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[stevew]

Silver owl is from Akron.

[MacroGuru]

Wonders if I was accepted a job that paid slightly less than I was making if I would take it just to stop traveling.

[sabotai]

I love lamp.

[Mustang]

Ordered my wife a cheesecake from the Carnegie Deli for her birthday. Hopefully she likes it.

[MacroGuru]

Another sign why I won't completely switch to a damn MAC....

I have to make an appointment at my local apple store to discuss any issues what so ever...This one is involving a power adapter that caught fire...

Um...you can see it caught fire, give me a new one and lets call it good.

[molson]

So Mahmoud Ahmadinejad got a little wacky again today, blabbering about the U.S. causing 9/11 and causing the U.S. and European diplomats to walks out of the U.N.

But my thought is more random. What is Ahmadinejad's typical NYC travel itinerary? Where does he stay in town? Is he monitored 24/7? Is he hitting the Carneige Deli or a Broadway show? Killing some jews?

[MJ4H]

Originally Posted by molson

So Mahmoud Ahmadinejad got a little wacky again today, blabbering about the U.S. causing 9/11 and causing the U.S. and European diplomats to walks out of the U.N.

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by MacroGuru

Another sign why I won't completely switch to a damn MAC....

I have to make an appointment at my local apple store to discuss any issues what so ever...This one is involving a power adapter that caught fire...

Um...you can see it caught fire, give me a new one and lets call it good.

Can't you just walk in with the burned up power adapter?

[MacroGuru]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

Can't you just walk in with the burned up power adapter?

I did that today...trust me..I was ready to shove it up someones ass when they told me I needed an appointment.

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by MacroGuru

I did that today...trust me..I was ready to shove it up someones ass when they told me I needed an appointment.

I don't get that. I could see if they were busy or something. Did you talk to a manager? I've never had to use them so, I'm not sure what the process is to be honest.

[MacroGuru]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

I don't get that. I could see if they were busy or something. Did you talk to a manager? I've never had to use them so, I'm not sure what the process is to be honest.

This is the 3rd time I have taken the broken item in to be told I need to make an appointment...how hard is it to look at the item, look me up on the computer and say yup...we will replace it or nope, your shit out of luck....

And no they were not busy.

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by MacroGuru

This is the 3rd time I have taken the broken item in to be told I need to make an appointment...how hard is it to look at the item, look me up on the computer and say yup...we will replace it or nope, your shit out of luck....

And no they were not busy.

Wow. That's pretty shitty service in my opinion. I have Steve Jobs' email address if you want it.

[MacroGuru]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

Wow. That's pretty shitty service in my opinion. I have Steve Jobs' email address if you want it.

Like he would read my email...especially as I would title it... Flash iz da roxorz

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by MacroGuru

Like he would read my email...especially as I would title it... Flash iz da roxorz

Haha! You must not have heard the news though. iPhones and iPads will be able to run Flash here soon.

[RendeR]

I still harbor an unmitigated hatred of all Things Miami (University of).


Tonight I'm a Panther fan.

[miked]

Agreed, the overrated "U" can suck it.

[sabotai]

You're best is an idiot!

[JonInMiddleGA]

These go to eleven.

[Drake]

Can someone help me explain to my boss that maintaining 40 production websites and all the related content management do not constitute "a trivial portion" of my time and job description in a way he'll understand it.

My official job title, by the way, is Senior Web Services Consultant. My boss takes that to mean Mr. Other Tasks As Assigned since "once you put a website up, it's done. It doesn't require any additional resources."

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Drake

Can someone help me explain to my boss that maintaining 40 production websites and all the related content management do not constitute "a trivial portion" of my time and job description in a way he'll understand it.

My official job title, by the way, is Senior Web Services Consultant. My boss takes that to mean Mr. Other Tasks As Assigned since "once you put a website up, it's done. It doesn't require any additional resources."

Sounds like it's time to put your boss back in the box & return him to the factory from whence he came. Clearly he's too stupid to be one.

[MacroGuru]

Originally Posted by Drake

Can someone help me explain to my boss that maintaining 40 production websites and all the related content management do not constitute "a trivial portion" of my time and job description in a way he'll understand it.

My official job title, by the way, is Senior Web Services Consultant. My boss takes that to mean Mr. Other Tasks As Assigned since "once you put a website up, it's done. It doesn't require any additional resources."

Hand him the official asshat...once he can truly understand what you do....then he can take it off, until then...everyone gets to call him an asshat.

[Poli]

Originally Posted by molson

So Mahmoud Ahmadinejad got a little wacky again today, blabbering about the U.S. causing 9/11 and causing the U.S. and European diplomats to walks out of the U.N.

But my thought is more random. What is Ahmadinejad's typical NYC travel itinerary? Where does he stay in town? Is he monitored 24/7? Is he hitting the Carneige Deli or a Broadway show? Killing some jews?

This thought deserves it's own thread. K thx.

[molson]

Originally Posted by Drake

Can someone help me explain to my boss that maintaining 40 production websites and all the related content management do not constitute "a trivial portion" of my time and job description in a way he'll understand it.

Sure thing Drake - just shoot me this guy's contact info and I'll take care of it first thing in the AM.

[Drake]

Heh. I've tried to deal with this dynamic by taking a hard line on the "I don't edit content, all I do is wrap the appropriate html/php/ajax/javascript around it and present it" but unfortunately, the average business professional only seems to have a vague understanding of spelling and grammar...and I have too much pride in my work to let stupid stand.

I imagine I'm not the only person who regularly receives content that immediately gets sent back with a "are you absolutely certain you want to put *this* in front of the public as is?" only to find himself embroiled in a 25 message committee email exchange that rewrites one paragraph two dozen different ways--all worse than the original--before ultimately just going, "You know what? Nevermind. I'll just write it."

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Drake

I imagine I'm not the only person who regularly receives content that immediately gets sent back with a "are you absolutely certain you want to put *this* in front of the public as is?" only to find himself embroiled in a 25 message committee email exchange that rewrites one paragraph two dozen different ways--all worse than the original--before ultimately just going, "You know what? Nevermind. I'll just write it."

You've just described a good bit of what I've been doing for the past year or so. Difference being, I'm not in a strong enough position to get away with a complete rewrite, so I just bang my head on the desk a lot.

[Neon_Chaos]

I just received the overview documentation for a legacy program comprised of 5 different pieces written in 3 different programming languages. That's over 30,000 lines of code written across VB6, Reflections, and VBA.

My job? Write up a tech document in order to update this legacy program into a web-based application.

Sigh.

[Poli]

"You need to click the link below for very important information." Haven't seen that as the first line in spam in quite some time.

Retro-spam, I suppose.

[Drake]

The past several posts in this thread have made it clear to me that there's still a layer of upper management out there that really just doesn't get this whole computer & internet thing.

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by molson

But my thought is more random. What is Ahmadinejad's typical NYC travel itinerary? Where does he stay in town? Is he monitored 24/7? Is he hitting the Carneige Deli or a Broadway show? Killing some jews?

SI

[Mustang]

Originally Posted by Drake

Can someone help me explain to my boss that maintaining 40 production websites and all the related content management do not constitute "a trivial portion" of my time and job description in a way he'll understand it.

I had an assbag of a boss like that. Made some grand declaration that certain parts of my job should only take up a certain percent and anything over that shouldn't be occuring and then he would fill up the rest. Of course, his numbers were way off. That's ok, after a year our customer issue backlog was at 200 when it should have been around 30.

Guy was a real suckup weasel POS. Would make up stories about how people on the floor were having certain issues with you, but never provide examples. It was always just 'people' and 'issues'. One day I just told him 'If I'm so fucking bad just fire me'

Sorry.. went off on a tangent.

[PilotMan]

Is it possible for the media to suck Vick's dick any harder then they are now?

He has had a mix of great, great plays but some real bone head throws that he is lucky weren't picked. No questioning his athleticism, but his head still isn't there to be a top notch QB.

[JediKooter]

Good thing he's not Philip Rivers, or people would really hate him.

[ISiddiqui]

He's been out of the game for this long; gets on the field when the starters sucks/gets hurt and plays out of his mind. The guy is 5th in passer rating this season, 13th in rushing yards (ahead of people like Joseph Addai, Ray Rice, and MJD), and 13th in passing yards (ahead of Aaron Rodgers). Why shouldn't they be all over this great story early in the season?

[Kodos]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

Good thing he's not Philip Rivers, or people would really hate him.

That guy is always trying to win. What a jerk!

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by Kodos

That guy is always trying to win. What a jerk!

Exactly!! That's just not right.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Driving hit counts makes a number of school children happy (as well as the faculty & school admins who monitor them). And yes, you're reading the link correctly, at the insistence of various school officials (and over my objections, frankly) my son makes his live coverage debut tonight.

Watch the live webcast of Athens Academy vs Prince Avenue football. Pre-game starts at 715, play-by-play coverage starts at 730 with the Voice of the Spartans Houston Gaines joined by Will Loveless
Spartans Webcast

[albionmoonlight]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Driving hit counts makes a number of school children happy (as well as the faculty & school admins who monitor them). And yes, you're reading the link correctly, at the insistence of various school officials (and over my objections, frankly) my son makes his live coverage debut tonight.

Watch the live webcast of Athens Academy vs Prince Avenue football. Pre-game starts at 715, play-by-play coverage starts at 730 with the Voice of the Spartans Houston Gaines joined by Will Loveless
Spartans Webcast

I wish him the best of luck!

[Pumpy Tudors]

No, we are not dating, she is not my girlfriend, I am not sleeping with her, we do not come to work together, and she is not pregnant. All I did was eat lunch with her and hug her a few times. It's not a big deal.

[molson]

Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

No, we are not dating, she is not my girlfriend, I am not sleeping with her, we do not come to work together, and she is not pregnant. All I did was eat lunch with her and hug her a few times. It's not a big deal.

Were they "special" hugs?

[Pumpy Tudors]

Originally Posted by molson

Were they "special" hugs?

She did say "skeet skeet" afterwards.

[k0ruptr]

Do you guys Thank someone who provides a service to you? Like a cashier, do you thank a cashier for ringing up your items? or even a step further, Lets say hypothetically there is a toll booth and a man works that booth and is the cashier for it, you give him a ticket he tells you how much and you pay him and he opens the gate or whatever ,wishes you well, and then sends you on your way. Do you thank him? I have my reasons, more thoughts and posts on this coming forward, lets just say I have been doing a study for the last few weeks on this.

in my opinion, I always thank these people. its just habit, but I mean it.

[Scoobz0202]

I'm the same as you.

[DanGarion]

Originally Posted by k0ruptr

Do you guys Thank someone who provides a service to you? Like a cashier, do you thank a cashier for ringing up your items? or even a step further, Lets say hypothetically there is a toll booth and a man works that booth and is the cashier for it, you give him a ticket he tells you how much and you pay him and he opens the gate or whatever ,wishes you well, and then sends you on your way. Do you thank him? I have my reasons, more thoughts and posts on this coming forward, lets just say I have been doing a study for the last few weeks on this.

in my opinion, I always thank these people. its just habit, but I mean it.

Yes I do.

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by k0ruptr

Do you guys Thank someone who provides a service to you? Like a cashier, do you thank a cashier for ringing up your items? or even a step further, Lets say hypothetically there is a toll booth and a man works that booth and is the cashier for it, you give him a ticket he tells you how much and you pay him and he opens the gate or whatever ,wishes you well, and then sends you on your way. Do you thank him? I have my reasons, more thoughts and posts on this coming forward, lets just say I have been doing a study for the last few weeks on this.

in my opinion, I always thank these people. its just habit, but I mean it.

I thank them and yes it is a sincere thank you when I say it.

[k0ruptr]

I agree... well anyway for the last few months, I had to go out and get some real hours and a real paycheck, and I ended up as a cashier / supervisor @ the Honolulu Airport Parking Structure. I sit in the booth a lot and check people out and have them on there way. I don't expect to be thanked, I've learned not to expect much from people these days, but I was completely surprised by how few people have been thanking me. I've been collecting data since its such a boring job and I have the time to do it. I'll try to put it together more interestingly but roughly its at about 60% or so that Thank me, or even something close to it, I've been counting "the have a good one's", "take care" "Aloha" and pretty much anything that isn't rude and more then a grunt as a thank you, but I guess going into the job I didn't think much about it, I guess I just expected the number to be higher then 60%. I was thinking upwards to 80-90% I guess. A lot of people are just plain rude and it shocks me. I'm never rude, I mean obviously thats common sense I'm working for a company that this is sometimes the first person providing a service these people see getting in to Hawaii. It doesn't bother me, I just thought it was an interesting thing to see some stats on.

[thesloppy]

I have a distaste for people who won't even acknowledge a simple "Hi!", "Hey!", "What's up?", or chin nod. This goes triple for the bastards that I see regularly in the hallways of where I live or work.

"I SAID HELLO MOTHERFUCKER! I KNOW YOU SEE ME, IT'S JUST YOU AND ME IN THIS HALL, AND I LOOKED YOU STRAIGHT IN YOUR BEADY LITTLE EYES AND SAID HELLO!!!! WE BOTH LIVE HERE! YOU SEE ME FIVE TIMES A WEEK! I SAID HELLOOOOOOOOOOO!"

[RainMaker]

Originally Posted by k0ruptr

Do you guys Thank someone who provides a service to you? Like a cashier, do you thank a cashier for ringing up your items? or even a step further, Lets say hypothetically there is a toll booth and a man works that booth and is the cashier for it, you give him a ticket he tells you how much and you pay him and he opens the gate or whatever ,wishes you well, and then sends you on your way. Do you thank him? I have my reasons, more thoughts and posts on this coming forward, lets just say I have been doing a study for the last few weeks on this.

in my opinion, I always thank these people. its just habit, but I mean it.

I do and usually say something like "have a good one".

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by thesloppy

I have a distaste for people who won't even acknowledge a simple "Hi!", "Hey!", "What's up?", or chin nod. This goes triple for the bastards that I see regularly in the hallways of where I live or work.

"I SAID HELLO MOTHERFUCKER! I KNOW YOU SEE ME, IT'S JUST YOU AND ME IN THIS HALL, AND I LOOKED YOU STRAIGHT IN YOUR BEADY LITTLE EYES AND SAID HELLO!!!! WE BOTH LIVE HERE! YOU SEE ME FIVE TIMES A WEEK! I SAID HELLOOOOOOOOOOO!"

I hate it when you hold the door open for someone and they don't say thank you. However, I make sure to say, "You're welcome".

[molson]

I thank everybody. Having a job, and doing it competently, no matter the job, is worthy of respect and thanks.

Speaking of thanks, thank you Macy's for allowing me to cancel a credit account I somehow had with you easily and quickly, without having to deal with any human at all, let alone some jerkoff who needs to know why I cancelled and keeps me on the phone for 20 minutes. Seriously, I can't thank you enough, you'll be getting more of my business just for this.

[terpkristin]

Unless the person has been particularly unpleasant or rude, I thank them.

/tk