You want a mini-rant, I’ll give you a really silly mini-rant:
I need to get my eyebrows waxed because I can’t pluck well. Unfortunately, the only time I have to do it is during lunchtime at work, so I’ll wind up with glowing red bald spots where a portion of the caterpillars used to be. But, dammit, someone schedule another meeting with me for right after lunch! Again! I’ve been trying to get the damn things waxed for two weeks now. So now I have to decide: glowing red bald spots or wait again? It’s not like it’s the CEO, but it looks so weird.
On the bright side, if this is the worst of my problems today, it’ll be a good day. But the day’s not over yet.
Just to clarify: You need to do an internship as part of your degree. Not only does the school not have someone to help students get internships, and liaise with potential employers (thus saving ALL parties significant time and effort), but the school actually gives attitude about even helping students in a minor way.
Is this about right? Because if so, I think you’re getting the shaft from your school.
What you need to do is go get some electrolysis done. NOT laser hair removal, but electrolysis. It’s not expensive at all. I think that it isn’t as painful as getting waxed, either, but that might be my electrolygist’s skill. The procedure will leave you with slightly puffed areas which will fade in about an hour or two. And you have to go back a few times, because of the hair growth cycle, not all hairs will be out at the same time. But after you get it done, it’s DONE. And you don’t have to worry about it ever again. You do have to check to see if new hairs grow (most people get more hair on their faces as they age), but you’ll save soooo much time and effort.
This is one of the few colleges in the state with this program, and it’s one of those “for-profit” places. So their primary goal is to sign up people for the program and wring $30k out of student loan money from each of us. So while they have to care enough to be accredited and graduate us and have us pass the licensing exam, that’s about it. Truly minimal effort on their part.
They will find you an internship as a last result because we have to have one to graduate. And they did give me ONE name of one clinic that’s really close to the school. Unfortunately, I have classmates who have worked there. Notice the past tense on that??? They would rather not work at all than go back!
Oh, and fourteen phone calls and two additional emails (due to failed faxes!) later, I am no closer to a job/externship than I was when i woke up. This sucks.
Poor Sattua! I haven’t read this entire thread yet, but I hope you’ve gone into labor by now. I was induced at 39 weeks (for medical reasons - don’t panic, Avarie!) and I can’t imagine what it would have been like to go past my due date with no baby to show for it.
Ah, just wait until you can touch your toes again. It will be the most magical feeling in the world.
So, my family and I are going to go to a fairly popular restaurant on Saturday that doesn’t take reservations. This is going to be a large group, anywhere from 10 to 14. Since they don’t take reservations I thought I’d at least call and see what they might recommend as an arrival time.
“Well, that’s hard for me to predict, sometimes we think it’s going to be slow and we get slammed. Sometimes it’s slow when we think it’s going to be busy.”
Fair enough, but perhaps you have a sense of, generally, when things start picking up?
“Well, I’d say you might want to get here early.”
Great. How would you define early?
“Well, I mean if you’re going somewhere after, you might want to get here early.”
:smack:
No, I mean, in your mind what is early? Is it 5:30? Is it 7:00?
“Well, that depends on your plans.”
:smack:
No, dipshit. I am asking you what you mean by early. Hello? Is this thing on?
When someone wants to bitch and moan about something on the Pit or in a mini-rant thread, just let them bitch and moan. Do NOT respond and tell them why they should NOT be pissed off or annoyed at whatever pisses them off or annoys them. That’s such a douche move, and it’s one of the reasons I’m more of a lurker around here than a poster.
You were meaning two different things by “early,” I think. They meant that you should arrive early relative to whenever you wanted to be seated, while you thought they meant you should arrive early during their dinner hour.
So what they’re saying is, if you want to be out the door by a specific time, take whenever you’d normally make the reservation for and move the front end up 30-60 minutes. Not the most helpful info ever, but speaking as someone who’s worked in a place that’s unpredictably busy from day to day, it’s probably really the best they can give you. If they could make their own lives easier by shoehorning you into a dead spot, they would.
People have a right to be annoyed at what other people are annoyed at. If it truly ruins your SDMB experience, there’s a handy “ignore” function for anyone who makes a habit of it. I hear these days it even comes with a bag and a hose, so you can douche all the sand out of your vagina.
Some people say that this attitude makes me a hypocrite. That is because those people are morons. I have never contended that other people *can’t *post their retarded rants here: simply that in doing so, they open themselves up to others pointing out that their rants are retarded. They’re welcome to refute my accusations of tardedness, just as I refute your pathetic whinging. As I have said so many times before: this is a **discussion board. If you want to write something that nobody will read or respond to, put it in your blog.
ETA: It’s so cute how **Roderick Femm **thinks that maybe if enough people I’ve never heard of complain about me, some day I’ll care.
I want Mythbusters back on the Discovery Channel schedule. I’m tired of coming home on Wednesday nights and finding nothing but redneck gun porn on the channel.
Whoa, Shot From Guns. Um, my post actually was not directed towards you in any way. But thanks for the suggestion about the Ignore function, and also for giving me directions about how to douche sand from my vagina. There is so much sand up there, and I had no idea how to get rid of it! My husband will totally appreciate it.
Amazon has third parties who sell through Amazon. They charge a flat-rate of $3.98 for shipping and handling on every book (which is a seperate mini-rant-worthy issue).
Amazon also has third parties that ship through Amazon. These do not charge the flat-rate s&h charge if your order is big enough.
The annoying part is that they raise their price until it’s $3.96 above the lowest non-fulfillment price.
In other words, you’ll see several copies of a book for sale with price like $1.00, $1.10, $1.15, $1.18, $1.25 - and because of the fixed s&h charge, the actual cost you’ll pay is $4.98, $5.08, $5.13, $5.16, $5.23.
Then there’ll be a fulfillment sale with no s&h charge. But is that price comparible to the other prices? No, the price on that book is $4.96.
I always just say screw them and buy a non-fulfillment book and pay the extra two cents.
It gets worse every time I see it! The current set of Esurance ads is almost as bad, with the dipshit constantly upstaging the girl (and being praised by other women).
What happened to Mythbusters? I loved that show. I even got to help with one of their live performances once. (And drink a beer doing it!) Second question: is this porn *featuring *redneck guns, or porn *aimed at *redneck guns?
In which case, I humbly retract and apologize. **Roddy Femm **over there has been bitching about me recently, so I just jumped to the conclusion that you were doing more of the same.
Good god, get that man a box of Band-Aids. Better yet, a roll of gauze and some surgical tape. And Neosporin. *Lots *of Neosporin.
It’s probably more accurate to say that all of the vendors are pricing based on the total cost of item and shipping, because they know that that’s what customers are going to be deciding based on. The non-fulfillment vendors therefore slash their “price” way down, because they know they’ll make some of it back on the shipping fee, and if they charge a price comparable to the Amazon fulfillment vendors, they won’t be able to compete.
Honestly, I’m not sure what you’re looking for here. Do you want the Amazon fulfillment vendors to sell their products at a loss just so that their pre-shipping prices match up with the non-fulfillment vendors’?
