Where did I say to punt the dog? ::looks innocent::
Yesterday seemed like a day for adventure; nice weather and all, so I pulled out the ancient 12 Speed from the garage and took her for a ride in the park for the first time in… years. ( Yes, my sense of balance has suffered, but I won’t get it back just sitting here, will I? )
I wasn’t doing great, but I was doing OK. Then I went home. As I was riding on a side street, a woman in a White Honda CRV going the opposite direction swung her car close to me, driving me into the curb. I landed on the sidewalk. She never stopped, I didn’t get her plate, and I was in shock and in pain: I’d bruised my ribs.
I walked the bike home. It seems not really worse for the wear, but HTG, I was in Agony last night trying to sleep! I ended up sleeping sitting up in a chair.
If I may, I’d like to say out loud, " FUCK YOU, HIT AND RUN DRIVERS!!! "
“But I might hurt you, if you don’t keep your dog away from me.”
I’ve always been careful to keep my leashed dog from approaching other people, unless they’re adults who show an interest in petting the dog and both parties are acting appropriately. It’s not happening with children, especially those who ask “Does he bite?”. Yep, kid, he’ll rip your lungs out if he senses fear…better stay clear.
I’ve mini-ranted before about AT&T, who is installing fiber optic cable in our neighborhood. It’s been a shit show from the get-go. Close to a year ago they put flyers on our doors promising “fiber is coming to your neighborhood!” Some time in July they came around digging holes in everybody’s yards - then just left them for five or six months. Finally around the end of the year they came back and started running the big rubber tubing for the fiber optic cable. Earlier this spring they finally wrapped things up, putting little hatches in the ground and filling in the dirt, putting down seed and straw, etc. So now we’re finally in the “getting people connected” phase.
Today we had an appointment for them to come out and hook us up. The guy comes out, and discovers they never ran any conduit to our yard - they basically dug a hole and then just filled it back in. So he had to put in a work order to have them come back and run the conduit, he said it would take about a week or so, then we can reschedule the hookup. He apologized that it was going to take another week or so, and I said “we’ve only been waiting a year. One more week isn’t going to make any difference.”
I’m starting to not give a shit about password security anymore.
I just got notified that over 200 passwords I use online were in a data leak. They’re very different; I mean, not all are different but it’s not like I used the same one every time. They’re generally complex and long. The thing that really pisses me off though, is that I spent days going through changing password after password on web sites all over just a couple months ago.
So either one of two things is happening. The claims of data leaks are bullshit and erroneous. Or, these web sites are so incompetent that they leak like a sieve and whatever I change is gonna get discovered again in another month or two. So tell me why I shouldn’t just shrug and ignore this shit.
The one thing I’m not going to do is turn “online password maintenance” into a second job I don’t get paid for,
I have steel toe shoes that I have to wear on the shop floor at work. I have been spending a lot of time on the floor at work because of a big project I’m working on and I have realized that my shoes are absolutely shit. Just shitty shitty shoes. My feet hurt so bad. Every night, they ache. I don’t know if these shoes were bad to begin with and I just didn’t notice or if they are plain worn out. I even got new insoles. I need new shoes. My feet can’t handle much more of this.
Yikes! Close call. I’m so sorry.
This is the second time a veteran employee has left our agency with minimal transition time. The first time was the person handing off her work to me with limited preparation. Every time I asked her a question she would be like, “I don’t know, I just do it.” I’ve spent the last seven months trying to learn the job from scratch. Constant surprises for things I was never informed about. It’s going to take at least one full grant cycle before I know what I’m doing.
Another veteran has stepped down. She gave us a three hour tutorial on how to use the system she’s been using for 24 years and that’s it. She gave an incomplete list of upcoming reports to our administrator and that’s it. The administrator taking over her job has no idea how to pull reports and is now going into each individual client file manually to get the data we need for a report we already submitted, meanwhile I am communicating with said funder to see if we can amend our report because sorry we have no idea what we’re doing because someone left us in the lurch yet again.
I know it’s standard practice to give only two weeks’ notice. But when you’ve been around for 24 years and nobody else knows how to do your job? Come on.
My sympathies. I used to work jobs that mandated steel toes, I wore them for years. When they are bad, they can be bad. And they aren’t cheap.
I would argue that this is a workplace problem, not an employee problem. Having only one person who knows how to do something, with no policy / procedure documents? Foolish, and of course, being “the only one who knows” is great for job security, so individuals have a powerful disincentive to make that information readily available. A good manager will spot these issues before they become problems, and when they do become problems, won’t just foist it off onto hardworking weasels and hope they cope.
Well the good news is the CEO agrees with you. We’ve been making as many changes as possible to try to avoid situations like this, but it takes time. Especially when people keep quitting.
That’s me! I laugh every day when I think about dropping dead.
We had a Lead Engineer a few years ago who was a real stickler for making sure all procedures were documented so that anyone on our already spread thin team could follow the instructions and get it done if the person who normally did it was not available.
Team lead was diagnosed with some kind of cancer a couple years back and passed away after about six months. When I stepped into the Team Lead role, guess what? A large chunk of his stuff was not documented anywhere!
(To his credit, he was literally on his deathbed sending out emails with instructions for how to do x or y, but dude – why didn’t you write this stuff down years ago?)
How could 200 passwords for 200 distinct sites be lost in one data leak? Or were you using a password manager and that outfit got hacked? Which one may I ask?
Not disputing your experience, nor that it’s really quite rantworthy. Just trying to understand the scenario (& see if it applies in any way to me.)
So I have passwords saved in my iPhone’s keychain. It reported that a bunch of them were compromised. I can only guess that this came about because of an update, it didn’t have the info before. I don’t think it was one leak or all at once, just the notification was all at once.
The last time I was notified, Edge was what told me on my PC, for many of these same web sites.
I don’t completely understand it, and I don’t know that I trust it either. I’m inclined to ignore it at this point. But it still annoys me, and I’m wondering if I was wasting my time changing things the last time around.
Also, few of these sites have my financial data. So even if it’s true, it probably doesn’t matter. Maybe just to be paranoid I’ll look to see which sites would have my payment info (like a site with a store) and just change those.
Thank you. Color me baffled. I’m sorry you’re dealing with this. As a non-Apple user, any keychain issues are not gonna bother me.
I think that the browser makers now think of the browser as an all-purpose broadcast vehicile they can use as a bullhorn to everyone. I also suspect they subscribe to whatever industry mechanisms report on data breaches or hacked websites. Of course those reports don’t come out immediately after a hack.
I wonder if some criminal group got broken up / broken into and with that event it came to light that e.g. WonderWorld and FurnitureHaven were both hacked some random unknown time in the last 2-4 years. So now the browser sends an alert to everybody warning them of the new news that this happened. When what really newly happened was the leaking of the news into public.
I went to womens bible study last night. We discuss women from the bible. There were only four of us so, Lisa, who also lives in my building, opened up and shared more. Once she mentioned Fred, her boyfriend, whom shes been living with for 11 years, I read the womans mind who was leading the study.
Surprisingly, she didnt come right out and say, You’re sinning. She said maybe she should think about marrying, as the bible says.
She(Lisa) is worried about losing her disability.
I get the impression too often that christianity is not really about loving God and others, but a big list of Don’t do thats.
Ah yes, and shout out to my FIL for saying, while his girlfriend was cooking dinner, “I was going to make a joke but I probably shouldn’t given present company…” (his preamble to every inappropriate joke he’s ever made) “…she does that so I don’t beat her.”
(by present company he means he’s so naughty for saying that in front of his DIL who works for a domestic violence and sexual assault services organization tee hee hee)
I said, “Yeah, that’s not appropriate. There’s no context in which that’s appropriate.”
He said, “I disagree,”
My husband said, loudly, “The only context in which that’s appropriate is when you believe women are the property of men and it’s okay to abuse them. That’s the context when you say something like that.”
FIL “Well, I could argue but I’m not going to.”
Girlfriend: laughs nervously (she doesn’t speak English well so I’m not sure she understood what was happening.)
Man, fuck you and your stupid shitty “jokes.” I’m so tired of it can you just be appropriate for one fucking time? Two fucking hours for a dinner with your family once every six months is too much for you? I know your father beat your mother, your brothers beat their wives and they try constantly to normalize this behavior but just because your gross fucking brothers make jokes like this does not mean it’s okay.
Fuuuuck what a tool.
ETA: Is it worth trying to explain to him why this is wrong? Spouse Weasel says he never listens so only do it if it will make me feel better. I’m not sure it will but I’m just tired.
That’s me! I successfully applied for a secondment at work so I could move to a different dept for four months. I was fully aware of the fact that it would be across the main exams period and our end of session, which is always full-on and stressful for all concerned. Various circumstances have resulted in me being the person who did 90% of the work in my old dept for this, usually because the other two people in the management team were off sick with stress for months at a time.
This year I had two weeks notice of my change of dept so I hastily put together a detailed process document for exams (I’d already done an idiot’s guide to end of session) with guidance, links, people to contact etc. I met with someone from that dept a couple of days ago and heard distressing news that the entire thing has been ignored, they’ve stuffed up a bunch of important things, and are generally making an absolute dog’s breakfast of the whole thing. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry!
Can somebody please give me a call or an email back on some important matters I have going on? My insurance broker won’t reply to my email requests for guidance, so I tried emailing and calling a new insurance broker. That was hours ago, and so far it’s radio silence. Four stars on yelp, huh? Hmmph.
I want a bank officer to explain a document we got in the mail regarding the payoff of our mortgage. Her last voicemail said to call her any time with any questions, so I did and got her voicemail. I left a message hours ago and so far no call back.
A carpet cleaning service came out to take measurements yesterday and was going to email me an estimate “within the hour”. That was twenty-four hours ago and no estimate yet. I’m going to have to call and nag them.
Is anybody working out there? Sheesh.
I got a very odd looking “explanation of benefits” in the mail this week regarding the claim for my CPAP supplies. So I called Anthem BCBS this morning to try to get some clarification. I figured I’d be on hold for half an hour or more before I even talked to anyone, but I was speaking with a live agent within a minute or two. And the problem was that Apria didn’t bill the supplies correctly, which is why the EoB looked so weird. So the agent put me on hold while she called Apria billing, and was back on the phone five minutes later telling me it was all straightened out.
So, somebody out there is working today…