PayPal has great customer service on the phone for their other products. It’s possible they have extended that to all areas.
“PayPal sucks” isn’t very true any more, they have addressed anything anybody ever badmouthed them about.
(I’m not a stockholder or anything. I have used their services for a long time as part of an online job, so this sort of is on topic.)
When you open up a copier to find a misfeed, the knobs/levers/switches you can touch and manipulate without causing damage are made of blue plastic. Don’t touch anything that isn’t blue plastic - you will either get burned, stained, or ruin something expensive to replace with your smudgy fingers.
I don’t know if people realize how inexpensive it is to advertise on television at a local level. As cheap as $2-3 per :30-second spot in some small markets. Of course, there aren’t many eyeballs seeing your commercial - otherwise you’d be paying a lot more.
And when you switch credit card processors ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS overlap them for a month ALWAYS!!! Here’s way. You’ll start with the new one and something will go wrong. After a week the funds won’t be showing up in your account or something won’t be right with the machine or you’re just having a hard time training people on the machine or whatever it is, it’s nice to have the old machine to fall back on while you get things straightened out with the new processor. We had once processor that we had so many problems with that we went back to our original one. But since we never closed out our original merchant account we didn’t really ‘go back’ so much as I just told my employees to go back to using the ‘other machine again’.
Oh, and every 6 months call and get a ‘rate review’. I nearly always get lower rates that way, they do creep up on their own and they will give lower rates to people who are on top of that kind of thing because the people who pay attention to that are the people who will leave them for a new processor with lower rates (and FTR, I’ve been with the same processor for probably 10 years)
My trick was just not to get stoned at work. I was never good at being high and doing stuff but since I knew from day 1 I’d be moving up quickly (family business) I never wanted anyone to be able to hold that over my head. I’d been high with a few of them outside of work and I’d certainly been around them when they got high at work but no one could ever claim I was high at work. Even now, when I haven’t smoked in years, no one can hold the ‘drugs at work’ thing over my head.
If you’re talking on a conference call and need to ask a question to someone who isn’t actively involved in the converstaion, start with their name. Then frame the question with enough background to help them catch up. It saves a lot of “sorry, I was multitasking, what did you say?” moments.
Me too, now. Thanks.
Let’s see . . .financial aid from colleges is negotiable. EVERYTHING involving college admissions is negotiable. You can call up an admissions department and argue with them successfully.
Writing up an incident report? Print up an old incident that was similar and change the details. You’re supposed to write up each report fresh based on what happened. But honestly, how many ways are there to say “We searched his cell and we found some drugs”?
You’re welcome!
As someone suggested above, it won’t work for sensitive votes, and the kids need some guidance in not being assholes to people voting a different way. On the other hand, it works really well for choosing a topic (e.g., what animal do you want to research) if there are limited supplies and if you don’t especially care who chooses what. I can say, for example, “If there are more than four people in a group, I’ll move one person to another group,” and students naturally place themselves in right-sized groups in order to avoid being moved. In that respect it works far better than a written vote with first, second, and third choices.
At least, it does so far, wtih my current class. I’m hoping it’ll continue to work.
Walk away from the computer and get a cup of coffee, sip it until it’s finished, THEN go back; and if you still really want to send that irate or inappropriate email, delete it and call the person instead.
Teachers, think regular ScanTron sheets only have five answers? It’s a lot more than that. AB, AC, AD, AE, etc. work just fine, as well as any unique combination of two or more (up to ABCDE) letters per answer. I seem to remember 36 possible answers per question if one’s so inclined.
Also, the #2 pencil only thing is a lie. #1, 1.5, and numbers higher than 2 work fine as long as long as the spot’s good and dark. Mechanical pencils do well, too.
I’m sure this will enrich many lives!!
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Pickles taste ten times better if you munch them fresh out of the pickle tub in the walk-in than they do on the burger.
Besides Sunday papers, the next heaviest was Wednesday. Saturday was the thinnest.
To machine a super fine finish on Plexiglass, use Ivory dish washing soap and water as your cutting fluid.
When you are doing some repetitive job that is wearing your fingertips raw, wrap them in masking tape before starting.
Back in the Stone Age, before ear buds, you could yank the earphone bits off of the headband of Walkman headphones and stuff one earphone inside of each muff of industrial hearing protectors.
By the way, when sanding Fiberglas, keep your Walkman cassette player in a ziplock baggie. It will last longer than a couple of weeks.
WD-40 will work as a cutting fluid in a pinch when drilling or sawing metal.
When threading a movie projector, rotate the motor by hand until you see the intermittent sprocket turn a notch. Then you can thread up without needing to adjust framing.
When changing gas cylinders, flammable gases have left-handed threads and nonflammable have standard threads. The nut on the lefty tank regulators have a groove cut in it around the flats to indicate this.
And finally…
It’s easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission.
email is the greatest gift to everybody who has somebody above them on the food chain. It allows you to cover your ass (assuming you do things right) with immediate followup from conference calls and meetings by gracefully summarizing who said what. John agreed to do X, Sally agreed to do Y etc… If you list the problems that are expected to come up then you can link back to your email when the problems surface.
Never wear a wristwatch on your strong hand if you’re doing construction. The stress of hammering and vibration of power tools will kill it.
Interesting. Is that including getting admitted itself, or just the terms once you’re admitted? If you get waitlisted, for example, would it help to call? Happily I’m past the point of having to worry about all that myself, but I have a lot of younger cousins who will be going through college soon…
Say you’ve written a book and are looking for a literary agent. Do NOT just make a hundred copies of the book and send it out to the first hundred agencies listed in your writer’s guide. This is a huge waste of time and paper. Instead, do some research. Think of books that have a similar tone or style to the one you’ve written, look in that book’s acknowledgement section, and find out what agency represented it. That’s probably a good bet for your own book. When you write the cover letter, tailor it to the agency you’re writing to. Mention how much you enjoyed XYZ books that they represented. It’s still tough to get an agent, but this should at least save you some time and money.
If you will be going through college soon, try to do everything as soon as possible. Go to the earliest Orientation Day you can get into. Register for classes the same day, if you can. Get your student ID made and get your parking permit while you’re visiting campus, even if you’re exhausted and just want to go home: you’ll get it taken care of and you won’t have to stand in a long line when school starts.
And, of course, it is YOUR responsibility to take care of business: make an appointment to go talk to your advisor, follow up on paperwork, get answers to the questions that you have. There is a whole campus full of people here and they work for YOU. Don’t be shy.
And don’t party too much: whatever you think you know about college life is just untrue or wildly exaggerated. You are here to work. I’ve seen promising freshmen flunk out or coast through on declining grades, just barely making it to graduation day by the skin of their teeth. If you’re just not motivated to do what it takes to get ready for the next stage of your life, go back home to Mom and Dad and work at the Burger Barn or the widget factory until you figure it out. Don’t take up a seat in a class when you don’t want to be there, only to fail the class and then take another seat next semester when you have to re-take it.
And when you’re an engineering or physics major and you keep failing the math pre-reqs because you hate math, it’s time to change your major. Just because Dad is an engineer doesn’t mean that you should be one too.
Leave your number. Some of us don’t have caller ID.
Absolutely you should call if you are wait-listed and you really want to go to a particular school. They WANT to offer slots to the most gung-ho kids, so they want to know who those kids are. You should also send in any additional application information that may have developed since you submitted your application, like if your rank has shifted up, you did well in a competitive event, won an award, got promoted at work . . .anything that shows you have spent your senior year productively, not just coasting.
If your library posts signs that say, “Please do not reshelve books you’ve looked at – please place them on this cart here instead,” it’s only partly because they don’t trust patrons to do it correctly. Don’t get all huffy, think, “I’m no idiot,” and reshelve that book. Because the other reason for that sign is that the library counts statistics on what books have been handled and/or checked out. It helps them decide what books to keep and which to get rid of when they need to trim their collection. Sometimes “get rid of” means sell at a booksale, and sometimes it means throw into the recycling bin. It depends on the library’s policy.
Say you’ve noticed that your library owns Book #1 and Book #3 of a trilogy, but not Book #2. Some library catalogs have a function (maybe a button or link) that allow patrons to suggest a book they’d like the library to buy. If your library’s catalog doesn’t have this function, ask at the circulation or reference desk if there’s another means for you to make these suggestions. It might be as simple as telling the reference librarian, “I’ve noticed the library is missing Book #2. Would it be possible for you to buy it?” They may not act on your suggestion for whatever reason, but it doesn’t hurt to speak up. (You can also do this for non-trilogy books. :))
Watches or rings + working with hands is bad all around.