I love my country and I love the area I live in, but dammit – the weather over the next week seems to feature pissing rain alternating with diarrheatic wet snow.
At least now that the Sebring has been donated to charity and towed away (I almost cried!) the Camry is safely ensconced in the garage. Apologies to the poster with the apocalyptic eyebrows who seems to take offense to my talking about the Camry.
One issue I still have to sort out. The Sebring was a tight fit in the garage because of all the crap I have in there, plus the idiot previous owner building a huge L-shaped workbench in there. The Camry is just two inches wider (and longer) which is no big deal, but in an apparent attempt to make it look more magnificent, the well-meaning Japanese equipped the Camry with much larger side mirrors (and they don’t fold in). So I have to rearrange things so it’s not such a tight squeeze to get by into the house.
Well the the good news is that Moose is home and doing well. The omg news is that the deposit was actually $2900, and I did owe a bit more. Final total was a hair over $3600 And now I have to figure out how to get him his special diet, make sure it’s the only thing he eats, AND feed the other 15 something good for them that won’t break the bank. Gah.
Just a reminder to all the employees at my company.
If you don’t leave a voice mail I’m not calling you back. The call couldn’t have been important if you weren’t willing to leave a message and I’m going to assume you were able to take care of whatever it was you were calling me about.
If you create a ticket, please give us an idea of what the problem is. “I need help with my benefits” does not help me help you.
We had multiple online sessions where I went over your benefit options for 2026, you have access to a recording of one of those sessions, and we published everything so you could read it at your leisure. While I’m happy to answer any specific questions you have, I will not explain your open enrollment options from beginning to end on this phone call.
In January 2026 it will be too late to make any changes to your open enrollment elections. If you do not have a qualifying life event, you will be unable to change your benefit elections.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, isn’t it? I’m waiting for my co-worker who never reads her emails and doesn’t attend any of the webinars to start asking me questions about benefits. And I’m not HR!
…& dont send a Teams message consisting entirely of just, “Hi”, “Hello” or some other one word variant. If you want to ask me something, then just ask it.
I didn’t think there could be anything worse than dealing with the useless twits at my natural gas supplier, Enbridge, but there is: their spin-off company that deals with service, Enercare. I’ve had no end of billing problems with these fuckers.
In the latest episode, I had to settle a massively overdue account, which I did about a month ago. For some reason there remained $5 owing, but who cares. Now I get a notice that $102 is somehow “severely overdue”. How?
It turns out, they didn’t bill me properly when settling the account earlier, and are retro-billing back to October 1. And somehow this is my fault! I’m “severely overdue” even though I just got the fucking bill a couple of days ago!
I replied to the email I got, full of dire warnings, which had a special “Reply to” address, explaining the situation. I got a reply saying “this is an automated response to an inbox that is not monitored”. I see. You gave me an address to reply to that no one ever looks at. Now that’s great customer service!
We’ve been on the Discourse platform for how many years now, and people still don’t understand that to reply to a thread, you use the BIG arrow at the bottom of the thread, not the little arrow in the final post. Or maybe it’s the fault of Discourse for putting the arrows too near each other.
I’d just be glad if people used @ with names rather than bolding them.
And predating the move from vBulletin, I really want people to not reply to a thread unless they’ve read, and considered, every post in the thread. For a thread with >100 posts, at least read the last 20%. For threads with less than 100, read all of them. Then, and only then, are you authorized to post.
Posting a reply to the thread title, not having read the thread OP body, is cause for a warning.
Posters sometimes do this when they want to mention a poster, but it’s not important enough to summon them. Or they’ve already @-ed them once in the thread. But if you mean because they just don’t know to @ them, then I agree.
My POV is that I’d like to know when and where I’m mentioned. For good or ill. Back under vBulletin we called that a “vanity search”. But IMO it’s a lot more useful than just vanity. If somebody mentions something I said, I’d kind of like to visit that and make sure they got the meaning I intended, not something else. YMMV of course.
And yes, in certain Pitting contexts it’s desirable to talk about somebody and their posts explictly without directly linking to them. Precisely to avoid summoning them or violating the “no insults in non-Pit threads” rule. So we use bolding on names and certain circumlocutions on the post references.
But IMO that’s the exception that proves the rule.
I think \color{purple}\text{Atamasama} is just a fetching name when graped. Maybe we should all stop bolding and do that instead?
With the new car safely ensconced in the garage, the forecast for the next few days is basically “snow, more snow, wet snow, and then rain”. The best forecast day is nearly a week away, and it’s “cloudy”. Followed by “40% chance of showers”. The concept of “sunny” no longer exists in the lexicon of the weather forecasters.
And now I have to figure out how to get him his special diet, make sure it’s the only thing he eats, AND feed the other 15 something good for them that won’t break the bank. Gah.
Maybe we should all stop bolding and do that instead?