My favorite tavern deep-fries almost everything. I invite my wife along and her reply is “I’ll come if you can list all the healthy food that I can order there.” (I say “Well, a list of one isn’t much of a list…”) (and I think of OpalCat)
I discovered a new brewpub outside of town on a bike path, got excited and stopped in. Long menu, but no burgers, no sandwiches, ALL they have is a deep frier.
If you could find a scent that you don’t mind, you could pin one of those tree-shaped car deodorizers to the back of that chair.
There’s a local eatery very close to the facility where I work just like that. The inside joke here among us is that “At the ******** Cafe, even the salads are fried”.
I guess with a good many, absolute convenience is paramount in choosing an eatery. Despite places offering less unhealthy food just slightly farther away, said cafe seems to be the go-to place to go eat, or to grab take-out from.
Even better, if these were the cheap office store chairs in use throughout the rest of the office, I could unzip the cover and put all sorts of dedorizers in there, to be distributed every time someone sits down. Unfortunately for me, the company actually spent some serious money on the chairs in this conference room; not only are the covers stitched in place, but their realistic-smelling leathery covering would make it difficult to attach anything.
Duct tape?
Never mind! Misread the rules.
An excellent location! I used to be able to walk to a bunch of different restaurants from my office, but a lot of the more affordable places have closed. I only have a few options that won’t destroy my budget. And the good smoothie place closed, so now there’s only an okay smoothie place and a bad smoothie place. I hope I don’t have to go back to working in the office every day. I think I might starve. 
They’re missing an opportunity.
Not exactly a rant, but I thought this crowd might appreciate it – someone finally watered the artifical flowers in the ladies’ room.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CgiNVndsgtQ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
I did that with someone’s hanging baskets when I was pet sitting for them. Whoops!
I was really surprised it didn’t happen when the flowers were new…they looked amazingly real! By this point though, all the leaves and petals have that sort of fuzzy ‘fringe’ that silk flowers tend to develop. Someone moved them from the front office to the bathroom for a reason…
Back to miniranting, I had three inspectors complain to me today, asking if a certain inspection was really necessary because the part in question was extremely heavy (in excess of 100 pounds). I ended up pulling some old job records to prove to them that yes, we have always done this particular inspection in-house, and we’ve never relied on the vendor to supply the paperwork (which happened to be missing on this job anyway).
I just signed off on my annual leave accounting for the 2021-2022 fiscal year. I lost 144 seconds of leave because I exceeded the maximum carry forward by that amount.
To correct the balance sheet in my head I’m spending the time I lost posting this from work.
I salute you.
I look forward to your remaining 134 seconds. Make 'em count!
Whelp. I’m unemployed starting Sep 2. Budget cuts on my project due to budget overruns on a different “can’t fail” project. So 40% of us get a lovely letter of recommendation.
I was hoping for at least another year on this one, but them’s the hazards of contract work.
Dusting off the recruiter rolodex.
I’m in the meeting from hell. I generally like my coworkers, but sometimes they’re ridiculous.
On my company’s intranet site they posted a little article about a gay man at one of our sites along with the new pride-themed company logo shirt. Close to a third of the comments on said article are homophobic. When I responded to one such comment (a particularly egregious one of the “why are there girls in STEM days but not boys in STEM days” variety) I got called a socialist wanting to “lift up ideologically privileged groups.”
I work for a pretty large manufacturing company out of Germany (you have certainly heard of the brand before) and it’s really disappointing to see so much hate trotted out by folks with their names and company emails attached. Anyway, I bought a couple of the shirts for my wife and I and I will be wearing it with pride to work as often as possible.
I hope your company tracks these people, and realizes that they are potential financial liabilities if they spew homophobic garbage in public. The public has been known to give a poor reception to companies that hire assholes like this. Better to show them the door before they become a problem.
I got an irate email through our website contact form today explaining to me WHAT IS USEFUL on a website. And how some information NOT SO MUCH. Phil* then went on to say that if we were a government organization the website would explain a lot. Well we are a government organization, so thank you for recognizing that our website explains a lot!
Also, the information he wants is on the website and is updated weekly. Now I have to resist the urge to respond with a snarky email pointing out that it WOULD BE USEFUL if he followed the link to the weekly water quality report.
*his real name