Monday, beautiful weather, open patio, Happy Hour starts in 30 minutes aaaaaannnndddd the chefs have not returned my phone call to see if I should come in early to combat this evening's almost certain fuckery.
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.
Hey, this unit doesn't know how to do their jobs! Can you pull a complete training class out of your ass with PowerPoint Slides and examples? And then travel to them 4 States away to teach it? Next week?
Before following any advice, opinions, or thoughts I may have expressed in the above post, be warned: I found Keven Costners "Waterworld" to be a very entertaining film.
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
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.
He's going to be disappointed when he calls the tech transfer office and the first thing they do is make him explain it, in detail, down to chemical formulation.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Are spam emails covered by advertising law? Specifically, can a subject line of "Exciting news!" be legally considered fraud if the body of the email is about how their product has been "recognized as a leading microfilm scanner for an unmatched fourth consecutive year by the Modern Library Awards?"
I don't think it can be argued that a reasonable citizen would or could consider that exciting news. I am positive that the person writing the email didn't find it exciting. Heck, after four years I imagine the adrenaline rush is wearing off for everyone at ST Imaging, even if it was a bit of a thrill the first time they won.
I question the verisimilitude of your unsolicited email, sir.
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FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
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.
I followed the link to scp-wiki and ended up staring at an ad for a personal injury lawyer for a good 20-30 seconds trying to work out if it was part of the joke or just a fortuitously placed piece of crappy ad copy put there by a targeted ad network that is apparently developing a dry sense of humour.
Boy I'm fucking tired. But it honestly feels way better to come home physically tired than the emotional exhaustion that just put me to sleep every day.
Are spam emails covered by advertising law? Specifically, can a subject line of "Exciting news!" be legally considered fraud if the body of the email is about how their product has been "recognized as a leading microfilm scanner for an unmatched fourth consecutive year by the Modern Library Awards?"
I don't think it can be argued that a reasonable citizen would or could consider that exciting news. I am positive that the person writing the email didn't find it exciting. Heck, after four years I imagine the adrenaline rush is wearing off for everyone at ST Imaging, even if it was a bit of a thrill the first time they won.
I question the verisimilitude of your unsolicited email, sir.
"Puffery" is an actual legal term and basically amounts to "Advertising is wildly exaggerated, everybody knows this and it's legal."
3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
The assistant director wants me to give 5-10 minutes of slides highlighting the stuff I did at a recent conference. Ugh. Like I can actually sum up 5 days in that time or like anyone else in the office cares about some talk I went to.
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WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
I don't think I ever really took in the full gravity of by virtue of my job, everyone who lives in this neighborhood can spot me when I'm out as "the guy that runs the grocery store".
Are spam emails covered by advertising law? Specifically, can a subject line of "Exciting news!" be legally considered fraud if the body of the email is about how their product has been "recognized as a leading microfilm scanner for an unmatched fourth consecutive year by the Modern Library Awards?"
I don't think it can be argued that a reasonable citizen would or could consider that exciting news. I am positive that the person writing the email didn't find it exciting. Heck, after four years I imagine the adrenaline rush is wearing off for everyone at ST Imaging, even if it was a bit of a thrill the first time they won.
I question the verisimilitude of your unsolicited email, sir.
"Puffery" is an actual legal term and basically amounts to "Advertising is wildly exaggerated, everybody knows this and it's legal."
It's kind of a circular argument though, when you think about it.
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>
You have his e-mail right?
While he may have started this war, you have the power to end it.
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>
You have his e-mail right?
While he may have started this war, you have the power to end it.
In fact you can end it and salt the electronic ground so future sales people know that in this office there is a line you do not cross.
stopgap on
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Are spam emails covered by advertising law? Specifically, can a subject line of "Exciting news!" be legally considered fraud if the body of the email is about how their product has been "recognized as a leading microfilm scanner for an unmatched fourth consecutive year by the Modern Library Awards?"
I don't think it can be argued that a reasonable citizen would or could consider that exciting news. I am positive that the person writing the email didn't find it exciting. Heck, after four years I imagine the adrenaline rush is wearing off for everyone at ST Imaging, even if it was a bit of a thrill the first time they won.
I question the verisimilitude of your unsolicited email, sir.
"Puffery" is an actual legal term and basically amounts to "Advertising is wildly exaggerated, everybody knows this and it's legal."
It's kind of a circular argument though, when you think about it.
"Exciting." "Microfilm scanner."
There's at least got to be some "that dog won't hunt" clause in there somewhere.
Are spam emails covered by advertising law? Specifically, can a subject line of "Exciting news!" be legally considered fraud if the body of the email is about how their product has been "recognized as a leading microfilm scanner for an unmatched fourth consecutive year by the Modern Library Awards?"
I don't think it can be argued that a reasonable citizen would or could consider that exciting news. I am positive that the person writing the email didn't find it exciting. Heck, after four years I imagine the adrenaline rush is wearing off for everyone at ST Imaging, even if it was a bit of a thrill the first time they won.
I question the verisimilitude of your unsolicited email, sir.
"Puffery" is an actual legal term and basically amounts to "Advertising is wildly exaggerated, everybody knows this and it's legal."
It's kind of a circular argument though, when you think about it.
"Exciting." "Microfilm scanner."
There's at least got to be some "that dog won't hunt" clause in there somewhere.
Yeah, I'm not saying I disagree with the doctrine, I just think its circular. Puffery is legal because everyone expects puffery. But that's because it's legal.
*Make reservation for one rate, then guest tells me info that changes the rate*
"So you'll receive two emails. The first was an automatic confirmation email that was sent after the reservation was made, and a second will have your updated room rates. You can ignore the confirmation with the higher rates."
*Phone rings 30 minutes later*
"Yeah, I just made a reservation and I received two confirmations but at two different rates. What's going on?"
I sent out three companies to bid on my shipping supplies. I've done business with all three of them, and I'm doing my yearly re-up for cardboard. They all come back, each of them at different price levels. I let them each know they're off, and a couple of them requote. Then another one gives me a final quote after I split my order between him and another company.
Now I've got a guy who's come in under everyone else, offering me free shipping, better payment terms, and I can probably get some kind of contract pricing going. So I've got to tell two other guys to pound sand.
I hate having to do this.
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webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
I sent out three companies to bid on my shipping supplies. I've done business with all three of them, and I'm doing my yearly re-up for cardboard. They all come back, each of them at different price levels. I let them each know they're off, and a couple of them requote. Then another one gives me a final quote after I split my order between him and another company.
Now I've got a guy who's come in under everyone else, offering me free shipping, better payment terms, and I can probably get some kind of contract pricing going. So I've got to tell two other guys to pound sand.
I hate having to do this.
I hate being forced to ask for impossible lead times. We have a vendor that we signed an agreement with, over and over again for years, and we know they make to order, plus we are terrible at standardization, so our engineers are always calling out custom stuff, so even if they had stock of stuff a lot of time it wouldn't do us any good. A good turn is 2 weeks with freight shipping, average is 3, and really weird stuff is 4.
We've engineered ourselves into a corner, and are 2 months behind on a HUGE fifty thousand square foot plus industrial structure with all kinds of equipment. Until our Engineering department releases the sub jobs for the work I can't purchase. Well now we're supposed to be done and the site up and running in March and engineering is just spitting shit out. Problem is our vendor has their lead times, and they are at capacity with us and other customers, so there just isn't extra capacity right now for whatever reasons, not enough time to staff up, already running at full staff across however many shifts, whatever.
I get told last week "They aren't doing good enough, they have to do better" when I tell them its going to be 3-4 weeks and they want it next week. It's like "dude, you're the original person who specified this vendor in the first place and you knew about the lead time issue years ago" This current issue wasn't a surprise. We knew this was coming up over two months ago but there was nothing we could do about it, and it's biting us in the butt.
I may be getting a service yard in legal trouble tomorrow. We'll see if they refuse to release a vehicle to us for a second day in a row and how affable they magically become after I use the words, "law enforcement" and "vehicle ransom".
At my work we have these moisture elements nicknamed "beetles" that are placed around different areas to detect leaks. Basically; they get wet, the control room gets an alarm, someone gets sent to check it out. You hope it isnt heavy water because if it is then your day just got a lot more complicated. Most times in my experience it is light water and not that big of a deal.
Well, last week some people's day got really complicated. Not because of heavy water.... because some contractor decided to piss into the beetle. I dont know if they caught the person who did it but fuck man. You would think in this type of environment you could find workers who wouldn't do that type of shit.
The worst thing is that normally you would drain the beetle to a liquid collection system where the water ultimately gets recycled (i.e. any heavy water is recovered) but you cant put urine through those systems, so they had to manually clean up someone's piss.
I hope the fucker gets fired. It's known that a group of contractors have been working in the area where it occurred but im sure no one will own up to it. What a place.
At my work we have these moisture elements nicknamed "beetles" that are placed around different areas to detect leaks. Basically; they get wet, the control room gets an alarm, someone gets sent to check it out. You hope it isnt heavy water because if it is then your day just got a lot more complicated. Most times in my experience it is light water and not that big of a deal.
Well, last week some people's day got really complicated. Not because of heavy water.... because some contractor decided to piss into the beetle. I dont know if they caught the person who did it but fuck man. You would think in this type of environment you could find workers who wouldn't do that type of shit.
The worst thing is that normally you would drain the beetle to a liquid collection system where the water ultimately gets recycled (i.e. any heavy water is recovered) but you cant put urine through those systems, so they had to manually clean up someone's piss.
I hope the fucker gets fired. It's known that a group of contractors have been working in the area where it occurred but im sure no one will own up to it. What a place.
Didn't one of your contractors' get their entire company fired from every plant in the country because they started up a machine that had a red service tag on it?
Yay I am an idiot
Once again I played support at work because the person who was supposed to be there was away on vacation
So I went in at noon and left at 2am because two trucks and people not busting their ass
I really don't want to yell at them or be what I once was in the Corps
Why I am an idiot is because I don't have access to a lot of the stuff I am supposed to have I just wing it which they told me is not the answer they want to hear nor is what do you expect me to do then?
So they are training me later today about how to do that junk
Had a possibly high customer accuse me of spitting in her coffee, because I made it too fast, and didn't make it in front of her. (Midnights uses only one coffee machine to save on waste). Accused me of being on drugs for getting offended at her accusation. Got really pissed that I took the contest cup back when she demanded a refund.
Then, when we gave her money back, she decided to drop a coin, then lick it...then hork up all over it. And stomped out.
.... and then showed up two minutes later to demand a free coffee for our poor customer service.
I think she works at a movie theater because she's really good at projection.
Closing Sous Chef is gone and all of his fuckery as well.
More later after I stop celebrating.
Don't eat at Arby's, everything is gonna be ok.
Every thread I see you in, you're amazingly supportive and human and also super good at expressing your positive vibes. I dunno how often other folks extend the same level of excellence to you on here, and I'm definitely not equipped to do so. But here's one small attempt.
I hope to hell that this means you'll have a chance to relax (relatively) and enjoy your work, because based on the last however many years I've seen you post in this thread, you've sure as goddamn earned it. As far as I'm concerned, you deserve every good turn as can be expected or hoped for in the service industry, and outside it.
Edit: That being said, if it goes to shit I look forward to hearing about the outcome, knowing you'll be fine no matter how awful it is.
That was korodullin. Though I'm not sure if anyone was fired over it.
They probably put whoever it was in charge of the whole place.
Of course - they showed initiative by overcoming obstacles in order to return the plant to normal operations at an expedited rate! They took a risk and it paid off, and they received a hefty bonus for their intuitiveness in cutting some red tape in the name of profit.
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
Are spam emails covered by advertising law? Specifically, can a subject line of "Exciting news!" be legally considered fraud if the body of the email is about how their product has been "recognized as a leading microfilm scanner for an unmatched fourth consecutive year by the Modern Library Awards?"
I don't think it can be argued that a reasonable citizen would or could consider that exciting news. I am positive that the person writing the email didn't find it exciting. Heck, after four years I imagine the adrenaline rush is wearing off for everyone at ST Imaging, even if it was a bit of a thrill the first time they won.
I question the verisimilitude of your unsolicited email, sir.
"Puffery" is an actual legal term and basically amounts to "Advertising is wildly exaggerated, everybody knows this and it's legal."
It's kind of a circular argument though, when you think about it.
"Exciting." "Microfilm scanner."
There's at least got to be some "that dog won't hunt" clause in there somewhere.
Yeah, I'm not saying I disagree with the doctrine, I just think its circular. Puffery is legal because everyone expects puffery. But that's because it's legal.
Honestly I just love the word puffery, especially in this context. The mental image I get with it amuses me every time.
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Fine, I'll show up at 4, you dumb shits.
He's the one that probably invented this: http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-325
He's going to be disappointed when he calls the tech transfer office and the first thing they do is make him explain it, in detail, down to chemical formulation.
I don't think it can be argued that a reasonable citizen would or could consider that exciting news. I am positive that the person writing the email didn't find it exciting. Heck, after four years I imagine the adrenaline rush is wearing off for everyone at ST Imaging, even if it was a bit of a thrill the first time they won.
I question the verisimilitude of your unsolicited email, sir.
I followed the link to scp-wiki and ended up staring at an ad for a personal injury lawyer for a good 20-30 seconds trying to work out if it was part of the joke or just a fortuitously placed piece of crappy ad copy put there by a targeted ad network that is apparently developing a dry sense of humour.
I think some places have me blacklisted now because I get emails saying nah we are good within hours sometimes
The lowes dude said he wanted to hire me and that I should apply but has turned down 6 applications
Not even fucking target will hire me
Im feeling so defeated now
Boy I'm fucking tired. But it honestly feels way better to come home physically tired than the emotional exhaustion that just put me to sleep every day.
"Puffery" is an actual legal term and basically amounts to "Advertising is wildly exaggerated, everybody knows this and it's legal."
It's kind of a circular argument though, when you think about it.
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy
You have his e-mail right?
While he may have started this war, you have the power to end it.
In fact you can end it and salt the electronic ground so future sales people know that in this office there is a line you do not cross.
"Exciting." "Microfilm scanner."
There's at least got to be some "that dog won't hunt" clause in there somewhere.
Yeah, I'm not saying I disagree with the doctrine, I just think its circular. Puffery is legal because everyone expects puffery. But that's because it's legal.
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy
"So you'll receive two emails. The first was an automatic confirmation email that was sent after the reservation was made, and a second will have your updated room rates. You can ignore the confirmation with the higher rates."
*Phone rings 30 minutes later*
"Yeah, I just made a reservation and I received two confirmations but at two different rates. What's going on?"
*bashes head against desk*
oh hey its for a stocking job at a grocery store for a max of 2 days a week
I sent out three companies to bid on my shipping supplies. I've done business with all three of them, and I'm doing my yearly re-up for cardboard. They all come back, each of them at different price levels. I let them each know they're off, and a couple of them requote. Then another one gives me a final quote after I split my order between him and another company.
Now I've got a guy who's come in under everyone else, offering me free shipping, better payment terms, and I can probably get some kind of contract pricing going. So I've got to tell two other guys to pound sand.
I hate having to do this.
I hate being forced to ask for impossible lead times. We have a vendor that we signed an agreement with, over and over again for years, and we know they make to order, plus we are terrible at standardization, so our engineers are always calling out custom stuff, so even if they had stock of stuff a lot of time it wouldn't do us any good. A good turn is 2 weeks with freight shipping, average is 3, and really weird stuff is 4.
We've engineered ourselves into a corner, and are 2 months behind on a HUGE fifty thousand square foot plus industrial structure with all kinds of equipment. Until our Engineering department releases the sub jobs for the work I can't purchase. Well now we're supposed to be done and the site up and running in March and engineering is just spitting shit out. Problem is our vendor has their lead times, and they are at capacity with us and other customers, so there just isn't extra capacity right now for whatever reasons, not enough time to staff up, already running at full staff across however many shifts, whatever.
I get told last week "They aren't doing good enough, they have to do better" when I tell them its going to be 3-4 weeks and they want it next week. It's like "dude, you're the original person who specified this vendor in the first place and you knew about the lead time issue years ago" This current issue wasn't a surprise. We knew this was coming up over two months ago but there was nothing we could do about it, and it's biting us in the butt.
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Well, last week some people's day got really complicated. Not because of heavy water.... because some contractor decided to piss into the beetle. I dont know if they caught the person who did it but fuck man. You would think in this type of environment you could find workers who wouldn't do that type of shit.
The worst thing is that normally you would drain the beetle to a liquid collection system where the water ultimately gets recycled (i.e. any heavy water is recovered) but you cant put urine through those systems, so they had to manually clean up someone's piss.
I hope the fucker gets fired. It's known that a group of contractors have been working in the area where it occurred but im sure no one will own up to it. What a place.
Didn't one of your contractors' get their entire company fired from every plant in the country because they started up a machine that had a red service tag on it?
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
More later after I stop celebrating.
Don't eat at Arby's, everything is gonna be ok.
Once again I played support at work because the person who was supposed to be there was away on vacation
So I went in at noon and left at 2am because two trucks and people not busting their ass
I really don't want to yell at them or be what I once was in the Corps
Why I am an idiot is because I don't have access to a lot of the stuff I am supposed to have I just wing it which they told me is not the answer they want to hear nor is what do you expect me to do then?
So they are training me later today about how to do that junk
Then, when we gave her money back, she decided to drop a coin, then lick it...then hork up all over it. And stomped out.
.... and then showed up two minutes later to demand a free coffee for our poor customer service.
I think she works at a movie theater because she's really good at projection.
WoW
Dear Satan.....
Every thread I see you in, you're amazingly supportive and human and also super good at expressing your positive vibes. I dunno how often other folks extend the same level of excellence to you on here, and I'm definitely not equipped to do so. But here's one small attempt.
I hope to hell that this means you'll have a chance to relax (relatively) and enjoy your work, because based on the last however many years I've seen you post in this thread, you've sure as goddamn earned it. As far as I'm concerned, you deserve every good turn as can be expected or hoped for in the service industry, and outside it.
Edit: That being said, if it goes to shit I look forward to hearing about the outcome, knowing you'll be fine no matter how awful it is.
They probably put whoever it was in charge of the whole place.
Of course - they showed initiative by overcoming obstacles in order to return the plant to normal operations at an expedited rate! They took a risk and it paid off, and they received a hefty bonus for their intuitiveness in cutting some red tape in the name of profit.
Honestly I just love the word puffery, especially in this context. The mental image I get with it amuses me every time.
On my sleeve, let the runway start