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Wooooow...
It's November.
- We haven't had measurable rain since August, and that was all of 0.04" (1 mm). (Before that our last rainfall was in May.)
- I'm opening the windows before 9:00 am every morning because it's already over 60°F (15.6°C).
This summer was the worst fire season in California's modern history. If we don't get a break, next season might be even worse. (On the other hand, I suppose if we get no rain at all for a year, it's not like anything will grow to burn.)
I am displeased with this development.

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Woran wrote:It's not about how good you are. It's about how incompetent the others are.Mark Hoover 330 wrote:I never know what I'm doing at work.I keep telling people this but somehow they keep me employed.
This is true, I spent five years Office Space-ing Toys R Us (going in when I felt like it, being purposely late every shift, being brutally honest with management, and only doing what I felt like, and I got bigger raises then everyone else there.

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Drejk wrote:This is true, I spent five years Office Space-ing Toys R Us (going in when I felt like it, being purposely late every shift, being brutally honest with management, and only doing what I felt like, and I got bigger raises then everyone else there.Woran wrote:It's not about how good you are. It's about how incompetent the others are.Mark Hoover 330 wrote:I never know what I'm doing at work.I keep telling people this but somehow they keep me employed.
I hate you so much.

captain yesterday |

Wooooow...
It's November.
- We haven't had measurable rain since August, and that was all of 0.04" (1 mm). (Before that our last rainfall was in May.)
- I'm opening the windows before 9:00 am every morning because it's already over 60°F (15.6°C).This summer was the worst fire season in California's modern history. If we don't get a break, next season might be even worse. (On the other hand, I suppose if we get no rain at all for a year, it's not like anything will grow to burn.)
I am displeased with this development.
It's 70 degrees today and sunny.
I am pleased.

NobodysHome |
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And Impus Minor's English teacher gets even more points.
As I've mentioned, she's the only one who really understands how to implement online learning properly: "Here's the topic for the day in a 10-minute presentation. Here's your follow-up work for the session. Here's what I expect you to have done by the end. Here are your resources. And I'm here the whole time if you want help or have any questions."
And today she said, "I know that none of you are old enough to vote, but I know the election has you stressed out, and online learning isn't helping, so today you'll watch a 10-minute video, write a 1-paragraph essay, and take the rest of the time to just RELAX."
I really, really like her.

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I have finished Crying Suns. Beautiful (in a 16-bit pixel art way) game that is an accumulated homage to SF classics - Asimov, Clarke, Dune (not that last is blatantly obvious from the start with the main character's surname being Idaho, duh). It plays on a lot of classic sf tropes and philosophical concerns.

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OK, new employees are cute.
Coming in all idealistic, writing about looking forward to "implementing vision" and "joining you all on our journey".
I give 'em 18 months to become as jaded as the rest of us.
Aw, that is so cute!
Yeah, either you become jaded and cynical or you burn out.
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OK, new employees are cute.
Coming in all idealistic, writing about looking forward to "implementing vision" and "joining you all on our journey".
I give 'em 18 months to become as jaded as the rest of us.
Nobody should say they are 'implementing vision' unless they are actually a cyborg activating their Z-Ray Gaze.

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I just basically IM'ed my manager, "Yeah, I'm out of work for the week, so I'm going to be watching (relevant) TV all day tomorrow," and her response was, "Have fun!"
I love my manager.
Unfortunately, the "TV" is a 6-hour training session on our new product, so it's not exactly five star entertainment. But it is curling up in my cuddler with a giant mug for 6 hours and not thinking.

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NobodysHome wrote:OK, new employees are cute.
Coming in all idealistic, writing about looking forward to "implementing vision" and "joining you all on our journey".
I give 'em 18 months to become as jaded as the rest of us.
Aw, that is so cute!
Yeah, either you become jaded and cynical or you burn out.
Or you become the Chris Traeger of construction.

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Vany's Work Story Time!
My company acts as the business office/billing department for a lot of different clients. A lot of them. Ranges from the medical field to your cell phone bill to your utility bills.
One of our phone reps, for reasons I never found out, gave out an internal phone number for our IT team in India to one of the customers of one of our energy company clients.
So now we have a recording of a customer talking to one of our IT guys in India about her electric bill.
This went about as well as can be imagined.
The IT guy really held it together very well. The customer completely lost her s@+~ altogether.

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I just basically IM'ed my manager, "Yeah, I'm out of work for the week, so I'm going to be watching (relevant) TV all day tomorrow," and her response was, "Have fun!"
I love my manager.
Unfortunately, the "TV" is a 6-hour training session on our new product, so it's not exactly five star entertainment. But it is curling up in my cuddler with a giant mug for 6 hours and not thinking.
Your team hiring abroad? ;)

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Woran wrote:NobodysHome wrote:Your team hiring abroad? ;)I just basically IM'ed my manager, "Yeah, I'm out of work for the week, so I'm going to be watching (relevant) TV all day tomorrow," and her response was, "Have fun!"
I love my manager.
Unfortunately, the "TV" is a 6-hour training session on our new product, so it's not exactly five star entertainment. But it is curling up in my cuddler with a giant mug for 6 hours and not thinking.
Amusingly enough, no, they weren't Indian. One's from Central America and the other from South America. But yes, not from the U.S.
NH... she's asking you for a job!

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I still haven't been able to make it through the first couple of episodes of the Mandalorian.
I am so sorry. I will start a petition immediately for this injustice. (I know what it looks like but please note I am not using the sarcastic alias)
*makes sign that says "Captain yesterday needs more free time... or else!"*

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NobodysHome wrote:NH... she's asking you for a job!Woran wrote:NobodysHome wrote:Your team hiring abroad? ;)I just basically IM'ed my manager, "Yeah, I'm out of work for the week, so I'm going to be watching (relevant) TV all day tomorrow," and her response was, "Have fun!"
I love my manager.
Unfortunately, the "TV" is a 6-hour training session on our new product, so it's not exactly five star entertainment. But it is curling up in my cuddler with a giant mug for 6 hours and not thinking.
Amusingly enough, no, they weren't Indian. One's from Central America and the other from South America. But yes, not from the U.S.
WTH, Vanykrye! I posted that, recognized that I was responding to the wrong thing, and deleted it, all in under 120 seconds.
What do you do, have a daemon monitoring FaWtL?

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Great Moments in Parenting (Apparently potentially offensive):
I'm not like that. You'll inherit plenty from me! So if you decide that you want your lifestyle to be giving handjobs to homeless men for dimes in Amsterdam, I'll support you in that.
Impus Major: My god, Father, that's the most inspiring speech you've ever given me! Right up there with, "I'm going to go hang out outside the women's prison and pick up girls!"

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I have this RPG set during a zombie apocalypse called Dead Reign.
One of the classes in the core book is called Survivor and includes a table for rolling a random pre zombie apocalypse profession, every time I roll either Landscaper or Construction Worker.
I got a new book with a few new classes, one is called Wheelman and has a random table to see what kind of driving profession you had pre zombie apocalypse. Every time I either roll Construction Worker or Race/Stunt Driver.

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John Napier 698 wrote:DovahkiinThat's pretty good.
Thanks. It was recommended to me on Youtube.