Everyone is reply all responding to an email that specifically says do not reply
....why
Someone at my company this morning thought they were being cute on a chain of reply all that wouldn't die. He wrote "since this email won't die, here's a link to my daughter's girl scout cookie order form."
It was followed immediately by a irritated VP linking to an article on appropriate reply all use. I'd probably call out sick for a month if someone at that level publicly chastised me.
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KetarCome on upstairswe're having a partyRegistered Userregular
If I'm doing the shoveling I will shovel exactly enough to do what I want to do. The sidewalk is the government's issue, or else I'd be painting dicks all over it.
You might want to check your local laws - sidewalks are generally the responsibility of the property owner. There are definitely places where you're liable if someone slips and injures themselves on your un-shoveled sidewalk.
Well, I am in Arizona and don't have a sidewalk, so I am not currently worried. But if I lived in Missouri and someone tripped and fell on my sidewalk because I didn't shovel it while I was on vacation I would throw a whole great many fuck yous at thw government for their stupid law. If I don't own it, it shouldn't be my responsibility.
Whether or not you own the sidewalk, and whether or not you are responsible for it regardless, is entirely dependent on the local laws of the city/town/whatever you live in typically.
The city I live in now tells you when sidewalk repairs are required, hires crews that do them, and then tacks the cost on to your property tax bill.
Shoveling/sanding/salting are absolutely the responsibility of the person who owns the property that the sidewalk is on, here.
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Drake ChambersLay out my formal shorts.Registered Userregular
When my analyst proofreads my documents, she always thinks I should add commas where I don't think I need any. Her husband has been a high school English teacher for decades and she thinks she's an authority. In many ways she is! Just not in the area of dependent / independent clauses.
I'm only thinking about it now because I've just spent all day drafting a 2,000+ word document and I know she's going to add a bunch of commas to it. Even that wouldn't be so bad - I'm the one who ultimately finalizes the document and I'll do it the way I want to, but after she proofreads she brings the marked-up paper copy to my office and reviews every modification with me one at a time. I don't want to tell her to forget about punctuation because she does catch other stuff that I want corrected. We also have a pretty good partnership that I prefer not to test.
This is not a plea for advice. It's me whining about having an old high school English teacher proofread my documents by proxy.
Where I live there are NO sidewalks but the city has zoned accounted for them :rotate: so they say nothing about shrubs or other things growing at the edge of people's yards
So if you are not taking the bike path to get around you are walking in the street and well I walk against traffic near the curb because it's the safest thing to do :bigfrown:
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The Escape Goatincorrigible ruminantthey/themRegistered Userregular
Whenever I try to write anything long-form I abuse the shit out of commas, semicolons, and dashes. I remember seeing a joke about how programmers are way more prone to using parentheticals (which I do a lot in short-form text, like this very aside) which nailed me, and those are basically the way to cheat parentheticals into actual text.
with regards to the sidewalks thing, regardless of whether there are sidewalks or not most homeowners own way less of their front yards than they think they do. Usually the city owns within X feet of the center of the road and that is often half of the front yard or more of a single family home.
One time I was inside, toasty warm, in the middle of winter in Quebec. I was wearing shorts and a vest, because I was inside. On surveying my immaculately shoveled drive (I took a lot of pride in this), I noticed that a tiny bit of snow had fallen from the path onto it, and thought "I can fix this, this will take seconds" so I get my shovel and I go out and tidy it up.
While this is happening, a dude trudges by in his full winter gear. He stops, stares at me, a man in a vest and shorts who has to all appearances just finished an incredibly detailed shoveling of his entire drive in -30c conditions, shakes his head in disbelief before continuing his climb up the hill while, I swear to God, proudly singing "Oh Canada".
Snow is forecast for Friday-next Thursday, as are wind storms.
This could prove... interesting. I asked people at work what was the biggest snowfall they remember (most people grew up here) and they said 8 inches or so, so 6 days of snow could beat that.
And windstorms in the PNW guarantees a loss of power for at least several areas, though last time we only lost power for a half hour at most.
Anyway, I’m setting things up at work so I can possibly work from home next week. We also stocked up on food!
Snow is forecast for Friday-next Thursday, as are wind storms.
This could prove... interesting. I asked people at work what was the biggest snowfall they remember (most people grew up here) and they said 8 inches or so, so 6 days of snow could beat that.
And windstorms in the PNW guarantees a loss of power for at least several areas, though last time we only lost power for a half hour at most.
Anyway, I’m setting things up at work so I can possibly work from home next week. We also stocked up on food!
I grew up in the PNW out in the woods of kitsap and have been living in the Seattle area since. We don't often get big snows and the last real week-long one was in 2008. There was a really huge snow storm in the mid 80s around thanksgiving (can't remember which year) that went on for weeks.
When my analyst proofreads my documents, she always thinks I should add commas where I don't think I need any. Her husband has been a high school English teacher for decades and she thinks she's an authority. In many ways she is! Just not in the area of dependent / independent clauses.
I'm only thinking about it now because I've just spent all day drafting a 2,000+ word document and I know she's going to add a bunch of commas to it. Even that wouldn't be so bad - I'm the one who ultimately finalizes the document and I'll do it the way I want to, but after she proofreads she brings the marked-up paper copy to my office and reviews every modification with me one at a time. I don't want to tell her to forget about punctuation because she does catch other stuff that I want corrected. We also have a pretty good partnership that I prefer not to test.
This is not a plea for advice. It's me whining about having an old high school English teacher proofread my documents by proxy.
When I started doing transcription I was told to add baker's apostrophes to random words and to capitalize all medication names, even ones that weren't name-brands. It took me months to convince her that was incorrect.
Also in actual work news, the cpa continues to not reply to any of my emails/questions and our payroll company is ducking useless
So more than two whole fucking weeks ago we had to close one of our payroll accounts and open a new one. I immediately email our payroll company and explain this, because hey, it’s important to be able to pay people!
I get a response that my email has been forwarded to support.
Since then? Nothing. Zilch. I have fired off four very polite emails and left voicemails
I had to pay some of our employees out of another account, which isn’t ideal. I had to calculate net pay and not actually process payroll properly, since the taxes and whatnot need to come out of the new account.
What the fuck. How do you not even take 5 minutes of your day to answer your client?!
I know you're restricted because of the industry but it sure sounds like "Evaluate alternate outside vendors of financial services" is becoming a better sounding project by the minute.
Tube was actually grown in a vat, genetically engineered to moderate video game webcomic forums.
Some might question whether DARPA were better off redirecting their super soldier program to other ends but it is what it is
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
edited February 2019
On snow driving, last Friday was the first time I've driven in proper snow and ice. It wasn't that bad though because the past few years I've driven in a lot of mud and it turns out they're quite similar. I did miss having 4 wheel drive and a lockable diff, though.
Worst part is all the other people on the roads but that's just the same as driving any day.
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
So I've been working at a local cable tv/internet company doing over the phone tech support for the past couple months now. I was hired with I think 10 other people, and they just seem to keep quitting around me. I think there's only me and three other new hires left by now. It's weird.
Preliminary Skype interview for a faculty position next Tuesday. No idea at all what to expect from this one, they only want 10 minutes.
I should try and remember what I wrote in my application, I guess.
Christopher Lambert's accent is so weird in that film. I always think of it as the "Man from Europe" accent.
Huh, and apparently the BBC classifies this instance as a "film crime against the Scottish accent", so there you go.
The BBC are dumb little toilet babies. That isn't an attempt at a Scottish accent, it's an attempt at a completely neutral, vaguely foreign accent that one might have if say, they had traveled extensively for hundreds of years. It was a real reach for Christopher Lambert (who barely spoke English) and he largely pulled it off. His actual Scottish accent isn't great, but I've heard worse.
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Let's see. Every corporate location and every person at HQ.
So about 200 people
just bcc
Someone at my company this morning thought they were being cute on a chain of reply all that wouldn't die. He wrote "since this email won't die, here's a link to my daughter's girl scout cookie order form."
It was followed immediately by a irritated VP linking to an article on appropriate reply all use. I'd probably call out sick for a month if someone at that level publicly chastised me.
Whether or not you own the sidewalk, and whether or not you are responsible for it regardless, is entirely dependent on the local laws of the city/town/whatever you live in typically.
The city I live in now tells you when sidewalk repairs are required, hires crews that do them, and then tacks the cost on to your property tax bill.
Shoveling/sanding/salting are absolutely the responsibility of the person who owns the property that the sidewalk is on, here.
I'm only thinking about it now because I've just spent all day drafting a 2,000+ word document and I know she's going to add a bunch of commas to it. Even that wouldn't be so bad - I'm the one who ultimately finalizes the document and I'll do it the way I want to, but after she proofreads she brings the marked-up paper copy to my office and reviews every modification with me one at a time. I don't want to tell her to forget about punctuation because she does catch other stuff that I want corrected. We also have a pretty good partnership that I prefer not to test.
This is not a plea for advice. It's me whining about having an old high school English teacher proofread my documents by proxy.
So if you are not taking the bike path to get around you are walking in the street and well I walk against traffic near the curb because it's the safest thing to do :bigfrown:
While this is happening, a dude trudges by in his full winter gear. He stops, stares at me, a man in a vest and shorts who has to all appearances just finished an incredibly detailed shoveling of his entire drive in -30c conditions, shakes his head in disbelief before continuing his climb up the hill while, I swear to God, proudly singing "Oh Canada".
This could prove... interesting. I asked people at work what was the biggest snowfall they remember (most people grew up here) and they said 8 inches or so, so 6 days of snow could beat that.
And windstorms in the PNW guarantees a loss of power for at least several areas, though last time we only lost power for a half hour at most.
Anyway, I’m setting things up at work so I can possibly work from home next week. We also stocked up on food!
Because I am an idiot
I grew up in the PNW out in the woods of kitsap and have been living in the Seattle area since. We don't often get big snows and the last real week-long one was in 2008. There was a really huge snow storm in the mid 80s around thanksgiving (can't remember which year) that went on for weeks.
When I started doing transcription I was told to add baker's apostrophes to random words and to capitalize all medication names, even ones that weren't name-brands. It took me months to convince her that was incorrect.
So more than two whole fucking weeks ago we had to close one of our payroll accounts and open a new one. I immediately email our payroll company and explain this, because hey, it’s important to be able to pay people!
I get a response that my email has been forwarded to support.
Since then? Nothing. Zilch. I have fired off four very polite emails and left voicemails
I had to pay some of our employees out of another account, which isn’t ideal. I had to calculate net pay and not actually process payroll properly, since the taxes and whatnot need to come out of the new account.
What the fuck. How do you not even take 5 minutes of your day to answer your client?!
Aren't you from Australia?
Edit: On actually reading the rest of this page I'm going to assume you're actually from Canada, which would make more sense.
Some might question whether DARPA were better off redirecting their super soldier program to other ends but it is what it is
Worst part is all the other people on the roads but that's just the same as driving any day.
I believe Tube grew up in the UK. I could be wrong.
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Tube is you
Tube is me
Tube is an idea
and ideas, Mr. Hasselsmof, are bulletproof.
Nobody misses the UK
I should try and remember what I wrote in my application, I guess.
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I too have spent many hours in the friend-tube.
We get it, Oklahoma. You vape.
Oh, so you named the mystery pod?
That's the fog that was in the Midwest for about 36 hours, I'm guessing.
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Christopher Lambert's accent is so weird in that film. I always think of it as the "Man from Europe" accent.
Huh, and apparently the BBC classifies this instance as a "film crime against the Scottish accent", so there you go.
The BBC are dumb little toilet babies. That isn't an attempt at a Scottish accent, it's an attempt at a completely neutral, vaguely foreign accent that one might have if say, they had traveled extensively for hundreds of years. It was a real reach for Christopher Lambert (who barely spoke English) and he largely pulled it off. His actual Scottish accent isn't great, but I've heard worse.