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Two "I'm an adventurer" moments from yard work.
Walkings a bit of an issue sometimes, so I have a large sturdy denim sack full of tools. Brush. whack whack whack with the machete. Low stuff, pull out the manual wheed whacker. Roots. out comes the ditch axe.
Yup. ~Literal golf bag of murder weapons.
Mow the lawn. Get to the old mower. Push both lawn mowers at once... wonder if the DM would let me dual wield them.
I once laid out all our hammers, axea, pick axes and other sharp objects on the ground in a wide swath and sent the picture to the boss with the caption "At least we can keep working through a zombie outbreak!".
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If your boss makes you keep doing landscaping while the dead are rising, you might want to find a new boss.
Absolutely! But I have a key to our trailer so if a zombie outbreak occurs I know the first place I'm heading.
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If your boss makes you keep doing landscaping while the dead are rising, you might want to find a new boss.
Well, pressing every landscaper into service to stand over every grave holding a heavy pointy object could be the worlds most important game of whackamole...
Just have undertakers tie everyone's shoelaces together before burying them. Effective and hilarious.If your boss makes you keep doing landscaping while the dead are rising, you might want to find a new boss.Well, pressing every landscaper into service to stand over every grave holding a heavy pointy object could be the worlds most important game of whackamole...
The 'zombie shuffle' explained.
"What do you mean you don't have my rewards number on my reservation? I stay here all the time!"
1) Your rewards number isn't on the reservation because you didn't put in on there when you made the reservation online.
2) No matter how often you stay here, the system does not automagically add your number to your reservation.
3) "All the time"? You stayed here once about 3 weeks ago, and once about a year ago. That hardly counts as "all the time".
Interesting. I remember when it was automatic. I guess hotels realized they were screwing themselves that way.
Fantasy Monster: Forgling Gremlin.
This gremlins love forges and smiths' work.
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We dropped the kids off at camp up on Lake Texoma this afternoon. They've been away from us at my mother's before, and on their class camping trip, but never with people we didn't know. So this feels a little odd. We pick them up on Saturday morning.
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We dropped the kids off at camp up on Lake Texoma this afternoon. They've been away from us at my mother's before, and on their class camping trip, but never with people we didn't know. So this feels a little odd. We pick them up on Saturday morning.
Why do I have Addams Family Values flashbacks?
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We dropped the kids off at camp up on Lake Texoma this afternoon. They've been away from us at my mother's before, and on their class camping trip, but never with people we didn't know. So this feels a little odd. We pick them up on Saturday morning.Why do I have Addams Family Values flashbacks?
There's a reason I sometimes call Hermione "Gwendsday".
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It is 92 degrees in here.
I may soon cease to exist.
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It is 92 degrees in here.
I may soon cease to exist.
Stay in a freezer for the next day, it looks like colder weather is on the way.
We're suffering through Twain's "summer in San Francisco" syndrome. We've had ONE day over 70 this year, and very few over 65. Typically by the time we're ready for our lunch walk the sun hasn't yet appeared and it's a tossup whether or not it's broken 60. Turning off the heat may be been premature.
Stay in a freezer for the next day, it looks like colder weather is on the way.It is 92 degrees in here.
I may soon cease to exist.
it can't get here fast enough.
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Meanwhile I'm trying to get through the next day or two below 80 degrees.
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We're suffering through Twain's "summer in San Francisco" syndrome. We've had ONE day over 70 this year, and very few over 65. Typically by the time we're ready for our lunch walk the sun hasn't yet appeared and it's a tossup whether or not it's broken 60. Turning off the heat may be been premature.
Hate.
You.
So.
MUUUUUUUUUUCH.
Liquid.
I am liquid.
We had a very nice day of approximately 70.
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We had a very nice day of approximately 70.
158°F is very nice?!?!?!?
You really are a dragon!
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Nothing like coming on a Monday knowing that you have a MOUNTAIN of busywork to take care of over the week, only to learn that it's time for compliance training!
I have to watch it end-to-end at regular speed (no speeding it up to make it faster) and pass all the tests, which I've taken every year for the last 15 years.
So yeah, it's "nap 'til there's a pause in the audio, answer the questions, go back to sleep."
Not a bad afternoon.
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On the other hand, it's time for our 6-month performance evaluation, which is such an exercise in stupidity that I'm appalled anyone finds it useful. But apparently the youngsters like having clear goals set for them.
But as I've said before:
(1) I can no longer be promoted unless I decide I want to manage. Considering the clear-cutting of managers that happened last year, I was just as happy NOT to be in management.
(2) Raises at Global Megacorporation aren't really "a thing". If you manage to get Cost of Living, you're doing amazingly well.
(3) I do my job, I do it well, and everybody knows it.
So why do I have to spend 10 hours every 6 months filling out paperwork to prove it?
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It is 92 degrees in here.
I may soon cease to exist.
It is a mighty sweaty day here, too - 80 silly degrees, 27 sensible ones. I still went fencing, in an unventilated gym, in full kit, with a two-handed sword, and lived to tell the tale.
Or I assume I did, though if this is the Afterlife, it's a bit crap, to be honest.
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O.
So why do I have to spend 10 hours every 6 months filling out paperwork to prove it?
To justify the managers job. Obviously you're not working hard enough if you have 10 hours of free time to fill this out.
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We had a very nice day of approximately 70.158°F is very nice?!?!?!?
You really are a dragon!
It is so telling that Americans regard their own degrees to be so silly that they expect others to use the real ones...
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On the other hand, it's time for our 6-month performance evaluation, which is such an exercise in stupidity that I'm appalled anyone finds it useful. But apparently the youngsters like having clear goals set for them.
But as I've said before:
(1) I can no longer be promoted unless I decide I want to manage. Considering the clear-cutting of managers that happened last year, I was just as happy NOT to be in management.(2) Raises at Global Megacorporation aren't really "a thing". If you manage to get Cost of Living, you're doing amazingly well.
(3) I do my job, I do it well, and everybody knows it.
So why do I have to spend 10 hours every 6 months filling out paperwork to prove it?
It could be worse, they could be trying to make you do paperwork, period.
So far I'm doing well, but considering I went pretty much all of last year not filling out paperwork I'm doing phenomenal (I've already handed in the paperwork for 5 times the jobs I did last year (last year I filled out and handed in the paperwork for 1 job out of 18 jobs).
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It is so telling that Americans regard their own degrees to be so silly that they expect others to use the real ones...We had a very nice day of approximately 70.158°F is very nice?!?!?!?
You really are a dragon!
Americans don't actually use their degrees, it's just something we use as a measuring stick when we are at jobs we aren't qualified for or properly trained in.
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To justify the managers job. Obviously you're not working hard enough if you have 10 hours of free time to fill this out.O.
So why do I have to spend 10 hours every 6 months filling out paperwork to prove it?
At Toys R Us they were constantly trying to find a way to measure our job performance for the back of house team (or Brute Squad as we were unofficially called) but they could never figure out a way and so they finally gave up.
They tried everything, from how many holes on the shelf we could fill, to how fast we could do something to how fast we responded to alerts.
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It is so telling that Americans regard their own degrees to be so silly that they expect others to use the real ones...We had a very nice day of approximately 70.158°F is very nice?!?!?!?
You really are a dragon!
So, Drejk, where are you from exactly?
Canada (America, but not)?
Britain (like me)?
The centre of the earth?
I'm not trying to be impertinent, I'm just curious.
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Poland.
Apparently, the geographical center of Europe was moved from us around, but folks can't actually decide if it is south of us, north of us, or east of us...
It is so telling that Americans regard their own degrees to be so silly that they expect others to use the real ones...
Americans will often poke fun at the feet to a mile or quarts to a gallon, but Fahrenheit is pretty universally accepted. Its based on the hottest and coldest days of the year in europe, so it works well in a temperate zone for every day use.
Also 70 isn't very hot. If you'd said 90 people would have realized you meant F.
I just don't have a concept for halfway to boiling a pot of water because I've never been in a room that hot. Anything past "you dead" is academic.
Today it was supposed to hit 68°F so I opened up the house in the morning, but the clouds never broke, the temperature never got over 62°F, and I have the choice of being chilly this evening or turning on the living room heat...
...in June...
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Poland.
Apparently, the geographical center of Europe was moved from us around, but folks can't actually decide if it is south of us, north of us, or east of us...
Awesome, thanks for letting me know.
Pozdrowienia dla Ciebie, mój drogi przyjacielu, z Wielkiej Brytanii!
(Yes, I had to use google translate).
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OK, that was abjectly painful.
The first compliance course I had to take yesterday (ethics), was actually a really solid course. It impressed me in giving me a lot of grey areas and edge cases to think about, and it's the first compliance course I've taken in a long time where I felt like it was worth my time.
Today was environmental safety, and of course some idiot had to try to gamify it. As I was showing it to the kids so they could see what I had to suffer through it hit me: It was like an early 2000s PBS Kids online educational game aimed at 5-7 year-olds. It was an abject insult to my intelligence and my dignity.
Did not like.
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Gamifying training? That's a paddlin.
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OK, that was abjectly painful.
The first compliance course I had to take yesterday (ethics), was actually a really solid course. It impressed me in giving me a lot of grey areas and edge cases to think about, and it's the first compliance course I've taken in a long time where I felt like it was worth my time.
Today was environmental safety, and of course some idiot had to try to gamify it. As I was showing it to the kids so they could see what I had to suffer through it hit me: It was like an early 2000s PBS Kids online educational game aimed at 5-7 year-olds. It was an abject insult to my intelligence and my dignity.
Did not like.
The long game is to undermine the environmental awareness that is supposed to be a result of such compliance training.
Make people angry, and less thoughtful people will mock the training and maliciously comply while the Company can check off their boxes.
Those who do not comply out of spite will either be promoted or let go pending office politics.
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OK, that was abjectly painful.
The first compliance course I had to take yesterday (ethics), was actually a really solid course. It impressed me in giving me a lot of grey areas and edge cases to think about, and it's the first compliance course I've taken in a long time where I felt like it was worth my time.
Today was environmental safety, and of course some idiot had to try to gamify it. As I was showing it to the kids so they could see what I had to suffer through it hit me: It was like an early 2000s PBS Kids online educational game aimed at 5-7 year-olds. It was an abject insult to my intelligence and my dignity.
Did not like.
The long game is to undermine the environmental awareness that is supposed to be a result of such compliance training.
Make people angry, and less thoughtful people will mock the training and maliciously comply while the Company can check off their boxes.
Those who do not comply out of spite will either be promoted or let go pending office politics.
I like it, but wrong kind of "environment".
It's the new buzzword for "workplace safety", kind of like "sanitation engineer" instead of "garbage man". Has nothing to do with the environment... except proper disposal of electronic waste was in it. Probably because we're a tech company...
Stayed home yesterday as I was broiled the day before. Back to work today.
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OK, that was abjectly painful.
The first compliance course I had to take yesterday (ethics), was actually a really solid course. It impressed me in giving me a lot of grey areas and edge cases to think about, and it's the first compliance course I've taken in a long time where I felt like it was worth my time.
Today was environmental safety, and of course some idiot had to try to gamify it. As I was showing it to the kids so they could see what I had to suffer through it hit me: It was like an early 2000s PBS Kids online educational game aimed at 5-7 year-olds. It was an abject insult to my intelligence and my dignity.
Did not like.
The long game is to undermine the environmental awareness that is supposed to be a result of such compliance training.
Make people angry, and less thoughtful people will mock the training and maliciously comply while the Company can check off their boxes.
Those who do not comply out of spite will either be promoted or let go pending office politics.
I like it, but wrong kind of "environment".
It's the new buzzword for "workplace safety", kind of like "sanitation engineer" instead of "garbage man". Has nothing to do with the environment... except proper disposal of electronic waste was in it. Probably because we're a tech company...
Our focus with former Employer was retail and covered physical, social and financial aspects, using the terminology like you indicated.
Along with a side helping of 'if you see something...'.
Suffice to say, after the 'reward' for 'saying something' came down, the workplace became Remarkably Quiet save for the old timers who were out of f*~#s to give.
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Suffice to say, after the 'reward' for 'saying something' came down, the workplace became Remarkably Quiet save for the old timers who were out of f~@#s to give.
Hey, that's me!
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Yeah, work is hard right now, but not in the sense of "difficult", but rather in the sense of "finding f-@#s to give".
I finished a 5-month project on Monday and I have a 5-day weekend coming up, so I have to find things to do from Tuesday-Friday. Motivation is low. Add to that that our SVP is apparently on the warpath about people taking exceptions to his back to the office mandate so come July I'll likely be commuting by BART for no valid business reason and I'm just not all that excited about doing anything extra for the company right now.
And yeah, quitting is an option (another department has a standing offer out to me at the same salary), but in this department I'm getting 35+ days off a year, no overtime, and very little stress. The other department is infamous for overworking its employees and giving them almost no time off. So you have to look at the big picture. I could make a point and walk away from the mandate on behalf of those who can't, but I would seriously decrease my quality of life. Or I can just BART in, my productivity will plummet because I don't have the tools I need, and my manager and director can complain to the SVP that he's killing their team's productivity.
It will be an interesting summer.
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Just got into a tiff about math online.
According to some, PEMDAS was either taught to me wrong, I am ancient somehow, or some combination thereof.
It could explain some of the difficulties I had with math growing up, and why I find math teacher to be shorthand for "b+~!#$## artist".
Just got into a tiff about math online.
According to some, PEMDAS was either taught to me wrong, I am ancient somehow, or some combination thereof.
It could explain some of the difficulties I had with math growing up, and why I find math teacher to be shorthand for "b~*~*$%~ artist".
I'd love to hear how it was taught to you, since I have some knowledge on the subject.
And yeah, after dealing with the math teachers at Albany High and DVC, I am really disappointed in the state of mathematics education.
If you're of the opinion that there's only one right way to reach a conclusion, you shouldn't be teaching. It's perfectly legitimate to say, "Since we have been studying factoring, use factoring to find the solutions to x^2-3x+2 = 0."
But if you say, "Find the solutions to x^2-3x+2 = 0" and you see the student just tried x=-2, x=-1, x=0, x=1, and x=2 and got the right answers, you have to give them credit, because *you* didn't specify HOW they should do it.
Just got into a tiff about math online.
According to some, PEMDAS was either taught to me wrong, I am ancient somehow, or some combination thereof.
Because like programming we have to pretend it's ordained by the inviolable laws of the universe when really some parts are just as subjective as anything they do in the english department.
Freshman year I got into an argument with a teacher over whether the square root of x was.. i forget the names but a one sided or two sided line thingy. Both 2 and -2 are the square roots of 4 , but convention said only the positive square root counts.
I'm still not convinced we do negative numbers the right way. i objectively exists but it shouldn't.