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redgubbinz posted:Speaking of cats, some low-energy troll is trying to get PI rattled up with a thread about keeping cats off his "expensive car." I've already engaged, maybe we could get some sort of game going in there. A game involving cats on cars, perhaps sharing one or two attributes with the previously posted image, if you see my meaning. Hmmm, well I think I see what you are getting at and responded accordingly.
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redgubbinz posted:Speaking of cats, some low-energy troll is trying to get PI rattled up with a thread about keeping cats off his "expensive car." I've already engaged, maybe we could get some sort of game going in there. A game involving cats on cars, perhaps sharing one or two attributes with the previously posted image, if you see my meaning. This poo poo is hilarious. Nowhere is safe from the ca
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Hey there are plenty of AI dads in here who would instantly wade through the shitshow called parenting all over again for their crotchlings. I'm into week five with our third and the literal ball ache of pregnancy and postpartum is worth the happiness for this little guy. Cat people should understand the similarities.
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freelop posted:Something to lighten the mood: I love the idea of a bunch of AI'ers turning up in a quiet country village, spewing flames and wearing silver cake decoration. The villagers look on sad: 'it's probably the internet'
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ilkhan posted:20% isn't bad, especially if you are coming off a fairly high number to begin with. Can you take the new job without burning the bridges that let you into the machine shop? Or even letting you come back to the old/current job if you don't like the new one? I dont think I would burn bridges here, and my boss and co workers like me. That said its a serious enough operation I could certainly not come into the machine shop where I currently work if I no longer worked there. But I think I could maintain relationships enough that I might be able to come back if I left. Im mostly looking for something new and some career advancement. Im still an Engineer 1, got passed over for a promotion last cycle, and my only friend who got a promotion got it by threatening to leave if he didn't. The new job would be a senior engineering position that Im well qualified for. So I feel that for career growth reasons it would be a good way to go. I don't know that I will get much advancement at my current job.
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Sadi posted:I dont think I would burn bridges here, and my boss and co workers like me. That said its a serious enough operation I could certainly not come into the machine shop where I currently work if I no longer worked there. But I think I could maintain relationships enough that I might be able to come back if I left. Have a serious sit down with your boss. If he isn't receptive then start looking.
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It was my 34th birthday yesterday and I bought my first new computer in years, I always stuffed 5 year old machines with the fastest CPUs, SSDs, and RAM and did just fine. For the last few years they haven't gotten newer so its now stuffing 8+ year old machines and now its not as cheap to do. The new one a cheap piece of crap from Staples but it totally beats a Xeon E5355 and 8GB RAM with a dying Quadro card for electronics/hobby work and a early i5-2300 as a TV PC.  All this to stop myself from buying a rusty, overpriced, decade-unregistered 1987 Samurai tintop. Totally unmodified and under 70K miles, though huge body rust for the Desert-by-the-Sea that is California. DJ Commie fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Jul 18, 2017 |
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Jul 18, 2017 15:30
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Can someone please buy the Isuzu Piazza Turbo that's on Ebay so it stops tempting me?
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InitialDave posted:Can someone please buy the Isuzu Piazza Turbo that's on Ebay so it stops tempting me? A few friends and I have a facebook messenger group for cars and generally peer-pressuring people into buying cars. That popped up today in chat.
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InitialDave posted:Can someone please buy the Isuzu Piazza Turbo that's on Ebay so it stops tempting me? It's a good thing my tax return is spoken for by vinyl and a method to play such records otherwise I'd be headed rapidly towards such slothrop fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Jul 18, 2017 |
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Cop Porn Popper posted:At worst you'd just have to swing up into Arlington to get something. As for the strip, my dad lives a short drive over in everman and we could hear the cars running if we sat outside, but it never went too late. I also grew up just nort of there by lake arlington. All in all, a chill place to live. Google is predicting 45 minutes to an hour at my normal leave time, for about 35 miles, and about the same in the mornings. My current drive is 20-30 minutes. I'm willing to put up with more traffic/drive time in order to get land and privacy. I have a coworker who lives in Canton (70 miles from work - he bought his grandmother's place), so this is still better than his commute, but he does it for the same reasons. And yeah, he bought a little Mitsu Charade for the commute. Larrymer posted:Have a serious sit down with your boss. If he isn't receptive then start looking. This. Not that I'm very good at that sort of thing, myself. It's at least worth a try.
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Sadi posted:Im mostly looking for something new and some career advancement. Im still an Engineer 1, got passed over for a promotion last cycle, and my only friend who got a promotion got it by threatening to leave if he didn't. The new job would be a senior engineering position that Im well qualified for. So I feel that for career growth reasons it would be a good way to go. I don't know that I will get much advancement at my current job. The thing I hate that I'm starting to run into is that it seems once you're into a company and doing a decent job, suddenly you're always too important to promote, but can't be paid more without a promotion. I've yet to work anywhere that actually promotes from within as opposed to just hiring someone new to fill the spot that a lot of internal people would really like and are qualified for. I don't have a solution, but it's not just you.
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Most companies don't pay for loyalty, unfortunately.  It's stupid that you can jump to another company and get a 20% raise, then possibly come back to the original company and get paid even more. It seems to work that way in my industry at least (auto).
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Larrymer posted:Most companies don't pay for loyalty, unfortunately. If a company will let you go for various small reasons then it's only fair that employees treat their companies with the same respect. Loyalty goes both ways and you should give just as much as the company you work for as a baseline. It's just smart business imho.
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Larrymer posted:Most companies don't pay for loyalty, unfortunately. On that note, I have an interview tomorrow!
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My company used to be a medium sized, privately held family owned company. About 8 years ago we were bought out my a massive US based publicly traded company and the differences as an employee were amazing. Things like sick days, vacation days, general remuneration, defined benefit pensions, etc went from basically "treating your employees well so they are happy to stay" to "lets do the minimum the law requires us to do" for many instances. It was so poorly done, for years we had 2 tiers of employees; those from my company and those from the company that did the buying out. We had benefits the other employees never had and they were, rightfully so, insanely jealous. It took them about 5 years to give our benefits to everyone. Have a picture of Ginger the water cat, waiting for hours on the edge of the tub for the magic faucet to drip.
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Jul 18, 2017 19:13
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Jul 18, 2017 19:28
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Who's good at identifying 90's cars? This guy has been parking across from my shop the last few weeks and blocking my neighbors driveway. Going to try and get his plate tonight.
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Jul 18, 2017 19:37
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Its an early 90s chevy lumina euro. The plate would do the most good. E: its not a euro, just a lumina.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:A few friends and I have a facebook messenger group for cars and generally peer-pressuring people into buying cars. That popped up today in chat.
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Thanks! I've noticed him for a while- but my neighbor called me this morning all concerned. I'm going to try sneaking one of my wireless cameras over and mounting it on their fence for a face/plate shot.
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gently caress this is tedious.   Seems like a lot of work to make my keyboard look like poo poo, but whatever. It beats doing actual work. Edit: I'm finished, but holy poo poo was that ever a loving oval office.  GnarlyCharlie4u fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Jul 18, 2017 |
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InitialDave posted:Sorry guys, got a workmate's leaving do on Friday. Im working away in Essex all this week and that place is apparently about a 10 min detour from my normal route homewards on a Friday! If you guys are stuck for anything to do tomorrow night I'm happy to pop up and meet you guys for a beer sometime between 6 and 7! (Or any weeknight for the next 2 weeks!) There appears to be a pub in the centre of the village just next to the historic warboys baptismal pond...
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Well I finally got the stupid fuckin hold removed for fall registration and I'm officially enrolled in senior design 1. Also taking heat transfer 2 (because I hate myself) and an elective called "small satellite payloads & integration". Should gel nicely with my extracurriculars. The wild part is that for the first time in like 2 years, I've only got class 2 days a week... meaning I may even have the spare time for an internship, if I can get in to one. Maybe... I won't crash and burn?
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Tomarse posted:Im working away in Essex all this week and that place is apparently about a 10 min detour from my normal route homewards on a Friday! Aaaaaand someone's crashed into my fence and I hadn't noticed over the last few days. 2006-7 Vauxhall Astra, judging by the foglight cover left behind, probably a drunk driver coming round the corner too fast. Uprooted my steel fencepost and buckled the steel frame of the panel, plus putting cracks in a couple of the inch-thick boards the panel's made from. Pretty certain they'll have a more expensive repair resulting from this than I do... InitialDave fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Jul 18, 2017 |
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Enourmo posted:Well I finally got the stupid fuckin hold removed for fall registration and I'm officially enrolled in senior design 1. You got this  Senior design is fun and that elective sounds like way better stuff than my college offered.
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Senior design was awesome but a shitload of work. Heat transfer sucked, but so did our teacher that changed nothing from what he taught in the 70's. I remember taking 5 engineering classes (no elective bullshit easy classes) on my last semester and I was still able to work part time. Can't say I recommend it, though. In your final year Enourmo? Do you have any internships so far? Suburban Dad fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Jul 19, 2017 |
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I'm having some pretty weird/serious problems at work. I'm being stalked by what I think is a transitioning person. They made their interest known, I declined as politely as possible and they won't let up or go away. And it's starting to become a problem. The police literally laughed when I tried to file a complaint.
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Tell this person that you hate Bronies. Or love them. Whichever drives that person away.
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Rhyno posted:I'm having some pretty weird/serious problems at work. That sucks dude. Try to contact someone above whoever you talked to at the police station. We had an issue with some neighbors riding dirt bikes around our neighborhood and the standard police wouldn't do anything or cite laws that didn't exist. Eventually we got a hold of the police chief who then sent out a specialist in dealing with the problem and sorted it very cleanly and instantly. It took a few weeks to get to that point of course, but in the end the system did work out in our favor.
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Cop Porn Popper posted:Have you spoken to HR people at work given thats where this is happening? I pretty much am HR. I've banned the person from the store by they are screaming that I am a bigot. It's a very touchy subject. The mall where the store is located has refused to take this seriously as well. I've been keeping quiet this but the stalker has contacted the ACLU over the banning and it's starting to get extremely frustrating.
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Rhyno posted:I'm having some pretty weird/serious problems at work. You always have the weirdest drama in your life. The common factor is you. 
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Rhyno posted:I pretty much am HR. I've banned the person from the store by they are screaming that I am a bigot. It's a very touchy subject. The mall where the store is located has refused to take this seriously as well. I've been keeping quiet this but the stalker has contacted the ACLU over the banning and it's starting to get extremely frustrating. Tell the person to gently caress off and that you are done with them, don't be nice or cordial at all, and if the ACLU comes asking (lol) tell them what happened and there's nothing to worry about. Mall security will have to trespass the person, get with them and bribe them with a sandwich or something.
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Larrymer posted:You always have the weirdest drama in your life. The common factor is you. IT'S BECAUSE I'M HANDSOME Applebees Appetizer posted:Tell the person to gently caress off and that you are done with them, don't be nice or cordial at all, and if the ACLU comes asking (lol) tell them what happened and there's nothing to worry about. I'm walking on eggshells here. I just don't want this to blow up. Since my first post I have left the store for the night and dude and his friend were driving around the lot and loving followed me. I had to do some evasive work to ditch them.
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Rhyno posted:IT'S BECAUSE I'M HANDSOME You bounced before, you should know that pussy footing around doesn't accomplish anything with idiots. If you havent confronted him/her already you probably should, lie and tell them the police are investigating or something, any kind of bullshit story you can think that will scare them off. And then work with mall security to try and get them trespassed from the mall, that way if they show up the police can arrest them.
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