I thought that the OneNote app was available as a standalone download, even if you don’t have a current Office license? Or does the freebie app prevent you from using it with a work account?
It would if people at work use M365.
I find it weird for a professional organization to not provide an Office license for every employee. How do they get email? Unless this is a tiny place with a dozen people and they’re getting by without a domain.
I just checked my credit card online, because I’m a responsible adult and sometimes fraud happens. Today was that day. 
Someone is having a good time in New York using my credit card number. I hope the bagels were hard, you jerks! It’s annoying that I have to spend time cleaning up this mess. I’m surprised I didn’t get a fraud alert, because this started almost two weeks ago, and it’s kind of odd to have transactions in two different places on the same days. 
My wife often shops on a website for people selling things used.
We bought a steel, classic style Stanley thermos from someone for a reasonable price.
It came all beat up and the person ignored messages so we finally found a way to officially complain to the site management.
We finally got another one from a different seller, and we sent the old one back, shipping collect. They refused to pay, so we had to pay for shipping, and we got the beat up one back.
Comparing the looks like the seller is offloading beat up imitation goods from China.
The stupid thing is that the site only allows feedback on completed deals, so we can’t provide feedback on the seller.
Isn’t that air ?
No this is a Huge Conglomerate hospital organization. I think they cheaped out on buying the licenses.
OK, I think I sort of understand the water problem in the basement. Apparently the primary A/C drain line is blocked (the one fastened into the drain) so water was being discharged through the emergency drain line up near the evaporator coils. Putting the secondary line directly into the drain fixed the problem and the pool of water is now drying up. This is a much lesser problem that potentially having to replace a leaking hot water tank, but still a problem.
I found a bunch of loose crud near the hose opening at the drain end that may have been enough to cause a blockage. I’ll clean it out and see what happens.
Last summer I had a new HVAC system installed by ARS, and opted to continue the service contract which I had had with them on my old system. This includes semi-annual inspections, one of which I had scheduled for last Monday. The cost of the inspection itself was only $19, but the technician pointed out that it might be a good idea to have surge protectors installed (why this was not suggested at my previous inspections, or for that matter why the original installation did not include them I forgot to ask). Unfortunately he did not have the two he needed in his truck, so we scheduled him to come yesterday to install them, sometime between 10am and 2pm.
So, i wait for him to show up; ARS always calls to let me know when the technician is on his way, but no one ever calls. So at 2pm I call to find out what’s going on. The agent can’t find any record of the scheduled service, and transfers me to dispatch, where I get asked to leave a voicemail. I do so, giving my name, address, phone number, and a brief explanation of my problem. 4pm comes and no callback, so I call ARS service again, explaining that I had not gotten a callback from dispatch. The agent says she will call dispatch herself, and that I should receive a callback “shortly”.
Apparently “shortly” means “just before Hell freezes over”, because no one ever calls. So I call again this morning and again am told someone will call me to schedule another appointment. Of course, no one calls and after two hours I call again. This time I actually get someone who knows their job. She looks up my account and confirms that the required surge suppressors are in stock, and sets up an appointment for my technician to come by between noon and 4pm today.
Now let’s see if he actually shows up.
In other news, there is a scheduling problem with the Ukrainian handyman brothers. In point of fact, they don’t really bill themselves as handymen but in fact are experienced renovators, so I was lucky to get them for the several small jobs I needed them for. Right now they’re in the middle of a big project and won’t be available until about mid-October. But they’ve always done such good work that I told them I’d wait, in preference to having to search for someone who might be incompetent or dishonest.
Although I just checked their invoices for the last couple of jobs, and I must have mentally blocked out the amounts, because holy crap, those guys aren’t cheap! Thank og they were free when I decided to pour mushroom and sausage marina sauce down the sink! But considering what plumbers charge, I still think I got off relatively easy from the marinara disaster!
My surge protectors have been installed. Derrick, my technician, was extremely apologetic about the scheduling problem. Apparently dispatch had neglected to list me on his schedule yesterday, which is why he never came by. The installation took all of twenty minutes.
I pit the sick fucks who thought it would be hilarious to put bra strap adjusters on the bottom rear of the straps, where they’re not self-humanly reachable while you’re wearing them.
And let’s also pit manufacturers who make lovely matching bra/panty sets, but one garment or the other is so horribly uncomfortable that you can’t wear it, thus preventing you from having a matching set. Example: Elomi. Their stretchy lace stuff that curves so nicely over one’s bosoms feels less than great in the panty. Specifically, it feels like sandpaper.
We have these dumb shit leadership meetings at work once a month. I’m not even supervising anyone but I’m technically management level so I have to go.
They are scheduled for two hours. They consist of program directors rambling for about 15-20 minutes each on updates about the minutia of their programming, only to be frequently interrupted by questions which lead to digressions that drag everything out even longer, and my friends, they are fucking excruciating.
It’s even worse because they start out by saying, “oh, I just have a couple things” and for a fleeting second you hope it’s going to be mercifully short but inevitably they keep adding on more and more shit that wasn’t important enough to write down but apparently enough to ramble about now.
I cannot sustain attention in these meetings. None of this shit is super relevant to my job. I retain nothing. I just sit there suppressing my screams.
Today we went a full half hour past the designated time. That was a fucking 2.5 hour meeting. I eventually just left because it was the only time I had to eat lunch before spending the rest of my day also in meetings. So it might have gone on longer.
I’m genuinely pissed about this. It’s so disrespectful to people’s time. And by the end of it I have nothing left cognitively for the entire rest of my day.
I’d love to see the marketing for sandpaper underwear! 
It seems like they should do some testing of their products before they start selling them. It should be rule #1–if it’s uncomfortable, smells bad, or tastes bad, don’t try to sell it. I realize I’m being unrealistic, but I can dream of a better world.
“It leaves you intimately smooth.”
I thought that was all of them. The only bra/panty set I liked was something I bought from Prima Donna in 2007? The panty outlasted the bra and it was one of my favorites.
And don’t get me started on bra sizes. US, UK, EU, and France? And that’s not even including the differences between brands.
Oh, yikes! And I thought waxing was painful!
At this point the only bra that works for me is Enell. Fortunately all the snaps are in the front, and it doesn’t adjust the straps but they will customize them if you need it. And I mean the only bra. It is such a pain in the ass. For formal events, I have to select dresses etc that fit a wide-strapped heavy duty sports bra.
Before I had a baby, I was already a hefty girl, but during pregnancy my bra size grew three cup sizes and it’s been five years and they aren’t going back. And I never even used them for their intended purpose, I did not breast feed, I couldn’t, my milk never came in and he wouldn’t latch anyhow. I don’t know if I screwed it up somehow but I was in a fog during those early weeks when he was newborn and I really don’t remember if I was doing what you’re supposed to do.
I wonder though if I had breastfed would they have gone back to normal size?
Admittedly I’m a guy who doesn’t wear bras but I humbly submit if they’re a pain in your ass that you’re somehow wearing them wrong! 
All external emails have a red text box at the top of them, “Warning! This email is not from {My Company Name}. Do not click on suspicious links or give out private information to unknown parties.” or some such text.
I got an email this morning from events@{MyCompanyName}; it did not have the external email text box. There was a link about a Halloween decorating contest, which is in line with other things the ‘fun’ committee has done.
Of course it was a phishing test & I clicked on the link.
I’ve said to them the last time something like this happened that if we had a hacker that was able to get into our system & create fake internal email addresses, than we have bigger issues than someone clicking on a link that was so forced to make a fake & that if we have to take the time to investigate every internal email our productivity would go way down.
Oof, they fucked up.
They create a tool that warns you to be cautious about external emails, and informs you when an email is external, then send an internal email that SURPRISE, is a “phishing attempt”.
That’s like trying to teach your kids to be wary of strangers, then randomly while taking your kid out for a walk, you grab them and toss them in a van. As they’re looking at you all confused, you remind them not to trust strangers.
Honestly, if anyone criticized you for “falling for a phishing attempt”, I’d respond, no, that was not a phishing attempt and I was able to tell that it wasn’t, so I succeeded in your “test”.
My work does this sort of thing, but they have a 3rd party entity send actual external emails that resemble what real phishing attempts look like. That’s what a competent test is.