It does work, but it’s hard because it’s supposed to be the “last ditch nothing on my computer is working, so shut it down to see if that fixes things” option.
Computers are no longer hardware. They’re software with just enough hardware to let the user interface with the software.
There is a shut down function available on your computer. How you invoke it depends on what kind of operating system you have. Use it to start the shutdown and walk away. When you come back ten minutes later your computer will have turned itself off.
Ok, at least some of this is self-inflicted. You don’t have to turn the power strip on and off.
Like, if you kept your car keys in a locked safe in your basement, you could start the first list “I walk down the basement steps, I enter the combination, I open the safe, I get the keys, I walk back up the steps, I walk to the garage…”
But none of those are fundamental things about driving a car. They’re all choices you have made to make things take longer.
As you mention, the IRS has detailed, electronic records of all your earnings. You forget one 1099-INT* and get that letter. Why can’t I get a copy of the info the IRS has on me?
*Yes, I do get most electronically these days. Not all, however, and I’ve been painfully reminded that my record retention methods are shit.
$8.95 for a ruler. So far the best I’ve seen in about $6. For something that should be a buck.
Yes. I’ve helped recent immigrants to the U.S. apply for entry level jobs, and it’s really frustrating. I think the process is made deliberately difficult to weed out people who can’t struggle through this kind of thing.
“…Fine! Do as you please! [Try out your oppositional-defiance with that one!]”
–G!
I realized the other day, just what the fuck is the deal with 3-way lights? I have a regular bulb in a socket set up for a 3-way, and of course it take two clicks between on and off. Who the hell thought that up? They put the small filament on the outer ring and the large filament on the center post. Why? They just as easily could have done the setup the opposite way and normal bulbs would just click on and off with each single turn, but no, they had to punish us for putting a single filament bulb into a 3-way socket.
Speaking of fussy and persnickety lights, can we please have an LED flashlight that ( push the button ) turns on, and ( push the button ) turns off?
I have fits of mild anger every time I have to push the the on/off button 3 times to turn it off as it cycles through: on bright, on dim, strobe, then back to off.
Shopping during regular store hours.
We keep a strict schedule on Friday, closing two hours before sundown. No exceptions ever.
Friday was one of those days. I get a call from a very angry person at closing time, when we are ringing up the final customers after closing the aisles:
Customer: I’m outside your store and the guy won’t let me in.
Me: That’s because the store is closed.
Customer: No you’re not. I see people in there. And I need things or a wedding tomorrow.
Me: The store is closed.
Customer: Can I talk to the manager.
The manager has pretty much the same conversation with the customer. By the time she hangs up the phone, everyone is checked out and it’s time to go home.
I call it the “yeah, but” syndrome. “Yeah, but…the rules don’t apply to MMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEE.”
I used to get that when managing retail. Standing by the door to let the last customers out making sure no more came in. We’d even try to be accommodating when they’d plead “Pleeeeease! I just need one thing!” and we’d reply “Okay, tell me what you need, I’ll have somebody grab it and bring to the registers for you.” 90% of the time they didn’t count on you calling their bluff and they’d look like a deer caught in the headlights stammering “uh,um,uh, just forget it.”
“I just need one thing.”
“Okay, tell me what it is and I’ll bring it to the register.”
“Well, I also wanted to look at some other things.”
“Then I can’t let you into the store.”
“That’s lousy customer service.”
One customer spent 5 minutes trying to convince me that she had to come into the store to get things for her Saturday wedding, despite the fact that all the registers had been counted out and there was no way I could even ring her up. She finally said “Well, just figure out how much it is and I’ll pay cash, and you can ring it up on Monday.”
Me: And lose my job!