You know what really grinds my gears?

[ProfessaPackMan]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

When the network goes down at work. 100 calls of:

"I don't know if you knew this but-"

"Yeah the network is down."

"Is there any ETA?"

"No. It'll be back up when it's back up."

Anybody that works in IT(More specifically Help Desk/Desktop Support)can relate to this, lol

[countryboy]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

When the network goes down at work. 100 calls of:

"I don't know if you knew this but-"

"Yeah the network is down."

"Is there any ETA?"

"No. It'll be back up when it's back up."

Our network crashed earlier this morning. Our IT guy paged over the loud speaker, "Don't call me or email me...I know the network is down!"

[DieHardYankee26]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Our sales software crashed earlier this morning. Our IT guy paged over the loud speak, "Don't call me or email me...I know the software crashed!"

[emoji38]

My kinda guy.

[ProfessaPackMan]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Our network crashed earlier this morning. Our IT guy paged over the loud speaker, "Don't call me or email me...I know the network is down!"

Buy that man a beer.

[pietasterp]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

those people who participate in those dr. pepper halftime contests to throw as many footballs as they can through those targets for scholarship monies. not all of them, mind you. just the ones that throw the footballs like they were basketballs.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/25408496/college-football-championship-weekend-dr-pepper-half-toss-chest-pass-sports-lore-now

[ImTellinTim]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

those people who participate in those dr. pepper halftime contests to throw as many footballs as they can through those targets for scholarship monies. not all of them, mind you. just the ones that throw the footballs like they were basketballs.

Yeah, I think people are sort of on to the fact that the way to win is to just chest-pass as many footballs through the opening as you can. Those contests suck (largely as a result of that 'strategy', which as l3ulvl pointed out, has really been shown to be optimal).

They really need to have some rule or set up the contest in such a way that it promotes actually throwing a f*#% football. They can have the short one for smaller/weaker people, but there should be an additional 15-yard downfield target that is worth like 5-10 points, so that if you want to throw it like it's meant to be thrown, you get rewarded.

Y'all sound like Uncle Rico

[slickdtc]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Our network crashed earlier this morning. Our IT guy paged over the loud speaker, "Don't call me or email me...I know the network is down!"

He didn’t say you couldn’t write a letter.

Network might be back up by then, but it’ll be heartfelt.

[Caulfield]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Y'all sound like Uncle Rico

You know a lot about cyberspace? You ever come across anything like ... time travel?

[Caulfield]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Dammit, people got to know their target audience
I'm in my car right out of the Birmingham area in this 11 o'clock hour, turn on espn radio expecting to listen to bowl selection, they're playing nfl bs.

EDIT stopped at a krystals, they got a tv setup on espn, guess I'll eat here then get back on the road and about my business lol

[kehlis]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Dammit, people got to know their target audience
I'm in my car right out of the Birmingham area in this 11 o'clock hour, turn on espn radio expecting to listen to bowl selection, they're playing nfl bs.

The only way to get it on the radio is on XM.

[Caulfield]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

The only way to get it on the radio is on XM.

Last year atthis time i was working on a sumday and i was able to listen to bama get the nod ove osu in my car. on the same station wjox local home to finebaum show, before he we national. Dont know what happened today

[LambertandHam]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Horrible cheap store brand ice cream. Tried some Aldi's bran "Egg Nog" ice cream that tasted more like banana than any Egg Nog I've ever had.

[WaitTilNextYear]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Uneven sidewalk tiles when shoveling snow.

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Uneven sidewalk tiles when shoveling snow.

ugh, I hate this, and I'm the idiot that trips over his own shovel because I'm expecting a clean path and then CLANK and I stumble over myself

[EUBlink]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I go to GameStop earlier and get to the counter with one of the Assassin's Creed remastered games for Xbox One. It's $24.99 but since I'm an Elite Pro member, it's $19.99. Says it on the box. Employee scans it, sure enough, $19.99. I have two digital coupons through PowerUp Rewards, one for $5 off anything and one for $15 off a preowned game. Employee checks and confirms they can both be used on the same transaction; I had already checked and knew this as well.

Employee enters the coupons and the price of the game jumps back up to $24.99. After the coupons, it comes out to $4.99 plus tax. Manager comes out and explains that because I'm Elite Pro and I'm using my PowerUp Rewards, for each coupon I use, it adds $2.50 back to the transaction. That's a total load of crap and he knows it. Another employee pipes up and says that just last week, a similar situation happened and the other manager overrode the price to make it right. Then the manager says that the price on the tag is incorrect, and it's actually $24.99 for Elite Pro. The employee quietly tells him, where I can still hear, that it rang up as $19.99.

The manager in front of me eventually says for me to pay the price on the screen. I left the game on the counter and walked out. I wasn't in the least bit rude, start to finish. I know several of the guys/gals really well and spend a lot of money there... too much, in fact.