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Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth
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dxmnkd316
Lucia Apologist
Re: Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth
As a project manager/engineer, I'm constantly getting quotes for things. You quickly learn to identify who you can speak to like an adult and who you need to speak to like a child. This doesn't even include the ultrashady moves I've seen pulled over the years. I know your pain...
As a project manager/engineer, I'm constantly getting quotes for things. You quickly learn to identify who you can speak to like an adult and who you need to speak to like a child. This doesn't even include the ultrashady moves I've seen pulled over the years. I know your pain...
bigblue_dl
Armed
Re: Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth
Whoever installed the new TP dispensers in the ****ters at work has ground my gears. They are the stupid completely enclosed plastic dispensers, where you have to pull the TP out directly from the bottom. The idiot that installed them mounted them so the top of this contraption is about level with the toilet bowl. Making the actual opening where the TP comes out about 5 inches below the bowl. How is that even remotely correct? Now, if you're sitting there, you have to reach down to about a foot from the floor, underneath this plastic contraption, to pull the TP out. It the stuff only dispenses from the bottom it should be mounted higher than it normally would be, not lower!
Whoever installed the new TP dispensers in the ****ters at work has ground my gears. They are the stupid completely enclosed plastic dispensers, where you have to pull the TP out directly from the bottom. The idiot that installed them mounted them so the top of this contraption is about level with the toilet bowl. Making the actual opening where the TP comes out about 5 inches below the bowl. How is that even remotely correct? Now, if you're sitting there, you have to reach down to about a foot from the floor, underneath this plastic contraption, to pull the TP out. It the stuff only dispenses from the bottom it should be mounted higher than it normally would be, not lower!
ExileOnDaytonStreet
Drunkard
Re: Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth
Finding out the hard way what it takes to overload your dryer which now doesn't start.
Finding out the hard way what it takes to overload your dryer which now doesn't start.
St. Clown
Liberal Rebel Scum, apparently
Re: Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth
Level set. "Let's take a moment and level set everyone here..."
My boss has been working with a group outside of our normal group of contacts, and he's picked up the term "level set." Both he and his minion are saying it over and over now. Now that I'm on it, people misusing the term "ping." I receive an IM from someone, "ping me when you get back" and my boss insisting on "pinging" that person. Do they have any idea what pinging actually is? You can ping a server, but you don't ping a person. Oh how I loathe the trendy use of words.
Level set. "Let's take a moment and level set everyone here..."
My boss has been working with a group outside of our normal group of contacts, and he's picked up the term "level set." Both he and his minion are saying it over and over now. Now that I'm on it, people misusing the term "ping." I receive an IM from someone, "ping me when you get back" and my boss insisting on "pinging" that person. Do they have any idea what pinging actually is? You can ping a server, but you don't ping a person. Oh how I loathe the trendy use of words.
MinnesotaNorthStar
Minding the gap
Re: Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth
People use "ping" that way? Does your IM use echolocation? Are you trying to find a whale?Level set. "Let's take a moment and level set everyone here..."
My boss has been working with a group outside of our normal group of contacts, and he's picked up the term "level set." Both he and his minion are saying it over and over now. Now that I'm on it, people misusing the term "ping." I receive an IM from someone, "ping me when you get back" and my boss insisting on "pinging" that person. Do they have any idea what pinging actually is? You can ping a server, but you don't ping a person. Oh how I loathe the trendy use of words.
bigblue_dl
Armed
Re: Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth
I heat ping used in that context almost daily at work.
I heat ping used in that context almost daily at work.
Re: Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth
I hear you about people picking up and then immediately overusing phrases. However, I can't join your gripe about "ping." Words evolve - there's no time in history where all the words had their correct meanings that should be used as the standard. I'm sure when people started saying they were going to call somebody on the phone, people objected to that new use of the word "call," too. I'm 100% confident that the designers of UNIX adapted that word from its use in sonar systems, so under your standard you should be complaining that, "you can ping a ship, but you can't ping a server."Level set. "Let's take a moment and level set everyone here..."
My boss has been working with a group outside of our normal group of contacts, and he's picked up the term "level set." Both he and his minion are saying it over and over now. Now that I'm on it, people misusing the term "ping." I receive an IM from someone, "ping me when you get back" and my boss insisting on "pinging" that person. Do they have any idea what pinging actually is? You can ping a server, but you don't ping a person. Oh how I loathe the trendy use of words.
FadeToBlack&Gold
Microlot Marxist
Re: Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth
"________ gonna _________"
I'm as guilty as anyone else, but that's become such an overused, standard form joke. It can go anytime.
"________ gonna _________"
I'm as guilty as anyone else, but that's become such an overused, standard form joke. It can go anytime.
RaceBoarder
Waiting for the Snow to fly...
Re: Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth
"Tony Romo gonna Tony Romo" will NEVER go out of style
"Tony Romo gonna Tony Romo" will NEVER go out of style
Slap Shot
I got nothing
Re: Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth
I've felt this for at least two years. I blame the bacon craze as it seemed to follow.
I've felt this for at least two years. I blame the bacon craze as it seemed to follow.
St. Clown
Liberal Rebel Scum, apparently
Re: Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth
I absolutely love me some bacon!
I absolutely love me some bacon!
Slap Shot
I got nothing
Re: Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth
I do too, but I wouldn't mind if more than one option of a sandwich and burger menu came without it.
I do too, but I wouldn't mind if more than one option of a sandwich and burger menu came without it.
MinnesotaNorthStar
Minding the gap
Re: Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth
What kind of fancy restaurants do you go to where bacon isn't an add on?
Re: Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth
today could have been a real gear-grinder....a trifecta before 8 AM!
My son and I are sharing a car this summer. The deal is, he is supposed to be home by 5:15 AM three days a week so that I can drive to the train station those days.[SUP]1[/SUP] I get up this morning, no car. Not that big a deal, it's only a 15 minute walk. Except it is really humid, like 100% humidity. It's not so much "raining" as water droplets are condensing from the air, it has so much moisture in it.
So I get to the train station to catch the feeder train that takes me to the main commuter railroad...and they are running the heater??
Then I get on the commuter train. One innovation that is really wonderful is the "quiet car." No cell phone conversation, no loud personal conversation, blissful silence....except today the HVAC system rattles and clanks on the "quiet" car.
Oh, well. So it goes.
[SUP]1[/SUP] He can then run over to the station later in the morning to get it and use it all day, as long as I have a ride home in the evening.
today could have been a real gear-grinder....a trifecta before 8 AM!
My son and I are sharing a car this summer. The deal is, he is supposed to be home by 5:15 AM three days a week so that I can drive to the train station those days.[SUP]1[/SUP] I get up this morning, no car. Not that big a deal, it's only a 15 minute walk. Except it is really humid, like 100% humidity. It's not so much "raining" as water droplets are condensing from the air, it has so much moisture in it.
So I get to the train station to catch the feeder train that takes me to the main commuter railroad...and they are running the heater??
Then I get on the commuter train. One innovation that is really wonderful is the "quiet car." No cell phone conversation, no loud personal conversation, blissful silence....except today the HVAC system rattles and clanks on the "quiet" car.
Oh, well. So it goes.
[SUP]1[/SUP] He can then run over to the station later in the morning to get it and use it all day, as long as I have a ride home in the evening.
MissThundercat
Are the cis okay?
Re: Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth
My dad. Eats the last Larabar, and leaves the empty box in the cupboard. He also drinks my beer and doesn't understand why he should chip in for the next round.
My dad. Eats the last Larabar, and leaves the empty box in the cupboard. He also drinks my beer and doesn't understand why he should chip in for the next round.
leswp1
Well-known member
Re: Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth
The man is a parasite. He knows he should chip in but doesn't. Why should he. Beer magically appears to replace the stuff he drinks.
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