The director is actually in the office today because we have a staff meeting later (we only get to see her about once a week because her main office is on a different campus). She noticed me hovering by her office earlier with a question, but I saw she was on a phone call so I left her alone.
She called me back into her office by accidentally calling me "babe" because she does that with her kids. She was apologizing profusely and then got even more embarrassed when I laughed and told her I hadn't even heard it the first time and I never would have known.
There is this old nasty science teacher that is super mean to everyone. She's probably going to report me or something because I allow some kids on late start to play Uno in the library in the mornings. Those kids are always very quiet and nice.
She got all outraged when she saw it. I'm like, Lady. You don't like it get out of my library.
I barely even SEE these science teachers. They never come down stairs and when one does it is to complain about how I run my library?
Edit: Like two seconds later an administrator just happens to walk by glances at the kids, nods to them, and keeps going.
"Goddamn Uno, stealing the job of hardworking American cardgames."
We got busted for playing ping pong in our HS library once.
The tables were just about the right size, so we grabbed a bunch of books that were about the right height and set them up as a net. Next thing you know, we had a bracket going and everything.
One librarian thought it was hilarious. The other, not so much.
My college's (last two years of high-school) common room got taken away because someone had sex on the pool table and tried to turn it into a porn film.
I was gutted because I'd read Harry Potter as a teenager and was excited about a common room, there was no mention of that in the common rooms of Hogwarts.
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I was gutted because I'd read Harry Potter as a teenager and was excited about a common room, there was no mention of that in the common rooms of Hogwarts.
I was gutted because I'd read Harry Potter as a teenager and was excited about a common room, there was no mention of that in the common rooms of Hogwarts.
What you think it didn't happen?
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What did you think the room of requirement was for?
I was gutted because I'd read Harry Potter as a teenager and was excited about a common room, there was no mention of that in the common rooms of Hogwarts.
I was gutted because I'd read Harry Potter as a teenager and was excited about a common room, there was no mention of that in the common rooms of Hogwarts.
Today a customer who cancelled TV service four months ago decided it was time to return his equipment, and yell at me for half an hour about how irresponsible it was of us to bill him for that equipment and pass the debt on to a 3rd party collections agency when he failed to respond to literally dozens of phone calls, emails and letters.
While testing his returned DVR, I discovered that his only recorded shows were the full quintet of Home Alone movies, including the two made-for-TV films, all captured on different dates. So it's not even like one channel was showing a marathon and he set them to record all in one go. Rather, on five distinct occasions, across a three month span, Home Alone movies were playing and this guy decided "I need a copy of that!"
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I was gutted because I'd read Harry Potter as a teenager and was excited about a common room, there was no mention of that in the common rooms of Hogwarts.
Today a customer who cancelled TV service four months ago decided it was time to return his equipment, and yell at me for half an hour about how irresponsible it was of us to bill him for that equipment and pass the debt on to a 3rd party collections agency when he failed to respond to literally dozens of phone calls, emails and letters.
While testing his returned DVR, I discovered that his only recorded shows were the full quintet of Home Alone movies, including the two made-for-TV films, all captured on different dates. So it's not even like one channel was showing a marathon and he set them to record all in one go. Rather, on five distinct occasions, across a three month span, Home Alone movies were playing and this guy decided "I need a copy of that!"
Research, in case you bastards tried to break in and reclaim that DVR.
Today a customer who cancelled TV service four months ago decided it was time to return his equipment, and yell at me for half an hour about how irresponsible it was of us to bill him for that equipment and pass the debt on to a 3rd party collections agency when he failed to respond to literally dozens of phone calls, emails and letters.
While testing his returned DVR, I discovered that his only recorded shows were the full quintet of Home Alone movies, including the two made-for-TV films, all captured on different dates. So it's not even like one channel was showing a marathon and he set them to record all in one go. Rather, on five distinct occasions, across a three month span, Home Alone movies were playing and this guy decided "I need a copy of that!"
We got busted for playing ping pong in our HS library once.
The tables were just about the right size, so we grabbed a bunch of books that were about the right height and set them up as a net. Next thing you know, we had a bracket going and everything.
One librarian thought it was hilarious. The other, not so much.
Yeah I'd be totally cool with the ingenuity of that. The betting side though...
I am about to have a dang fistfight with the help desk manager here, I don't care if the internet access worked last quarter, I can tell you EXACTLY why it doesn't work this quarter and it's not my job to fix that. Stop telling me my shit is broken or asking me to prove a discrepancy that doesn't exist!
The owner is pissed because he missed a meeting that he scheduled. He just didn't show up.
He is, as usual, refusing to accept any blame for his actions. I haven't heard the justification yet but I assume it will be something like, "you should have reminded me."
We got busted for playing ping pong in our HS library once.
The tables were just about the right size, so we grabbed a bunch of books that were about the right height and set them up as a net. Next thing you know, we had a bracket going and everything.
One librarian thought it was hilarious. The other, not so much.
Yeah I'd be totally cool with the ingenuity of that. The betting side though...
In the continued adventures of Sarah's new office, my boss swung by this morning to let me know they had found a spare standing desk for me! And it would be ready to be moved in sometime today or tomorrow! Hooray!
Then a couple of minutes ago, the IT guy swung by to let me know that the office furniture guy who had come by a few days ago to look at the office thought he had something that would work a bit better than what we have in here right now. "Does this have to do with that standing desk they told me about this morning?" "Uh.... I... don't know anything about that...."
Presumably someone will come by next week and tell me about another desk they found for me!
(Also apparently none of the meeting rooms in this buildings have phone jacks in them, because I guess that part of the building planning was left to the university proper who thought of all the meeting rooms as student meeting rooms instead of staff ones! :rotate:)
Today a customer who cancelled TV service four months ago decided it was time to return his equipment, and yell at me for half an hour about how irresponsible it was of us to bill him for that equipment and pass the debt on to a 3rd party collections agency when he failed to respond to literally dozens of phone calls, emails and letters.
While testing his returned DVR, I discovered that his only recorded shows were the full quintet of Home Alone movies, including the two made-for-TV films, all captured on different dates. So it's not even like one channel was showing a marathon and he set them to record all in one go. Rather, on five distinct occasions, across a three month span, Home Alone movies were playing and this guy decided "I need a copy of that!"
Well it's entirely possible they have a kid
That's what I assumed at first, but the address listed is for a Singles-Only apartment complex catering mainly to college students, and the guy was in his early 20s. Not impossible that he's a parent, but here in the shadow of BYU, fairly unlikely.
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This meeting has run 30 minutes late and keeps pushing my lunch back and I'm HONGRY
So turns out whatever emails the guy in my team saw yesterday, they were bad enough that he didn't want to come into work today. He also doesn't want to discuss it with anyone and is probably unlikely to come back to work any time soon, if ever. While I completely understand his position, I'd really like to know exactly who said what because if he's the only one that suffers as a result of all this, that's massively unfair.
There was a pigeon walking around in the office. I stepped around it and opened the door. There is no longer a pigeon in the office.
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Madican the bird whisperer.
I went home to get lunch for myself and my girlfriend, who is stuck in bed after surgery. 5 minutes after I walk in the door the fire alarm for our building goes off. So I hustle her into her wheelchair and two very angry cats into carriers and get them downstairs just in time to be told that it's a false alarm and we can go back up. Today is just super so far.
Throw in a case of Shiner and I'll 'remind' him till neither of us can see clearly.
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I don't remember if I mentioned this already, but I'll be getting laid of at the end of June when they close down our offices.
Been starting on a job search, hopefully something will turn up so I can start right after this one ends and then get that sweet severance on top of it.
So turns out whatever emails the guy in my team saw yesterday, they were bad enough that he didn't want to come into work today. He also doesn't want to discuss it with anyone and is probably unlikely to come back to work any time soon, if ever. While I completely understand his position, I'd really like to know exactly who said what because if he's the only one that suffers as a result of all this, that's massively unfair.
Oh he saw them? I thought only you knew of them. I would let HR know they should expect a lawsuit soon.
No I haven't seen them. All we know at this stage is that emails were sent, somehow he saw them and now no longer wants to work at the company. It's now at director-level for decision making, but it still falls on my shoulders to evidence gather. We don't even know who it was sent to or from so we can't even approach the culprits and get statements. It's all in the dark at the moment and might stay that way, no idea.
Yes, supervisor, I did go to the nurse. Because it turns out when you have me start rolling, and end rolling, three days in a row, my body physically cannot function properly, due to sheer exhaustion.
My arms looks like I have an abuser. Huge, multicolored bruises all over the place.
On the upside, he put me somewhere else for the last block of this shift. It was pushing bodies, which required standing by the torches, so it was three and a half hours at like 100 degrees, but hey, it was something I actually had the energy to do.
At the end of next week, my coworker will leave for two weeks of vacation. I'll fill in for her. My counterparts in Toronto will fill in for me. I may end up working some overtime; if I do, I'll take it as lieu time, which I'll apply towards my forthcoming vacation instead of using vacation days. The first two weeks of May are going to be really... interesting... for me. My coworker returns on May 19. We'll have a week to sort out the damage I've done, and then I leave for my three week vacation on May 26. While I'm away, we bring in a new hire that I've yet to meet. Some time in all of this, the office space gets completely shuffled about, and I finally get to be able to put my back to a wall rather than an open door.
In the meantime, we're going slightly batty trying to get everything as set up and prepared as possible for what our vacations will do to the months of May and June.
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She called me back into her office by accidentally calling me "babe" because she does that with her kids. She was apologizing profusely and then got even more embarrassed when I laughed and told her I hadn't even heard it the first time and I never would have known.
"Goddamn Uno, stealing the job of hardworking American cardgames."
Like, they don't even have classes at that time. During the school day I tell people to knock that stuff off and study something.
The tables were just about the right size, so we grabbed a bunch of books that were about the right height and set them up as a net. Next thing you know, we had a bracket going and everything.
One librarian thought it was hilarious. The other, not so much.
Something something invisibility cloak something
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Watch me struggle to learn streaming! Point and laugh!
What you think it didn't happen?
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You're not familiar with "fan fiction" are you?
I hoped they'd be a bit more discreet about it!
While testing his returned DVR, I discovered that his only recorded shows were the full quintet of Home Alone movies, including the two made-for-TV films, all captured on different dates. So it's not even like one channel was showing a marathon and he set them to record all in one go. Rather, on five distinct occasions, across a three month span, Home Alone movies were playing and this guy decided "I need a copy of that!"
expectoh no, nevermind
Research, in case you bastards tried to break in and reclaim that DVR.
Well it's entirely possible they have a kid
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Yeah I'd be totally cool with the ingenuity of that. The betting side though...
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He is, as usual, refusing to accept any blame for his actions. I haven't heard the justification yet but I assume it will be something like, "you should have reminded me."
You ok with Liiya's thing too?
What if we don't bet on who finishes first?
The secret society grows. Soon the time will be ripe for the "light" harvest.
Then a couple of minutes ago, the IT guy swung by to let me know that the office furniture guy who had come by a few days ago to look at the office thought he had something that would work a bit better than what we have in here right now. "Does this have to do with that standing desk they told me about this morning?" "Uh.... I... don't know anything about that...."
Presumably someone will come by next week and tell me about another desk they found for me!
(Also apparently none of the meeting rooms in this buildings have phone jacks in them, because I guess that part of the building planning was left to the university proper who thought of all the meeting rooms as student meeting rooms instead of staff ones! :rotate:)
That's what I assumed at first, but the address listed is for a Singles-Only apartment complex catering mainly to college students, and the guy was in his early 20s. Not impossible that he's a parent, but here in the shadow of BYU, fairly unlikely.
I went home to get lunch for myself and my girlfriend, who is stuck in bed after surgery. 5 minutes after I walk in the door the fire alarm for our building goes off. So I hustle her into her wheelchair and two very angry cats into carriers and get them downstairs just in time to be told that it's a false alarm and we can go back up. Today is just super so far.
That's 23 shows in my three years at TG. Not bad.
That sounds like the kind of team where fun goes to die.
Throw in a case of Shiner and I'll 'remind' him till neither of us can see clearly.
Been starting on a job search, hopefully something will turn up so I can start right after this one ends and then get that sweet severance on top of it.
Oh he saw them? I thought only you knew of them. I would let HR know they should expect a lawsuit soon.
My arms looks like I have an abuser. Huge, multicolored bruises all over the place.
On the upside, he put me somewhere else for the last block of this shift. It was pushing bodies, which required standing by the torches, so it was three and a half hours at like 100 degrees, but hey, it was something I actually had the energy to do.
At the end of next week, my coworker will leave for two weeks of vacation. I'll fill in for her. My counterparts in Toronto will fill in for me. I may end up working some overtime; if I do, I'll take it as lieu time, which I'll apply towards my forthcoming vacation instead of using vacation days. The first two weeks of May are going to be really... interesting... for me. My coworker returns on May 19. We'll have a week to sort out the damage I've done, and then I leave for my three week vacation on May 26. While I'm away, we bring in a new hire that I've yet to meet. Some time in all of this, the office space gets completely shuffled about, and I finally get to be able to put my back to a wall rather than an open door.
In the meantime, we're going slightly batty trying to get everything as set up and prepared as possible for what our vacations will do to the months of May and June.