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This feels like the boomer advice my parents would give me when I just want to rant about my job or a coworker. It's also so incredibly generic and bland that i

This feels like the boomer advice my parents would give me when I just want to rant about my job or a coworker. It's also so incredibly generic and bland that it really only applies if someone is being kind of annoying rather than weapons grade incompetent or manipulative. Seems right up Forbes' alley tho.

johnnyanmac 3y ago
>when I just want to rant about my job or a coworker. Are you a man? It's a pretty common action for a man to want to "solve a problem" when hearing a conversation based around problems. Even with modern conversation we don't really have much language to codify when we "just want to rant". It should be felt by body language and my autistic mind never catches that. It just feels even lazier to sit there and listen to someone dump with no recourse, I feel helpless. So I get it. I don't have an answer and I ironically did it right here, but just some consideration from the other side of the fence. >it really only applies if someone is being kind of annoying rather than weapons grade incompetent or manipulative. sounds like half the problems being vented out here.
- watwut 3y ago
  It was literally his/her parents, not OP who would try to give advice. Also, as someone who works in male dominated profession, men rant all the time, complain all the time and do not want to hear solutions when that goes on. Just assume they just want to rant. I tend to give advice too, but I try to hold up unless I am really sure, cause most of the time people just want to rant.
  - johnnyanmac 3y ago
    parents are even more susceptible to doing that. They spent the first 20 years of your life doing that after all. >Also, as someone who works in male dominated profession, men rant all the time, complain all the time and do not want to hear solutions when that goes on. sure. Doesnt mean men who are listening don't try. Or interject with their own rant instead. Those tend to be the two most common responses. >I tend to give advice too, but I try to hold up unless I am really sure, cause most of the time people just want to rant. I'm more of the "dang, that sucks" kind of person personally. So I guess I'm the ideal subject for that. Not because I'm not listening, I just genuinely have nothing else to say in response. I don't like ranting much IRL period (work, family, friends).

johnnyanmac 3y ago

>when I just want to rant about my job or a coworker. Are you a man? It's a pretty common action for a man to want to "solve a problem" when hearing a conversation based around problems. Even with modern conversation we don't really have much language to codify when we "just want to rant". It should be felt by body language and my autistic mind never catches that. It just feels even lazier to sit there and listen to someone dump with no recourse, I feel helpless. So I get it. I don't have an answer and I ironically did it right here, but just some consideration from the other side of the fence. >it really only applies if someone is being kind of annoying rather than weapons grade incompetent or manipulative. sounds like half the problems being vented out here.

watwut 3y ago
It was literally his/her parents, not OP who would try to give advice. Also, as someone who works in male dominated profession, men rant all the time, complain all the time and do not want to hear solutions when that goes on. Just assume they just want to rant. I tend to give advice too, but I try to hold up unless I am really sure, cause most of the time people just want to rant.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago
  parents are even more susceptible to doing that. They spent the first 20 years of your life doing that after all. >Also, as someone who works in male dominated profession, men rant all the time, complain all the time and do not want to hear solutions when that goes on. sure. Doesnt mean men who are listening don't try. Or interject with their own rant instead. Those tend to be the two most common responses. >I tend to give advice too, but I try to hold up unless I am really sure, cause most of the time people just want to rant. I'm more of the "dang, that sucks" kind of person personally. So I guess I'm the ideal subject for that. Not because I'm not listening, I just genuinely have nothing else to say in response. I don't like ranting much IRL period (work, family, friends).