It's right in the name, the Illinois River, of course the phone is climbing out of the river an unholy abomination.how polluted is this river? Would the phone climb out of the river as a sentient being wanting to serve you?I'm on call right now. I'm about to throw my phone into the Illinois River. I might have sounded a bit...penile...by the end of this, but I've had it.
Me: IT, this is Vany.
User: Hi Vany!
Me: Hi.
Silence
User: What do you need from me?
Me: How about your name?
User: Oh! (Name)
Me: And what is the issue?
User: I need to log into my phone...
Me: And?
User: I don't know my extension or the password.
Me: ...I don't know it either...
User: (rudely) Well why not? Aren't you IT?! What am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to log into my phone?!
Me: If you aren't able to remember your own phone number I suggest you talk to your supervisor.
*hang up on user*This is the emergency line. It's meant for major outages, like entire departments or offices are down. They have been informed of this many, many times, yet they persist. Supervisors out of three offices just default to "call this number" rather than go through the right procedures. I'm absolutely done with waking up to my phone ringing at 2:30 in the morning because of a printer jam in Atlanta GA.
Ill-Noise River?
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lhow polluted is this river? Would the phone climb out of the river as a sentient being wanting to serve you?It's right in the name, the Illinois River, of course the phone is climbing out of the river an unholy abomination.
Well, first it will be eaten by an Asian carp. Highly invasive species. That will begin the process.
Ill-Noise River?
Squelch.
...oh my god.Pardon the expression, but you're riding Lone Wolf?I dont think the Kai could handle your trails. I would need to get something for rougher roads.We have bike trails, thousands of miles of bike trails.
We also have designated bike lanes and bike boulevards (streets closed to motor traffic).
So, I'm old, so I'm not ashamed to admit I Googled it.
Freehold's an Australian one percenter?
One never knows, do one, and there may well be an Aussie biker gang called the Kai Lords (I hope so, anyway), but we were referring to this
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For f-sake, do all the IT designers feel deep need to pointlessly redesign functional (more or less) interfaces every now and then, replacing system that works with one that is ?
Also, what the f-ing hell is with the dumb obsession with replacing buttons that have words on them with meaningless icons?
Grumble-grumble.
And of course new useful features are only available in the new interface and not the old one (though they don't rely in any way on the new editor interface, the table button could be easily added in the old look).
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I'm on call right now. I'm about to throw my phone into the Illinois River. I might have sounded a bit...penile...by the end of this, but I've had it.
Me: IT, this is Vany.
User: Hi Vany!
Me: Hi.
Silence
User: What do you need from me?
Me: How about your name?
User: Oh! (Name)
Me: And what is the issue?
User: I need to log into my phone...
Me: And?
User: I don't know my extension or the password.
Me: ...I don't know it either...
User: (rudely) Well why not? Aren't you IT?! What am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to log into my phone?!
Me: If you aren't able to remember your own phone number I suggest you talk to your supervisor.
*hang up on user*This is the emergency line. It's meant for major outages, like entire departments or offices are down. They have been informed of this many, many times, yet they persist. Supervisors out of three offices just default to "call this number" rather than go through the right procedures. I'm absolutely done with waking up to my phone ringing at 2:30 in the morning because of a printer jam in Atlanta GA.
You tell them!
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LGR - Sid Meier's Civilization - DOS PC Game Review - one of my favorite games of all time.
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For f-sake, do all the IT designers feel deep need to pointlessly redesign functional (more or less) interfaces every now and then, replacing system that works with one that is ?
Also, what the f-ing hell is with the dumb obsession with replacing buttons that have words on them with meaningless icons?
Oooh, just don't get me started. The love of "open space" and hatred of text by modern interface designers leaves me livid.
My bank's web site just got redesigned. I have 9 accounts. (2 for Impus Major, 2 for Impus Minor, 1 each for me and GothBard, and 3 for the general family.) I now have to scroll through TWO PAGES just to see the balance in all 9 accounts because each balance is listed in a 2" wide box with a 16-point font and the rest unused space.
When 9 lines of text take 2 pages to display, you have serious design issue.
(And yes, the whole, "We're not going to put any text on the page because text is ugly" is just a poor translation of, "We're too cheap to pay translation costs so we're removing text from the page. Good luck!")
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I missed a call from a potential job (my own fault for not checking my messages sooner) and haven't heard back yet from my attempt to call back and see if they're still interested. I've spent the afternoon in various states of frazzled interspersed with momentary distractions.Ugh. I'm sorry. Hope they call you back.Me too, but admittedly my hopes aren't high, I missed the message and it's been a few days. There's every chance someone who replied more promptly already has the job.
I'm crossing my fingers but didn't hear anything back today, and if I don't hear anything by Monday I'm pretty sure the opportunity is gone.
Again, my own fault, I'm very out of practice at job-hunting and didn't notice the message until well after it had been left. Hopefully if this doesn't work out - and I'm really hoping it does, this was one of my highest hopes in apps since my arrival in KS - something else will come along soon.
Dont give up hope man. They may still need you, and this is your dream(?) job.
...oh my god.Pardon the expression, but you're riding Lone Wolf?I dont think the Kai could handle your trails. I would need to get something for rougher roads.We have bike trails, thousands of miles of bike trails.
We also have designated bike lanes and bike boulevards (streets closed to motor traffic).
So, I'm old, so I'm not ashamed to admit I Googled it.
Freehold's an Australian one percenter?
These books were my introduction to ROLEPLAYING at the time, although I didnt know it. I thought it was just another choose your own adventure.
Dont give up hope man. They may still need you, and this is your dream(?) job.I missed a call from a potential job (my own fault for not checking my messages sooner) and haven't heard back yet from my attempt to call back and see if they're still interested. I've spent the afternoon in various states of frazzled interspersed with momentary distractions.Ugh. I'm sorry. Hope they call you back.Me too, but admittedly my hopes aren't high, I missed the message and it's been a few days. There's every chance someone who replied more promptly already has the job.
I'm crossing my fingers but didn't hear anything back today, and if I don't hear anything by Monday I'm pretty sure the opportunity is gone.
Again, my own fault, I'm very out of practice at job-hunting and didn't notice the message until well after it had been left. Hopefully if this doesn't work out - and I'm really hoping it does, this was one of my highest hopes in apps since my arrival in KS - something else will come along soon.
I really hope so.
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Dont give up hope man. They may still need you, and this is your dream(?) job.I missed a call from a potential job (my own fault for not checking my messages sooner) and haven't heard back yet from my attempt to call back and see if they're still interested. I've spent the afternoon in various states of frazzled interspersed with momentary distractions.Ugh. I'm sorry. Hope they call you back.Me too, but admittedly my hopes aren't high, I missed the message and it's been a few days. There's every chance someone who replied more promptly already has the job.
I'm crossing my fingers but didn't hear anything back today, and if I don't hear anything by Monday I'm pretty sure the opportunity is gone.
Again, my own fault, I'm very out of practice at job-hunting and didn't notice the message until well after it had been left. Hopefully if this doesn't work out - and I'm really hoping it does, this was one of my highest hopes in apps since my arrival in KS - something else will come along soon.
^This^
A lot depends on the nature of the business. In some areas (service industry / retail), decisions are made in a day or two, but even then every hiring manager is different. I have been in other situations where an HR manager takes 2-4 weeks to get back to me to schedule an interview, even when I responded immediately. You may be surprised.
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So I'm officially "off" from work as of today.
Except for the fact that I have a handful of deliverables due by the 8th. (Purchasing wish list for my classroom, a "just-in-case-they-want-it" parent-conference narrative for a family who withdrew from the school in March at the start of home learning, a set of teacher forms for one of my students going through ADHD testing)
And except for the fact that I have my 2020-21 contract meeting with my boss next Thursday, at which point I will find out if I have to go back to work on July 6th with approx. 1/3 of our faculty, or not until August.
And except for the fact that I *may* get asked to do two weeks of half-time work starting Monday in logistics/planning workgroups for new school year.
And except for the fact that we're all supposed to attend a week-long online Montessori conference at the end of June.
And except for the fact that I have to be ready to do video interviews with prospective students whenever the office schedules them for me.
And except for the fact that my boss said to us all in our last meeting yesterday, "Yes, enjoy your vacation time, but stay close to home in case we need you, and don't do anything to put your health in jeopardy." (And here I was, planning a beach vacation in Brazil.)
So... I'm on vacation, sort of? Wheee?
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Well, we just got Impus Major's final grades and he passed all his classes. Considering the mess DVC made of the final two weeks, I'll take it!
Now I just have to kick Impus Minor into working again. We spent two weeks getting him all caught up, and now he's stopped working again. *SIGH*
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I really hope so.
Job hunting tip:
If you don't get hired for a job you really want, and you're pretty sure they think you're qualified (ie you made the first cut, but not the final one) call back in 6-8 weeks and see whether they have any "new openings".Sometimes, if the first hire is obviously not working out, they'll be glad to have a backup recruit that they can hire without going through another hiring process.
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Just for our fork-lift expert
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I'm jobless too, but we pick up some extra cash doing deliveries with InstaCart and GrubHub and the like. It won't pay bills alone, but it can help you tread water in the meantime, Orthos.
I have a question. Who here, aside from those of us who live in or near Pittsburgh, has a radio station that plays the Little Steven's Underground Garage?
No idea, since I gave up on radio once the FCC reduced the restrictions on ads so you're typically hearing 10+ minutes of ads per 30 minutes of listening.
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Things that don't surprise me:
May 20: NobodysHome tries to go to Costco. The parking lot is packed. NobodysHome decides that social distancing cannot possibly be happening there and decides not to go in.
May 28: Said Costco posts an announcement that one of its employees tested positive for COVID-19 on May 18, but, "He typically works outside during the evening shift, so your chances of having been exposed are minimal."
Yeah, right. Because he never associated with his fellow employees.
Feeling better about not going into a store that wasn't taking COVID-19 seriously...
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Things that don't surprise me:
May 20: NobodysHome tries to go to Costco. The parking lot is packed. NobodysHome decides that social distancing cannot possibly be happening there and decides not to go in.
May 28: Said Costco posts an announcement that one of its employees tested positive for COVID-19 on May 18, but, "He typically works outside during the evening shift, so your chances of having been exposed are minimal."
Yeah, right. Because he never associated with his fellow employees.Feeling better about not going into a store that wasn't taking COVID-19 seriously...
if they were not taking it seriously, they wouldn't have said anything. They should be lauded for their honesty, not mocked for it.
I really hope so.Job hunting tip:
If you don't get hired for a job you really want, and you're pretty sure they think you're qualified (ie you made the first cut, but not the final one) call back in 6-8 weeks and see whether they have any "new openings".Sometimes, if the first hire is obviously not working out, they'll be glad to have a backup recruit that they can hire without going through another hiring process.
That's a good tip, I'll keep it in mind! Thanks!
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I'm jobless too, but we pick up some extra cash doing deliveries with InstaCart and GrubHub and the like. It won't pay bills alone, but it can help you tread water in the meantime, Orthos.
I don't necessarily need a full-time job, Scint technically makes enough for us to both survive on, but if we want any kind of freedom of finances we really need at least a small supplementary income. A part-time gig would even be fine, the job I'm hoping to hear back from was one such.
We also got a flyer from the local post office looking for mail delivery people so if things don't pan out with an office job I can take that one up, but I'll definitely look into the delivery thing, that's a route I hadn't considered and I imagine there's a fair number of people here in the small towns around who'd be happy for more drivers to bring them stuff from Manhattan.
That's a good tip, I'll keep it in mind! Thanks!I really hope so.Job hunting tip:
If you don't get hired for a job you really want, and you're pretty sure they think you're qualified (ie you made the first cut, but not the final one) call back in 6-8 weeks and see whether they have any "new openings".Sometimes, if the first hire is obviously not working out, they'll be glad to have a backup recruit that they can hire without going through another hiring process.
I should note I've gotten three jobs this way.
I'm jobless too, but we pick up some extra cash doing deliveries with InstaCart and GrubHub and the like. It won't pay bills alone, but it can help you tread water in the meantime, Orthos.I don't necessarily need a full-time job, Scint technically makes enough for us to both survive on, but if we want any kind of freedom of finances we really need at least a small supplementary income. A part-time gig would even be fine, the job I'm hoping to hear back from was one such.
We also got a flyer from the local post office looking for mail delivery people so if things don't pan out with an office job I can take that one up, but I'll definitely look into the delivery thing, that's a route I hadn't considered and I imagine there's a fair number of people here in the small towns around who'd be happy for more drivers to bring them stuff from Manhattan.
No...no pokemon trainers anywhere in sight...
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I'm jobless too, but we pick up some extra cash doing deliveries with InstaCart and GrubHub and the like. It won't pay bills alone, but it can help you tread water in the meantime, Orthos.I don't necessarily need a full-time job, Scint technically makes enough for us to both survive on, but if we want any kind of freedom of finances we really need at least a small supplementary income. A part-time gig would even be fine, the job I'm hoping to hear back from was one such.
We also got a flyer from the local post office looking for mail delivery people so if things don't pan out with an office job I can take that one up, but I'll definitely look into the delivery thing, that's a route I hadn't considered and I imagine there's a fair number of people here in the small towns around who'd be happy for more drivers to bring them stuff from Manhattan.
No...no pokemon trainers anywhere in sight...
Other Manhattan :P
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if they were not taking it seriously, they wouldn't have said anything. They should be lauded for their honesty, not mocked for it.Things that don't surprise me:
May 20: NobodysHome tries to go to Costco. The parking lot is packed. NobodysHome decides that social distancing cannot possibly be happening there and decides not to go in.
May 28: Said Costco posts an announcement that one of its employees tested positive for COVID-19 on May 18, but, "He typically works outside during the evening shift, so your chances of having been exposed are minimal."
Yeah, right. Because he never associated with his fellow employees.Feeling better about not going into a store that wasn't taking COVID-19 seriously...
When every other store in the area is limiting the number of people allowed in the store and you're not, every other store is enforcing social distancing and you're not, and you take over a week to post that one of your employees tested positive, you're not taking things seriously. You're trying to avoid a lawsuit.
EDIT: Admittedly, since I didn't go in, I'm going on hearsay from my fellow chaperones. But three of them have been to Costco in the last couple of weeks and all of their stories match. And the "announcement" is a single 8 1/2"x11" sheet of paper (12-point single-spaced font) taped up near the entrance.
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For f-sake, do all the IT designers feel deep need to pointlessly redesign functional (more or less) interfaces every now and then, replacing system that works with one that is ?
Also, what the f-ing hell is with the dumb obsession with replacing buttons that have words on them with meaningless icons?
Oooh, just don't get me started. The love of "open space" and hatred of text by modern interface designers leaves me livid.
My bank's web site just got redesigned. I have 9 accounts. (2 for Impus Major, 2 for Impus Minor, 1 each for me and GothBard, and 3 for the general family.) I now have to scroll through TWO PAGES just to see the balance in all 9 accounts because each balance is listed in a 2" wide box with a 16-point font and the rest unused space.
When 9 lines of text take 2 pages to display, you have serious design issue.
(And yes, the whole, "We're not going to put any text on the page because text is ugly" is just a poor translation of, "We're too cheap to pay translation costs so we're removing text from the page. Good luck!")
THIS!!!
THIS ticks me off SOOOOOOOOOO much!Me- "Where are the tabs with all the words on it? I can't FIND anything! I can't DO anything!"
IT/person helping- "Oh yeah, Windows now turns THAT mess off by default. You can turn it back on if you want to" (Rolls eyes at the aged wizard doing things the 'old way') "But it's easier to just use the icon."
Me- What icon?!?
IT/Helper- The one, right there. Just click on it.
Me- Oh, yes, I see. Because clicking through 3 or 4 drop down sub-menues from a tiny button that isn't marked is SOOOO much easier than The freaking row of tabs with actual WORDS that tell you what they are!!!
O_o
<Aged Wizzies' eye twitches as IT/helper finds an excuse to leave. Quickly.>
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We're doing something I didn't think we'd be able to do in my lifetime.
We're getting a TV bigger than 24" (with the 3 year protection racket no less!)
And we didn't have to pluck it from the curb or get it at a garage sale.
A truly momentous occasion.
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We're doing something I didn't think we'd be able to do in my lifetime.
We're getting a TV bigger than 24" (with the 3 year protection racket no less!)
And we didn't have to pluck it from the curb or get it at a garage sale.
A truly momentous occasion.
While this is wonderfull, I apreciate plucking things from curbs.
Got two perfectly good garden chairs that way recently.
Speaking of appalling design...
...my new Dell monitor has 4 input settings:
- Auto
- VGA
- DP
- HDMI
So, if I set it to HDMI, why the **** does it switch to DP every time I reboot my HDMI machine?!?!?!??!?!?!.
Seriously. I have an "Auto" setting where I can specifically say, "Switch to the input with the active signal."
I appreciate that.
But I *also* want the ability to say, "Ignore all the other input signals and *only* listen to this input."
It's actually a really important feature.
And Dell got it dead wrong. Grrr...
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Well, first it will be eaten by an Asian carp. Highly invasive species. That will begin the process.lhow polluted is this river? Would the phone climb out of the river as a sentient being wanting to serve you?It's right in the name, the Illinois River, of course the phone is climbing out of the river an unholy abomination.
Hmmm... didn't Donny, Mikey, Leo, and Raph fight the Invasive Radioactive Smartphone Carp back in TMNT issue #23?
We also got a flyer from the local post office looking for mail delivery people so if things don't pan out with an office job I can take that one up, but I'll definitely look into the delivery thing, that's a route I hadn't considered and I imagine there's a fair number of people here in the small towns around who'd be happy for more drivers to bring them stuff from Manhattan.
If it's for a rural route and you've got a vehicle you can deliver* from, I'd jump at it especially if you're not looking to become a full-time carrier. (It can take years for a part-time carrier to move up the seniority roster to jump to full-time in many areas.) Pay is excellent if you get enough hours; I forget how long you have to be there to qualify for the comprehensive medical/dental/etc, but I couldn't afford them anyway (this was pre-PPACA/Obamacare).
"City" routes are fine, but I hate how they have to sort and deliver their mail; you might be fine with the process though. There's going to be some pressure especially at first to sort the mail, load it up, deliver it all, and still get back to the office on time, but once you get used to it, it's not bad. The LLV mail truck is pretty fun to drive, especially if you are in an area where you won't bake in summer heat & humidity. (They have a pretty good heater but no A/C.)
* Edit: Back when I ran mail, rural route carriers were required to have a fulltime or backup vehicle from which they could deliver mail. Other than being roadsafe with lockable doors/trunk/storage (to secure the mail from theft), you had to be able to drive it from the right hand-seat. So basically you needed a bench seat with no floor console/transmission shifter that you could slide yourself across from the driver's side and still work the gas/brake & steering wheel with your left foot & hand while low-speed delivering the mail out the right side window. (Companies make right-hand drive kits that install a spare steering wheel and floor pedals, but they get kind of expensive for a part-time gig.) I got comfortable with it pretty quick, but you might ask if this is still a requirement for rural routes. Before I left the post office, they were already talking about putting all rural carriers in LLV trucks too (cheaper for insurance), but I don't know if anything came of it.
Whatever you do, if a mail carrier offers to sell you their used right-hand drive vehicle, DO NOT BUY IT WITHOUT A COMPLETE INSPECTION FROM A TRUSTED MECHANIC.
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Crookshanks (to Tiny T-Rex before he plays Red Dead Redemption): Just remember, no one has to die
Tiny T-Rex: That's not how video games work.
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Last night I tore up several campaign signs blocking the view at an already infamous four-way intersection.
This morning I finally deleted my bookface account.
So I'm feeling pretty damned good.
Orthos good luck with the mail thing. It's a great job. I was a rural carrier but couldn't handle Christmas. 75+ hour weeks until you make full regular carrier during season, and I was already exhausted from 60+ summer weeks.
Once you make full regular (3 years city, 6 years rural when I was working half a decade ago to go full) the union guarantees you good hours, but until then it is rough. Full regulars call out the day after holidays (cause union says if you have days left you can no questions) and all the new guys gotta run ragged on double duty with routes they don't know. They forget something? You gotta cover it. Union says they don't. Lotsa "paying dues" until the comfy part.
Money was *almost* worth it, though. F+~%ing good money for what you do. So much OT.
I hate OT.
I do not have a right-hand drive vehicle, my little car is standard American arrangement with a notable center drive shift and console. It looks like it'd be a rural route, yeah, though I'm not sure the heavy overtime is doable at this point. Depends on the route I get stuck with.
Definitely moving onto it if I don't hear back in a few days from the other job. Thinking I might give them a call on Monday, just to see what's what.
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The world is OFFICIALLY ON FIRE.
Please, Please, Please, Please, PLEASE. If you are an American living in a major city, for the love of ALL THE OLD GODS, STAY SAFE.
AND NOT THE FUN KIND OF FIRE
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Crookshanks (to Tiny T-Rex before he plays Red Dead Redemption): Just remember, no one has to die
Awwww...
Tiny T-Rex: That's not how video games work.
MUHAHAHAHAHHAH!
Of course trying to convince a T-rex that no one has to die, might be an exercise in futility...
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Speaking of appalling design...
...my new Dell monitor has 4 input settings:
- Auto
- VGA
- DP
- HDMISo, if I set it to HDMI, why the **** does it switch to DP every time I reboot my HDMI machine?!?!?!??!?!?!.
Seriously. I have an "Auto" setting where I can specifically say, "Switch to the input with the active signal."
I appreciate that.But I *also* want the ability to say, "Ignore all the other input signals and *only* listen to this input."
It's actually a really important feature.And Dell got it dead wrong. Grrr...
Not just Dell. I feel monitors in general as a product struggle with this. And have been struggeling with it for years.
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The new TV is so big!
Not just Dell. I feel monitors in general as a product struggle with this. And have been struggeling with it for years.Speaking of appalling design...
...my new Dell monitor has 4 input settings:
- Auto
- VGA
- DP
- HDMISo, if I set it to HDMI, why the **** does it switch to DP every time I reboot my HDMI machine?!?!?!??!?!?!.
Seriously. I have an "Auto" setting where I can specifically say, "Switch to the input with the active signal."
I appreciate that.But I *also* want the ability to say, "Ignore all the other input signals and *only* listen to this input."
It's actually a really important feature.And Dell got it dead wrong. Grrr...
What's sad is that Global Megacorporation bought me a Dell about 3-4 years ago and it behaves perfectly: If I say, "Use this input," it sticks with that input. Then they bought me a second one (same size, newer model) that can't comprehend a simple, "No, I don't want to switch inputs every time I reboot you *****!"
Same company, worse product.