Copier and printer is still not fixed, so no one can really work.
Semi-related, I'm about 1/4 done with the outline for the second book in what I guess is going to be intended as a trilogy now. Or a single, three-parter. Who knows, I'll hammer that out later, right now it's words on the page don't look back don't think just write.
sales people who cold call are probably the worst of people in the realm of "sales people are the worst people"
We had somebody cold call trying to sell magazine subscriptions. I guess they thought we had a waiting room? No, we are a power plant and you are calling the control room, goodbye.
I loved it when they tried to bypass me and "speak to the business owner"
no, trust me, you do not want to speak to the business owner
if you talk to me, I will politely tell you we don't want whatever you're selling and hang up
if you get through to him, you will get a twenty minute diatribe about how whatever company you're selling for is a pack of incompetent shitbirds and are teaming up with the Tories to run the country into the ground. Also he'll probably ask for your sales department contact details and then send them a poorly punctuated email of complaint.
I did some research and I was just straight wrong. Ain't nothing directly in violation of some federal law about saying you have a doctor's appointment when you don't.
It IS however the #1 most common excuse for job interviews according to a ton of surveys.
I loved it when they tried to bypass me and "speak to the business owner"
no, trust me, you do not want to speak to the business owner
if you talk to me, I will politely tell you we don't want whatever you're selling and hang up
if you get through to him, you will get a twenty minute diatribe about how whatever company you're selling for is a pack of incompetent shitbirds and are teaming up with the Tories to run the country into the ground. Also he'll probably ask for your sales department contact details and then send them a poorly punctuated email of complaint.
your company's owner is the best
bowen on
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
sales people who cold call are probably the worst of people in the realm of "sales people are the worst people"
We had somebody cold call trying to sell magazine subscriptions. I guess they thought we had a waiting room? No, we are a power plant and you are calling the control room, goodbye.
If someone did this at my work i would straight up interrogate them and tell them some sort of government security agency was now going to contact them
I loved it when they tried to bypass me and "speak to the business owner"
no, trust me, you do not want to speak to the business owner
if you talk to me, I will politely tell you we don't want whatever you're selling and hang up
if you get through to him, you will get a twenty minute diatribe about how whatever company you're selling for is a pack of incompetent shitbirds and are teaming up with the Tories to run the country into the ground. Also he'll probably ask for your sales department contact details and then send them a poorly punctuated email of complaint.
your company's owner is the best
he was (is) a histrionic dick of epic proportions, but it was always fun to see that firehose turned on somebody else
his one-man war against other local businesses is still playing itself out on my facebook feed, which is fun.
sales people who cold call are probably the worst of people in the realm of "sales people are the worst people"
We had somebody cold call trying to sell magazine subscriptions. I guess they thought we had a waiting room? No, we are a power plant and you are calling the control room, goodbye.
If someone did this at my work i would straight up interrogate them and tell them some sort of government security agency was now going to contact them
Yeah but we're solar, not nuclear. Really it was just annoying having to stop playing videogames and watching Netflix to answer the phone.
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EncA Fool with CompassionPronouns: He, Him, HisRegistered Userregular
I hate solicitors, Bowen. Walk in ones at the family furniture store were the worst.
Yeah when they come to my apartment I get rationally angry about the whole thing.
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
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EncA Fool with CompassionPronouns: He, Him, HisRegistered Userregular
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My high school used to make us door-to-door sell cheesecakes for a band fundraiser thing. I still live in the town, so they stop by my house twice a year. Conversation generally goes:
Me-Hey I remember doing this! Haha, sucks right? Yall want some water?
Them- Awesome, haha. Yeah!
~gives out bottled waters~
Us- Man is that guy still band director? Random stories about it, etc.
Them- So, you wanna buy a cheesecake?
Me- Hell no. ~slams door~
I remember when the boyscots were going door to door with bags of orville redenbocker and that other brand of microwavable popcorn. Buy individual bags for $1. Listen, I could buy a box of 50 for $5, I ain't gonna buy your shittypop for $1 a bag, get real.
But girlscouts and their cookies though...
Oh my god just fill up my car thanks, here's a blank check.
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
sales people who cold call are probably the worst of people in the realm of "sales people are the worst people"
We had somebody cold call trying to sell magazine subscriptions. I guess they thought we had a waiting room? No, we are a power plant and you are calling the control room, goodbye.
If someone did this at my work i would straight up interrogate them and tell them some sort of government security agency was now going to contact them
Yeah but we're solar, not nuclear. Really it was just annoying having to stop playing videogames and watching Netflix to answer the phone.
I remember when the boyscots were going door to door with bags of orville redenbocker and that other brand of microwavable popcorn. Buy individual bags for $1. Listen, I could buy a box of 50 for $5, I ain't gonna buy your shittypop for $1 a bag, get real.
But girlscouts and their cookies though...
Oh my god just fill up my car thanks, here's a blank check.
L Ron HowardThe duckMinnesotaRegistered Userregular
It's 4:15.
On the Friday before Labor Day, an actual holiday off in the U.S.
Our project is slated to wrap up by the end of the day on Tuesday.
Everyone has gone for the weekend to places where they cannot be contacted.
And the environments are down.
And I've run out of YouTube videos to watch.
I remember when the boyscots were going door to door with bags of orville redenbocker and that other brand of microwavable popcorn. Buy individual bags for $1. Listen, I could buy a box of 50 for $5, I ain't gonna buy your shittypop for $1 a bag, get real.
But girlscouts and their cookies though...
Oh my god just fill up my car thanks, here's a blank check.
Which bakery serves your area?
of the girl scouts?
I dunno it's a bunch of little girls whose parents have giant SUV fulls of cookies and then they dump them all into my gaping maw.
bowen on
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
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
It's 4:15.
On the Friday before Labor Day, an actual holiday off in the U.S.
Our project is slated to wrap up by the end of the day on Tuesday.
Everyone has gone for the weekend to places where they cannot be contacted.
And the environments are down.
And I've run out of YouTube videos to watch.
Cold call salesmen are the highlight of my day. They don't often get through to me on the phone any more, because the call center they reach first has learned to direct their call to my voicemail without my phone ringing, knowing full well that my work voicemail is a graveyard that no legitimate communication ever gets directed into, and I delete it without listening once a week. Every so often we'll have a new call center person who doesn't know the drill yet, and they'll send one through to me directly, and it becomes a game of how long I can string out the call before mentioning to them that I have no purchasing authority whatsoever (I do actually, but they can't prove that shit).
At that point, the game shifts to how useless can I pretend to be before they sound like they want to come to the office and fight me. Oh, you want to talk to someone who does have purchasing authority? Yeah, the entire upper management team is on a cruise in the Caribbean. I forget when they'll be back. Sorry. Let me write down your phone number on this imaginary pad of paper with my imaginary pen and I'll make sure someone sees it. Who will I make sure sees it? Oh, dang, I forgot the guy's name. Tall guy. Red hair, glasses. Other vague physical features that don't actually match a specific human who works for our company, and are in fact diametrically opposed in most ways to the actual person whose name you would want, so that when you call in asking for them directly no one will have any clue who you're asking about. Hold up, it'll come to me. If you just stay on the line a few more minutes, I'm sure the name will pop into my head. No? Got to go? Ah, crap, ok. Better just give me that contact info, I promise I'll pass it to the appropriate people (A.K.A. the invisible man who lives in my fucking Garbage Can).
The ones who drop into the warehouse in person are the best, because I get to skip the Purchasing Power intro and straight to the advanced stage Useless game, with the bonus that 1.) I can get them a LOT more riled up before they become confrontational about it, due to being a large scary man, and 2.) I get to listen to the people in the rooms just around the corner from the lobby where my desk is try not to laugh loud enough that anyone realizes they're there. I describe my job title jokingly as Gate Ogre, but I swear, 90% of why they put me in this office is so I could be an immovable force who's too socially maladjusted to care if strangers hate me.
Realizing lately that I don't really trust or respect basically any of the moderators here. So, good luck with life, friends! Hit me up on Twitter @DesertLeviathan
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
Can you -- or would you, even if you can -- just sit at your desk? They've already put you down as re-hireable, so is just farting the day away an option?
Thanks for the suggestion, @chromdom I managed to *mostly* fuck around without my supervisor noticing and now she's gone for the day. The one time she did come by my desk I happened to take a call just then. Now she's gone, I ain't taking any more calls today. Working on my doll clothes Patreon.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
I drew a penis on the bottom of my boss' mug with black permanent marker so whenever he drank it in the way he does (tips it right back so he can drink loads at once) everyone else could see it
Anyway he detected it and exasperatedly blacked out the whole bottom of the mug with the same marker so I couldn't do it again
So I tipex'd a penis on the bottom of his mug
Anyway he tipex'd the whole thing white
So today because he was the bearer of shitty work news about secondment to a shitty team yesterday I drew a penis on the bottom of the tipex'd mug in black permanent marker and he said "this is entirely fair, although it's pointing the wrong way. It should be pointing towards you, after all, you're the one getting shafted"
I've been taking a little break since leaving that last job. I realized today that I'm still on their advertising mailing list. I was the person who did all the proofreading, spellchecking, etc.
I opened up the latest one and it's riddled with spelling mistakes, bad formatting and links that don't lead to the proper page. Good luck guys!
And now that I've enjoyed a few weeks off, I should start looking for work seriously again. Can anyone recommend a good webpage/guide for resumes? I haven't had to worry about one in...a while...
I can't tell you how much joy I felt after I quit a shitty job where I felt abused and after a few weeks I received a call in the middle of the night from safety and security about an incident. Everyone was okay. However, the elation at knowing that not only was I still on the call-list, but the other two people on the call list were fired at least a year prior to me quitting. Sorry, safety and security person, have fun calling a district manager at 12:30AM.
And then when I found out a little later that the store manager was told to either quit or they would fire him brought me near immeasurable happiness. He was the single worst boss I have ever had in my life. I found a wondrous relief in knowing that I was right about the place falling apart without me there holding it together. But whatever, I had move to a job that didn't have weekend hours and was super accommodating towards my college schedule and there was just so much less stress. As long as no one would have gotten hurt I would have been fine if that previous place burned to the ground. I was there and happy for like 7 years and one awful goose of a manager managed (about the only thing he managed actually) to make it a living hell in less than one year.
Yup, I used to be the one they'd call to find anything that was misplaced, to fix the computers, to unlock a door when someone lost their keys for the thousandth time, and of course to cover every shift possible for a bunch of teenagers who ask for emergency days off 'to go out'. Followed by needing the next day off as well because they're 'sick'.
Sadly they'll survive and continue to make the owners even richer. I'm sure if I check back in a few months I won't recognize anyone that works there by then, though.
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
Just ended a 15 hour work day with my school's first home football game against our bitter rivals. Both our teams suck so the game was actually really close and exciting up till the end with the biggest crowds I've seen yet at a home game.
We still lost but we got two touchdowns which I consider a massive improvement over previous years.
Since I was working as a supervisor for the stands, which really just means standing there getting paid, I get one free food item and drink from concessions. I ended up getting one hotdog, one hamburger, and one pizza with two drinks for free. They kept refusing my money after the first food and I'm like okay!
I did some research and I was just straight wrong. Ain't nothing directly in violation of some federal law about saying you have a doctor's appointment when you don't.
It IS however the #1 most common excuse for job interviews according to a ton of surveys.
yeah, trying to come up with something credible is stressing me out more than the thought of the interview. ffffff
I did some research and I was just straight wrong. Ain't nothing directly in violation of some federal law about saying you have a doctor's appointment when you don't.
It IS however the #1 most common excuse for job interviews according to a ton of surveys.
yeah, trying to come up with something credible is stressing me out more than the thought of the interview. ffffff
@tynic when I was breeding and showing rabbits I had an automatic watering system like in the picture here. Would definitely have worked for cavy as well.
Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
The problem with the drippers leaking is that the stamped end of the cheap tube they use doesn't seal very well around the ball. If it was an injection-moulded piece of nylon instead it would have a much higher chance of sealing on the ball bearing. The problem is that making it out of nylon with a thick enough wall to give it enough strength to prevent breakage and still fit between the wires of the enclosure would be difficult, and might require a much more exotic material which would increase costs again.
nothing wakes you out of your sleepy driving fun than that moment our terror that you've missed your exit and are about to enter a toll freeway on the company car
@Mom2Kat that's very sweet of you!
But I'm not actually watering any animals, I just coopted a small pet bottle for my own nefarious, robotics related purposes. I needed a one way passive flow valve at a very small scale, and it's surprisingly hard to find an industrial option. At least a cheap one. Those lixit bottles look great, but sadly are far too big.
Im bitching in here because as Chris says, the seal is very poor, but a decent check valve at that size is bloody hard to find. So I'm using liquid rubber to try to get a better stop. Hopefully it worked, I left it drying overnight. I'll go check today.
The problem with the drippers leaking is that the stamped end of the cheap tube they use doesn't seal very well around the ball. If it was an injection-moulded piece of nylon instead it would have a much higher chance of sealing on the ball bearing. The problem is that making it out of nylon with a thick enough wall to give it enough strength to prevent breakage and still fit between the wires of the enclosure would be difficult, and might require a much more exotic material which would increase costs again.
Delrin or vespel time. There a bunch of sites that do short run additive manufacturing, not sure of all the material choices, but making a CAD model of the straw/tube would be straight forward. Could also have a sealing profile at the tip that's a better match to the ball. Maybe use an actual ball bearing as well for its much tighter tolerances.
Super lethargic woman comes in by fire dept, claims she didn't take any drugs. When changing her into a gown her heroin needle rolls out from under her breast. She denied knowing what it was or how it got there.
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Semi-related, I'm about 1/4 done with the outline for the second book in what I guess is going to be intended as a trilogy now. Or a single, three-parter. Who knows, I'll hammer that out later, right now it's words on the page don't look back don't think just write.
We had somebody cold call trying to sell magazine subscriptions. I guess they thought we had a waiting room? No, we are a power plant and you are calling the control room, goodbye.
no, trust me, you do not want to speak to the business owner
if you talk to me, I will politely tell you we don't want whatever you're selling and hang up
if you get through to him, you will get a twenty minute diatribe about how whatever company you're selling for is a pack of incompetent shitbirds and are teaming up with the Tories to run the country into the ground. Also he'll probably ask for your sales department contact details and then send them a poorly punctuated email of complaint.
It IS however the #1 most common excuse for job interviews according to a ton of surveys.
your company's owner is the best
If someone did this at my work i would straight up interrogate them and tell them some sort of government security agency was now going to contact them
he was (is) a histrionic dick of epic proportions, but it was always fun to see that firehose turned on somebody else
his one-man war against other local businesses is still playing itself out on my facebook feed, which is fun.
Yeah but we're solar, not nuclear. Really it was just annoying having to stop playing videogames and watching Netflix to answer the phone.
Me-Hey I remember doing this! Haha, sucks right? Yall want some water?
Them- Awesome, haha. Yeah!
~gives out bottled waters~
Us- Man is that guy still band director? Random stories about it, etc.
Them- So, you wanna buy a cheesecake?
Me- Hell no. ~slams door~
But girlscouts and their cookies though...
Oh my god just fill up my car thanks, here's a blank check.
......
Can i transfer to solar
When they call back, we apologize and do it again.
Eventually they figure it out.
If you ask for the owner, infinite hold.
Basically don't call my work unless you have a really good reason.
Crunch Crunch! Munch Munch! Chomp Chomp! Gulp!
...
... oh right. Thought you meant a legal solicitor and was very confused for a while.
Any chance of just a better guinea pig or hamster? Possibly with lasers?
Which bakery serves your area?
On the Friday before Labor Day, an actual holiday off in the U.S.
Our project is slated to wrap up by the end of the day on Tuesday.
Everyone has gone for the weekend to places where they cannot be contacted.
And the environments are down.
And I've run out of YouTube videos to watch.
of the girl scouts?
I dunno it's a bunch of little girls whose parents have giant SUV fulls of cookies and then they dump them all into my gaping maw.
At that point, the game shifts to how useless can I pretend to be before they sound like they want to come to the office and fight me. Oh, you want to talk to someone who does have purchasing authority? Yeah, the entire upper management team is on a cruise in the Caribbean. I forget when they'll be back. Sorry. Let me write down your phone number on this imaginary pad of paper with my imaginary pen and I'll make sure someone sees it. Who will I make sure sees it? Oh, dang, I forgot the guy's name. Tall guy. Red hair, glasses. Other vague physical features that don't actually match a specific human who works for our company, and are in fact diametrically opposed in most ways to the actual person whose name you would want, so that when you call in asking for them directly no one will have any clue who you're asking about. Hold up, it'll come to me. If you just stay on the line a few more minutes, I'm sure the name will pop into my head. No? Got to go? Ah, crap, ok. Better just give me that contact info, I promise I'll pass it to the appropriate people (A.K.A. the invisible man who lives in my fucking Garbage Can).
The ones who drop into the warehouse in person are the best, because I get to skip the Purchasing Power intro and straight to the advanced stage Useless game, with the bonus that 1.) I can get them a LOT more riled up before they become confrontational about it, due to being a large scary man, and 2.) I get to listen to the people in the rooms just around the corner from the lobby where my desk is try not to laugh loud enough that anyone realizes they're there. I describe my job title jokingly as Gate Ogre, but I swear, 90% of why they put me in this office is so I could be an immovable force who's too socially maladjusted to care if strangers hate me.
Thanks for the suggestion, @chromdom I managed to *mostly* fuck around without my supervisor noticing and now she's gone for the day. The one time she did come by my desk I happened to take a call just then. Now she's gone, I ain't taking any more calls today. Working on my doll clothes Patreon.
He really needs to get out of there and go to law school
This new condo owner pushed hard to see if we can handle it. I just need a moment to center myself.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Anyway he detected it and exasperatedly blacked out the whole bottom of the mug with the same marker so I couldn't do it again
So I tipex'd a penis on the bottom of his mug
Anyway he tipex'd the whole thing white
So today because he was the bearer of shitty work news about secondment to a shitty team yesterday I drew a penis on the bottom of the tipex'd mug in black permanent marker and he said "this is entirely fair, although it's pointing the wrong way. It should be pointing towards you, after all, you're the one getting shafted"
too real man
too real
"That's what I thought, and now I have a son."
Yup, I used to be the one they'd call to find anything that was misplaced, to fix the computers, to unlock a door when someone lost their keys for the thousandth time, and of course to cover every shift possible for a bunch of teenagers who ask for emergency days off 'to go out'. Followed by needing the next day off as well because they're 'sick'.
Sadly they'll survive and continue to make the owners even richer. I'm sure if I check back in a few months I won't recognize anyone that works there by then, though.
We still lost but we got two touchdowns which I consider a massive improvement over previous years.
Since I was working as a supervisor for the stands, which really just means standing there getting paid, I get one free food item and drink from concessions. I ended up getting one hotdog, one hamburger, and one pizza with two drinks for free. They kept refusing my money after the first food and I'm like okay!
I will now sleep till Monday afternoon.
yeah, trying to come up with something credible is stressing me out more than the thought of the interview. ffffff
Possibly some nonspecific family emergency?
https://www.google.ca/search?q=automatic+rabbit+waterer&rlz=1CDGOYI_enCA590CA590&oq=automwtic+rabbit+&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0l3.7432j0j4&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=4jErnpE07Zm0AM:
For cage side bottles my favourite ones that never leaked for me were like these guys.
https://www.amazon.com/LIXIT-Plastic-Mouth-Bottle-32-Ounce/dp/B002LNVD8M/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1472252657&sr=8-2&keywords=rabbit+water+bottles&linkCode=sl1&tag=rabbitbreeders-20&linkId=fe1547c4869473f19ee96ec370af56da
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
But I'm not actually watering any animals, I just coopted a small pet bottle for my own nefarious, robotics related purposes. I needed a one way passive flow valve at a very small scale, and it's surprisingly hard to find an industrial option. At least a cheap one. Those lixit bottles look great, but sadly are far too big.
Im bitching in here because as Chris says, the seal is very poor, but a decent check valve at that size is bloody hard to find. So I'm using liquid rubber to try to get a better stop. Hopefully it worked, I left it drying overnight. I'll go check today.
Delrin or vespel time. There a bunch of sites that do short run additive manufacturing, not sure of all the material choices, but making a CAD model of the straw/tube would be straight forward. Could also have a sealing profile at the tip that's a better match to the ball. Maybe use an actual ball bearing as well for its much tighter tolerances.
Super lethargic woman comes in by fire dept, claims she didn't take any drugs. When changing her into a gown her heroin needle rolls out from under her breast. She denied knowing what it was or how it got there.