eastsideTim said:Hell week has been worse than usual at work, I've been working late every night, and I'm still way behind. Not to mention this whole development cycle has been rough.
And it continues today. It doesn't matter how much knowledge and experience I have, I am feeling incredibly incompetent right now.
ok, can we send a nice note to those two frequent posters? The best part/last straw is when the one made an accusation "blah blah your younger generation blah blah" when I am fairly certain the second party is some 20 years his senior. They ruin basically everyt thread that they are in.
Now mine.
One friend getting divorced, his wife wants to run off and be free from kids and responsibilities and every adult thing, continues to FB about strong independent women, and homeschooling, while trying to ditch her kids and have her to-be-exhub,now friendzone buy her a car and a townhouse and expenses.
Another friend getting divorced. She wants to be a swinger, took the kids one day to live with one of them and never came back. He has no control, the court doesn't care about the swinger lifestyle for the teenage kids, and he can't talk to them about it either, nor can he afford the 10K lawyer bill.
Another friend in the church getting divorced, she's got her issues but her husband is a total trainwreck. He's tried to cheat over and over, abused verbally and physically, and she can't figure out how any of it will work for her and her six kids.
Another friend single Mom struggling living with her physically abusive mother with her son trying to earn enough money as a part time Mom to pay for groceries because her ex can't be bothered.
Another friend(s) getting divorced and they are both complete trainwrecks and I have no idea what's going on.
I almost cried trying to sing along to "Wonderful" by Everclear in the car. I called my Dad to express sympathy. He's just making the last payment on his second divorce and he's 63.
I think I'm done.
Facebook groups suck.
They are worthless compared to websites and the true tidbits of knowledge can't outweigh the mountains of stupid.
In reply to tuna55 :
We know couples struggling with this - one guy hooked up with a lady online then sent her a picture of his junk. Then she threatened to contact the wife unless cash was sent so he admitted his error to his wife. Now a divorce and both struggle financially and emotionally living separately.
We make these "for better or worse" vows but when worse comes knocking we leave. I, however am not in your shoes so I really can't say what to do. Just don't text wiener pictures to strangers.
I really wish I could take 6 months off from work. Not quit, just a sabbatical (unpaid). I really like what I do, the pay is good, the work matters to me, and I'd like to come back to it. But it is stressful, and I've been working since I was 15 (I have another 15+ years to go to retirement). I am TIRED. I'd envision the 6 months as:
Month 1: Sleep 10 hours a night, eat 3 large, healthy meals a day, exercise 3-4 times a week and ride my bike everywhere. Remaining time is video games, TV, and happy hour with friends. AKA "lazy bum" stage. The idea here is I've been running a sleep and health deficit for years, i need to build some credit back up.
Month 2-3, maybe 4: Travel. Go see some friends I have been neglecting across the country, stay a few days, visit, help take some things off their plates (house chores/jobs, help with projects). Let them know I'm a lousy friend because I'm constantly busy, not because I don't care. Stop in at a bunch of museums, attractions, and national parks along the way. Check off 50-75% of the things on my, "I'd like to see/do that someday" list
Month 5: Work on my own projects. 4-5 days a week in the garage spinning wrenchs with the radio on. Get the fleet to the point I'm happy with it.
Month 6: Start getting ready to go back to work. More sleep, good food, and exercise.
It would be great if we as a society could normalize time like this. Other countries do, some academics do. The 1-2 week vacations I take currently (and even that is rare) give me just enough time to get some sleep and food, and remember what it's like to feel decent and get the stress monkey off my back. Then back to the grind. It's not enough.
jimbob_racing said:Facebook groups suck.
They are worthless compared to websites and the true tidbits of knowledge can't outweigh the mountains of stupid.
So true.
I called the recruiting company today and decline the job offered earlier. I accepted it before ZF transmission got back to me. I know people drop out of jobs from staffing firms all the time, but I hate wasting people's time. I feel like I jerked them around. I hate this feeling.
NickD said:Since it's related, I'll rant about the issue with this truck. Guy drives in a '22 GMC with a 6.2L complaining about a "rotational thump noise and when letting off the accelerator pedal there's a belt noise." I get in the truck, start it up, it seems a little noisier than normal, put it in gear and give it throttle and it makes an unholy clattering noise. Don't even dare drive it, because it sounds like the valvetrain is coming unglued. No CEL and it runs fine though. Pull it in my bay, pop the hood, and it's pretty clattery at idle too. A couple coworkers come over, we all take turns with a stethoscope, and agree it sounds like it's in the Bank 2 valve cover. Lifters aren't that uncommon on new trucks, so I tear the valve cover off, expecting a bent pushrod, nothing. Go ahead and pull the head, expecting a two-piece lifter, nothing. Put new lifters in it, put it back together, start it up and it's idling nice and quiet. Cool. Get in it to take it for a test drive, put it in gear, back up, put it in drive and start accelerating and it's still making noise under throttle. Listen to it again with the stethoscope and it revved up, sounds like it's Bank 1. Pull the valve cover, no bent pushrods, pull the head, no damaged lifters. In the process of putting it back together and praying it's better.
Well, I found the noise. Put the engine back together and it was still making the noise. And then while trying to figure out where it was coming from, the engine locked up. E36 M3.
Did I mention that the Yaris also developed a leaky brake line today? Yeah, berkeley this week.
In reply to Flynlow (FS) :
I wish that was possible. I'm burned out from work, and six months would probably help a bit. It wouldn't solve the problems but at least I could get a break from thinking about them. It's nonstop, even on my vacation I had things to tend to almost daily.
The rant most of my other rants spin off of: We collect way too much data. Our buses and tracking system collect impressive amounts of information. Unfortunately people with too much free time have started creating useless performance metrics from some of it. In a training session they've admitted they don't know what to do with some of the numbers but they're important. As if we weren't doing enough, we all have projects to improve out lowest performing routes. A good goal, but were we to focus on their newest metric it would make for worse service in actuality. Our people are pretty good at providing service here every day and any meaningful improvements are going to cost money which we don't have.
They should make everyone that makes decisions here use the service regularly to see what some of these ideas do to people trying to get somewhere.
NickD said:NickD said:Since it's related, I'll rant about the issue with this truck. Guy drives in a '22 GMC with a 6.2L complaining about a "rotational thump noise and when letting off the accelerator pedal there's a belt noise." I get in the truck, start it up, it seems a little noisier than normal, put it in gear and give it throttle and it makes an unholy clattering noise. Don't even dare drive it, because it sounds like the valvetrain is coming unglued. No CEL and it runs fine though. Pull it in my bay, pop the hood, and it's pretty clattery at idle too. A couple coworkers come over, we all take turns with a stethoscope, and agree it sounds like it's in the Bank 2 valve cover. Lifters aren't that uncommon on new trucks, so I tear the valve cover off, expecting a bent pushrod, nothing. Go ahead and pull the head, expecting a two-piece lifter, nothing. Put new lifters in it, put it back together, start it up and it's idling nice and quiet. Cool. Get in it to take it for a test drive, put it in gear, back up, put it in drive and start accelerating and it's still making noise under throttle. Listen to it again with the stethoscope and it revved up, sounds like it's Bank 1. Pull the valve cover, no bent pushrods, pull the head, no damaged lifters. In the process of putting it back together and praying it's better.
Well, I found the noise. Put the engine back together and it was still making the noise. And then while trying to figure out where it was coming from, the engine locked up. E36 M3.
Did I mention that the Yaris also developed a leaky brake line today? Yeah, berkeley this week.
I used to work with a guy who's troubleshooting technique for engine noises under warranty was to take it out back and hold it wide open in neutral till the noisy parts left the engine.
jimbob_racing said:Facebook groups suck.
They are worthless compared to websites and the true tidbits of knowledge can't outweigh the mountains of stupid.
I agree for the most part but... The old forums could be a toxic place ran by absolute jerks who made it their mission to shame people and spew vitriol. I had a few friends join some forums at my request and they got ate alive over grammar issues (your vs. you're) and never came back. The "moderators" continued to shame the "newbs!!!!" until no one wanted to post anymore and moved on to Facebook.
Ever go on Miataturbo forum? Yeah. I noped out of their fast. (See what I did there?).
Scotty Con Queso said:jimbob_racing said:Facebook groups suck.
They are worthless compared to websites and the true tidbits of knowledge can't outweigh the mountains of stupid.
I agree for the most part but... The old forums could be a toxic place ran by absolute jerks who made it their mission to shame people and spew vitriol. I had a few friends join some forums at my request and they got ate alive over grammar issues (your vs. you're) and never came back. The "moderators" continued to shame the "newbs!!!!" until no one wanted to post anymore and moved on to Facebook.
Ever go on Miataturbo forum? Yeah. I noped out of their fast. (See what I did there?).
Yeah. Or the forums required you to be approved by a moderator via email before you could post and that moderator never checked their email. I remember trying to get on one and it was three years later I got an email about "Your account for suchandsuchforums.com has been approved." Wasn't even relevant to my interests anymore. I hate forums where everyone is "Do a search!" any time you ask any question either, usually because those forum search functions are functionally worthless.
I have found two forums that work as designed:
GRM
Apexspeed - Over 20 years of an informative site with good moderator support.
Nobody warned me that men's one a day multivitamin was basically an energy pill.
They're talking about the potential for some severe weather this afternoon. Apparently our documented severe weather action plan for the fish fry tonight is "we'll play it by ear".
I'm no safety-freak by any means, but don't you think we ought to know where people can shelter if there's a tornado at a bare minimum? And maybe write that E36 M3 down?
NickD said:Scotty Con Queso said:jimbob_racing said:Facebook groups suck.
They are worthless compared to websites and the true tidbits of knowledge can't outweigh the mountains of stupid.
I agree for the most part but... The old forums could be a toxic place ran by absolute jerks who made it their mission to shame people and spew vitriol. I had a few friends join some forums at my request and they got ate alive over grammar issues (your vs. you're) and never came back. The "moderators" continued to shame the "newbs!!!!" until no one wanted to post anymore and moved on to Facebook.
Ever go on Miataturbo forum? Yeah. I noped out of their fast. (See what I did there?).
Yeah. Or the forums required you to be approved by a moderator via email before you could post and that moderator never checked their email. I remember trying to get on one and it was three years later I got an email about "Your account for suchandsuchforums.com has been approved." Wasn't even relevant to my interests anymore. I hate forums where everyone is "Do a search!" any time you ask any question either, usually because those forum search functions are functionally worthless.
There was a forum I used to visit frequently, seemed like a decent community, was specific chassis based.
Was fine til one day a new user asked a question (first post introduction and wanted a proper torque spec or some such) and one of the 'board members' (basically had been a paying member for a long time) answered the question by telling the user 'Well, all that kind of information is in our 'Members Only' section and for only $X a month you can have access to everything' and I thought that was the ultimate in sleazy. Same member would complain 'no one wants these cars anymore' I noped out quickly and haven't been back.
wae said:They're talking about the potential for some severe weather this afternoon. Apparently our documented severe weather action plan for the fish fry tonight is "we'll play it by ear".
I'm no safety-freak by any means, but don't you think we ought to know where people can shelter if there's a tornado at a bare minimum? And maybe write that E36 M3 down?
Jeez, ONE tornado while camping in the RV and now you're all concerned about "contingency plans" and "emergency procedures"... 
Pete. (l33t FS) said:wae said:They're talking about the potential for some severe weather this afternoon. Apparently our documented severe weather action plan for the fish fry tonight is "we'll play it by ear".
I'm no safety-freak by any means, but don't you think we ought to know where people can shelter if there's a tornado at a bare minimum? And maybe write that E36 M3 down?
Jeez, ONE tornado while camping in the RV and now you're all concerned about "contingency plans" and "emergency procedures"...
Man, if I'm the one saying "hey this might not be safe" you KNOW things are berkeleyed up!
I have a favorite jacket. Black denim thing with a sweatshirt liner and cotton hood. I actually bought it from PacSun at least 15 years ago I think. It's getting mighty thin in the forearms and elbows. My girlfriend harps on me to find another. I can't find a replacement.
Two things annoy me about The Gumball Rally.
The thing that annoys me that isn't Gary Busey's character is the ending. The Cobra and Ferrari team are waiting side by side for a line of pedestrians to cross the street...
except the Ferrari team left 10 seconds before the Cobra team, so the Cobra team could have crossed the finish line up to ten seconds AFTER Franco and still won.
It seems like fewer companies (even big ones) are running 24 hour call centers. When my son got in a car accident, the car ended up at a crappy repair place that cost us a lot of money. If Allstate had someone to tell us which were their authorized repair centers it would have really helped.
Similarly, someone in Mexico seems to have my credit card info from a recent trip down there. They have pending charges that I'd like to stop payment on, but I have to wait till tomorrow to do it.
I'm convinced that the ideal business model for modern companies would be to have no employees at all, just a program to print money for the owners.
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
Cannonball Run's ending has the same basic problem.
eastsideTim said:In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
Cannonball Run's ending has the same basic problem.
I think just about any racing movie glosses over this kind of detail. World's Fastest Indian ended without anyone saying, okay, do it again in the other direction so we can average and pull out the effects of local wind.
tuna55 said:ok, can we send a nice note to those two frequent posters? The best part/last straw is when the one made an accusation "blah blah your younger generation blah blah" when I am fairly certain the second party is some 20 years his senior. They ruin basically everyt thread that they are in.
Now one member is actively antagonizing the older member, even after the discussion moved on. I'm done with that dude's bullE36 M3.
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