I'm going to have a very difficult time not posting in the new Palestine / Israel thread, especially if some of the religious apologists really get going.
Must... resist...
I'm going to have a very difficult time not posting in the new Palestine / Israel thread, especially if some of the religious apologists really get going.
Must... resist...
Duke said:I'm going to have a very difficult time not posting in the new Palestine / Israel thread, especially if some of the religious apologists really get going.
Must... resist...
Hey why don't you PM me and we can chat offline about stuff.
tuna55 said:Duke said:I'm going to have a very difficult time not posting in the new Palestine / Israel thread, especially if some of the religious apologists really get going.
Hey why don't you PM me and we can chat offline about stuff.
I sincerely appreciate the offer, but no, thank you. I doubt either one of us will convince the other, or even make each other see things particularly differently.
I truly do appreciate the spirit in which you said that, though.
Duke said:tuna55 said:Duke said:I'm going to have a very difficult time not posting in the new Palestine / Israel thread, especially if some of the religious apologists really get going.
Hey why don't you PM me and we can chat offline about stuff.
I sincerely appreciate the offer, but no, thank you. I doubt either one of us will convince the other, or even make each other see things particularly differently.
I truly do appreciate the spirit in which you said that, though.
Alright, well offer still stands. I promise I won't try to convince you of anything.
In reply to Duke :
Maybe its the marriage, or maybe it's the Hellspawn, maybe its the old(er) age, but there's a lot of hills I won't die on. M3load, in fact.
Someone is wrong? Disagree with another? berkeley em. Just because you get served a E36 M3 sandwich, doesn't means you have to eat it. 
Let.
It.
Slide.
Duke said:I'm going to have a very difficult time not posting in the new Palestine / Israel thread, especially if some of the religious apologists really get going.
Must... resist...
Nero's playing his fiddle, and I got some marshmallows. Come join me while Rome burns.
Got an email from the higher-ups that they've finished notifying everyone who is to be laid off- which means that I am not one of them. Still not certain which would have been better- but at least now I don't have to wonder.
Seems to be the theme today, I was given a list of folks who's accounts I had to disable today.
Now I've got to get all their IT equipment.
This sucks.
In reply to GPz11 (Forum Supporter) :
I worked for a big company after I was bought along with the rest of a smaller company. The smaller company had 2 locations and after absorbing the local one, the big company decided to close the remote location.
Big boss took me and another person down to the remote office and told us to hang out nearby and watch through the window while he gathered all of our soon-to-be-former coworkers in the conference room for a surprise "staff meeting".
As soon as we saw him do that, it was our job to run into the office area, shut down, and remove every computer in the place while he kept them occupied in the conference room by firing them.
I mean yeah, I get it, but it wasn't my best day at work.
Humorous aside: I once put in my two week notice, and worked through it. On my next to last day, I was sent a service ticket to disable my own account in a system because I was the admin of record for the system. Fun times. I advised management to get a few more people with admin and su rights set up in the next few hours.
At my current place of work, we're in the phase of what seems like a 5 year cycle of getting the "do more with less" and "tightening our belt" speeches. Even though we're doing well, by some accounts we're not doing well enough
What usually happens during one of these cycles is that they don't fill vacant positions, offer early retirement to people who are close to it, trim any experimental projects and that sort of thing before they actually go after staff headcount that's doing work every day. It'll take about a year or so to move through the process, and I hope they stick to the usual formula. Then in about 18 months, they'll hire more people because we aren't getting enough work done and/or people are burning out, work that way for about a year and get into a phase of needing to do more with less, etc. It's almost comical.
I suppose the cycle is a way of getting fresh individuals into the company to build up a wide enough spectrum of "low performers" in every department. That way, in the event they do need to go after active headcount, they can go after the lower performers first.
In reply to Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) :
DW lived that cycle for going on 25 years and always survived. Add in the perpetual management back-and-forth between permanent hire versus contract staffing.
Solidly minor rant... but we decided to get Indian take-out for dinner last night from a place we get it from every few weeks. Ordered our usual, including chicken vindaloo for myself- when I picked it up I checked that we had everything in the bag (and had them add an extra container of rice I'd forgotten to order when I initially called the order in), and headed for home. Got home and pulled everything out for us to dish it up, and pulled out the container labeled 'chicken vindaloo' and immediately noticed that it looked a lot more brownish and darker in color than I'm used to it looking (nothing nearly as bright red as what The Dancer gets, though hers is ironically far less spicy than I like mine), but initially figured that it was just a difference in how they'd made it. Then I opened it- and immediately could tell from the smell that it was not a vindaloo, and upon dishing it up found that it was not even a chicken dish (initially thought it was beef, but realize now it was almost certainly lamb). I still ate it- it wasn't bad, but it definitely wasn't the spicy vindaloo that I had been looking forward to. Now I need to be sure to check everything closely from now on... that was one of the only places that so far hadn't messed up a takeout order for us (beyond occasionally making The Dancer's usual dish spicier than she likes).
Stupid Jeep 'Autopark' feature... I'm enough of a grown-up to open my door while backing (or going forward) in my driveway without it automatically going into park and making me think I hit/broke something.
In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :
I complained at Chick-fil-A yesterday that my $10 Cobb Salad didn't have a hard boiled egg in it (says egg on the menu board).
They brought me a small container with a 1/3 of a HB egg in it.
In reply to Datsun240ZGuy :
It's a running... well, 'joke' isn't the right word because we don't find it funny- 'issue' is perhaps a better term- with us that places always screw up our take-out orders. It's pretty much guaranteed that if I don't closely inspect it when I pick it up that something will be wrong, not uncommonly outright forgetting something an entire dish/side. Or (as was the case with you) just leaving out something kind of essential for the dish.
The time again has come for the annual Huntsman World Senior Games. For two weeks a year this town is host to several thousand athletes and their entourages, none of whom should probably be allowed to drive. My ten minute commute is now a death trap.
In reply to Rodan :
Fully agree that it's a painful 'feature'. It was fun to find out about it while in a busy parking lot.
Why do you need to open your doors backing up?
In reply to Appleseed :
Yay.....crappy neighbors
In reply to Duke :
Ouch.
My father is one of the most unsmooth drivers I have ever ridden with. Every input causes a jerk in a different direction. I've been borderline car sick all day.
Yuck.
Toyman! said:My father is one of the most unsmooth drivers I have ever ridden with. Every input causes a jerk in a different direction. I've been borderline car sick all day.
Yuck.
My uncle is like that. He drives with both of his hands at 12. Try to do that once. You end up micro-swerving. It is really, really annoying. My aunt - different side of the family - thinks that cruise control doesn't exist and that the gas pedal is a binary switch. You've got whiplash by the end of a 2 mile drive.
In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :
I hate drive through - the orders are never right. I go inside and carry it out which makes my wife nuts.
Well, this has been quite the week. At least it was a rental car with full coverage thru work. Sadly, the hawk didn't make it.
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