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Gear Grinding 6: I'm So Over This.

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One thing that is really grinding my gears this morning, which also has happened to me many times before.

I am looking for spare parts. I do a search: product name, product model, parts. I get search results. I click on one. It takes me to a site where they list other sites you might go to in order to find what you are looking for. Some of those sites then take you to another site that lists a number of additional sites that might have what you are looking for (yes, I tried Amazon at the outset).

What is the point of my original search if I am just going to get more places from which to perform more searches?
 
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Cancer sucks.

And while it's great to save and save and save, at some point you should enjoy, too. Otherwise you die with dreams and money.
 
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I'm mildly annoyed with myself today (not the grinding part yet).

Usually I do a fairly good job of avoiding bad travel days by planning ahead to work remotely. I overlooked the St. Patrick's Day parade in midtown today though. The train ride back is often unpleasant because of revelers who don't quite get it.

While drinking indeed is an important element in Irish social life, it is part of the socializing with others. Getting drunk is frowned upon. What kind of social company is available from a drunk person?
 
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FreshFish said:
I'm mildly annoyed with myself today (not the grinding part yet).

Usually I do a fairly good job of avoiding bad travel days by planning ahead to work remotely. I overlooked the St. Patrick's Day parade in midtown today though. The train ride back is often unpleasant because of revelers who don't quite get it.

While drinking indeed is an important element in Irish social life, it is part of the socializing with others. Getting drunk is frowned upon. What kind of social company is available from a drunk person?
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The kind where fire is a good idea :p
 
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I bring my lunch to work 99% of the time and I usually have something each day that requires a fork and a spoon. Sometimes a knife. As such, I go to our cafeteria and grab a bunch of plastic utensils to keep in my desk as I eat at my desk every day. I constantly get people coming up to me saying "Do you have a fork?? I hear you have utensils" because for whatever reason, they brought or ordered something and don't have a utensil. So I let them take from my drawer. The problem is, so many people do this so that when I need one, like just now, there are none left. They never go get a bunch to replenish my supply. I hate that.
 
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Scarlet said:
I bring my lunch to work 99% of the time and I usually have something each day that requires a fork and a spoon. Sometimes a knife. As such, I go to our cafeteria and grab a bunch of plastic utensils to keep in my desk as I eat at my desk every day. I constantly get people coming up to me saying "Do you have a fork?? I hear you have utensils" because for whatever reason, they brought or ordered something and don't have a utensil. So I let them take from my drawer. The problem is, so many people do this so that when I need one, like just now, there are none left. They never go get a bunch to replenish my supply. I hate that.
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Do they charge you for utensils? Some of the local hospitals are now charging 5cents per utensil. Perhaps you could institute the same...
 
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bostonewe said:
Do they charge you for utensils? Some of the local hospitals are now charging 5cents per utensil. Perhaps you could institute the same...
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I don't think she should charge for utensils she steals from the cafeteria. :p
 
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Smile sweetly and say "You're in luck! I'm finished with this one," lick the fork clean and hand it to them.
 
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I'm in the middle of a meeting with two of our techs via IM in order to execute some tests using a communications system. One person asks a question and it's five minutes for the next guy responds. Great meeting. :rolleyes:
 
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St. Clown said:
I'm in the middle of a meeting with two of our techs via IM in order to execute some tests using a communications system. One person asks a question and it's five minutes for the next guy responds. Great meeting. :rolleyes:
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While not quite the same, your gripe reminded me about one of the most ridiculous meetings I was ever part of.

Years ago, we had hired a database consultant to help us build a system to manage employee enrollments. He called a meeting among five of us to address a problem he was having.

One of the insurance companies had a rate card that started at age 25, and he was having trouble writing code for how to have it calculate rates for peoples aged 18 - 24 (it would be the same rate for 25 and under).

I said, "why write code at all? just extend the rate table down from age 25 through age 18." End of meeting. If it took 90 seconds, it was too long. What a waste of everyone's time.
 
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FreshFish said:
While not quite the same, your gripe reminded me about one of the most ridiculous meetings I was ever part of.

Years ago, we had hired a database consultant to help us build a system to manage employee enrollments. He called a meeting among five of us to address a problem he was having.

One of the insurance companies had a rate card that started at age 25, and he was having trouble writing code for how to have it calculate rates for peoples aged 18 - 24 (it would be the same rate for 25 and under).

I said, "why write code at all? just extend the rate table down from age 25 through age 18." End of meeting. If it took 90 seconds, it was too long. What a waste of everyone's time.
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I remember a meeting in college where we were having a discussion over reconciling our finances. I don't recall exactly what it was, but there was a discrepancy of 50-odd cents and we had gone around in circles about three times trying to figure out how it got there.

Finally one of the eldest members (who went about 6'1" 250) produced two quarters from his pocket and slammed them down on the president's desk. The meeting proceeded.
 
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Generalist.


That word grinds my gears because it's a bullsh** marketing term made up to join Specialist as a fancy title on your business cards. And my company has swallowed the kool-aid in one gulp. We now have an "Asset Management, Senior Generalist" (Fleet Manager) and a "Human Resources Generalist" (HR Assistant).

To be fair, there are other holier than thou titles like "Executive Administration Assistant" (Secretary) and "Senior Marketing Communications Coordinator" (Marking Assistant) that also grind my gears. I'm slightly jealous that I can't sit in some ivory tower getting paid to think up these creative titles. I really got into the wrong industry.
 
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Generalist.


That word grinds my gears because it's a bullsh** marketing term made up to join Specialist as a fancy title on your business cards. And my company has swallowed the kool-aid in one gulp. We now have an "Asset Management, Senior Generalist" (Fleet Manager) and a "Human Resources Generalist" (HR Assistant).

To be fair, there are other holier than thou titles like "Executive Administration Assistant" (Secretary) and "Senior Marketing Communications Coordinator" (Marking Assistant) that also grind my gears. I'm slightly jealous that I can't sit in some ivory tower getting paid to think up these creative titles. I really got into the wrong industry.
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My brother is the head janitor for one of the St. Paul public schools. His official title is the classic "Custodial Engineer." Anytime he gives that title, I want to ask him how he came about his engineering degree and certs.
 
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Now days, his title would likely become "Facilities Generalist."

Yes, the "Custodial Engineer" title always made me laugh too.

It's almost as bad as when I was hired, I was given "Senior" in front of my title. Not complaining, they're the suckers who gave it to me, but it still grinds my gears a bit. I've joked with Resident Engineers in the field that it's a misprint, they forgot the ~ in spelling Señior.
 
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aparch said:
Generalist.

That word grinds my gears because it's a bullsh** marketing term made up to join Specialist as a fancy title on your business cards. And my company has swallowed the kool-aid in one gulp. We now have an "Asset Management, Senior Generalist" (Fleet Manager) and a "Human Resources Generalist" (HR Assistant).
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I've never heard that before, and it already grinds my gears. "Specialist" is less annoying, because the word actually means something (here, it's a specific job level).
 
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"we really need to get to end of job on what the procedures will be".

you mean........ finalize? :p

making things more complicated than they need to be by using buzzwords grinds my gears. there is absolutely no difference in meaning. one sounds trendy, the other does not.
 
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