# Pull my finger for August (monthly mini rants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 1, 2022, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-my-finger-for-august-monthly-mini-rants/968940 "2022-08-01T21:17:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-my-finger-for-august-monthly-mini-rants/968940/281 "2022-08-31T16:57:29Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > She is an arachnophobe! She is probably an umbrellaphobe now too… ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-my-finger-for-august-monthly-mini-rants/968940/282 "2022-08-31T16:58:29Z")
I wouldn’t open an old, dusty umbrella, that’s for sure. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-my-finger-for-august-monthly-mini-rants/968940/283 "2022-08-31T17:00:57Z")
I generally don’t care for royalty. But her sitting next to and feeding aids patients was commendable. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-my-finger-for-august-monthly-mini-rants/968940/284 "2022-08-31T17:54:21Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Plot twist: There was some sort of spider nest in the old umbrella. When the woman opened the umbrella several spiders fell onto her. She is an arachnophobe! 🎵 When the bugs fell, they fell together They’re stuck in her hair forever She said she was an arachnophobe After this, > [@enipla](#): > > She is probably an umbrellaphobe Now that she’s freaked out more than ever Know that no matter the weather She won’t stand under an umbrella She won’t stand under an umbrella, hella, hella, no, no, no ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-my-finger-for-august-monthly-mini-rants/968940/285 "2022-08-31T18:51:17Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Paper towels are not a substitute for toilet paper Well, for some people … > [@overlyverbose](#): > > I have an employee who is pissed she didn’t get a promotion. We’ve had multiple development meetings to get her to that point, but she told me point blank she’ll do just her job and only her job and nothing else. But she still expects a promotion. This sounds like some of the malicious compliance stories. A person does extra work without pay to get a (usually orally promised) promotion only for someone else to get it. Then the drone decides to do nothing beyond the job they’re paid for and management says, “Whuh? Why aren’t they doing extra work?” Is that what happened? ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-my-finger-for-august-monthly-mini-rants/968940/286 "2022-08-31T21:38:44Z")
It’s possible she was promised by my boss’s boss during a skip level, but I’ve been really careful not to promise anything, and so was my direct manager. This employee has a lack of acumen in a couple of really critical areas, financial especially, and she needs to have financial acumen at the level she wants to be. For example, if you want to be a director, you need to be able to provide margin on a product. Whenever i ask her for margin on her product, she usually tells me what they _thought_ the margin would be in the late 2010s when the program started. When I send it back asking for actual margin, she sends me what the margin would be if we didn’t give our largest volume client a discount. When I send _that_ back along with the formula to get actual margin, she says, “Oh, you wanted the margin based on what the client pays us. I was giving you margin based on the expenses.” What??? ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-my-finger-for-august-monthly-mini-rants/968940/287 "2022-08-31T21:56:30Z")
I am ranting because tomorrow its September and summer is almost over. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-my-finger-for-august-monthly-mini-rants/968940/288 "2022-08-31T22:06:15Z")
Aw, you’re just afraid that we won’t need suntan lotion any more… . Actually, I look at September as an annual Midlife Crisis. Instead of “OMG, I’m turning forty and I haven’t ridden a yak into an all-inclusive beach resort yet!”, it’s “OMG, it’s Labor Day and I haven’t kayaked the St. Lawrence Seaway yet!” ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-my-finger-for-august-monthly-mini-rants/968940/289 "2022-08-31T23:09:00Z")
I’ll throw in a rant for a predicted week-plus of over 100 degrees here in Sacramento, with at least one of those days scheduled to go over 110. ---
**Author:** ![Noelq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noelq/32/16438_2.png) [@Noelq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noelq)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-my-finger-for-august-monthly-mini-rants/968940/290 "2022-08-31T23:11:49Z")
And I’ll add to your rant about the California power grid, and them projecting brownouts/blackouts. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-my-finger-for-august-monthly-mini-rants/968940/291 "2022-08-31T23:55:50Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > I am ranting because tomorrow its September and summer is almost over. Seconded. Winter comes fast and furious up here. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-my-finger-for-august-monthly-mini-rants/968940/292 "2022-08-31T23:56:59Z")
I hear that it’ll be like that in AZ this week, too. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-my-finger-for-august-monthly-mini-rants/968940/293 "2022-09-01T00:40:58Z")
Summer is over in less than 3 1/2 hours (meteorological summer, that is). But it’s only 6 months till spring! ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-my-finger-for-august-monthly-mini-rants/968940/294 "2022-09-01T04:11:36Z")
Since it is now September (depending on where you are located at least) I started a new thread: > [@Ba-dee-ya, Rantin' in September (monthly mini rants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ba-dee-ya-rantin-in-september-monthly-mini-rants/970706): > > My first mini rant of September is about my uninterruptable power supply (UPS). It does its job pretty well, when I have minor power outages my PC stays on (my main computer is a desktop I built). It also has a nice feature where it sends an email to inform me of power events, such as the power going out and having to be on battery, needing to shut down, errors, and so on. Lately it has been spamming me multiple times a day to say, “Battery capacity is normal.” That’s it. I’ll get that anyw… ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2022, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-my-finger-for-august-monthly-mini-rants/968940/295 "2022-09-05T03:16:29Z")
> [@slalexan](#): > > I’ve actually not seen a GI. But I have done barium swallows in the past. I don’t have an ulcer or any weirdness with my esophagus yet. I am not really wanting to see a doctor about this right now because I know they are going to tell me to lose weight. I have lost weight. It did not make the acid reflux better. Having recently been diagnosed with early-stage Barrett’s esophagitis: yeah, losing weight etc. would be helpful, but you want this monitored due to the risk of it progressing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pull-my-finger-for-august-monthly-mini-rants/968940.md?page=14)