I forgot my chewing gum at work. I never need chewing gum except for when I’m working and that applies to WFH apparently. My lips may not survive today.
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Many of my coworkers have the habit of reading whatever corporate email or news item has caught their attention out loud. It is irritating me even more than usual today.
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My internet connection is making WFH irritating and impossible.
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I’m four months out from my c section, and my scar is hurting a lot more right now than it has for weeks.
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OMG I was working outside and I moved a plant stand thing, and I pinched my finger HARD between two pieces of metal, and now I have a blood blister on my finger.
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Installing open source anything. It’s like they expect me to be a computer science major or something…
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Just run it in a Linux shell and it’ll function as designed. 
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I still can’t understand why my workplace requires I that I use windows. An outdated long term support build too. Nothing runs on it without significant alterations.
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Yes but now you’re WFH - would they know? 
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Ha! You know, I might set it up first on a Linux box to prove it works, then once I know I’m not wasting time I could port it to windows.
Current tiny complaint is I beat Zelda BotW last night. Such a good game. Think I’ll go back through and try to hit all the side quests.
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Husband knocked soap into the sink, onto a plate. A large, expensive, “unbreakable” plate we got for our wedding.
It is not unbreakable. (Not that this was a surprise- 4/4 bowls that have ever been dropped or thumped have broken) 
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I’m running low on almost all my Indian spices. And I don’t know if there will be supply chain disruption before we can go to the supermarket that sells the good ones. Also I’m going to look crazy buying all my spices at once…unless I do it now and look like a hoarder
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I feel so angry and sad right now. Just having all the accommodations I’ve asked for happen, for able people, overnight. It’s just like, IDK, it’s a lot. The first time I fought for accommodation it was to be allowed to graduate from 7th grade on time by doing work from home. Had to fight, for week, and get my parents involved. Then I had to fight to get the school to honor my 504 plan for extra books and no penalty for absences. Then I had thank those teachers in person, who brought it up CONSTANTLY like they were oh so special for doing something nice for the disabled girl. Over and over and over saying thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. College again, had to fight and fight for approval for the most minor accommodation. Hiding disability for job interviews, then doing the whole bait and switch to trick them into giving me remote work since they won’t do it just as an accommodation.
And even now, today, allllll the sharing of articles about groups that need help or will need help (retail workers, food service, small businesses, moms, elderly, teachers, artists), and seeing AGAIN that no one is sharing anything about people with disabilities. It’s just like how every discussion I’ve ever heard or read about sexual assault excludes the group that is the #1 most likely to be assaulted (women with developmental disabilities), because…why?
I am expected to be inclusive and educated about every disadvantaged group there is or risk being called out aggressively, and I really try to be, but I am also expected to accept basically zero reciprocation. And that’s about the level I get.
Sorry, this is just way harder for me than I thought. I acknowledge the self-centeredness in this rant, of course I have it very easy compared to people actually sick with this. It’s just…a lot, and I can’t talk about it anywhere because I’ll get ablesplained about gratitude and given really “helpful” suggestions, you know, from the same people who are upset they can’t go to their usual self-care for ONCE.
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Nah, your feelings are HELLA LEGIT.
Sending COVID friendly hugs from afar.
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/Editor hat off
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This is a super valid complaint. Definitely not tiny.
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Truly a tiny complaint: my brother picked up groceries for me, and wasn’t as picky about some of the produce as I would have been.
(Seriously, this is so so trivial I almost didn’t post. But I can’t use moldy green beans and now my meal plan is off. It is a minor annoyance, and sometimes it’s nice to post those)
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UGHHH and this guy I work with, he keeps posting jokey comments on all my posts. He’s been doing this for like 2 years, and he goes in especially hard when I post about ableism. He thinks he has something to add to literally every conversation. He’s a feminist, don’t ya know.
I just sent him this, because fuck it, my worldview has shifted drastically and I am now dishing out the exact amount of tact I am receiving.
Please stop posting jokes on all my posts about ableism. It really doesn’t help. And honestly, I find It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia to be a really really offensive and hugely ableist show. You keep recommending it to me, especially the hilarious disability episode, despite me saying this over and over in many ways. Thanks!
Me right now:
ETA: And thanks all for the empathy! I don’t say things about being self-centered in my venting or it being a tiny complaint type issue to downplay my feelings, more so to contextualize them.
rambling explanation
Despite how it feels to me, this stuff is a minor complaint on the scale of human suffering, which is the scale I like to use. This is about feelings for me, not survival, and I think it’s really vital for me to always remember that! Feelings are terribly misleading, I think, I like to honor and feel them, but also remember…they are just my feelings. Feelings are so fleeting and vague and changeable, and everyone feels as badly as I feel about this, about something.
Whereas physical struggle like food, water, safety, survival, that is so much more intense, and many of us never experience that at all. I believe this leads to the idea that feelings and emotional pain are actually harder to deal with than tangible physical struggles, which I believe is false.
So I know it seems like I’m undercutting my own argument about how hard this is for me, and maybe I am a little bit, but I don’t see that as a bad thing! I think it’s good for me to be sad, be angry, but still file this under “Tiny Complaints”, you know?
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I appreciate all the perspectives brought up on disability accommodations brought up on this forum as it has helped to enlighten my view and share it with others. A work friend and I were speaking about wfh accommodations and I brought up what I learned on the forum and how these opportunities have always been available and we (society) often forget how accommodating others could make us more successful. She sincerely appreciated the comments, because she had never thought of it. She is a bright young lady who will do great things and perhaps this has allowed her to expand her world scope.
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All the hugs. Your feelings are totally valid, your anger is justified, and your complaints are not tiny. I just hope that after all this, that you’ll see some progress in accomodations
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