# Workplace griping, anyone? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 12, 2010, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401 "2010-11-12T06:39:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 230
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/4582 "2012-12-05T23:15:41Z")
As far as I know, the only time my state requires a vehicle inspection is if it was bought in another state. And that might not even be the case anymore. I just remember years ago my ex bought a car from a neighboring state and he had to have it inspected before he could get plates. Never had to have a vehicle inspected since. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/4583 "2012-12-06T00:26:36Z")
North Carolina waives the inspection requirement for vehicles that are 35 years old (or older). Emissions inspections are not required for vehicles manufactured before 1995. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/4584 "2012-12-06T00:53:58Z")
NMN ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/4585 "2012-12-06T04:45:11Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > SERIOUSLY?!? For_ **realls** _? I thought all states required at least a cursory once-over glance. :eek: Negative, Ghost Rider. This is Arkansas. Where all us good rednecks and hillbillies know how to maintain our vehicles and don’t need no inspections. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/4586 "2012-12-06T14:41:01Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > Why would Culprit call Volunteer’s husband? > [@Chimera](#): > > Yeah really. Something fishy going on there. “I badmouthed your wife and got yelled at over it! I called you looking for sympathy!” - doesn’t sound very plausible unless there are um, ‘extentuating circumstances’ involved. I agree. The problem is, the story goes through a couple of people each time, and at least one of the people involved is a liar, so we don’t really know what’s going on. I can’t see an affair, though I suppose it’s possible, but the staff member has a horrible personality and is not sexy or anything. I’m not saying she’s ugly, but not really affair material, though you never know with some people. I mean, people actively call us to tell us her abrasiveness is turning them off. But if not an affair, then what? Def. something fishy. Obviously there’s a more in-depth relationship between culprit and volunteer and vol.'s husband. I’ll tell you this: if it is an affair or just something dirty in the water, I am glad to lose the volunteer and hope culprit leaves us, too. We don’t need this kind of mess! ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/4587 "2012-12-06T15:02:12Z")
My city requires emmissions inspection but if you live in the county, no inspection is requred. Tennessee ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/4588 "2012-12-06T15:29:58Z")
County wide emissions testing needed here - Hamilton Co. TN ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/4589 "2012-12-06T15:52:17Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > SERIOUSLY?!? For_ **realls** _? I thought all states required at least a cursory once-over glance. :eek: Nope, nada, zero, zilch. From what I could find on the state’s website (South Dakota BTW) the only vehicles that have to be inspected are rebuilt vehicles and that’s only before titling and registration. Sometimes I kind of wish we did have emissions testing, but then I don’t think my pickup would pass. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/4590 "2012-12-06T15:57:11Z")
> [@Brewah](#): > > Spazcat - I had the same error message with hyperlinks in Outlook last week. IT didn’t tell me what was wrong, just forwarded me a link which resolved my issues. You can also find it by going to the Microsoft Support website and searching “hyperlinks are not working in [insert MS Office product]” > > [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823301](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823301) then click the Fix It button. I tried that. It didn’t work. This must be a system-wide thing. ☹ When I rule the world, people who disable useful functions in programs will be the first against the wall. And by that I mean that every third email they get will be of the “reply-all” variety. Forever. And they can’t change it. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/4591 "2012-12-06T18:41:57Z")
> [@](#): > > When I rule the world, people who disable useful functions in programs will be the first against the wall. And by that I mean that every third email they get will be of the “reply-all” variety. Forever. And they can’t change it. I’m sorry, but spammers and then glurgers have to be first and second against the wall. Then you may put the disablers against the wall. We must keep our priorities straight. After all, the disablers are probably trying to impede the spammers and glurgers. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/4592 "2012-12-06T20:10:18Z")
> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > As far as I know, the only time my state requires a vehicle inspection is if it was bought in another state. And that might not even be the case anymore. I just remember years ago my ex bought a car from a neighboring state and he had to have it inspected before he could get plates. Never had to have a vehicle inspected since. The local mafia, err DOT extracts $29 per car per year. Bigger vehicles get coresponditly larger vigs. The art of the inspection is locating the testing garages that, shall we say, take a 10000 foot look at the car… ---
**Author:** ![4d3fect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/4d3fect/32/9728_2.png) [@4d3fect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4d3fect)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/4593 "2012-12-06T20:57:19Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > That’s actually quite efficient of them, to end the assignment on the very day the universe ceases to exist. The problem here is that, like cockroaches or hydra or (most annoyingly) management, another will pop up instantly in place of the one that was just eradicated. ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/4594 "2012-12-07T01:24:07Z")
Another OMG WTF story from work … keep in mind I’m at a 24 hour veterinary hospital. We got a call a while back about an 8 year old Chihuahua in labor, one partially born but stuck, supposedly 4 or 5 puppies in there, and it was her first litter. We told the woman on the phone that the dog needed to be seen immediately because if the first puppy was stuck for too long things would get really bad really fast. Half an hour later, we get another call about the same dog. They still haven’t gone anywhere! This time, the tech says, “If the puppies aren’t born soon they and they mother could die. She needs to go somewhere NOW.” I guess somebody else was closer, because they said that’s where they were going. A few days later, I see a story on Facebook from a local rescue. They were at the local animal shelter to pick up a dog when in walked two women with this horribly sick emaciated Chihuahua who had been in labor for “a while” … one puppy was born dead, another one was currently stuck, and she still (supposedly) had 2 or 3 more in there. The rescue lady got the paperwork and rushed her to a hospital that she’s worked with before for an emergency C-section. Amazingly, Mama and two babies survived. Didn’t take long for me to put two and two together! These people waited 48 hours after labor started to actually take the dog ANYWHERE, and if the rescue hadn’t been there on the spot, she would have been (more thank likely) taken straight in the back to be euthanized. Luckily, five days later, they are recovering in a foster home and doing well. TL;DR: Irresponsible pet owners FUCKING SUCK DONKEY BALLS. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/4595 "2012-12-07T01:52:02Z")
**Avarie** , when I hear stories like that, I like to think about karma, that what you do to animals in this life will be done to you in the next. Those people are NOT going to enjoy their next life! ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/4596 "2012-12-07T02:47:27Z")
This is why I didn’t become a Vet Tech when someone offered to pay for my training and then hire me. At least as a volunteer rescue person, I can tell those sort of people off to their faces (after I have their pets in my hands, of course). If I was paid to deal with those sort of people, I’d get fired very quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/4597 "2012-12-07T14:59:13Z")
**Avarie** , please tell me mama Chihuahua was spayed after that. Poor dog doesn’t need to go through that again and those idiots don’t need puppies. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/4598 "2012-12-07T17:26:12Z")
> [@](#): > > Luckily, five days later, they are recovering in a foster home and doing well. **SpazCat** - The idiots didn’t get their dog back. I hate asshole pet owners. I have plenty of work gripes and no time to type them up!!! Next Thursday I am off for the holidays, thank God. I might have had to kill somebody. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/4599 "2012-12-07T22:07:24Z")
Dear Boss, please stop canceling Amazon orders that have already shipped. You’re throwing YOUR OWN money away! ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/4600 "2012-12-07T22:18:34Z")
Hey, coworker? When an email is sent out asking who wants to participate in the holiday lunch, all you need to do is reply “No thanks”. That’s it. No one forced you to write out your life story and list the various reasons why you think group luncheons are stupid. Then, when someone replies to you “Sorry you feel that way, we’ll miss you”, do not take that as a personal attack. Take a fucking chill pill. And yes, while she titled the email “Holiday Lunch” she added a christmas tree gif. Whoopdie doo. It was NOT an attack on Muslims, Jews, or any other non-Christian person in our team as you stated. We’ve all worked together long enough to know that there are 6 Christians and 5 agnostics/atheists on the team. I sincerely doubt the other agnostic/atheist type people had a cow over the picture. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401/4601 "2012-12-08T01:06:05Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > And yes, while she titled the email “Holiday Lunch” she added a christmas tree gif. Whoopdie doo. It was NOT an attack on Muslims, Jews, or any other non-Christian person in our team as you stated. We’ve all worked together long enough to know that there are 6 Christians and 5 agnostics/atheists on the team. I sincerely doubt the other agnostic/atheist type people had a cow over the picture. But a Christmas Tree isn’t actually a Christian symbol at all – it comes from a pagan tradition! If it’s seen as Christian, that’s because christian history is so good at co-opting symbols from others into ‘christian’ symbols. Like the very date Christmas is celebrated, for example. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401.md?page=229) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplace-griping-anyone/560401.md?page=231)