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Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth

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One thing that grinds my gears big-time.

On the trains, they have had a specially-designated "quiet car." No cellphone conversations, no loud music, etc. On the 6 AM train, lots of us doze for awhile.

If you know you are going to have a conversation, why do you get on the quiet car to do it! :mad: and continue to do it, day after day after day after day??

and then, when you are called out on it, you respond "I'm speaking quietly" and continue? :mad:

If people two rows away from you can hear you, you are NOT being "quiet." :mad:



I am really tempted to sit across or behind him and then join in the conversation with them. If he complains, I can merely respond, "hey, if you are as quiet as you think you are, how come I can hear you so clearly?"
 
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Dirty dishes left in the kitchen sink. The dishwasher is 3" to the left of the sink.
 
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joecct said:
Dirty dishes left in the kitchen sink. The dishwasher is 3" to the left of the sink.
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As a single guy, I usually load the diswasher when I have a full load. However, I do rinse off all dirty dishes before leaving them in the sink.
 
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If the dishwasher isn't full, dishes don't even hit the sink. I put them right in the dishwasher. Trying to get my wife to do the same thing.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
If the dishwasher isn't full, dishes don't even hit the sink. I put them right in the dishwasher. Trying to get my wife to do the same thing.
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See, I'll forget about them if I do that. Once I see the sink full, I load and wash. It's a fault of mine.
 
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joecct said:
Dirty dishes left in the kitchen sink. The dishwasher is 3" to the left of the sink.
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I am reminded of a story about Thorsten Veblen. Supposedly he had a pile of dishes on one side of his sink, he'd take some and use them and then pile them up on the other side of the sink. When that side got full, he'd take out a hose and spray all of them off. Then he'd take dishes from that side, use them, and pile the used dishes on the other side until that side got full, then hose them off etc.

I knew someone in college who did the same thing with his clothes. He had two piles, the dirty pile and the clean pile. Exactly the same concept.
 
joecct said:
Dirty dishes left in the kitchen sink. The dishwasher is 3" to the left of the sink.
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At least yours make it to the sink. One of my roommates leaves filthy dishes near his computer desk downstairs. I've asked him several times to bring them up and put them in the dishwashe. I asked him again Saturday morning as I carried his dishes upstairs because I was sick of seeing it sit there. Last night, I find three plates including one filthy one with spaghetti on it, two bowls with crusted on soup and five glasses. Just effing ridiculous. Once he gets home, we are having some not so pleasant words.
 
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cF[Authentic] said:
At least yours make it to the sink. One of my roommates leaves filthy dishes near his computer desk downstairs. I've asked him several times to bring them up and put them in the dishwashe. I asked him again Saturday morning as I carried his dishes upstairs because I was sick of seeing it sit there. Last night, I find three plates including one filthy one with spaghetti on it, two bowls with crusted on soup and five glasses. Just effing ridiculous. Once he gets home, we are having some not so pleasant words.
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DO what I did to my kid- put them in a bag on his bed. Out of sight, out of mind.
 
leswp1 said:
DO what I did to my kid- put them in a bag on his bed. Out of sight, out of mind.
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I've thought about that. He moves out in a month and I'm in his wedding in two months so I can't be an ***. I'm thinking of turning off the Internet for two days if he does it again.
 
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cF[Authentic] said:
I've thought about that. He moves out in a month and I'm in his wedding in two months so I can't be an ***. I'm thinking of turning off the Internet for two days if he does it again.
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release the wifey to be on him. She's the one that has to deal with him soon. ;)
 
bigmrg74 said:
release the wifey to be on him. She's the one that has to deal with him soon. ;)
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I feel bad for her. She doesn't have an idea what kind of slob she will be living with. He hesitantly does the dishes when they cook together but otherwise he will never be seen near the sink.
 
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cF[Authentic] said:
I feel bad for her. She doesn't have an idea what kind of slob she will be living with. He hesitantly does the dishes when they cook together but otherwise he will never be seen near the sink.
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thus why you should involve her with his issue of cleaning up. She does offer him some "Motivations" that you just don't do. ;)
 
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cF[Authentic] said:
I've thought about that. He moves out in a month and I'm in his wedding in two months so I can't be an ***. I'm thinking of turning off the Internet for two days if he does it again.
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Last year one of my roommates was addicted to Netflix (still is actually). The way the apartment was set up was me and roommate 1 on one half, then roommate 2 and 3 on the other side. I had a router and so did roommate 3, so we figured each "half" would just share. Well, roommate 2 says his computer can't connect to roommate 3's router so he joins mine. It was ok at first, I didn't really notice any change in speed, but over the course of the year it got worse and worse, mostly coinciding with roomate 3's increase in Netflix. It was getting so bad that myself and roommate 1 could not even fully stream a youtube video without it freezing and taking forever to buffer. For whatever reason, despite my router being in my room and about six feet from my computer most of the time, his computer was taking precedence way out in the living room, and I think even roommate 1's computer was ahead of me in the queue.

One day I snapped and couldn't take it anymore, so I started researching how to block people from the router. It turns out Apple stopped allowing you to block specific Mac addresses, but you could allow certain ones. So I got the mac addresses for myself and roommate 1's devices and switched it to "allow only" mode overnight. The speed increased so much I couldn't even believe the internet was capable of going so fast. Roommate 2 asked the next day if there were problems with the internet and I just said my router had an update available. Because he had a PC, it seemed to be a reasonable excuse and roommate 1 and I went on to enjoy our newly improved internet.

The kicker in this whole story is that roommate 2 had been able to connect to roommate 3's router the entire time, he had just been using the wrong password so it wouldn't let him on. Sometimes I guess the engineer's aren't the smartest ones in the room... (that's another gear grinder, he continually talks down about non-engineers and non-engineering majors, but I can post about that another time)
 
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Spartanforlife4 said:
(that's another gear grinder, he continually talks down about non-engineers and non-engineering majors, but I can post about that another time)
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My experience working with non-engineers the last year or so tells me that this is 100% justified.
 
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In my observation, finance eventually puts engineering in their place, so it all works out.
 
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heh. Working in healthcare. The engineers and finance people make us giggle and groan at the same time. Dealing with something simple takes 2ce as long. No filter. You have to wade thru a history laden with minutia to get to what really matters. Probably useful in what they do but not useful to know the minute the nose started to get congested :p
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
In my observation, finance eventually puts engineering in their place, so it all works out.
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Its always fun when sales people sell stuff that engineering explicitly tells them not to sell.

This happens all the time here:
Engineering: Don't sell any product A....it is not released, it is not completely tested yet, and we aren't sure if it will even work yet. We need to do a field test before we are ready for sales.
Sales and Marketing: ........

1 week later

Sales and Marketing: We sold 10 units of product A. We are going to need a support plan for this ASAP.
Engineering: Nope. Not happening. Deal with it yourselves, dumbasses.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
Its always fun when sales people sell stuff that engineering explicitly tells them not to sell.

This happens all the time here:
Engineering: Don't sell any product A....it is not released, it is not completely tested yet, and we aren't sure if it will even work yet. We need to do a field test before we are ready for sales.
Sales and Marketing: ........

1 week later

Sales and Marketing: We sold 10 units of product A. We are going to need a support plan for this ASAP.
Engineering: Nope. Not happening. Deal with it yourselves, dumbasses.
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Yeah...in IT it doesn't work that way. Sales sells things we don't offer, then we're told to figure out how to offer it.
 
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