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keykey posted:drat. You know you work at an awesome place when your boss is telling you to blatently lie about something to colleagues so he looks good. The Peter Principle prevails once again at the community college. Also, gently caress that guy. The truth always wins.* *Truth with documentation always wins
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fyodor posted:That sounds like a goony goon. If that's a goon, that makes it legitimately creepy, seeing as when I set up an install date, they pulled my credit - and due to the fraud alert on my credit, had me verify a bunch of poo poo on my credit file.
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May 19, 2016 00:32
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1500quidporsche posted:Day three of the new "workflow process" and the daily meeting is already up at 35 minutes, this morning is literally just sorting through emails and filing them on SharePoint despite the fact that I could reply to them way faster. Ha. We just started sharepoint at work also. Today I was told to email updates to a document to someone so he could update it. Said document is an unlocked working copy that any one of us can update, but he's still trying to justify how he wastes his day.
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May 19, 2016 00:33
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Liquid Communism posted:That list could alternatively be titled 'College Towns with small non-student populations'. Ames and Iowa City, home to ISU and the University of Iowa are both on the list. A few of those Wisconsin have only 2-year schools or fairly small private colleges. But, Wisconsin I guess.
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May 19, 2016 00:51
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My local car dealership keeps sending out these "CodeKase" poker chips once a year with "SEE IF YOU'VE WON!! COME IN FOR YOUR SPECIAL PRIZE" written on them. Every time I immediately crack it open and remove the battery and LED to the safety of my parts bin before throwing the rest away.  I'm of mixed minds about it. On one hand, free parts. On the other hand, considering how many people probably throw these away in the garbage without removing the alkaline battery first, these assholes have probably done more to ruin the environment than I ever will.  Euthanize all marketers.
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May 19, 2016 00:55
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meatpimp posted:^   
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Devyl posted:Also, TWC is still rock-solid in my area. I am the 1% Fiber supremacy 
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May 19, 2016 01:35
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Gotten to the point where running a 5k at a reasonable pace is simple work. I'm signed up for a half marathon in November. It's the first one I've ever done. I'm really looking forward to it, but I've got a long way to go.
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May 19, 2016 02:00
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iwentdoodie posted:Ha. We just started sharepoint at work also. Holy goddamn, I'm sorry. We've been running it since 2008 and it is a slice of overpriced mediocrity and the reason why I'm going to Vegas next week; Sharepoint developer training.
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May 19, 2016 02:24
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I think someone at RockAuto is having a giggle at me as i look for parts for my new truck:
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angryhampster posted:Gotten to the point where running a 5k at a reasonable pace is simple work. I can do about 3 miles right now. Summer gonn' be FUN.
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keykey posted:Holy goddamn, I'm sorry. We've been running it since 2008 and it is a slice of overpriced mediocrity and the reason why I'm going to Vegas next week; Sharepoint developer training. The whole point was to make life easier. But now ten minute meetings have turned into 45 minute meetings. And no one actually knows how to use it.
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May 19, 2016 03:44
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some texas redneck posted:Also, just missed a call from Frontier (caller ID shows the same number I called to set up service)... they left a voicemail saying "your worst nightmare" in a creepy voice. Bet it's one of the guys you used to work with in the call center at Frontier.
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May 19, 2016 03:46
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Man all this over/under 30 talk scares the gently caress out of me considering I'm graduating right around my 30th birthday.
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loving stuck waiting for toyota to ring me to tell me my axle shafts are finished... Cant do anything more on the car until i can put the back wheels back on, because i'm ballsy, but not loving stupid enough to lift a 3200kg vehicle in the air on 4 jack stands on slightly compacted road base... 11 years and 280,000kms of gear changes does a hell of a number on the shifter bushings. That would go a long way to explaining why the gearshift was as loose as a high mileage hooker and shook like Michael J. Fox when you went over corrugations!
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May 19, 2016 04:00
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iwentdoodie posted:The whole point was to make life easier. But now ten minute meetings have turned into 45 minute meetings. And no one actually knows how to use it. For us its part of some "lean" horseshit which means we've now gone from one 15 minute meeting a week to 20 minute daily meetings about "how to file an email" and now requiring two people to work full time just reviewing emails, saving them to the shared LAN and then filing them in sharepoint. But you know whatever, if you want me to spend 4 hours a day meticulously pouring over emails line by line without ever touching them, decline to quote on anything for even the smallest bit of missing information like my coworkers all do because they're lazy inflexible fucks, and then file them into the cluster-gently caress monstrosity you've created in sharepoint I can do that.
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May 19, 2016 04:03
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Darchangel posted:Bet it's one of the guys you used to work with in the call center at Frontier. They don't do FiOS at that call center - they do DSL and dialup only (plus POTS-related sales). Also I didn't know anybody at all in sales or customer service; knew a few people in tech, but they've all moved on. (that was the first thing that came to mind for me too)
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May 19, 2016 04:10
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iwentdoodie posted:The whole point was to make life easier. But now ten minute meetings have turned into 45 minute meetings. And no one actually knows how to use it. The easiest way to describe and deal with SharePoint is MS office multiplayer edition. Except it requires the SharePoint server, an Ms SQL server, a front end appliance, a load balancing server, and a server for backups. And your company still has to pay for loving office on top of it which is essentially what it was meant to integrate with. So, it's an enterprise appliance suite meant to play multiplayer word with. All at the low introductory price of at least 50k for hardware and low 100k's for software. That's not even a person to maintain the goddamn thing and yearly maintenance fees. It's a bloated out piece of poo poo that's a jack of all trades, yet a master of none. Best of all, out the gate it was an antiquated piece of poo poo that could have been accomplished for free with Google docs/other poo poo. Oh, also just wait until upper management finds workflows plugins that make your life hell they can't live without that will cripple everything you've tried to do. Oh, also enable the ms access switch, you'll thank me later. Also if it isn't enabled out the gate, you're hosed if you ever want to switch it on.. You have to rebuild it from the ground up and try to restore your site. keykey fucked around with this message at 04:49 on May 19, 2016 |
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keykey posted:The easiest way to describe and deal with SharePoint is MS office multiplayer edition. Except it requires the SharePoint server, an Ms SQL server, a front end appliance, a load balancing server, and a server for backups. And your company still has to pay for loving office on top of it which is essentially what it was meant to integrate with. So, it's an enterprise appliance suite meant to play multiplayer word with. All at the low introductory price of at least 50k for hardware and low 100k's for software. That's not even a person to maintain the goddamn thing and yearly maintenance fees. It's a bloated out piece of poo poo that's a jack of all trades, yet a master of none. Best of all, out the gate it was an antiquated piece of poo poo that could have been accomplished for free with Google docs/other poo poo. We occasionally get signup forms and surveys in SharePoint at work. People always manage to fill out the master form that you're supposed to get a copy of when you do it right, so you have to delete Sharon from Accounting before you can put in your info.
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Oh, ots even better: it's military, serviced by a contractor, so we can't actually change anything. All those old guys that CT says can do everything and young guys suck? They're the ones ruining our loving lives right now. Because not a single loving person over 35 that I work with even understands at a loving basic level what the gently caress the program is meant to do. So it has still just turned in to: "hey I'm going to email you this, update that document." Except now the meeting to say that takes 45m instead of ten, because the guy running it (40+) can't type with more than two fingers and doesn't understand this fancy magic box.
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May 19, 2016 05:06
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some texas redneck posted:Yes it is, aside from the "sorry". Hah, iTunes played that, then launched right into "Old Wizard" by Dawnbringer. Quite the intro!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cjDTuYiJ6o
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Something fun to do at 10pm: It's 80°F (26⅔°C) and 88% humidity tonight, and my air conditioner has a tiny leak somewhere in the evaporator coil that necessitates a charge every 18 months or so. Since my unit uses R22 (which hasn't been manufactured since 2010 and thus costs ~80/lb. if the A/C guy comes and recharges your system (which is illegal with R22 since 2015, FYI)) the fix is a switch to less-efficient R410a, which is complete garbage and will require a re-engineering of the entire air conditioning system in your house. This includes the compressor unit outside and the condenser coils inside plus additional airflow requirements. Therefore, I have acquired a license to buy and service R22 equipment via a handy-dandy Internet open-book test for the princely sum of $25, and 30 pounds of R22 was $100 plus $20 spent for adapters for the Harbor Freight gauges I already had for automobile servicing. The last service call I had was $300 for roughly two pounds of R22, so you can see how the savings can multiply. It was 76° inside and the lady of the house was complaining. The A/C had been running constantly all day. Well, this isn't right. The low-side line was frosted over thickly all the way into the house. An easy diagnosis even if I hadn't known about the leak since 2010.  I also ran the system fan with compressor off for one hour to thaw out the rest of the system.  This is more like it:  Done! This is residual line pressure while disconnecting. Don't freak out.  I used the ol' digital household scale to determine the weight of refrigerant used: 1.8 pounds. This brought static pressure at ambient temperature from 80 PSI to 140 and high/low pressures were within chart values for the temperature. Easy-peasy.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Euthanize all marketers. Yup, and you know that because the battery is cheap enough that they're just giving them away in the mail that they're the bottom of the barrel, right full of mercury, held together with foil tape Shandong hell cells. Also I wish they would start using other colors for the LEDs, I already have a lifetime supply of blue ones dammit. Turbo Fondant fucked around with this message at 07:02 on May 19, 2016 |
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Yay, my most useless co-worker is quitting. Although that brings us down to just me and the morning guy. As expected this week has sucked. I'm so busy delivering I don't have time to do the dozen other things I have to do so I end up stuck at work an extra couple of hours. And then they want me to close Friday (meaning I get home at about 2 am) then come in for a mandatory meeting (which I've been told is largely for morale boosting purposes) on Saturday at 9 a.m. Oh and the only guy who showed up to his interview was confused as to why he needed a drivers license. 
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May 19, 2016 07:37
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the spyder posted:We should grab lunch one day. Let's do it, I walked away from my salaried job at the end of march and am just consulting now so my schedule's pretty flexible. Also want to see your sweet collection of magic triangles. I'm about to leave town for a couple weeks but will be back June 5, gone 10-16 and back 17.
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Great Beer posted:Oh and the only guy who showed up to his interview was confused as to why he needed a drivers license. That's pretty drat funny.
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Stepdad finally took his truck in to get the front end looked at. He swore up and down that everything is fine, but you can turn the steering wheel almost 180 degrees without anything beyond the steering wheel moving. I've been pulled over twice while driving it because the cops thought I was drunk. Nope, just can't keep the drat thing in its lane, and I've refused to drive it or even ride in it for a few years now. He balked when they said everything related to steering was shot (no poo poo) along with all of the bushings, now he wants me to troll eBay for the same parts. NOPE NOPE NOPE, I don't do generic. Especially on steering.
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Guys I am broken. I haven't eaten anything since Tuesday morning without being able to keep it down for more than 30 minutes and I've been making GBS threads liquid every hour on the hour since then as well. And since I work outside I can't exactly have my boss take me to a store to blow up the shitter 8 times a day. Been pounding water and Gatorade to stay hydrated but I am running on fumes right now. I've been (trying to) sleeping almost non-stop since I got home on Tuesday but when you constantly wake up it doesn't do much.
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GO SEE A DOCTOR
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Have you considered smoking one (1) weed?
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Splash some water in your face, you'll feel better.
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Guys I am broken. I haven't eaten anything since Tuesday morning without being able to keep it down for more than 30 minutes and I've been making GBS threads liquid every hour on the hour since then as well. And since I work outside I can't exactly have my boss take me to a store to blow up the shitter 8 times a day. Been pounding water and Gatorade to stay hydrated but I am running on fumes right now. I've been (trying to) sleeping almost non-stop since I got home on Tuesday but when you constantly wake up it doesn't do much. Why the gently caress arent you on the way to see a bloody doctor? FFS, dont reply just GO THE gently caress NOW
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I was gonna go tomorrow since I get paid and will have the co-pay money then. Super broke right now.
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Super Aggro Crag posted:I was gonna go tomorrow since I get paid and will have the co-pay money then. Super broke right now. You might be dead by then. go now and plead poverty when you are there.
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They bill you dude its not like they make you swipe your card after treatment.
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Enourmo posted:Man all this over/under 30 talk scares the gently caress out of me considering I'm graduating right around my 30th birthday. Don't let generalities dictate your specific actions. If you're good at what you do, those that are looking for good people will hire you no matter what. We're looking for senior industrial piping/heat exchanger mechanical/process engineers, by the way. Doesn't matter how old you are.
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Guys I am broken. I haven't eaten anything since Tuesday morning without being able to keep it down for more than 30 minutes and I've been making GBS threads liquid every hour on the hour since then as well. And since I work outside I can't exactly have my boss take me to a store to blow up the shitter 8 times a day. Been pounding water and Gatorade to stay hydrated but I am running on fumes right now. I've been (trying to) sleeping almost non-stop since I got home on Tuesday but when you constantly wake up it doesn't do much. Sounds like Norovirus or something similar. It should pass but since this has been going on for a couple of days go to the doctor so you can get some IV fluids and salts.
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Best new midsize SUV with at least 3,000 lb towing capacity and won't cry if taken on a dirt road: GO First choice is a Ford Explorer, distant second is GMC Acadia, and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay in the back is a Dodge Durango or Jeep Grand Cherokee. Nissan axed the XTerra, I cannot get past the front end/grill of the new 4Runner, and the Pathfinder is just...blah. I know mechanically, the 4Runner is probably the way to go. But drat is it ugly.
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