[Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

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makare

The following is a work related rant.


Oh yeah. Everyone has balls the size of Buicks when they are ON THE PHONE. Mr "What are you trying to accuse me off here? I'm a criminal investigator blardi blardi blar!" Asshole, I do not care enough about you to accuse you of anything. How about you criminally investigate every inch of my FAT ASS.


whew.
 
Gared

Gared

makare said:
The following is a work related rant.


Oh yeah. Everyone has balls the size of Buicks when they are ON THE PHONE. Mr "What are you trying to accuse me off here? I'm a criminal investigator blardi blardi blar!" Asshole, I do not care enough about you to accuse you of anything. How about you criminally investigate every inch of my FAT ASS.


whew.
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Ah yes... the customers who are so self absorbed that they think your inability to assist them in any way and for any reason means that you care so much about who they are and dislike them personally so much that you're going out of your way to inconvenience them. God, do I not miss the days of call center work.
 
LittleSin

LittleSin

I also do not miss working at a call center. I am unemployed...and I am NOT going back to a call centre. I know how that makes me sound but I just can't take the bitching any more!
 
M

makare

I really hate that guy mostly because I was 5 minutes away from getting off for the day. He called with a minor unimportant 5 minute call at the most. I treated him like everyone else and he got completely offended. I had to go get my supervisor. He complained about me then when she tried to help him he 1. accused HER of accusing him of something and 2 when she had to read these codes to him for free stuff that she had to convince him to take, which we have to read that stupid G as in george etc way, he made her reread it military style. Wtf really wtf. She was on the phone with him for 15 minutes. Which means I was 15 minutes leaving work. I was extremely annoyed to say the least.



yeah ls it is the bitching that gets to me. where i work is so fun and everyone is nice. But I realized why after a few days. If they didnt create a fun atmosphere off the phone we would probably all go home and shoot ourselves.. OR somehow find a way to track these assholes down.

The only thing I like about the job on the phone is 1 actually making people happy 2 hearing about weird names. I had a lady call whose name was, no kidding, Jahhalahe. Really. I love it.
 
Gusto

Gusto

My parents are kind of guilting me about a painting they want me to do for the living room. I'm happy to do it but they seem to think that allowing me to live here rent free during my unemployment is payment enough.

I'm not really sure if charging them for it is right, given those circumstances...
 
M

makare

allen tell him to give you all his money and his collection of little green men.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Gusto said:
My parents are kind of guilting me about a painting they want me to do for the living room. I'm happy to do it but they seem to think that allowing me to live here rent free during my unemployment is payment enough.

I'm not really sure if charging them for it is right, given those circumstances...
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Do you pay any sort of money toward the home?

Help with the Light Bill?
Pay some groceries?
Give money in compensation for room and board?

If the answer to all 3 are no, then Yes, you're free labor.
 
David

David

The lady who won the bid for my old ipod messaged me wanted to cancle it because she didn't actually bother reading what she was bidding on to see that I tagged it as non-working/for parts only.


I went ahead and canceled it, even though technically I would be in the right by ebay's policies to demand payment or give her a bad score. "Didn't read the description before bidding" doesn't qualify as a valid reason for retracting a bid. I wish I could be more of a jerk sometimes.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

David said:
The lady who won the bid for my old ipod messaged me wanted to cancle it because she didn't actually bother reading what she was bidding on to see that I tagged it as non-working/for parts only.


I went ahead and canceled it, even though technically I would be in the right by ebay's policies to demand payment or give her a bad score. "Didn't read the description before bidding" doesn't qualify as a valid reason for retracting a bid. I wish I could be more of a jerk sometimes.
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And now you have to pay Ebay their cut anyway.

I made the same mistake with a broken PS2 years ago. Not the not reading--that's stupid. But letting someone off the hook. Cost me a few dollars.
 
Tress

Tress

Quotemander Prime said:
And now you have to pay Ebay their cut anyway.

I made the same mistake with a broken PS2 years ago. Not the not reading--that's stupid. But letting someone off the hook. Cost me a few dollars.
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I had the reverse problem once. I purchased an Xbox 360 at an expected used price, only to have the seller finally admit it didn't work at all. Of course he neglected to mention that in the description. I guess I was supposed to just sense that it was parts only. He wanted me to buy it anyway, and thankfully Ebay agreed with me that I didn't need to pay him a dime.
 
David

David

Ebay allows the two parties to mutually agree to cancel the bid and will fully refund the seller's fee. I figured this was the best option, and since the item is only worth $15 anyway, it wasn't worth fighting her over for payment. I did however relist it, this time explicitly stating at the bottom of the page that I will not accept any requests to cancel transaction after the bidding period.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

At my first job, the HR lady took it upon her self to take out less than my taxes. So I'd have more money to spend during the year. Then I got blind-sided by a $300 tax bill.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

Staff member
sixpackshaker said:
At my first job, the HR lady took it upon her self to take out less than my taxes. So I'd have more money to spend during the year. Then I got blind-sided by a $300 tax bill.
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Well, yeah, it's different if someone does it to you without your knowledge, much less permission.

I've got mine worked out though so usually I have to pay single digits, which I consider to be like shooting a hole in one on a windy day. Yes.... It's like... an extremely long-term, boring, paperwork-based golf simulator.
 
M

makare

When i am making better money i will have them take out more. it's like a savings account i cant mooch off of.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
The way I see it, if you get a refund, you didn't set up your witholding right. No interest free loans to the government for ME thanks.
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100% correct. In my case, I never know exactly how much money we're both going to make during the year, so I deliberately over-withhold to prevent an unpleasant surprise in the Spring. Also, I can adjust my Fed online with my employer, but to change the State withholding requires printing out a PDF, filling it out, sending it in...screw that.

--Patrick
 
M

makare

It always smells funny in the classrooms. The other day it smelled like play dough and today it smells like bread or i guess i could say real dough. Not sure what is going on. I don't think it is me. I can't think of a reason why i would smell like any kind of dough...

Makes my head hurt :(
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

The rest room at the office has one of those huge dual rolled toilet paper dispensers. The janitor hung the roll on it backwards. Now I have to perform a contortionist's act to get a little paper to wipe...
 
Gared

Gared

Ok doc, you say you want me to go out and get my glucose monitor and starting testing twice a day ASAP (cuz, well, my blood sugar was REEEAALLY high). So, how's about you explain to your MA what she needs to put on the effing form for you to sign so the pharmacy will dispense my god damn test strips? Seriously, am I this guy's first diabetic patient, or does his MA just really not deserve her job? First they sent a prescription over for a kit, which they thought came with strips, but it doesn't. Then they couldn't send a prescription until I told them what brand of monitor I had, but they're the ones who picked the brand. Now they finally sent a prescription, but they didn't tell the pharmacy how many times a day I'm supposed to be testing, so they STILL can't dispense the fucking things and now I have to wait until Monday to call the doctor's office AGAIN.
 
phil

phil

I guess I didn't close my door all the way when I left for work today. My roommate's dog got in, couldn't get out and thusly tore up a section of my carpet trying to get out.

She's moving out next month. I don't know if I should take the pet deposit next year when I move out? Should I have them replace the carpet when she moves and then we just settle up then if we need to?

Whatever. Either way it's not the end of the world but it's just a dumb headache that's going to suck.
 
Officer_Charon

Officer_Charon

I have no idea what's up with my right thumb. 2 days ago I woke up, and it was hurting all of a sudden. There's no discoloration, no marks to indicate trauma... the pain is localized along the metacarpal, between the wrist and the first knuckle.

It hurts to move it, and whenever I try and grab hold of something, I get a shooting pain in my wrist. This is somewhat bad, because I'm right-handed and use it for all sorts of job-related tasks like, oh, grabbing suspects, shooting, and so on...

I have no idea what could have caused it... I got into a foot chase and had to put a guy in a head lock on Thursday, but I didn't have any pain or anything that night.... weird. If it keeps up by Tuesday, I'm going to see the doc, which is not something that I do.
 
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