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Uh oh... this is going to be ugly *shrug* eh good for business.
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And bad for pants!
*waves American flag attached to 2x4 and gives thumbs up to everyone*
HOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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*runs up breathing hard covered in sweat* oh no I was two posts too late!
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That face looks like he got a thumb up somewhere for sure.
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It's really frustrating when management takes away your ability to be passive-aggressive.
As I've mentioned, policy at Global Megacorporation is that to ensure other people can see your calendar, you set up your vacation time as "meetings" to which everyone in your department is invited. So of course:
(1) Many people consider "department" to mean, "entire 2,100-person division"
(2) These same people can't be bothered to turn off "request responses", so all 2,100 people are asked to respond as to whether or not they'll attend this meeting.It's a massive, stupid timewaster. Every week I spend two or three minutes accepting such meetings. Multiply by 2,100, and we're losing dozens of hours a week responding to nonexistent meeting requests.
Many of us took the passive-aggressive approach: If someone requested a response, we responded. These idiots started getting dozens (or even hundreds) of email responses to their meeting requests. They complained. So they were told to stop requesting responses, and we were told to stop responding.
Needless to say, they haven't stopped, and we have.
I hate email morons.
WHY
WHY IN THE NAME OF WHATEVER
WHY WOULD YOU MARK VACATION TIME AS A MEETING
NO MATTER WHAT EMAIL PROGRAM YOU USE YOU CAN MARK IT AS VACATION OR JUST 'UNAVAILABLE'
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAs far as I can tell, our old homebrew email server was built to support secure organizations so you couldn't see other people's calendars. Thus, time marked as "vacation" wasn't visible to other users, but if you were in a meeting with them then you'd see the time blocked out.
Now that we've switched to a Microsoft Exchange server, I think the answer is, "Clueless management".
pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
I've seen some weird email server builds in my time but even then if you had only permission to see someones calender (not actual details of an apointment), you'd only see the blocks of time someone had.
And now that you're on exchange its even more ?????????????????????
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Last night I was too tired to cook and FatApple's was closed so we decided to do takeout from Barney's. Instead of yet again attempting a food delivery service, we decided to pick it up ourselves. (Every order from Barney's we made through a delivery service was missing at least 1 item, convincing us that it was Barney's issue instead of the deliverypeople's because I didn't want to believe there were that many dishonest people in the world, even in delivery.)
Unfortunately, our order was complete and piping hot instead of lukewarm-to-cold as with all our attempts at delivery.
With Impus Major willing to come with me on pickup runs so one of us can park while the other runs in, there's utterly no reason to ever use a delivery service again.
As I mentioned previously, I find it ironic that COVID may have killed the delivery industry by forcing so many dishonest people into it. How hard is it to not eat my food when you're delivering it to me? Apparently, with Barney's (half a dozen orders in a row with missing food), too hard.
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I'm happy that the IRS and the California State Franchise Tax Board have both enabled online status checks for your refund.
I'm unhappy that it looks like I won't get either refund until April.
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Pops: I see you finally snapped this year
Me: Huh?
Pops: I saw the boulder, I know you tend to get stir crazy if you don't work, so I assumed that was you.
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Last night I was too tired to cook and FatApple's was closed so we decided to do takeout from Barney's. Instead of yet again attempting a food delivery service, we decided to pick it up ourselves. (Every order from Barney's we made through a delivery service was missing at least 1 item, convincing us that it was Barney's issue instead of the deliverypeople's because I didn't want to believe there were that many dishonest people in the world, even in delivery.)
Unfortunately, our order was complete and piping hot instead of lukewarm-to-cold as with all our attempts at delivery.
With Impus Major willing to come with me on pickup runs so one of us can park while the other runs in, there's utterly no reason to ever use a delivery service again.
As I mentioned previously, I find it ironic that COVID may have killed the delivery industry by forcing so many dishonest people into it. How hard is it to not eat my food when you're delivering it to me? Apparently, with Barney's (half a dozen orders in a row with missing food), too hard.
We've been doing this for years, even before the pandemic. Our neighborhood is notoriously problematic for GPS so if you don't explain EXACTLY how to get to your house then you'll never see your delivery.
Since Crookshanks has started driving I let her drive and then when we get there I put on my mask and tell her to keep the car ready. Then after I pick up the food I run back to car shouting "Go! Go!! Go!!!".
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Last night I was too tired to cook and FatApple's was closed so we decided to do takeout from Barney's. Instead of yet again attempting a food delivery service, we decided to pick it up ourselves. (Every order from Barney's we made through a delivery service was missing at least 1 item, convincing us that it was Barney's issue instead of the deliverypeople's because I didn't want to believe there were that many dishonest people in the world, even in delivery.)
Unfortunately, our order was complete and piping hot instead of lukewarm-to-cold as with all our attempts at delivery.
With Impus Major willing to come with me on pickup runs so one of us can park while the other runs in, there's utterly no reason to ever use a delivery service again.
As I mentioned previously, I find it ironic that COVID may have killed the delivery industry by forcing so many dishonest people into it. How hard is it to not eat my food when you're delivering it to me? Apparently, with Barney's (half a dozen orders in a row with missing food), too hard.
We've been doing this for years, even before the pandemic. Our neighborhood is notoriously problematic for GPS so if you don't explain EXACTLY how to get to your house then you'll never see your delivery.
Since Crookshanks has started driving I let her drive and then when we get there I put on my mask and tell her to keep the car ready. Then after I pick up the food I run back to car shouting "Go! Go!! Go!!!".
The problem is, there's a significant difference between rural and urban traffic. For example, GothBard found a wonderful restaurant in downtown Berkeley that pre-prepares a meal for four for you, you pick it up before 2:00 pm, then pop it in the oven and re-heat it for dinner that evening. Amazingly convenient!
Except to drive the 2.9 miles to downtown Berkeley is at least 12 minutes (probably more) and then there's no parking anywhere near the restaurant, so the driver has to circle the block a couple of times until pickup is complete. It's a half-hour trip. It would be much nicer to pay someone $20 to bring the food to us. Yet that doesn't work because the food arrives with some parts missing.
Shiro has taken to insisting that every restaurant staple its bags shut. If they won't do that, he won't order from them. His missing items have plummeted to near 0. So there's an alternative solution.
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Whee! Stimulus payment shows as "Pending" on my bank account. Time to buy more stocks!
Maybe invest in a pillory, too. Perhaps a ducking stool, or a gibbet, if things are getting Serious.
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Last night I was too tired to cook and FatApple's was closed so we decided to do takeout from Barney's. Instead of yet again attempting a food delivery service, we decided to pick it up ourselves. (Every order from Barney's we made through a delivery service was missing at least 1 item, convincing us that it was Barney's issue instead of the deliverypeople's because I didn't want to believe there were that many dishonest people in the world, even in delivery.)
Unfortunately, our order was complete and piping hot instead of lukewarm-to-cold as with all our attempts at delivery.
With Impus Major willing to come with me on pickup runs so one of us can park while the other runs in, there's utterly no reason to ever use a delivery service again.
As I mentioned previously, I find it ironic that COVID may have killed the delivery industry by forcing so many dishonest people into it. How hard is it to not eat my food when you're delivering it to me? Apparently, with Barney's (half a dozen orders in a row with missing food), too hard.
We've been doing this for years, even before the pandemic. Our neighborhood is notoriously problematic for GPS so if you don't explain EXACTLY how to get to your house then you'll never see your delivery.
Since Crookshanks has started driving I let her drive and then when we get there I put on my mask and tell her to keep the car ready. Then after I pick up the food I run back to car shouting "Go! Go!! Go!!!".
The problem is, there's a significant difference between rural and urban traffic. For example, GothBard found a wonderful restaurant in downtown Berkeley that pre-prepares a meal for four for you, you pick it up before 2:00 pm, then pop it in the oven and re-heat it for dinner that evening. Amazingly convenient!
Except to drive the 2.9 miles to downtown Berkeley is at least 12 minutes (probably more) and then there's no parking anywhere near the restaurant, so the driver has to circle...
You realize I live in the middle of a large metropolitan area right? Madison itself has 250,000+ and then you have all the parasitic suburbs like Middleton, Monona, Fitchburg, Verona, and Sun Prairie.
You have to drive at least 25 minutes to get to anything rural.
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The downside to getting an inch or two of snow in the middle of March is it's almost always too heavy for the snow blower to throw, so I shovelled off 20 properties last night.
The upside is my back isn't as sore as I thought it would be and I ended up getting a killer ab workout.
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You realize I live in the middle of a large metropolitan area right? Madison itself has 250,000+ and then you have all the parasitic suburbs like Middleton, Monona, Fitchburg, Verona, and Sun Prairie.
You have to drive at least 25 minutes to get to anything rural.
LOLOL. I'm Californian. Anything under a million people is "rural". We consider our state capital (Sacramento, population 500,000+ and home to significant traffic jams) to be "rural".
When you live jammed in like lemmings, a city with a population of 250,000 seems downright pleasant...
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In fairness, every college town in the Midwest is considered "in the sticks".
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Everywhere is the sticks to me.
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I support this.
But then, I'm a hermit by nature...
(It would never pass, but I'd love to see a social experiment where they tried this somewhere and evaluated the results.)
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Oh, and for everyone's information, today is the LAST (full) DAY OF WORK ON THE BATHROOM!!!!!
General Contractor is coming in to do final cleaning in the bathroom and put in the threshold, then haul all their trash away and clean the site.
We still have to finish the painting (this weekend) and then he has to come back and caulk the edges of the tile (Shiro pointed out that if I do it myself I don't get the contractor's warranty on the tile), but after today I will no longer have to sit around in my living room with the kitchen blocked off, the windows open and the heat off, and mask on.
To say it will be a pleasant change would be an understatement.
Last night I was too tired to cook and FatApple's was closed so we decided to do takeout from Barney's. Instead of yet again attempting a food delivery service, we decided to pick it up ourselves. (Every order from Barney's we made through a delivery service was missing at least 1 item, convincing us that it was Barney's issue instead of the deliverypeople's because I didn't want to believe there were that many dishonest people in the world, even in delivery.)
Unfortunately, our order was complete and piping hot instead of lukewarm-to-cold as with all our attempts at delivery.
With Impus Major willing to come with me on pickup runs so one of us can park while the other runs in, there's utterly no reason to ever use a delivery service again.
As I mentioned previously, I find it ironic that COVID may have killed the delivery industry by forcing so many dishonest people into it. How hard is it to not eat my food when you're delivering it to me? Apparently, with Barney's (half a dozen orders in a row with missing food), too hard.
As a mathematician you should know that your current experience might be a statsitical fluke, not the rule. More data needed.
And regarding its temperature. Was it piping-hot when you arrived for it, or when you came back home with it?
Shiro has taken to insisting that every restaurant staple its bags shut. If they won't do that, he won't order from them. His missing items have plummeted to near 0. So there's an alternative solution.
Ok, adding Shiro's experience, that might composite the necessary data for that conclusion :/
You realize I live in the middle of a large metropolitan area right? Madison itself has 250,000+ and then you have all the parasitic suburbs like Middleton, Monona, Fitchburg, Verona, and Sun Prairie.
I wanted to say "how cute", but then NobodysHome dissed me with...
LOLOL. I'm Californian. Anything under a million people is "rural". We consider our state capital (Sacramento, population 500,000+ and home to significant traffic jams) to be "rural".
Kraków is around 750 thousands, though it has neigboring out-of-city boundaries villages that act like a sort of suburbs that push the number of people around above million.
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The Madison metro area is about 650k people. I don't care where you're from, that is still a significant number of people. Significant enough that it's still in the top 100 of US metro populations (86th, to be precise). There's a LOT of the US with less population than that.
You realize I live in the middle of a large metropolitan area right? Madison itself has 250,000+ and then you have all the parasitic suburbs like Middleton, Monona, Fitchburg, Verona, and Sun Prairie.
You have to drive at least 25 minutes to get to anything rural.
LOLOL. I'm Californian. Anything under a million people is "rural". We consider our state capital (Sacramento, population 500,000+ and home to significant traffic jams) to be "rural".
When you live jammed in like lemmings, a city with a population of 250,000 seems downright pleasant...
Sacramento IS rural.
It's surrounded by hours of almonds, olives, cattle, sheep and rice in every freaking direction. Putting a couple of shiny ugly tall buildings in the middle of it do not make it a glittering metropolis.Although there used to be some darned fine restaurants.
EDIT: One branch of my mother's family have lived there for over a century. My great-aunt used to take umbrage at the "rural" thing, too, and the rest of the family laughed at her for it. Mainly because they owned a sheep and rice ranch just outside of town.
The Madison metro area is about 650k people. I don't care where you're from, that is still a significant number of people. Significant enough that it's still in the top 100 of US metro populations (86th, to be precise). There's a LOT of the US with less population than that.
Plus we're right in the middle of milkmaid territory.
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What I learned looking through Call of Cthulhu.
1. No wonder why people are disappointed with Cthulhu in Pathfinder, in Call of Cthulhu he has a strength of 700.
2. Lovecraft was certainly working through some feelings about vajayjays.
Whee! Stimulus payment shows as "Pending" on my bank account. Time to buy more stocks!
That's what you're supposed to be doing with these stimulus things, right? Investing it?
You should buy a 3D printer and make stuff.
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hermit by nature
Hermit by Nature is objectively a terrible name for a band/hip hop group.
I have two 3d printers.You should buy a 3D printer and make stuff.Whee! Stimulus payment shows as "Pending" on my bank account. Time to buy more stocks!
That's what you're supposed to be doing with these stimulus things, right? Investing it?
Oooo, really?! Wow, what kinds/brands? Would you recommend them?
Edit: I'm shopping for one, looking like a resin printer as the prints seem noticeably better over filament.
Night John.
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I suggest breaking some legs.
Ugh... that sucks gran. Hopefully the rest of your night goes better.
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I suggest breaking some legs.
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First-shift person: {checks laundry} "Hey, it's [Lazy Person] from second-shift."Same first-shift person, talking to self: "Why is she in the laundry cart?"
First-shift person: {checks note} "Huh. She told third shift dude to 'wash and fold what he had time for.' Guess she got washed and folded."
Washed & folded second-shift person: {moans}
First-shift person: "Guess I'll deliver you to that Karen in 211. She looks like a towel and sheet thief."
Ghost of Dick Hallorann: {appears}
First-shift person: "Or maybe room 237."
That feels more like a arithmetic problem then a joke.