You still write yes, and then you get to explain that person to person if it ever comes up.
You still write yes, and then you get to explain that person to person if it ever comes up.
GasBandit
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I hope that's not what you're going to tell your insurance company.
Her: Let's go see a movie tonight, your choice.Her: "I'm free tonight. Let's go out!"
Me: "Okay. Where do you want to go?"
Her: "I don't care. Whatever you want to do."
Me (sensing the trap already): "Oookay... how about (event)?"
Her: "No."
Me: "What about this?"
Her: "I don't want to go there."
Me: "So what do you want?"
Her: "I'm up for anything. You choose."
Me:
Me: Well, let's see there's... wait a minute...
Her: Oh, you want to see that too? We could watch it at [theater] at 7:30!
Me: ...
I don't have any money left in the bank. It's the first time in almost 10 years. After all this time working under annual contracts I kept saving and thinking "this may be my last year with a job". So, that actually happened and all my savings were gone after 5 months. But it's not so bad now. I don't have any significant debt and I got job stability. Now, a house, mortgage, here I come.
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I paid for Showtime just for Dexter. I got 5 premium channels in that package, and they ALL suck. I have had the Showtime package for about a year now, and the same 5 movies have been rotating on all the channels. That's so stupid.The season premiere of Dexter aired over an hour ago. I can't find an illegal stream of it with the sound and video perfectly synced up.
My family canceled our television service when we realized we were all watching everything we regularly watch on Hulu and Netflix. If Showtime offered some way to subscribe to access to their online service without having to also have an existing cable subscription I would happily pay around 10 bucks a month to do so.
Ahahahahaahaahahaaaa. Suuuure. Right about the time I can get decent Internet for less than $30/month, I'll bet.
--Patrick
The joke is that the companies could do all of these things right now, but they don't because it isn't in their best business interest (i.e., they wouldn't make as much money).
--Patrick
Not a whole lot I can say about it for security reasons, but I recently started administering data for a health care-related company that our company took over, and their client base had been getting fabricated data reports for the past 10 years, but nobody noticed it because all of them got good results overall. I've spent the past 3 months reworking everything to provide accurate data reports and analysis, and the client base is threatening to leave/sue/have me fired because the numbers aren't good for everyone anymore.
Pretty much the same thing happened in a retail job I had. The previous manager of my dept. cooked the books, and made news throughout this large company. Then he and everyone he worked with were fired for cooking the books. Then when my manager and crew were hired in, we were constantly under fire for not living up to the previous manager's numbers.
Thank you for that vivid and disturbing image.Hey, that smoke that was blowing up there asses was pleasantly fragrant and delightfully tickled the right places!
I have an employee who has been doing her job incorrectly because doing it the right way is "complicated."
Aw, muffin. I guess it's okay if you make part of dataset unusable because you don't want to type in ten extra pieces of information.
Aw, muffin. I guess it's okay if you make part of dataset unusable because you don't want to type in ten extra pieces of information.
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Hmm. I feel bad because I just got an employee fired. I feel a little guilty because he will have to leave the US really quickly due to the type of visa he has. But he really was not doing his job, and I gave him all kinds of chances. I feel like he lied on his resume, and I don't quite understand the glowing recommendations he got. He is supposed to be a programmer, yet he doesn't seem to be able to solve relatively simple programming problems. I think I said it here before, but I gave him a simple task to do and after 3 months of waiting, I gave up and did it myself in an afternoon (and I'm a research scientist, not a programmer--he should be better than me). He was given an ultimatum, which was generous, and he didn't meet it. That was after he had to come to me for help every 10 minutes on this thing that was his job to do solo. I feel bad but what can I do? I feel like we were generous.
It sounds like you were fair. Not much more you can do about it.
Clients preferring good numbers to accurate numbers is what's killing pretty much every industry everywhere. People's bonusses depend on putting up good numbers and as long as no-one's checking too hard, what does it matter, right? it's that exact same attitude that's caused this curretn financial crisis - everyone and their dog were undereporting risks, making things look a bit rosier, and so on.
Unfortunately, any company who actually tells the truth (or anything resembling it) gets trounced on the stock market. It'sl ike releasing your games/movies/books/other before the close of the fiscal year. Yeah, it may help the books - but it's a short-term strategy that you'll have to keep repeating, and it means other things suffer (such as quality).
Unfortunately, any company who actually tells the truth (or anything resembling it) gets trounced on the stock market. It'sl ike releasing your games/movies/books/other before the close of the fiscal year. Yeah, it may help the books - but it's a short-term strategy that you'll have to keep repeating, and it means other things suffer (such as quality).
World Gym mailed out a flier advertising $1 enrollment and $10 a month, which sounded great and one of their gyms is within easy walking distance so I went in to check it out. Turns out what they didn't advertise was a $20 setup fee in addition to the fee that was advertised, which turned me off from it. I might have been more willing to consider it if they had been up-front about it in the ad.
You know.
I get that sites have an interest in getting you to stay and click to read more articles. But when there's a bunch of photos of destruction, and bloodied injured bodies after a terrorist attack, it is a bit jarring to see that followed up with, "YOU MAY ALSO LIKE".
I don't like that. No one likes that, man. People are dead. "Related Articles" would be a better heading, is my point.
I get that sites have an interest in getting you to stay and click to read more articles. But when there's a bunch of photos of destruction, and bloodied injured bodies after a terrorist attack, it is a bit jarring to see that followed up with, "YOU MAY ALSO LIKE".
I don't like that. No one likes that, man. People are dead. "Related Articles" would be a better heading, is my point.
My friend is constantly asking for advice while giving me vague/incomplete/exaggerated information and never follows my advice anyway. I feel like she's just playing with me with hypothetical scenarios poised as real-life and I'm finding myself caring less and less and increasingly half-assing the thought I put into my responses.