I need a leaf blower, but for like, people.
I need a leaf blower, but for like, people.
In reply to Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) :
I had to put wires on a couple in my crawl space after some disappeared. The wires don't seem to deter potential customers.
Shadeux said:I need a leaf blower, but for like, people.
So, a flamethrower. You need a flamethrower.
Shadeux said:I need a leaf blower, but for like, people.
What kind of animal do you have around you that can use a leaf blower??
wae said:I am very much not accustomed to having this much actual work to do. Especially at this time of the year. I think it's been about 25 years since I've worked a December....
So, I have to put in a proposal for a new public project. Each proposal amounts to an approximately 50 page book, customized to the project.
I had one to do last week, while also trying to get the usual blizzard of last-minute project work done by the 21st.
The new proposal is due on January 2nd.
Also just found out today that we are shortlisted for the project we submitted last week, and I have to prepare an interview presentation, which typically 20-30 minutes worth of PowerPoint, also customized to the project.
The interview is scheduled for January 5th. For a project that may not even be funded!
Another 10 days would make literally no difference in the overall timeline - these are both multi-year projects.
Berking seriously. Why hang this berking E36 M3 over everyone's heads during the holidays? You're both state agencies for Bob's sake. How much work are YOU getting done in the next 3 weeks?
Shiny happy people.
In reply to Duke :
I feel you, I totally feel you. No one gives a E36 M3 anymore, just pop a due date on something and send it out. We have 3 bids due the week after New Years. Good luck getting any pricing back from vendors and subs until 3 minutes before the bids go in. So it can sit in someone's inbox for 4 more days after we get their out of office reply.
3 hours on one berkeleying bolt. The very last bolt in this project. You're goddam lucky you're a $150 bolt kit because you were about to spend the rest of your short ass life being sodomized by a Sawzall.
Motherberkeleyer.
It bares repeating: BERK YOU!
In reply to 11GTCS :
Count me in on that rant, although we are fortunate to have project managers and team leads who are not afraid to discretely confront our clients on ludicrous due dates and last-minute goal post moves and propose a common sense solution. "We show a due date of 12/22 for this set. Are you guys planning to be in the office right after Christmas, or are you taking some time off? Some of our folks have vacation scheduled, and we thought it might make sense to push this back until after the holiday if it's just going to sit in your inbox for a week..."
Today's minor rant is pretty minor. I'm finally old enough to justify my crabby attitude and general lack of enthusiasm.
DarkMonohue said:In reply to 11GTCS :
Count me in on that rant, although we are fortunate to have project managers and team leads who are not afraid to discretely confront our clients on ludicrous due dates and last-minute goal post moves and propose a common sense solution. "We show a due date of 12/22 for this set. Are you guys planning to be in the office right after Christmas, or are you taking some time off? Some of our folks have vacation scheduled, and we thought it might make sense to push this back until after the holiday if it's just going to sit in your inbox for a week..."
Today's minor rant is pretty minor. I'm finally old enough to justify my crabby attitude and general lack of enthusiasm.
LOL, I wish I could cut and paste your PM's reply and send that out verbatim but that would probably end badly. I too am old enough to sometimes have a crabby attitude by having seen this time and again but I've learned to think it but not act on it. (Insert "aww not this E36 M3 again" meme)
We're bidding to various GCs who are bidding on projects we've targeted (we bid the HVAC scope) so we really have no recourse. It's fun to vent and know we're not the only ones dealing with this crap. The ironic part is I've known about a couple of these projects for months and have done some legwork in the background with the owner on one in particular. Only to find out "it's due when?"
My wife just came downstairs with the dog, opened my office door to say good morning, then walked away. DO YOU NOT KNOW HOW TO CLOSE THE DOOR? I'M WORKING HERE!!!
The list of things that annoy me about my wife continues to grow: Incapable of efficiently loading the dishwasher, is always running late because she has to put on makeup even though she looks better without it, never turns off a light, and opens the door while I'm working then doesn't close it again. That's 4 things!
In reply to mtn :
I am the only person in my household who is aware that doors can close AND open. Also, I am the holder of the secret knowledge of how light switches can be turned on AND off.
Second dose of the shingles vaccine is hitting way harder than the first. Although if it has any more effect on the nerve pain from when I got shingles, it'll be worth it.
In reply to eastsideTim :
I agree, the second dose was awful.
Ladies, a reminder: post-intimacy flatulence, no matter how silent, no matter how congested you believe or assume your partner is, is never okay.
wae said:In reply to mtn :
I am the only person in my household who is aware that doors can close AND open. Also, I am the holder of the secret knowledge of how light switches can be turned on AND off.
Luckily DW is great with stuff like this - better than I am by far.
You're describing one of my bosses. I'd kill him if I was married to him, and in fact he is recently divorced. Funny thing is, his wife is far worse than he is.
In reply to 11GTCS :
New theory on the mousetraps: Something is carting off a dead mouse and the trap to eat somewhere else.
I'm going to try wiring some down and see what happens.
In reply to Duke :
I was talking today with my about to be gone business partner, and I remarked that none of our clients were losing their E36 M3 that their project needed to be done by Christmas. He went "Huh. You're right." Usually clients think Thanksgiving to New Years Day is a busy period for people designing and building projects. Yeah, no. The crews are out hunting and I'm over your E36 M3.
I was in a hurry and needed an oil change, so I stopped at the local oil change place that I've been to a few times. I always forget to tell them about Tire pressure, these are obviously not stock tires, don't deflate them to the tire pressure that is on the door......
I guess that is what I get for not doing my own
In reply to eastsideTim & Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) :
I'll check in with you in a few weeks after I get my second one. I doubled up the first with a flu shot and ended up sore all over by late evening so I popped a couple of ibuprofen and went to bed. Not awful. After watching what my dad and one of my friends went through when they had it, no thanks.
I applied for a job 1500 miles away that pays $20k less a year because I hate it here so much.
We have had a new site lead since May. He used to work in this section previously but was working in another, but related, section for a couple of years. He told us he was hired due to his management experience but I have seen ZERO proof of that so far. He doesn't know our job or our processes but micromanages us to death. He inserts himself in every process, slowing down the flow of information and increasing our response time to outages. He keeps berkeleying up the work schedule and either has too many people on shift or not enough to fulfill the SLA for our contract. We don't get to see the next month's schedule until a few days before the end of the month. It makes it impossible to schedule PTO or appointments.
In addition to that, he has technicians scheduled for on call days when they shouldn't be. If a tech works 36 hrs (3x 12 hr shifts a week), he has them on call 3 days. On call means be ready to come to work. So no drinking or leaving the local area. So a tech really has only ONE day that they are truly off of work a week. Did I mention that this is unpaid on call time? I'm pretty sure that is illegal. He also has the Tier 2 techs on call every other weekend. We are not supposed to be on call except when we are directly filling in for the site lead when he takes PTO. I asked him why we are on call now and he told me, verbatim, "so I can spend time with my family." Why are we shouldering this responsibility when it is YOUR BERKING JOB? YOU applied for this position knowing full well the job requirements. We do not get compensated at all for this. It's not my berkeleying job to be part-time site lead.
I have a follow up interview on Monday for this new job. I'm so hopeful I get it. I cannot get out of here fast enough. I'm going to email HR and the DOL when I leave about this shady E36 M3.
In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :
You should E-mail HR right now. berkeley that dude.
I decided to finally install the backup camera and associated rear-view mirror in the 5 this morning. After sitting on the parts for over 3 years. Anyway.
1- Mazda mirror spring retention. F that trash.
2- premium parts I got did not include install instructions. Not do they list anything on their website.
3- I assumed the interior fuse panel would be on the driver side like every other car I've owned. Wrong.
4- I apparently lost my test light and my assortment of connectors and electrical stuff.
Needless to say, I'll finish it up sometime after Christmas. That's because the dash cam setup I got for her will need installed too, and there has to be some install crossover. I assume.
Why can't car shippers ever give even a ballpark time for when they'll show up?
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