Anything bad happen to you today?

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by duckman

My ex-wife called me this morning. Does that count as bad?

I'm pretty sure I remember the thread about your bitchy ex-wife and nasty court battles so, yeah, that probably counts as bad.

SI

[Suburban Rhythm]

Originally Posted by sterlingice

Like you said later in the thread, no matter how much you get paid, mandatory OT does suck. I don't get the attitude of people who are like "well, at least you get paid" like that makes up for the hours you can't spend doing what you want. Yes, if you get paid for OT, it's much better than if you're salary, true, but it doesn't make up for it. If you know what you're getting into, mandatory OT can be acceptable as part of the job, that's very true. But getting 10 or 20 extra hours of OT, out of the blue, even if you're paid time and a half, tends to suck.

SI

My wife works tomorrow...she's a nurse, she knows she'll have whacked out schedules. So, I am bringing my 18 month old daughter with me...and letting her loose on the floor. If they expect people to comply, they'll also have to expect people can not change previous arrangements.

[duckman]

Originally Posted by sterlingice

I'm pretty sure I remember the thread about your bitchy ex-wife and nasty court battles so, yeah, that probably counts as bad.

SI

She has been very cordial after she found out that I have been recording our conversations. It's like a dream come true!

[Bonegavel]

Originally Posted by Cringer

Oh man, I am driving my kid up to Canada now. She needs them. We don't vaccinate. Set some extra platers for dinner.

edit: vaccinate spelled wrong

If you do this, you best hope your kid never gets into South Park...

[Karlifornia]

I lost my wallet

I don't think there's any worse feeling in the world to me than losing my wallet. I made the idiotic choice of wearing sweatpants with no back pockets. I only had $15 in there and no credit cards, but not having my drivers license makes me ill. DMV *shudder*

[Terps]

DUI.

[Karlifornia]

Originally Posted by Terps

DUI.

Yikes. You got me.

[duckman]

Originally Posted by Terps

DUI.

You win.

[Radii]

Originally Posted by Radii

I accidentally deleted a signifigant portion of our CVS repository yesterday. recovered it but we lost some work. I expect to dread every moment and conversation at the office for a number of days. I certainly feel like total shit today here.

Yup, by the end of the day the fallout and the way that others around me decided to handle this mistake have me so angry that I sent e-mails to a few friends locally asking if their respective places of business were hiring, re-activated my monster.com resume, with the intention of having it publicly viewable by the end of the weekend,and am now posting on a public internet message board from work about my frustrations.

Basically, despite the fact that for the last two years its been my responsibility to maintain the users and to clean up some shit here and there, the situation is being treated by a few people as if I maliciously hacked into the server. This is on top of a long line of conversations about how everything gets blamed on our department(being in development the onus is often on us to prove that a problem is not our fault, but even after we make that effort management still says things like "well it looks like its on you guys anyway"), and on top of that the numerous projects, weekends worked, in one case an entirely holiday weekend spent at the office working for a deadline, only to find out that no one else was ready for the work and the project has been delayed for 2 months. That happens so frequently here that its laughable.

Ahhh, venting, sure does help.

[gkb]

Originally Posted by Terps

DUI.

Yeesh...yeah, definitely the winner here.

[Raiders Army]

Yep, DUI wins.

My wife lost her debit card today. Not that big of a deal since she cancelled it and another one is in the mail today.

[duckman]

My uncle Dean passed away this afternoon. My aunt found him not breathing when she came back from running errands. He had Downe's Syndrome and a weight problem. He was 36.

[Raiders Army]

My condolences. This was meant to be a lighthearted thread about Friday the 13th. I'm sorry for your loss.

[DaddyTorgo]

oh shit. duckman wins.

condolences duck. that's rough.

[duckman]

Originally Posted by Raiders Army

My condolences. This was meant to be a lighthearted thread about Friday the 13th. I'm sorry for your loss.

Thanks. I'm more concerned for my aunt. They were close and she lost one her sons to suicide some time back. I hope she takes comfort in knowing that my uncle didn't suffer.

[korme]

I just got in a wreck and my car is most likely totalled.

Fuck.

[JeeberD]

Damn, sorry to hear about your uncle, duckie...

Worst thing that happened to me today was I broke a bottle of MGD while I was setting up the bar this morning. I did also get my ass kicked during lunch, but the fact that I made good money because of it helped to ease the pain...

[dawgfan]

OK, I was going to post a smart-ass reply here, but seeing as how a few people have had legitimately bad-shit happen to them today, I'll refrain.

My condolences for those that have had bad stuff go down.

[Eaglesfan27]

Originally Posted by dawgfan

OK, I was going to post a smart-ass reply here, but seeing as how a few people have had legitimately bad-shit happen to them today, I'll refrain.

My condolences for those that have had bad stuff go down.

Ditto on both accounts.

[gottimd]

My father had surgery yesterday and something went wrong with the anesthesia due to his other medical conditions and was put in ICU last night, woke up early today and going to see him soon.

[tanglewood]

I tried to get tickets to a club but couldn't but all my friends did get tickets and did go to the club and it was a really good club and they all had a really great time and I just stayed in all night playing Civ 4 into the early hours of the morning and they came back and told me how great everything was and how I should have been there instead of playing Civ 4 for hours.

So no, nothing bad really.

[Craptacular]

Originally Posted by Eaglesfan27

Sorry for the unsolicited outburst, it is just a hot topic for me (and was the subject of my first medical paper that was successfully published a few months ago - a literature review of the lack of correlation or causation between MMR vaccinations and Autism.)

Note to self: do not allow my wife to read this. She is a therapist who works full-time with children with autism.

[Craptacular]

Oh yeah, a couple we're good friends with had their first child just after midnight on Friday. She couldn't push it out quickly enough to avoid Friday the 13th.