My mother used to make them, they were so pretty. She’d paint a watercolor picture (our house in snow, a castle, or a christmas-y still life or something) and then cut out windows. On a 2nd piece of paper she’d mark where the windows were and then paint teeny vignettes and figures and such. I adored them 
For a little more kick, there’s this one.
Wow, saje, that sounds amazing!
Wait until mid Dec for logical retail outlets or Dec 26th for the annoying ones and buy the chocolate filled ones for dirt cheap.
Thanks for the link, I’m now the best wife in the world.
OK, so Roddy will need more calendars.
Gaaaah. I’d feel a whole lot better about my entire day if I could convince myself that the other two people in my department were doing anyfuckingthing at all today.
Apparently if someone puts up a “this desk is closed, please check in at room # (x)” sign, some people think that they can ignore that, bitch about where the desk clerk is and how they’ve been waiting, bitch at why they have to check in somewhere else, get in front of me after I offer to show them to the room (through a ‘back way’ rather than take them out in the hall) and then complain about how they can’t find it (MOVE so I can show you!), and then complain about how ridiculous this all is.
Happy fucking Thanksgiving to you too - be thankful someone else looks at signs for you and takes customer service seriously enough that she’s still fucking polite with only 3 weeks left to go before her new job.
Her: I need the name of a table on Very Large Corporate Database System that contains X.
Me: Probably a hundred different databases that contain that sort of thing. Can you narrow it down by line of business or something?
Her: I work for such-and-such team. (name not helpful)
Me: I have no idea what kind of X you’re looking for. I need you to be more specific about what line of business you’re looking at.
Her: Why can’t you help me? :mad: Just send me a list of every database that has X! (:eek:) I need this right now!!!
Me: We don’t have a list like that and since I’m the only one on my team here today, I don’t have time for that kind of project. It would be much easier if you just told me what line of business you’re looking at. If you are unwilling or unable to tell me that, I can’t help you. (Copied to my boss)
Her: <silence>
Sorry, Draelin. Both of us have mentally checked out already. A very helpful desk clerk helped us do so.
I dunno, Chimera. The look on her face if you *did provide her with a list of a hundred DBs to sift through might have been worth it.
*I fully understand that if you don’t have such a list available, manually coughing one up is asking too much.
That’s what I’d be tempted to do - make up a list of everyfreakingthing you have in databases and send that to her - if you can’t narrow it down for me, you get it all. 
Oh, she’s back? Cool.
(I was all, I don’t even work in this office/“I’m not even supposed to be here!” and the two, separate patients forming a line to wait were acting like it was everyone’s fault but theirs - and especially mine - that they were ignoring a sign, waiting at a closed desk, and had to suffer the extreme indignity of going to the office immediately next door to check in.)
Oh, and in Chimera’s situation I suspect the clueless access-requester would have simply asked for access to all of those databases “just in case.”
You can also get lego advent calendars. But they’re not flat. I was a good MIL and got my DIL the Star Wars onelast Christmas.
I dont have any workplace gripes (mostly because Im no longer working) so I just lurk (and thank og I don’t have to work) but wanted to share this with any of you that do IT/call center stuff.
Well, we didn’t hear back from her. I also had a 1:1 with my boss later in the day and he didn’t mention it (I had copied him on the last email where I said I couldn’t help her any further).
Must not have been very important then…
I ask from ignorance, and because I don’t want to assume that the Lego company is cheating, but the box says “24 Gifts.” If Advent is supposed to cover 4 weeks, shouldn’t that be 28 gifts? Does one not get a gift on Sundays, or something?
Completely trivial and unimportant, and not a rant at all.
Since me and another guy are being bum’s rushed into a different workspace on Friday (we’re sharing an office) I will have a whole wall I can decorate with “retirement advent” in some way. I haven’t decided what, yet. Ideas are percolating (and welcome). It’s down to 20 months and 2 weeks (it may actually be a bit sooner if I can hold off on taking vacation days and accumulate the full 5 weeks I am allowed to accumulate). With holidays, that comes out to about 435 working days.
Last year I had a countdown clock on my PC, but it seemed a little morbid somehow, so I deleted it. Now I’m ready again. I am so over working. One of the few things I will miss will be having things to contribute to this thread (which I’m sure will still be going strong).
Roddy
Advent is the countdown to Christmas from the first of the month, not four weeks but 24 days. So LEGO is fine.
Ah, thank you. Finally, the definitive definition of Advent for the non-religious person.
Roddy
Not quite, it doesn’t always start on the 1st. This year it does, but that’s a coincidence: it’s a liturgic cycle marked by the 4 Sundays before Christmas. If Christmas fell on a Sunday, Advent would be starting on November 27th.
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Desks and lockers doesn’t sound like an IT thing. Maybe you should talk to your facilities department
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How long ago was IT informed how many people and who to setup for?
We’ve been cracking down on it where I work, but we still get the occasionally get requests along the lines of ‘why doesn’t my employee who started yesterday have an account/laptop/etc even though they started yesterday’ and ‘what do you mean we have to complete their HR paperwork IT will help them’?