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On the other hand, if CY's crewmates are about average for "outdoor manual labor seasonal hires", then incompetence accounts for quite a few incidents.
We actually have a really good group this year, so I'd rate us as above average.
There isn't a Big Slow Pete or Fat Pervert Captain in the whole group of newbies.
O I know. But this seems intentional.
Many times a cable company will not mark its lines when you do a 'call before you dig' request because given the number of calls, it is cheaper for them to repair the few that get cut instead of pay someone to go out and spray paint the line.
But recently ATT has been good about marking their lines because they don't want people to lose service and complain in the era of work from home.
Yeah, that's different. If it's marked, there's a lot less "accident" involved, and you have to look more at "incompetent" and/or "malicious".
But I also wouldn't put it past ATT to not send some people out in Google-marked vehicles and clothes and cut their own lines. I really wouldn't be surprised at that.
In fairness, lines have an almost innate psychic ability to call out to be cut.
I found a line once without cutting it, meticulously dug out all around it and STILL managed to cut it with my shovel.
S#~% happens, especially with phone and cable lines.
The only lines you'd have to be an idiot to cut are electric and gas lines, and probably sewer and water.
Otherwise they have those lines hardly even buried most times so it's super easy to cut them.
Google has been installing fiber and has 'accidentally' severed several of ATT's fibers in my neighborhood. I was all excited to get google fiber, but now not so much.Not defending Google, but fiber cuts actually happen quite a bit more often than most people hear about.
Every. Single. Year. For state testing.
Every. Single. Year. For state testing.Google has been installing fiber and has 'accidentally' severed several of ATT's fibers in my neighborhood. I was all excited to get google fiber, but now not so much.Not defending Google, but fiber cuts actually happen quite a bit more often than most people hear about.
I remember at a previous job (gigantic megacorp) where we suddenly lost connectivity to every facility and office west of Kansas City. Backhoe into a fiber bundle.
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I have nothing that will actually help you with this, except my sincere hope for the least terrible outcome among a pile of terrible outcomes.
*hugs*
Yeah, its f~#~ed up.
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The base of the wall is installed, three hours ahead of schedule.
Or right on schedule for me.
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And the last interviewee of the day strikes out swinging.
I look at his resume and see some extensive networking experience, including configuring routers and switches.
I set up a scenario involving an intermediate-level network issue. Computers in Group A can get to a website. Computers in Group B, all within the same building, cannot get to that website and instead receive a "page cannot be displayed" error. Anyone with the experience this person claims to have should have a good shot at coming up with *some* reasonable explanation for this. I'm looking for a reasonable, rational thought process here. Doesn't have to be the exact right answer.
This guy starts talking about time zones.
This is very roughly equivalent to asking why Pen A writes in black ink while Pen B does not write in black ink, and they start going on a big explanation about time zones.
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On the other hand, if CY's crewmates are about average for "outdoor manual labor seasonal hires", then incompetence accounts for quite a few incidents.We actually have a really good group this year, so I'd rate us as above average.
There isn't a Big Slow Pete or Fat Pervert Captain in the whole group of newbies.
Ooohhh III'lll tell 'ee the tale of the Fat Pervert Captain,
Who got caught with the waxworks in Madame Tussauds,His glass eye in one end, wooden leg in the other,
The po-licemen gave him a round of applause.
Oh, pay out the anchor and tug it, me buckos,
Rumbledy Tumbledy Bum.
Video interview.
That wasn't the only problem, but it was the third time he cut off the person trying to set up a troubleshooting scenario for him.
Other issues included answers like "reinstall the software" when you just have to click a checkbox. I'm looking for thought process - most issues that get called in are not difficult and usually caused by the user themselves.
Best example - someone accidentally hides the control ribbon in Excel or Word. There's just a little carat in the upper right to click on to unhide that ribbon. He wanted to completely reinstall Office to fix it instead. He stuck to that even after I asked if there were any other options to try before reinstalling. "No. You just have to reinstall the entire Office suite." That's someone I don't want on my team. I'll end up spending more time fixing whatever they "fix", and field too many complaints.
interesting.
Very interesting.
And the last interviewee of the day strikes out swinging.
I look at his resume and see some extensive networking experience, including configuring routers and switches.
I set up a scenario involving an intermediate-level network issue. Computers in Group A can get to a website. Computers in Group B, all within the same building, cannot get to that website and instead receive a "page cannot be displayed" error. Anyone with the experience this person claims to have should have a good shot at coming up with *some* reasonable explanation for this. I'm looking for a reasonable, rational thought process here. Doesn't have to be the exact right answer.
This guy starts talking about time zones.
This is very roughly equivalent to asking why Pen A writes in black ink while Pen B does not write in black ink, and they start going on a big explanation about time zones.
So time zones play no factor at all?
I'm on central time.
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Players? No, I have family.
They say they'll play, but then they don't actually do the things you need to do to play, like make characters, or even look at the books.
I can make them, but then it's not any fun for me.
So I wait until human contact is allowed again (TBD) and I can try out this whole PFS thing I keep hearing about.
I don’t know how you feel about virtual gaming... I’ve cleared my schedule for GenCon and signed up for a bunch of SFS games. Organized play is not usually my thing, but I’m looking forward to it.
Dragoncon has moved to a virtual set up as well. Not sure what they are doing with gaming. But that may be another option.
Our computer died last year, the General and Crookshanks have both gotten themselves laptops. I've found I get along just fine with just a PS 4 and my phone.
So I don't think online gaming will work for me, unless there's a way to do it on my phone.
I will not under any circumstance play PbP.
Our computer died last year, the General and Crookshanks have both gotten themselves laptops. I've found I get along just fine with just a PS 4 and my phone.
So I don't think online gaming will work for me, unless there's a way to do it on my phone.
I will not under any circumstance play PbP.
I played via Discord for months on my phone when my computer died about a year ago. Can't do maps, but it has voice and a dice roller. We used an outside map program.
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Diswhat?
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That horse meat is plenty tender already. You can put the boxing gloves away.
My plan is to get everything for making characters organized and sitting on the table by Friday and then tell them that at 6 pm Saturday I'll sit down and play a game irregardless if they join.
Either they will join or it will be the most pitiful looking game of Starfinder ever.
Either way, I'll have fun.
That horse meat is plenty tender already. You can put the boxing gloves away.
Like everything in life, it's better to go barehanded.
I will not under any circumstance play PbP.What about for a box of Scooby Snacks?
Nope.
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Food poisoning. :'(
We moved our dragon con stuff till next year. It took forever for us to get the hotel to refund us our stay tho. We almost got lawyers involved. Then all of a sudden they were like here is your money back thank you for doing business etc. Like yeah no not using you guys ever again but nice try.
Lol. Yeah well we were being very reasonable about it at first. Like the event we wanted to see was cancelled and wed like the refund but they gave us this spiel about how the event isn't necessarily cancelled yet and to wait to find out for sure etc. at one point they stopped answering calls for like a month we couldn't contact them at all. I mean my hotel has a 24 hour cancellation policy I get that for a major event that is not gonna work as well but like 7 months out and with the event being cancelled I feel like they shouldn't make a fuss about it.
Also If I got a cut of the money for sticking it to people I would be making this hotel SOOOO much more money.
What a discount for coming in so late? No I actually have to charge you more. It's the late night processing fee. Sorry about that. Got that no face mask tax too. That one is gonna cost ya.
F~%$! Grant Imahara from Mythbusters died at age 49 from a brain aneurysm.
Lol. Yeah well we were being very reasonable about it at first. Like the event we wanted to see was cancelled and wed like the refund but they gave us this spiel about how the event isn't necessarily cancelled yet and to wait to find out for sure etc. at one point they stopped answering calls for like a month we couldn't contact them at all. I mean my hotel has a 24 hour cancellation policy I get that for a major event that is not gonna work as well but like 7 months out and with the event being cancelled I feel like they shouldn't make a fuss about it.
It was my understanding that DC was only officially canceled about 8 days ago. It was under 60 days from event, but still plenty of time.
The big 3 hotels had seen the writing on the wall and already offered to rollover to next year (not sure about refunds).
It was a bit of a bind for the organizers. Unless there was force majeure, they were still on the hook for the convention space, and Kemp is busy reopening the state despite rising numbers. So they had to decide if $$ or social responsibility was the correct answer. They kept hoping Kemp or Atlanta would save them from having to make the decision, but no luck there.
Well If they cancelled it they made the right choice. So their is that at least.
The newest wall building trend are racing stripes.
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W00t! Taxes are done!
I will be so happy when I don't have to do a P&L for WW's Lyft rides anymore. But he still did it for a couple of months at the start of 2020.
In a year, he had 9600 in ride income and over 7000 in ride fees and expenses. That's a net of around 2500 for over 12000 ride miles. So not worth it.
Bob Ross Captain and his crew were yelled at for taking long lunches, and napping.
We moved our dragon con stuff till next year. It took forever for us to get the hotel to refund us our stay tho. We almost got lawyers involved. Then all of a sudden they were like here is your money back thank you for doing business etc. Like yeah no not using you guys ever again but nice try.Well, you know how everyone who works at a hotel is a greedy a*$&+%! just looking for any reason to take your money. In fact, I heard that the front desk clerks get a cut of every dollar they can stick you for. If that isn't incentive to f#!% people over, I don't know what is!
I think I remember going over a lost of misadventures with you and vidmaster7 some time ago.
F#~~! Grant Imahara from Mythbusters died at age 49 from a brain aneurysm.
damn.
I loved him....
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W00t! Taxes are done!
I will be so happy when I don't have to do a P&L for WW's Lyft rides anymore. But he still did it for a couple of months at the start of 2020.
In a year, he had 9600 in ride income and over 7000 in ride fees and expenses. That's a net of around 2500 for over 12000 ride miles. So not worth it.
I'd heard that drivers were grossly undercompensated, but that's just ridiculous. Even at an average of 30 mph (probably generous, even in Texas, considering having to stop to let the person(s) in/out, that's a whopping $6.25 an hour. And I assume that's not including the time it took to actually get to the person...
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I am pretty sure the only actual Mexican ingredient in Taco Bell is the water. Montezuma's Revenge is all up in me. F~&@ing food poisoning.
We have genetic engineering. Give me a vulture stomach already so I can eat fast food without dying when a friend sends me a gift card, as happened here.
We're just now feeling better.
You know you would hope during a pandemic you could avoid illnesses borne of lazy hand washing.
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*sigh*
Interviewee: "I don't understand the point of your question."
Me: "I'm setting up a troubleshooting scenario based on the experience you put on your resume. I'm looking to see how you think through the problem."
Interviewee: "I don't understand the point of that."
Me: "Ok, thank you for your time."
HR Rep: "[Redacted], we'll get back to you either later this week or early next week to discuss the next steps. You can drop off the call now."
[waits for interviewee to vacate the video chat - the interview process now enters the post-interview discussion of the candidate with the HR and IT personnel on the call]
Me: "Do I really have to explain why I'm not going to let us hire that guy?"
HR: "No, but just give me how you want the wording to read on the forms..."
My Boss: "You could have at least given him a chance to answer a different question."
HR Rep, Me simultaneously: "Why??" and "I don't understand the point of that."
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I am pretty sure the only actual Mexican ingredient in Taco Bell is the water. Montezuma's Revenge is all up in me. F!#@ing food poisoning.
We have genetic engineering. Give me a vulture stomach already so I can eat fast food without dying when a friend sends me a gift card, as happened here.
We're just now feeling better.
You know you would hope during a pandemic you could avoid illnesses borne of lazy hand washing.
There is almost nothing that exists as a legally organized concern in the US that serves food-like-products that's as wretched as Taco Bell.
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W00t! Taxes are done!
I will be so happy when I don't have to do a P&L for WW's Lyft rides anymore. But he still did it for a couple of months at the start of 2020.
In a year, he had 9600 in ride income and over 7000 in ride fees and expenses. That's a net of around 2500 for over 12000 ride miles. So not worth it.
I'd heard that drivers were grossly undercompensated, but that's just ridiculous. Even at an average of 30 mph (probably generous, even in Texas, considering having to stop to let the person(s) in/out, that's a whopping $6.25 an hour. And I assume that's not including the time it took to actually get to the person...
The nail in the coffin was the letter we got from Geico saying, "Oh, wait, you've been driving Lyft? Gee, we'd really hate to have to drop you as a client."
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Happy birthday to Icyshadow and Tiny T-Rex!
Also, Happy Bastille Day everyone!
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He's...what...10 now? Icyshadow, I mean. We all know Tiny T-Rex is secretly a 107-yr-old master of ancient knowledge who has come down from his mountain to reacquaint himself with humanity.
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Happy B-Day, Icyshadow! ;)
Taxes taken care of. This has lead to some fighting in the household.
Happy birthday Icy.
Happy birthday Tiny T-Rex.
Happy Icyday, Happy T-Rex day.