I know they still do baggers at the Krogers stores in Central Ohio, probably because Krogers is a union joint.
That's crazy! Why would they make everyone go to a different line? I understand not letting new people in line but to actually make everyone move? That's just stupid.
I had to buy milk for work recently and accodently tried to go through the express lane. The cashier just started waving his arms going "no no no no no 10 items 10 items!" I mean I understand wanting to enforce your policy but to do it so rudely? And it was 20 of the same item! I only had one up there so he could scan it and change the quantity.
I honestly am starting to think that it's becoming the norm to just skip training people on jobs and throw them out there.
That has been the norm for well on 20 years now for menial labour jobs such as that.
GasBandit
Staff member
Yesterday somebody at work asked me "what's a good program to play video files?" So naturally I answered VLC. Welllll turns out he then went and downloaded one of the "packaged" versions of VLC out there that have alternative installers that put extra toolbars, spyware and crapware on your computer. /headdesk.
That was your first mistake, trying to help. Your second mistake was caring about what they did.
GasBandit
Staff member
Well, I'm more straightforward with this guy because he's a little more savvy than the rest of the users - he maintains our local webserver and wiki, can write foxpro scripts, etc.
Fuckin' hell.
So on top of my dog's problems of course I drop my phone and the screen shatters. Then work is kind of hectic but everything that happens just seems even more dramatic and a bigger issue than it is because of everything going on. Like there's this one guy who has some kind of problem, ya know? Like he just doesn't seem to fully comprehend everything going on in some way. Like he gets a brownie and thinks he should get more change than he did even though it's counted out correctly. So he comes up a bit later to get another and I'll admit that part of my motives involved not wanting to try to explain subtraction to him again but I just figured I'd do something nice and not charge him. Well he either got offended or didn't know why I was doing it or something because he's acting weird and talking about it a lot. So of course my coworkers see and start asking what's up and I'm just trying to get everyone to let it fuckin' go but they think he's being rude and I'm worried that other customers will want free shit etc.
It's all so stupid that even letting it get to me makes it feel that much more stupid.
So on top of my dog's problems of course I drop my phone and the screen shatters. Then work is kind of hectic but everything that happens just seems even more dramatic and a bigger issue than it is because of everything going on. Like there's this one guy who has some kind of problem, ya know? Like he just doesn't seem to fully comprehend everything going on in some way. Like he gets a brownie and thinks he should get more change than he did even though it's counted out correctly. So he comes up a bit later to get another and I'll admit that part of my motives involved not wanting to try to explain subtraction to him again but I just figured I'd do something nice and not charge him. Well he either got offended or didn't know why I was doing it or something because he's acting weird and talking about it a lot. So of course my coworkers see and start asking what's up and I'm just trying to get everyone to let it fuckin' go but they think he's being rude and I'm worried that other customers will want free shit etc.
It's all so stupid that even letting it get to me makes it feel that much more stupid.
M
makare
oh man i deal with that kind of stupid on the phone all the time! I just want to stab them through the phone.
GasBandit
Staff member
And then he THREW IT ON THE GROUUUUNNND!
I moved my computer to my sister's house and when I hooked it all up it wouldn't turn on. Pressing the power button did absolutely nothing. Panicking thinking I had somehow damaged it in the drive over (it did fall over in the car once, because I put it in standing up right like an idiot) I ran out and bought a multitester to check the power supply, when that was confirmed to be putting out power I felt even worse because the motherboard is even more expensive to replace. Especially if it takes any of the other components with it when it fries.
I brought it back home and hooked it up and it powered up no problem. Turns out I was pressing the "reset" button instead of "power."
D'oh!
I brought it back home and hooked it up and it powered up no problem. Turns out I was pressing the "reset" button instead of "power."
D'oh!
Sorry, but I laughed. Because I've done that and today was a day like that.
Last monday, I woke up at 3 am, my head full of things to do. I made a list, and decided that week I would get my shit together and actually start doing the stuff I had to do.
I started.
Two days later, I had to stay at home to watch my little sister, who had an ear infection. Nothing unusual, she gets them all the time, and my job allows me to do this kind of thing.
Lunch time, she is feeling miserable. We have a doctor appointment in half an hour.
Half an hour later, we are at the doctor, whiel we wait, she falls asleep.
She has a very very serious infection, mastoiditis. I take her to the hospital. She spends the next week there, she has two surgeries to drain the pus from the infected area, my parents are completely overwhelmed, I take care of a lot of stuff and enter a vortex of taking care of my family and coping with my hospital-phobia and how this situations reminds me of my own surgical experience when I was her age, wich where the phobia-inducing experiences in the first place.
I'm very nervous, I eat like mad, I do nothing on the list.
She is alright now, at home, feeling well, still taking antibiotics though.
The list of to do thing has come back, a lot of them are very urgent now... and just in time for christmas!
Now, to do some christmas shopping for ALL my family, as my parents are both exhausted and full of work and christmas for a little girl like my sister HAS to involve some presents appearing under the tree.
I'm... pretty stressed right now.
I started.
Two days later, I had to stay at home to watch my little sister, who had an ear infection. Nothing unusual, she gets them all the time, and my job allows me to do this kind of thing.
Lunch time, she is feeling miserable. We have a doctor appointment in half an hour.
Half an hour later, we are at the doctor, whiel we wait, she falls asleep.
She has a very very serious infection, mastoiditis. I take her to the hospital. She spends the next week there, she has two surgeries to drain the pus from the infected area, my parents are completely overwhelmed, I take care of a lot of stuff and enter a vortex of taking care of my family and coping with my hospital-phobia and how this situations reminds me of my own surgical experience when I was her age, wich where the phobia-inducing experiences in the first place.
I'm very nervous, I eat like mad, I do nothing on the list.
She is alright now, at home, feeling well, still taking antibiotics though.
The list of to do thing has come back, a lot of them are very urgent now... and just in time for christmas!
Now, to do some christmas shopping for ALL my family, as my parents are both exhausted and full of work and christmas for a little girl like my sister HAS to involve some presents appearing under the tree.
I'm... pretty stressed right now.
Kittens!!
I think I did this same one last year. Don't care.
My precinct is at a mall. For those of you who have never had to experience an American mall at Christmastime, count yourself lucky.
Me? I have to keep COMING BACK HERE, because people CAN'T FRIGGIN' DRIVE, and keep HITTING things here.
I am walking a fine line here, with every minute I am stuck on this ring road, trying to escape this black hole of consumerism, I am drawn more and more towards unleashing 40 rounds of hollowpoint hell, followed up with an ASP and OC sandwich.
My precinct is at a mall. For those of you who have never had to experience an American mall at Christmastime, count yourself lucky.
Me? I have to keep COMING BACK HERE, because people CAN'T FRIGGIN' DRIVE, and keep HITTING things here.
I am walking a fine line here, with every minute I am stuck on this ring road, trying to escape this black hole of consumerism, I am drawn more and more towards unleashing 40 rounds of hollowpoint hell, followed up with an ASP and OC sandwich.
O_O
*falls out of patrol car laughing*
*falls out of patrol car laughing*
I just had a relapse of my nasal staph infection... So I get to spend my X-mas alone. My Nieces and Nephews are too young to resist the bacteria, and my Parents are too old.
M
makare
bad night at work. had to have a supervisor handle a call TWICE. after that never happening ever. Twice in one night.
First call was a guy who would not let me talk, then he would not let the supervisor talk and then he hung up. Fun.
Then a lady i couldnt find in the system, who the supervisor could not find in the system, then she told the supervisor he was full of shit before hanging up.
Assholes.
First call was a guy who would not let me talk, then he would not let the supervisor talk and then he hung up. Fun.
Then a lady i couldnt find in the system, who the supervisor could not find in the system, then she told the supervisor he was full of shit before hanging up.
Assholes.
4yr-old video card from my main PC system (Quadro FX 4000, equivalent to GeForce 6800 Ultra) crapped out last night. VRAM must've gone blooie (now has artifacts in screen image). Discovered fan had gotten fuzzy, probably could have it still running if I'd bothered to notice and clean it out during my PSU swap about six months ago. I bought it for about $350 4 years ago, and fortunately now they've fallen to only ... $300*.
For the time being I've fallen back to my older Quadro FX 1000 (Equivalent to GeForce FX 5800 Ultra). It's good enough to get by, but I'm still fuming. I was hoping to do a completely new build for between $600-700 after my tax return, and now I have this to deal with.
--Patrick
*From dealers I've heard of.
For the time being I've fallen back to my older Quadro FX 1000 (Equivalent to GeForce FX 5800 Ultra). It's good enough to get by, but I'm still fuming. I was hoping to do a completely new build for between $600-700 after my tax return, and now I have this to deal with.
--Patrick
*From dealers I've heard of.
Would a GeForce 8800 Ultra be an upgrade? If so, that one is about $140 with free shipping.
Yes, it would. . . but I'm on AGP, not PCIe. The GF6800/QFX4000 was THE best native* AGP card ever made.
--Patrick
*Every AGP card since has been a PCIe card with a PCIe<->AGP bridge chip added.
GasBandit
Staff member
It is long. LONG. Long past time for you to go ahead and upgrade to a PCIe capable motherboard. I did so four YEARS ago and I thought I had held out as long as humanly possible.
Has there been anything to try and claim the new interconnect yet? Or is it going to be like USB and last for fucking ever?
figmentPez
Staff member
Have any cards actually pushed the limits of a PCIe x16 slot yet? I thought that x8 was still enough to not cause any performance problems.
As you might expect, you are not telling me anything I don't already know. I have had a replacement system spec'd out for years (for about $500-600), but so far have only been able to acquire the GPU (an ATI X1900 AIW). As is the case with many of my dreams, it boils down to a chronic lack of fundage.
Thunderbolt is an Intel spec, and a fast one at that. USB3.0 will gain a lot of traction due to its backward compatibility with USB 1.1/2.0. As for FireWire 1600/3200, you almost never hear anything. Mainstream Thunderbolt is supposed to be coming near the middle of 2012.
Dear Reader, you may be thinking I've derailed this thread. On the contrary, I submit this post as my lament that I make it my business to stay on top of current hardware releases and reviews, get to play with the newest toys at work, research carefully crafted systems for other members of this board (which I enjoy, BTW), but then come home every day to sit in front of my 2003-vintage system knowing that even if I do manage to scrape together say, $3000 or so*, it will immediately be drained getting a new car. Our current car is a '94 which was T-boned in 2008...and we're still driving it daily because we have no other choice. If I upgrade to a new system, I will fuck over my family. A new computer can (and will) wait. Again. Just like last year.
--Patrick
*Yes, it's Jan 4th and I've already completed my 2011 Federal income tax return. We're just waiting for the forms to go final so we can file.
girlfriend says: im moving to the big city (400kms away) in a few months. you can come if you want....but you have to stay here for a month or two while i get settled until you can come.
girl code for dont come? not sure. advice?
girl code for dont come? not sure. advice?
I wish I had my W2, I'd be finished quick as could be. Good for you.