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  • BowenBowen Sup? Registered User regular
    yeah I think I'll bake up some code with a killswitch so they can see it in action and see where that goes

    the tech mentioned off hand that they're looking to get into Faxing As A Service soon

    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
  • DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
    Years from now people will still ask how the Bowen virus took out telecommunications in North America for three months.

    "Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
  • see317see317 Registered User regular
    Years from now people will still ask how the Bowen virus took out telecommunications in North America for three months.

    I look forward to sitting around the communal fire, cooking whatever rabbits or squirrels were to slow and stupid to escape, and reminiscing "I knew Bowen when...".

  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    Tinkles is good.

  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    2.5 hours in and finally there is someone else in the office.

    I'd peace out at lunch, but someone put a 3:30 meeting on my calendar and if it wasn't the COO I'd fire them on the fucking spot.

    COO just said that she's letting everyone go at 3 today. Most people get in at 9. I get in at 7. By my math that means I'm smoke in the wind at 1.

    I thought this meant you were fired until I saw the awesomes.

  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    Got almost all the way home from work to discover that seemingly every road in a mile radius around my apartment is closed for some kind of city parade/street festival thing.

    It's fucking July 3rd, what is wrong with this stupid city?

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  • BowenBowen Sup? Registered User regular
    see317 wrote: »
    Years from now people will still ask how the Bowen virus took out telecommunications in North America for three months.

    I look forward to sitting around the communal fire, cooking whatever rabbits or squirrels were to slow and stupid to escape, and reminiscing "I knew Bowen when...".

    Twitter is the first to go for obvious reasons.

    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
  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    The rabbits here are stupid
    I'm a rock is their defense a furry rock

  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    2.5 hours in and finally there is someone else in the office.

    I'd peace out at lunch, but someone put a 3:30 meeting on my calendar and if it wasn't the COO I'd fire them on the fucking spot.

    COO just said that she's letting everyone go at 3 today. Most people get in at 9. I get in at 7. By my math that means I'm smoke in the wind at 1.

    I thought this meant you were fired until I saw the awesomes.

    Yea, ok..that's fair. I figure I've got at least until after SDCC until they realize I'm still there and shit can me.

  • NoughtNought Registered User regular
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    Tube wrote: »
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    2.5 hours in and finally there is someone else in the office.

    I'd peace out at lunch, but someone put a 3:30 meeting on my calendar and if it wasn't the COO I'd fire them on the fucking spot.

    COO just said that she's letting everyone go at 3 today. Most people get in at 9. I get in at 7. By my math that means I'm smoke in the wind at 1.

    I thought this meant you were fired until I saw the awesomes.

    Yea, ok..that's fair. I figure I've got at least until after SDCC until they realize I'm still there and shit can me.

    Aren't we all in a sense fired every afternoon and rehired every morning?

    Hmm. I better delete this post before some bright spark in Silicon Valley makes an app where you are offered to sit at a desk for 8 hours.

    Now, they don't pay you to 'work'. They buy CO2 from you, with the price varying depending how much of the complementary paper you want to fill out.

    On fire
    .
    Island. Being on fire.
  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    I had two people at work say they really appreciated me being there, each time after I did something really minor

    feels gud

    8-)

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  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    Day two of three day weekend, scotch and rocket league it is.

  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    This holiday weekend is killing me. It's been so slow every day since Thursday.

    MY WALLET IS DYING OF HUNGER.

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  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    just one more hour and i'm home, no longer on call, and finally get two days off in a row again

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  • Jacques L'HommeJacques L'Homme BAH! He was a rank amateur compared to, DR. COLOSSUS!Registered User regular
    Didn't have today off, but I'm off tomorrow and Wednesday until 3:00 p.m., so tonight it's fancy spiked lemonades and x-wing miniatures, tomorrow it's stouts and fizzy fruit with the family. Top it all off with the library probably being the best job I've ever had, and I am in a better place personally and emotionally than I have been in a long time.

  • BowenBowen Sup? Registered User regular
    I really need a vacation

    somewhere warm

    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
  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    Taking calls was pretty OK. Especially as compared to last time I was taking tech support calls, the customers seemed so relaxed. Maybe it's just me that's more relaxed? hard to say.

    "excuse my French
    But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
    - Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    I AM FREE.

    For about. . . 36 hours.

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  • Darth WaiterDarth Waiter Elrond Hubbard Mordor XenuRegistered User regular
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Working 4 to 10 tonight at the Shops at Legacy on the Dallas North Tollway promises to be a slow and painful six hours, especially since Addison is doing Kaboomtown tonight.

    Cambiata

    Wanna come to my restaurant and eat some food made by Yours Truly? I swear that I won't fuck it up.

    Much.

    Or maybe at all, even!


    It's Gordon Biersch and they have Bishop Cider!

    Restaurants confuse and terrify me! Especially during holidays!

    Me too.

    I'm home now anyway; we had people ordering food all the way to the close of the kitchen. It was a weird night.

  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    I really need a vacation

    somewhere warm

    We're flying down to Corpus in mid-August to visit my parents and sister. It will be hot, but it's not a place you'd want to go to if you don't have to.

  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    Tonkka wrote: »
    This holiday weekend is killing me. It's been so slow every day since Thursday.

    MY WALLET IS DYING OF HUNGER.

    Do you get paid hourly, or per order? Or is it the lack of tips getting you?

  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    Tonkka wrote: »
    This holiday weekend is killing me. It's been so slow every day since Thursday.

    MY WALLET IS DYING OF HUNGER.

    Do you get paid hourly, or per order? Or is it the lack of tips getting you?

  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    chromdom wrote: »
    Tonkka wrote: »
    This holiday weekend is killing me. It's been so slow every day since Thursday.

    MY WALLET IS DYING OF HUNGER.

    Do you get paid hourly, or per order? Or is it the lack of tips getting you?

    Well, yeah it's the lack of tips. So, in a way I get paid per order because the more orders the more people are in the bar the more money coming in.

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  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    Ah, gotcha.
    That inconsistency is one of the reasons I could never work in the service industry.
    Also, customers are horrible and fuck them all, each and every time, even (especially?) when I am one.

  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    Nah, it's not so bad. I've spent the last 6 months or so cultivating a more positive attitude in regards to customers and the service I provide.

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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
    bowen wrote: »
    I really need a vacation

    somewhere warm

    I just need 5 minutes to sign up for vacation
    I am worked from the instant I clock in to when I clock out mindless and tired
    I hate how I go into auto pilot at work

  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    Tonkka wrote: »
    Nah, it's not so bad. I've spent the last 6 months or so cultivating a more positive attitude in regards to customers and the service I provide.

    I'm gonna make nachos just as a tribute to you, big guy.

  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING.

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  • GrobianGrobian What's on sale? Pliers!Registered User regular
    Went out with a coworker last night and stayed way too late and drank too much. I was in bed at 1:30. At 5 my son crawled into our bed. At 5:30 my alarm went off.

    Currently on my way to work where I have a 9 am to 3 pm working meeting. I don't even have a hangover yet, I'm just still slightly drunk. The only upside is that the meeting is by phone/remote so our customer can't smell my breath.

    Today is going to suck.

  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    Tonkka wrote: »
    I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING.

    I'M ONLY CRYING BECAUSE YOUR CRYING IS DEEPLY UPSETTING

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  • ahavaahava Call me Ahava ~~She/Her~~ Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    What's that boss? You mean that this task you've been expecting me to do on top of my already 6+ hour task which I've been telling you it's just not going to catch up at all. You decided that maybe we should split the second task it to multiple people in order to catch up on the backlog? How brilliant of you.

    Oh, suddenly the backlog is disappearing now that there's 4 people doing it instead of just 1 person?

    Whodathunk.

  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    edited July 2017
    Tonkka wrote: »
    I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING.

    I'M ONLY CRYING BECAUSE YOUR CRYING IS DEEPLY UPSETTING

    IS IT BECAUSE WE ARE NOW CRYING COLLECTIVELY ABOUT NACHOS AND THAT IS KIND OF UNSETLING.

    Tonkka on
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  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    Tonkka wrote: »
    Tonkka wrote: »
    I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING.

    I'M ONLY CRYING BECAUSE YOUR CRYING IS DEEPLY UPSETTING

    IS IT BECAUSE WE ARE NOW CRYING COLLECTIVELY ABOUT NACHOS AND THAT IS KIND OF UNSETLING.

    YEAH

    PRETTY MUCH

    WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS LIFE

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  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    Tonkka wrote: »
    Tonkka wrote: »
    I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING.

    I'M ONLY CRYING BECAUSE YOUR CRYING IS DEEPLY UPSETTING

    IS IT BECAUSE WE ARE NOW CRYING COLLECTIVELY ABOUT NACHOS AND THAT IS KIND OF UNSETLING.

    YEAH

    PRETTY MUCH

    WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS LIFE

    And then dumb other shit with a person who I counted as a friend before happens and what the hell.

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    I mean if I had nachos that were really super good I'd probably cry too

  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    Nachos are really great.

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  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    We ordered taco bell delivery because fuck the system, mannnnn.

  • ahavaahava Call me Ahava ~~She/Her~~ Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    I'm dreading what my boss is going to do tomorrow.

    He was so excited to see me this morning, "it's July 4th! It's Independence Day!"

    I was so pleased to shoot him down and politely point out that it was only July 3rd in the States.

    I'm so very worried about what he's going to do tomorrow.

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    Ugh. Worked from home yesterday because I woke up with a light cold.

    Today I woke up with a "please kill me" cold.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    My favorite story from when I was doing help desk work for Sony on the phones.

    Pretty standard call, older person given a computer by their kids so they can "keep in touch" but they have no clue how to use it so they call to get basic setup.

    We get the computer put together and on her desk and ready to go.

    "OK ma'am, if you could click the blue Internet Explorer icon on the screen please."

    "How do I do that?"

    "Sorry, just click it with your mouse pointer."
    *tink tink*
    "Nothing's happening." *tink, tink* "should I keep doing it?"

    "what's the sound I'm hearing?"

    "I'm tapping the icon with my mouse."

    "Ma'am are you tapping the actual screen with your mouse right now?"

    "Yes"

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