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    Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Also, a free half glass of red wine!

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    RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    Brother picked me up in my car, hungover but he wanted fast food and I wanted churros.

    Then a gal face-timed him and said introduce me to your friend and I thought she meant me but she actually meant his roommate.

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    PowerpuppiesPowerpuppies drinking coffee in the mountain cabinRegistered User regular
    Because each line in the file may be a different record type. Like
    A
    B
    C
    A
    B
    B
    B
    C
    And the format of each record type is different.

    Tofystedeth if this is a common occurrence or you're still dealing with it, I can make you a tool that sorts lines of a fixed width file by column start position and dumps out format1.csv format2.csv format3.csv etc. You'd have to be able to install python on your computer to run it, though. Lemme know!
    Nah, thanks for the offer. If it was likely to ever occur again I'd just build a thing myself. Just had to spend a while staring at stuff long enough to verify that the file extract was working fine and it was the source data that was bogus so I could wash my hands of the ticket for someone else to fix.

    Nod, I know the feeling. It's an impressive level of screwup for someone to have reached accidentally.

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    RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    I've one real gripe about this job and that is the crazy graffiti I see that goes by too quickly.

    Simpson's character montage

    Schoolhouse rock

    Shit belongs in a museum!

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    chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    Start a tumblr? Document that shit!

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    Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    I have discovered a leak in my bedroom roof/ceiling that occurs in heavy rain. Over my bed, because of course it would be. So I guess I'm not getting any sleep tonight until this storm is finished.

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    RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    chromdom wrote: »
    Start a tumblr? Document that shit!

    It literally goes by too fast.

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    stimtokolosstimtokolos Registered User regular
    I am emotionally exhausted today.
    I gave notice for my resignation at a really good job, but it is the right thing for me to do.

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    jgeisjgeis Registered User regular
    Well, tonight ended on a sucky note.

    In order to drop off/pick up people at LAX, Lyft/Uber drivers need a TNC placard, issued in conjunction with the airport. Nowhere in the online airport training guide does it state that you need a new placard when you change vehicles, nor that you need to retake the course to get a new placard. I was doing an airport pick up and an airport traffic control officer checked my placard (for the first time ever, in thousands of rides, and I was doing nothing wrong), and informed me that it was invalid because of the mismatched license plate. He also stated that I might be charged the $200 fee they charge to Lyft whenever this happens.

    I suppose if I really thought this all the way through, I might have realized the license plate number was on the placard and no longer matched, but I'm a bit upset that Lyft didn't give me a heads-up when I registered a new vehicle. Like, they should automatically issue a new one or at least mention the need to get a new one in an email. I don't think that's crazy, right? They only really go over it in the detailed "LAX regulations" article that you have to actively seek out on their website.

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    MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    I mean, you can hardly be faulted for not paying a huge amount of attention to a rule appearing in a booklet titled "LAX Regulations"

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    jgeisjgeis Registered User regular
    edited February 2017
    Riiiight, sure, but there's like three or four different pages about airport regulations on their website, with the full airport regulations being relatively deep in the help section.

    The information pertinent to my situation is never presented to you in any of the information that you HAVE to read to become qualified for airport rides.

    Looking back at emails I've received, I don't think I've ever been linked to the full airport regulations.

    Edit: or wait, you're making a play on the word lax... I'm a little high strung tonight.

    jgeis on
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    BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    first day of new job in an hour hhhhhhhhhhh

    the smart new shoes i bought gave me nasty blisters so im attempting to get away with a pair of beat up old converse

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited February 2017
    Had one of my stores union managers tell me yesterday that he thinks I'd be great as the shop steward, however even though I put in for the day of union training off, I still got scheduled to work by the company management so I've gotta try to swap shifts or make a deal to leave work for the training and come back. And if that fails, well , just get the local union rep to step in.

    Weaver on
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    korodullinkorodullin What. SCRegistered User regular
    Back at work tonight after almost a week off.

    From what I've heard, the only thing of note that happened was everyone having to sign a paper in regards to a new policy, which states that if any supervisor tells you to go work somewhere, even if it's not your job, you must obey and do it.

    Likewise, if you're told to stay over or come in early, you have to do so or eat writeups.

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    - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
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    BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    That sounds like here

    Now I was forcefully transferred yay off nights to now go back to unloading trucks since they have a very hard time keeping them with their homophoic ass of a supervisor {every word out of his mouth is a gay slur}
    I start Tuesday so it's going to be weird to be active once again during the day

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    We're a trio of shit workplaces, but at least mine is shit due to outside factors and not actively hostile leadership.

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    Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Today I am making a data sheet for recording cheetah kill consumption by visual observation.

    Basically a load of tick boxes for "Front left leg: Not eaten / Partially eaten / Mostly eaten / Completely eaten. Front right leg: Not eaten / Partially eaten / Mostly eaten /" etc etc

    I find it pleasing to think that my colleagues will have to poke around at eviscerated carcasses because of me.

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    PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    Wasn't this what early humans did for over a million years, poke at carcasses which another predator left behind

    It should come naturally

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    PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    I recently read what Wikipedia had to say about hand axes and while I'm highly skeptical regarding this theory, I still found it fascinating
    Kohn and Mithen independently arrived at the explanation that symmetric hand axes were favoured by sexual selection as fitness indicators.[13] Kohn in his book As We Know It wrote that the hand axe is "a highly visible indicator of fitness, and so becomes a criterion of mate choice."[14] Miller followed their example and said that hand axes have characteristics that make them subject to sexual selection, such as that they were made for over a million years throughout Africa, Europe and Asia, they were made in large numbers, and most were impractical for utilitarian use. He claimed that a single design persisting across time and space cannot be explained by cultural imitation and draws a parallel between bowerbirds' bowers (built to attract potential mates and used only during courtship) and Pleistocene hominids' hand axes. He called hand axe building a "genetically inherited propensity to construct a certain type of object."

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    Today I am making a data sheet for recording cheetah kill consumption by visual observation.

    Basically a load of tick boxes for "Front left leg: Not eaten / Partially eaten / Mostly eaten / Completely eaten. Front right leg: Not eaten / Partially eaten / Mostly eaten /" etc etc

    I find it pleasing to think that my colleagues will have to poke around at eviscerated carcasses because of me.

    Just wait for "limb removed, salted for storage, cheetah left clan marker"

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    Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    I recently read what Wikipedia had to say about hand axes and while I'm highly skeptical regarding this theory, I still found it fascinating
    Kohn and Mithen independently arrived at the explanation that symmetric hand axes were favoured by sexual selection as fitness indicators.[13] Kohn in his book As We Know It wrote that the hand axe is "a highly visible indicator of fitness, and so becomes a criterion of mate choice."[14] Miller followed their example and said that hand axes have characteristics that make them subject to sexual selection, such as that they were made for over a million years throughout Africa, Europe and Asia, they were made in large numbers, and most were impractical for utilitarian use. He claimed that a single design persisting across time and space cannot be explained by cultural imitation and draws a parallel between bowerbirds' bowers (built to attract potential mates and used only during courtship) and Pleistocene hominids' hand axes. He called hand axe building a "genetically inherited propensity to construct a certain type of object."

    Well I know nothing gets me hot and bothered like seeing a man fashion rudimentary tools out of stone.

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    SolarSolar Registered User regular
    I recently read what Wikipedia had to say about hand axes and while I'm highly skeptical regarding this theory, I still found it fascinating
    Kohn and Mithen independently arrived at the explanation that symmetric hand axes were favoured by sexual selection as fitness indicators.[13] Kohn in his book As We Know It wrote that the hand axe is "a highly visible indicator of fitness, and so becomes a criterion of mate choice."[14] Miller followed their example and said that hand axes have characteristics that make them subject to sexual selection, such as that they were made for over a million years throughout Africa, Europe and Asia, they were made in large numbers, and most were impractical for utilitarian use. He claimed that a single design persisting across time and space cannot be explained by cultural imitation and draws a parallel between bowerbirds' bowers (built to attract potential mates and used only during courtship) and Pleistocene hominids' hand axes. He called hand axe building a "genetically inherited propensity to construct a certain type of object."

    Well I know nothing gets me hot and bothered like seeing a man fashion rudimentary tools out of stone.

    All these survivalist games coming out recently must be very distracting to you!

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    LabelLabel Registered User regular
    and here I thought Prehistoric Technology was just having fun in the woods.

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    PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    It's rather sexist to look at a tool and to assume that, naturally, a man must've made it

    Like with those Venus figurines who might as well have been produced by female artists but have traditionally been ascribed to male "cavemen"

    But I'm fascinated by the idea that genetical propensity might explain the uniformity of some artifacts (if such uniformity even exists)

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    tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I have so many opinions about why that's stupid.

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    PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    edited February 2017
    Apparently there were also a lot of humans who were really shitty at making handaxes

    The ones which end up on display in a museum or get photographed for publications are mostly those handaxes which have been selected by modern humans for their high quality and aesthetic appeal

    So the uniformity might as well be a modern artifact

    Platy on
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    tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Apparently there were also a lot of humans who were really shitty at making handaxes

    The ones which end up on display in a museum or get photographed for publications are mostly those handaxes which have been selected by modern humans for their high quality and aesthetic appeal

    So the uniformity might as well be a modern artifact

    I'm looking forward to future anthropologists explaining that museum curation was a form of sexual selection.

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    PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    The fact that only the more beautiful examples end up on display leads to quotes like this
    It seems difficult to admit that these beings did not experience a certain aesthetic satisfaction, they were excellent craftsmen that knew how to choose their material, repair defects, orient cracks with total precision, drawing out a form from a crude flint core that corresponded exactly to their desire. Their work was not automatic or guided by a series of actions in strict order, they were able to mobilize in each moment reflection and, of course, the pleasure of creating a beautiful object.

    — Leroi-Gourhan[68]

    When there's obviously also much evidence of sloppy and half-assed worksmanship

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    SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    Well, based off those quotes we know that at least someone was sexually selecting handaxes.

    I ain't gonna kinkshame though.

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    Dis'Dis' Registered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    Apparently there were also a lot of humans who were really shitty at making handaxes

    The ones which end up on display in a museum or get photographed for publications are mostly those handaxes which have been selected by modern humans for their high quality and aesthetic appeal

    So the uniformity might as well be a modern artifact

    I'm looking forward to future anthropologists explaining that museum curation was a form of sexual selection.

    I mean all those museums founded by rich people and aristocrats in the last few centuries is totally about showing off the patrons status and desirability.

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    caligynefobcaligynefob DKRegistered User regular
    So I wanted to check up on a clients website today to see wether they had implemented some changes in regards to protecting their trademark. I innocently typed in <companyname>.com instead of their .dk address and was promptly re-routed to a hardcore porn website. That's going to be a fun conversation with my superiors tomorrow.

    PS4 - Mrfuzzyhat
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    TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    We specialize in breeding and selling large black roosters, it's not our fault if people have dirty minds.

    bnet: TheStig#1787 Steam: TheStig
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    BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    TheStig wrote: »
    We specialize in breeding and selling large black roosters, it's not our fault if people have dirty minds.

    I still find it bonkers you can buy eggs to raise your own chickens and other meat birds on ebay
    Even this bad boy
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    Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    edited February 2017
    This past week has been ridiculous. I've achieved nothing. I have been in a mess mentally, can't focus, have no enthusiasm or interest in anything. All I want to do is lay in bed, which is far too easy to get away with when you live at work. I feel like such a waste of space and I want to be getting stuff done but my brain and energy levels feel trashed.

    Brovid Hasselsmof on
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    korodullinkorodullin What. SCRegistered User regular
    In a bit of better (or at least more amusing) news, the company's vice chairman made a visit last week on one of the days I had off. Everyone was pretty much made to drop everything and spend hour upon hour sweeping and dusting, and the temp painter on first shift had been worked half to death painting various walls* and machines for the visit.

    From what I've been told by someone I'm on good terms with from the main office, the VC did his walkthrough, made a sour face at the overwhelming stench of fresh paint and sweeping compound, and after our plant manager spoke at length about how thrifty he's been by avoiding costly equipment upgrades by having maintenance constantly refurbish parts to the point of uselessness, the VC tore into him about the state of our equipment. For months corporate HQ back in Korea had been told that our many quality issues last year had been entirely due to human error and poor process control. After seeing the sorry state of much of the machinery in the plant, however, the VC is now convinced that outdated and poorly-maintained equipment is just as likely a culprit, and that investing in upgrading our equipment is going to be a top priority for the upcoming fiscal year. He also told our production manager to curb his preoccupation with cleaning, saying something to the effect of "a clean floor doesn't make up for bad wire."



    *Fun fact: many of our walls have been painted and repainted over so many times that the original bumpy texture is almost completely gone in spots. I've had someone tell me that they've taken a chunk of paint off the wall and counted at least two dozen layers of the shit.

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    - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
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    Quantum TigerQuantum Tiger Registered User regular
    This past week has been ridiculous. I've achieved nothing. I have been in a mess mentally, can't focus, have no enthusiasm or interest in anything. All I want to do is lay in bed, which is far too easy to get away with when you live at work. I feel like such a waste of space and I want to be getting stuff done but my brain and energy levels feel trashed.

    Going for a run always helps me when I'm in this mood.

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    DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    korodullin wrote: »
    In a bit of better (or at least more amusing) news, the company's vice chairman made a visit last week on one of the days I had off. Everyone was pretty much made to drop everything and spend hour upon hour sweeping and dusting, and the temp painter on first shift had been worked half to death painting various walls* and machines for the visit.

    From what I've been told by someone I'm on good terms with from the main office, the VC did his walkthrough, made a sour face at the overwhelming stench of fresh paint and sweeping compound, and after our plant manager spoke at length about how thrifty he's been by avoiding costly equipment upgrades by having maintenance constantly refurbish parts to the point of uselessness, the VC tore into him about the state of our equipment. For months corporate HQ back in Korea had been told that our many quality issues last year had been entirely due to human error and poor process control. After seeing the sorry state of much of the machinery in the plant, however, the VC is now convinced that outdated and poorly-maintained equipment is just as likely a culprit, and that investing in upgrading our equipment is going to be a top priority for the upcoming fiscal year. He also told our production manager to curb his preoccupation with cleaning, saying something to the effect of "a clean floor doesn't make up for bad wire."



    *Fun fact: many of our walls have been painted and repainted over so many times that the original bumpy texture is almost completely gone in spots. I've had someone tell me that they've taken a chunk of paint off the wall and counted at least two dozen layers of the shit.

    This is baffling. I can not imagine wanting those to be what the defect causes are. Poor equipment is a huge capital expenditure and not directly under the plant manager's control, it's a "safe" excuse. Human error (bad training) and poor process control? That's 100% the plant manager's job and his fuck up.

    Your place is so weird.

    Nod. Get treat. PSN: Quippish
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    bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    korodullin wrote: »
    In a bit of better (or at least more amusing) news, the company's vice chairman made a visit last week on one of the days I had off. Everyone was pretty much made to drop everything and spend hour upon hour sweeping and dusting, and the temp painter on first shift had been worked half to death painting various walls* and machines for the visit.

    From what I've been told by someone I'm on good terms with from the main office, the VC did his walkthrough, made a sour face at the overwhelming stench of fresh paint and sweeping compound, and after our plant manager spoke at length about how thrifty he's been by avoiding costly equipment upgrades by having maintenance constantly refurbish parts to the point of uselessness, the VC tore into him about the state of our equipment. For months corporate HQ back in Korea had been told that our many quality issues last year had been entirely due to human error and poor process control. After seeing the sorry state of much of the machinery in the plant, however, the VC is now convinced that outdated and poorly-maintained equipment is just as likely a culprit, and that investing in upgrading our equipment is going to be a top priority for the upcoming fiscal year. He also told our production manager to curb his preoccupation with cleaning, saying something to the effect of "a clean floor doesn't make up for bad wire."



    *Fun fact: many of our walls have been painted and repainted over so many times that the original bumpy texture is almost completely gone in spots. I've had someone tell me that they've taken a chunk of paint off the wall and counted at least two dozen layers of the shit.

    This is baffling. I can not imagine wanting those to be what the defect causes are. Poor equipment is a huge capital expenditure and not directly under the plant manager's control, it's a "safe" excuse. Human error (bad training) and poor process control? That's 100% the plant manager's job and his fuck up.

    Your place is so weird.

    Shitty management and low safety concern accounts for 99% of their problems.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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    OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    korodullin wrote: »
    In a bit of better (or at least more amusing) news, the company's vice chairman made a visit last week on one of the days I had off. Everyone was pretty much made to drop everything and spend hour upon hour sweeping and dusting, and the temp painter on first shift had been worked half to death painting various walls* and machines for the visit.

    From what I've been told by someone I'm on good terms with from the main office, the VC did his walkthrough, made a sour face at the overwhelming stench of fresh paint and sweeping compound, and after our plant manager spoke at length about how thrifty he's been by avoiding costly equipment upgrades by having maintenance constantly refurbish parts to the point of uselessness, the VC tore into him about the state of our equipment. For months corporate HQ back in Korea had been told that our many quality issues last year had been entirely due to human error and poor process control. After seeing the sorry state of much of the machinery in the plant, however, the VC is now convinced that outdated and poorly-maintained equipment is just as likely a culprit, and that investing in upgrading our equipment is going to be a top priority for the upcoming fiscal year. He also told our production manager to curb his preoccupation with cleaning, saying something to the effect of "a clean floor doesn't make up for bad wire."



    *Fun fact: many of our walls have been painted and repainted over so many times that the original bumpy texture is almost completely gone in spots. I've had someone tell me that they've taken a chunk of paint off the wall and counted at least two dozen layers of the shit.

    This is baffling. I can not imagine wanting those to be what the defect causes are. Poor equipment is a huge capital expenditure and not directly under the plant manager's control, it's a "safe" excuse. Human error (bad training) and poor process control? That's 100% the plant manager's job and his fuck up.

    Your place is so weird.

    Human beings are cheaper to replace than manufacturing equipment. Just say your training was good but the people sucked and you are trying to find less sucky people.

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    DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    korodullin wrote: »
    In a bit of better (or at least more amusing) news, the company's vice chairman made a visit last week on one of the days I had off. Everyone was pretty much made to drop everything and spend hour upon hour sweeping and dusting, and the temp painter on first shift had been worked half to death painting various walls* and machines for the visit.

    From what I've been told by someone I'm on good terms with from the main office, the VC did his walkthrough, made a sour face at the overwhelming stench of fresh paint and sweeping compound, and after our plant manager spoke at length about how thrifty he's been by avoiding costly equipment upgrades by having maintenance constantly refurbish parts to the point of uselessness, the VC tore into him about the state of our equipment. For months corporate HQ back in Korea had been told that our many quality issues last year had been entirely due to human error and poor process control. After seeing the sorry state of much of the machinery in the plant, however, the VC is now convinced that outdated and poorly-maintained equipment is just as likely a culprit, and that investing in upgrading our equipment is going to be a top priority for the upcoming fiscal year. He also told our production manager to curb his preoccupation with cleaning, saying something to the effect of "a clean floor doesn't make up for bad wire."



    *Fun fact: many of our walls have been painted and repainted over so many times that the original bumpy texture is almost completely gone in spots. I've had someone tell me that they've taken a chunk of paint off the wall and counted at least two dozen layers of the shit.

    This is baffling. I can not imagine wanting those to be what the defect causes are. Poor equipment is a huge capital expenditure and not directly under the plant manager's control, it's a "safe" excuse. Human error (bad training) and poor process control? That's 100% the plant manager's job and his fuck up.

    Your place is so weird.

    Human beings are cheaper to replace than manufacturing equipment. Just say your training was good but the people sucked and you are trying to find less sucky people.

    I guess they're skating by on assuming the home office has implicit racism or something? If you keep getting the sucky people that is again on management.

    Nod. Get treat. PSN: Quippish
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