Cancer Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 Check the "print 2-sided" box. Check the "staple" box. Works, kinda. Check the "staple" box. Check the "print 2-sided" box. Hard crash. Contracting out your campus IT is as a good a move as trying to ingest a cactus that you think is peyote but isn't, per rectum, without taking the spines off the cactus first. Imbeciles. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 You're still using paper? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 Check the "print 2-sided" box. Check the "staple" box. Works, kinda. Check the "staple" box. Check the "print 2-sided" box. Hard crash. Contracting out your campus IT is as a good a move as trying to ingest a cactus that you think is peyote but isn't, per rectum, without taking the spines off the cactus first. Imbeciles. I feel your pain. I've had to deal with campus IT as well. Add rude and arrogant to the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 So. Kidding around with a fellow employee about the terrible way we (like everyone else) treat our underpaid, underscheduled young employees, something that's on my mind a lot due to the old folks home next door, which makes our clientele even more Niight of the Living Deadish than your average Canadian retail development. Judith, who has a young man out there in the workplace, walks by. I say, "But at least Judith's kid is making good money," or some such. (It was funnier, you had to be there, etc, etc.) Judith replies, in all seriousness, "He is. He has a profession." I asked the obvious question. "He's a truck driver. He paid $14,000 in tuition to go to truck driving school." (And, no, he's not actually working right now. He's "trying to start his own trucking company.") Burn it down. Burn it all down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 21, 2015 Report Share Posted April 21, 2015 You're still using paper? Paper exams all but eliminate the issues with web-based academic dishonesty, and they definitely eliminate the issues of learning the idiotsyncracies of whatever abortion of an interface all web-based tools force you to overcome. EDIT: "idiotsyncracies" is NOT a typo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted April 22, 2015 Report Share Posted April 22, 2015 Moving sucks. The only thing I like less (maybe) than moving is looking for work,. assault and gewing 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 23, 2015 Report Share Posted April 23, 2015 Long ago I observed that looking for jobs is like body-surfing in an ocean of broken glass, to be washed up onto a beach of margarita salt. gewing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted April 23, 2015 Report Share Posted April 23, 2015 That seems pretty accurate... Though you forgot the Portuguese man of war stings... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted April 24, 2015 Report Share Posted April 24, 2015 The only thing I like less (maybe) than moving is looking for work,. Don't remind me, we'll both be doing that after we move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 25, 2015 Report Share Posted April 25, 2015 I AM NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE THIS MUCH TO DO THIS EARLY IN THE QUARTER. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 27, 2015 Report Share Posted April 27, 2015 Murphy's Law reared its ugly head today at work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted April 28, 2015 Report Share Posted April 28, 2015 Murphy's Law reared its ugly head today at work. Good luck. Kick the "Imp of the Perverse" in the head for me, would you please? If necessary, a good one to the knee or groin would substitute adequately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 28, 2015 Report Share Posted April 28, 2015 Not so much cranky as out of sorts. In a nutshell, I started a new career, from education to retail. I knew starting over from scratch wasn't going to be easy. But I've been feeling overwhelmed. There's so much to learn, and I feel like I'm falling behind. Now, everyone at work has been great. They've been patient and understanding, even when I made some mistakes. But I can't seem to gain confidence in my new line of work. If I can't cut it in retail, I can always go back to teaching. But I really don't want to do that, at least not in the near future. Why can't I stop feeling this way? Today is my day off, but I can't get my mind off work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted April 29, 2015 Report Share Posted April 29, 2015 Not so much cranky as out of sorts. In a nutshell, I started a new career, from education to retail. I knew starting over from scratch wasn't going to be easy. But I've been feeling overwhelmed. There's so much to learn, and I feel like I'm falling behind. Now, everyone at work has been great. They've been patient and understanding, even when I made some mistakes. But I can't seem to gain confidence in my new line of work. If I can't cut it in retail, I can always go back to teaching. But I really don't want to do that, at least not in the near future. Why can't I stop feeling this way? Today is my day off, but I can't get my mind off work. Having read a number of accounts of people starting starting new things, that's common. Your brain doesn't have the security of the old, and is still finding the security of the new. But the brain is more plastic than often thought; just a matter of finding the new patterns. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 So I go to the doctor and I get my wrist looked at as I have had some pain in it. Maybe RSI ? I get a prescription for some gel for it as part of a treatment and what happens ? When I apply the stuff now my wrist hurts more than it did beforehand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted April 30, 2015 Report Share Posted April 30, 2015 There seems to be a competition to see which government can be the most barbaric. https://newmatilda.com/2015/04/30/wa-government-deregisters-worlds-oldest-collection-rock-art-sacred-site gewing, Roter Baron and death tribble 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted May 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2015 Lord, spammers really are scum. We get an RIP thread for one mister King, and what happens? Third post in some jackwagon spammer starts to promote Viagra. He's banned now, and if he's reading this, I'd like him to know I hope he gets his ass kicked by a funeral director. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roter Baron Posted May 3, 2015 Report Share Posted May 3, 2015 not important Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted May 3, 2015 Report Share Posted May 3, 2015 Unpacking sucks. Seriously. Where the heck are we supposed to put all this stuff? And where's that cord I need to connect that widget to the other widget? Burrito Boy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted May 4, 2015 Report Share Posted May 4, 2015 Hunted by God 14- Sometimes it feels like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankL Posted May 5, 2015 Report Share Posted May 5, 2015 This has been in the works for months and official since late January/early February, but I have to say it here as it is bugging me today. My grandfather and great uncle built a company from the ground up. It ran from 1962 to 2015. 50+ years. This was a family business. A majority of the employees throughout the decades have been family. The plan of both owners was to pass it on to my father and uncle or a specific cousin when the time came as my father and uncle are approaching retirement age themselves now. My grandfather died more than 10 years ago. My great uncle died last November. My uncle has wanted nothing to do with the business since shortly after my grandfather died due to arguments with his sister and mother. Beginning in the summer, my father (working as general manager) and cousin (working as manager of the liquid fuel side of the business) offered to buy controlling interest from my grandmother. During negotiations, she flat out refused to sell (even though they were offering more money than any other prospective buyer). Just weeks before my great uncle died, he was talking to my uncle (they're neighbors). He was too ill to be part of the negotiations and assumed family would have preference. Bub (with a grin): Did Lance [cousin] get the business bought, yet? Uncle: Nope. She sold the whole thing to [competitor].* Bub [grin fades. Shoulders stiffen. Walks away.]** Why wouldn't she sell to my dad and cousin? Because they refused to agree that certain employees would be immune to termination. She didn't get that agreement from the new buyer, either, but out of spite she would not sell the family business to family who would keep it going. *This is a competitor the company has always gotten along with, so that could have been worse. **That's how he flips the table. Where other would swear and break things, he goes quiet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted May 5, 2015 Report Share Posted May 5, 2015 I got some REALLY ANNOYING medical news this week. Not life threatening, or, if treated properly, even that problematic. BUT FRUSTRATING!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrito Boy Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 My parrot is sick and I can't afford to take him to a vet so I may have to give him up for adoption. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 Sorry to hear that, gewing and Burrito Boy. Burrito Boy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankL Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 No. If I keep thinking about the bad, the bad is all I will see. I refuse to let it beat me. tkdguy and Burrito Boy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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