Your post somehow reminds me of defrosted architecture.
Okay, that was too obscure for me.
Another Flanders and Swann routine?
Business hours are from 10-6 here, and my office is literally across the street from where I’m staying, so usually I just sleep until I wake up at about 8.30
The point is…CYMBALS. OUTSIDE MY WINDOW. WHY? I don’t want that shit at any time! Even when I’m wide awake!
Yeah. Something like this:
“Architecture, said Hegel, is frozen music. Donald Swann’s music has often been compared with defrosted architecture.”
Dear co-worker,
Remember when Juno told Bleeker she’d rather get hit by a truck full of hot garbage juice than go to prom with him? I laughed. Because I didn’t think there could be such a thing as “hot garbage juice.” Certainly not enough to fill a truck.
Now I know better. Dude, you smell like a dumpster. Literally. It has to be that you simply haven’t taken a bath or shower, not even a whore’s bath for weeks or months, so all your sweat and every dirt particle you’ve encountered has festered and fermented. I don’t know how it’s not a condition of your employment that you be clean and presentable. But it’s going to be a condition of my working with you. Just gonna have to tell the supervisor, “I can’t work with this guy any more because I physically have to plug my nose when he’s near me.” Crimeny, how can you not be aware of this?!
NPR had some guests awhile back talking about working from home. One guy said that’s how they solved the problem of a good employee who nobody could get along with. Can your stinky guy work from home?
We’ve had threads before about stinky co-workers. Lots of suggestions, but nobody ever came back and said what worked.
Today I’m sorta ranting at myself. I’ve always wanted to take a long train trip and I booked one. I didn’t stop to notice that I have an 8-hour layover in Sacramento. I can’t stay in my room on the train – I have to get off. There’s a mall near the Amtrak station but I’m not comfortable walking around a strange place at night. Guess I’ll pack a pillow.
Unfortunately, his work is hands-on, so he has to be on site. As for what might work, I’m seriously thinking of spilling something on or near him so he’ll have to go into the decontamination shower. Except I’ve never had an accident yet, and I don’t want to get written up just for this.
I was watching Headline News this morning. They had a guy who gives financial advice. His advice for today: buy store brands. He did a whole segment on this. Holy shit, he’s a financial genius. Why the hell didn’t I realize there were cheaper versions of the same products on the shelf? Why doesn’t everybody? Wait, I did. Everybody does. CNN’s money guy is a putz. Oh, and here’s the kicker: You might be surprised that he sometimes buys the name-brand laundry detergent. Well, at least he thinks you might be surprised. He’ll choose the name-brand under these conditions: if it’s on sale, and that sale makes it cheaper than the store brand.
I hope I didn’t just blow your minds all over your cubicles.
Clark Howard, by any chance?
Clark and Dave Ramsey are two guys who are just… eye-rolling with their financial advice. I’m not sure whether I’m more bothered that people pay them to give that advice, or that people need to pay to be told how to comparison-shop.
Secondary, related mini-rant: I wish Dave Ramsey would quit telling people two things about paying for college.
- He’s told callers that they can pay for college in sort of an indentured-servitude agreement with an employer, where the employer pays for college in exchange for a commitment to work there for a certain period after college. This MIGHT be true in nursing, from what my mom the nurse has told me, but I’ve never heard of this in any other field.
- He tells people who want to go into medicine that the best way to pay for college is to do an MD/PhD program. This MIGHT be true IF you have the aptitude to do a PhD.
The facile way he throws these two ways to pay for college out there, in the same tone as his Emergency Fund - Get Current - Debt Snowball steps, which are SENSIBLE, makes it sound as if it’s even a realistic option for most people who want to go to college or med school. He never seems to talk about how difficult an MD/PhD program would be, just about how it’s a sensible way to pay for med school without taking out student loans.
Mom, please STOP calling me to chat during the workday on my cell phone. You’ve commented that I never answer my phone. Perhaps there’s a reason?
Today, there were four messages waiting for me by the time I got to work at 10:30 after my doctor’s appointment:
1: Hi, sweetie. I just called to talk. Whatcha doin’?
2: Overly, it’s me! Why don’t you ever pick up your phone? dramatic sigh Well. I just wanted to let you know. I’ve decided to do it. I agreed to have a colonoscopy.
3: Overly, call me back tonight on your way home from work. I want to tell you about the colonoscopy.
4: Overly, I just called to give you an update: I’ve scheduled my colonoscopy. Call me as soon as you can. Why don’t you ever answer your phone anymore?
I don’t know what I’d do if there were an actual emergency. She frequently calls me because she’s bored or wants to talk about the latest “tragedy,” which usually involves someone I’ve never even heard (and that she’s never met) of dying of natural causes.
Sorry, I logged off after that. Yeah, I had a focal (basically, one of those little ones where your mind gets all foggy and your thoughts get all jumbled up for a few seconds) yesterday – well, two actually. They weren’t as bad as they had been (My meds have been increased – but they still suck.
Thanks. I do appreciate it. I’m all right today. Yesterday, I just logged off and went to bed – the best way to deal with it.
Sucky today? Well, my kittens kept biting me, and my dog woke me up this morning by barking incessantly?
This isn’t really a rant, but I felt like I had to share it and it certainly doesn’t deserve its own thread.
I was playing an online game against random internet people, and at one point someone said something really stupid (can’t remember), so I said “you’re an idiot”.
To which he replied “smarter then you”
“Well, I’m pretty sure if you were smarter than me you’d have figured out the usage of “then” and “than””
“Fuck you I’m not British”
… haha.
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F@#%ing curly quotes! I am trying to read a page on a website and all I see wherever there should be quotation marks or an apostrophe is �. Perhaps to non-Mac users that character will appear as a curly quote. But to me it is a diamond with a question mark inside. While I think it would make a lovely band logo or perhaps a graffiti tag, I don’t want graffiti plastered all over the page, I just want to read a document
with
f@$%ing
quote
marks.
ARGH.
Well, here’s an update. I left a printed, unsigned note on the boss’s desk, stating that while “Wally” is a good worker (true), it’s gotten to the point where if a customer or client sees him or smells him, our reputation will take a nose dive. Plus, it’s entirely possible that he’s unsanitary and we might start getting mysterious illnesses after touching what he’s touched.
I made it clear that this was for the good of the business, not because I personally and solely am disgusted. So we’ll see how the boss responds, and I’ll let you guys know.
I’m taking a Spanish class. It meets Mondays and Wednesdays. I had to miss the first class, which was Monday. And today is…
Yeah, I drove all the way over there and completely humiliated myself.
People who mix up environmentalists and leftists, and/or who incite people to think that way.
People who gripe about their horrid relationships need to fix them or end them instead of complaining about them. Especially when they’ve been harping on the same idiotic little thing for HOURS.
Okay, this is about as mini as it gets, but when there are three people living in one house, there should be more than one doing all the dishes all the time. I’m irritated with them, but I’m irritated at myself, too, because I’m the one who didn’t teach them well enough.
I ordered a pizza for lunch today (WHATUP PIZZA DELIVERY IN INDIA I LOVE GLOBALIZATION) and the pizza guy? Couldn’t find my office. He called twice to tell us where he was, and both times he was really, really, really close to the office and even though my coworker gave him directions in Telugu, he STILL COULDN’T FIND MY OFFICE.
Eventually I had to go collect my pizza myself. He was like, three blocks away. WTF. India, if your road system had, you know, a SYSTEM, maybe everyone’s life would be a little fucking easier. And my pizza wouldn’t have been 45 minutes late.
Also, got a Telugu-language lecture on how I need to be tidier. From the maid. I always thought having a maid would be fucking awesome, but I was wrong. I’ve asked my office if they can just let me clean my room, but this was greeted with incredulity.
The maid bitched at you because you aren’t clean enough? WTF? What’s she do all day, sit around eating bonbons watching whatever they have in India that’s like The Young and the Restless?