BT: Those ones that demand that you hold your leg at a certain angle and get a metronome to time your rhythm?
And then they want to cuddle for no extra charge.
Sorry - let me adjust that to “Harley Davidson riders who have made their bikes even louder than they came from the factory.”
Well, I guess the question is, are you billing for the project as a whole or on a time and materials basis?
Time and materials. We do a basic service, then offer extra services a la carte, but we’ll also handle special requests as a courtesy. Certain customers are beginning to abuse the courtesy. The people with the power to do anything about it are in a meeting, so until I can talk to them I’m just grumbling here.
but but but loud pipes save lives, man. :rolleyes:
Especially while it’s idling in the driveway long enough to foul the plugs!
-Brewha - Drives a Honda with stock pipes.
I look at it this way - although things have so far worked out in my favor, the fallout from recent events will probably have me right back in the thread in as little as a few hours. I’ve gotta bask while I can.
Given how passive-aggressive busybody and her minion are, I’m sure they’ll find some way to fuck me over, piss me off or just generally make my life and doing my job difficult. But I can deal with it in my office, sitting in my new chair while whistling Dixie.
Heh - we had a news story here the other day about how our noise bylaws are going to be changing to try to make people with loud bikes tone it down a bit, and after the biker said the usual thing about loud pipes saving lives, the reporter basically retorted with, “No, it has been proven that they don’t.” Did my heart good.
Yeah, here in IA there’s a bunch of Harley riders complaining that they are being singled out and picked on by the cops.
What’s actually happening is the cops have started enforcing the noise laws that have been in effect for decades. The ones that were allowed to slide for some reason.
Sorry for the hijack, but on a 34 page thread, I don’t think it matters much anymore! Back to yer gripin already!
It’s only 9 pages for me. 
(I changed my display options).
Oh, and the reason that she wasn’t able to make the **MANDATORY **meeting in all caps and bold? She was helping out at her church’s youth camp. Despite the fact that the sign was up for a week and a half and I know she saw it.
I usually don’t have a problem with people’s religion, but Special Special Snowflake has a habit of using her church as an excuse not to work. It will be quite refreshing when her ass is finally booted out the door.
I can’t make them assign it any faster, lady. YES, REALLY ONE BUSINESS DAY! IT ALWAYS TAKES THAT LONG TO ASSIGN AN ADJUSTER, I PROMISE I’M NOT JUST TRYING TO PISS YOU OFF. SUCK A DICK WHILE YOU’RE AT IT K?
stupid fucking bitch is pissed at me because she’s waiting for an insurance company to “allow” her to go to the doctor when she thinks she has a broken ankle
a broken…
…ankle
if I truly thought my ankle was broken, I wouldn’t sit the fuck around waiting to get permission to get a fucking x-ray. so either she’s exaggerating (likely), lying outright (equally likely), or the dumbest fucking cunt on the planet (most likely). fuck that cunt right in the ear. i’m so angry I can’t even bother to punctuate. if common sense were biscuits, she’d have starved to death by now
I need a drink.
I took your advice, thank you. I actually saw deaf guy today and said hello. He said he was going to have a garage sale, so I’m guessing someone will buy the radio then. I’ll enjoy the music for as long as its there.
Noisy Pouple had boombox playing all day and their harley idled in the driveway several times. If I had to actually sit at my desk all day, they would make me nuts. As it is, its just entertaining.
I guess that’s my work rant for the day. My job is so mind-numbing, routine and boring that I’ll be talking about the Music of the Alley for the next 5 years.
I’m on vacation until next Monday but made the mistake of checking my work email this evening. Apparently a coworker complained about an answer that I gave her. The answer I gave was right. She had two questions (or so I thought, since the topic of the second paragraph had nothing to do with the first one). I gave her a straightforward response for the first paragraph detailing what the customer needed to do. Since the second paragraph didn’t have anything to do with the question from the first paragraph, I asked her to set up a different case for it so other coworkers could find it in a search, but then proceeded to give her an answer. She’s pissed now because according to her, they were the same question, and now “the customer has to wait for an answer.” And now I’m mad that I can’t talk to my manager about it until Monday.
This is the same coworker who is routinely rude and combative, including with customers. I was really hoping they’d fire her after she was so rude to a customer that upper management, and not just her direct manager, listened to the call. They forced her to listen to it, too, and discuss it, although rumor has it that she initially refused and tried to walk out of the room. Guess I’m stuck with her.
Also, relating to moejoe’s post, it’d be great if certain coworkers could, I don’t know, check to see if I’m available if a customer calls and asks for me. It’s much more efficient to just transfer the customer to me if I’m available instead of sending me a message after the fact that the person wants a call. Otherwise, I end up playing phone tag, because even though I call them back as soon as I get the message, it goes to voicemail. Is it really that hard to just send me an instant message asking if I’m available?
No, no, I mean your *sexual *services. I’m trying to figure out if the cuddling should be included under the terms of your contract or if it counts as additional billable hours.
Was the reporter male and at least vaguely attractive? If so, please forward me his contact info so I can bone him.
I think it was a lady, actually. Sorry.
Why must you crush my hopes and dreams, Cat? Why?
My job loves, loves, loves to give me the shaft.
I am taking over the duties of two people. One is retiring in February, the other just wants to stop doing the one thing I’m taking over, but will still be around doing other, less time-consuming, travel-intensive, things.
The second set of duties isn’t so bad…three times a year I spend two weeks traveling around to 9 or 10 hospitals, and about half of those don’t even require overnight. I can fit that into all the other stuff I currently have to do.
But the woman who’s retiring? Well, most of her job is the thing I’m learning to do…it requires two to three days a week travel, sometimes an overnight, other times just long days (leaving at 6 AM and not getting back till 6or 7 at night.) I have no freaking clue how in the Hell I can fit all of that stuff with everything else I’m doing, especially the stuff that totally occupies my time for those two weeks every four months.
And all of these added duties, added responsibility, added time and effort come with absolutely no pay increase, because the university has a freeze on salary increases for non-represented staff. My only hope is that I can “test out” of my current job title into the next one up so I go into a different pay band, but my department has a set number of people they want at each pay band, and they don’t want me in the next one because it throws off the numbers…but maybe once the woman retires, who is actually two pay bands above me, they can make room for me to move up. I’d like to be able to have enough to quit my part-time job, which is even harder for me to keep with all this extra traveling.
All this time away from home makes it very hard for me to try and start a romantic life, or even much of a social life at all. I can’t get a pet, which I really, really want to do. My health is taking a toll since it’s harder to find time to get a workout in, especially since the gym I go to doesn’t have any other locations, and most of the crummy motels I stay in don’t even have one of those half-assed “fitness centers” with a broken treadmill and bike. Yeah, I can just go for a run, but sometimes I’d like to do something different.
It’s going to be hard to stay at this for the few more years I should…I’ve only been here a year and a half!
Bumping this little puppy back up because, hey, it’s Monday morning.
Also: IT announced last week that our ISP was going to change over the weekend. I felt a bit cynical and bitter when I predicted major problems would ensue. This morning? I just feel realistic, and the tiniest bit clairvoyant. Hell, my suitemate couldn’t pull up Google for ten or fifteen harrowing minutes, let alone our internal servers that we use to, y’know, work and shit.
I was going to take today off, since I have to take my Dad to the doctor this afternoon. It turns out I needed to be here to get ready for a meeting tomorrow. So I came in early so I can leave at noon.
The meeting has been postponed.
Grr.