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

My wife got up early this morning to make some sort of breakfast thing to take with her to work this morning.  As I was drinking my first cup of coffee on the couch in the living room, she hollered out from the kitchen to me that the four eggs by the sink failed the float test and are no good. 

After a while, I turned off all the lights that the kids left on and went downstairs to my office.  After she had packed up and left, I went back upstairs to exchange old coffee for new coffee.  Turned off all the lights again because apparently we can't be bothered and there, next to the sink, are the four bad eggs.

Are we saving them?

Were you trying to tell me that I was supposed to get up from the couch, come in to the kitchen where you already were, and put those eggs in the trash?

I am surrounded for berkeleying shiny happy people. 

Seriously I send out emails about major changes to systems that we have talked about for months or years, nobody reads them or adapts and then I get yelled at. I pull back the changes and then I get yelled at for not pushing them. Management knows this is all a few people just floating along in life but not much we can do as we need the other skill sets they have. 

I guess I should just die. 

I've been chasing mystery neuro illness #37 for a full year at this point. Today I received a call from a scam likely # that I promptly sent to the abyss. They left a message. Turns out it's theoretically from the neurologists office, though it's filtered through the single worst phone service in human history.  The ENTIRE contents of the message were "Hi this is [neuro office] calling to see if you ever had [test] done" no callback#, no please call us, no other identification, no nothing, and easily in the worst broken indian english I've ever heard in my berkeleying life- and I was a professional overseas helpdesk decoder for nearly a decade. 

THIS ISNT EVEN THE PART THAT PISSES ME OFF. 

The part that makes me mad is the part where they ordered the testing. Sent the referral over to the doctor to do the testing, but never said what they wanted tested . So I went in for the testing the FIRST time, and the doc was like " I got no berkeleyin clue why youre here". Perfect. So- reschedule THAT. Not like these appointments are easy to get. Get the second one. Test hurts like hell. berkeleys my hands up for a solid week. AND THEY STILL DONT BOTHER TO FIGURE OUT THE GODDAMN RESULTS. For berkeleys sake people- You can blame insurance all you want, but the amount of wastage of healthcare dollars due to incompetant staffing across the berkeleying board is STAGGERING. 

France, seemingly ALWAYS on "Holiday".
Maybe they will ship my parts before the next holiday break?
In between "Work stoppages" and riots?

Ran out over lunch to get brunch for The Dancer and I in the QX4, and when I went to put the food in the passenger side I noticed there looked to be smoke coming from the rear wheel. Smelled it, and it was clearly friction material. It has felt like the rear wheels have been dragging after I had left it sitting for a while without driving it... it looks like I need to pull the rear brakes and figure out what's wrong. If I had to guess, I'd say one of the springs that keeps the brake shoes from pressing up against the drum has broken. *sigh* I really hate dealing with drum brakes. Unfortunately the conversion to disc brakes for it is even more of a pain.

We have had this discussion, several times. The answer isn't going to change. One side of the wall that the door frame is fastened to is over 3/8" out of plumb over 84". The other side isn't. That has twisted the frame enough that the doors do not align in the center. That does not pass NPFA-80. We have made a recommendation on the proper course of repair for this opening. Welding the hinges into the frame crooked, is not it. Cutting the fire label off the door and installing a continuous hinge with the door out of plumb is also not it. A general contractor needs to be called in to fix the wall. The door will fix itself. No, I really don't care if everyone before us didn't have an issue with it. Most other contractors suck at life and their jobs. That's the reason you called us in the first place. 

Here's a news flash for you. There are some fairly strict requirements concerning field modifications of fire doors and frames. My company isn't going to blatantly ignore them no matter how much cheaper and easier it is for you. The price of hiring a quality company is getting quality repairs, even when they aren't the easiest repairs. 

You have an employee who is in charge of fire safety. Why is he not a part of this discussion? Could it be because you want to skirt the requirements and don't want him to call you out on it? So, let me make it easy for you. I'm calling in your fire safety guy because I require guidance on how to properly repair this opening. He's the guy with the degrees, I'm going to dump it on his plate because I'm not eating the liability for shoddy repairs. I'm betting that won't be an issue though. He's a stickler for following the requirements as well. 

I hate weddings. 

I have attended too many weddings in the past 2 years. I am single, been single 8 years and I *hate* attending weddings, but I have had to work over 40 of them over the past 2 summers and I am lucky to get 12 hours on Sundays to try and get caught up on grass cutting, vehicle maintenance, laundry, and try to relax and get ready to deal with customers for the week at my day job. I have had 1 Saturday not at a wedding since middle of May this year (Canada Day) and even that weekend was predecided by my siblings that they were coming to the farm to 'help' (still not entirely what they helped with exactly) and now this Saturday coming I am off but I have worked so much that now between trying to decide on what to do and my body suffering from massive burnout from trying to accomplish even a tiny bit of my own goals that I am getting sick.

I am overtired, I am making a bunch of tiny dumb mistakes at my day job, I'm depressed and frustrated, I have zero life other than 'work' and I enjoy nothing anymore. I'm not even 38 yet, I shouldn't be this miserable. 

Just tell them you figured out that marriage is the first step to divorce.
See which one disinvites you first to know who will wear the pants in the relationship. 

DjGreggieP said:

I hate weddings. 

I have attended too many weddings in the past 2 years. I am single, been single 8 years and I *hate* attending weddings, but I have had to work over 40 of them over the past 2 summers and I am lucky to get 12 hours on Sundays to try and get caught up on grass cutting, vehicle maintenance, laundry, and try to relax and get ready to deal with customers for the week at my day job. I have had 1 Saturday not at a wedding since middle of May this year (Canada Day) and even that weekend was predecided by my siblings that they were coming to the farm to 'help' (still not entirely what they helped with exactly) and now this Saturday coming I am off but I have worked so much that now between trying to decide on what to do and my body suffering from massive burnout from trying to accomplish even a tiny bit of my own goals that I am getting sick.

I am overtired, I am making a bunch of tiny dumb mistakes at my day job, I'm depressed and frustrated, I have zero life other than 'work' and I enjoy nothing anymore. I'm not even 38 yet, I shouldn't be this miserable. 

RichardSIA said:

Just tell them you figured out that marriage is the first step to divorce.
 

For no good reason that I can think of,  we were talking about weddings last night and how they've gone completely out of control. PW said she knows of couples who are divorced or divorcing and their parents are still paying for the wedding.

Peabody said:

RichardSIA said:

Just tell them you figured out that marriage is the first step to divorce.
 

For no good reason that I can think of,  we were talking about weddings last night and how they've gone completely out of control. PW said she knows of couples who are divorced or divorcing and their parents are still paying for the wedding.

Idiots. The only reason is because they're idiots. 

All in our wedding AND honeymoon was under $3k. The two biggest expenses were food and hotel, coming in about $800 each. 

And we had way better food than every other wedding I've ever been to. 

RevRico said:

Peabody said:

RichardSIA said:

Just tell them you figured out that marriage is the first step to divorce.
 

For no good reason that I can think of,  we were talking about weddings last night and how they've gone completely out of control. PW said she knows of couples who are divorced or divorcing and their parents are still paying for the wedding.

Idiots. The only reason is because they're idiots. 

All in our wedding AND honeymoon was under $3k. The two biggest expenses were food and hotel, coming in about $800 each. 

And we had way better food than every other wedding I've ever been to. 

The amount of money people spend on weddings is mind-blowing. My parents rent their yard for weddings and some of those people spend enormous amounts of money. Thye do 10-12 of them a year. Use of the yard is $4k plus $15 a person. But some of these people are spending $75k on flowers and $50-$100 a plate for food and drink for 250 people. How about $15k+ for a band imported from Atlanta? Insanity. 

Our wedding cost $20. That's what the lawyer charged us on the way out of town. That was 37 years ago. 

Edit to correct 39 to 37. Sometimes it seems longer than it actually is. 

My FIL tried to give me $10k to have a destination wedding but my MIL wasn't having it.  They spent around $25k (I think).  FIL said it was like buying a new car and driving it off a cliff.  Don't get me wrong, our wedding was awesome.  I had a great time and our family/friends still talk about how cool our wedding was, but that was/is a crap ton of money.  Not sure I'll be able to do that for my daughters.  Happy to report almost 14 years later no one has any regrets.  I'm sure that isn't always the case for a big/expensive wedding. 

Be more like Rev and less like the Queso family. 

In reply to Toyman! :

My grandparents got married 60 years ago in Southern WV and they probably paid $2.  Ole country preacher at the "head of the hollar" and they were off to West Palm Beach, FL for my grandpas' first Air Force post.

I really like their story. 

In reply to Scotty Con Queso :

Nothing so noble as joining the military for us. We were just tired of dealing with family and school. At the time we had been dating for about 5 weeks and decided to tell the entire world to FO. We packed up my truck, dropped out of HS, and got married on the way out of town. The odds against us staying married were pretty high but we have been pretty much telling the world to FO ever since and doing our own thing. That's probably why I'm happier than a lot of people I know. 

We both got our GEDs and she went on to get an English degree. We have 4 grown kids and 4 grandkids. In the last almost 40 years I have done everything from digging ditches to working retail to owning a business. Whatever it took to keep the family fed. My wife has done everything from waiting tables to driving a cab. She's currently the Street Survival National Coordinator for the SCCA Foundation. Life has been pretty good to us and it certainly hasn't been boring. 

A cheap wedding didn't slow us down a bit. 

Toyman! said:

In reply to Scotty Con Queso :

Nothing so noble as joining the military for us. We were just tired of dealing with family and school. At the time we had been dating for about 5 weeks and decided to tell the entire world to FO. We packed up my truck, dropped out of HS, and got married on the way out of town. The odds against us staying married were pretty high but we have been pretty much telling the world to FO ever since and doing our own thing. That's probably why I'm happier than a lot of people I know. 

We both got our GEDs and she went on to get an English degree. We have 4 grown kids and 4 grandkids. In the last 40 years I have done everything from digging ditches to working retail to owning a business. Whatever it took to keep the family fed. My wife has done everything from waiting tables to driving a cab. She's currently the Street Survival National Coordinator for the SCCA Foundation. Live has been pretty good to us and it certainly hasn't been boring. 

A cheap wedding didn't slow us down a bit. 

That's the difference, right there- You and Mrs Toyman vs the World.

Mrs Recon and I are the same way- Dated for a month and a half, got engaged and married despite everyone else's opinion, and told em to get over it. 

Coming up on 22 years, now.

In reply to Toyman! :

There's a lot of happiness to be found in not giving a E36 M3 what the rest of the world thinks.

My wife and I pretty much eloped to the courthouse without telling anybody. I highly recommend this method to everybody.

My rant of the day:

After working a regular shift yesterday, then working an overnight release which had me awake through the small hours of the morning, somebody complained that I had declined to attend an 8 AM meeting.
The reason? They needed to discuss something first thing in the morning.
My response was to tell them I was available at midnight through four and they had been free to join me then.
Oh? That's inconvenient? What do you think 8 AM is for me?

Can't spend a lot on a wedding if you cant have a wedding. Married Aug 1, 2020. Had the perfect, cheap wedding planned. Good food, DIY DJ music, in a rented airplane hanger. AIRPLANE HANGER! Itp was all canceled. I worked hard to get all that cool stuff lined up. And it's all over. My heart isn't in it. Completely sucked the fun out of it. No party. No fun. I no longer give a berkeley.

Thanks, Covid.

In reply to Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) :

I've got daily recurring appointments for 0800-0815, 1130-1230, and 1645-1700 to dissuade people from scheduling meetings first thing, last thing, or over lunch.  I've got another weekly recurring block-off for Friday afternoons starting at 1400.  It's not 100%, but it has cut it down significantly. 

In reply to Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) :

A good leader would've showed up at 3:45am and passed along the required information. That's why I'm a poor leader.  LOL

Missing parts and bent part ordered from the online retailer.

The bent oil pan gasket with the metal windage tray built is not surprising. Box it up for shipment with a cv axle and a bunch of crumpled paper, what do they think is gonna happen?

Worst part is that I need to order a new one (with shipping charges) to get it in time and just get a refund on the damaged one, otherwise they want to receive the damaged return and evaluate it before shipping the replacement. 

No way to speak to a real person

In reply to wae :

People just schedule things whenever they want, even if I already have something on the calendar, because everybody's meeting is the most important thing ever in the history of all humankind.

In reply to Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) :

There's an option to automatically decline meetings that conflict with your calendar.

RevRico said:

Peabody said:

RichardSIA said:

Just tell them you figured out that marriage is the first step to divorce.
 

For no good reason that I can think of,  we were talking about weddings last night and how they've gone completely out of control. PW said she knows of couples who are divorced or divorcing and their parents are still paying for the wedding.

Idiots. The only reason is because they're idiots. 

All in our wedding AND honeymoon was under $3k. The two biggest expenses were food and hotel, coming in about $800 each. 

And we had way better food than every other wedding I've ever been to. 

About the same price here and we got married in a historic Victorian mansion.

How people spend so much is beyond me