Minor rant thread. Post your rants o' the day here!

wae said:

eastsideTim said:

I feel like clearing the board, and selling all my cars (except for the ratty Miata) and parts, and buying one new car.  I know I'd regret it, but I am tired of all of them constantly needing something.  I need something I can hop in and not worry about a noise or a vibration or whatever.

I've found that lowering my standards is pretty effective.  And way cheaper.

I've been driving the 5 with some noise(rear wheel bearing, rear tire noise, other?) for most of the time I've owned it.  I check every now and then, and the bearings aren't loose, so I try to ignore it. It needs a new exhaust mid pipe, too.  The Miata and Beetle have enough problems I won't drive them out of town, the S10 needs a ton of dialing in and wiring relocation.  The E350, well you know.  Even eastsideWife's GTI needs plugs and an air filter, and a new windshield.

The 5 is my "lowered standards" car since it hasn't (and isn't likely) to leave me stranded, but dang, I've got enough going on, I just want to not worry about it all for a while.

mtn said:

Hey. Hospital. You just gave my wife a job offer. My wife, with 10+ years of experience, a Master's degree, has set up 3 different versions of the program you're trying to set up. That job listing? It is worth 10+ years experience, a masters degree, and exact experience for this. Wanna know what wasn't worth it? Your job offer.

Good luck with the new graduates you're going to get at that pay.

But the salary was competitive.  It said so right in the job listing - right? "Completive Salary" is  usually code for super low pay.

In that same realm, I once applied to a job posting that listed an actual salary range of "X to Y".  The posting listed expected experience requirements and I met and exceeded all of those qualifications.  I got a call from their internal recruiter.  I said I would need to have the full Y-amount of money to make a switch and her response was "ooh, ah, um, I'm not sure we can even make that work."  Then why put that amount in the range?  

Ashyukun (Robert) said:

Ok, as an engineer I concede and largely accept that writing reports is going to occupy at least as much of my time as actually doing the work that will go into them. And honestly, I don't mind writing- to an extent I enjoy it. What I don't enjoy, however, is spending more time formatting a berking report in Word than I spend actually writing the document. 

That's what Styles are for.

1. Invest some time setting up styles for each type of text you need, then use them and don't override the formatting except in very very rare cases.
    
2. Edit with the invisible characters on, especially paragraph marks, because that's where the formattiing lives.
    
3. Set tabs where you need them, preferably in the style, and never ever try to space stuff over.

Honestly, those 3 practices should eliminate 90% of Word stress.

eastsideTim said:

wae said:

eastsideTim said:

I feel like clearing the board, and selling all my cars (except for the ratty Miata) and parts, and buying one new car.  I know I'd regret it, but I am tired of all of them constantly needing something.  I need something I can hop in and not worry about a noise or a vibration or whatever.

I've found that lowering my standards is pretty effective.  And way cheaper.

I've been driving the 5 with some noise(rear wheel bearing, rear tire noise, other?) for most of the time I've owned it.  I check every now and then, and the bearings aren't loose, so I try to ignore it. It needs a new exhaust mid pipe, too.  The Miata and Beetle have enough problems I won't drive them out of town, the S10 needs a ton of dialing in and wiring relocation.  The E350, well you know.  Even eastsideWife's GTI needs plugs and an air filter, and a new windshield.

The 5 is my "lowered standards" car since it hasn't (and isn't likely) to leave me stranded, but dang, I've got enough going on, I just want to not worry about it all for a while.

I've got a similar situation with the QX4... it seems like it's always rattled and been noisy, the CEL has been on since I got it since it needs an O2 sensor replaced that is a compete bitch to do unless you're pretty much pulling the whole engine out, and every 18 months or so it will eat a starter since it seems likely there's a broken tooth or two on the flex plate that eventually destroy the gears on the starter. But other than when the starters croak it has been nice and reliable, and I need something other than the E46 for when the weather isn't good (and that The Dancer can drive, since she's never cared about learning stick). When the Colorado is paid off and (ideally) the house as well down the line, I plan to pick up something new to replace it if I can find something that I like as much- if Hyundai made an electric/hybrid Santa Cruz it would probably be my top contender given my love of Utes.

In reply to Duke :

I've got styles set up pretty well and know lots of the tricks. The challenge comes in when (as I frequently do) I have to integrate content from multiple people into reports for projects- despite our theoretically having styles set for everything, nothing ever quite works out the same- and when we get reports that push 1,000 pages Word can get unpredictable.

Not the best explanation ever but I'm with Tedward.

In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :

Yes, all your points are very valid, especially how flaky word gets with super long files.

Clickbait titles are terrible anywhere but worse where they aren't expected.

Toyman! said:

Clickbait titles are terrible anywhere but worse where they aren't expected.

Any time a headline (or forum topic) is a click-baity yes or no question, the answer is always "no".

Researchers ask does this common household item cause cancer? (no.  No it does not)

Is [manufacturer] going to discontinue [popular product]?  (no.  No they are not)

Did researchers find evidence of [something as-yet unproven]?  (no.  No they did not)

Did we destroy our motor?  (no.  No you did not)

In reply to Toyman! :

Sadly, clickbait titles and regurgitated, years old content have become the standard.

OMBG my Outlook email signatures got automatically borged into Roaming sigs. OK fine I have several devices that can share it. BUT NOWHERE DOES IT TELL YOU HOW TO EDIT THEM ONCE THEY'RE BORGED. Googling any variation of "edit Outlook roaming signature" just tells me how to change the Registry to disable roaming sigs.

Plus the whole point of this stupid execise in futility is to make them sync across multiple devices... which they absolutely aren't doing.

It seems like there's a berkeleying problem every single time we try to get together with family. Apparently, I'm the moderator. I wind up trying to balance everyone's needs every time.

Just shipped a valve cover from AZ to IL for a core refund.  $38.00 for FedEx ground... 'dimensional weight' is bullE36 M3.

Rodan said:

Just shipped a valve cover from AZ to IL for a core refund.  $38.00 for FedEx ground... 'dimensional weight' is bullE36 M3.

Why?  Takes up the same amount of volume in the truck whether it weighs 5 pounds or 50.

No explanation needed

Been working on a pretty mindless task, fixing validation errors in an XML file. Went to turn on some music, the sub in my little Logitech THX Z600 2.1 system is dead. 

These will be here on Thursday, hope they live up to the reviews and price. 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09VB389LD?smid=A23AS8PFN4IRUQ&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp&th=1

I know your machine is down. I know i picked up the mangled stuff Saturday afternoon. Were going quick as we can. Calling every two hors isn't going to speed it up. I already feel bad enough its taking longer than we estimated. 

God i hate when this E36 M3 happens. I know none of have control over weather and supply issues, but i still feel personally responsible.....

The tree that I told my wife was going to hit the house hit the house. She liked it because it gave that corner of the house shade. I hated it because it was a maple that was growing huge limbs at odd angles.

Queue the pyrrhic told-you-so.

In reply to Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) :

Yikes.  Hope insurance doesn't treat you too poorly.  We've dropped several maples over the years due to risk they posed to the house.

Out at a plant today, if you miss the toilet, clean up the damn floor.

That's disgusting.

In reply to GPz11 (Forum Supporter) :

someone at my office consistently manages to get E36 M3 on the seat, I'm going full sherlock holmes to figure out who

What do you do when your head is completely filled with berk.

The parts have been waiting on all day are finally done. Time to drive the hour to the Machine Shop the hour from the Machine Shop to the customer and the hour from the customer back home. And then get up at 5:00 a.m. to get the girls to school. Tomorrow is going to lick balls.

I'm 180 miles from home in Indianapolis at a hotel for work today.  

My check engine light started flashing then went on solid and the engine seems to have a minor idle miss. 

Roger Penske Chevrolet is a mile away - will they scan/fix it without a big fight tomorrow morning?  Is this going to eat into my car fund savings?

Am I going to miss my customer appointments?  

Hey Spotify, can you please stop cranking the volume of your commercials to 11?  I swear they are twice as loud as the music I'm listening to, and it is always super annoying.