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Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth

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Two idiotic things people do with emails that really bug me.

- the endless chain of forwards. You can scroll down and see 15 or 20 or 25 different back and forths that have evolved beyond the point of all recognition. Occasionally someone will include sensitive internal information that should never be included in an external email. I've seen it both ways, in emails we receive from others, and once in a while, in an email someone on our staff forwarded. Do NOT include an internal debate in any email you then send externally!! :mad:

- not updating the subject line to reflect the actual topic at hand. Someone starts an email about, say, "the garden" and in the course of the back and forth, someone else asks a question about, say "the kitchen" yet the reply to the question about the kitchen still has "the garden" in the subject line.

I get copied on so many emails that have nothing directly to do with me, that when I get busy, I just ignore them for several days until I can go back and scan through them. Inevitably I'll find something that I should have responded to if I had only known what it was actually about in the first place. (e.g., I answer emails about "the kitchen" and ignore emails about "the garden" but you changed the subject of your email without changing the subject line on the email so how am I supposed to know what you are talking about?)
 
Jimjamesak said:
My Unions contract includes holidays for Thanksgiving, Day After Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years Eve, and New Years.

The catch is, as a full-time employee on the air side, I have to go to work unless it's my normal scheduled day off. So Thanksgiving? Gotta go in. Christmas? Gotta go in. New Years? Gotta go in. Yeah I get holiday pay and it's a nice paycheck but, to some extent I'd rather be home with my family.
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I don't recall air employees ever working holidays, although I haven't worked for the company in years.
 
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Slap Shot said:
I don't recall air employees ever working holidays, although I haven't worked for the company in years.
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The carrier in question (if JJ still works for who I think he works for) only does Air shipments on holidays and days after. However, this year (due to e-commerce) they are shipping regular shipments on Black Friday. It's a pretty big deal in the industry.
 
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The Target commercial holiday jingle. I already despise it, and I get the feeling they are going to have that marshmallow fluff crap all over the TV for the next couple of weeks. :p
 
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bigmrg74 said:
The Target commercial holiday jingle. I already despise it, and I get the feeling they are going to have that marshmallow fluff crap all over the TV for the next couple of weeks. :p
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Food Network used that song last year... it's annoying.

Edit: the Google says the original was performed by Dean Martin. I think I'd prefer that version to either Food Network's or Target's.
 
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I don't recall air employees ever working holidays, although I haven't worked for the company in years.
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Special case here in Anchorage as we handle the flights going between Asia and the Lower 48. They always fly and somebody has to be here. Outside of Louisville, us, and maybe Ontario I doubt anybody had flights.

I actually don't mind working Thanksgiving or Black Friday. Thanksgiving I can just come home and eat, no cooking, Black Friday is just a normal day with extra pay. It's working Christmas that sucks. When you have to be to work at 6am you don't get to do Christmas morning. :(
 
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Getting out of work, trying to check my phone, only to realize it was turned off and would not turn back on.
 
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If you use the last piece of toilet paper, do not leave the empty cardboard roller behind: when you finish the roll, it is your responsibility to replace the roll.

(unless you are a guest).
 
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FreshFish said:
If you use the last piece of toilet paper, do not leave the empty cardboard roller behind: when you finish the roll, it is your responsibility to replace the roll.

(unless you are a guest).
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Something that happens in my house often. :mad:
 
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FreshFish said:
If you use the last piece of toilet paper, do not leave the empty cardboard roller behind: when you finish the roll, it is your responsibility to replace the roll.

(unless you are a guest).
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Even if you're the guest, how hard is it to guess where the TP is stored? I would definitely at least make a cursory attempt to replace.
 
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FreshFish said:
If you use the last piece of toilet paper, do not leave the empty cardboard roller behind: when you finish the roll, it is your responsibility to replace the roll.

(unless you are a guest).
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Should toilet paper roll from the top or from the bottom of the roll?
 
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joecct said:
Should toilet paper roll from the top or from the bottom of the roll?
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You install it so that it rolls over from the top downward in front.
-- every hotel I've ever been in does it that way and they must know something about the comfort of their guests, no? who am I to argue with professionals?
(when they make that special fold pointing downward on the top sheet you really see the practical advantages)
-- my own reasoning is, if a person is ill, kneeling at the bowl, when you clutch at the roll without looking you can pull it down easily and use it to wipe your lips when you are done vomiting. Having it roll from the back to the bottom requires more attention and effort. Similar logic if the roller is located in an inconvenient spot: far easier to yank down from the top than pull up from the bottom. You need a shorter reach and it is easier to get the roll in motion: the inertia of your hand pulling down and the roller moving forward are aligned.


Some company, I don't know who, is now advertising "roller-less" toilet paper in the name of being green: they'll save xxx space in landfills by no longer having disposable cardboard tubes.
 
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Jury duty, I'm the only person in my county( that I know) that has ever been called to serve. anyone tell me why that is? I've served before and I've been called in several times. But I don't get paid unless I'm billing hours to someone and I can't do that from the courthouse.
 
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Memo to self:

do not go out to "run a few 'quick' errands" when school is letting out, especially if you are driving a manual transmission.....unless you really like stopping every half block for several miles.


When did this business of dropping each kid off in front of his/her house start, anyway? When my kids were in school, everyone would gather at a corner and get picked up in batches, and then dropped off again at the same corner in batches.
 
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