Lateral transfer packet still is not done being signed. It needs to be in Lancaster ASAP and instead what should have taken a few days at most is now clocking past three weeks. I'm going to have to grab it as soon as it's done and take it to the post office for a super rush delivery because I do not trust this place to get it out in a timely manner.
Meanwhile I'm trying to convince myself to play nice with the Trump coworkers who keep having loud discussions on opposite sides of cubicle partitions about their god-king's latest whoopsy.
Two more days. Monday I out-process and Tuesday I have an interview up in San Bernardino so I get that entire day paid without costing any PTO. The interview is at 12:40, I'll be done probably around 1:30, and then it's maybe an hour's drive to my parents' place where I'll be crashing until I get out of my current lease down here and find a new apartment in Lancaster. This weekend I need to buckle down and pack up as much as I possibly can and toss out whatever I don't need or want. Only essentials are coming with me on Tuesday, everything else will wait until end of March by which time I will hopefully have negotiated an early end to the annual lease.
New job got, can't wait to tell my old one I'm leaving.
Also got and email from another company who received my resume and is looking to talk to me. If it wasn't for this headache I'd say its a pretty swell day.
I mentioned that I would be subbing again next year to my parents earlier today and naturally that lead to them harassing me about not having a real job & almost being thirty & I'm a child.
You know, all that regular stuff.
It was my fault really, I should have just distracted them with talk of Dungeons & Dragons or the X-Men.
Regarding my long-term plans I do want to get certified so I can teach, but the program I'd want stops accepting applicants in April. So I'd have to get all my stuff ready to apply and pass the WEST-E & the WEST-B. And I didn't see myself being able to accomplish all of that in two months (I also wanted to try to apply for some scholarships to cut off that fat tuition bill).
So the plan at the moment is to open myself up to two or three more local school districts starting next year and apply come January of 2018.
Oh fuck them subbing isn't "a real job".
My parents won't consider anything a real job if it doesn't carry health/dental benefits & retirement options.
Fewer and fewer jobs, less each day, are offering health/dental. Retirement is fairly common, but rarely more complex than an IRA or 401k (which anyone can start to a similar effect).
Dude, I'm sorry. This is a hilariously small modern world view.
You keep fighting the good fight. Being a transient educator is not easy. Not a real job, my ass.
Just got a firm confirmation for an onsite interview with a company next week. I hate interviewing but I'm excited about the job and really hope I get it.
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Right at the end of a pretty great day, dairy manager grabs a hand held scanner and beams me right in the eyes because this bumpkin didn't know lasers are bad for your eyes so guess who got an unsafe work activity report turn in on him.
Right at the end of a pretty great day, dairy manager grabs a hand held scanner and beams me right in the eyes because this bumpkin didn't know lasers are bad for your eyes so guess who got an unsafe work activity report turn in on him.
People at my job do that all the time and its pisses me the fuck off.
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Right at the end of a pretty great day, dairy manager grabs a hand held scanner and beams me right in the eyes because this bumpkin didn't know lasers are bad for your eyes so guess who got an unsafe work activity report turn in on him.
People at my job do that all the time and its pisses me the fuck off.
Third time somebody has done this in the 2+ years I've been here, I'm seriously considering having a laser safety sign-off program.
Right at the end of a pretty great day, dairy manager grabs a hand held scanner and beams me right in the eyes because this bumpkin didn't know lasers are bad for your eyes so guess who got an unsafe work activity report turn in on him.
People at my job do that all the time and its pisses me the fuck off.
A lot of people know that I saw heavy combat yet seem sane but there are times I am about to snap when people do that
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Right at the end of a pretty great day, dairy manager grabs a hand held scanner and beams me right in the eyes because this bumpkin didn't know lasers are bad for your eyes so guess who got an unsafe work activity report turn in on him.
People at my job do that all the time and its pisses me the fuck off.
A lot of people know that I saw heavy combat yet seem sane but there are times I am about to snap when people do that
Yeah pretty sure I scared the guy with my reaction.
Right at the end of a pretty great day, dairy manager grabs a hand held scanner and beams me right in the eyes because this bumpkin didn't know lasers are bad for your eyes so guess who got an unsafe work activity report turn in on him.
People at my job do that all the time and its pisses me the fuck off.
Third time somebody has done this in the 2+ years I've been here, I'm seriously considering having a laser safety sign-off program.
Seriously. Even the poor dolts whose workstation was somehow on a tiny platform with no guard rails inside a planet-destroying superlaser knew to turn slightly away and cover their eyes while the laser was firing.
Lasers: don't look at 'em.
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LASERS: you can eat em, but doooon't eat em!
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
And in other Hispanic employee news (is it obvious that I'm having a slow night for once?) one of the drawing operators took vacation this week to fly back to Mexico to get his wife and daughter now that he had finally completed the paperwork to bring them legally to the US.
He and his family are now being refused entry back into the country. He's a green card holder, and his family now have completed paperwork that allows them entry, but the response at the border has been essentially a snide "get fucked."
He's in contact with a lawyer about the situation and the company is doing the right thing for once and is giving him a lot of leeway on missed days because of this. While I can't say I miss him being gone (he doesn't possess what you could call a strong work ethic), I don't want to see him and his family stuck back in cartel country back in Mexico.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
My supervisor's daughters are going to SC State here, and they share an apartment with two Brazilian sisters who also go to the school. Usually when classes let out for a while, my supervisor's kids fly down to Brazil and stay with their roommates for about six weeks or so, which saves a couple months rent.
Now, the Brazilians' parents are refusing to let them come home for fear they won't be let back into the country, as they aren't being allowed in here either.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
And in other Hispanic employee news (is it obvious that I'm having a slow night for once?) one of the drawing operators took vacation this week to fly back to Mexico to get his wife and daughter now that he had finally completed the paperwork to bring them legally to the US.
He and his family are now being refused entry back into the country. He's a green card holder, and his family now have completed paperwork that allows them entry, but the response at the border has been essentially a snide "get fucked."
He's in contact with a lawyer about the situation and the company is doing the right thing for once and is giving him a lot of leeway on missed days because of this. While I can't say I miss him being gone (he doesn't possess what you could call a strong work ethic), I don't want to see him and his family stuck back in cartel country back in Mexico.
The admin that was mad that she was getting in trouble for taking two hour lunches and hanging up on people is officially leaving.
She put in her two weeks today which makes her last day March 10th.
The hilarious thing is that her supervisor left today for vacation and won't be back until March 6th. So the admin just CC'ed the director of the department on the e-mail to her supervisor. I'm considering this a win for multiple reasons.
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I'm in the Civil Air Patrol, and this weekend we were supposed to have a state-wide readiness exercise. The scenario was "huge blizzard blocks roads, knocks down power lines, go help National Guard unfuck the situation."
First LOL: simulating a winter storm when the temperature is mid 70's.
Second LOL: the simulated blizzard just got called off due to a real-life thunderstorm forecast.
I'm in the Civil Air Patrol, and this weekend we were supposed to have a state-wide readiness exercise. The scenario was "huge blizzard blocks roads, knocks down power lines, go help National Guard unfuck the situation."
First LOL: simulating a winter storm when the temperature is mid 70's.
Second LOL: the simulated blizzard just got called off due to a real-life thunderstorm forecast.
I'm in the Civil Air Patrol, and this weekend we were supposed to have a state-wide readiness exercise. The scenario was "huge blizzard blocks roads, knocks down power lines, go help National Guard unfuck the situation."
First LOL: simulating a winter storm when the temperature is mid 70's.
Second LOL: the simulated blizzard just got called off due to a real-life thunderstorm forecast.
Hey, I'm not crawling on top of a B-1 to fix the backbone panel if there's lightning. I don't care how grounded it is. If you didn't want it to wait you should have checked the weather forcast before you overtorqed the landing.
Today I was subjected to a power point created by an engineer.
It was 57 pages long and consisted primarily of text and diagrams.
I very nearly caused a scene.
I feel like you should be immune to that type of shenanigan.
Long and awful power point briefings are like....half the military battle. That's where the knowing comes from.
I've been helping my boss with two bum wrists out by working on a Powerpoint for/with him (and he just told me that his bosses actually don't want it anymore, so that was just a waste of time) and it turns out blocks of text are rarely interesting to look at in slide format.
Of course, you add some colors, some bullet points, space stuff out and put it on two slides instead of one, and it looks way better.
Ok, I know that the metric system is not the usual measuring system in the US
And I know that our education system leaves a lot to be desired, and that not everyone knows how far to move a decimal place when doing metric conversions.
But there is the internet.
And if you're a sales manager in the freight industry, I really think you shouldn't have to send an email to request a conversion FROM MILLIMETERS TO CENTIMETERS!
Ok, I know that the metric system is not the usual measuring system in the US
And I know that our education system leaves a lot to be desired, and that not everyone knows how far to move a decimal place when doing metric conversions.
But there is the internet.
And if you're a sales manager in the freight industry, I really think you shouldn't have to send an email to request a conversion FROM MILLIMETERS TO CENTIMETERS!
Goddamn, my head hurts now.
If you have gone past 5th grade, there's a significant chance you had to learn metric at some point. Our science classes up here in NYS were 100% metric based.
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
Ok, I know that the metric system is not the usual measuring system in the US
And I know that our education system leaves a lot to be desired, and that not everyone knows how far to move a decimal place when doing metric conversions.
But there is the internet.
And if you're a sales manager in the freight industry, I really think you shouldn't have to send an email to request a conversion FROM MILLIMETERS TO CENTIMETERS!
Goddamn, my head hurts now.
If you have gone past 5th grade, there's a significant chance you had to learn metric at some point. Our science classes up here in NYS were 100% metric based.
While I did learn and use it in school, I've mostly forgotten the metric naming table because I use it so rarely. Google is your friend in that situation, it has a little widget to do all the conversions!
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"Add one gill of zinc to 1/10 hogshead of hydrochloric acid. How many pecks of hydrogen gas are produced?"
Ok, I know that the metric system is not the usual measuring system in the US
And I know that our education system leaves a lot to be desired, and that not everyone knows how far to move a decimal place when doing metric conversions.
But there is the internet.
And if you're a sales manager in the freight industry, I really think you shouldn't have to send an email to request a conversion FROM MILLIMETERS TO CENTIMETERS!
Goddamn, my head hurts now.
If you have gone past 5th grade, there's a significant chance you had to learn metric at some point. Our science classes up here in NYS were 100% metric based.
It was a NE based sales manager. Dunno if they're in NY state or if if they're from there, but still!
Still!
It occurs to me after the fact that they may have just not wanted to do the work, and by sending it back to us, when it went back to them, it would be assigned to someone else.
Ok, I know that the metric system is not the usual measuring system in the US
And I know that our education system leaves a lot to be desired, and that not everyone knows how far to move a decimal place when doing metric conversions.
But there is the internet.
And if you're a sales manager in the freight industry, I really think you shouldn't have to send an email to request a conversion FROM MILLIMETERS TO CENTIMETERS!
Goddamn, my head hurts now.
If you have gone past 5th grade, there's a significant chance you had to learn metric at some point. Our science classes up here in NYS were 100% metric based.
It was a NE based sales manager. Dunno if they're in NY state or if if they're from there, but still!
Still!
It occurs to me after the fact that they may have just not wanted to do the work, and by sending it back to us, when it went back to them, it would be assigned to someone else.
Which is not better at all.
I would hope that most of the NE would have the same minimums NYS did. But that is not always the case.
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
Today I was subjected to a power point created by an engineer.
It was 57 pages long and consisted primarily of text and diagrams.
I very nearly caused a scene.
This reminds me of a traumatic mediation experience.
150 all text slides (plus 25 full slide pictures of property and maps and a single video) for a total of 176 slides. We had the law as written, quite a few supporting multiple cases and, of course, relevant parts of the decision all thrown in. The lawyer was "confused" by technology so I had to sit behind the projection screen and hit a button every time they said "next slide". As a consolation, they were reading every word on the slide so the day went by like a snail.
So I wanted to check up on a clients website today to see wether they had implemented some changes in regards to protecting their trademark. I innocently typed in <companyname>.com instead of their .dk address and was promptly re-routed to a hardcore porn website. That's going to be a fun conversation with my superiors tomorrow.
Oh yeah, that's always a good time. There was an airline cargo phone number that was a digit off from a sex talk line, so at least once a month, someone would have to go to a boss to tell the manager that they hadn't meant to dial hot oral or whatever it was
I could somewhat understand it if it were a similar sounding website, but as it stands it's a rerouting from the website address to a completely different site. It's kinda of a big problem as this company does a lot of business in the US. I'll have to find out tomorrow if it's an cybersquatter (which opens a whole new can of worms) or if the company haven't bothered to register the .com address.
They didn't bother to register the .com address.
I don't know which company we're talking about, but they didn't bother to register the .com address.
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Meanwhile I'm trying to convince myself to play nice with the Trump coworkers who keep having loud discussions on opposite sides of cubicle partitions about their god-king's latest whoopsy.
Two more days. Monday I out-process and Tuesday I have an interview up in San Bernardino so I get that entire day paid without costing any PTO. The interview is at 12:40, I'll be done probably around 1:30, and then it's maybe an hour's drive to my parents' place where I'll be crashing until I get out of my current lease down here and find a new apartment in Lancaster. This weekend I need to buckle down and pack up as much as I possibly can and toss out whatever I don't need or want. Only essentials are coming with me on Tuesday, everything else will wait until end of March by which time I will hopefully have negotiated an early end to the annual lease.
Also got and email from another company who received my resume and is looking to talk to me. If it wasn't for this headache I'd say its a pretty swell day.
Fewer and fewer jobs, less each day, are offering health/dental. Retirement is fairly common, but rarely more complex than an IRA or 401k (which anyone can start to a similar effect).
Dude, I'm sorry. This is a hilariously small modern world view.
You keep fighting the good fight. Being a transient educator is not easy. Not a real job, my ass.
People at my job do that all the time and its pisses me the fuck off.
Third time somebody has done this in the 2+ years I've been here, I'm seriously considering having a laser safety sign-off program.
A lot of people know that I saw heavy combat yet seem sane but there are times I am about to snap when people do that
Yeah pretty sure I scared the guy with my reaction.
Turns out not only can he not comprehend English, but he is also illiterate, so he is incapable of doing paperwork or reading any warning signs.
Oh well!
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
This situation is terrifying. I mean even more than your place usually terrifies.
Seriously. Even the poor dolts whose workstation was somehow on a tiny platform with no guard rails inside a planet-destroying superlaser knew to turn slightly away and cover their eyes while the laser was firing.
Lasers: don't look at 'em.
He and his family are now being refused entry back into the country. He's a green card holder, and his family now have completed paperwork that allows them entry, but the response at the border has been essentially a snide "get fucked."
He's in contact with a lawyer about the situation and the company is doing the right thing for once and is giving him a lot of leeway on missed days because of this. While I can't say I miss him being gone (he doesn't possess what you could call a strong work ethic), I don't want to see him and his family stuck back in cartel country back in Mexico.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
My supervisor's daughters are going to SC State here, and they share an apartment with two Brazilian sisters who also go to the school. Usually when classes let out for a while, my supervisor's kids fly down to Brazil and stay with their roommates for about six weeks or so, which saves a couple months rent.
Now, the Brazilians' parents are refusing to let them come home for fear they won't be let back into the country, as they aren't being allowed in here either.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
Fuck those assholes
She put in her two weeks today which makes her last day March 10th.
The hilarious thing is that her supervisor left today for vacation and won't be back until March 6th. So the admin just CC'ed the director of the department on the e-mail to her supervisor. I'm considering this a win for multiple reasons.
First LOL: simulating a winter storm when the temperature is mid 70's.
Second LOL: the simulated blizzard just got called off due to a real-life thunderstorm forecast.
:biggrin:
Not CAP, but still related:
Edit: The Air Force song for those that are confused.
Hey, I'm not crawling on top of a B-1 to fix the backbone panel if there's lightning. I don't care how grounded it is. If you didn't want it to wait you should have checked the weather forcast before you overtorqed the landing.
It was 57 pages long and consisted primarily of text and diagrams.
I very nearly caused a scene.
I feel like you should be immune to that type of shenanigan.
Long and awful power point briefings are like....half the military battle. That's where the knowing comes from.
As an engineer, why would you ever want to present your super with that much of a data dump?
I dunno that sounds like basically every lab report I had to write in college.
I've been helping my boss with two bum wrists out by working on a Powerpoint for/with him (and he just told me that his bosses actually don't want it anymore, so that was just a waste of time) and it turns out blocks of text are rarely interesting to look at in slide format.
Of course, you add some colors, some bullet points, space stuff out and put it on two slides instead of one, and it looks way better.
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I'll get the formal written one and a start date after I pass my drug test.
And I know that our education system leaves a lot to be desired, and that not everyone knows how far to move a decimal place when doing metric conversions.
But there is the internet.
And if you're a sales manager in the freight industry, I really think you shouldn't have to send an email to request a conversion FROM MILLIMETERS TO CENTIMETERS!
Goddamn, my head hurts now.
Literally the question posed by multiple people including myself was "Why the fuck is Quid coming to this?"
If you have gone past 5th grade, there's a significant chance you had to learn metric at some point. Our science classes up here in NYS were 100% metric based.
While I did learn and use it in school, I've mostly forgotten the metric naming table because I use it so rarely. Google is your friend in that situation, it has a little widget to do all the conversions!
It was a NE based sales manager. Dunno if they're in NY state or if if they're from there, but still!
Still!
It occurs to me after the fact that they may have just not wanted to do the work, and by sending it back to us, when it went back to them, it would be assigned to someone else.
Which is not better at all.
I would hope that most of the NE would have the same minimums NYS did. But that is not always the case.
This reminds me of a traumatic mediation experience.
150 all text slides (plus 25 full slide pictures of property and maps and a single video) for a total of 176 slides. We had the law as written, quite a few supporting multiple cases and, of course, relevant parts of the decision all thrown in. The lawyer was "confused" by technology so I had to sit behind the projection screen and hit a button every time they said "next slide". As a consolation, they were reading every word on the slide so the day went by like a snail.
Steam Me
Yep.
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i have mostly learned the dual screen, multi system interface we use to walk customers through queries
next week i will be paired up with people out live on the floor taking calls and driving the system for them