To fucking hate adulting??

[cathybates]

Adulting: just means in my view, working to pay bills and dealing with idiots day in day out. And why oh why is NOTHING simple any more. Whenever something happens, it is a massive faff to sort out as you are dealing with incompetent nincompoops who either: (a) don't respond to your emails/questions, or (b) respond to your emails/questions but incorrectly. It is very rare to find someone competent these days and it royally pisses me off!

And it never bloody ends!!!!!

Yabu to call it adulting.

Yanbu to find things harder. Things used to be easier to sort out but now you can rarely find a phone number for a company as most want you to do things online and it's a struggle just to speak with someone. It was a lot simpler in my opinion a decade or so ago

Yeah, I agree maybe I don't really mean adulting (though in my adult life there always appears to be something which needs sorting!) but yes to the finding things harder for sure. I think people are also less bothered about customer service these days. They almost don't take pride in anything any more.

AIBU to despair over grown adults who use words like 'adulting'?

I can't read your thread I'm cringing so hard it made me blind.

YANBU. I often look around for a grown-up and then remember that, in lived years, theoretically I am one.

I am actually eleven years old in my head.

I regularly have a rant to my best mate or hubby about having had a shit day because someone can't do their job properly like read an email properly, respond in the time frame they themselves set or just not feeling like doing what their job entails.

I also say similar that "I don't want to adult today.". And when the toddler is grumpy and having a bad day I ask him if he doesn't want to baby today lol. Done it since he was first born lol.

I always felt bad for my children when they were frustrated toddlers. It's rubbish being a child sometimes, just as sometimes it's shit being a grown up... Without sounding like a motivational poster twat, you've got to take the rough with the smooth.

I don't normally mind

but I've recently had to complain to a company about something affecting my mum, and I got this insane security encrypted message back saying they would deal with the complaint within 4 weeks.

I only went for email on her behalf because she's tried ringing several times and they just don't want to do anything about it. It's bizarre. Your post made me think of it because it's a huge company and I'm thinking they must be run utterly chaotically - also 4 weeks to deal with a complaint, wow.