Am I the only one who really hates the duplicity people seem to be incapable of going even a singe minute without demonstrating like a peacock in full display mode? I understand that it’s necessary to protect diverse sensibilities in a social context at times, but even at those times I think you can often get away with just keeping to the basic principle of STFU. And I’ll even go so far as to admit that sometimes you have to suck up to superiors if you expect to actually be recognized for your talents one day.
The problem I have is that most people really do seem to be genuinely mean spirited and in cases where they could say something helpful to a person who might benefit, instead they use it as an opportunity for gossip and snark. I can see using ridicule when someone appears to be beyond help but I really don’t think that applies to most situations, so I am just being a cynical bastard? I hope not since it’s my hate that keeps me warm at night - even if she does insist on being called Mistress Hate.
Hurray for saving the kitten! I knew there was good reasons to like you I"m not feeding my colony here anymore. They know to go to Tony’s place for food, and Bill put Tony on automatic payment so Tony gets cat food money (and a little extra) every month.
Steve wasn’t meant to be a feral housecat, that just happened. In the summer, there was a wildfire that wasn’t threatening my home, but all of the smoke channeled down through the ridges of the mountains to cut visibility to half a mile.
It wasn’t so bad inside, the filters on my evaporative cooler kept the air pretty clean, so I started trapping my wildlings and putting them in cages with clean air and as much gooshy food as they could eat.
Steve thought that he liked living in the gooshy food cage and strongly objected when we tried to evict him so now I have a house feral.
All in all, he’s a pretty good guest. He doesn’t fight with my housecats, he doesn’t mark or damage anything. He uses the litterbox and eats his gooshy food and sometimes I see him sleeping in the window when I come home. Unlike your kitten, and hurray again, I doubt that Steve will every willingly allow me to touch him.
shrugs That’s OK. I don’t do Trap Neutor Release because I think my wildlings will love me. They hated me before I trapped them and had body parts cut off.
Thanks, and your rant just ticks me off. I don’t lock my jeep because I’d rather that people open the door instead of cutting the soft top. I was in Phx and came out to find that someone had cut my soft top, trashed all my papers and broke the mount for my GPS.
When I was in third or fourth grade, someone tried to slash the soft top on the school coach’s Jeep. For some reason, they tried to go through the windows instead of the top material; while the scumbag never made it to the interior, they did significant damage.
Within the last few years, I’ve started hearing about people having the doors stolen off of their Wranglers. Geez, are they worth that much???
My hands have started getting super dry and cracked, so I have some shea butter lotion on them. It feels so frickin’ nasty. On the plus side, my fingers aren’t bleeding right now.
Sometimes, straight-up olive oil right out of your pantry will do the trick; at a minimum, if you spill a little while cooking, wipe it onto your skin instead of a paper towel. Also, a quick shout-out to the most awesomest skin care evah (no, I do not work for them, I just love this one item.) Flatlined, I’ve been meaning to post this ever since you said you were moving:
"… a hundred ten
ain’t nuthin’ when
you live out there, you see.
I understand why lizards live
in sunny Arizona,
why people do, and call it home
I’ll never understand … "
(- Robert Earl Keen Jr.)
I haven’t, nor bragged about its reliability within less than 100 km of it, but hey, if it’s going to start costing 1K here and 500 there, at least it has chosen a moment with a “plan renove” to do so! “Plan renove” has come to mean “any time when you get a discount for trading a very old car for a new one” (it doesn’t even have to be brand new, it can be minimal-mileage such as one that was used in a trade fair), I think it was the name of the first such government plan.
The next car is NOT going to be grey. Or black. Or that navy so dark it looks black if it’s not stationed next to a black one. I want a car I can see when I’m looking for it in a public garage.
Sounds like call centers I’ve worked in. One person gets something (and a lot of the people who work in places like that have young children bringing stuff home from daycare/school), everyone winds up with whatever version of “kennel cough” (as some call center workers call it) got brought in, and most working in such places cannot afford to take time off, what with lack of paid sick time and need to keep a roof overhead, etc.
Oh yeah, call center I worked in was 300 people in one big open room. Illness swept through that place like a fire.
When I did the University Security thing, we got very generous sick time, but our bosses always complained about how much of it was being used. Then there was a campus wide initiative to get hand sanitizer stations installed and they decided to opt out. :eek: I went to them, pointed out how they complain about the sick time we use, and then pointed out that on the average day, we touched pretty much every doorknob and push-bar on the entire campus. “So what do you think we’re picking up?” Lightbulb moment We had the hand sanitizer within a week.
Of course, call centers are generally too cheap to do anything like that, but imagine what a generous supply of hand santizers and bleach wipes (for desks and phones) would do to their sick time.
When SARS was a thing here in Toronto my employer put a container of bleach wipes on every desk in addition to upgrading the level of cleaning the night time crew did. It either worked or they got lucky but we had only one case who got it from his wife the nurse but it didn’t spread. He was also smart enought to self quarantine before it was confirmed though.
There’s something evil going around right now and I’ve been avoiding my one day in the office as much as possible. We’ve had people out for between 1 and 4 weeks, all with the same flu like symptoms and it seems to reoccur if you try and come back too soon. We had a group event last week and even though everyone appeared healthy I did a crazy amount of hand washing/sanitizing.
I don’t lock my doors either, for the same reason. I KNOW punk-ass kids break into vehicles in my neighbourhood and I’d rather them simply open the door than smash my window or screw up my door handle. I don’t leave anything of true value in my Jeep.
…but why would someone slash a soft-top to get in when they can simply unzip the windows?
My buddy who had the same Jeep as me actually had his soft-top windows stolen one summer.
(Funny you should mention Phoenix, flatlined, - my Jeep is actually from there. Her previous owner bought her in Phoenix and drove her back from Canada every winter to park her. She never saw a Canadian winter until I bought her in 2009. And yes, she’s a girl, because she’s automatic - hence no “stick.”)
I lost a $300 travel reimbursement check from work. FUCK! I got it in my mailbox yesterday, I took it out of the envelope, and then…? In theory, I put it in my pocket or wallet. Well, not in my wallet, wasn’t in the pockets of the pants I wore yesterday. It’s not at my desk at work, and I didn’t see it on my desk at home. The only places I can possibly think it is is the trashcan next to my desk at home, or in the floor somewhere. When I emptied my pockets yesterday, I might have thrown it away by accident along with the receipt from the grocery store.
If it’s not there…then fuck, it’s gone. I either accidentally threw it away at work somehow(and our trashcans all get emptied every night,) or it fell out of my pocket somewhere. The other places off the top of my head I can think of is the grocery store. I can’t remember if I threw away the receipt at home or at the store…or both, meaning one of the two I threw away was the check, and there’s a chance it was thrown away at the store. :smack:
I still don’t understand why I even get a check…I have direct deposit for my paychecks, why can’t a reimbursement check get directly deposited, too?
I think it’s the same thing going around here - one guy told me yesterday that he was in his fourth week of being sick, and another lady got the rebound thing (which seems to be milder than the original Creeping Crud).
My guess is the reimbursement cheques are processed manually, while payroll is processed by a large payroll processing company.
NOT a happy feeling, bouv. My recommendation, which you’re of course completely free to ignore :), is to tell the accountant types about the misplace, have them stop payment on the first one, and re-issue it.
… recycling bin? That’s the only other place I could think of that you didn’t already list. That sucks - could you get a replacement check if they cancel or put a stop order on the other one?
We get asked that all the time by the guys with expenses. It’s basically this. Payroll is done by an outside company, we are not set up to pay vendors by ACH (or EFT in Canada) and expenses/reimbursements are processed as a vendor payment so cheques are cut.
Hope you find it Bouv, or can get a replacement one quickly.
In the last week my husband and I have learned all about meniere’s disease and drop attacks and what this does to a pilot’s career. For those fortunate not to know, Meniere’s screws up the inner ear with symptoms ranging from tinnitus and hearing loss to sudden bouts of dizziness and full-out can’t stand up head over the toilet motion sickness, complete with vomiting. Sort of like being extremely drunk and on a roller coaster. He had the first attack slightly over a week ago while we were out at a movie (not while flying or driving or he and severl other people would almost certainly be dead) and his most recent one last night. Today I took him in to get an MRI to eliminate the slight possibility of a tumor, but we have to wait until Monday to see the doctor, thanks to the holidays.
Meanwhile, no working, no driving, no leaving the house without me. Couln’t have happend at a worse time, too. he just left one job and had been offered a new one but not yet started, so no unemployment, no chance of working, no SDI, not disabled enough to state disability. Going to be an interesting few months.
Don’t you just love it when you sit down in a bus, and the girl you’re sitting near is talking loudly on her cell phone? Especially when she’s swearing a lot and saying anti-Semitic things, and things about how she pushed someone the other day. :mad:
I"m not feeding my colony here anymore. They know to go to Tony’s place for food, and Bill put Tony on automatic payment so Tony gets cat food money (and a little extra) every month.
