Oh, the postal employees here are competent and pleasant as well, but that doesn’t speed up the line. I’ve waited in line as long as 25 minutes, while there was only one window open, and the poor worker had to patiently explain every little thing to the morons in line. Like the one guy who didn’t understand that you can’t just mail a large meat and cheese basket by writing the address on the side with a Sharpie and asking “How many stamps do I need for this?”
The PO has cut back on employees, it seems. Our local branch has been giving out a complaint phone number to call when the place gets jammed up. They’re as sick of it as everyone else is.
15yo girls.
Man, I KNOW! I can take about a dozen of those young women yelling “Yo!” at everyone they meet. You know the ones… the worst part is, if you don’t say “Yo!” back, they follow you around “Excuse me, sir… yo!” Until you grudgingly say “Okay, yo.”
But 15 yo girls is just too many.
Just think… in the next presidential election, those 15yo girls will be old enough to vote. :eek:
My daughter has taken the “I’m going to be a complete bitch” route through puberty (which is better than “I’m going rebel by drinking” or “I’m working through my issues with lots of sex with the other kids”), but goddamn, does everything have to be a fight?
I will consider a response to that question if you can verify my suspicion based on your response your are an employee of the USPS?
Wow, that’s a dick reply. I am also guessing that kaylasdad99 works for the post office, and that based on that he might know more about the pension plan than you do. I also think that his request for a factual cite was a classy, understated response to your shitty implication that post office workers are “fat lazy bitches” with entitlement problems. So maybe you should stop acting like a lazy bitch with an entitlement problem and look up the information to back up your own statement?
[SIZE=“1”]I have no idea what the postal worker pension plan is, but I think it’s super obnoxious to insult a group of people and then, when one of those people points out the insult is not true, act like they aren’t even worth replying to.[/SIZE]
Average human walking speed is 3.1 mph- if she was moving at 25 mph I’d be pretty impressed.
Considering that would be a Marathon in 1 hour 3 minutes or a 100 yard dash in 8.18 seconds, yeah, we’d all be impressed.
I was thinking hey maybe if she was on a segway, but no, that’s still only 12.5 mph.
But apparently russian heel was NOT impressed.
Why can’t web sites be bothered to put the date on their pages?
It’s one of the first things I look for when searching tech blogs and websites since technology becomes stale so quickly.
But ABC News?
Why?
I was having trouble connecting to Youtube and found that the various “is this site down” monitoring sites showed some substantial outages in the East Coast, so it wasn’t just me.
I searched “Youtube Outage” and was greeted with an article from ABC News explaining that Pakistan caused the outage.
I looked for a date and saw none, but the story mentioned “Sunday” making it seem like today. Then I noticed a reference to something on Monday.
Finally I clicked on the comments. The first comment from 3 years ago says “How about putting a date on this article so I know when it happened, eh?”
A news article with no date is next to useless.
What the hell? Who is putting undated articles next to me? This has to stop!
I’ve been a postal worker since 2008, and have yet to feel a need to obfuscate that fact. How the fact is relevant to your ability/willingness to source your claim is a bit of a mystery, though.
Here’s why you should not do this, even if they shout at you: http://oakwebdesign.com.au/blog/people-ask-copy-and-paste-facebook-post-rather-sharing/
Car in the shop today, so I walked just over 2 miles on an empty stomach this morning to my doctor appointment. Fasting since 9pm last night because they needed a blood draw for testing a bunch of stuff.
Show up 10 minutes before my appointment. Check in. Tell the person that my blood sugar is crashing and I need them to do the draw NOW. She blows me off.
15 minutes after my appointment time, I’m sitting there in a hypoglycemic haze. The nurse walks out looking for me and asks why I haven’t checked in yet. :smack: Why yes, I DID check in, with that person there. Seems that person didn’t complete the process, so they had no idea I was there. :mad: Nurse brings me to the back and I tell her that I’m in trouble and she needs to do the blood draw right now. She says No, we’ll do that after the appointment. I said NO, I’m about to pass out and if we don’t do this right fucking now, I’m digging into my emergency chocolate and fuck their tests!
So we went down and did the blood draw and I, well, let’s just say I was conscious, but not particularly functional. Nurse noticed and got me some apple juice and a granola bar.
Goddamn, people. I’m in a doctor’s office going into hypoglycemic shock right in front of you and you morons are blowing me off and telling me I can wait???
Ugh, Labcorp did that to a young boy one time when I was also there for a blood draw. Even when they allow most tests on a walk-in basis, they need to account for patients who are diabetic. They always move like they work for the DMV or something (no hurry at all).
I have a separate peeve; wonder if it bugs anyone else of if I’m just overly tetchy. I hate it when at work you get introduced to a topic or a product and then suddenly everyone refers to you as the expert/guru and expect you to have all the answers. I feel so pissy when that happens and struggle to tamp down on my reaction.
:mad:
My cousin has a TBI because of this sort of thing. She passed out after a blood draw, hit her head on the floor and had to have emergency brain surgery–twice–because of bleeding in her brain. It’s been devastating to her family.
To be honest, that was my greatest fear. Sheer will not to that kept me going.
Fun with numbers.
Over the past three days, a bit over 2 feet of snow has fallen here.
Our property is almost exactly an acre.
One acre is 43,560 square feet.
That makes 87,120 cubic feet of snow.
According to Google, a cubic foot of snow can contain ‘roughly one billion’ snow crystals.
That means 87,120,000,000,000 snow flakes fell on just our yard??? (And they’re all different???)
Google also says a ‘typical snow crystal weighs roughly one millionth of a gram.’ Sooo…
87,120,000,000,000 / 1,000,000 = 87,120,000 grams /453.592 grams per pound = 192,067 pounds = damn near 100 TONS of water dumped on just our little yard???
Can that possibly be true?
Oh, the rant? I had to shovel a distressing number of those cubic feet. 