I’ve been summoned for jury duty. I’m currently so burned out at work that, once I confirmed that I can’t be fired for missing work due to jury duty, I started thinking about what a nice change this would be. 
You can still find Vicks inhalers? My mom has near constant congestion due to some nasal defect that was identified when she was a child but never corrected; she’s had to switch to the Walgreens generic version.
Is thiswhat you’re after?
I think it would be interesting. Where I live we have a shortage of serious criminals so it’s harder to get on jury duty. I did get an awesome letter a couple of years ago from the office of the attorney general saying that I was on a jury list, and I had to fill out a basic qualifying questionnaire with questions like (loosely paraphrased) “Are you insane?” where I presume you had to give all the right answers. I must have answered something wrong because I still haven’t been called up.
That’s it…some of the reviews concern me though. I’ve researched Vicks offerings from several Amazon sellers, and most of them have at least a few complaints about a possibly counterfeit product originating from India. 
Bodies are odd; I take a low dose of opioids and the Tessalon work fine.
I can’t do the Vick’s inhaler – they make me wheeze worse. Never have known why. I love the stuff that goes into the humidifier cup.
I got a call from a similar company today while in PI Planning (which I’m trying to lead). The call came from “No Caller ID” so I let it go to voice mail, but then I thought, hmmm, could be a sick parent. So I checked voice mail and they left this message about having an issue in the office and I have two hours to call before they make a decision. I was pretty sure it was a scam. So I called and they rushed into what I owed. And I was like, hang on, WHO ARE YOU? They tell me and keep talking about what I owe. And I said, FOR WHAT? And they tell me. And they tell me what year.
And I almost snickered. It was a pre-paid scam card (yeah, I fell for it). It had a $200 max and with all of the fees I never got it paid off. I think they increased the amount owed by the minute. So It’s been 18 years and they think I’m going to pay.
So I asked when it was closed. They didn’t have that information. Of course. It was open for 18 months, tops.
And then they said, “We want to stop the process server…when can you pay $1500?”
I said, “That would be never. This debt is 18 years old and it was never for anything near $1500.”
“If you don’t pay we will send out the process server.”
“Well, you send that process server right on out, and I’ll be in court to discuss this, as well as with a copy of the threatening voice mail you left me implying jail.”
Still no process server. I wonder if they sent him to my old address in Florida?
ETA: As a bonus, the card in question was issued by a “bank” that closed in 2013. Yeah.
Another fucking novelist… Only 36 pages, this time… But every third page is in some random orientation other than upright.
:smack:
Look, I don’t GIVE A SHIT what color your Senior Prom corsage was. I don’t want to know about your dog. CVs are supposed to be relevent - you’re a medical expert, tell me about THAT.
Fuck your hobbies and charities: I DON’T CARE about them.
:mad:
During my short stint as a human resources manager, I was inundated with resumes/CVs from friends and relatives of current employees of the company. The one that stood out the most was one that was just a hand-written letter addressed to “Mrs.” followed by my full name. Both my first and middle names are obviously names for males (and I know exactly zero females with either of those names). The letter/“resume” was written in print letters in a bad scrawl, and the letter was rife with misspellings and bad grammar. I figured if the writer could not be bothered to write a professional resume/CV, then I did not have to be bothered with responding to the thing.
Mind you, there could be cases where a hand-written letter could clinch the job for the letter writer. The letter would have to be intelligent, humorous, innovative, and attention-grabbing. It would have to show why and how the writer is the stand-out applicant for the position sought.
Did I mention how glad I am that I no longer work for that company and am no longer in that field?
Yeah, I still can’t believe I got an Art Director job at a huge ad agency with a hand-written CV (and cover letter). I was on my way out of town, but saw a listing and thought i’d give it a shot.
Might also have worked because I doodled on it and made it fun.
HR is a special slice of hell. I have much respect for anyone whom can thrive there.
I’m a clinical publisher, and I’m assembling Clinical Study Reports for a major Oncology Submission - New Drug Application. There are Eighteen major Healthy Volunteer and Clinical Studies, and a scad of lesser BioPharm, Pharmacokinetic, and Parmacodynamic reports. Plus Datasets, References, Analysis, Labelling, Non-Clinical Reports, Chemicstry, Manufacturing, and Controls documentation… And SO MUCH more*****. I’m presurized as hell right now.
So when I have to stop to fix some pinheaded ego-maniac Investigator’s CV, well, that’s just one more thing to hack me off. And it’s completely unnecessary. These are bona fide SMART people. Why is a fucking brief-to-the-point CV such a mystery? Why is simple attention to detail in formating and page orientation so difficult…?!
Not done loading datasets - not by a long shot - and teh submissoin is already taking up over 25GB* of server space - we’re going to have to actually ship a hard drive with teh submission to the FDA, because they can’t accept this monster over the electronic portal.
****** I expect it to more than double when the datasets are in.
Mild rant: I don’t put a lot of stuff on Facebook the way other people do because if I did, I’d be castigating people for either their stupidity or criticizing their attention whorishness. The latter is pointed toward a friend of mine who HAS to be OUT THERE because being ignored, in her eyes, is worse than death. She not only has her own You Tube channel but she has to live tweet anything political preempting regular programming, she pimps her own writing (to be fair, she IS a fairly successful freelance journalist who had a viral article a couple of years ago), if it’s not about her it’s about her husband and kids, etc., etc. She’s got a fairly large fan base too.
So why is this suddenly bothering me? Because attention whorishness bothers me, that’s why. It makes me want to scream WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
And yeah, sour grapes on me because if I did anything remotely similar I’d be the subject of gossip both at home and work.
Got it at the local drugstore [um, CVS, RiteAid? Can’t remember which one.] While it could be a knock off, I wouldn’t think it was coming from a national chain pharmacy.
What is it with cheap people? We have friends who are retired professionals like us. They have money in the bank, and yet they do everything on the cheap. The most annoying part of it is going out to eat somewhere, as they always pick the cheapest restaurant, where the food is usually crap. It’s a point of pride for the husband, who is always crowing about the latest great price he paid. To me, deliberately eating a bad meal just to save a few bucks is a waste of whatever time I have left on this planet, so we usually beg off. Yesterday was the latest outing, and the food was typically bland and poorly prepared. Total for four people was about $40 and I came away feeling cheated. :mad:
Since you know how it will turn out, why agree to go out to whatever place they’ve chosen? Assuming you like them for other traits and want to spend time with them, why not suggest other activities? “No, let’s eat in instead. I have a new recipe I want to try.” or “No, let’s go see a movie” or more on point, “No, I’ve heard they have crappy food. Let’s go to Chez Marie instead” and let them beg off if it’s too expensive for their tastes.
I like this idea. I have to admit, I really miss the old 70s style pot luck dinner parties, nothing can be more fun than a bunch of friends hanging out with good music, good conversation and having fun. Deliberately subjecting myself to crappy restaurant food is actually a waste of money. For that same $40, you could do a killer home cooked meal for 4 …
Semi-vindication. I signed up for another voluntary shift in another department this weekend (just polished it up, actually) and lo and behold yesterday morning I get from the bosses, “Hey, if you want some extra hours this weekend you can come in.” And I got to say, “Right. I’m not falling for that one again.”
No, I didn’t say that. I’m not an idiot, but I kept my volunteer shift and told them I wasn’t going to cancel it. Like a big man.
Done all of those things because of past experience. We agreed to this in a moment of weakness, since the restaurant is an old stand-by here in Portland and famous for its over-the-top desserts. I had no idea the food would be that poor, as it generally gets good reviews online. They ordered medium-rare burgers, which should have been dripping juices all over the plate, but were dry as a bone.
All of that is beside the point, however, as my quarrel is with people who are cheap and who have no reason to be.
Who are you to tell other people how to spend their money?
I got the impression that it’s more about them expecting other people to cheap out on substandard food with them. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t give a damn if they eat ramen on their own time.
Two big possibilities:
They really DO have reason to economize. Maybe they don’t have as much money as you assume they would have saved. Maybe they didn’t choose their investments as well as you did. Maybe one of them has a drug or gambling habit that eats money. Maybe they have an ancient mother whose nursing home they have to help pay for. Or maybe their children aren’t doing well with their careers, and they intend to leave them as much of an inheritance as possible otherwise they might not be able to buy a house or their grandkids won’t go to college. A zillion possibilities. Unless you’re their accountant, you likely don’t really know what’s going on in their bank accounts.
It’s a habit of frugality they adopted early on when they didn’t have any money to spare, and now they can’t break it.
My parents were decently well-off after retirement – paid for house, cars, boat, good health, they traveled, etc. etc. But they’d had four kids bing, bing, bing in the early years in their marriage and they were helping to support his widowed mother who had had a stroke and they were living off what my father could make as a cabbie while he went to school part time. That involved a ton of careful counting of pennies and dictated always choosing the cheaper options as a default.
My mother loved chocolate covered macadamia nuts. Really, really loved them. But she would NEVER buy them. “Oh, I’ll just get a bag of peanuts. They’re fine, and so much cheaper.” Nevermind that by then she could have bought more macadamias than she could have choked down in the entire rest of her life without it affecting her ability to pay any other expenses. It just would never occur to her to buy them. It was WASTEFUL.
(Yes, it made me sad. Dammit, old people can’t enjoy a lot of other pleasures for other reasons. Why deprive herself of a little indulgence like this for no good reason? The only, only ‘benefit’ was that I always knew what I could bring with me when I went to see her.)
Adding to what StarvingButStrong posted, I know more than a few people whose childhood included the Great Depression. For some of them, not only did the habits they learned stick with them for the rest of their lives, but their children emulated those habits. Doing things any other way is just wrong to them.