My old car had a digital clock display that initially only displayed the time at an hour off (the buttons to change the time didn't work, and I had been told that fixing the clock assembly would be $150, which is dumb). Then it started to just display whatever it wanted. Sometimes it wouldn't display anything. Sometimes if I smacked the top of the dashboard right above the clock, it would pop back into existence to proudly display a time that was multiple hours and minutes off. I amused many a passenger with that.
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My boss just found out I'm not going to the xmas party this year (which is tomorrow) because I was annoyed by the drinkers and casual sexual harassment last year.
So of course he whined a bit and tried to badger me into going.
Just not my cup of tea, sorry no thanks.
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
My boss just found out I'm not going to the xmas party this year (which is tomorrow) because I was annoyed by the drinkers and casual sexual harassment last year.
So of course he whined a bit and tried to badger me into going.
Just not my cup of tea, sorry no thanks.
Did he promise to be your best friend? I mean, that, like, always works.
My boss just found out I'm not going to the xmas party this year (which is tomorrow) because I was annoyed by the drinkers and casual sexual harassment last year.
So of course he whined a bit and tried to badger me into going.
Just not my cup of tea, sorry no thanks.
Did he promise to be your best friend? I mean, that, like, always works.
He said it's a fun time.
I said "A bunch of touchy feely drunk middle aged people is a good time for no one. I don't even like when my own family drinks"
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
Spent the last 2 days wrapping a giant crane.
Went pretty well, considering it needed to be done outside and it's 32 F out there.
Need 45 F for the vinyl to stick, but I applied a heat gun and a felt sqeegee all over the sucker.
Looks good, but now I gotta sleep off the brain freeze and muscle aches.
Listening to 3 engineers struggle to unjam a copier and trying not to laugh too hard.
Normal machines are motivated by their machine spirits
It's fair to say that printers and copiers are more "haunted"
I always joke that the plant I operate knows your feelings. If you are starting it up and are very optimistic that everything is going well, it knows and will sabotage itself. A crisis is imminent.
I am always careful to make sure I am as pessimistic and suspicious as possible.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Spent the last 2 days wrapping a giant crane.
Went pretty well, considering it needed to be done outside and it's 32 F out there.
Need 45 F for the vinyl to stick, but I applied a heat gun and a felt sqeegee all over the sucker.
Looks good, but now I gotta sleep off the brain freeze and muscle aches.
That sounds like a great present. I usually just wrap mine in the funny pages.
The trick to sales is knowing that everyone wants a deal and feeling like they came out ahead.
I'm not being contrarian, but isn't a fair price for a thing a deal? Instead of being told it's work X, but finding out it's really worth Y?
I always feel like "I haggled down a thousand dollars!" carries a lot less weight when the widget was really worth a thousand dollars less than stated.
Regardless, I'm sure the universe will provide.
I don't disagree with you. I hate haggling.
But if you're bartering with people you gotta build it in.
I was shocked to know that big businesses haggle prices like crazy. The ones that don't list their price on the website? It's not just because they're so expensive (9 times out of 10 that's the reason) but because they also want to not clue in their competitors (lol not a real reason) but it's because they're flexible on the actual price if you can get ahold of a sales person.
A lot of them can go as far as 25%, and some even further to 50%.
This is a particularly infuriating aspect of my job at the moment.
I might want a dozen N connectors, or something, and the front office people still have to talk to like 3 vendors and see how low they can haggle each before I can put a metal doodad on a cable.
They're "adding value".
The worst is when I've already negotiated the quote from the company I want. I don't want some jackass in purchasing/buying to try and renegotiate it thus ruining the good-faith I've built with that vendor. I want them to just move the quote/purchase through the system, and pay the vendor so I can get my boards.
As near as I can tell they are "wasting time that could be spent getting more radios in front of me," but I understand - more or less - what you're saying.
I am not to be involved, even tangentially, in such negotiations myself unless it's for something unusual, which doesn't help matters.
It wastes a lot of time. Not just the time buying wastes re-negotiating, but the time lost because we basically lose that vendor.
Some local places are really good at what they do, and they'll bend-over backwards to help us with re-work, if it's needed. Since they're local, we can have a turn around of less than a day on that stuff sometimes because one of the folks in their office will drive over in the morning, pick up the stuff we need reworked, and then return it to us by mid afternoon.
Like, these are high-tier working relationships with vendors to help us not sit on our butts for two/three days and it saves us a ton of money in shipping our thing to [redacted] and having [redacted] ship the thing back to us. Only for us to find out that the rework done in-house at [redacted] wasn't done right, so we have to ship it back... I digress.
Point is, once buying/purchasing burns the bridge with our local vendors, it destroys our ability to have nice things. Also, it tarnishes our personal relationship with the vendor which has a lot of follow-on repercussions for us personally in the local community here.
That sucks. As a buyer currently and supply chain in general for over a decade at this point any decent company will try to get quality work done as close to home as possible. Like you said it cuts down on shipping time and being local people are usually more willing to bend over backwards to help somebody, easier to do QC, etc... I love my local folks.
The issues cone in when cost cutting comes into play. Trying to make everything look great on a quarter by quarter basis. All the local benefits are long term benefits and buying from china to save $1 on a widget is up front savings. Multiple companies I've been at have went the short term cost cutting route and it usually ends up sucking pretty hard. I hate being directed to do short term savings initiatives just to make numbers look better for an executive, when the overall business suffers.
This is/was the issue. The purchasing group was on an incentive plan that was directly tied to how much they could negotiate off of a quote. This lead to some of the most "successful" buyers basically having an "understanding" with shops local to them not us (we're a multi-site company). The understanding was that their local shop (likely also run by a family member) would inflate the initial quote, so that the buyer could then "negotiate" to the real price. Kick backs are assumed, but not proven.
These buyers tried to do the same thing with our local supplier, but the local supplier was like, "what no, that's horribly unethical", and that is what burned us the most.
To my shock (ok, not really, I'm resigned to the fact that everyone in this industry is a cutthroat horrible person), the buyer remains employed to this day (that I'm aware of).
I finally figured out what reaction we need, and have all been missing.
The trick to sales is knowing that everyone wants a deal and feeling like they came out ahead.
I'm not being contrarian, but isn't a fair price for a thing a deal? Instead of being told it's work X, but finding out it's really worth Y?
I always feel like "I haggled down a thousand dollars!" carries a lot less weight when the widget was really worth a thousand dollars less than stated.
Regardless, I'm sure the universe will provide.
I don't disagree with you. I hate haggling.
But if you're bartering with people you gotta build it in.
I was shocked to know that big businesses haggle prices like crazy. The ones that don't list their price on the website? It's not just because they're so expensive (9 times out of 10 that's the reason) but because they also want to not clue in their competitors (lol not a real reason) but it's because they're flexible on the actual price if you can get ahold of a sales person.
A lot of them can go as far as 25%, and some even further to 50%.
This is a particularly infuriating aspect of my job at the moment.
I might want a dozen N connectors, or something, and the front office people still have to talk to like 3 vendors and see how low they can haggle each before I can put a metal doodad on a cable.
They're "adding value".
The worst is when I've already negotiated the quote from the company I want. I don't want some jackass in purchasing/buying to try and renegotiate it thus ruining the good-faith I've built with that vendor. I want them to just move the quote/purchase through the system, and pay the vendor so I can get my boards.
As near as I can tell they are "wasting time that could be spent getting more radios in front of me," but I understand - more or less - what you're saying.
I am not to be involved, even tangentially, in such negotiations myself unless it's for something unusual, which doesn't help matters.
It wastes a lot of time. Not just the time buying wastes re-negotiating, but the time lost because we basically lose that vendor.
Some local places are really good at what they do, and they'll bend-over backwards to help us with re-work, if it's needed. Since they're local, we can have a turn around of less than a day on that stuff sometimes because one of the folks in their office will drive over in the morning, pick up the stuff we need reworked, and then return it to us by mid afternoon.
Like, these are high-tier working relationships with vendors to help us not sit on our butts for two/three days and it saves us a ton of money in shipping our thing to [redacted] and having [redacted] ship the thing back to us. Only for us to find out that the rework done in-house at [redacted] wasn't done right, so we have to ship it back... I digress.
Point is, once buying/purchasing burns the bridge with our local vendors, it destroys our ability to have nice things. Also, it tarnishes our personal relationship with the vendor which has a lot of follow-on repercussions for us personally in the local community here.
That sucks. As a buyer currently and supply chain in general for over a decade at this point any decent company will try to get quality work done as close to home as possible. Like you said it cuts down on shipping time and being local people are usually more willing to bend over backwards to help somebody, easier to do QC, etc... I love my local folks.
The issues cone in when cost cutting comes into play. Trying to make everything look great on a quarter by quarter basis. All the local benefits are long term benefits and buying from china to save $1 on a widget is up front savings. Multiple companies I've been at have went the short term cost cutting route and it usually ends up sucking pretty hard. I hate being directed to do short term savings initiatives just to make numbers look better for an executive, when the overall business suffers.
This is/was the issue. The purchasing group was on an incentive plan that was directly tied to how much they could negotiate off of a quote. This lead to some of the most "successful" buyers basically having an "understanding" with shops local to them not us (we're a multi-site company). The understanding was that their local shop (likely also run by a family member) would inflate the initial quote, so that the buyer could then "negotiate" to the real price. Kick backs are assumed, but not proven.
These buyers tried to do the same thing with our local supplier, but the local supplier was like, "what no, that's horribly unethical", and that is what burned us the most.
To my shock (ok, not really, I'm resigned to the fact that everyone in this industry is a cutthroat horrible person), the buyer remains employed to this day (that I'm aware of).
I finally figured out what reaction we need, and have all been missing.
Agree || Awesome || Amazing
Man, that would solve a lot of problems here in the job thread. Mostly I'm just waiting for people to post something like "Holy shit" so I can Agree.
JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Today my library received a fax offering a business loan from "Local Bank & Trust Co." Seems legit.
Ah, and I see that they have given me the option to discontinue these faxes at "unsubscribemynumber.com," which also appears to be flagged as a fraudulent website. Cool. Cool cool cool.
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LasbrookIt takes a lot to make a stewWhen it comes to me and youRegistered Userregular
my partner may be getting a new job. which yay cool for him, but omg i stress on numbers and paperwork, and deciding between a dozen insurance plans is a sure bet to riling my anxiety. *whine* why did i start seeing people about my brain probs??! (naturally, none of my providers take the new insurance.)
but hey, validation for the beau that he rates! it's hard to convince him he's a good programmer since i only have contextual evidence to work with.
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LasbrookIt takes a lot to make a stewWhen it comes to me and youRegistered Userregular
I'm working again this weekend. Woo overtime. If I end up working the following weekend too, that will be a solid 30 days of work before I have my time off. If I actually don't have to work that weekend, then it's only ('only) 26.
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
The city disallowed the hiring of anymore facility managers, so I'm the only one for the Parks & Recreation department for the foreseeable future!
And I was just told from my supervisor that I am about to be training in some new software so I can start producing marketing for our department.
1st day went well. Sure, it’s 2 trains and a bus to get there until I make sure my car’s fine, I feel just a dab out of my league, and unemployment continues to drag ass and not pay me so I can eat beyond next week.
But guys
I don’t have to deal with external customers anymore, I just provision new accounts and permissions for employees. This excites me to an obscene degree.
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"Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
Hail Hydra
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
1st day went well. Sure, it’s 2 trains and a bus to get there until I make sure my car’s fine, I feel just a dab out of my league, and unemployment continues to drag ass and not pay me so I can eat beyond next week.
But guys
I don’t have to deal with external customers anymore, I just provision new accounts and permissions for employees. This excites me to an obscene degree.
If I have asked a favour of someone and they respond promptly I have sometimes inserted a smiley face because just ‘thank you so much!’ doesn’t seem like enough.
Also I looked up Shorty’s bear story and it was a brown bear; granted I’d have a hard time choosing between a boar, a brown bear and a moose, but a black bear? That’s in a far lesser league. You could likely scare away a black bear.
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StragintDo Not GiftAlways DeclinesRegistered Userregular
edited December 2017
Got off of work 40 minutes late because a call went an hour long. Dude kept asking questions I already answered or told him I couldn't answer and would need to transfer. Any time I tried to do anything it would be a new line of questions and it was dumb.
At the end of the call when I finally got to transfer him he spent a few minutes talking about how wonderful my character is and how great I am.
I was annoyed cause I didn't get paid on the call. I wanted to kick the plug out on my pc so I could escape.
I'm pretty sure I am a bad person.
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PSN: Reaper_Stragint, Steam: DoublePitstoChesty
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
Just had a right wing co worker mention that he joined a group focused around gun rights and prepping, but he felt weird about it. Everyone was calling each other ‘brother’ and they all had beards.
Then he named the group: The three percentees.
Holy shit did I whip out the websites showing how extreme these guys were, and now he’s totally disdapointed in them. He thought it was a hobby group.
Those kinds of groups are just motorbike clubs by a new name and look.
They still traffic arms and manufacture drugs, all in the name of funding their ideological claims.
I feel like these new "patriot" groups are far worse because they look for violence in order to validate themselves. The old fashioned bike clubs just wanted to keep their heads down and do business.
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Behold. For I am a god.
kinetic reset FTW
So of course he whined a bit and tried to badger me into going.
Just not my cup of tea, sorry no thanks.
Percussive reconfiguration
Not to look down upon you, your mightiness, but there are better things to be the deity of.
Did he promise to be your best friend? I mean, that, like, always works.
He said it's a fun time.
I said "A bunch of touchy feely drunk middle aged people is a good time for no one. I don't even like when my own family drinks"
Went pretty well, considering it needed to be done outside and it's 32 F out there.
Need 45 F for the vinyl to stick, but I applied a heat gun and a felt sqeegee all over the sucker.
Looks good, but now I gotta sleep off the brain freeze and muscle aches.
I always joke that the plant I operate knows your feelings. If you are starting it up and are very optimistic that everything is going well, it knows and will sabotage itself. A crisis is imminent.
I am always careful to make sure I am as pessimistic and suspicious as possible.
That sounds like a great present. I usually just wrap mine in the funny pages.
Satans..... hints.....
I finally figured out what reaction we need, and have all been missing.
Agree || Awesome || Amazing
Rude!
No printer is ever going to work for me again, is it?
Well shit, I guess I'm going to Panera now.
Man, that would solve a lot of problems here in the job thread. Mostly I'm just waiting for people to post something like "Holy shit" so I can Agree.
Ah, and I see that they have given me the option to discontinue these faxes at "unsubscribemynumber.com," which also appears to be flagged as a fraudulent website. Cool. Cool cool cool.
I literally cannot remember the last time I was in falling snow, like when I was really young spending christmas breaks in Maryland maybe.
Steam
the last time it snowed was...6 years ago
And that was in like March or April. This is the first seasonally appropriate snow I can ever remember being in.
It snowed here yesterday but it was 40 degrees out.
First snow flakes I saw this year were on Halloween night.
In celebration, I have a pot of jambalaya that's been simmering for the past four hours.
but hey, validation for the beau that he rates! it's hard to convince him he's a good programmer since i only have contextual evidence to work with.
Same, at least where I am we've had snow more recently but it's more of a came overnight, left maybe an inch, gone by midday situation.
Steam
Did the engineers employ the tried-and-true kicking method?
And I was just told from my supervisor that I am about to be training in some new software so I can start producing marketing for our department.
WHAT EVEN IS MY JOB!?!?
But guys
I don’t have to deal with external customers anymore, I just provision new accounts and permissions for employees. This excites me to an obscene degree.
From this post alone, it seems like you should be making three times as much as you were yesterday.
Is an armed coup out of the question?
The first post-retail job is magical.
Also I looked up Shorty’s bear story and it was a brown bear; granted I’d have a hard time choosing between a boar, a brown bear and a moose, but a black bear? That’s in a far lesser league. You could likely scare away a black bear.
At the end of the call when I finally got to transfer him he spent a few minutes talking about how wonderful my character is and how great I am.
I was annoyed cause I didn't get paid on the call. I wanted to kick the plug out on my pc so I could escape.
I'm pretty sure I am a bad person.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
Then he named the group: The three percentees.
Holy shit did I whip out the websites showing how extreme these guys were, and now he’s totally disdapointed in them. He thought it was a hobby group.
WoW
Dear Satan.....
They still traffic arms and manufacture drugs, all in the name of funding their ideological claims.
I feel like these new "patriot" groups are far worse because they look for violence in order to validate themselves. The old fashioned bike clubs just wanted to keep their heads down and do business.