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So, Vanykrye, you were wondering about my IT department before?

Well, we're a $100+ billion company. My time is worth over $50/hour to them. I ran the hardware diagnostics myself and got a failure.

Want to know Global IT's response?

"It's under warranty. Here's the vendor's phone number. Call them up and deal with it yourself."

WTF?!?!?!

EDIT: When I get angry, I get nekkid!

Grand Lodge

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Yeah no, my company is nowhere near that big and I still handle warranty issues for my users, let alone a f$&%ing driver issue.


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Three saws were not up to standards so coworker went to get a different saw (a circular saw).

We're putting in a timber wall, which is as about 1984 as you can get, they seriously could film an entire season of Stranger Things in this neighborhood.


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TriOmegaZero wrote:
Yeah no, my company is nowhere near that big and I still handle warranty issues for my users, let alone a f*#%ing driver issue.

It's a bad memory module. They could just FedEx me a new one.

Well, my manager absolutely *refused* to let me call the vendor, and told me to contact the guy who'd given me the laptop. And his response was, "Yeah, Global IT is the suck. Just drop by and we'll fix it for you."

I hate my company's infrastructure.


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That guy looks like he has a bone saw in his basement.

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NobodysHome wrote:

It's a bad memory module. They could just FedEx me a new one.

Well, my manager absolutely *refused* to let me call the vendor, and told me to contact the guy who'd given me the laptop. And his response was, "Yeah, Global IT is the suck. Just drop by and we'll fix it for you."

I hate my company's infrastructure.

I'm glad we're just national. That sounds annoying.


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NobodysHome wrote:

So, Vanykrye, you were wondering about my IT department before?

Well, we're a $100+ billion company. My time is worth over $50/hour to them. I ran the hardware diagnostics myself and got a failure.

Want to know Global IT's response?

"It's under warranty. Here's the vendor's phone number. Call them up and deal with it yourself."

WTF?!?!?!

EDIT: When I get angry, I get nekkid!

I would understand that response if they were operating under BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policies. But if it's a company-owned computer then that's their f*&^#$% jobs to fix it. I can understand them saying "Hey, at the end of your day, if you could follow these commands to kick off a test and then let us know what it comes back with, we'll go from there." I mean, I get that one. It's not the ideal customer service route, but I at least understand it, particularly when working with remote users. But the rest of that is all kinds of "Why do you even exist as a department?"


Stupid g@+*%@n f++@ing something something.


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Vanykrye wrote:
NobodysHome wrote:

So, Vanykrye, you were wondering about my IT department before?

Well, we're a $100+ billion company. My time is worth over $50/hour to them. I ran the hardware diagnostics myself and got a failure.

Want to know Global IT's response?

"It's under warranty. Here's the vendor's phone number. Call them up and deal with it yourself."

WTF?!?!?!

EDIT: When I get angry, I get nekkid!

I would understand that response if they were operating under BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policies. But if it's a company-owned computer then that's their f*&^#$% jobs to fix it. I can understand them saying "Hey, at the end of your day, if you could follow these commands to kick off a test and then let us know what it comes back with, we'll go from there." I mean, I get that one. It's not the ideal customer service route, but I at least understand it, particularly when working with remote users. But the rest of that is all kinds of "Why do you even exist as a department?"

They gave me a customer feedback form. I wrote that almost verbatim.


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Saw number five! I feel like there's a film franchise there...


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Chain saw for the win!


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"I'm bored."
"Got any homework to work on?"
"Nope."
"Well, you can borrow a book or count all the owls in my room."
"Okay."
starts counting, only to slowly realize the owl patterned border around my boards

Edit: final count was 931, and I have discovered a great way to keep busybodies busy for about 20 minutes. Now I just need to put the border on the board I forgot about...


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"Ms. Scint, I need you to come up with as many Halloween puns as you can!"
"I want this conversation on record so I can say that you quite literally asked for it."


Just a Mort wrote:
Cover Turtle wrote:

I'd probably be bound, gagged, covered in bruises and claw-marks and shoved into a supply closet.
or on permanent pilgrimage between my cubical/workstation and the HR office.

Probably as soon as you stare too much.

I don't think I'll understand the sports-minded people.

*Sigh*

Yea probably.

Staring is my sugar ^^'
I know its bad for me, and cutting it out would probably be for the best…but just like sugar, cutting my habit of admiring the aesthetics of the female form is one tough cookie to crumble.


So... after all the announcements and consternation the much-maligned Presidential Alert has come and gone...
...and I didn't even notice it.

My phone sits in the next room with the door open, so it sure as heck wasn't much of an alert. There was an Amber Alert last week and you could hear my phone throughout the house. I don't know that my phone even buzzed for this one.

On the other hand, it's an iPhone 4, and it mutes itself when you plug it in (I thought that problem was unique to mine, but just this morning a PM giving a presentation described the exact same problem -- plug a cable into your iPhone and it becomes deaf and mute), so maybe I was just lucky.

Anyway, Presidential Crisis Alert averted.


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That's okay, Kjel. I forgive you for being late with the birthday wishes. I know that you're often not feeling well.


English question for Scint:

If I were trying to describe a feature specific to a Paizo thread, would I call it:
Paizo thread-specific
Paizo-thread-specific
Paizo thread specific
?

Darned hyphens!


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NobodysHome wrote:

So... after all the announcements and consternation the much-maligned Presidential Alert has come and gone...

...and I didn't even notice it.

My phone sits in the next room with the door open, so it sure as heck wasn't much of an alert. There was an Amber Alert last week and you could hear my phone throughout the house. I don't know that my phone even buzzed for this one.

On the other hand, it's an iPhone 4, and it mutes itself when you plug it in (I thought that problem was unique to mine, but just this morning a PM giving a presentation described the exact same problem -- plug a cable into your iPhone and it becomes deaf and mute), so maybe I was just lucky.

Anyway, Presidential Crisis Alert averted.

It was actually a huge pain in my ass, as I was driving a skid loader in tight spaces and it sounded like the tornado warning. So I had to look at it because we have a pretty decent chance of tornadoes this afternoon and evening.

And then of course, I had to explain the whole damn thing to the two other guys and elderly homeowner because no one reads the news. >:-(


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So, whether or not you like metal, watch the first 60 seconds of this video.

That voice... should NOT be coming out of that woman!

EDIT: And to make up for it, this is frigging brilliant!


NobodysHome wrote:

English question for Scint:

If I were trying to describe a feature specific to a Paizo thread, would I call it:
Paizo thread-specific
Paizo-thread-specific
Paizo thread specific
?

Darned hyphens!

What about Paizo-thread specific?


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NobodysHome wrote:

English question for Scint:

If I were trying to describe a feature specific to a Paizo thread, would I call it:
Paizo thread-specific
Paizo-thread-specific
Paizo thread specific
?

Darned hyphens!

Yes.

In seriousness, I'd say Paizo-thread specific.


NobodysHome wrote:

So, whether or not you like metal, watch the first 60 seconds of this video.

That voice... should NOT be coming out of that woman!

EDIT: And to make up for it, this is frigging brilliant!

Pretty good video. And, you're right. That's some serious vocal-cord scarring going on there.


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NobodysHome wrote:

So, whether or not you like metal, watch the first 60 seconds of this video.

That voice... should NOT be coming out of that woman!

A voice like that should absolutely come out of a woman like that!

Just imagine her chewing out a bunch of badly behaving children in that voice…

NobodysHome wrote:


EDIT: And to make up for it, this is frigging brilliant!

Ennio Morricone…

Yup still gives me goose-bumps. Love the dollars-trilogy (and soundtrack).


Scintillae wrote:
NobodysHome wrote:

English question for Scint:

If I were trying to describe a feature specific to a Paizo thread, would I call it:
Paizo thread-specific
Paizo-thread-specific
Paizo thread specific
?

Darned hyphens!

Yes.

In seriousness, I'd say Paizo-thread specific.

D'oh! That's what I'd originally used and I thought it looked odd so I changed it.

Ah, well. Thank you, Word and PowerPoint, for at least having a global find-and-replace.

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Cover Turtle - this pretty much describes my reaction.

Bonus points? My BF sent me that one.


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The apartment is HUGE. The living room is the size of my entire apartment in Florida was. We have a balcony...sorta...second floor entrance outside. We live above a business. We pay rent downstairs.

The Plains (where I live) is a beautiful little town. It has all the benefits of a small town, but with Athens next door a college town, we have all the benefits of a medium city. Everything we need is less than three blocks away. The library is at the end of my street, as is a bus stop that goes to Athens.

There's a bike path from The Plains to Athens. We walked it. Five miles. Phenomenally gorgeous views...rivers, mountains, woods all around. We then walked another three miles to Walmart, bought bikes, and rode home. Between biking and walking we did over a half marathon. I'm so f&&&ing sore but otherwise feel amazing.

In other news, if you're wondering, Kratom works. 30ML or so and my girl and I felt like we had two blunts in us. Tastes like chalky ass though. Weed may be decriminalized in Athens, but we don't have a source and her family is my employer, so we can't ask them.

BTW her cousin (super nice) talked to her aunt (CEO) and now:

1) They're paying for the bg check
2) Drug test switched to pre-employment only now. I can pass that. Tape fake piss to your junk. Works every time.

Also the insurance here is so cheap getting me on my girl's cost less than her alone in Florida.

S~%@ flipped from awful to amazing the minute we crossed the Ohio border! I love this place. We have a room JUST for the ferrets! (Pantry is huge, has no exits or holes, and is air conditioned. So Brynjolf and Karliah have The Ragged Flagon all to themselves (its like 6' by 3' with a slope so we have to duck but its the biggest "cage" they've ever had. We tossed their cage cause it was NASTY and put toys and beds and litter pans in every corner and they love it!


In my experience, if you approach life with an active, "I need to do xxx to make this happen" attitude, things are good.

If you instead choose, "Why do bad things always happen to ME?" attitude, bad things always happen to you.

Go figure.

Congrats on the move!


NobodysHome wrote:

In my experience, if you approach life with an active, "I need to do xxx to make this happen" attitude, things are good.

If you instead choose, "Why do bad things always happen to ME?" attitude, bad things always happen to you.

Go figure.

Congrats on the move!

Thanks! There was a point where I even said to myself "If I knew all this I wouldn't have left ...so maybe it's best I didn't know. Can't turn back now and it may turn out great anyway."

And it did! :-D

And today's 16 mile trip was a great adventure after a solid sleep the night before...which helped a lot. At one point I think I was genuinely going insane from so little sleep.

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Yay VE! Sounds like things are looking up for you! Sleep deprivation s*cks.

Don't worry about your weed. If it's decriminalized you'll probably be able to find it, eventually. Just let your sixth sense guide you, but the only problem is you probably don't have the time to amble along possible weed joints for now since you're still getting settled in.

I'll say that some places just give a certain vibe for certain things.

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I just saw maths today =(

My brother threw me the equation P=IV to calculate if my fur dryer would work in Arizona.

Also tomorrow is my BFs brothers ROM, so I get to dress fancy and go to Sentosa.


captain yesterday wrote:
That guy looks like he has a bone saw in his basement.

Is it ready?


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NobodysHome wrote:

English question for Scint:

If I were trying to describe a feature specific to a Paizo thread, would I call it:
Paizo thread-specific
Paizo-thread-specific
Paizo thread specific
?

Darned hyphens!

Pai-zo-th-rea-d-spe-ci-f-i----c.

Scarab Sages

Limeylongears wrote:
Woran wrote:
Limeylongears wrote:
Woran wrote:
Tequila Sunrise wrote:

I am watching the British Baking show with Mrs Sunrise, and there is this thing called a stroopwafel. Which is a waffle sandwich with caramel in the middle.

I'm fairly certain I would devour the worst of these things and ask for more.

The British can go die in a fire. The stroopwafel is Dutch! Bunch of filthy thieves.

Pfeh! If it wasn't for us, you'd be speaking Spanish!*

*This is not actually true.

*shakes fist* dont make us come for that claim on your throne!*

*this is actually true

Please, please, help yourselves.

We've been sitting on it for a very long time after some pretty substantial breakfasts, though, so you may wish to give it a hose down first.

Yes! We shall expand again!

And help you with your water management at the same time.


It is a bit chilly out today.

But at least the storm went north, take that Pittsville!

Scarab Sages

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NobodysHome wrote:

In my experience, if you approach life with an active, "I need to do xxx to make this happen" attitude, things are good.

If you instead choose, "Why do bad things always happen to ME?" attitude, bad things always happen to you.

Go figure.

Congrats on the move!

It works the same with printers. Approach them nicely, they work.

Go there expecting it to jam, it will jam.

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Oh and my colleague is paying me to bake a chocolate cake before I fly off to the States.


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Just a Mort wrote:
Oh and my colleague is paying me to bake a chocolate cake before I fly off to the States.

It's still too bad you won't come within 400 miles of us. We'd feed you Rivoli food, take you on a tour of touristy stuff in San Francisco, and show you Hi in his native habitat.

But San Diego's still a good 8-hour drive away from us. California is rather... large that way.

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Yeah one thing that boggles me is how one state can be so...big. I mean Singapore you can get from any part to another within 2 hours if you have a car.

Out of curiosity, did he lose weight on his trip to SG and Japan? =P


Just a Mort wrote:

Yeah one thing that boggles me is how one state can be so...big. I mean Singapore you can get from any part to another within 2 hours if you have a car.

Out of curiosity, did he lose weight on his trip to SG and Japan? =P

Not that I noticed, but with him it would be pretty hard to tell. As lisamarlene pointed out, he wears the same few sets of loose-fitting clothing every time we see him, and we haven't been seeing him nearly as often recently, so if he lost any, it wasn't enough to be obvious.

We're still socializing with him several nights a week, but it's almost entirely online stuff. Quite a bit cheaper, and less commute nonsense...


Just a Mort wrote:

Yeah one thing that boggles me is how one state can be so...big. I mean Singapore you can get from any part to another within 2 hours if you have a car.

Out of curiosity, did he lose weight on his trip to SG and Japan? =P

Yeah, I'm pretty sure if you do Highway 1 the entire length of the state, you come darned close to 1000 miles. Even the relatively-direct Highway 5 is over 800 miles.

On the other hand, we're barely 200 miles across. As long as you want to go east-west you're golden!

Other than the whole, "Massive mountain range in the way" thing, of course.

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Ah I see. Anyway, I've had SOME success in losing weight, so I'm about 127 lbs now. Again its the can I squeeze into the dress bit tomorrow...so...wish me luck!

According to my calculations it should work.


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NobodysHome wrote:
...and show you Hi in his native habitat...

Narrated by Krystyna Czubówna

Spoiler:
Krystyna Czubówna is one of the most renowned Polish voice-over readers and narrators of documentaries. This is a festival ad designed to appear like a nature documentary.


NobodysHome wrote:

So, whether or not you like metal, watch the first 60 seconds of this video.

That voice... should NOT be coming out of that woman!

EDIT: And to make up for it, this is frigging brilliant!

Heck yeah, I saw them live with the previous vocalist. Who was equally awesome, maybe better? Anyway Chthonic have equally bad-arse vocals (though it's not the lead), though a bit more black rather than death metal, as did that French band Aephanemer. There's quite a few really heavy female singers on the metal scene.

The Exchange

NobodysHome wrote:

So, whether or not you like metal, watch the first 60 seconds of this video.

That voice... should NOT be coming out of that woman!

EDIT: And to make up for it, this is frigging brilliant!

How did she do that? That's incredible!


NH, PM.


I just realized I haven't changed my calendar yet. Now, I kinda want to leave it up until someone complains.


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"All right. Chanticleer sees the fox and screams. What does the fox say?"
"Ring-ding-ding-ding-"

Why.


Freehold DM wrote:
NH, PM.

Back atcha.


"So, NobodysHome, you have a massively-busy day today with two full lesson rewrites, a lab overhaul, and getting your laptop ready to return to IT."
"Can you please spend the first two hours of your day researching this completely-unrelated thing? And make it your top priority!"

Grrr....

At least the process takes 10-12 minutes to run each time, so I get a few minutes to rant and storm about between tests.


It's just in one ear and out the other sometimes.

"Okay, before you ask me anything, read your paragraph out loud. You'll catch more errors that way than silent reading."

Kid reads it out loud, fixes about three things, then stops reading it to ask me about the same type of error in the next section. So close and yet so far...

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