fractious: /frak-shuhs/

1. refractory or unruly
2. readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome

how to use in casual conversation:

"i find it exceptionally ridiculous that there are so many people leaving fractious comments about how much they hate facebook, on facebook."

not to be confused with:

fruticose

how it makes me feel:

i have for some time had a fractious relationship with the place i work. first of all, i'm a temp. which means that even though i've been here for over 18 months, i don't have vacation of sick time, i can't order things and that everyone in a while the company i work at (not for) finds an opportunity to remind me that they consider me a second class individual. that in addition to the fact that the company i work at (not for) has a long history of treating people horribly, not to mention institutionalized anti-semitism. this lovely company goes by the name of bayer. for starters, bayer was at one time a division of another company, IG Farben that was dissolved after world war II. why was it dissolved? well according to the internet (which never lies) IG Farben was "a conglomerate of German chemical industries that formed a part of the financial core of the German Nazi regime" and also controlled 42.5% of the company that manufactured zyklon b and had a hankering for using slave labor instead of paying people an honest wage for an honest days work (a tradition still carried on by bayer to this day, if only in spirit). additionally although aspirin had been around for sometime, it was a jewish scientist who was the first to create a formulation that wouldn't make you fart blood as a result of taking it. but being that he was jewish, the bayer corporation didn't exactly feel comfortable giving him credit. so they found a nice aryan boy, and said that he invented it. a story bayer sticks with to this day.

if that wasn't enough bayer also has had a hand in the distribution of genetically modified rice not deemed suitable for human consumption, the congolese civil war, negligent collection and distribution of HIV infected blood products not to mention a myriad of chemical poisonings, plant explosions and false claims that a multivitamin can prevent prostate cancer. but my fractious relationship with these fascism-loving jerks is coming to an end. last friday i was able to give bayer notice that i would no longer be it's bitch. i've got a new job with vacation, sick time, decent health insurance AND no potential for supporting the uber-capitalistic schemes of the world's 3rd largest pharmaceutical company.

yay!