Last night I helped a young motorist stranded in our parking garage and she was super grateful and as she was leaving she asked if we had an office line or something that she could call to compliment my work
I've never had that happen before so I was just like "Well, you could email *mumble* but it's really quite all right ma'am happy to help blah blah"
and in the moment really I was totally just glad to have helped her but now I really wish I'd given her a business card or something for her to actually contact because it would be super great if somebody told my boss I'm not incompetent
Nothing like getting "oh shit can't drive myself home" sick. I lost six hours today.
Anyone have any idea what would cause a dizzy spell that lasts four hours? My money is on fucked sleep cycles 'cause I ate and was feeling fine and then I almost face-planted at 830am. I managed to stmble through getting my basics done but then my vision was so blurry I was barely able to call my sister for a ride home. I didn't start being NOT dizzy until well after noon.
Put together a really nice email announcement about a pretty major error in our new catalog on a product line's pricing. We're sending out letters with instructions and stickers to put over that part of the book (the pricing is off by around $2k on several items because someone forgot to put the damn trailer in the bill of materials on a machine specifically designed to go on a trailer.
Email announcement clarifies what happened, the correct prices, lets customers know the correction stickers are on the way along with a new promotion for shipping said trailers and a great big call-to-action button linking them to a webform to request additional stickers for more copies of the catalog if they had more shipped out to them, then the submitted forms are sent directly to the person who's handling the mailing.
Looks super professional and ends on a positive note with the new promotional thing. It sucks having to do it, but as one person who looked at the whole project said
"That's probably the most professional and complete fix for a screwup our company has made, ever."
Nothing like getting "oh shit can't drive myself home" sick. I lost six hours today.
Anyone have any idea what would cause a dizzy spell that lasts four hours? My money is on fucked sleep cycles 'cause I ate and was feeling fine and then I almost face-planted at 830am. I managed to stmble through getting my basics done but then my vision was so blurry I was barely able to call my sister for a ride home. I didn't start being NOT dizzy until well after noon.
Either you have one helluva virus or ...
your sleep cycle is fucked up because of nocturnal facehuggers.
Seriously though, go to the doctor, it sounds like what happened for my first migraine and that shit ain't no joke.
Nothing like getting "oh shit can't drive myself home" sick. I lost six hours today.
Anyone have any idea what would cause a dizzy spell that lasts four hours? My money is on fucked sleep cycles 'cause I ate and was feeling fine and then I almost face-planted at 830am. I managed to stmble through getting my basics done but then my vision was so blurry I was barely able to call my sister for a ride home. I didn't start being NOT dizzy until well after noon.
Oh and today I learned that when the new fancy sales guy was being interviewed by the owner and Idiot Son
Idiot Son began to speak in tongues.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The guy almost walked out, and ever since he's been super worried about his choice of leaving his previous job for our special breed of crazy.
Oooo, ooo, I know a little about this, because reasons! But inform him that he is doin' it all wrong, Paul is super clear about the rules in Corinthians. No more than 3 people at once, and you have to have somebody who can interpret (this should not be yourself) Otherwise its like "the clanging of a gong" rather than actual intelligible music. Not touching the religious aspects of this, except to say that Idiot Son is apparently doing this wrong too.
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http://biblehub.com/niv/1_corinthians/14.htm If anyone speaks in a tongue, two—or at the most three—should speak, one at a time, and someone must interpret. 28If there is no interpreter, the speaker should keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and to God.
Sorry this got weird, but this has always been a really interesting thing to me, how people practice tongues and how they relate to those passages, if they even are aware of them. And I'm obviously ignoring the scads of historical context and specific point of Paul writing to a particular church here.
Shit, I totally forgot about whole-body migraines. I usually get the ones where my eye feels like it needs to pop or my head has a rake in it.
I am working this weekend, too. I should be asleep right now but I'm so used to being awake to take my husband to work around now, sleep won't be a thing for a while.
facetiousa wit so dryit shits sandRegistered Userregular
Cover letters, argh.
I think my way with words is one of my better assets, but it's such a vacuum. It's so hard to guess what the person who might end up reading it might be looking for. I'm far better at adapting to a back-and-forth interaction, so I'm able to deduce what they want and tailor my (hopefully) honest evaluation of my talents in a way that will strike the right note.
"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
My friend told me the auto response might have been from his referral overriding my online applications. If that's true, it's dumb. But I still hope it's true.
The thing of it is, a majority of the stuff he does, or says, or goes on about has been contained to the company itself and typically doesn't effect customers. This recent thing has been the first major issue that went 'outside the family' as it were.
Although the same new hire also mentioned that a majority of the customers he's spoken to said they would be just fine without Idiot Son coming to visit them and throwing around a bunch of empty promises.
Sales has a way of completely wrecking your confidence.
Today I had a customer who seemed very positive about the product I was pitching. All the signs were there, I had this in the bag when he asked where he could purchase it.
"Oh, right here sir."
"Okay, where else?"
"On any of our busses, but it's the same as buying it here and you might possibly miss the bu-"
And he was gone. Revenue Inspector who was watching the transaction came back to me later expressing his confusion at the whole thing. The guy wasn't just saying crap to escape the exchange, he actually did buy a ticket on one of our busses known for making a lot of sales. Making me suspect black magic.
Oh and today I learned that when the new fancy sales guy was being interviewed by the owner and Idiot Son
Idiot Son began to speak in tongues.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The guy almost walked out, and ever since he's been super worried about his choice of leaving his previous job for our special breed of crazy.
Oooo, ooo, I know a little about this, because reasons! But inform him that he is doin' it all wrong, Paul is super clear about the rules in Corinthians. No more than 3 people at once, and you have to have somebody who can interpret (this should not be yourself) Otherwise its like "the clanging of a gong" rather than actual intelligible music. Not touching the religious aspects of this, except to say that Idiot Son is apparently doing this wrong too.
Support:
http://biblehub.com/niv/1_corinthians/14.htm If anyone speaks in a tongue, two—or at the most three—should speak, one at a time, and someone must interpret. 28If there is no interpreter, the speaker should keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and to God.
Sorry this got weird, but this has always been a really interesting thing to me, how people practice tongues and how they relate to those passages, if they even are aware of them. And I'm obviously ignoring the scads of historical context and specific point of Paul writing to a particular church here.
I went to church where they spoke intongues and I was totally pressured into it as a young, impressionalbe child and now I do it when I want to swear very intensely
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GrobianWhat's on sale?Pliers!Registered Userregular
I had to google "speaking in tongues". And then I was suprised when I found it was what I initally thought, i.e. gibberish. Makes no sense to me.
As I understand it, you are so filled with the spirit of god that you begin to speak a celestial language
The guy from Arkansas claimed that he witnessed someone speaking in tongues, who 'spoke perfect [insert foreign language here] which a visitor from that country in the congregation could understand perfectly, but to everyone else it sounded like gibberish. And the speaker didn't know that language.'
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BeastehTHAT WOULD NOTKILL DRACULARegistered Userregular
I get to find out it I have a decent amount of hours or, say, 8 hours next week in a minute
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BeastehTHAT WOULD NOTKILL DRACULARegistered Userregular
also when it gets quiet at work they send me home unpaid
I can't quit because then I will be ineligible for dole for 6 months
maybe if I shit into my palms and bark like a seal...
Things at work have sort of settled into a routine lately. Which is good!
Still getting a few strange calls here and there, and That Guy is still screwing up several of his tickets (I recently found out basically everyone in the group has been getting call-backs from his stores not being fixed).
Two weeks until we start rolling hard on the new system, 100 stores a week.
It's really cool to actually be part of a big project like this, and I'll be very excited if I can manage to turn this into a permanent position.
NocrenLt Futz, Back in ActionNorth CarolinaRegistered Userregular
Someone give me a rundown on working in a call center. A few of these help desk positions want CC experience and I have a slight inside track to getting hired at one.
Figured 6-12 months there to get experience then push towards something else.
Someone give me a rundown on working in a call center. A few of these help desk positions want CC experience and I have a slight inside track to getting hired at one.
Figured 6-12 months there to get experience then push towards something else.
Well I imagine it varies rather widely depending on the type of phone support you're offering.
NocrenLt Futz, Back in ActionNorth CarolinaRegistered Userregular
I'm looking for IT help desk stuff but a few of the temp contracts turned me down because I have no call center experience (never mind my comp-sci degree).
It's the whole "being able to remotely troubleshoot a problem" type deal which I understand.
I'm looking for IT help desk stuff but a few of the temp contracts turned me down because I have no call center experience (never mind my comp-sci degree).
It's the whole "being able to remotely troubleshoot a problem" type deal which I understand.
That sounds vaguely like what I do.
It's pretty standard stuff. "I can't get X to do Y." so they call.
Like, where I work we're IT support for the storefronts, so the customers I get are a pretty broad range. Most have a general amount of knowledge of things, at least the things they work with, so I can walk them through most troubleshooting that would require someone to be hands on.
It's pretty straightforward, and I genuinely enjoy the work, but a lot of people I've talked too outside of my place of work have said that help desk is hell, so who knows?
It's that time of year where we're doing required training modules. One of them is on signs of a heart attack.
It requires 80% on the test to pass the module.
The test has 3 questions.
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PwnanObrienHe's right, life sucks.Registered Userregular
Would you be interested in doing a no cost test for one character and we can take it from there if all goes well. Let me know your daily rate card- I dont have a lot of budget on this and hence need to work on a tighter number.
:bz
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Caulk Bite 6One of the multitude of Dans infesting this placeRegistered Userregular
edited August 2013
so... apparently the site owner forgot that this is the long weekend and that the site is right next to some student housing. As evidenced by the fact that they forgot to bring in any daytimers, you see. I just got called to hopefully come in as soon as possible rather than 8. so we agreed on 6:30. now I'm off to prep for work.
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Caulk Bite 6One of the multitude of Dans infesting this placeRegistered Userregular
Update: whether it was because of the company or some unnamed party, the site is missing a large crane and one of their Catapiller machines.
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Caulk Bite 6One of the multitude of Dans infesting this placeRegistered Userregular
Although it occurs to me it was likely the former, because the locked gate for the road leading up was intact. Of course that could just mean shady employees.
Hopefully, the much vaunted "24-hour camera surveillance" isn't really just a couple of black plastic domes on beige plastic boxes. That would suck.
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I've never had that happen before so I was just like "Well, you could email *mumble* but it's really quite all right ma'am happy to help blah blah"
and in the moment really I was totally just glad to have helped her but now I really wish I'd given her a business card or something for her to actually contact because it would be super great if somebody told my boss I'm not incompetent
dammit
Anyone have any idea what would cause a dizzy spell that lasts four hours? My money is on fucked sleep cycles 'cause I ate and was feeling fine and then I almost face-planted at 830am. I managed to stmble through getting my basics done but then my vision was so blurry I was barely able to call my sister for a ride home. I didn't start being NOT dizzy until well after noon.
Put together a really nice email announcement about a pretty major error in our new catalog on a product line's pricing. We're sending out letters with instructions and stickers to put over that part of the book (the pricing is off by around $2k on several items because someone forgot to put the damn trailer in the bill of materials on a machine specifically designed to go on a trailer.
Email announcement clarifies what happened, the correct prices, lets customers know the correction stickers are on the way along with a new promotion for shipping said trailers and a great big call-to-action button linking them to a webform to request additional stickers for more copies of the catalog if they had more shipped out to them, then the submitted forms are sent directly to the person who's handling the mailing.
Looks super professional and ends on a positive note with the new promotional thing. It sucks having to do it, but as one person who looked at the whole project said
"That's probably the most professional and complete fix for a screwup our company has made, ever."
Either you have one helluva virus or ...
your sleep cycle is fucked up because of nocturnal facehuggers.
Seriously though, go to the doctor, it sounds like what happened for my first migraine and that shit ain't no joke.
Idiot Son began to speak in tongues.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The guy almost walked out, and ever since he's been super worried about his choice of leaving his previous job for our special breed of crazy.
I want to suggest some sort of punitive / violent action right now, but the rules of the forum prohibit me from doing so without eating a ban.
Stupid forum rules.
Or if not things will stay the same.
Either way things are happening. Woo.
Sounds migraine ish to me.
Oooo, ooo, I know a little about this, because reasons! But inform him that he is doin' it all wrong, Paul is super clear about the rules in Corinthians. No more than 3 people at once, and you have to have somebody who can interpret (this should not be yourself) Otherwise its like "the clanging of a gong" rather than actual intelligible music. Not touching the religious aspects of this, except to say that Idiot Son is apparently doing this wrong too.
Support:
Sorry this got weird, but this has always been a really interesting thing to me, how people practice tongues and how they relate to those passages, if they even are aware of them. And I'm obviously ignoring the scads of historical context and specific point of Paul writing to a particular church here.
"I come from a Pentecostal background and I have seen the real thing, and a ton of fakers, and they piss me off."
So uh.
Hm.
"You know, you could've just said a ton of fakers'
Go me. God. I'm almost at the point where the fuckoff bonus isn't worth it. We keep pulling in clients and adding more features and no new staff.
I am working this weekend, too. I should be asleep right now but I'm so used to being awake to take my husband to work around now, sleep won't be a thing for a while.
I'm super worried about your continued employment at this company.
I think my way with words is one of my better assets, but it's such a vacuum. It's so hard to guess what the person who might end up reading it might be looking for. I'm far better at adapting to a back-and-forth interaction, so I'm able to deduce what they want and tailor my (hopefully) honest evaluation of my talents in a way that will strike the right note.
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Although the same new hire also mentioned that a majority of the customers he's spoken to said they would be just fine without Idiot Son coming to visit them and throwing around a bunch of empty promises.
Today I had a customer who seemed very positive about the product I was pitching. All the signs were there, I had this in the bag when he asked where he could purchase it.
"Oh, right here sir."
"Okay, where else?"
"On any of our busses, but it's the same as buying it here and you might possibly miss the bu-"
And he was gone. Revenue Inspector who was watching the transaction came back to me later expressing his confusion at the whole thing. The guy wasn't just saying crap to escape the exchange, he actually did buy a ticket on one of our busses known for making a lot of sales. Making me suspect black magic.
I went to church where they spoke intongues and I was totally pressured into it as a young, impressionalbe child and now I do it when I want to swear very intensely
The guy from Arkansas claimed that he witnessed someone speaking in tongues, who 'spoke perfect [insert foreign language here] which a visitor from that country in the congregation could understand perfectly, but to everyone else it sounded like gibberish. And the speaker didn't know that language.'
I can't quit because then I will be ineligible for dole for 6 months
maybe if I shit into my palms and bark like a seal...
I'm sorry, man.
Still getting a few strange calls here and there, and That Guy is still screwing up several of his tickets (I recently found out basically everyone in the group has been getting call-backs from his stores not being fixed).
Two weeks until we start rolling hard on the new system, 100 stores a week.
It's really cool to actually be part of a big project like this, and I'll be very excited if I can manage to turn this into a permanent position.
Figured 6-12 months there to get experience then push towards something else.
Well I imagine it varies rather widely depending on the type of phone support you're offering.
What type of help desk positions?
It's the whole "being able to remotely troubleshoot a problem" type deal which I understand.
That sounds vaguely like what I do.
It's pretty standard stuff. "I can't get X to do Y." so they call.
Like, where I work we're IT support for the storefronts, so the customers I get are a pretty broad range. Most have a general amount of knowledge of things, at least the things they work with, so I can walk them through most troubleshooting that would require someone to be hands on.
It's pretty straightforward, and I genuinely enjoy the work, but a lot of people I've talked too outside of my place of work have said that help desk is hell, so who knows?
Is there something specific you're curious about?
It requires 80% on the test to pass the module.
The test has 3 questions.
:bz
Hopefully, the much vaunted "24-hour camera surveillance" isn't really just a couple of black plastic domes on beige plastic boxes. That would suck.