All the clients are gone on summer vacation.
This normally wouldn’t bother me, but I need to keep track of my time in 15 minute increments. Poor, empty billable hours slots…
I just assumed you were drunk at work and fell off your chair. 
I have a solution for you: manual interface. It’s funny how when we suggest that to clients, suddenly they are willing to compromise.
Sigh. Sadly, not today. 
Happy Birthday!
I always take my birthday off. When I’m working. Which I’m not right now, and that irks me no end.
Anyway, I hope you have either one hell of an evening planned, or one hell of a weekend. 
Out tonight–there’s an excellent band playing that I’ve been charged to attend by a friend who lives in Oakland, so I’m going to see them with some friends. *Tomorrow *I am taking off work.
I’ve been holding off posting here…there’s so much I could talk about, from process flows with holes big enough to drive semis through to system “upgrades” that make it even more impossible for me to do my job, but one thing today has finally pushed me over the edge.
For the love of all things holy, please flush the toilet when you’re done!
Four-year olds can flush. Heck, I’ve worked with homeless guys that always flushed. But you, noooo you’re too important to flush or maybe your wife flushes for you at home, I have no idea what the issue is.
Over the past year, I’ve kept an informal “batting average”. On a good day, I might hit .330 which means that two-thirds of the time when I go to use the can, I get greeted by someone’s leftovers. Ewwww. Not my idea of “employee satisfaction” or “teamwork”.
Thanks. I can only hope there’s a little something extra in your check this week. Like a wage garnishment or a pink slip.
Bri2k
Gah!!!
A new rant: Get out of the doorway, motherfucker!!! Two people have to share this office; one of them would like to get some work done.
Or a turd.
Also, welcome! Grab a beer, take a load off, share with us your process holes and pointy-headed-bossitude.
Bri2k, I can understand the very occasional leftover from someone forgetting to flush, but all the time? That’s got to be someone doing it on purpose. Jerk.
I didn’t know whether to put this in the mini-rants thread or here, but then I decided to put it here, because it happened at work, and because of stupid “rules”, I couldn’t kick this guy in the balls as hard as I could.
A coworker and I were chatting with this dude about people that get DUIs and stuff, and he shares about his cousin, who was charged with being a child molester. Then the guy laments how people that get multiple DUIs will get a slap on the wrist, but someone like his cousin, who was just having fun with his daughter, gets a lot of prison time and it ruins his life.
What the fuck??
:eek:
:(:(
I use digital dataloads a lot, as well.
I work with a woman who I swear to Og has the IQ of a drunk hamster, but is smart enough to play the “oh, I’m such a frail and fragile thing, I’m not smart enough to do ANYTHING but if you tell me how…” card when she either wants something done or to get out of work. Today I hit my limit with her BS and hit it hard. To sum up a very long, long rant, she thought since I apparently “don’t do anything” that she could dump a bunch of work on me that was her responsibility and got upset when I told her that I was up to my eyeballs in my own work and that short of the office being on fire, there was no way on this Earth I was going to help her do anything. Our boss would have to tell me to do it first, and that was that.
This woman drives everyone insane. She constantly says she’s so dumb, and if you try to explain even the most uncomplicated thing to her, she will look at you with this bovine expression and say, “But…I don’t understand…”
Oh yeah, her older sister is the company’s HR director, so now I’ve really got to worry that I don’t upset Miss Idiot too much as someday I might need HR and don’t really want to piss her sister off.
shakes fist at Shot From Guns! You did it!!! I hope you step on gum tomorrow, you terrible, evil person!!!
Warm body is just that, a warm body. A warm body who likes to spend the hour he’s covering for my lunch chatting with SG and checking the sport scores online. While I didn’t think that WB would really do anything useful, now there are 2 (where are the big font and colors) people wasting taxpayer’s money while I’m at lunch. FLIPPING TICKS ME OFF AS A WORKER AND A TAXPAYER!!!
Oh dear, was I shouting? Says it in a different way…if I ever get a tree chipper in my hands, I will have to spend a lot of money on cleaning products.
AND, the Music of the Alley is gone.
OK, now I know what to get flatlined for Xmas this year.
Edited to make it look more or less like flatlined wanted. Those hide under “Advanced”. Lynn, got a paypal or similar so I can pitch in for flatlined’s present?
So I got a call from an agent yesterday; I’ve just started a new project, but since the actual jobs are still being defined and seem to be going in a different direction than I’d like and was told, I’m open to hearing other options. I asked him to drop me an email.
Big pharma company yadda. I write back asking whether it’s my Swiss client. That Swiss client whose name makes my fingers twitch, longing for a flamethrower; that Swiss client whose business practices made me feel sick and whose Big Blue Database system is the biggest fuckup I’ve ever seen since I work with the Big Blue Database.
Dude calls me again today, says it’s not that company, we talk, set rate, he’s going to put me forward. At the end he mentions the name of the client. I think “wtf? Isn’t that a wholly-owned subsidiary of my Swiss client?”
I check.
Yes, it is. Sent him an email back withdrawing from the process.
Dude, if someone asks “is it this company I already worked for?” that does not necessarily mean they’d love to go back there. In fact, ten times the rate we talked about, plus college funds for both Nephews, would not be enough.
Fuck lying agents.
It’s actually more than one person. I’m an auditor by profession so I’m paid to notice details. How anyone could use a public toilet and walk away without flushing is beyond me. Especially when there’s some one else in the same restroom.
This, along with the fact I get sick everytime I eat at the work cafeteria may be signs I need to polish up my resume or think about a career delivering pizzas.
Bri2k