yeah I have told people often I am not who I was in the Corps
I don't want to be that person again
Yeah, I don't try to explain to people that me being a jovial, friendly soul is my way of paying for my sins.
Damn. Uh, is this the general reason why every former Marine I work with is super nice, friendly, helpful and full of jokes? I always just thought, "Marines are so nice!"
Like my dad is former Air Force and he is kind of a bastard now. I have no idea what he was like in the service, since I wasn't born until after. (Well, I have some idea, actually. Older sibling has shared some info and... well I guess my dad has mellowed out and I'm lucky to have not met the younger version)
Also slight tangent, but one of the kind and gentle former Marines I work with is also former Army and Navy, which is just 'of note' to me because I'd never met anyone who was in three branches of service before. He plays Santa for kids every Christmas, and wears his Santa suit to work in December.
We're happy that we are no longer in the Marine Corps and don't have to Embrace The Suck.
oh h*ck
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Comcast level 2 support seems about as useful as level 1 so far.
I hope there's a level 3, 'cause they got something jacked up in our new modem.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
edited May 2017
Today's found poetry in the incident log: "I asked her if everything was okay and she told me that I needed to contact a preacher to get rid of all the witchcraft in the library."
Today's found poetry in the incident log: "I asked her if everything was okay and she told me that I needed to contact a preacher to get rid of all the witchcraft in the library."
Today's found poetry in the incident log: "I asked her if everything was okay and she told me that I needed to contact a preacher to get rid of all the witchcraft in the library."
You get the quality crazy.
This is the same patron who, a few years ago, reported that a psychiatrist hired by her ex-husband was hacking our computers in order to trick her into taking a psychiatric evaluation so he could have her committed. Upon further investigation, the evaluation was indistinguishable from a customer satisfaction pop-up survey on the Reader's Digest website.
Cunning, small-town psychiatrist hacker, but not cunning enough.
Today's found poetry in the incident log: "I asked her if everything was okay and she told me that I needed to contact a preacher to get rid of all the witchcraft in the library."
You get the quality crazy.
This is the same patron who, a few years ago, reported that a psychiatrist hired by her ex-husband was hacking our computers in order to trick her into taking a psychiatric evaluation so he could have her committed. Upon further investigation, the evaluation was indistinguishable from a customer satisfaction pop-up survey on the Reader's Digest website.
Cunning, small-town psychiatrist hacker, but not cunning enough.
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So today at the high school they are, in conjunction with the local police force, doing their Every Fifteen Minutes activity.
Every fifteen minutes they play a muffled heart-beat over the intercoms. Then somebody dressed up as a grim reaper walks the school, and plucks a student out of a classroom. That student then goes over to the library where the theater & art teachers apply make-up to have them look deceased. The student is then returned to their class and for the rest of the day they do no work, they don't talk and then just sit/walk around silently.
At the end of the day we have an assembly where the whole school gathers out at the parking lot to observe a simulated crash scene.
Oooh boy...
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We did the simulated crash scene in my high school to try and warn against drunk driving but having the specter of death roam the halls seems especially grim.
So today at the high school they are, in conjunction with the local police force, doing their Every Fifteen Minutes activity.
Every fifteen minutes they play a muffled heart-beat over the intercoms. Then somebody dressed up as a grim reaper walks the school, and plucks a student out of a classroom. That student then goes over to the library where the theater & art teachers apply make-up to have them look deceased. The student is then returned to their class and for the rest of the day they do no work, they don't talk and then just sit/walk around silently.
At the end of the day we have an assembly where the whole school gathers out at the parking lot to observe a simulated crash scene.
so, it becomes like flossing. Don't want the dentist to give you a lecture.
This doesn't seem to stop me.
In work-related news it's kind of slow here so I'm hacking together an Excel sheet with some formulas I haven't used before. I won't lie, it's basically intended for a video game to keep track of what materials I'll need to make something and how many, with some true/false checkboxes to count/not count certain cells. Of course, because of how CountIfs work I can't just grab the whole range. There might be a simple way to do it but the only way I can make this abomination work is by stitching together a CountIfs for each row like:
This counts the number of times "Gold Keeper" appears in each column, does not count rows where TRUE appears in a cell at the end of each row, and sums the total in another cell. Still a work in progress but I'm learning more and googling for help when I get stuck on something, so it's engaging.
That's basically the accepted use of countifs. The way you might get cleaner code is by rearranging how you're holding the original data. It sounds like you have a group of recipes with a list of ingredients... if you want an order form and a grocery list, you could build an array out of the recipes and use =sumproduct:
the code for the Gold Keeper grocery list count is
=SUMPRODUCT(B2:B4,B9:B11)
I was considering that but both the list of recipes and the materials are far too massive. I basically have seven columns in the table itself and two for the materials+formula. One for the name of the thing I intend to craft, five slots to put whatever materials are needed to craft it, then the checkbox I click on when I've made the indicated item. Off to the side I have the long-ass list of materials and next to each one is the formula that sums up how often it appears in the array. When I click the checkbox, meaning the recipe was made, the formula stops counting the items in that row.
I don't have the file on this computer but it looks a bit like this. Only with more recipes and a complete list of the many many materials. This also lets me determine when each recipe is done so I'm not just gathering a bunch of materials and then not remembering what I was going to do with them.
Eventual goal is to get all the material lists into their own sheet and then make a "clean" list, because I'm doing one tab per element.
Well, if you're married to columns for Nth ingredient of the recipe rather than columns for the Nth ingredient in the master list, big ol' concatenated countifs are the way to go. It's just not a great data structure. (doesn't handle recipes larger than max(N), handles recipes shorter than max(N) poorly, text is much more storage intensive than numbers, and, as you've found, you have to parse everything with wonky string functions rather than doing math on your columns)
It's less I'm devoted to columns and more in addition to calculating the number of materials I need to collect I'm simultaneously trying to make a semi-interactive interface that mimics how it appears in the game, with some changes to fit the format for my benefit. If it was just a basic shopping list then I'd definitely be using something like what you linked as opposed to the sprawl of strings I have going on. It is also designed to kill time though so there's that. I have a habit of redoing my training projects in Excel over time as I pick up on the logic more and learn better functions. Just a few months ago I'd have probably jury-rigged some monstrosity employing Vlookup and a whole tab of individual functions for each recipe interlinking up to the total sum. Functional but probably constitutes abuse.
I'm basically trying to make Excel into something it's not intended to be compared to just learning programming and becoming capable of things like hooking objects from another source to make a clean "recipe" book. Excel tutorials and experiments are allowed at my workplace, but any kind of programming or tutorials on such is forbidden.
I work at a credit card company in their collections department on the outbound calling team. I like working for the company and I like the people I work with. Lots if benefits and I moved up pretty fast.
The card members though. They can be so frustrating and unreasonable. So entitled. I hate dealing with them and today was especially awful.
I want to find a new job but I just don't really know where to start.
If your interested in manufacturing support (Purchasing/inventory control/scheduling etc...) Looks into the APICS classes. probably about $2000/$3000 to get certified (If you are a quick learner and don't need to take the classes it is MUCH cheaper, just study the books). any place worth its salt will look highly on that cert. CPIM is another good one to get.
Pay is decent, and if you can learn about MRP/ERP systems at the same time and maybe how to do crystal reports you will become a god at most places.
Thank you for suggesting this. I have never heard of this so I am going to look into it and do some research today.
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I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
It seems like one of those things that would go
"So what was your old salary?"
"NY law actually states that you can't answer that question"
"My mistake"
*writes DO NOT HIRE in notes*
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Most laws involving questions you can and can't ask in interviews are basically unenforceable, unless you're dumb enough to violate them and keep written records of it (which, according to one of our trainers who used to be an HR consultant, is depressingly common.)
If you play fast and loose with HR law, you're probably not going to get your company sued. What you are risking is piling up enough complaints from employees and applicants to trigger a Department of Labor audit, which is a nightmare scenario that no company wants to go through. It's the same reasoning that keeps most people from cheating too flagrantly on their taxes.
It seems like one of those things that would go
"So what was your old salary?"
"NY law actually states that you can't answer that question"
"My mistake"
*writes DO NOT HIRE in notes*
Yeah, it has the problem of proving thats why they didn't hire you. Maybe having a fine for asking, paid to the interviewee?
It's not a problem unique to this question either.
"Not sure if 500 cells is a big enough range. I want to give myself some breathing room but also don't want to manually change every single one of these fifty functions. I wonder if I can...hang on, does Find and Replace work in Excel?"
I love these little moments where I can solve a massive problem with a simple solution. Makes me feel like I'm actually applying what I've learned through these experiements.
Today's found poetry in the incident log: "I asked her if everything was okay and she told me that I needed to contact a preacher to get rid of all the witchcraft in the library."
You get the quality crazy.
This is the same patron who, a few years ago, reported that a psychiatrist hired by her ex-husband was hacking our computers in order to trick her into taking a psychiatric evaluation so he could have her committed. Upon further investigation, the evaluation was indistinguishable from a customer satisfaction pop-up survey on the Reader's Digest website.
Cunning, small-town psychiatrist hacker, but not cunning enough.
I mean
do you think that's the worst idea anybody ever had?
JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Nah. She's high-functioning, keeps herself groomed and fed, and has never displayed any signs that she's a danger to herself or others. She's got a daughter who keeps a pretty good eye on her. Sure, she has paranoid delusions, but she usually just gripes about them to the reference staff. I don't know if there's a treatment that could improve her happiness or quality of life, but given her stated feelings about psychiatrists it would have to be a hell of an improvement to outweigh the trauma of being treated against her will.
The only time I ever saw her hassle any other patrons was when a couple of Mormons walked in and she starting cussing them out and telling them they should pray more. She's usually quite pleasant, if a little hard to follow in conversation.
So today at the high school they are, in conjunction with the local police force, doing their Every Fifteen Minutes activity.
Every fifteen minutes they play a muffled heart-beat over the intercoms. Then somebody dressed up as a grim reaper walks the school, and plucks a student out of a classroom. That student then goes over to the library where the theater & art teachers apply make-up to have them look deceased. The student is then returned to their class and for the rest of the day they do no work, they don't talk and then just sit/walk around silently.
At the end of the day we have an assembly where the whole school gathers out at the parking lot to observe a simulated crash scene.
At least a couple of companies that I regularly apply to have online applications where the "what was your previous salary" field is mandatory. Those forms at least could be reported.
As far as actual negotiations/interviews go, though, you're right.
In job hunting news, my pal the company trainer put in a good word for me with HR.
Cambiata on
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
edited May 2017
Wooo! Got a response from Neil Gaiman's people about doing a Skype call with my book club. He is totally way to busy.
At least I got a response! I figured he would be too busy but hey why not try?
Is that not a common thing? Because the local high school does it too.
No, that's fuckin morbidly crazy.
Death is walking around plucking students randomly from class, and then their entire course load for the day gets fucked, and they are ostensibly ostracized by the rest of the school.
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We're happy that we are no longer in the Marine Corps and don't have to Embrace The Suck.
Don't try to force talking about it, just be available.
Dry cleaner hasn't opened yet
I have to be at work in about 20 minutes
Pray for Quid
Now I've got extra shifts as a health worker in home nursing services.
They were working on it when i left yesterday so I figured it'd be good today
The employee parking lot is now blocked off so that they can trench. Oh well, just gotta hold it or go somewhere else.
Go to get coffee, it is out of order because it fills via the water line.
Is it too late to call in?
I hope there's a level 3, 'cause they got something jacked up in our new modem.
the tier 2 ticket they said they submitted yesterday was just a regular ticket and nobody dealt with it.
Comcast you are a pile of garbage.
You get the quality crazy.
This is the same patron who, a few years ago, reported that a psychiatrist hired by her ex-husband was hacking our computers in order to trick her into taking a psychiatric evaluation so he could have her committed. Upon further investigation, the evaluation was indistinguishable from a customer satisfaction pop-up survey on the Reader's Digest website.
Cunning, small-town psychiatrist hacker, but not cunning enough.
Again, quality crazy.
Every fifteen minutes they play a muffled heart-beat over the intercoms. Then somebody dressed up as a grim reaper walks the school, and plucks a student out of a classroom. That student then goes over to the library where the theater & art teachers apply make-up to have them look deceased. The student is then returned to their class and for the rest of the day they do no work, they don't talk and then just sit/walk around silently.
At the end of the day we have an assembly where the whole school gathers out at the parking lot to observe a simulated crash scene.
Oooh boy...
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We did this exact same thing at my high school
It was super cheesy
They had a helicopter fly in to take away the bodies to the hospital
Girlfriend/boyfriend of the deceased screaming
then an assembly where the people flown away come back in
it was a bit much
Good lord...
For you Nyc and several city jobbers, this article regarding salary history and laws against asking about may be useful.
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It's less I'm devoted to columns and more in addition to calculating the number of materials I need to collect I'm simultaneously trying to make a semi-interactive interface that mimics how it appears in the game, with some changes to fit the format for my benefit. If it was just a basic shopping list then I'd definitely be using something like what you linked as opposed to the sprawl of strings I have going on. It is also designed to kill time though so there's that. I have a habit of redoing my training projects in Excel over time as I pick up on the logic more and learn better functions. Just a few months ago I'd have probably jury-rigged some monstrosity employing Vlookup and a whole tab of individual functions for each recipe interlinking up to the total sum. Functional but probably constitutes abuse.
I'm basically trying to make Excel into something it's not intended to be compared to just learning programming and becoming capable of things like hooking objects from another source to make a clean "recipe" book. Excel tutorials and experiments are allowed at my workplace, but any kind of programming or tutorials on such is forbidden.
Yeah, thats going to be a pain to ever prove anything on.
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Thank you for suggesting this. I have never heard of this so I am going to look into it and do some research today.
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.
"So what was your old salary?"
"NY law actually states that you can't answer that question"
"My mistake"
*writes DO NOT HIRE in notes*
If you play fast and loose with HR law, you're probably not going to get your company sued. What you are risking is piling up enough complaints from employees and applicants to trigger a Department of Labor audit, which is a nightmare scenario that no company wants to go through. It's the same reasoning that keeps most people from cheating too flagrantly on their taxes.
Yeah, it has the problem of proving thats why they didn't hire you. Maybe having a fine for asking, paid to the interviewee?
It's not a problem unique to this question either.
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy
I love these little moments where I can solve a massive problem with a simple solution. Makes me feel like I'm actually applying what I've learned through these experiements.
Oh they did that
The kids that went away in the helicopter went away for the day then came back and told an assembly about it and blah blah blah
like i said it was a bit much
I mean
do you think that's the worst idea anybody ever had?
The only time I ever saw her hassle any other patrons was when a couple of Mormons walked in and she starting cussing them out and telling them they should pray more. She's usually quite pleasant, if a little hard to follow in conversation.
What the fuck
Gotta hold it?
But there's a trench, right?
Just thinking, closed door, opened window.
At least a couple of companies that I regularly apply to have online applications where the "what was your previous salary" field is mandatory. Those forms at least could be reported.
As far as actual negotiations/interviews go, though, you're right.
In job hunting news, my pal the company trainer put in a good word for me with HR.
At least I got a response! I figured he would be too busy but hey why not try?
Did they at least offer you Amanda Palmer?
No, that's fuckin morbidly crazy.
Death is walking around plucking students randomly from class, and then their entire course load for the day gets fucked, and they are ostensibly ostracized by the rest of the school.
Its so fucked on so many levels.