun, or at least something to keep myself occupied.

I think my husband is sick of us going out all the time.

We went out last night and had too much to drink, and I want to go to a particular party tonight. He said he's not feeling well because of how much he drank last night.

I told him to pop some aspirin and get over it, and to stop being such a party pooper.

I mean, f*ck. I remember when we would both drink and drink and drink until sunrise, then we would sleep until sunset, and then we would drink and drink and drink some more and there would be a lot of f*cking in all of this. Life was one big bender with him around.

He's going soft on me. I want my bender buddy back. If I can't have him back, I'll want to go out by myself and that won't end well.

I don't even get hungover anymore. I think my liver is so dead that it doesn't even function to metabolize the ethanol and cause the hangover.

 

[bemental]

Raven - I'm not even sure what to say, so I'm going to go with my usual response when my wife is venting.


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[Sarg]

I can't say a damn thing, Raven, having been a raging drunk for forty years. Last four, I tried to drink myself to death. Didn't work and nothin' broke...for me. But I know a lot of other Vets that didn't work out that way. My friend Cindy's husband, Nam Vet, finally died without his liver transplant. It's fun now but you do pay later. Just sayin'.

Sarg

 

[sol1107]

What makes me angry is the possible rejection I'm facing tonight. Beautiful lady I'm interested in is having a "closure talk" with her ex, who is a deadbeat drunk with more anger issues than me (!), and leaves town for weeks at a time for "work", and never calls her. We all know how "closure" works in a dating relationship. The dumpee will say anything to get the dumper back. I don't know exactly how shallow she is, but the suspense is pissing me off!


Oh, I failed to mention that the deadbeat lives with his ex-wife while he is in town.

 

[Raven]

Closure is overrated anyway.

Anyhow, I had fun Saturday night. Husband came with me. He had fun too. All is well in the world.

 

[Alex1991]

Anything with a pulse is making me angry today

I actually started to type out the abuse and harrassment iv recieved from the UK welfare system, but then figured any other british vet surely is going through the same.

Basically if it wasnt for family support I either would have starved to death this month, or (more likely) been forced to steal.

This is a violation of my Human rights (article 22).

Its made it clear that this country does not give a shit about us.
the armed forces covenant is unheard of in civilian society .

If it wasnt for my family i would be homeless without any income or have access to any support or treatment

This is f*cking wrong

I swear to god next person i hear criticise those on welfare ill rip their f*cking head off.

 

[combatgoldfish]

I hate going to the va. Went to pick up med's, guy decides to stop in the middle of the parking garage. I figure he's just waiting for a space to open up.... Now the minutes are rolling by now. No indication of a spot opening up where he's at and he's blocking 6 vehicles from finding spots of leaving the structure.

Someone pulls up on his right side and bitches him out and manages to get by him. So, I try on the left side of him, no go. I throw it into reverse and start to go by him on the right an he finally figures out that maybe it's time to get the hell outta the way.

I get in and they tell me one of my prescriptions is out so I battle with them to give me meds.

Then I go to the va rep at school that couldn't answer my questions about the GI bill and tries to argue with me about how I registered. Like seriously? Wtf

 

[Raven]

The VA sucks walrus dick

At least around here, the VA mails scrips from their central pharmaceutical facility. You have to call them about refills. Budget cuts, apparently. It was a huge pain in the ass because I lived so close to the Brooklyn VA last summer that it would have been easier for me to swing by and pick it up. Also, they always "lost" my refill request when I did it over the phone through the automated system. The only way I got them to mail my shit was by talking to a rep during their business hours and being like, "I HAVE TWO DAYS LEFT ON MY MEDS YOU JERKOFFS LOST MY SCRIP!" and they'd overnight it.

Fish, I assume you are attending school full time if you are using the GI Bill. Look into your student health insurance. At NYU it was a grand a year and it was actually a really good Aetna plan. Like, I could go to private practices outside of the student health center as long as the private practice was covered by Aetna.