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[JediKooter]

I hate when the 'Bobs' do that.

[Draft Dodger]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

I hate when the 'Bobs' do that.

a friend at work had a restructuring in her department (my old dept). the new job involves cold calling prospective customers, which stresses her out considerably. So, she just stopped doing that part of her job, Office Space style. It's been a week and no one has said anything. I REALLY want her to bring in a fish and gut it at her desk, but so far she is refusing.

[DanGarion]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

I hate when the 'Bobs' do that.

This is the same type of change 5 1/2 years ago that brought be to the Learning and Development department.

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by Draft Dodger

a friend at work had a restructuring in her department (my old dept). the new job involves cold calling prospective customers, which stresses her out considerably. So, she just stopped doing that part of her job, Office Space style. It's been a week and no one has said anything. I REALLY want her to bring in a fish and gut it at her desk, but so far she is refusing.

That is hilarious and even more awesome if she does bring in a fish and cleans it at her desk. You should take her to Chotchkie's for lunch.

Originally Posted by DanGarion

This is the same type of change 5 1/2 years ago that brought be to the Learning and Development department.

I don't know why, but, this perplexes me. Same management?

[DanGarion]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

That is hilarious and even more awesome if she does bring in a fish and cleans it at her desk. You should take her to Chotchkie's for lunch.




I don't know why, but, this perplexes me. Same management?

No, completely different management. Previously I had to jump ship when I was told my job was moving to Colorado Springs (high level business class tech support) so I applied for a position in Training before I was forced to move or out.

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by DanGarion

No, completely different management. Previously I had to jump ship when I was told my job was moving to Colorado Springs (high level business class tech support) so I applied for a position in Training before I was forced to move or out.

Ah ok. I don't blame you for wanting to stay put. Hopefully things will work out for you again and hopefully there won't be any salary reduction as well.

[TCY Junkie]

Originally Posted by gstelmack

It's going to drive me out of reading this thread while I'm at work. We have a pics thread, can we keep this to true random thoughts please?

I click the pics thread not very often compared to this one..... I come here and it confuses me. My statement about where the damn pics where, was just because I was thinking about being in the pics thread and what I would have thought..... Didn't mean to encourage anyone but if I did I'm not responsible. Just saying, I don't disagree. You are the guy that wrote tcy helper, right? If not than disregard this.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by DanGarion

Not yet. I'm one of the many that have to reapply for their position because there are too many people doing it in my "geographical location".

sweet, so if you do get to keep your job you will get to do more work for the same pay!

[Matthean]

Originally Posted by TCY Junkie

Every time I open this thread page, I think I clicked on the pics thread. Then as I scroll down can't believe people aren't posting pics. Happened at least 3 times, maybe I should be more focused when online.

+1.

I'm not sure why I have something like 11 pairs of shoes I'm not wearing. Time to double check them and see if they have any cushioning left in them and maybe give some to Goodwill. I sort of blame my Dad notoriously giving me shoes he buys from time to time.

[Pumpy Tudors]

I'm totally over my problems talking to blondes. On top of that, a blonde is responsible for me no longer loathing peanut butter. I'm living the life.

[Grover]

Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

On top of that, a blonde is responsible for me no longer loathing peanut butter. I'm living the life.

Hmmm...

Is a Yellow Lab technically a blonde?

[Pumpy Tudors]

Originally Posted by Grover

Hmmm...

Is a Yellow Lab technically a blonde?

I can't wait to tell my co-worker that you called her a dog.

[Grover]

Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

I can't wait to tell my co-worker that you called her a dog.

But seriously... how could you possibly have loathed peanut butter. Stuff is delicious.

[mckerney]

Peanut butter is one of the most vile and disgusting substances ever made.

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by mckerney

Peanut butter is one of the most vile and disgusting substances ever made.

You've never put peanut butter on a hot blondes nose before, have you?



No, shit, sorry. That's a golden retrievers nose. My bad.

[Coffee Warlord]

Originally Posted by Coffee Warlord

Goody. My boss is quitting, after 19 years here, leaving me and one other guy as the only two programmers for our division.

The amount of added responsibilities we're going to get stuck with is, to put it mildly, absurd. Dude did a buttload, and was on call about 95% of the time. So we're going to be expected to...do a ton more work, and be on call 24/7.

I can pretty much guarantee they won't be increasing our pay (which is already low by industry standards) to compensate, though I'm going to be pushing for it heavily. Honestly, even with a drastic increase in pay & benefits (that again, in my experience with this company, will not be happening), I'm not sure the headaches he had to go through would be worth it.

Time to pick up the search for a new job.

Heh. And I have confirmation my partner in crime is also in touch with a recruiter, working on his possible exit.

There's 3 programmers working here. One's my boss. He's leaving. That leaves me and my buddy. He's looking. I'm looking. This could get hilariously ugly very fast.

[JediKooter]

Sounds like it's time for them to either pay up or not.

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

Sounds like it's time for them to either pay up or not.

Yup!

[Pumpy Tudors]

But seriously... how could you possibly have loathed peanut butter. Stuff is delicious.

Because I ate battery acid twice when I was a child, and that resulted in everything I ate tasting like peanut butter for five years. I got tired of the taste of peanut butter during that.

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by Chief Rum

Yup!

Dang hot linking bug.

[Grover]

Erin Andrews is leaving ESPN, according to a couple of PR guys on twitter. Said they made an aggressive offer to keep her.

[terpkristin]

Oh cripes don't turn this thread into a girlie thread too.

You boys need hobbies.

/tk

[Pumpy Tudors]

Originally Posted by terpkristin

Oh cripes don't turn this thread into a girlie thread too.

You boys need hobbies.

/tk

MY HOBBY IS EATING PASTE
WHAT'S YOURS

[terpkristin]

Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

MY HOBBY IS EATING PASTE
WHAT'S YOURS

Funny you should mention it....

On other news, I'mve been working in my industry for about 7 years now and have been directly involved on 5 GEO missions (and played a supporting role on about 15 others). In this time, I have never run into what we've run into now...a day before we were going to ship the satellite for launch, we ran into a potentially mission-ending problem. It's good we found it before launch, but the level of insanity we're dealing with right is so far out of anything I ever expected to deal with. Timing is funny. If it happened after launch, we'd be similarly crazy but running down another path. Insane.

/tk

[JonInMiddleGA]

Nothing says "time to get up" quite like a cat unsuccessfully trying to get rid of a hair ball.

[Grover]

Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

Because I ate battery acid twice when I was a child, and that resulted in everything I ate tasting like peanut butter for five years. I got tired of the taste of peanut butter during that.

Jesus. That would do it.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

I have to poop now.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by M GO BLUE!!!

I have to poop now.

+1

[Warhammer]

What happened in the first 10 chapters of the Spaceballs saga?

[Grover]

Watching Twenty Twelve on BBC. Typical deadpan British humour. Hilarious.

[stevew]

On my way home from my last delivery stop and f'n dispatch calls me to cover some BS run to Greensburg. Really unhappy about this turn of events.

[Suicane75]

I think my computer has a virus. Part of the deducing of said thought was to upgrade my firefox first. It took about 3 minutes of surfing without Adblock installed to realize that the internet is a whorish, disgusting place. There was not a single website that I frequent, here included, that is not virtually unsurfable without blocking ads, pop ups and otherwise intruding annoyances.

[Izulde]

Just booked the last good seat available for Friday's Yomiuri Giants/Hanshin Tigers game at the Tokyo Dome.

[JediKooter]

There should be a law that says, 'If July 4th falls on a Wednesday, you get Thursday and Friday off'.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

There should be a law that says, 'If July 4th falls on a Wednesday, you get Thursday and Friday off'.

For that matter today also seems to be quite slow, and tomorrow I anticipate will be at-most a half-day of usefulness.

It's letting me catch up on some stuff in quiet, but man is it uneventful.

[gstelmack]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

There should be a law that says, 'If July 4th falls on a Wednesday, you get Thursday and Friday off'.

The government already fixed that for most other holidays. You could have had "July 4th, being celebrated on July 2nd this year" like so many other holidays. Is that what you really want?

[MacroGuru]

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

For that matter today also seems to be quite slow, and tomorrow I anticipate will be at-most a half-day of usefulness.

It's letting me catch up on some stuff in quiet, but man is it uneventful.

Boss already said tomorrow is a half day for us...which is good, because I am going to a festival to get my drink on tomorrow night.

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by gstelmack

The government already fixed that for most other holidays. You could have had "July 4th, being celebrated on July 2nd this year" like so many other holidays. Is that what you really want?

Oh no. We still get 4th of July off, it's just that if it falls on a Wednesday, you get the rest of the week off. If it falls on a Tuesday, you also get Monday off.

[MacroGuru]

So my kids are going to Utah for the summer to visit their grandparents. They haven't seen them for about 3 years. They will be gone for 6 weeks, I think I might go insane.

I have had them a lot over the past year and it has been a great feeling, especially knowing what I missed out on with all my traveling for work.

[MacroGuru]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

Oh no. We still get 4th of July off, it's just that if it falls on a Wednesday, you get the rest of the week off. If it falls on a Tuesday, you also get Monday off.

I think you need to table that with George for approval...

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by MacroGuru

I think you need to table that with George for approval...

I can get into his office. Not sure how far before I'm stopped, but, I can get in there.

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

eat half of sandwich
realize other half is moldy
penicillin comes from mold
...processing...
pick off mold
finish sandwich

[britrock88]

If it weren't for the funky smell/texture...

[M GO BLUE!!!]

For the past couple years I have been working on re-recording my 12" record collection to my computer, since I got a cartridge that sounds very, very nice.

I went to edit a record and noticed that it was an instrumental. No instrumental exists. When I recorded it, the vocals were there & it sounded fine. A little experimentation found that Adobe Audition's input was set to mono.

So every record I have recorded over the past couple years is in mono. Fuck.

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

deer flies are the bane of my existence. i swear off! just invigorates them. if you're outside more than 10 minutes they blot out the sun like the arrows in 300.

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by Suicane75

I think my computer has a virus. Part of the deducing of said thought was to upgrade my firefox first. It took about 3 minutes of surfing without Adblock installed to realize that the internet is a whorish, disgusting place. There was not a single website that I frequent, here included, that is not virtually unsurfable without blocking ads, pop ups and otherwise intruding annoyances.

It always frustrates me when I'm using another web browser, typically at work, and I have to search something on the web. I feel like with adblock, noscript, and choosing which cookies to accept, I'm relatively safe on my own computer. But running around on IE and going a random search to try to find an answer seems like you're just asking for a virus

SI

[Suicane75]

I can't imagine even trying to use my friends' computers.

My buddies wife seems to get a show stopper every other week but then again I have a feeling she's the sort that clicks on everything sent my every Tom, Dick and Prince Of Zaire.


Turns out maybe I didn't have a virus at all. It was weird, for like a week I was getting intermitent "server not found" errors on certain sites. But if I refreshed I'd get in. This site, ESPN and Wiki were the main culprits. And it wasn't my connection cause It would happen even if I was doing other stuff that was working fine. But then yesterday it just stopped and everything is working fine.

[spleen1015]

These issues are why I have my own computer that no one else is allowed to use. I don't want to deal with bull shit while trying to use my computer because someone else was a dumbass.

[sterlingice]

Same here.

This all goes back to college when Netscape and autocomplete were new things. One day I come back from class and am hanging out with a friend in my dorm room and he wants to search for something online. So he starts typing and some porn sounding site autocompletes. I say something like "WTF. That's not me".

So, we go look in my history and find that as soon as I went to class in the morning, my roommate was surfing porn on my computer. I didn't mind letting him borrow my computer to check online every once in a while but he had his own and I had a chat with him when he got back. He was surprised that I had found out and it was understood from that point on that searches like that were not for my computer. I never had an issue again so either he used his own computer or learned to delete cookies and history.

Also, from that incident, I learned the importance of having a login and password on one's home computer.

SI

[JediKooter]

Didn't want to start a new thread for this:

Is anyone into modeling? No not pictures. Model airplanes, etc...

I'd like to know what are the brands that provide the most realistic (as possible given that it's plastic) brands out there. I know there's Revell, but, I really don't know of really any other brands out there. Advice on tools, techniques, paints & glues as well.

Thanks!