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Ginding away- stop putting sand in my oil... Part 4

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The new X2 guide for the Comcast boxes is awful. X1 was brilliant. X2 looks like it was designed for people with 20" TVs that can't see their TV without a pair of telescopes strapped to their head.
 
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I am now at four phone calls made to try and get my 1098 from my old mortgage company... and still counting. You know, the form they're legally required to give me by January 31? Yeah, that one.

edit: phone call #4... success! now, if I got THIS email while I waited on the line..... what the eff did yesterday's person do when he told me to keep checking my email the rest of the day? I wonder if they have contests about who can tell the biggest lie.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Oh believe me, the search began two weeks ago, and that was before this little announcement. I actually like the guy too, but this is the last straw - he's the definition of a career workaholic. I've volunteered to work two Saturdays in the past three years, but to be told that I'm expected to come in on a Saturday four times a year is another thing entirely.
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Due to conflicts for multiple employees (imagine that :p), the Saturday bootcamps are off the table. Now, each team in the department will pick a regular workday for the "bootcamp" - you know, because we don't have actual work to do. ;)
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Due to conflicts for multiple employees (imagine that :p), the Saturday bootcamps are off the table. Now, each team in the department will pick a regular workday for the "bootcamp" - you know, because we don't have actual work to do. ;)
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yeah, they preach The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People but when it comes to the "sharpen the saw" part (or the "never let the urgent drive out the important" part), there's never enough time....
 
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desktop support forced some kind of software update that won't load the site I use for white noise.... and I'm sure they won't help me, since it's not work-related (even if it's sanity-related). unless I take my lunch break to buy a white noise machine :p, today is going to suck. definitely buying a white noise machine with a headphone jack over the weekend. grrrrrrr.

edit: and then I found a way around it, and humanity was saved. hurrah.
 
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One thing that occasionally grinds my gears is when a person, walking along, suddenly stops and stands still to check their hand-held electronics, totally oblivious to where they are and what might be going on around them. I've seen them stop in narrow hallways, in the middle of a stairway.....yesterday was the tops though: someone stopped halfway through a revolving door! :rolleyes: what, we're all supposed to stand and wait patiently for you?
 
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FreshFish said:
One thing that occasionally grinds my gears is when a person, walking along, suddenly stops and stands still to check their hand-held electronics, totally oblivious to where they are and what might be going on around them. I've seen them stop in narrow hallways, in the middle of a stairway.....yesterday was the tops though: someone stopped halfway through a revolving door! :rolleyes: what, we're all supposed to stand and wait patiently for you?
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You just described 95% of Seattle...walking is a pain here it is like the State Fair multiplied by a million!
 
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Handyman said:
You just described 95% of Seattle...walking is a pain here it is like the State Fair multiplied by a million!
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...just described 95% of upenn. apparently multitasking (walking and talking) is too difficult for asians.
 
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