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Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

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I've considered it as well. I'm at the point now where I can barely pass the Viewmaster thingie at the DMV.

I am nearsighted and when I was still in Michigan I did the viewmaster thing without my glasses when I renewed. Was hilarious to have my photo with glasses on, needing glasses to drive, and the license stating no restrictions (where the corrective lenses would be listed).
 
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Talk with your mouth full. If they get sprayed, so be it. It was their idea in the first place.
 
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So this new person in the office has their computer sounds blaring every time they have an error or get an email, which is frequently. I jokingly ask "Ok, who has their mute off?"

Nothing.

The pings and bells keep going, constantly. So I ask around and someone says, "Oh, it's so and so." And I say, "So and so, any chance you can mute your computer?" She asks, "So I have to hit one of the buttons on my computer?" My coworker chimes in, "Yeah, he doesn't like it when you have you computer playing sounds. So you could just hit the mute button. Or you can be your own person and do what you want."

Yeah, or you can be someone who's considerate of others in the office. :rolleyes:
 
Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

So this new person in the office has their computer sounds blaring every time they have an error or get an email, which is frequently. I jokingly ask "Ok, who has their mute off?"

Nothing.

The pings and bells keep going, constantly. So I ask around and someone says, "Oh, it's so and so." And I say, "So and so, any chance you can mute your computer?" She asks, "So I have to hit one of the buttons on my computer?" My coworker chimes in, "Yeah, he doesn't like it when you have you computer playing sounds. So you could just hit the mute button. Or you can be your own person and do what you want."

Yeah, or you can be someone who's considerate of others in the office. :rolleyes:

I was doing more Ancestry (on a real kick lately) and I found a distant cousin that works with you. Well, works in the same place as you (and GE, and countless others, I know), but he is in engineering, so figured there might be a better chance you know him. Does this person with computer volume issues have my last name?
 
Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

So this new person in the office has their computer sounds blaring every time they have an error or get an email, which is frequently. I jokingly ask "Ok, who has their mute off?"

Nothing.

The pings and bells keep going, constantly. So I ask around and someone says, "Oh, it's so and so." And I say, "So and so, any chance you can mute your computer?" She asks, "So I have to hit one of the buttons on my computer?" My coworker chimes in, "Yeah, he doesn't like it when you have you computer playing sounds. So you could just hit the mute button. Or you can be your own person and do what you want."

Yeah, or you can be someone who's considerate of others in the office. :rolleyes:

For the second coworker there who chimed in, Operation F--- With and Pi-- Off dx: success. :D
 
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I was doing more Ancestry (on a real kick lately) and I found a distant cousin that works with you. Well, works in the same place as you (and GE, and countless others, I know), but he is in engineering, so figured there might be a better chance you know him. Does this person with computer volume issues have my last name?

She does not. In fact, I did a quick search for your last name and didn't come up with anything. :confused:

Edit: Nix that. The search function doesn't work properly. None of their profile pictures have a neat hat though. Must be a really distant cousin.
 
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She does not. In fact, I did a quick search for your last name and didn't come up with anything. :confused:

Edit: Nix that. The search function doesn't work properly. None of their profile pictures have a neat hat though. Must be a really distant cousin.

Not real distant, but distant. His grandpa is my great grandpa's brother, so, his dad and my grandpa are first cousins.
 
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Either that or 3rd OR. Up and down are "removeds". Lateral are "first, second, etc."
 
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Not real distant, but distant. His grandpa is my great grandpa's brother, so, his dad and my grandpa are first cousins.

Which means he and your father (or mother, I'll assume the former given the last name match) are second cousins. That would make your relation to him a second cousin once removed.
 
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Yeah, I don't bother myself with trying to figure that stuff out. Doesn't mean much to me.

THis. I just mumble something when asked. I have had it explained to me a bunch of times. In one ear or eye and out the other.

FTM labels all the relatives if I get desperate.
 
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All of my insurance rates through amica went up by 8-10%.

Isn't Amica only a property and life company? They should be shouting out the hills that their rates held steady, given the way the stock markets have performed for the past year.
 
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Isn't Amica only a property and life company? They should be shouting out the hills that their rates held steady, given the way the stock markets have performed for the past year.

No idea. Why would their rates be flat compared to others?

But before 2017, I had never even seen a commercial for Amica. I kind of liked that they didn't advertise but through word-of-mouth. Now I see their ads on TV once or twice a week.
 
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No idea. Why would their rates be flat compared to others?

But before 2017, I had never even seen a commercial for Amica. I kind of liked that they didn't advertise but through word-of-mouth. Now I see their ads on TV once or twice a week.
So long as the markets are performing well, insurance companies that are only in the property and life business will have more consistent cost structures, expected payout rates. Normally, when the stock and bond markets are performing well, they can keep their rate increases down. They tend to increase their rates more when investments haven't performed well.

Health insurers have an entirely different set of issues with which to contend, for a whole host of reasons that have been discussed elsewhere.
 
Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

So long as the markets are performing well, insurance companies that are only in the property and life business will have more consistent cost structures, expected payout rates. Normally, when the stock and bond markets are performing well, they can keep their rate increases down. They tend to increase their rates more when investments haven't performed well.

Health insurers have an entirely different set of issues with which to contend, for a whole host of reasons that have been discussed elsewhere.

No clue. I know that Amica is still a true mutual company in that they are owned by their policy holders and get a dividend back each year if they are on a dividend policy.

http://www.amica.com/en/about-us/media-center/annual-report.html
 
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