I've heard I can sign up here to watch hippos and then do arts and crafts inspired by them? Do I need to bring my own macaroni and glitter glue or will that be provided?
If they're not doing shitbaggy things like changing their email to mine and trying to get through my filters or overpromising to make that commission check then shitting all over the other staff when they can't deliver the moon, then they are 100% okay people in my books.
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Am I correct in assuming that spring break and summer vacation would have college students do to your restaurant what Ronda Rousey did to that table?
Spring Break, no, because it's an extremely affluent section of DFW known as West Plano, where there's a Tesla dealership in the shops and people routinely tool around in cars that are worth more than my soul, so Spring Breakers go fuck off to whatever college party is happening in whatever town will tolerate that shit.
Summer Break? It will be a nightmare of epic proportions made possible by 100+ degree ambient temperatures in the kitchen.
West Plano?
Dear fucking god I fear for your FOH.
I ate an engineer
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If they're not doing shitbaggy things like changing their email to mine and trying to get through my filters or overpromising to make that commission check then shitting all over the other staff when they can't deliver the moon, then they are 100% okay people in my books.
If they're not doing shitbaggy things like changing their email to mine and trying to get through my filters or overpromising to make that commission check then shitting all over the other staff when they can't deliver the moon, then they are 100% okay people in my books.
So none of them?
I'm sure there's like
at least 5
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One of the perks of working in a controlled-access laboratory was that sales reps couldn't waltz into my bay while I was in the middle of, say, mounting a mouse heart by its aorta so that I could measure how well it beat under different stresses. My current lab is great, but I work in a publicly accessible building now and damn is that annoying when reps show up in my work area to pester me about product shows I don't want to attend.
I've bitched about this before, but it's amazing how members of the public will wander into university labs and offices and demand you explain things to them.
Mind you I guess I've really only had it happen here - other places the only people who do that are the clearly mentally unwell. Maybe it's because I now work at a major tourist destination.
I've bitched about this before, but it's amazing how members of the public will wander into university labs and offices and demand you explain things to them.
Mind you I guess I've really only had it happen here - other places the only people who do that are the clearly mentally unwell. Maybe it's because I now work at a major tourist destination.
One of the few Urgent Security Things I ever did while that was my job was getting an agitated guy out of the mall's Operations Director's office after he just sort of walked in out of the food court, saw an open door, and went in and started complaining.
It worked out surprisingly neatly once I showed up and got them to stop shouting at one another.
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I've bitched about this before, but it's amazing how members of the public will wander into university labs and offices and demand you explain things to them.
Mind you I guess I've really only had it happen here - other places the only people who do that are the clearly mentally unwell. Maybe it's because I now work at a major tourist destination.
Next time, direct them to the bursar's office. Maybe hand them a chart with the current tuition price per credit hour, then rub your finger and thumb together discreetly.
Today I somehow walked out the door without my lunchbox. I can't go back and get it either because of how clocking in/out works here.
Guess I'll have an early dinner when I get home.
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Tynnanseldom correct, never unsureRegistered Userregular
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At my current spot, we had a Food Thief. Whoever it was routinely raided our hallway kitchen area and stole food out of the fridge and cupboard for over two years. They'd exclusively take less-perishable items, like peanut butter and dry goods, so we suspected it was one of the homeless people off the nearby bus stop. Thankfully they haven't nabbed anything in a while, but it was aggravating when a lab member would bring in treats or some overseas gifts and the food would promptly disappear.
I've bitched about this before, but it's amazing how members of the public will wander into university labs and offices and demand you explain things to them.
Mind you I guess I've really only had it happen here - other places the only people who do that are the clearly mentally unwell. Maybe it's because I now work at a major tourist destination.
Next time, direct them to the bursar's office. Maybe hand them a chart with the current tuition price per credit hour, then rub your finger and thumb together discreetly.
No fuck that, i don't see any of that cash. They can hire me privately though.
Also, I have no idea where anything is. The great advantage of not being a student is you pretty much spend most of your time in one building.
One of the few Urgent Security Things I ever did while that was my job was getting an agitated guy out of the mall's Operations Director's office after he just sort of walked in out of the food court, saw an open door, and went in and started complaining.
It worked out surprisingly neatly once I showed up and got them to stop shouting at one another.
I once had a summer job doing admin in the center for applied mathematics, and a guy walked in and wanted me to find someone who could explain string theory to him.
He was large, agitated, and got fairly angry when I said between the Christmas holidays and it being lunchtime I wasn't sure if anyone was actually around, so it went from 'ha!' to alarming fairly quickly.
I took him down the hall and luckily ran into a mathematical physicist I knew vaguely, so I offloaded the dude onto him, making some appropriate miming gestures indicating my plans, and went off to call security.
Fucking professor led him straight back to my office right when the phone connected. "I'm just telling this guy he needs to read flatland!" And you're telling him in here, because ...?
Fatuous moron. Never liked that guy.
I've bitched about this before, but it's amazing how members of the public will wander into university labs and offices and demand you explain things to them.
Mind you I guess I've really only had it happen here - other places the only people who do that are the clearly mentally unwell. Maybe it's because I now work at a major tourist destination.
Of all the times I've wandered around Harvard's campus it never once occurred to me to do this. Clearly I fail at tourism. (It is a lovely campus though. I particularly like Sanders Theater.)
"Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
I've bitched about this before, but it's amazing how members of the public will wander into university labs and offices and demand you explain things to them.
Mind you I guess I've really only had it happen here - other places the only people who do that are the clearly mentally unwell. Maybe it's because I now work at a major tourist destination.
When the papa robot loves the mama robot
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
Thursday is the meeting where they announce the winners of the biggest award the company has, it involves a trip for you and your plus one for about 30 winners. They've done Portugal, Panama, the Caribbean, and so on. I'm nominated this year and I had a pretty good year but I'm not holding my breath since I'm not in the sales department (they usually win a lot).
Then next week is annual bonus/raise/review week. Our company had a pretty great year, so I'm hoping for generosity but the wait is painful! We have to pay down some debt with anything I get, but the wife promised I can pick up a record or two when it hits.
Ugh. "You indicated in our survey that you'd be interested in organizing more of these talks-" let me stop you right there, I can guarantee I said nothing of the kind.
I may have indicated the talk was pointless and you should never bother me again, so I can see how you'd be confused.
The hunger grows. I fear I cannot contain it through to the end of the workday. I mean I could go buy something from the cafeteria but they suck. They basically buy stuff from Costco and resell for triple the price. When they do actually make food it's never worth the cost.
Good thing I brought a big jug of water, so that'll help a bit.
Eugh, vendor licenses expired today and we've been telling people to request new ones through our portal, and make sure that end users new to make sure they were requesting them plenty early.
Guess how many people are super panicked because the thing expired today. Guess how many of those people didn't have new requests in.
I'm really tempted to stop responding to these people. Like it's taking most of my afternoon to wade through our mailbox for licenses and I'm no where close to done responding to all the e-mails. Which means time away from support tickets/filling licenses.
Edit:
It's also kind of been shitty timing. I came out to stay with my Grandma because she has had some health problems, but she was mostly fine and I was just coming out to keep an eye out, but I was in the hospital with her for the better part of last week.
She's doing okay, but good lord this past week has been poop.
Oh my god, I just received an art test from another company that I hadn't heard from in awhile - I had just assumed they weren't interested. If this goes well I may have back-to-back interviews....O_O
I should probably go home and apologize to my son. For years I've told him that my grey hairs are directly related to him, but after today I'm realize that probably our sales team is more to blame.
I've bitched about this before, but it's amazing how members of the public will wander into university labs and offices and demand you explain things to them.
Mind you I guess I've really only had it happen here - other places the only people who do that are the clearly mentally unwell. Maybe it's because I now work at a major tourist destination.
When I worked for a university chemistry department I got a call from a guy that wanted to patent his “amazing house cleaner idea” and needed to talk to a chemist.
But he wouldn’t tell me anything about it in case I stole his idea. So I had to explain that there are many different types of chemistry and that the university was not going to take liability if he accidentally poisoned himself and he should call the patent office.
the sales person signed me up for newsletters or something or maybe their system does it automatically, but now I'm getting webinar invitations and all that sorts of shit via the email address I put in.
How do I know? Because I specifically created a dump email for them so I could delete it if I needed to. So now it's saying From: Veeam <dumpemail@whereIwork.com>
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did they give you an explicit reason for the raise or did they have a general fear that you were thinking about bailing.
"Umm, this is a lot of slides and way more thorough than we were expecting."
Yeah, you better damn well expect my shit to be thorough. That's what I do! And possibly why I haven't gotten anyone killed up to this point!
This salesperson set their email address to my email address and their replyto to their email address to get through my filter.
Talk about a great way to make sure I never buy anything from you.
Now we just need the rest of the world to follow suit and that cleans up a major problem of the modern internet.
That would motivate me to find whoever their direct manager is and tell them exactly that.
assuming they're a legit company and would even care, he's likely breaking company policy or possibly even actual regulation regarding spam.
"Hey, if it works for spammers and phishing, it can work for me!"
If anyone is curious it's veeam.
I'm skeptical that there's another solution for backing up VMs that's as good though.
Maybe I'll let his supervisor know, find another sales person, then buy through them.
I must be reading this wrong
How does any of that work?
Huh, funny you mention that cause someone was just swearing that I should try VEEAM the other day. Now I kinda don't want to.
I mean it's good.
Fuck sales people though.
Inhuman fuckbags of flesh.
Unless you're shilling for EMC Networker, in which case I've got some strong words for you.
West Plano?
Dear fucking god I fear for your FOH.
So none of them?
I'm sure there's like
at least 5
Mind you I guess I've really only had it happen here - other places the only people who do that are the clearly mentally unwell. Maybe it's because I now work at a major tourist destination.
One of the few Urgent Security Things I ever did while that was my job was getting an agitated guy out of the mall's Operations Director's office after he just sort of walked in out of the food court, saw an open door, and went in and started complaining.
It worked out surprisingly neatly once I showed up and got them to stop shouting at one another.
Next time, direct them to the bursar's office. Maybe hand them a chart with the current tuition price per credit hour, then rub your finger and thumb together discreetly.
Guess I'll have an early dinner when I get home.
(We're on the sixth damn floor, too)
No fuck that, i don't see any of that cash. They can hire me privately though.
Also, I have no idea where anything is. The great advantage of not being a student is you pretty much spend most of your time in one building.
I once had a summer job doing admin in the center for applied mathematics, and a guy walked in and wanted me to find someone who could explain string theory to him.
He was large, agitated, and got fairly angry when I said between the Christmas holidays and it being lunchtime I wasn't sure if anyone was actually around, so it went from 'ha!' to alarming fairly quickly.
I took him down the hall and luckily ran into a mathematical physicist I knew vaguely, so I offloaded the dude onto him, making some appropriate miming gestures indicating my plans, and went off to call security.
Fucking professor led him straight back to my office right when the phone connected. "I'm just telling this guy he needs to read flatland!" And you're telling him in here, because ...?
Fatuous moron. Never liked that guy.
Of all the times I've wandered around Harvard's campus it never once occurred to me to do this. Clearly I fail at tourism. (It is a lovely campus though. I particularly like Sanders Theater.)
When the papa robot loves the mama robot
Thursday is the meeting where they announce the winners of the biggest award the company has, it involves a trip for you and your plus one for about 30 winners. They've done Portugal, Panama, the Caribbean, and so on. I'm nominated this year and I had a pretty good year but I'm not holding my breath since I'm not in the sales department (they usually win a lot).
Then next week is annual bonus/raise/review week. Our company had a pretty great year, so I'm hoping for generosity but the wait is painful! We have to pay down some debt with anything I get, but the wife promised I can pick up a record or two when it hits.
I may have indicated the talk was pointless and you should never bother me again, so I can see how you'd be confused.
I went to a free art show with free food and had the first cup of wine I've had since the W administration.
When I crossed paths with a woman I have not seen in 7+ years, said wine did not make me say, "You've thinned out."
I will return to work happy.
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Good thing I brought a big jug of water, so that'll help a bit.
Guess how many people are super panicked because the thing expired today. Guess how many of those people didn't have new requests in.
I'm really tempted to stop responding to these people. Like it's taking most of my afternoon to wade through our mailbox for licenses and I'm no where close to done responding to all the e-mails. Which means time away from support tickets/filling licenses.
Edit:
It's also kind of been shitty timing. I came out to stay with my Grandma because she has had some health problems, but she was mostly fine and I was just coming out to keep an eye out, but I was in the hospital with her for the better part of last week.
She's doing okay, but good lord this past week has been poop.
aaaaaaaaaaaah
When I worked for a university chemistry department I got a call from a guy that wanted to patent his “amazing house cleaner idea” and needed to talk to a chemist.
But he wouldn’t tell me anything about it in case I stole his idea. So I had to explain that there are many different types of chemistry and that the university was not going to take liability if he accidentally poisoned himself and he should call the patent office.
the sales person signed me up for newsletters or something or maybe their system does it automatically, but now I'm getting webinar invitations and all that sorts of shit via the email address I put in.
How do I know? Because I specifically created a dump email for them so I could delete it if I needed to. So now it's saying From: Veeam <dumpemail@whereIwork.com>