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Gear Grinding 6: I'm So Over This.

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aparch said:
Now days, his title would likely become "Facilities Generalist."

Yes, the "Custodial Engineer" title always made me laugh too.
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A friend of mine worked at the reserve desk at the college library. On his resume, he wrote, "Supervised the dissemination of restricted material."

Of course, that is not a workplace making it up....


For a really long time, our company did not have titles (the organization was too flat and everyone wore more than one hat). When we were required to sign and return audit forms, the recipients frequently were thrown off-balance by not knowing what our title was, it almost was like they were going to reject the form otherwise.
 
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Idiots who can't park.

At church tonight, getting ready to back out, and a Soccer Mom (using the generic term) pulled into the spot next to me. One problem: she was skewed/over the line SO BADLY, that I could not get out. I wait to see if she'd try and straighten out. Nope. Put it into park. I got her attention, politely:

Her: Yes?
Me: You're way over the line. Way over. I can't get out.
Her: Really? I am? (and you could tell she really didn't know; this wasn't just being polite)
Me: Yes, you are.
Her: Oh.

Starts up her car, backs out, and I guess she decided she couldn't park correctly, because she started driving to another spot.

But wait, there's more. AS SOON AS THAT HAPPENS, ANOTHER SOCCER MOM PULLS INTO THE SPOT IN A SKEWED MANNER! AND STAYED THAT WAY. Thankfully, I could actually clear her vehicle, so said F it and didn't bother telling her. :mad:
 
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aparch said:
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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At my old job, it was invariably prefixed to the titles of really old-timers (2001-2009) who were still around, but hadn't kissed enough arse to ascend to the low/mid-management level. When they derped, our team would always say amongst ourselves "Senior __________'s gonna senior." :)
 
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This grinder is a riff off 'hoven's gripe about people who cannot park properly.

I find it really annoying when people pull into an intersection with a traffic light when they don't have room to clear the intersection...especially when they do it as their light turns yellow. :mad:

What's the plan, stan? If you can't move, then no one else gets to move either? :mad:



While that is a general complaint of mine (it happens by the local WalMart all the time), I saw a classic example yesterday leaving the office. Fortunately for me, I was on foot, but this was the perfect example of gridlock, in a literal sense.

There is a bus in the middle of the intersection on a one-way street, stuck there, waiting for the traffic in front of it to clear, so that it is blocking the one-way street coming from the right, so that cars one block west are now blocking the one-way street coming from the south, so that cars are blocking the intersection that the cars blocking the bus need to clear for everyone to be able to move again. Total lockdown for all four intersections. Idiots.
 
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FreshFish said:
This grinder is a riff off 'hoven's gripe about people who cannot park properly.

I find it really annoying when people pull into an intersection with a traffic light when they don't have room to clear the intersection...especially when they do it as their light turns yellow. :mad:

What's the plan, stan? If you can't move, then no one else gets to move either? :mad:



While that is a general complaint of mine (it happens by the local WalMart all the time), I saw a classic example yesterday leaving the office. Fortunately for me, I was on foot, but this was the perfect example of gridlock, in a literal sense.

There is a bus in the middle of the intersection on a one-way street, stuck there, waiting for the traffic in front of it to clear, so that it is blocking the one-way street coming from the right, so that cars one block west are now blocking the one-way street coming from the south, so that cars are blocking the intersection that the cars blocking the bus need to clear for everyone to be able to move again. Total lockdown for all four intersections. Idiots.
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Blocking an intersection when the light changes is now a ticketable offense in Minnesota, as of a few years ago. Hasn't helped one bit, from what' I've seen on a daily basis.
 
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johnnypohlfan said:
Blocking an intersection when the light changes is now a ticketable offense in Minnesota, as of a few years ago. Hasn't helped one bit, from what' I've seen on a daily basis.
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There are more than a few Metro Transit bus drivers that should be ticketed time and again, based upon what I see in downtown Minneapolis. On snowy days, it's like they're doing it intentionally when they know the traffic in front of them isn't progressing at all. All the worse is that this is a bus-only street (southbound Marquette Ave S), so it's not like people driving their Mazdas are going to sneak in front of them while the bus is stuck at the intersection.
 
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johnnypohlfan said:
Blocking an intersection when the light changes is now a ticketable offense in Minnesota, as of a few years ago. Hasn't helped one bit, from what' I've seen on a daily basis.
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Any sort of road intersection blocking, even a side road, is illegal in many places, as usually determined by the break in centre yellow line(s). People still do it, because heaven forbid that extra 10 feet is going to get you to your destination faster hwen waiting for a red light. Meanwhile, those of us trying to turn out of the side road are not able to.
 
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St. Clown said:
All the worse is that this is a bus-only street (southbound Marquette Ave S), so it's not like people driving their Mazdas are going to sneak in front of them while the bus is stuck at the intersection.
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Maybe I missed something in the translation... how many buses are there on one street at one time to block an intersection?
 
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In Illinois (moreso the Chicagoland region), a left turn light or stop light that just goes from yellow to red means that three more cars can turn left under the now red light, because they're hanging out in the intersection or at the stop bar waiting to make the turn. Unless there is a red light camera, that seems to prevent this situation (sometimes).

Really ground my gears when I first moved here, as in Michigan, it's (I believe) an offense to block an intersection.



As an anti-gear-grinding... with my Illinois license plates, I too enjoy driving like a complete a**hole. :D It's like they're permission to be a d*ck in traffic.
 
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MarkEagleUSA said:
Maybe I missed something in the translation... how many buses are there on one street at one time to block an intersection?
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The traffic on that street is supposed to be all bus traffic for the southbound lanes, and sometimes more than one bus at a time is blocking the intersection for cross traffic as more than one bus will be stopped in the middle of the intersection due to it being two lanes wide in each direction.
 
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Colorado is also guilty of "red light = 3 or 4 more cars quick hurry!"

I've lived in 4 different states and driven through many others. Colorado has THE worst drivers out of all of them. Going 60 in the left lane, clustering around trucks, dropping to 25 to gawk at a broken down Civic on the shoulder, treating red lights as friendly suggestions...they do it all.

And that's when it's nice out. God help you if it rains, or heaven forbid it snows. The last time it snowed the highway patrol had to go out on I-70 and do rolling roadblocks at 25 mph to stop drivers from murderdeathkilling themselves. They call it "turtle patrol" or something like that.

A Colorado driver wouldn't last 5 minutes on I-75 through the Detroit suburbs during morning rush.
 
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Twitch, are you saying that there's a drawback to legalized marijuana? ;)
 
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aparch said:
In Illinois (moreso the Chicagoland region), a left turn light or stop light that just goes from yellow to red means that three more cars can turn left under the now red light, because they're hanging out in the intersection or at the stop bar waiting to make the turn. Unless there is a red light camera, that seems to prevent this situation (sometimes).

Really ground my gears when I first moved here, as in Michigan, it's (I believe) an offense to block an intersection.
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It seems like this happens a lot more frequently than it used to. I had someone actually HONK at me because I didn't go on yellow on a left turn when I was completely stopped, and not pulled into the intersection yet.
 
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Changing the direction a little bit:

Google Chrome for Windows. The thing is a serious RAM eater. If you look at it in the Task Manager, it has one main window using about 35MB of RAM (not a big deal), and then some of the most basic and common extensions you have on there eat up well over another 150MB. And this is all while it's idle. Add to that, when you shutdown the browser, it will continue to run as a background app, still using up all but that first 35MB or RAM. You have to manually select the option in Advanced Settings for it to not run in the background after turning off the application. Ridiculous.
 
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St. Clown said:
Changing the direction a little bit:

Google Chrome for Windows. The thing is a serious RAM eater. If you look at it in the Task Manager, it has one main window using about 35MB of RAM (not a big deal), and then some of the most basic and common extensions you have on there eat up well over another 150MB. And this is all while it's idle. Add to that, when you shutdown the browser, it will continue to run as a background app, still using up all but that first 35MB or RAM. You have to manually select the option in Advanced Settings for it to not run in the background after turning off the application. Ridiculous.
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If you start opening tabs, every tab is its own process and its own instance of Chrome. (Which is actually handy, because that way if one tab crashes the entire browser doesn't go down.)
 
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Twitch Boy said:
If you start opening tabs, every tab is its own process and its own instance of Chrome. (Which is actually handy, because that way if one tab crashes the entire browser doesn't go down.)
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There was running just a single tab with those numbers I was seeing. The reason for the investigation was that my computer had started lagging a lot recently, and I did have a number of tabs open at that time, which made me suspect the browser in the first place.
 
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As badly as drivers suck back home, after having driven here now the past 18 months I actually miss by comparison their minor shenanigans.
 
Re: Gear Grinding 6: I'm So Over This.

aparch said:
In Illinois (moreso the Chicagoland region), a left turn light or stop light that just goes from yellow to red means that three more cars can turn left under the now red light, because they're hanging out in the intersection or at the stop bar waiting to make the turn. Unless there is a red light camera, that seems to prevent this situation (sometimes).

Really ground my gears when I first moved here, as in Michigan, it's (I believe) an offense to block an intersection.



As an anti-gear-grinding... with my Illinois license plates, I too enjoy driving like a complete a**hole. :D It's like they're permission to be a d*ck in traffic.
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this. in indiana, it's legal to "finish your turn" or "exit the intersection" as long as you're there while the light is yellow. so, naturally, people speed through yellow/red lights constantly and left turn lanes have 3 cars crammed into the intersection. i'm only about an hour from chicago, though, so i'm sure there's some a**hole spillover, too.
 
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sweet canadian mullet said:
this. in indiana, it's legal to "finish your turn" or "exit the intersection" as long as you're there while the light is yellow. so, naturally, people speed through yellow/red lights constantly and left turn lanes have 3 cars crammed into the intersection. i'm only about an hour from chicago, though, so i'm sure there's some a**hole spillover, too.
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Happens down here in Indianapolis too.
 
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