I can appreciate the fact that people have a wide variety of options on which pens are the best to write with and use.
But if you're going to try to make me wait for a note because you use a dipped pen and the ink needs to dry, I will call you a pretentious twat.
As someone who has used pens and pots of ink, yo what? They are using it in a office setting? I can't even use a fountain pen because the ink takes time to dry.
Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
I am going to have to attend a meeting on Saturday with the landowners of the reserve, because everyone senior to me is away. The landowners are all intimidating Afrikaans folk and I will be the only foreigner. Leeetle bit nervous about it.
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RobonunIt's all fun and games until someone pisses off ChinaRegistered Userregular
I am going to have to attend a meeting on Saturday with the landowners of the reserve, because everyone senior to me is away. The landowners are all intimidating Afrikaans folk and I will be the only foreigner. Leeetle bit nervous about it.
You will be fine I am sure, but the only advice I will give is the advice given to me in similar situations; don't try to overcompensate. Lots of people try to come off tough in those situations and it never works, just try to relax, the more you relax, the less uncomfortable you'll feel.
You probably weren't going to overcompensate anyway. Maybe it was me specific advice. You'll do great! I am sure of it.
I am going to have to attend a meeting on Saturday with the landowners of the reserve, because everyone senior to me is away. The landowners are all intimidating Afrikaans folk and I will be the only foreigner. Leeetle bit nervous about it.
It's pretty rare in my area, but yeah there's quite a few folks who still think NASA money should be used on more useful things like, I don't know, Eagles Stadium or some shit.
My new litmus test is showing people at work the SpaceX drone ship landing.
"Holy shit."
"WOah holy shit."
"That's not real is it? Is this a game video?" "The space program is such a waste of tax payer dollars." -Never talk to this person again.
Yeah, they are. They also refuse to listen to any cogent explanation of how research funding is actually a good thing and led to the creation of most of the modern conveniences they take for granted.
... aaaannnd SpaceX is a private company. It is not NASA.
It's pretty rare in my area, but yeah there's quite a few folks who still think NASA money should be used on more useful things like, I don't know, Eagles Stadium or some shit.
My new litmus test is showing people at work the SpaceX drone ship landing.
"Holy shit."
"WOah holy shit."
"That's not real is it? Is this a game video?" "The space program is such a waste of tax payer dollars." -Never talk to this person again.
Yeah, they are. They also refuse to listen to any cogent explanation of how research funding is actually a good thing and led to the creation of most of the modern conveniences they take for granted.
... aaaannnd SpaceX is a private company. It is not NASA.
They do get paid by NASA though. I'm not sure what the specifics are, but they won't stop some blowhard from going, "See! We pay the government taxes, the government gives the money to NASA, and then NASA gives money to SpaceX! THOSE ARE MY TAX DOLLARS!"
It's pretty rare in my area, but yeah there's quite a few folks who still think NASA money should be used on more useful things like, I don't know, Eagles Stadium or some shit.
My new litmus test is showing people at work the SpaceX drone ship landing.
"Holy shit."
"WOah holy shit."
"That's not real is it? Is this a game video?" "The space program is such a waste of tax payer dollars." -Never talk to this person again.
Yeah, they are. They also refuse to listen to any cogent explanation of how research funding is actually a good thing and led to the creation of most of the modern conveniences they take for granted.
... aaaannnd SpaceX is a private company. It is not NASA.
They do get paid by NASA though. I'm not sure what the specifics are, but they won't stop some blowhard from going, "See! We pay the government taxes, the government gives the money to NASA, and then NASA gives money to SpaceX! THOSE ARE MY TAX DOLLARS!"
Yeah, I guess you could swing it that way. NASA did put in a chunk (mostly as pre-launch contracting services though), but if they hadn't Musk would have tried to fund it from other sources. Course, it's still an asinine argument.
edit: now I wonder what's the Venn diagram for people who think we shouldn't fund space travel and people who think we shouldn't fund the EPA/conserve planetary resources. I would bet there's a significant overlap, and I would bet the cognitive dissonance doesn't bother them a whit.
I started learning cursive in school when I was... 8? I was excited to learn it because it looked cool, so once I knew how, I used it for everything and consequently got really good at it. My handwriting was never pretty, but my teachers all said it was very readable. I only really stopped using it when I started taking programming classes in college, because it was a pain to constantly switch between cursive for text and printing for pseudocode and acronyms.
And now I do most of my note-taking on a keyboard so it's accessible from anywhere, and if I'm hand-writing a letter, I print. But I miss cursive writing and handwritten correspondence in general. It's just hard to justify sending a letter when email is right there.
I keep meaning to start practicing penmanship again. Apparently I never learned to hold a pen correctly, and my entire forearm and hand tense up something fierce when I'm writing.
It's pretty rare in my area, but yeah there's quite a few folks who still think NASA money should be used on more useful things like, I don't know, Eagles Stadium or some shit.
My new litmus test is showing people at work the SpaceX drone ship landing.
"Holy shit."
"WOah holy shit."
"That's not real is it? Is this a game video?" "The space program is such a waste of tax payer dollars." -Never talk to this person again.
Yeah, they are. They also refuse to listen to any cogent explanation of how research funding is actually a good thing and led to the creation of most of the modern conveniences they take for granted.
... aaaannnd SpaceX is a private company. It is not NASA.
They do get paid by NASA though. I'm not sure what the specifics are, but they won't stop some blowhard from going, "See! We pay the government taxes, the government gives the money to NASA, and then NASA gives money to SpaceX! THOSE ARE MY TAX DOLLARS!"
Yeah, I guess you could swing it that way. NASA did put in a chunk (mostly as pre-launch contracting services though), but if they hadn't Musk would have tried to fund it from other sources. Course, it's still an asinine argument.
edit: now I wonder what's the Venn diagram for people who think we shouldn't fund space travel and people who think we shouldn't fund the EPA/conserve planetary resources. I would bet there's a significant overlap, and I would bet the cognitive dissonance doesn't bother them a whit.
I seriously want to ask one of these people if they enjoy satellites and want to continue enjoying their global communication network?
It's pretty rare in my area, but yeah there's quite a few folks who still think NASA money should be used on more useful things like, I don't know, Eagles Stadium or some shit.
My new litmus test is showing people at work the SpaceX drone ship landing.
"Holy shit."
"WOah holy shit."
"That's not real is it? Is this a game video?" "The space program is such a waste of tax payer dollars." -Never talk to this person again.
Yeah, they are. They also refuse to listen to any cogent explanation of how research funding is actually a good thing and led to the creation of most of the modern conveniences they take for granted.
... aaaannnd SpaceX is a private company. It is not NASA.
They do get paid by NASA though. I'm not sure what the specifics are, but they won't stop some blowhard from going, "See! We pay the government taxes, the government gives the money to NASA, and then NASA gives money to SpaceX! THOSE ARE MY TAX DOLLARS!"
Yeah, I guess you could swing it that way. NASA did put in a chunk (mostly as pre-launch contracting services though), but if they hadn't Musk would have tried to fund it from other sources. Course, it's still an asinine argument.
edit: now I wonder what's the Venn diagram for people who think we shouldn't fund space travel and people who think we shouldn't fund the EPA/conserve planetary resources. I would bet there's a significant overlap, and I would bet the cognitive dissonance doesn't bother them a whit.
I seriously want to ask one of these people if they enjoy satellites and want to continue enjoying their global communication network?
so one of the things I never got was why people would watch someone else play a video game and now I have at least one reason behind it: because kids can watch someone play a game they can't get for whatever reason(I'm guessing money) and then come and tell me about this awesome new game they 'played'
My new litmus test is showing people at work the SpaceX drone ship landing.
"Holy shit."
"WOah holy shit."
"That's not real is it? Is this a game video?"
"The space program is such a waste of tax payer dollars." -Never talk to this person again.
Finally, we can strand people on boats in the middle of the ocean with modern technology!
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
Guys, guys! Second interview was today and I did well again?? I think maybe my best moment from the interview was when the hiring manager was discussing how the software I'd be using really has no documentation yet, and I enthusiastically replied "not only do I not need documentation, I'll write your documentation!"
They'll be contacting me for the next stage of the hiring process! Which is a personality test by the Gallup people, oddly (which must be passed to be hired)
I just helped an older lady apply for a job, and it took almost 45 minutes because her mind has been wronged by excessive lsd use in her youth
after everything she pulls out a gross old liquor store bag full of dirt and offers me some hand picked fresh mushrooms
she pulled out a laptop that she didn't know how to plug in, and when she took it out of it's protective plastic bag, a whole bunch of oats fell out on to my desk
Like she walked out of your office and transformed into a raccoon and ran back into the woods
since you helped her apply for a job, you will have a bountiful harvest this year, well done.
Didn't get the job from last week, but i'm gearing up for the job for *this* week, and got a better assignment at work. Did get called out on a mistake i've been making for days, but i also fixed it within 30 minutes, so there's that.
Also walked two miles on company time (non-break, going to a software training a mile away in town).
Baby brother's mentor is hospitalized and the outlook is grim. I'm glad I set bro on a path to a city gig so he had something to work toward cause this is some heavy stuff.
Anybody have experience with short-term disability in California? I had a medical thing, doctor released me to return to work under various restrictions, but I cannot execute my job duties under those restrictions.
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MrMonroepassed outon the floor nowRegistered Userregular
Another idiot COO story, brought to you by the same shitlord that had me fired and then re-hired four days later after he realized he'd canned one of the most popular people in the company:
So the guy I tapped to be the replacement manager of Ops Analytics in my stead has had to go to the same meetings that put a target on my back after I told the COO and everyone who was listening that his ideas were shit and that if we listened to him we'd be taking the company backwards. Today, while he's answering a question that the COO has directly asked him, he gets a popup on his laptop with an email from the COO.
Subject: "He is really bad at being crisp, focused, and succinct"
Body: <empty>
So this shitlord asks a question of an employee, and then, during that employee's answer, attempts to send an e-mail to that employee's boss criticizing his speaking style, and accidentally sends it to the person he's trying to criticize.
Maybe if you listened to the content of people's messages rather than tuning out in less than five seconds if their speech doesn't perfectly conform to your expectations you'd have made less awful decisions over the course of the last few months, shitlord.
I guess, at the most, if I don't hear back within the next two weeks I can just give up on it. Supposed to hear back within 30 days (it was March 21) regardless of the outcome. I feel that since I didn't hear back automatically as a no then that's, well, somewhat reassuring? I don't know.
Regardless I'll be moving home after graduating so I can look from there or look into maybe applying to graduate school or whatever.
Ugh.
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
Another idiot COO story, brought to you by the same shitlord that had me fired and then re-hired four days later after he realized he'd canned one of the most popular people in the company:
So the guy I tapped to be the replacement manager of Ops Analytics in my stead has had to go to the same meetings that put a target on my back after I told the COO and everyone who was listening that his ideas were shit and that if we listened to him we'd be taking the company backwards. Today, while he's answering a question that the COO has directly asked him, he gets a popup on his laptop with an email from the COO.
Subject: "He is really bad at being crisp, focused, and succinct"
Body: <empty>
So this shitlord asks a question of an employee, and then, during that employee's answer, attempts to send an e-mail to that employee's boss criticizing his speaking style, and accidentally sends it to the person he's trying to criticize.
Maybe if you listened to the content of people's messages rather than tuning out in less than five seconds if their speech doesn't perfectly conform to your expectations you'd have made less awful decisions over the course of the last few months, shitlord.
God, some people should never have been put anywhere near the supervision of other people, and I wonder how the fuck they get there. (I know though. It's because they're friends with someone. Sigh.)
MrMonroepassed outon the floor nowRegistered Userregular
edited April 2016
Also I feel like I should mention that this same shitlord has basically personally drummed out five super qualified, highly intelligent women from positions ranging from entry-level management up to the VP level because they just can't stand to work at the company anymore because of how sexist the environment has become and how frustrated they are at being unable to get their voice heard.
Three of them gave notice without having any other work lined up. Not "I'm leaving for a better opportunity" but "Even unemployment is better than this"
Wheeeee. Warehouse building is completely closed for the undetermined future. So mailroom, warehouse, procurement, canteen, food services, property, and a couple other things are either dead in the water or severely restricted. When we got to work this morning we were informed about how crossing the cordoned off caution tape would result in an instant Letter of Instruction (LOI) and that we'd be given two hours at some point to grab our stuff to do our jobs minus most tech/equipment. Once the window was up, which opened up four hours after we were left standing around doing bum-diddley, everything was locked down and will remain locked down.
I was assigned to work in the "mailroom" until the warehouse building is open again, which is now in a trailer behind Admin building and the air-conditioning is busted. Soon warehouse, canteen, and procurement will be joining us in said sweltering hellhole so we can all be fucking merry with the corpses that are case records staff already in there. Seriously they are so damn quiet it's like a tomb.
For a carpeted store that has a "Only Service Animals Allowed" sign displayed, I am amazed at the amount of people bringing dogs in.
And I am apparently the only person telling them to have someone wait outside or let me get whatever they need. I am apparently the only person that is just internally panicking about having to clean dog mess off the floor.
The absolute refusal to understand common practice, disregard relevant signage, and then act astounded kind of amazes me.
Another idiot COO story, brought to you by the same shitlord that had me fired and then re-hired four days later after he realized he'd canned one of the most popular people in the company:
So the guy I tapped to be the replacement manager of Ops Analytics in my stead has had to go to the same meetings that put a target on my back after I told the COO and everyone who was listening that his ideas were shit and that if we listened to him we'd be taking the company backwards. Today, while he's answering a question that the COO has directly asked him, he gets a popup on his laptop with an email from the COO.
Subject: "He is really bad at being crisp, focused, and succinct"
Body: <empty>
So this shitlord asks a question of an employee, and then, during that employee's answer, attempts to send an e-mail to that employee's boss criticizing his speaking style, and accidentally sends it to the person he's trying to criticize.
Maybe if you listened to the content of people's messages rather than tuning out in less than five seconds if their speech doesn't perfectly conform to your expectations you'd have made less awful decisions over the course of the last few months, shitlord.
God, some people should never have been put anywhere near the supervision of other people, and I wonder how the fuck they get there. (I know though. It's because they're friends with someone. Sigh.)
I work with several people like that and others than have been busted down in rank and will make people pay for that
It's the parade of dogs I see the ones that are basically an accessory. Tiny little dogs so used to being held and carried they just accept it
yet I like the untrustworthy looks they give me when they walk by and sniff
Note: if you think your 'friend' is a suitable fit for the vacancy in my team, you should send me their CV and not a link to her instagram page that shows off her... 'assets'. Unbelievable.
I love the conversion to chip cards, and how salty card thieves get when you tell them no, we can't just run it as credit.
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What I dislike about them is few stores have the thing set up to take them or have any idea how it works
I am half asleep and I know more than them about it that's sad
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But if you're going to try to make me wait for a note because you use a dipped pen and the ink needs to dry, I will call you a pretentious twat.
As someone who has used pens and pots of ink, yo what? They are using it in a office setting? I can't even use a fountain pen because the ink takes time to dry.
Except the schools are cutting art, music, and PE (except for PE related to football and basketball).
If they're that committed, couldn't they use one of these sucker to allow the note to be dried instantly in a business setting?
You will be fine I am sure, but the only advice I will give is the advice given to me in similar situations; don't try to overcompensate. Lots of people try to come off tough in those situations and it never works, just try to relax, the more you relax, the less uncomfortable you'll feel.
You probably weren't going to overcompensate anyway. Maybe it was me specific advice. You'll do great! I am sure of it.
Pretend you only speak French.
... aaaannnd SpaceX is a private company. It is not NASA.
They do get paid by NASA though. I'm not sure what the specifics are, but they won't stop some blowhard from going, "See! We pay the government taxes, the government gives the money to NASA, and then NASA gives money to SpaceX! THOSE ARE MY TAX DOLLARS!"
Yeah, I guess you could swing it that way. NASA did put in a chunk (mostly as pre-launch contracting services though), but if they hadn't Musk would have tried to fund it from other sources. Course, it's still an asinine argument.
edit: now I wonder what's the Venn diagram for people who think we shouldn't fund space travel and people who think we shouldn't fund the EPA/conserve planetary resources. I would bet there's a significant overlap, and I would bet the cognitive dissonance doesn't bother them a whit.
Oh man I need to get one of those. It is very stamp like as a Librarian I am very pro-stamps. Plus I could use my fountain pen again.
And now I do most of my note-taking on a keyboard so it's accessible from anywhere, and if I'm hand-writing a letter, I print. But I miss cursive writing and handwritten correspondence in general. It's just hard to justify sending a letter when email is right there.
I keep meaning to start practicing penmanship again. Apparently I never learned to hold a pen correctly, and my entire forearm and hand tense up something fierce when I'm writing.
I seriously want to ask one of these people if they enjoy satellites and want to continue enjoying their global communication network?
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
That's the military. SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!
Finally, we can strand people on boats in the middle of the ocean with modern technology!
They'll be contacting me for the next stage of the hiring process! Which is a personality test by the Gallup people, oddly (which must be passed to be hired)
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Also walked two miles on company time (non-break, going to a software training a mile away in town).
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
So the guy I tapped to be the replacement manager of Ops Analytics in my stead has had to go to the same meetings that put a target on my back after I told the COO and everyone who was listening that his ideas were shit and that if we listened to him we'd be taking the company backwards. Today, while he's answering a question that the COO has directly asked him, he gets a popup on his laptop with an email from the COO.
Subject: "He is really bad at being crisp, focused, and succinct"
Body: <empty>
So this shitlord asks a question of an employee, and then, during that employee's answer, attempts to send an e-mail to that employee's boss criticizing his speaking style, and accidentally sends it to the person he's trying to criticize.
Maybe if you listened to the content of people's messages rather than tuning out in less than five seconds if their speech doesn't perfectly conform to your expectations you'd have made less awful decisions over the course of the last few months, shitlord.
I guess, at the most, if I don't hear back within the next two weeks I can just give up on it. Supposed to hear back within 30 days (it was March 21) regardless of the outcome. I feel that since I didn't hear back automatically as a no then that's, well, somewhat reassuring? I don't know.
Regardless I'll be moving home after graduating so I can look from there or look into maybe applying to graduate school or whatever.
Ugh.
God, some people should never have been put anywhere near the supervision of other people, and I wonder how the fuck they get there. (I know though. It's because they're friends with someone. Sigh.)
Three of them gave notice without having any other work lined up. Not "I'm leaving for a better opportunity" but "Even unemployment is better than this"
However I forced an orderly queue at my desk today and won
I was assigned to work in the "mailroom" until the warehouse building is open again, which is now in a trailer behind Admin building and the air-conditioning is busted. Soon warehouse, canteen, and procurement will be joining us in said sweltering hellhole so we can all be fucking merry with the corpses that are case records staff already in there. Seriously they are so damn quiet it's like a tomb.
And I am apparently the only person telling them to have someone wait outside or let me get whatever they need. I am apparently the only person that is just internally panicking about having to clean dog mess off the floor.
The absolute refusal to understand common practice, disregard relevant signage, and then act astounded kind of amazes me.
I work with several people like that and others than have been busted down in rank and will make people pay for that
It's the parade of dogs I see the ones that are basically an accessory. Tiny little dogs so used to being held and carried they just accept it
yet I like the untrustworthy looks they give me when they walk by and sniff
Learned that I have to patrol this structure. L is 13, m, n, 16 or 17 floors depending on how you count it, plus the stairwells.
Free wifi and there is a bathroom.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
"sir, i know you didn't bring your id, so can you please hang dong so i can properly identify you?"
Also we chased a pigeon all over the store today.
Based on previous pudding experience, you can tongue that shit out of its cup. You just really don't want any witnesses.
What I dislike about them is few stores have the thing set up to take them or have any idea how it works
I am half asleep and I know more than them about it that's sad