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  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    I know someone who didn't go the dentist for 15ish years and when he finally went they gave him a thorough cleaning and then a big thumbs up.

    No wisdom teeth problems, no rot, no nothing.

    The jerk.

    I was not aware we knew each other.



    (never had a cavity, wisdom teeth are all in with no issues, which is all good because I hate the dentist like a cat hates taking a bath)

    Yeah I've never had any work done and still have all my wisdom teeth. I occasionally get a professional cleaning done. Not for a while though because finding NHS dentists here is impossible these days.

  • V1mV1m Registered User regular
    2 full weeks off starts in 407 minutes

  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    Okay, let me forward this important image to every company phone.....


    Shit, i made a group chat.

    I need to delete them all!

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  • DocshiftyDocshifty Registered User regular
    My apologies y'all, I am not as clear as I always think I am haha. Yeah they did a topical ans then a local. If you want any more, gas or iv or whatever, you need to be referred to an oral surgeon. And I haven't been given the options of post-extraction pain management since at least 2012. My spouse got pain meds when they cut out their wisdom teeth last year, but that was an oral surgeon, so ot definitely seems like dentists just don't do that here anymore.

  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    love to send update emails that are basically contentless and can have no strong language of certainty because the real answer to someone's concern is that lawyers are lawyering

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  • ThegreatcowThegreatcow Lord of All Bacons Washington State - It's Wet up here innit? Registered User regular
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    I know someone who didn't go the dentist for 15ish years and when he finally went they gave him a thorough cleaning and then a big thumbs up.

    No wisdom teeth problems, no rot, no nothing.

    The jerk.

    I was not aware we knew each other.



    (never had a cavity, wisdom teeth are all in with no issues, which is all good because I hate the dentist like a cat hates taking a bath)

    Yup i'm the same. My dentist actually explained it to me like, you know how some folks lack/have the gene that makes Cilantro taste like soap to you? It's basically the same thing here. Some folks like myself have a gene that causes you to produce saliva with incredibly low acid levels. Apparently high acid saliva is the main culprit to weakened enamel, and some folks just don't have that problem. Now if i only I could get the gene for high metabolism because freaking hell at this point in my life I'd much rather prefer that.

  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    Tonkka wrote: »
    Welp, got the email, and I wasn't selected. However, they are hiring for temporary staff for the same position, and I already applied for that as a back up plan.

    Still fucking sucks, though.

    damn I'm really sorry bro

    Thanks all!

    It's not all bad news, though. While I wasn't selected for one of the two the "career" positions, they have 3 open "Term Limited Temporary (TLT)/Special Duty Assignment (SDA)" positions. They sent out an email (before I got the news about the career position) that those were now posted separately and open for application. So I did that immediately and heard back this morning that my application will be reviewed for consideration. So there's a little more hope for me to hang on to while I trudge around looking for something else in the meantime.

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  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    Alright, that was fast. Just got an email that I have been invited to go through the testing for the temp position.

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  • MulysaSemproniusMulysaSempronius but also susie nyRegistered User regular
    Went over timesheet/payroll stuff today and it turns out they don't have any kind of online time logging system. Instead, I have to open an Excel timesheet, fill it out, save it as a PDF, then e-mail it to my supervisor

    our hardware inventory system is also a shared Google Sheets file

    academia, man
    Pre-pandemic, we had to fill out an excel sheet, print it out, get it physically signed by a supervisor, scan it, and email the scan to the timekeeper we were assigned to. If you wanted to know your time-off balances, you had to fill out a physical form, submit it to HR, and wait for your timekeeper to email you.
    Things lined up so that we changed to an online system very early in the pandemic. They had started working on it beforehand, and timing just worked out well. We also have our time-off balances available to see online (but only up to the most recent "approved" timesheet)
    Things still aren't automated well, and I think the timekeepers still have to go in and look at timesheets submitted, and manually go to the time-off database, make sure everything lines up and you have enough time. Then they manually change the time-off available in the online timesheet page. This is likely the best they will be able to get.

    If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Got to love the start of the school year where the wifi goes down all day.

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  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    Tonkka wrote: »
    Alright, that was fast. Just got an email that I have been invited to go through the testing for the temp position.

    How likely do you think it is that they post the career positions publicly because they have to but make it a practice to hire out of the temp pool?

  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    Last minute huge account change that's gonna have me working for the rest of the evening let's goooooooooo

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Final circ computer’s wifi died during last block so I had to have students line up at my office door and check them out on my computer in there since it was hardwired.

    Lotta kids liked the 8bitdo keypad I had them type their student numbers in with.

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  • sponospono Mining for Nose Diamonds Booger CoveRegistered User regular
    No time at work for lunch today, an extreme rarity, but I am paying for it now

    Me so hungy

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  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    edited August 17
    chromdom wrote: »
    Tonkka wrote: »
    Alright, that was fast. Just got an email that I have been invited to go through the testing for the temp position.

    How likely do you think it is that they post the career positions publicly because they have to but make it a practice to hire out of the temp pool?

    So, they sent an email out to the applicants for the career position about the temp position because of new labor laws that went in to effect that required them to make the temp positions a separate posting. So it was a nice courtesy of them to make people aware, even before decisions on the career posting weren't yet final. I sent a follow up email asking if I could still apply for the temp position while I was still being considered for the career position and they told me that email didn't mean I had not been selected for the career position.

    It's government stuff. It's weird.

    EDIT: I think I answered your question? They technically did post the temp hiring positions, but did it lumped in with the career posting, if that makes sense?

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited August 17
    Okay, lets finish that clusterfuck and this procedural clusterfuck and then get the fuck home.


    ITS STATE LICENSING ISSUES! WITH A STEEL CHAIR!

    Edit: Nancy Pelosi's office still smelled like shit when this first became a problem and someone finally audited us 🤦‍♂️

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  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    Next week is full WFH because the Democratic convention is in town. I'm so excited to get a ton of work done and sleep in until 8:55 each morning

  • V1mV1m Registered User regular
    Oh no it's going to be 16 more days until I can look at a spreadsheet again

  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    I feel someone at work is learning the millinial missive, "You will either take a break, or your body will choose it for you."

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  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    Juggernut wrote: »
    Last minute huge account change that's gonna have me working for the rest of the evening let's goooooooooo

    So now that you've been doing the job for a while, how's it compare to banging on machines with wrenches?

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    V1m wrote: »
    Oh no it's going to be 16 more days until I can look at a spreadsheet again

    I can send you some if you're feeling deprived. I've currently got a saucy little batch that are supposed to tell me which monthly publishing mills I should drop or retain in my large print romance collection!

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  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    Spent three hours studying for certifications exams today before getting fed up with noisy neighbors and taking a break for a bath. It's totally cool and normal to see a bunch of the stuff that was common use when I last worked in tech now covered under legacy hardware I'm not crumbling into dust you're crumbl*crumble*

  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    Hmmm my boss told me the other day he wants me to lean into AI, both because its coming and I'm going to need to be securing it, but also because being a "prompt engineer" who can help the less tech savvy learn how to use the AI would be helpful.

    I hate that!

    Also we may be told in October to start coming into the office 4 days a week.

    I hate that even more!

  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    In the last 24 hours 5 people quit and the introspective of am I the reason hit managers. I mean not me but they started to question how they manage and such They in the ugly night last night was asked if you were quiting too {they did not ask me I was too busy dying in HBA}

  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    12 hour thunderstorm.

    I'm off but fielding phone calls from people freaking out.

    I am jaded from wind storms of my youth and the reminder that they will become stronger and less frequent

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    Show up to work to see an extra hour of needless tasks literally piled up outside for me to deal with.

    At least it had stopped raining so I wouldn't be soaked while dealing with it.

  • V1mV1m Registered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    V1m wrote: »
    Oh no it's going to be 16 more days until I can look at a spreadsheet again

    I can send you some if you're feeling deprived. I've currently got a saucy little batch that are supposed to tell me which monthly publishing mills I should drop or retain in my large print romance collection!

    I couldn't possibly deprive you. I am resigned to being spreadsheetless until the 2nd.

  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    webguy20 wrote: »
    Juggernut wrote: »
    Last minute huge account change that's gonna have me working for the rest of the evening let's goooooooooo

    So now that you've been doing the job for a while, how's it compare to banging on machines with wrenches?

    Honestly there are a few things I miss about it but over all it's way fuckin better by a country mile. I actually feel like I'm kinda on the forefront of some stuff and my insights and opinions are actually listened to and feel like I can suggest changes that will be implemented if needed.

    Actually seems like I'm on track to move up and not get dicked over.

  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited August 19
    So between the steel chair to the face that came friday

    The new protocols

    My favored successors beefing

    The fallout from drunk driver accident

    And still being short handed because dumbasses who will quit soon are worse than no staff

    Work has been stressful.

    Right now I'm plotting my 6th day because i need the money for new tires, food, and pulling myself out of debt


    Oh, and there is a stomach bug that has incapacitated:
    1 year old kin in cali
    Their pappa in cali
    My cousin up here
    Her daddy
    The birthday girl that puked and got some of it on cousin
    Coworker
    Another coworker

    Also, my budget would go great if i could not spend money on desperate family and food at night


    Edit: just broke my glasses

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    Can you recommend a book?
    Certainly what sort of books do you like?
    Oh anything.
    Picks book.
    Oh not that. I don't read that.
    Repeat x5, getting more and more generic till narrowed down to inoffensive contemporary fiction.
    I'll just take that.

    Lady. You don't read "anything." You are, in fact, incredibly picky.

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  • CalicaCalica Registered User regular
    "Oh anything" = "I have no idea what I want."

  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited August 19
    I'm normally super good at handling this. I empathise with them: No to fantasy book "Ah yeah you like more realistic situations, blah blah, smile understandingly" etc, and I ask questions with examples to try and narrow down what they like so I can figure it out.

    But she resisted the questions because she clearly wasn't ready to think, she just wanted a book.

    I actually started to lose my temper a little, not that you would ever see this on my face, all smiles and happy. I ended up just picking up books on the new displays that looked contemporary, skimming the blurb, and explaining the appeal characteristics of the book to her until we got one she felt was good enough.
    And then I felt a little bad later when it turned out she wanted the book because she had a family member in hospital and was in a situation where she just needed to wait.

    So I feel shitty for being annoyed. It's just a book.

    But it was still annoying. So I needed to get that out and then throw it away.

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  • BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    Can you recommend a book?
    Certainly what sort of books do you like?
    Oh anything.
    Picks book.
    Oh not that. I don't read that.
    Repeat x5, getting more and more generic till narrowed down to inoffensive contemporary fiction.
    I'll just take that.

    Lady. You don't read "anything." You are, in fact, incredibly picky.

    Ah, the bibliothetical version of this Onion article:

    Desperate Pandora Employees Scrambling to Find Song Local Man Likes

    No matter where you go...there you are.
    ~ Buckaroo Banzai
  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Monday again, what the fuck

  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field ---Registered User regular
    Monday again, what the fuck

    They can’t keep getting away with this

    Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    Work Computer: change your password soon >w<

    Me: ok *ctrl+shift+delete change password* done

    Work Computer: not like that xD

    Me: wait what do you mean not like that?

    Work Computer: >:3

    Me: WHAT DO YOU MEAN NOT LIKE THAT?

    *Entire Office Suite and One Note no longer works. Signed out of everything and nothing will sync or log in*

  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Ugh yeah I have to change my work password and am dreading it

  • ElvenshaeElvenshae Registered User regular
    Ugh yeah I have to change my work password and am dreading it

    We still have a stupidly short password rotation regime.

  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field ---Registered User regular
    We finally got rid of password rotation at work (moved to 12 character passwords with no other requirements) a year and a half ago, and it’s been great. Except our payroll company (which we log into to to clock in/out daily) has a 120 rotating password requirement, still. So it’s super annoying having one system with a different, ever changing password.

    Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    The work "phone" it's basically a tablet without a sim card forced everyone to have 6 digit codes and refuses the 111111 and such

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