| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Lesson of the day: Never use UPS to return an item.
NobodysWife was returning a $29 shirt. The store was one of those ones that doesn't pay return shipping. Since her time is very limited right now (surgery can really mess up your work schedule), she asked me to send it off.
Being ornery, I don't like to drive anywhere, and The UPS Store is about 1/3 mile closer than the post office. Since I didn't think there would be much of a difference, I moseyed over to The UPS Store, handed the desk guy the shirt and the address, and said, "Please ship this as cheaply as possible!"
"No problem!"
So, the guy was awesome, filled out all the paperwork for me, took care of everything, and so it was literally just, "Drop the shirt and the address on the counter, pay the man, and walk away."
But for the envelope and UPS ground for a single shirt it came to $16.74.
Seriously?!?!? I think the post office would have charged like $2 for postage and $1.50 for the envelope.
Ah, well. Live and learn.
EDIT: I was wondering why the guy was looking at me funny...
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Found a .45 slug lodged in one of our solar plant panels today.
#Arizona
#America
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
And that makes two Starfinder Core Rulebooks with defective glue.
Email already sent.
I feel bad for them.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
And that makes two Starfinder Core Rulebooks with defective glue.
Email already sent.
I feel bad for them.
Yeah, they have some really messed-up manufacturing issues somewhere. My Wrath of the Righteous books out-and-out disintegrated on me.
Paizo's been amazing at replacing books as they fall apart, but considering my cheap-a$$ solution guides I wrote back in the 1990s are about the same size and are still holding together just fine, you've got to look at the printers and ask, "Cut corners much?"
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
If you fold the crease along the spine before you open the adventure paths and campaign setting books that'll increase their lifespan.
My first two books of Wrath fell apart (sword of valor literally) and that was when I wasn't subscribing and when our car was out of commission so I never got to replace them.
But, happy ending, I found both, not defective at half priced books this summer. :-)
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
From the flyer for the school picnic.
"Come Mark Our Fence!"
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Five food carts promised.
Only two actual food carts showed up.
Luckily the BBQ cart made it.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
It's soooo good!!
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
We ate it already.
Is Imgur (or whatever you use for pictures) free?
Photobucket is s*$%.
For those who may concern. I'm still in one piece.
HUZZAH~!
| 4 people marked this as a favorite. |
You know how yesterday was all productive and going to plan? Yeah....today was nothing like that. I spilled coffee in my ear this morning. (Tripped as I was holding my travel mug and the lid popped off as the mug hit the top of its arc, splashing right into my ear.) The rest of the day went pretty much like that. It was a splendid show of klutziness and incompetence. Like the three stooges with one person playing all the parts. :P
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
For those who may concern. I'm still in one piece.
Oh sure, rub it in.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
You know how yesterday was all productive and going to plan? Yeah....today was nothing like that. I spilled coffee in my ear this morning. (Tripped as I was holding my travel mug and the lid popped off as the mug hit the top of its arc, splashing right into my ear.) The rest of the day went pretty much like that. It was a splendid show of klutziness and incompetence. Like the three stooges with one person playing all the parts. :P
Please tell me you took video!
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Found a .45 slug lodged in one of our solar plant panels today.
#Arizona
#America
What The F. that makes me want to ask so many questions that you don't have the answer for.
| 5 people marked this as a favorite. |
You know how yesterday was all productive and going to plan? Yeah....today was nothing like that. I spilled coffee in my ear this morning. (Tripped as I was holding my travel mug and the lid popped off as the mug hit the top of its arc, splashing right into my ear.) The rest of the day went pretty much like that. It was a splendid show of klutziness and incompetence. Like the three stooges with one person playing all the parts. :P
Lynora: Why I oughta...
Lynora: Oh, a wise guy, eh?Lynora: Hey cut the clownin'
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Clearly someone doesn't like solar.What The F. that makes me want to ask so many questions that you don't have the answer for.Found a .45 slug lodged in one of our solar plant panels today.
#Arizona
#America
I think the only fair response to that is to sacrifice them to the sun.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Unfortunately (or possible fortunately) I wasn't there to hear it myself, but my parents told me that an acquaintance of theirs (friend of a friend kind of thing) told them that she was vehemently opposed to both wind and solar power because "All those turbines and solar panels will use up all the wind and sun. Then what will we do?" And she meant it.I think the only fair response to that is to sacrifice them to the sun.Clearly someone doesn't like solar.What The F. that makes me want to ask so many questions that you don't have the answer for.Found a .45 slug lodged in one of our solar plant panels today.
#Arizona
#America
Urge to slap rising...
Tell your mom I expect her to slap the tar out of the person next time she sees them.
Phrased it for you.
(Hey mom random person on the internet says you should slap X next time you see them) Fill X with persons name.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Yeah We have a new person well semi new shes been here 2 months but I still spend the first hour fixing all the mistakes she makes on her shift but I get to make her stay late while I show her how to fix them so its not all bad.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
My night on the other hand is going well. sold out when I got here so all I have to do is run some reports then I can relax with a book till 4 ish make some coffee and wait to get out of here.
|
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Is Imgur (or whatever you use for pictures) free?
It's free, this here is 'MURICA! brother Yesterday.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Pssst .... Freehold
LIFE IS WORTH LIVING
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Is Imgur (or whatever you use for pictures) free?It's free, this here is 'MURICA! brother Yesterday.
If he was wearing an Abe Lincoln hat that would be the most american thing I've ever seen.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
You know how yesterday was all productive and going to plan? Yeah....today was nothing like that. I spilled coffee in my ear this morning. (Tripped as I was holding my travel mug and the lid popped off as the mug hit the top of its arc, splashing right into my ear.) The rest of the day went pretty much like that. It was a splendid show of klutziness and incompetence. Like the three stooges with one person playing all the parts. :P
Yeah, yesterday was a bad day for me professionally. Got two weeks to get things ready for our visit and my boss won't be here for half of that time....
Woke up a couple hours ago, but I am ready to go back to bed...
So of course, my youngest is not only awake, but extremely awake.
>.<
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
If he was wearing an Abe Lincoln hat that would be the most american thing I've ever seen.Is Imgur (or whatever you use for pictures) free?It's free, this here is 'MURICA! brother Yesterday.
You forgot the uzi or other machine gun.
It'll really tie that look together.| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Super humid today.
I'm not going to lie, after how cool and dry it's been the last month, it actually feels nice.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Is Imgur (or whatever you use for pictures) free?It's free, this here is 'MURICA! brother Yesterday.
I looked into it, they want me to tie it in to my email, and I'm not going to do that.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
I don't trust google at all.
I refuse to even use their search engine.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Oh, are we complaining about co-workers now?
And with all of that, we are supposed to build comprehensive training that teaches consultants and implementers how to install, configure, and customize our enterprise-level software, up to and including the scripting necessary to support their business logic. (And most importantly, working, educational labs on the half-baked software.)
So it's a good gig, but a frustrating one.
But considering how much we pay our team, you would be amazed how hard it is to find people with even a basic level of competence.
Yesterday my co-worker volunteered to copy down all the security roles for a user for me. It's no big deal; most users have 10-12 roles. Really bad users have 20-30. She spent all day at it.
She contacted me at the end of my work day and told me that she'd found THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY roles associated with the user, and she'd dutifully copied down every. Single. One.
So I figured something was wrong. I'd shown her how to do security. Once this month. Twice last month. Three or four other times this year.
And sure enough, she'd gone to the wrong page, listed every role and inherited role and privilege and whatnot for the user, and hadn't stopped once to ask, "Is this really accurate?"
As I tell people: Not knowing what to do or how to do something is totally forgivable. None of us know everything, so it's absolutely reasonable to say, "Hey, I don't understand this! Can someone help me out here?"
But to burn an entire day hand-copying 350 roles without once asking, "Isn't something fishy here?"
That's Not a Good Thing.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Oh, are we complaining about co-workers now?
** spoiler omitted **
As I tell my technicians: I don't specifically care that you made a mistake. I care about how you learn from it or if you repeat it.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
As I tell my technicians: I don't specifically care that you made a mistake. I care about how you learn from it or if you repeat it.Oh, are we complaining about co-workers now?
** spoiler omitted **
Exactly. And as a parent, try teaching that to your KIDS some time!
I finally understand my father's frustration: "I don't care WHO did it or whose FAULT it is! I just want to know what happened, and how you're going to ensure it doesn't happen again!"
"But it's not MY fault!!!!"
*SIGH*
EDIT: My final solution was to take away their entire week's allowance if they ever claimed anything wasn't their fault. They STILL try it on occasion, but at least losing their allowance makes them aware how much it annoys me.
And to be 100% clear: It's not that I don't believe them when they say it's not their fault. It's that trying to assign blame completely eliminates the ability to learn from a mistake, no matter who originally made it. And as someone said so brilliantly, "If you never make mistakes, you will never learn anything."
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Oh, are we complaining about co-workers now?
** spoiler omitted **
interesting.
I can't say I agree, but it is interesting. I work in a field where the attitude you espouse above would have you fired(or written up, depending) in less than 24 hours. I would argue the person you are talking about comes from a field or workplace where that was true.
| 3 people marked this as a favorite. |
Today, friends, I became Lightning Fast Portable Toilet Arrangements Man.
My life's work is complete.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Oh, are we complaining about co-workers now?
** spoiler omitted **
interesting.
I can't say I agree, but it is interesting. I work in a field where the attitude you espouse above would have you fired(or written up, depending) in less than 24 hours. I would argue the person you are talking about comes from a field or workplace where that was true.
Sorry about being a little dense, but "the attitude I espouse above" is unclear to me -- you've worked places where seeing something weird and stopping to ask your supervisor, "Er, am I really doing this right?" would get you written up?
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Oh, are we complaining about co-workers now?
** spoiler omitted **
interesting.
I can't say I agree, but it is interesting. I work in a field where the attitude you espouse above would have you fired(or written up, depending) in less than 24 hours. I would argue the person you are talking about comes from a field or workplace where that was true.
Sorry about being a little dense, but "the attitude I espouse above" is unclear to me -- you've worked places where seeing something weird and stopping to ask your supervisor, "Er, am I really doing this right?" would get them written up?
I guess I should have been more specific- your father's attitude. In my job something is always someone fault . Usually mine as I am the supervisor, but still. And yes, displaying what my boss calls incompetence is the fast track to a pink slip. In some cases it's better to mess up than ask for help.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
I guess I should have been more specific- your father's attitude. In my job something is always someone fault . Usually mine as I am the supervisor, but still.Oh, are we complaining about co-workers now?
** spoiler omitted **
interesting.
I can't say I agree, but it is interesting. I work in a field where the attitude you espouse above would have you fired(or written up, depending) in less than 24 hours. I would argue the person you are talking about comes from a field or workplace where that was true.
Sorry about being a little dense, but "the attitude I espouse above" is unclear to me -- you've worked places where seeing something weird and stopping to ask your supervisor, "Er, am I really doing this right?" would get them written up?
Ah, that clarifies it, thanks.
The problem with assigning blame, especially with kids, is that once one person takes the blame, everyone else stops paying attention because it "isn't their fault". So instead of, "So, someone here decided to see whether a Nerf gun could break a window, and he found that yes, it could, so let's avoid shooting Nerf guns at windows," the whole conversation becomes, "Wow! Impus Minor got caught for breaking a window! I wonder how he's going to be punished for it?"
Similarly, we have an entire team that keeps making the same types of mistakes. We can discipline each of them individually, or we can say, "Obviously the training in this area is lacking, so we're creating a set of additional training materials that you are all now required to take, then pass a basic skills test on."
One mechanism is punitive, but doesn't prevent such issues in the future except (possibly) for that one kid/employee. The other mechanism tries to focus on, "How do we make sure nobody does this again?"
And absolutely, positively, YMMV depending on the type of job.
A construction worker doing something stupid might get someone killed, and that worker needs to be fired for endangering a fellow. One CD making a bone-stupid mistake that costs her a day of work is far less significant.