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MadEddy
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Also I have a migraine. But at least there are no hog carcasses involved, so I guess I can't bitch too much.
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Did you know they can drill/fill a cavity without anesthetic if it's small enough?
It was painless. It was also terrifying.
Also stop eying my stapler.
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The time is now 12:56. Mostly sunny. Please support your local public radio station with a membership today. This is NPR. *Jazz show intro*
but they're listening to every word I say
And O boy is it bad
I don't think you would enjoy this particular talk radio station. But phone calls happened so it's off now, thank goodness.
Probably because I have been brainwashed by the Fed and the CIA into believing Obama isn't a secret Kenyan Muslim commu-nazi.
The fluorine in the water did it.
but they're listening to every word I say
... stop, please, why...
How does technology work?!
but they're listening to every word I say
Probably not the best of options in this place. Honestly we shouldn't be listening to music at all since it distracts us from the job of keeping an eye on the inmate clerks.
I don't like work, that is why they pay me. I have never dreaded coming into work at any other job.
If things don't change soon I am gonna have to find somewhere else to work. I am tired of being mad all the time.
As far as work goes, I really wish my boss' idea on how to fix things wasn't "kick it repeatedly when it doesn't work." That leads to broken mop buckets and late closes.
I guess he put the removable mop-squeezer thing on wrong and when he couldn't take it apart right away, he flew into a rage and kicked the shit out of the mop bucket and broke off a couple of the wheels. Now we're down to one bucket and it's a pain in the ass when two people need to use it at the same time.
oh ...
it's entertaining
Was it ghosts that created the pyramids? We'll ask more after the break. But first, here is one man who says Arecibo is receiving messages from our future alien overlords.
but they're listening to every word I say
Every once in a while, the following exchange takes place.
"Luke, I am your father."
"NOOOOoooooo!"
Most of it is that! But there are some legitimately interesting things, however you just have to look beyond the sources they bring in.
Myself, it's good background shit and I get a kick out of it. I've never brought myself to ask if the listener actually buys into the shit they talk about.
It is pretty entertaining, I've listened to it before on road trips. Seems like something you can always find on the radio.
but they're listening to every word I say
And then you vigorously point out that this was not the line at all!
*sigh*
Are they still able to use all of their fingers?
At least he listened to me when I told him to take the bit out of the drill so he'd look like less of an idiot when he went to the hospital.
And we needed the drill to finish up the work on the rack.
"Technically you did, I guess"
It felt like the first day I wasn't constantly being monitored. I mean, I'm not really watched rolling, since there isn't a lot to it, and I don't really get looked at working the scald baths either, but today I spent a lot of time jumping between the scald baths and moving hogs through the line to fill gaps without anyone really checking in. Supervisor barely looked at me, and normally when the day ends, he tells me to head home, but I stayed to finish pushing the hogs into the line and he didn't seem to mind. With any luck I'll be off of 6 hours of rolling soon. Pretty sure today was mostly just because somebody had called in, though.
For pure entertainment, it's one of the best radio shows out there. Art Bell was a fucking master of letting people have their say, but cutting out bullshit when he hosted for years. George, the host now, is such a shill for anything and everything that will pay him that he has zero scruples about letting proven frauds on his show, repeatedly, because he's written a book or hosted a tv show with them. The open lines shows on Fridays are some of the most ridiculously entertaining things I've ever heard.
He has two guests on for weekly visits, Richard Hoagland and Linda Moulton Howe, who can almost cause my head to explode within 5 minutes of starting their shit. Hoagland is the show's "science advisor", and every week he brings new evidence that there are artifacts and ancient civilizations on Mars, from rocks that he claims are human skulls to 7-mile-high glass towers. Howe reports on things like earth sounds, strange booms, and various viral marketing campaigns (like the Halo drone campaign a few years back) and uses her background as an actual Emmy-winning journalist to push memberships to her website, where she copy/pastes every strange news story she can find. Hoagland is the absolute worst, though. He can drive any sane person to drinking with very little effort.
I wondered how, if these devices were no longer compatible, we kept finding clusters of them hiding throughout the network that were still functioning. Our engineers typically answered with the assumption that devices that had been in continuous operation without rebooting could "hold onto the stream", and most customers leave the cable box running indefinitely when they turn off their TV sets.
I just got an email from one of those engineers where he asked me if I could get him a couple of those older model devices out of storage, because he didn't have any in his office to test current updates with. In the resulting conversation, I discovered that he found a workaround for the issue that he thought was going to break these things in the first place, and they would have all been perfectly functional if we'd left them in place for the last year. Of course, he never mentioned this workaround to me, or to anyone else in my department, or to any of the other engineers, or to any of the senior management people who had to sign off on the ~1,600 replacement devices, or to anyone else in the damn company, so far as I can tell.
*flops around on floor*
I'd get so fired if I fixed an issue that would save a few dozen truck rolls and then didn't tell anyone.
That is how things would happen in a good company, yes.
I can not recall ever being this angry. I want to fly into outer space powered only by my telekinetic rage field and headbutt God to death.
In the past, I've worked for a company that would fire me if I found a workaround like the engineer above. Discovering a workaround like that would mean that there was a possibility that at some point an executive had made a wrong decision. And in that company, wrong decisions on the executive level only happened because a minion had done something worth getting fired for, and so they'd be fired before it might leak out that the executive might not have shown perfect wisdom and foresight.
I work for a much better company now.
Also applied for 4 other jobs today. Going to do more tomorrow
also are there any writing freelancers up in?