No fooling. When I hired in (2000-ish), there were guys who put stop orders on their 457 (municipal/non-profit 401) deductions because the market was tanking. These weren’t guys near retirement age, but they couldn’t make themselves buy stocks that were going down. I just told them I was buying low.
There were years where the quarterly statements showed the worth of the accounts going down even though I had been paying in. I imagine that was the painful bit that they couldn’t bear. But when the stocks rebounded, the accounts blew up like baloons.
Lately I’ve been shifting things over a bit because I’m getting close to retiring. I’ll have to watch to assure myself that this isn’t a multi-year trend.
Cinnamon Imp seems much too nice to toilet paper an old lady’s yard because she didn’t give out trick-or-treat candy that year…
Our library has a lot of stuff available on Overdrive, the problem is using that takes planning. I have to be sure that my phone is charged (jumps up, digs phone out of purse and plugs it in), and I have to pay attention to where I am in the book so I’ll know when its time to get another one. I can’t just download a bunch of them because when the check-out period is over, the audio books go away UNLESS I’ve paid enough attention that I renewed them.
With CD’s, I can grab a bunch and then get an email telling me that they are going to be due soon and giving me a link to renew them online. If someone else wants one, I can’t renew that one, but usually I can keep them as long as I want.
Its pure laziness on my part. I should probably just suck it up and put the extra effort into using my phone.
Enterprise did give me the library CD back, but its embarrassing to have the nice library lady roll her eyes and laugh at me.
This morning I was buying 7 items at the grocery store. The express cash is for 8 items or less. I fit that description, but I thought I’d go to one of the other cashes instead of the express cash.
Well, that wasn’t an option. When I got to the cashes, the express cash was the only one open! So everyone had to go to that one cash, no matter how many items they had! In what world is it acceptable to have only the express cash open? Also, there were so many people in the line that there was some confusion as to where the line should go, so the end of the line ended up branching into 3 different lines.
It could’ve been worse, though. At least the line did move pretty quickly in spite of everything, and I didn’t see a single person complaining or acting grouchy.
??? Who goes into the children’s section if they don’t have kids? Whenever I have to go in there to get a book (lots of young adult books are kept there) I usually flee as fast as I can. It isn’t exactly a place to hang around if you don’t have a reason to!
Still wondering what the hell got into her brain on that one.
Is it just me or is this August a buggy month? I mean literally. I was just outside with my youngest letting her play in the backyard for half an hour. I now have ten bug bites. What the frick is with this stupid month? We’re using hydocortizone more than sunscreen this summer.
Follow-up to my Time Warner Cable rant: they sent a very nice technician who needs to be working somewhere other than Time Warner – he was that good. He determined that there was a break in the line, installed a temporary line, and scheduled a crew to come out this week to bury the new cable.
The crew that buried the new cable managed to cut the underground phone line. :smack:
I’m sorry for laughing. Then you made me cry a little at this memory…
Back when I worked at a library, I noticed what looked like smoke coming out of the ground and investigated it because I didn’t want to die in a fire. It was steam. I told my supervisor.
She called the engineers who determined that it was a leak in a hot water pipe that was used for heating the building. They didn’t do this by looking at the plans or blue-staking things, they just put shovels in the ground.
A crew came out to dig it up and repair it. They hit the electric line and knocked the power off for a couple of days. A different crew came out to fix the electricity and cut into the water main. They patched that up and started digging around all three of those pipes/lines to pour a concrete bunker, they broke the gas line.:smack::smack::smack:
God looks after innocents, drunks and engineers because nobody died during the month long fiasco.
Too many young people dying. A little ten-year-old girl in my city was killed by a falling branch during our terrible storm today. A friend’s 24-year-old son died of a diabetic seizure in his sleep a few days ago. I have a young friend with some depression issues who just found out a 17-year-old friend of hers killed herself.
Hon, you may have been good at your basic job but they’ve promoted you to a new job in management and you suck at it. You have no management skills whatsoever. You give rude feedback that is smug, arrogant and overly personal. In our short conversation, you managed to do several remarkably stupid things that I hope get you demoted. The mean girls shit was particularly inappropriate as was the personal attacks on me for the very minor and unimportant mistakes I make once in a while. You were supposed to be doing a training session designed to help people get better at their jobs. You turned it into mostly a twenty minute harangue that was not at all appropriate or the slightest bit related to training of any kind. I realize that all you have for you in life is this low level promotion and the rest of your life sucks really badly but when you use that in an effort to make me feel like dirt, that’s not a reflection on my shortcomings. It’s a reflection on yours, you stupid, nasty, useless, childish bitch cunt.
My damn microwave quit yesterday. It just makes a buzzing noise and won’t get anything hot. I think the magnetron died. Oh, well, it’s about 15 years old, and IMO not worth repairing. What sucks is I can’t afford a new one until Thursday. But I drove to Wal-Mart to price some and found a nice looking one for only $65.00. 1.1 cu. ft. and 1000 watts. It’s going to suck doing without a microwave for the next four days, though.
Was watching one of these wildlife cops reality shows this afternoon, and they busted one guy for an expired license (among other things). Got to thinking that I might have seen a license renewal card in my mail not too long ago, so I check my wallet…yep, it expires the middle of next month. Fortunately, I was able to renew online. Unfortunately, it may take up to 2 weeks for the replacement to arrive, which could mean that I won’t have the new one in time due to impending travel. :smack:
Glad you enjoyed…fortunately, all lines are well away from the water and gas lines. The cable and phone are both too close to the electrical for my comfort though. For some reason, Time Warner’s people left the little flags in the ground when they were finished. The Centurylink crew strung the temporary line across the tops of the flags (it’s a very thin line). It looks like I have a little orange barricade down one side of my yard…fortunately, my neighbors know what’s going on.
You’ve never performed any kind of technical support work, have you?
Ah! Yes, I did answer customer service phones and some of them were, uh, well, really stupid. But in the case of the ads, they are (I think?) aimed at a far greater audience, including people who don’t need to call customer service every time they fart. Or are there enough totally without a clue people in the US to keep Liberty Mutual afloat? I dunno, it just seems like everyone of the people on the ads (except the girl who named her car Brad) are complaining about something that was in the contract they signed and isn’t unusual in the industry. And they make me crazy! (Doesn’t help that one of the ads runs on each break).
The guy bitching about the depreciation of his new car is especially baffling…in my experience, even teens (of driving age) have a rough understanding of this concept. And the guy isn’t even playing to the idea that “depreciation isn’t fair!” – he seems to be baffled at the very idea.
A little ten-year-old girl in my city was killed by a falling branch during our terrible storm today. A friend’s 24-year-old son died of a diabetic seizure in his sleep a few days ago. I have a young friend with some depression issues who just found out a 17-year-old friend of hers killed herself.
