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I'm fairly certain my alignment changes by the hour based solely on the actions of those around me. I try to be good, but people make it so hard.
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Chaotic Good Until you Push me too Far then I am Not for Vanykrye it is LOL
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As I've said in a few places before, I work in IT, and I have been for about 20 years. I also have quite the healthy dose of intolerance for stupidity. It's made me jaded towards humanity on the whole. It is hard to balance between "User honestly doesn't know and hasn't been exposed to this before" and "No, I'm not kidding, is it plugged in? Power cord. It looks like a POWER CORD! Do you iron your own clothes at home? Use a vacuum cleaner? Any of this sound familiar? The cord that plugs into the wall outlet...ok, yes, please, go grab a coworker to help you."
Edit: TYPO THAT BUGGED THE CRAP OUT OF ME AS SOON AS I SAW IT. Thank you. I feel better now.
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As I've said in a few places before, I work in IT, and I have been for about 20 years. I also have quite the healthy dose of intolerance for stupidity. It's made me jaded towards humanity on the whole. It is hard to balance between "User honestly doesn't know and hasn't been exposed to this before" and "No, I'm not kidding, is it plugged in? Power cord. It looks like a POWER CORD! Do you iron your own clothes at home? Use a vacuum cleaner? Any of this sound familiar? The cord that plugs into the wall outlet...ok, yes, please, go grab a coworker to help you."
Oh, don't get me started. I set up a file server for the department. After losing THREE network cables, we put it in a locked server room to which only a handful of people had access.
Two weeks later, someone stole the network cable again.
"So, can we check the logs and see who accessed the room so we can fire someone's sorry butt?"
"Oh, no. We don't keep logs on who goes in and out of the room..."
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Now I ask you to fix my typo in the quoted section, because it is evidence that I can't type. Plus it's, you know, a simple typo in a section where I'm complaining about other people's harassment of my tranquility.
Yes, this is the part where Aiymi (aka Vany's Wife in NH's vernacular) would be rolling her eyes at me and telling me to settle down, it's fine, nobody would have noticed it. "It's just you that's the freak."
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Credit for finding this goes to Kajehase, but apparently Dischord records' entire back catalogue is now available for nowt on Bandcamp
Might a) be of interest and b)solve some Pandora/Spotify issues...
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Thanks NH!
I have some odd neuroses, I admit it. My mother was a high school English teacher for 30-35 years, and where I grew up, she ended up being my high school English/Literature teacher for all 4 years of high school. Oh, and Granny (Dad's side) was also a high school English teacher for about 16-18 years. She was teaching me calligraphy when I was 5. There are certain things where I was not allowed to be substandard.
I recognized about 5 bands from Dischord. My musical tastes are apparently not running in that same vein.
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Huh, I work in IT as well...and have feeling similar to Van's bout humanity...
Wonder if there is a correlation there.
And the "is it plugged in" thing is not a myth at all, as Van says, and I too have experienced it.
That and...for cripes sake people...address bar...NO! NOT THE GOOGLE SEARCH BAR...your web browser address bar, learn the freaking difference...GAHHHHH.
One would be surprised (or maybe not) by how many six figure "admin" end up white listing the ENTIRE internet (or nearly so) and then call us wonder why they are getting spam messages and what not.
The first part of your job title has the word network in it pal...maybe pretend to know something about them maybe. ;)
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That and...for cripes sake people...address bar...NO! NOT THE GOOGLE SEARCH BAR...your web browser address bar, learn the freaking difference...GAHHHHH.
Chrome does not help with its address bar doubling as google search bar.
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Thanks NH!
I have some odd neuroses, I admit it. My mother was a high school English teacher for 30-35 years, and where I grew up, she ended up being my high school English/Literature teacher for all 4 years of high school. Oh, and Granny (Dad's side) was also a high school English teacher for about 16-18 years. She was teaching me calligraphy when I was 5. There are certain things where I was not allowed to be substandard.
I recognized about 5 bands from Dischord. My musical tastes are apparently not running in that same vein.
When I was growing up, our school district had a simple rule: If you misused the variants of "to", "its", or "they're", you got an automatic zero on your paper.
So when I see billboards such as,
"Anaconda: It swallows it's victims whole"
I weep a little inside.
And interestingly enough, I find that when someone misuses one of the "big three" on their resume, it's a good sign they're not going to be a decent candidate...
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Hey, lisamarlene!
My impression is that you're doing pulled pork for tomorrow. I'm very likely to do Costco and Safeway runs. Anything you want me to pick up?
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And interestingly enough, I find that when someone misuses one of the "big three" on their resume, it's a good sign they're not going to be a decent candidate...
Yes. A thousand times yes. My boss thinks I'm too hard on people when I look at a resume for 30 seconds and say "Nope." He'll argue the person's experience, qualifications, etc. I'll look at him and say "He misspelled his own address. Two lines later he says he has 'great attention to detail.' Also, he changed fonts twice in the middle of a sentence, and over here he changed fonts in the middle of a word. I think he's copying and pasting from a bunch of other resumes and not bothering to even adjust the formatting. No."
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Yes. A thousand times yes. My boss thinks I'm too hard on people when I look at a resume for 30 seconds and say "Nope." He'll argue the person's experience, qualifications, etc. I'll look at him and say "He misspelled his own address. Two lines later he says he has 'great attention to detail.' Also, he changed fonts twice in the middle of a sentence, and over here he changed fonts in the middle of a word. I think he's copying and pasting from a bunch of other resumes and not bothering to even adjust the formatting. No."
And interestingly enough, I find that when someone misuses one of the "big three" on their resume, it's a good sign they're not going to be a decent candidate...
Ever since my very first hiring committee, I have been adamant: If there is an error anywhere on a resume, that resume belongs in the trash.
My reasoning is simple: Your resume is supposed to represent you at your very peak of creativity, imagination, and attention to detail. If you cannot create an error-free resume, then you cannot create error-free work of any other kind. So why on Earth would I hire you?
And I have never been proven wrong; the few times my bosses ignored me and interviewed the candidates anyway, they were inevitably terrible candidates.
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My English major soul feels for ya NH.
Also, hey, Little Caesar's pizza, could you kindly use real English...
"Extra most bestest" is NOT proper English...if you could not further entice people to speak like they are extras in Idiocracy, that would be greatly appreciated!
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If I make an error in my resume and write that I don't pay attention to details, do I get bonus points for honesty?
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Hey, lisamarlene!
My impression is that you're doing pulled pork for tomorrow. I'm very likely to do Costco and Safeway runs. Anything you want me to pick up?
I emailed you earlier and you never responded. I'm sitting in my car in the grocery store parking lot.
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Also, if you don't like throwing money away, why in Sam Hill would you ever shop at Safeway?
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Also, if you don't like throwing money away, why in Sam Hill would you ever shop at Safeway?
Because Impus Major pretty much lives on Marie Callendar or Lean Cuisine in the afternoon, and our local Target stopped carrying more than token varieties of either, most of which he despises. (Salisbury Steak, Roast Turkey, and the 'updated' Chicken with Gravy are the three on his "will not eat" list, and those are 3 of the 5 flavors Target carries.)
And in spite of my referring to it as Theftway, it sells frozen lunches at roughly 1/2 the price of the corner store. So, for me, it's saving money. Because Impus Major.
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My favorite "resume in the trash" story was from my time at the video store, where the owner occasionally asked me to look over resumes. He was absolutely incredulous that I would care about spelling on a resume where the applicant was applying to be a video store clerk.
Yet the two people he hired over my protestations had issues with a few things such as:
The third one got them both fired within a month of being hired.
So yeah, even at video stores, attention to detail matters. Go figure.
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If I make an error in my resume and write that I don't pay attention to details, do I get bonus points for honesty?
Yes. You still don't get hired by me (and I highly suspect not by NH either), but you might get a phone call where I appreciate the honesty and the chuckle.
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I'm with you 100% on hiring and seeing mistakes on resumés.
This reminds me of a throwaway comment I made on a thread a few years ago about not hiring people who used profanity during a job interview.
I was flabberghasted that some people didn't agree with my assertion that cussing like a sailor during a job interview was a very bad sign in a potential employee: It shows terrible judgement and a lack of self-control.
EDIT: HEY—That was on the infamous "I drank the host's milk" thread that became a Paizo board meme for a while!
Hahah! I remember that!
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Urgh... Don't remind us of that calamity...
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I'm with you 100% on hiring and seeing mistakes on resumés.
This reminds me of a throwaway comment I made on a thread a few years ago about not hiring people who used profanity during a job interview.
I was flabberghasted that some people didn't agree with my assertion that cussing like a sailor during a job interview was a very bad sign in a potential employee: It shows terrible judgement and a lack of self-control.
EDIT: HEY—That was on the infamous "I drank the host's milk" thread that became a Paizo board meme for a while!
What got to me was when we were interviewing for teaching positions and the candidates cussed like sailors during their presentations.
The mind boggled.
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Nobody, I have a small problem.
I just realized that I still have no oven door.
(Housemate ordered the replacement parts to repair it, they were supposed to arrive mid-week, and then the company called back and said, "Just kidding; the part has been discontinued.")
So, rather than bake the cookies six at a time in the damned toaster oven, may the kids and I come over a bit earlier and use your oven, which I am assuming is functional?
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I have a suspicion that we may have a new range and oven when we return from Oregon. His Lordship is displeased. When His Lordship is displeased, his m.o. is to tinker and curse for days until he is either triumphant or ready to throw buckets of money at the problem to make it go away.
Which is a useful quality to have in a landlord/housemate, really. He just never seems to get things done when they actually need to be done.
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Nobody, I have a small problem.
I just realized that I still have no oven door.
(Housemate ordered the replacement parts to repair it, they were supposed to arrive mid-week, and then the company called back and said, "Just kidding; the part has been discontinued.")So, rather than bake the cookies six at a time in the damned toaster oven, may the kids and I come over a bit earlier and use your oven, which I am assuming is functional?
You may, but whether any of us are around other than Impus Major in his leopard skin robe and pug undies is TBD.
I suspect Hermione will be even more smitten once she sees his morning fashion choices!
Unfortunately, no one else in the house will be ready for company before at least 10:30 or 11:00 am, so there's the little, "no one else in the house is a morning person" thing...
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Leopard skin robe?
Pug undies?
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Leopad skin robe?
Sorry. Should be "leopard print robe".
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Not that early. I was thinking more like 12:30?
I still have to do a final load of laundry and finish packing and cleaning so we can leave tomorrow, so we can have the car loaded and the cooler packed and not be more than ten minutes late for choir practice.
Which means that everything has to be more or less completed before I come over to your house today.
And so far this morning, I have already fallen down the steps in the basement, and discovered we're out of brown sugar. But, on the plus side, I have an eight pound pork shoulder cooking, and the coleslaw is made.
This is why I consider anything later than 5:45 "sleeping in".
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Not that early. I was thinking more like 12:30?
I still have to do a final load of laundry and finish packing and cleaning so we can leave tomorrow, so we can have the car loaded and the cooler packed and not be more than ten minutes late for choir practice.
Which means that everything has to be more or less completed before I come over to your house today.
And so far this morning, I have already fallen down the steps in the basement, and discovered we're out of brown sugar. But, on the plus side, I have an eight pound pork shoulder cooking, and the coleslaw is made.
This is why I consider anything later than 5:45 "sleeping in".
Sounds good -- other than the whole "steps and sugar" thing. If it's not too late, we have a bit of brown sugar in the house, and the corner store is... on the corner.
(And don't you love that Paizo is now our primary communication mechanism. I'm sure the forum masters would be proud!)
NobodysWife suggested that if you do end up here early, we can bribe suggest to the imps that they take your two to the park. Good for my guys as practice, and good for your guys as "energy release"... and it keeps all of them out of the kitchen!
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I made a Smart & Final run for the sugar.
It amuses me that they sell it in 2, 25, and 50 pound bags. As well as a 50# cube of manteca for 29.99.
I wonder under what circumstances we could convince Shiro that he needed to buy one.
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And I communicate here because it took us 8:31 to say "I'll get the buns; you buy the chips".
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I'm with you 100% on hiring and seeing mistakes on resumés.
This reminds me of a throwaway comment I made on a thread a few years ago about not hiring people who used profanity during a job interview.
I was flabberghasted that some people didn't agree with my assertion that cussing like a sailor during a job interview was a very bad sign in a potential employee: It shows terrible judgement and a lack of self-control.
EDIT: HEY—That was on the infamous "I drank the host's milk" thread that became a Paizo board meme for a while!
What got to me was when we were interviewing for teaching positions and the candidates cussed like sailors during their presentations.
The mind boggled.
Why wouldn't you give the job to someone who said 'Shiver me timbers!' during the interview? I don't get it.
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I think it is the stuff before and after "shiver me timbers" that gets them disqualified Limey...like you %&^# and take it and *^$*^$ up yer *&^*(^% and then %&*#@! yourself with a %$&*^#...
Etc...Etc
Takes a bow...
I believe swearing skill only counts as a positive if you are A. trying to become a drill sergeant, or B. are R. Lee Ermey (which sort of involves A. as well)
:)
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Yes. Impus Major got Alestorm's latest album, and is utterly delighted that the "for dogs" version has an "explicit lyrics" warning.
I swear, I've listened to the dog bark version of "F you with a F'ing Anchor" at least half a dozen times (the kids find it hilarious), and I have yet to hear a discernible obscenity.
EDIT: But my favorite is that Impus Major takes his iPod to skate camp, where the average age of the kids is 9-10, and they grab it to see what kind of music he listens to. Because obviously, 16-year-old is the coolest, right?
He says that Spotify has to have some kind of "kid sensor", because even when they've shuffled through the playlist, they haven't hit any of Alestorm's songs, most of which have, er, "questionable" titles.
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LOL
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Bad client! Bad! Not my fault, and no, I can't fix it!
Without getting too detailed...client's non-public website, accessed by my users through the client's Citrix portal, requires a plugin. Client told my users that I had to install that for them. Um, no. Client, it's your website in your own system that I don't even have a logon to access it, let alone install software on it that should have already been included by your own IT team.
My entire week has been "discussions" with this one particular client, and trying to educate them with the concept of "your system - your IT has to fix it". I could be wrong, but I think its a bad sign when I know half of a client's IT team by name, job function, and how their kids' school recitals went.
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Bad client! Bad! Not my fault, and no, I can't fix it!
Without getting too detailed...client's non-public website, accessed by my users through the client's Citrix portal, requires a plugin. Client told my users that I had to install that for them. Um, no. Client, it's your website in your own system that I don't even have a logon to access it, let alone install software on it that should have already been included by your own IT team.
My entire week has been "discussions" with this one particular client, and trying to educate them with the concept of "your system - your IT has to fix it". I could be wrong, but I think its a bad sign when I know half of a client's IT team by name, job function, and how their kids' school recitals went.
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There was one very satisfying moment in an otherwise execrable movie, Rodney Dangerfield's "Back to School".
The English professor is accusing him of plagiarism and says, "Whoever DID write this doesn't know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut."
The scene cuts to a shot of Vonnegut's face and Dangerfield saying "You're fired!"
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what do you mean we have to manage our own website...!
::rabble rabble rabble:::
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Yeah, that's pretty much it, on all counts. It's not the dumbest thing I've encountered this week, but it's one of the more frustrating and ongoing sagas.
The dumbest thing I've heard this week (still half the day and tomorrow to go...) happened when I was getting breakfast at a local hole-in-the-wall this morning.
Patron: Hey, can I get some grape jelly?
Waitress: Sure, what kind? (not said in a "huh" or "I missed that" kind of way - very much a "yes, and what kind would you like sir?")
Patron: Strawberry.
There was not one trace of irony or sarcasm in that exchange at all, as if every word that was uttered was perfectly intended. I may hide under my desk for the rest of the day.
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well if all soda can be called coke (I will have a pepsi coke!) in certain states...
No...wait...that is...I...uhhh...
On second though...under my own desk it is!
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Safe distance....important distinction ;)
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And behind shelter when appropriate.
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Currently on page 2 of NH's RotRL journal. Nobody...do your dice actually have numbers printed on them that are higher than an 8? Related question, are 60% of the faces of your d20, in fact, a 1? Have you inspected your players' dice to be sure that they don't have more than the standard 5% chance of rolling a 1? Aside from Shiro when he's rolling for knowledge skill checks, I mean...
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Currently on page 2 of NH's RotRL journal. Nobody...do your dice actually have numbers printed on them that are higher than an 8? Related question, are 60% of the faces of your d20, in fact, a 1? Have you inspected your players' dice to be sure that they don't have more than the standard 5% chance of rolling a 1? Aside from Shiro when he's rolling for knowledge skill checks, I mean...
Nah, no one rolls well in NH's games except for Impus Minor.
At least he says he does. The kid is a crit monster.Meanwhile, Nobody, are you *still* hiking?
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(1) Yes, my dice are amazingly streaky, which is pretty entertaining, and
(2) No.
Oh, speaking of which, will you utterly kill me if I set up a 4-man tent for your implets in the back yard next time they come?
We learned to our horror that our old 1994 Walrus is no longer remotely waterproof, and is therefore, er, less-than-useful as a backpacking tent...