Dear client,
If you give us the file you need translated tomorrow afternoon, there is no way for us to give you the completed translation tomorrow morning. We run a translation company, we do not offer time travel services.
In other news, this is why we don't like it when we have to deal with multiple departments or contact persons from our clients. Get your shit in order before you come to us.
If you give us the file you need translated tomorrow afternoon, there is no way for us to give you the completed translation tomorrow morning. We run a translation company, we do not offer time travel services.
In other news, this is why we don't like it when we have to deal with multiple departments or contact persons from our clients. Get your shit in order before you come to us.
GasBandit
Staff member
Everybody at work's got their fuckin panties in a bunch for some reason today. I mean, some reason OTHER than the owner being on site and sticking his finger in every cook's pot without washing his hands. Everybody's super butthurt and oversensitive and flying off the handle about everything.
I have come to the conclusion that, with the exception of a very select few individuals, I am surrounded by barely-functional retards - and I mean that in the most insulting way possible. The shit that I've seen in the last two weeks has so badly eroded my faith in humanity that I'm giving somewhat serious consideration to the idea of becoming a hermit. It is mind-boggling to me that some of these people have even managed to survive long enough to reach puberty, much less their current ages (some of these people are within a year of their retirement).
For example, we have two office automation machines in the engineering/purchasing/project management building that will scan, fax, copy, and print. Lately, the service company has been out almost daily because the feeder mechanisms that allow you to just drop a stack of papers in to be scanned/copied instead of opening the lid for each sheet have been breaking - and no one can figure out why. Surely, it has nothing to do with the 3 senior engineers I've seen walk up to one with a 4" thick stack of drawings and jam them repeatedly into the feeder in an effort to get them to all go through at once, as opposed to splitting them up into reasonably sized stacks.
But, the admin that used to support all of the engineers took a new job about a month and a half ago, and these people aren't smart enough to make coffee for themselves (or maybe they're too entitled to do it), let alone come up with such an amazing idea as not trying to fit 4" of paper in a 1/2" slot.
And that's the nicest, least-offensive, least-aggravating example I can come up with right now.
For example, we have two office automation machines in the engineering/purchasing/project management building that will scan, fax, copy, and print. Lately, the service company has been out almost daily because the feeder mechanisms that allow you to just drop a stack of papers in to be scanned/copied instead of opening the lid for each sheet have been breaking - and no one can figure out why. Surely, it has nothing to do with the 3 senior engineers I've seen walk up to one with a 4" thick stack of drawings and jam them repeatedly into the feeder in an effort to get them to all go through at once, as opposed to splitting them up into reasonably sized stacks.
But, the admin that used to support all of the engineers took a new job about a month and a half ago, and these people aren't smart enough to make coffee for themselves (or maybe they're too entitled to do it), let alone come up with such an amazing idea as not trying to fit 4" of paper in a 1/2" slot.And that's the nicest, least-offensive, least-aggravating example I can come up with right now.
GasBandit
Staff member
Welcome, my brother.I have come to the conclusion that, with the exception of a very select few individuals, I am surrounded by barely-functional retards - and I mean that in the most insulting way possible. The shit that I've seen in the last two weeks has so badly eroded my faith in humanity that I'm giving somewhat serious consideration to the idea of becoming a hermit. It is mind-boggling to me that some of these people have even managed to survive long enough to reach puberty, much less their current ages (some of these people are within a year of their retirement).
For example, we have two office automation machines in the engineering/purchasing/project management building that will scan, fax, copy, and print. Lately, the service company has been out almost daily because the feeder mechanisms that allow you to just drop a stack of papers in to be scanned/copied instead of opening the lid for each sheet have been breaking - and no one can figure out why. Surely, it has nothing to do with the 3 senior engineers I've seen walk up to one with a 4" thick stack of drawings and jam them repeatedly into the feeder in an effort to get them to all go through at once, as opposed to splitting them up into reasonably sized stacks.
And that's the nicest, least-offensive, least-aggravating example I can come up with right now.
We need to make shirts or something.
So with all the layoffs at my husband's job, they were going to shuffle teams around, and since my husband was the only one left on his team in Boulder (the rest are in San Diego), they were going to move him to a new team that was more local. Then they found out he's basically been doing the job of three people, and they don't have that many people to shuffle around. They already tried to offhandly mention that it would be easier if he moved to California and he laughed at them. 
Dave
Staff member
Working on a big project at work that has eaten my last couple of days. Then I find out that there's a new feature of Excel 2013 that I didn't know existed.
If you choose more than one tab of a spreadsheet and make a change on one it makes the same change on all of them. On this project I have several tabs I have to keep track of, so I change the tab colors. Red means I am not started, yellow means I started but it's not finished, and green means that tab is complete. So I selected all of the tabs and changed the color to red, then went back to the first one and made a bunch of changes. Changes that were made on all the sheets, even though said changes were not obvious. (I was working on student statuses and so what happened was the student's name and ID stayed the same, but their statuses were all fucked up.) I finished all of the tabs and sent it off and got back a WTF?!? almost immediately. That's how we found out that Excel 2013 did this...and I had to start over from scratch.
In other news, if you have very short hair it's very difficult to rip it out.
If you choose more than one tab of a spreadsheet and make a change on one it makes the same change on all of them. On this project I have several tabs I have to keep track of, so I change the tab colors. Red means I am not started, yellow means I started but it's not finished, and green means that tab is complete. So I selected all of the tabs and changed the color to red, then went back to the first one and made a bunch of changes. Changes that were made on all the sheets, even though said changes were not obvious. (I was working on student statuses and so what happened was the student's name and ID stayed the same, but their statuses were all fucked up.) I finished all of the tabs and sent it off and got back a WTF?!? almost immediately. That's how we found out that Excel 2013 did this...and I had to start over from scratch.
In other news, if you have very short hair it's very difficult to rip it out.
That sucks dave. I am so paranoid about that kind of stuff so I save my files with tags so I can recover data if there is a catastrophic goof up.
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Dave
Staff member
The issue with mine is, I DID save several times. But once I'd made the edits and saved, all the data in every tab but the first one was wrong. So I did my checks on bad information. (We have to go over a couple hundred students to make sure that their statuses are being reported right - the life of a QA guy!) Multiple saves would not have helped in this instance. But I did learn something I didn't know before!
OIC. I missed that. I didn't know that about excel either. I have the 2011 version so I don't guess I have to worry.
Dear client,
If you give us a translation to do in the morning, and then suddenly tell us around mid-afternoon that you need to revise the source text, and tell us that you'll give us the revised file at around 5pm, then ask us if we can still keep the end-of-business-day deadline... our answer is going to be no.
And yes, these were the same people who wanted us to time travel.
If you give us a translation to do in the morning, and then suddenly tell us around mid-afternoon that you need to revise the source text, and tell us that you'll give us the revised file at around 5pm, then ask us if we can still keep the end-of-business-day deadline... our answer is going to be no.
And yes, these were the same people who wanted us to time travel.
doomdragon6
Staff member
I need somebody to explain this girl's thought processes please. I'm not even looking at it from a "Is she interested?" standpoint anymore, I legitimately just want to understand the behavior.
As I've said before, we "dated"ish for 3 months, she broke things off, led me on a bit, but then we stopped talking entirely.
She recently, a year and a half later, started messaging me randomly here and there. Nothing too special, but out of the blue. Twice she manages to get me while I'm insanely drunk and I spill my heart out to her. One time made her cry and she said she wanted to think about why she'd wanted to get in touch with me again. Another time she said I was really sweet, and acted similarly to how she used to in the way she talked to me.
This got me thinking about her a lot again.
So we went to an anime con, and I shared a room with her and 6 other people over the weekend. We got to hang out a bit, but she didn't show any signs of interest over the whole weekend, except for wrapping her arms around mine on the way back to the hotel after some drinking. I attributed this to being drunk, and decided she wasn't interested, and that I would mostly try to ignore her.
One day into that, so one day after the con, she sends me a message saying she wants to cosplay a personified Boo from Mario and showed me a pic (it's super cute). She then sent me a comic where a Shy Guy (I cosplayed a Shy Guy) and a Boo go on a cute date together, and was like "We could take adorable cosplay photos!"
So one day into deciding she wasn't interested, she already reeled me back in. It did sound super cute and fun, but I tried to play it somewhat distant.
ANYWAY, I got the idea to ask her out to a Haunted House for a date just to see if she actually was interested again or not. My friend encouraged me to do it as well, so I did. She came back with "My experience with haunted houses is that they're more fun with friends. We should make it a group thing! But we can still hang out and pal around." Like, that is as non-mixed a signal as you can get. That is the most friend-zoney thing I've heard in a while. So I went "Okay, she is definitely not interested. I will leave her alone now."
LATER THAT NIGHT she's like "You should totally play this game! It's this and this!" I sent a one line response that isn't too engaging, but she goes on a bit more. I leave it at that in my effort to distance myself.
Monday I posted about buying a game (happened to be the same game) because I kept hearing about it and seeing it everywhere, and she IMMEDIATELY messaged me like "Are you playing tonight?? You should stream it so I can watch you and bug you!" And I'm like... That sounds super cute and fun! But I'm not going to, because I need to get myself away from her to avoid feels and getting strung along more.
I just don't fully understand the reasoning. She's clearly not interested, but still suggests really cute and very datey stuff. It could just be her personality, but it seems slightly more than friendly, but far less than interested.
I dunno man. I think she just likes attention and likes to string dudes along. I'm trying to sound more brief and flippant/distant in my responses if she sends anything, but I'm not sure she'd get the hint, so I may just not respond entirely. What's that? I should be mature and upfront about it with her? Psshht.
As I've said before, we "dated"ish for 3 months, she broke things off, led me on a bit, but then we stopped talking entirely.
She recently, a year and a half later, started messaging me randomly here and there. Nothing too special, but out of the blue. Twice she manages to get me while I'm insanely drunk and I spill my heart out to her. One time made her cry and she said she wanted to think about why she'd wanted to get in touch with me again. Another time she said I was really sweet, and acted similarly to how she used to in the way she talked to me.
This got me thinking about her a lot again.
So we went to an anime con, and I shared a room with her and 6 other people over the weekend. We got to hang out a bit, but she didn't show any signs of interest over the whole weekend, except for wrapping her arms around mine on the way back to the hotel after some drinking. I attributed this to being drunk, and decided she wasn't interested, and that I would mostly try to ignore her.
One day into that, so one day after the con, she sends me a message saying she wants to cosplay a personified Boo from Mario and showed me a pic (it's super cute). She then sent me a comic where a Shy Guy (I cosplayed a Shy Guy) and a Boo go on a cute date together, and was like "We could take adorable cosplay photos!"
So one day into deciding she wasn't interested, she already reeled me back in. It did sound super cute and fun, but I tried to play it somewhat distant.
ANYWAY, I got the idea to ask her out to a Haunted House for a date just to see if she actually was interested again or not. My friend encouraged me to do it as well, so I did. She came back with "My experience with haunted houses is that they're more fun with friends. We should make it a group thing! But we can still hang out and pal around." Like, that is as non-mixed a signal as you can get. That is the most friend-zoney thing I've heard in a while. So I went "Okay, she is definitely not interested. I will leave her alone now."
LATER THAT NIGHT she's like "You should totally play this game! It's this and this!" I sent a one line response that isn't too engaging, but she goes on a bit more. I leave it at that in my effort to distance myself.
Monday I posted about buying a game (happened to be the same game) because I kept hearing about it and seeing it everywhere, and she IMMEDIATELY messaged me like "Are you playing tonight?? You should stream it so I can watch you and bug you!" And I'm like... That sounds super cute and fun! But I'm not going to, because I need to get myself away from her to avoid feels and getting strung along more.
I just don't fully understand the reasoning. She's clearly not interested, but still suggests really cute and very datey stuff. It could just be her personality, but it seems slightly more than friendly, but far less than interested.
I dunno man. I think she just likes attention and likes to string dudes along. I'm trying to sound more brief and flippant/distant in my responses if she sends anything, but I'm not sure she'd get the hint, so I may just not respond entirely. What's that? I should be mature and upfront about it with her? Psshht.
My guess is she just wants flirty attention.
She is most likely not interested in that way, but still wants to have fun and get attention from someone who she enjoys talking to or spending some time with.
I mean, like Dei said, if you want a clear answer, you'll probably have to ask her. But to me, it sounds like she got lonely (hence why it came from out of the blue) and just wanted some no pressure flirt time.
She seems incredibly sweet and excitable, so I can almost guarantee that she is not intending to 'string' you along. Dave is right, you can either bail, or just be happy being a friend.
She is most likely not interested in that way, but still wants to have fun and get attention from someone who she enjoys talking to or spending some time with.
I mean, like Dei said, if you want a clear answer, you'll probably have to ask her. But to me, it sounds like she got lonely (hence why it came from out of the blue) and just wanted some no pressure flirt time.
She seems incredibly sweet and excitable, so I can almost guarantee that she is not intending to 'string' you along. Dave is right, you can either bail, or just be happy being a friend.
I'm going to agree with the others: she's probably not deliberately stringing you along, but almost certainly not at all interested in you in that way. Which is why she feels secure enough around you to be flirty - you're like a brother/cousin/whatever, she likes you a lot, whatever.
Especially younger women don't always seem to realize the difference between friendly flirting and flirting flirting is horribly unclear to men. It's usually clearer with women over, say, 25
Especially younger women don't always seem to realize the difference between friendly flirting and flirting flirting is horribly unclear to men. It's usually clearer with women over, say, 25
GasBandit
Staff member
You'd THINK... but...It's usually clearer with women over, say, 25
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GasBandit
Staff member
I hear an alarm coming from Engineering. I look at the status readout, head over to the country station's studio door. The "on air" light is off.
I walk into the studio. Wookiee snaps at me "What?! I'm on the AIR!"
"Clearly you are not, because that sound you hear behind me is your dead-air alarm."
I walk into the studio. Wookiee snaps at me "What?! I'm on the AIR!"
"Clearly you are not, because that sound you hear behind me is your dead-air alarm."
@doomdragon6, honestly, it doesn't sound like she has any idea what she wants. I really think you should talk to her. An awkward chat now is much better than you going through this any longer.
@doomdragon6 As a (getting older) guy, that all reads like a girl who is bubbly and energetic with friends. I get how it seems like she *MIGHT* be interested, but I would bet she's just the flirty-friend type (as others have suggested). Don't bother trying to pursue her, or even talking to her about romantic interest. Either she's not interested and isn't going to be (95% likely), or she's flighty and you deserve better. Move on to someone better, but keep her as a friend since she sounds genuinely sweet/fun.
doomdragon6
Staff member
Appreciate the thoughts, guys, that's basically where I ended up. Hopefully she can be a cool friend down the line, but right now I can't be around her without falling for her, so I'ma just keep my distance. Hearing roughly 10 people say the same thing is enough for me to go, "Yes, that is probably why she acts that way." 
My new department at work is "Enterprise Systems Support." I want to buy everyone in the department Star Trek Red Shirts.
My new work spot is High Classified Area. I want to buy everyone English grammar books.
That's just asking to be laid off.
Well, just make sure you're wearing the green or blue shirt and you'll be safe.
GasBandit
Staff member