Had a 61 Falcon until the boychik was born, and I no longer had the time to work on it.
I’d be pretty pissed too, but I would at least send in a letter of resignation, and WOW, would the manager of the parking garage be getting a blistering note.
That’s the way it was at my last (US) job except it was company policy, not required by law. It was a 24/7 call center so there were shifts at all hours on all days and for the really major holidays they would ask for volunteers.
If it was a regularly scheduled day for you, you got time and a half. If it was a day off for you, double time and a half. Since calls were light it was an easy way to make some extra cash. If you were scheduled for that day and did not volunteer, you got a day’s pay for no work at all.
Unfortunately I and several others were cross-trained to take Canadian calls and three of us who’d been volunteering together did so for Independence Day. In Canada it was just another Tuesday so we took the usual fifty calls while our not-trained co-workers took the usual six or eight.
The three of us went to the boss and said, “That’s not fair; take us off the Canadian queue next time.” We were all experienced and skillful agents which is why we were cross-trained in the first place but the boss said he couldn’t do that. We said, “Fine,” and never volunteered again except for Christmas and New Years Day, the two Canadian holidays that matched.
At my current job when I first started out what all the new employees did mostly was load and unload pallets, as in physically taking stuff off a pallet or putting stuff on a pallet for a forklift to then take away. It was all mainly young people except for a single other new hire who happened to be in his mid 50’s who as the expression went was “An old man with old balls.” Despite having the exact same status as us he thought he could basically take charge and order people what to do. He was VERY picky on how exactly you were suppose to load a pallet, by putting stuff interlocked/interlaced so the packages stuck together, as opposed to just stacking them all in a single column which might cause it to fall over if it got too high. He was technically right except this was all speed based, we didn’t have the time to properly interlace stack them nor did it matter since the pallets had cardboard sleeves so things weren’t going to fall out anyway.
But this old man was CONSTANTLY complaining to everyone else about how all pallets should have things stacked “properly”. It got to the point one day he looked into a pallet, saw once again people were stacking things in a single column, got visibly angry and yelled ALRIGHT THAT’S IT and then walked off the job. Literally, he quit because people were stacking things wrong. I never saw him again.
This reminds me of the person who I worked with who was to retire in a couple years after this anecdote. I was installing software with two higher-ranking, equally-aged-to-each-other people. One of my elders insisted that we not only reboot the machines we’d just installed the software on, we had to actually power down and restart them afterward, because I guess they’d save their memory state magnetically otherwise? Yet, we did like he demanded because it was easier to lose a few seconds per install than to fight his crazy ideas.
Did the company have any kind of agreement/contract with the garage?
Does it matter? Unless you mean that she could have parked some place else.
Personally, I don’t know that this is such a silly reason to quit. They way she went about it wasn’t great, and was probably going to come back and haunt her, but the reason itself makes me kinda mad, just thinking about it.
If there’s a contract/agreement, the company should have some leverage in getting the garage to deal with their employees behavior. There might even be shared liability for damages or theft. Otherwise, it is the garage the employee would have to deal with. It’s pretty ballsy for the attendants to actually open the hood of the car.
Still, a silly reason to quit without trying to fix the problem.
It’s easier to open the hood of an older car. They just pop open-- you don’t need to release them from inside the cab, so they wouldn’t have needed the keys to open the hood.
Also, it’s possible this women dealt with some kind of similar situation somewhere else and got no place, and figured there was no use trying here either. Or maybe because she was a woman, the feeling of being violated was stronger, and more personal.
The way she quit was still stupid.
It’s pretty ballsy that they’re invading someone’s property like that. That’s breaking and entering, plain and simple.
Re: the Mustang
Remember, things can always get worse.
Actually yes. With a cold-boot (power off) all of the components, cards, ports, etc. reset with the power cycle and was more common in DOS days to have to do this. With a warm-boot that power-cycle doesn’t happen and there was a time I needed a cold-boot to reset one of my USB ports on a modern machine. If I’m just installing software then a warm-boot should be fine but if I’m installing software that is going to interact with the hardware is an unusual way then a cold (or hard) boot would be the safe way to restart the machine just to make sure the hardware is in a fresh state.
Oh yes, that’s a flashback all right. But it’s true even today, if perhaps less likely than the days of MS-DOS: if the problem is due to a hardware interaction with the device driver component of the operating system, it may need a power cycle to reset where a “soft” reboot of the OS doesn’t work because the device driver isn’t written correctly (relies on hardware initialization/assumed startup state instead of its own state management on startup).
Back when a user sometimes had to edit WIN.INI to load drivers in a specific order to get things to work at all, the likelihood of one of those drivers being written quickly in a way that was never tested with other drivers was pretty high.
Now that most accessory devices adhere to some kind of standard that can be tested against, and in turn the standard tested against the OS, this should be a lot less likely.
In this case, if the USB device needed a power cycle to reset (where USB is supposed to be Plug-and-Play), shouldn’t an unplug-and-replug have fixed it? Unless there was a bug in the USB hub device driver, which would be unusual given how long that has been around as a standard.
Well, what I think is that this person is a fundamentalist loon, and if they hadn’t quit over this, they’d’ve left after finding out how irreverent the language in the workplace is.
Anecdote: I was in a job interview, and the woman who would be my boss saw on my resume that I’d been a Youth Pastor and said “I don’t know, I hope this place isn’t too… secular…?” I laughed “Well, sometimes when everything’s a mess and the client just called with ‘a tiny little change’ that screws everything up, you just have to yell 'Fuuuuuuuck!” “Oh, I’m so glad to hear you say that. We yell that a lot.”
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(Huh, I sometimes worry that I’m too boring, but hey, I once yelled Fuck at a job interview. Guess I’m okay…)
They’re out there.
I remember reading about a multiple murderer who got upset at a store when his purchases came to $6.66. He left rather than pay that amount.
I’ve had the same cellphone number for a long time now. When I got it, I was handed a list of available numbers. Several were highlighted so that people wouldn’t accidentally choose them. I chose one of the highlighted numbers, which includes (not counting area code) five sixes, three of which are in a row!
Years (decades, actually), smoking was permitted in offices in New York City. At some point it became restricted to designated smoking areas or rooms.
Okay, fine.
Back then, I was working in an office which decided to ban smoking altogether.
A woman I knew thought that this was outrageous, and quit. Gave notice on the same day the firm announced the policy.
Then, just a few weeks later, New York City banned smoking in workplaces altogether.
So she quit for nothing. There was no place for her to go where she’d be permitted to smoke.
Exceptionally dumb because the writing had been on the walls for a long time. And, ‘I’ll go to another city’ would have been just as bad because workplace smoking bans were obviously coming just about everywhere in the USA.
I drove for a courier service a long time ago(no galaxy). I had a Christian radio station refuse their paychecks because the package tracking number ended in 666.
I don’t know why if they weren’t bothering anyone. We have sofas in our break room. I have to take an hour lunch, I don’t really need the full hour. So I often take a 20 min power nap. Other than people marveling that I can actually sleep, no one cares.
20-odd years ago, at one of my previous jobs, I had a co-worker who was a good guy, and a good worker, but definitely an odd duck. One day, after lunch, he was feeling tired, and decided that he needed a quick nap. He went up to the top floor of the building (where the executive offices were), as there was a nice couch in the reception area there. It was usually very quiet on that floor, and he stretched out on the couch for a nap.
When he woke up, he discovered that the company founder, who was in his 80s, but was still on the board, and still came into the office from time to time, was sitting in a chair across from the couch. The founder was ostenstibly reading the Wall Street Journal, but he was clearly watching my co-worker, and not terribly amused by the nap.
The napping co-worker didn’t last much longer at the company.