Excellent rant, Catamount! Sometimes I think this board has gotten too damned vanilla and then someone comes along that knows how to rant a rant. Good job. Thanks!
I’m pissed that people are panicking about not being able to get gas, but nobody is complaining about the fact that the pipeline broke so that gasoline was pouring into nearby rivers.
I think I remember that story!
She wasn’t the brightest of people so I suppose it’s possible she thought she might get away with it. I’m just glad it didn’t send me into my overdraft.
Well, to be fair, it’s not like they could fill their hovercraft with say, eels.
I have enough gas for commuting this week…unfortunately, I was supposed to go to the dentist tomorrow to have a filling repaired. This is quite a bit out of my way…I’m thinking of canceling the appointment to make sure I have enough gas for next week in case the tankers are delayed. :mad:
Thank you. I thought this thread needed a shot of Vitamin Fuck. 
Mine does. But I got one of those hippie alternative fuel hovercrafts. I will admit the slime is a problem, but a wet wipe takes care of the worst of it.
We’ll just throw the dumb motherfuckers in the rivers and they’ll absorb it. Better than sandbags they are.
How is it that they can run ads with a straight face that whine that none of the money if Prop 56 passes will go to schools, when nothing in the text of the proposed tax says thing one about schools???
And the ads against Prop 61 are all butthurt that it WILL harm veterans. No, it MIGHT harm veterans, but only if the pharma companies, WHO ARE THE PEOPLE FINANCING THE ANTI ADS play their usual douchebag selves and raise the cost of meds just to fuck with people. Plus the ads say the Prop will only aid a small portion of the people, but that’s who it’s intended to assist.
At least what they are whining about actually has something to do with that Prop. Prop 56 has absolutely nothing to do with schools.
Job hunting still sucks! not even so much the hunting, which is much easier than it used to be back in the stone age. It’s the being treated like cattle part that pisses me right off.
The fucking off-site recruiter specifically asked me what time I was available for an interview. I said I was already working so I needed something that ended before 10 a.m. or started after 3 p.m. because taking A3 hour lunch ain’t going to cut it but leaving early is ok.
They went and scheduled the thing for 10:30 a.m. what the fuck part of any day at all as long as it’s early in the morning or late in the afternoon makes you think 1030 is good for me? Just don’t bother asking if you don’t give a shit.
Then yesterday I got an email about an interview with a different company. The recruiter emailed me saying that my appointment is with Todd at 9 but I should be there at 8:50 because people who show up early make a better impression and I will want to look good for Todd.
Exqueeze me? what the fuck was that? I’m not some stupid ass teenager who’s never had a job before. I don’t need you giving me life skills advice just tell me what time to be there and who to ask for.
And while we’re on that subject maybe you should get a receptionist or at least update your phone list from 1986 so that when I get there I know how to contact the person I’m looking for. There’s no fucking Todd or Rod or Tom or Tad. Why are there never updated phone lists in the lobby with the actual names of people who still fucking work there, Todd?
So anyway I get there at 8:50 as suggested by the know-it-all recruiter and the doors are locked. They don’t even open until 9. When I finally did get inside and reached out to this Todd person, I ended up waiting 30 minutes before he could see me.
So what I’m getting out of this is your time it’s fucking super important and God forbid anybody should interrupt you with a previously scheduled appointment while it’s okay to make me wait picking my nose and scratching my butt in the lobby for half an hour.
Yeah dude I’m super stoked about working here. I bet you buy the cheap one ply toilet paper for your employees too.
I missed the edit window but should have mentioned in case Todd is reading this that someone should tell him about his breath smelling like Buffalo Sweat. Also he’s wearing one blue sock and one black sock and it wouldn’t have been so bad on his pants been long enough for him. Just saying. If you’re going to give me stupid career advice I’ll give you some.
So… parents are getting divorced, with my mother’s side of the family (including a young sister whom I adore) pulling up roots and going back to Ye Olde Country From Which We Came, and dad moving to Another Far-Away-Country Because Reasons. Chances are, I’ll never see either bunch again, which is just kinda… hurtful, and frustrating, and making me realize that there was a heck of a lot of unresolved childhood stuff that’ll never be resolved.
Meanwhile, hubby and I are sitting on the East Coast and trying to make city living work.
Time to therapist-shop, I guess…
I think I’ve met both your recruiter and Todd. “Kevin” was most annoying and obnoxious recruiter I’ve ever dealt with. The very last interview he ever set up for me was scheduled for noon, and it came with this crucial advice: “Please be on time as (interviewer) is meeting you on his lunch hour.” Thanks, Kevin, for sharing this crucial, little-known bit of life skills advice.
I got to the site early, and proceeded to wait while the receptionist told me that (interviewer) was “in a meeting” and would be there “soon.” After 45 minutes of this I excused myself and left. Never heard from (interviewer) or the company. Fuck 'em.
Things got weird on my way back to work (this was on *my *lunch hour, too). I got a call from *another *recruiter, from a different agency, with whom I’d spoken in the past, asking about the interview I’d just (not) had. Never figured out what was up with that.
I wish I could say they were the same person, CWthree, but the jerks are multiplying.
Did Kevin tell you to show up at some time EST during DST too?
I went to a drive-thru Starbucks this afternoon and I’m still upset. Here’s how the conversation went:
Barrista: Welcome to Starbucks! What can I get started for you?
Me: I’d like a blueberry oatmeal, please.
Barrista: (long silence)
Me: And that’s it.
Barrista: Really?
Me: Yes.
Barrista: Huh. Okay. I’ll have your total at the window.
Me: (Drives up to window and hands debit card)
Barrista: (Annoyed) Wait a minute. You’re the guy who ordered the oatmeal last time.
Me: (Fake smile) Is that right? (Takes debit card and oatmeal, drives away)
Well excuuuse me, you tat-covered, four-eyed hippie bitch! Your damned coffee is burned swill, but your oatmeal is just fine.
As annoyed as I am, the worst thing about this is that I can never, ever go back there. Dammit.
Go back there, dammit.
No!
I know how he feels.
I had a problem at a local KMart. The cashier scanned an item twice, then denied it when I pointed out the error (I’d done the math in my head and knew the total couldn’t be accurate), then looked at the receipt and was still dumbstruck.
I walked over and got a manager. She quickly recognized the error and refunded the difference, but I was pissed off, so I repeatedly reminded the manager how much effort it took on my part to fix a simple error. I returned the entire order, got my cash, and told the manager the cashier had permanently lost me as a customer.
I’ve never been back, instead I’ll drive 20 miles for alternate places to get buy crap I could get there, close to home.
I just spent half an hour going through all my subscriptions. Why? Because YouTube introduced a new feature where you get some subscription notifications by email (as opposed to all or none as it was before). Which would be fine, if they had not, in their infinite wisdom, decided to set it as the default. So guess who kept getting spammed?
Oh, sure, they include an unsubscribe link in the email. Problem is, it’s only for that one channel, so you’d have to do it many times to fix it. And, going to YouTube proper, it doesn’t seem it was even actually changing the setting.
Oh, and they have the audacity to claim on the bottom of the email that I signed up for those email notification, when I never did.
Sure, if I didn’t want any email notifications, I could have just shut them all off. But I have some channels that I want email notifications for. So I had to go spend that time going through hundreds of subscriptions.
For fuck’s sake, when you add a new feature, you either make it really easy to undo, or you leave it off by default! Even my little rinky-dink programs pull that off.
But, of course, YouTube has no real competition, and has no fear of losing customers, so they just don’t stop to think.
And now they’re broke and closing stores left and right. I hope you’re happy!
Can somebody explain to me how to stop getting email notifications but STILL have my subscriptions? I have tried for months.