The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

chris

chris

My family is doing a little family activity together: A puzzle challenge.

This is the puzzle.

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A 3000 parts puzzle of the Tower Bridge in London.

We don't build it together however. Since we all live far apart, everyone of us take turns building it.
After finishing it, the puzzle is send to the next person.

After my sister and her children had it in december it's my turn now. I have it for two weeks now and building on it now and then.

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Even though I work on it every day I had a good progress. But now I hit a bit of a road block.

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The sky pieces are a pain in the butt.
 

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Bubble181

Bubble181

What you do is, you copy the picture on the box, overlay a fine network of lines to suggest puzzle piezes, print it out, cut it more or less to form, and insert it as one big piece that on a pic looks like a zillion little bits.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

My newest hot female subordinate is reaching the end of her six-month probationary period, at which point we'll decide if we want to keep her on a full-time basis, as well as how much we'll be paying her. I've just looked through the paperwork, and the salary we're going to offer her is on the low side, partly because I feel like she lowballed herself with her expected salary during the initial interview and negotiation process. For comparison, the amount we're offering is less than the starting salary I got when I first started at this company, which was in 2012.

So I said to my supervisor, "Hey, maybe we should increase the salary offer a bit. It's even lower than what I got back in 2012, and it doesn't seem right that her starting salary will be lower than what I got over a decade ago."

And my supervisor replied, "You are a much more skilled and productive translator and editor than she is. Her current output is around half of what you were producing all the way back in 2012, and is completely dwarfed by what you're producing now. So I think our current offer is fair based on her level of production."

Now, on the one hand it feels kinda good to have my awesomeness acknowledged. On the other hand, though, I do think we should be paying this new hot female subordinate more because I do think she does good work and is doing her best, and her productivity is improving. Paying her more now will make it less likely she'll leave the company in the future. But then again, if this is how much she wants and expects to be paid, I guess there isn't much else I can do. Plus as far as I'm aware the company is operating on pretty thin margins already, so the beancounters might feel that this is as much as we can pay her.
 
drawn_inward

drawn_inward

bhamv3 said:
My newest hot female subordinate is reaching the end of her six-month probationary period, at which point we'll decide if we want to keep her on a full-time basis, as well as how much we'll be paying her. I've just looked through the paperwork, and the salary we're going to offer her is on the low side, partly because I feel like she lowballed herself with her expected salary during the initial interview and negotiation process. For comparison, the amount we're offering is less than the starting salary I got when I first started at this company, which was in 2012.

So I said to my supervisor, "Hey, maybe we should increase the salary offer a bit. It's even lower than what I got back in 2012, and it doesn't seem right that her starting salary will be lower than what I got over a decade ago."

And my supervisor replied, "You are a much more skilled and productive translator and editor than she is. Her current output is around half of what you were producing all the way back in 2012, and is completely dwarfed by what you're producing now. So I think our current offer is fair based on her level of production."

Now, on the one hand it feels kinda good to have my awesomeness acknowledged. On the other hand, though, I do think we should be paying this new hot female subordinate more because I do think she does good work and is doing her best, and her productivity is improving. Paying her more now will make it less likely she'll leave the company in the future. But then again, if this is how much she wants and expects to be paid, I guess there isn't much else I can do. Plus as far as I'm aware the company is operating on pretty thin margins already, so the beancounters might feel that this is as much as we can pay her.
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That's tricky. it is too bad that she undervalued herself. I have done that to myself in the past. Sounds like she could use some mentoring in that department.

Congrats on being awesome at what you do! It feels good to hear that.
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

bhamv3 said:
My newest hot female subordinate is reaching the end of her six-month probationary period, at which point we'll decide if we want to keep her on a full-time basis, as well as how much we'll be paying her. I've just looked through the paperwork, and the salary we're going to offer her is on the low side, partly because I feel like she lowballed herself with her expected salary during the initial interview and negotiation process. For comparison, the amount we're offering is less than the starting salary I got when I first started at this company, which was in 2012. So I said to my supervisor, "Hey, maybe we should increase the salary offer a bit. It's even lower than what I got back in 2012, and it doesn't seem right that her starting salary will be lower than what I got over a decade ago." And my supervisor replied, "You are a much more skilled and productive translator and editor than she is. Her current output is around half of what you were producing all the way back in 2012, and is completely dwarfed by what you're producing now. So I think our current offer is fair based on her level of production." Now, on the one hand it feels kinda good to have my awesomeness acknowledged. On the other hand, though, I do think we should be paying this new hot female subordinate more because I do think she does good work and is doing her best, and her productivity is improving. Paying her more now will make it less likely she'll leave the company in the future. But then again, if this is how much she wants and expects to be paid, I guess there isn't much else I can do. Plus as far as I'm aware the company is operating on pretty thin margins already, so the beancounters might feel that this is as much as we can pay her.
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So they're going to give her a raise each time her productivity gets fractionally closer to yours then, right??
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

@Li3n said:
So they're going to give her a raise each time her productivity gets fractionally closer to yours then, right??
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I certainly intend to push for it at every review, which happens twice a year. I'm going to frame it as "we're shorthanded already so paying the editors more will help keep them at the company". I've done it for many of my team members before, especially the ones that undervalued themselves to start with.
 
mikerc

mikerc

Tress said:
"Noun. buttload (plural buttloads) (obsolete, UK, West Country) A regional English measure of capacity of a heavy cart (a butt), containing 6 seams, or 48 bushels, equivalent to 384 gallons. Approximately 3205 pounds."

That's a lot of dildos.
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I'm sure there are some hentai anime where that is one dildo.
 
Celt Z

Celt Z

Tress said:
"Noun. buttload (plural buttloads) (obsolete, UK, West Country) A regional English measure of capacity of a heavy cart (a butt), containing 6 seams, or 48 bushels, equivalent to 384 gallons. Approximately 3205 pounds."

That's a lot of dildos.
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Remember that giant container of lube they sell on Amazon? Now we know why.
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Indianapolis, Indiana
And Columbus is the capital of Ohio
There's Montgomery, Alabama, south of Helena, Montana
Then there's Denver, Colorado, under Boise, Idaho
Texas has Austin, then we go north
To Massachusetts' Boston, and Albany, New York
Tallahassee, Florida, and Washington, D.C.
Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Nashville, Tennessee
Elvis used to hang out there a lot, ya know
 
blotsfan

blotsfan

Theres an Indian Casino right next to the arena here. They have a promotion on the night of a hockey or lacrosse game (and maybe other events too) that if you go there with your ticket you can get $15 in free slot play. However, tonight at the lacrosse game its Native American Heritage night, so its $20 in free play.
 
Dave

Dave

Staff member
blotsfan said:
Just had an earthquake here. It happened about 30 seconds after our alarms went off and timed up perfectly so the dog jumped out of bed, hit the ground, and then the whole house shook.

Quite a way to wake up.
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I woke up to a 4.0 earthquake in California once. I didn't even know it was happening until a dresser fell on me.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Closest I ever had to that down here is, back in college when I lived in a no-longer-mobile mobile home, they found some old buried WW2 ordinance and decided to detonate it in situ, several miles away. The shockwave rocked my mobile home like a large elephant had decided to rub up against it and tip it 10 degrees. It was quite the WTF moment because I didn't know what was going on until later.
 
Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

Dave said:
I woke up to a 4.0 earthquake in California once. I didn't even know it was happening until a dresser fell on me.
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I was working in the Teddy Roosevelt building in DC when that big quake hit the area in 2011. I have never seen people freak out so fast or so thoroughly before.
 
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