The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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GasBandit
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Hipster tax.
You can only drink that ironically.
GasBandit
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Another coworker is quitting, hot on the heels of the Wookiee's departure. It's the only male salesweasel we had left, an older guy I think I've mentioned before (in particular, his worrying lapses of memory in light of his family's history of Alzheimer's). He told me on the DL he's going to another sales job that pays more in base than he's making here for base and commission combined.
Good for him. I'm glad both that he's getting a better deal (ownership here really needs to learn to pay people to fuckin' stay, IMO), and that he's gonna be out of my hair. Seriously, not a week has gone by where this guy hasn't made life more difficult for me because he didn't do something he thought he did. I mean, I don't hold it against him because it's not his fault (as I said, I worry for and pity him, mostly) and he doesn't do it intentionally, but I am glad to not have to deal with it any more.
Now if only they can replace him with someone who has negative quirks of lesser magnitude.... I say, knowing full well that THAT doesn't happen.
Every time I post something like this, one of you guys says "So you're hiring?
" or something like that, but let me just say, you don't want this job. Like I said, getting paid what you're worth is a problem. There are only two salespeople who have gone the distance since I started here 14 years ago. The first is a grandma-housewife who has been doing this job for 30+ years, has all the agency connections, and doesn't actually need the money anyway (just does it to have something to do), and the other got promoted to sales manager and then general manager. Every other salesperson, every SINGLE BLESSED one of them, has quit or been fired. And usually, the ones that quit have done so because they couldn't make ends meet on what they were getting paid here.
And that's saying something, given that Texas has an extremely low cost of living.
Good for him. I'm glad both that he's getting a better deal (ownership here really needs to learn to pay people to fuckin' stay, IMO), and that he's gonna be out of my hair. Seriously, not a week has gone by where this guy hasn't made life more difficult for me because he didn't do something he thought he did. I mean, I don't hold it against him because it's not his fault (as I said, I worry for and pity him, mostly) and he doesn't do it intentionally, but I am glad to not have to deal with it any more.
Now if only they can replace him with someone who has negative quirks of lesser magnitude.... I say, knowing full well that THAT doesn't happen.
Every time I post something like this, one of you guys says "So you're hiring?
" or something like that, but let me just say, you don't want this job. Like I said, getting paid what you're worth is a problem. There are only two salespeople who have gone the distance since I started here 14 years ago. The first is a grandma-housewife who has been doing this job for 30+ years, has all the agency connections, and doesn't actually need the money anyway (just does it to have something to do), and the other got promoted to sales manager and then general manager. Every other salesperson, every SINGLE BLESSED one of them, has quit or been fired. And usually, the ones that quit have done so because they couldn't make ends meet on what they were getting paid here.And that's saying something, given that Texas has an extremely low cost of living.
GasBandit
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Well, I've tried twice, and both times they gave me a raise. Guess maybe they do know a LITTLE bit of how bad they'd be fucked.I'm more likely to say "So when are you leaving for a better job?"
Besides, I'd never tell them, but I really do value that I have a job that lets me sit in an air conditioned office by myself with unrestricted internet access, and nobody gives a shit if I surf all day because the work gets done.
Britney Spears had a concert in Hong Kong last night. A friend of mine was pulled on stage during the song Freakshow and was dressed up as a gimp while Britney serenaded him. He is now declaring on Facebook that his bucket list is complete, and pretty much everyone else is agreeing with him, yes his life has peaked, it's all downhill from here.
I'm just happy for him cause he's a huge Britney fan.
I'm just happy for him cause he's a huge Britney fan.
So... how'd you end up in the slammer?
Possible good news?I can't drink anything with alcohol with this super strong pain patch on 24/7
--Patrick
fade
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Just to commiserate--despite all the crap in other threads, my wife and I rarely get into huge, yelling arguments. Except for the two times I tried to help someone out financially who wasn't a member of our nuclear family. It really made her angry for some reason, and she's not one to get angry.
I'm not sure how it would apply to me, but all chronic pain research breakthroughs are good news though. In my case it's not an injury or a surgery, my body is actively destroying itself and changing all the time as the damage progresses. Eventually the pain will stop when certain joints fuse but if they fuse in a bad position then I'm screwed or I have to consider surgical surgery intervention.
Those poor mice
Those poor mice
What is up with mercenaries in TV and movies who still try to continue the hit AFTER the person who hired them tells them to stop. They all ready payed you genius, you can go HOME!
Did I inadvertantly infect the boards with my intentionally poor English in the TIL thread?
...was that sentence that poor? I was just typing it how I'd say it.
GasBandit
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Paid. Not payed. People are paid money. Ship hulls are payed with sealing tar.
Holy shit, no-one has ever corrected me before today...including English teachers.
Normal
Normal.
I use it a lot, but I was also raised partially by my grandparents, so I've been known to use old expressions.
I know the word. It has to be normal.
There was also a missing comma.
But I really don't mean to criticize on Yoshi. It was just that I was amused that he seemed to mirror my other post at least a little.
Just tried to get some online quotes for moving services from our current house to the area we're buying a house in. Not only is U-Haul at least 1/3 to 1/5 the cost, but the reviews of each of the moving companies that provided estimates are so bad that they could be FREE and I'd still rather carry each item we own, one at a time, and HOP the 434 miles. Highlights included:
- Destroyed furniture.
- Showed up 3 days late to pick up goods.
- Showed up 2 months late to deliver goods.
- Damaged apartment, causing insurance claim.
- Destroyed original paintings.
- Stole items.
- Moved all items out of house into street and then told owners it would cost 3 times the original estimate or they wouldn't put them back or load them in the truck.
- Subcontracted their moves to unlicensed, unbonded companies.
Dave
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God I remember the Amiga so fondly. There was a game on it that I particularly loved that I've never been able to remember the name of.
It was a space war game where you made different ships and tried to take over the galaxy. But your ships weren't bothered by distance and there was NO removing the fog of war. So if you wanted you could send your entire fleet across the universe in your first turn. You wouldn't know what was there and it would take a great number of turns, but you could do it. And the game wasn't over until you'd killed everyone else's ships. You could conceivably lose your last planet, but if you've already sent your fleet on a mission the other players would have NO IDEA where said fleet was heading. There were several times when you thought you'd killed a guy's last planet only to then have a couple of planets way back in your defenses attacked and taken over. Suddenly you find you've overreached and not fortified enough and the guy who was almost dead is growing in power. God we spent so many hours playing that game!