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Godholio posted:They had one submitted on their website, and it got the 10k votes to be considered, and they decided against production. It's so loving dumb too because they had that cool Sopwith Camel set a few years back. Honestly the SR-71 should have been a no brainier. Also I still have the Millennium Falcon sitting in its box. Gonna build it but I'm waiting to source a cover for it so I can do the coffee table design when it's done.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Get well soon, string eater.
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:theres one on the berlin turnpike Oh god, thanks for reminding me that Berlin CT is a real place. Also that East Berlin, CT is a real place. My dad and I stayed in a hotel there a few years back for my sisters graduation ceremony and holy poo poo, talk about living up to its name.
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:why would you stay in a hotel on the turnpike, those all have hourly rates for a reason My dad is a cheapskate. If my stepmom had been there, she'd have killed him. Now whenever we travel together, I pick and usually pay for the hotels.
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Vasudus posted:so apparently the reason the pentagon bathrooms are cleaned so frequently is because so many people throw up from stress the stomach acid was doing a number on the porcelain Framing this for when my wife and others ask why I don't go back to work in a national security field. Happy with my chillax academic research job.
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Trip report: Owww my balls. Actually just a dull ache but otherwise, nothing too bad. Forced myself to not look down while it was happening though, figured that might have been something that would freak me the gently caress out.
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EBB posted:Cat lovers, what wet cat food do you use? I think Mao is having issues with hers and I want to try something different. My wife stands by anything and everything made by Royal Canin and Purina Pro Plan for our cats.
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The Office peaks the season before Steve Carell left and I promptly stopped watching when Michael left. Everything beyond that is garbage. Parks and Rec is good too, and also a good example of a show ending before it completely ran out of steam. Nostalgia4Dogges posted:I’ll use this post as a shameless plug for y’all to watch Party Down and The Inbetweeners Both are great shows, especially Party Down. Hulu has Party Down as well as It's Always Sunny and King of the Hill. For those two shows alone, I gladly pay 11 bucks a month.
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Arlington has two diners called Bob and Edith's Diner and it's the loving greatest. Closest Waffle House is like 30 minutes away though so I only get to go to it whenever I travel with my wife when she goes on business trips.
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LingcodKilla posted:TOO loving LOUD TO HAVE A NORMAL TALK WITH MY DEAF rear end PARENTS ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON  True.Also watching people who've never been to a diner struggle with the concept of "First come first served" is always amusing.
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EBB posted:I figure it's because she was feral. When the meal is there, you take it. Now I have her on a breakfast/dinner schedule and she can tell time so there's less food anxiety. Yeah, bugged my wife about it (she's a vet), said it's most likely eating too much too fast. You're doing the right thing by keeping the meals smaller and proportionate. Same deal goes for water, which sounds counter intuitive to most of us but it's a thing. Currently dealing with similar issues with one of our dogs.
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DoktorLoken posted:Once I have room for a desk again I'm pondering a single 34" ultrawide or two 27" 4k monitors. Dunno where to go on that one. I got a 34" ultrawide a few months back and it's amazing. Especially if you get a curved one.
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Naked Bear posted:Posting it again because, hot drat, they did great job with that number: There are some extra  versions of this, This one's good. "The Sergreant-Major's having a time Parlez-Vous, The Sergreant-Major's having a time Parlez-Vous, The Sergreant-Major's having a time loving the girls behind the line Inky Pinky parlez-vous" And then you've got the Three Germans Crossed the Line variant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vmZwTVpnXo Soulex posted:Just gonna have to wait for it to come out for netflix or something same 
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orange juche posted:I interviewed for a job with Booz once, never again. gently caress those guys, I don't care if they're the best game in town as far as defense contracting, they can eat it. They did all three of those bolded things to me and it was a thoroughly unenjoyable experience. Even if I had been offered the position I likely would have turned it down because I did not like the process. By the end of the interview both I and my interviewer were visibly frowning because I didn't like him and he didn't like me. Same here. Similar thing happened with The Corporate Board as well. Then proceeded to interview with my current company and the fact they seemed interested in me as person instead of pulling stupid power moves made me feel at ease and I knocked both interviews out of the park.
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Kitchen Nightmares US and UK versions were good because even when he lost his poo poo, if the owner/workers weren't complete tools and listened to his advice, he was pretty helpful. But yeah, the US version this was 9/10 episodes. I also liked how he constantly went out of his way to send people who he met on those shows that showed promise in culinary arts to a culinary school.
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holocaust bloopers posted:same but the entire super bowl Pats saints would have been better. So my in-laws are giving my wife and I 15K to for a downpayment. I guess we're gonna buy a house sooner than I thought. Downside, lol @ living in VA. Hello Anne Arundel Co or Howard Co. Maybe Montgomery Co.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Don't forget to remember local tax rates in MD, it's a real bite near the end of your MD tax form. : Yeah I used to live in Montgomery County, so I have a rough idea of how much I'd be paying in income tax. Though living in Arlington, I've realized that what I was paying in income tax in moco, I'm basically paying in property taxes for my cars. They're gonna get their money one way or another. Key is to find a place that doesn't have too absurd of a tax rate.
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Evil SpongeBob posted:If you have kids, go HoCo. Schools are much better. Source, my wife was a Howard teacher and my kid went to Anne Arundel. Montgomery schools used to be good until DC started pushing in and bringing the schools down. We're not planning on having kids, so thankfully we don't have to worry about that aspect nearly as much. Still, I'm not a chud dipshit who hates paying taxes for good school systems so I'd prefer to go somewhere where the school systems are getting adequate funding if I can help it.
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Mr. Nice! posted:USAA will absolutely track that person down. First off, they have a copy of the check. Second, every place that accepts checks will have cameras that show who it was that passed the bad note. This will get turned over to police, and they will prosecute. USAA is refunding you the money because they're awesome. Some banks will just tell you tough poo poo and assist with identifying the thief and make you seek restitution. In this case, USAA will seek restitution. Yeah, the banks have a vested interest in stopping whoever is doing this. So there is that at least. But USAA is unique in that they will give you your money back. Ask me about working at Bank of America and having to tell people who went through this poo poo that we were gonna do gently caress all for them aside from freezing their accounts and opening new ones for them. gently caress I hated that job.
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Vasudus posted:Oh. I was about to ask you how the gently caress you had that many steps mid-day and then I remembered where you work.
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So the company that I've been with for eight years has decided that for whatever stupid loving reason, people can only work from home one day a week now, and that we will no longer have home based employees. All the HBE people got told this morning that they have two months to decide if they want to become office employees again. The kicker here, is many of them moved far far away from the office, with managerial approval. We're all paid slightly bellow average in the DC market but no one gave a poo poo because we we're able to work from home most days and as long as our work was done, no one bothered us or cared how much we worked from home. This was the way things were for 15+ years and suddenly, new leadership that's not even in our branch wants to change things up. My boss and I are both already openly telling each other if they don't back track, we're walking. Oh the kicker, they told all the home based employees this poo poo this morning but asked them to not tell anyone else till they emailed us this afternoon. gently caress. Handsome Ralph fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Feb 7, 2019 |
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Vasudus posted:Somebody done hosed up in a big way. Five bucks says someone was on the payroll as a home employee and either did no work, worked for another company simultaneously, or did something like outsource their work to the Philippines. Or maybe all three. Maybe all three...as the same person. It wouldn't surprise me if someone got caught doing that, but it just seems stupid to overreact and gently caress with your workforce on that level. Do an audit, gently caress do anything before saying "okay one person hosed up, let's gently caress up morale and possibly gut our products workforces while we're at it. Go!"
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holocaust bloopers posted:The ability to WFH makes a huge difference in my morale. There’s so much I can do from my couch. Even taking a WFH day once or twice a month is an incentive. Bingo. We mostly do content editing type stuff (I work on statistical tables in excel, other people work on abstracting historical stuff). Face time is minimal because it's very solo oriented work and while we communicate as a team, there's really no need for us to be in office other than to make appearances or whatever. My teams product and one other teams product constantly exceeded sales targets and received rave reviews from our customers. One of our flagship products, that the company would constantly promote and sell the hell out of, had 4/5 people working remotely. As of right now, all four of those people are saying gently caress it and walking away. So that product is likely going to be in the toilet for the next year or two. People stuck with this company for years because the WFH was so lax that it was easy to live in Frederick or where-ever and own a sizable house without having to commute for 4 hours a day. Now they want those same people to stick around at less than the market average and thank them for letting us work from home one day a week instead (which for people who have kids or live really far away, doesn't help all that much). gently caress that. Just glad my annual review just wrapped up. Going to continue to go in and work for now, but I am actively searching. Because if I have to work in office 4-5 days a week (for now at least), I mine as well go somewhere that pays me more.
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Crossposting but IDGAF cause I'm stressing real bad right now, So talking to my buddy who's home based, apparently when they started the WebEx yesterday, they accidentally started with the slide that said "discussing packages with your director". This was before anyone knew what the call was about. Also the higher ups seem to think this is not going to impact productivity or quality at all from conversations they've had with managers. 40 people are impacted by the no more home based policy as of right now, only two or three are making plans to come to the office (since they are still semi local). Good job, idiots! They also lied about relocation packages, told managers it's be 25k for gold star employees. When the final amount was offered, it was 15. Four thousand more than the severance package to move back to DC. They also said that you'd be fine to keep your insurance until you left, now they changed their minds and have said only if you can't get on a spouses plan. How are they so bad at this? My office is like a powder keg right now and there's a town hall this afternoon about this. My director, who's a good guy and I'm almost positive had no idea this was coming until a couple of days ago, looks absolutely miserable. Apparently on all the calls he did with HR yesterday, he looked dead inside. He's normally a very happy guy.
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Vasudus posted:Your company is about to commit corporate seppuku. Get the gently caress out. That's the plan. You hiring? lol. I'm only half kidding at this point.
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DoktorLoken posted:How are Fixed.
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A new twist! A co-worker of mine got a job offer a few days ago before this all hit. When they told their boss to try get a counter offer, they both thought at most our company would offer a 10% bump to try keep them. They offered 20% and a promotion. What the fuckkkkkkk
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Vasudus posted:there's probably something out there if you want a referral Shoot me a PM of where I should look.  holocaust bloopers posted:Set up a webex for us to watch the town hall. I’ll block time off in my Outlook. If I had webex on my phone, I totally would.
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So that meeting... Holy gently caress. Basically boils down to the vp thinking his gut telling him telework is bad and that he should just end it. Product managers came to the meeting, and they are loving beying for blood. One director said she wished she video taped it so she could show it to the the guy above him and general counsel at how loving inept his rollout is... Good thing I recorded it. Passing it to a co-worker so she can transcribe it. Come at me motherfucker.
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Naked Bear posted:Did anyone tell the VP straight-up that he's a loving idiot, or words to that effect? That's what he needs to hear right about... yesterday. Yes. Several times. "Respectfully" I yelled at him at one point "You say you value our feedback, but it's hard to believe that when you're soliciting it after the fact". Here's a crosspost, Handsome Ralph posted:So, the town hall meeting announcement was sent out by email at 9 this morning. I think they figured that people wouldn't bother to come in if they only had four hours notice. Wrong.
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Wasabi the J posted:Holy loving Yeah we all laughed at that. Probably the only moment there was genuine laughter. Oh and someone asked him point blank, was there an event (people working second jobs, RSA sharing with a contractor in china, etc) or performance that prompted this decision? "Nope!" Dude is dumb as gently caress. Handsome Ralph fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Feb 9, 2019 |
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Soulex posted:What is to stop you from jumping chain? Why not inform his boss or whatever of the ramifications his short sightedness will bring? It's already happening. I'm basically Mark Felt in this case. People above my paygrade are taking the recording and other things up the chain. Fingers crossed. The sad part is, morale isn't going to be the reason they back off on this, but the loss of equity and product quality that the product managers and sales people will bitch about. Morale and retention will be a factor, but not as big those two. Kawasaki Nun posted:Tell the top dog that this puke VP makes your office want to organize and form a union lol, the thought crossed my mind. "What would make them absolutely want to shitcan this guy? Tell them he's pushed people into forming a union."
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I'm bored and my switches battery is recharging, have some more incompetence.Handsome Ralph posted:It really was.
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Untagged posted:For those that are interested, Season 3 of The Expanse is now available on Prime for free. Oh gently caress yeah gonna binge when I get home.
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Sarah posted:I went back to work Monday. Re: shoe chat - the only pair of work shoes I brought were my pre-pregnancy shoes that I had to stop wearing from hippo feet. Congrats! 
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Tomorrow/this week at work is gonna be loving wild. VP sent out a damage control email @ 5 on a Sunday. lol. I'm all nerves and poo poo, but I'm kinda excited to go to work tomorrow cause I think it's gonna be  worthy.
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Basically just an email to my office alone (not the rest of the division) saying that he heard our feedback and he's currently exploring ways to mitigate the issues we brought up. It just read as a very bad attempt at damage control, and too little too late at this stage. He also forgot to CC all the home based people and a bunch of managers. Also there are multiple recordings of that meeting floating around, including mine, the director is getting a hold of them and bringing them up the chain tonight/tomorrow.
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