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

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dxmnkd316 said:
People do that?
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Yep...when I worked in retail I had to ask a few people to leave for coming in with dogs in their purses, etc...
bigblue_dl said:
2 things.

1. counterfit service dog tags is wrong, people shouldn't do that

2. If a business or an organization wants to allow pets, then I don't blame people for bringing them. If people have a problem with it, then complain to the owner/manager of the business, not the pet owners. The pet owners aren't doing anything wrong.
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It's definitely up to the business/organization whether or not they want to allow pets. People make the fake tags so they can circumvent the rules regarding pets in places they don't allow them. It's also really easy to spot service animals. They're the ones who are very well behaved and not jumping on people and shelves.
 
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alright, here's a new one. Scraping your ****ing yogurt container 10,000 times to clean it out (scrapescrapescrapescrapescrapescrapescrapescrape - over and over). IT'S EMPTY. LET IT GO.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
How the hell do I subscribe to a thread in mobile?
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Beats me. If I look at one I have already subscribed to on my phone it unsubscribes me and I have to wait until I get back home to resubscribe. (yes, I think that is a word, even if autocorrect doesn't!).
 
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I can almost understand putting up Christmas decorations now, while the weather is nicer. But do you really need to light them up every night? It's still over a week until Thanksgiving.
 
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The undermining, coniving a-holes I work with are grinding my gears.
They won't do a thing I tell them, make problems worse and then attempt to solve the problems on their own, again making it worse, but if somehow it works they can take credit. If it doesn't work I'm left with a bigger pile of poo and the appearance that I don't do anything. Because I can't since no one will ***ing cooperate.

I need to be more of a *****, but I just don't have that personality. Where can I find a spine?
 
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wolverineTrumpet said:
The undermining, coniving a-holes I work with are grinding my gears.
They won't do a thing I tell them, make problems worse and then attempt to solve the problems on their own, again making it worse, but if somehow it works they can take credit. If it doesn't work I'm left with a bigger pile of poo and the appearance that I don't do anything. Because I can't since no one will ***ing cooperate.

I need to be more of a *****, but I just don't have that personality. Where can I find a spine?
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Are you emailing them the solutions? If so, you can play the other end of their game. Send them your solution the first time, if they ignore you, you can start to include their management as a CC while you reiterate your solutions. They'll see that you're not sitting on your thumbs, and it might open their eyes to the stupidity surrounding them.

I've been in that situation. It usually takes a while to remedy and it sucks the whole time, but it eventually works so long as management isn't also part of the problem. Maybe even get a meeting together with the managers and discuss your frustrations. Managers are meeting whores.
 
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St. Clown said:
Are you emailing them the solutions? If so, you can play the other end of their game. Send them your solution the first time, if they ignore you, you can start to include their management as a CC while you reiterate your solutions. They'll see that you're not sitting on your thumbs, and it might open their eyes to the stupidity surrounding them.

I've been in that situation. It usually takes a while to remedy and it sucks the whole time, but it eventually works so long as management isn't also part of the problem. Maybe even get a meeting together with the managers and discuss your frustrations. Managers are meeting whores.
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An addendum to this suggestion: when you have a meeting or when you convey verbal instruction, consider sending a followup email and cc their (your) manager:

"this email is to confirm our conversation this morning in which we agreed that..." or "As we discussed, I will expect you to complete the project by deadline, unless you inform me otherwise."

We use this standard with outside vendors all the time just to make sure that everyone has the same understanding, and also so that there always is a paper trail to identify accountability if anything goes wrong.
 
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One thing that grinds my gears is when I am traveling and the person who sits down next to me overlaps me. I do not like it when someone else overflows their seat and their flesh spills over on top of me.

The other day on the train, someone plopped down next to me and then asked me to move over. I replied that I was already pressed up against the side of the train and had nowhere to move to.

He then pointed to the space between my leg and the side of the train and said, "you have room." I replied, "my elbow and my arm are already against the side of the train. I have no more space to move further over." I was not going to hold my arm in front of me!

He then got up and moved away, fortunately, after making a disparaging comment. Another passenger then sat down next to me and both of us had enough space between us for a comfortable (enough) ride.

Once, someone really wide sat down next to me and it was really uncomfortable. Ever since then, I always keep my briefcase on my lap. that way, if it happens again, they overflow onto the briefcase instead of my thigh.

On a long flight once, I sat next to a body builder. While he did not "overflow" his seat, his shoulders were so wide that I had to lean sideways the entire trip. I asked to move but there wasn't another seat available. At least he was polite and apologetic about it, not some entitled pr*ck.
 
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Barely 9 AM, and I already have to deal with the nerds in the cubes behind me chattering about fantasy video games.

Why did I want to work in IT again?
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Barely 9 AM, and I already have to deal with the nerds in the cubes behind me chattering about fantasy video games.

Why did I want to work in IT again?
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Cause you thought you could do it in a dark, back room with just computers and not have to deal with living, breathing people?
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Barely 9 AM, and I already have to deal with the nerds in the cubes behind me chattering about fantasy video games.

Why did I want to work in IT again?
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You went to Tech for God knows how long and you're complaining about this NOW?
 
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goldy_331 said:
Cause you thought you could do it in a dark, back room with just computers and not have to deal with living, breathing people?
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oh my god, that would be awesome. where do I sign up???? :p
 
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Over the past few years, the local park district has had a problem with a group of "amateurs" who took it upon themselves to provide maintenance to the skating pond that the park district makes at a local park... These guys are college age kids and a group of 3-4 overzealous hockey dads who all live within walking distance of the pond..... They felt that the park district wasn't doing an adequate job at maintenance... And by that, I mean, they would only flood the rink about once every 6-8 days instead of every night like these guys wanted... So they took it upon themselves to drop a pump in a creek that flows through the park and flood the rink on their own overnight... Sometimes it would workout ok, other times, they would eff it up... Well, they totally effed things up this time :mad:

The Park district has yet to open the rink this year... Well, in thinking that adding more water on their own would encourage the park district to open the rink, these clowns reflooded the rink yesterday... WITHOUT REMOVING ANY OF THE SNOW... So now the entire rink has 1/2-3/4 inch of uneven, honeycombed frozen slush over the entire surface :mad: :mad: :mad:

I'm sick of these clowns thinking this is their own personal backyard rink... This is not the first time they have effed things up... This is the first time they have done something that will take more than a few days to work out however :mad: :rolleyes:
 
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RaceBoarder said:
Over the past few years, the local park district has had a problem with a group of "amateurs" who took it upon themselves to provide maintenance to the skating pond that the park district makes at a local park... These guys are college age kids and a group of 3-4 overzealous hockey dads who all live within walking distance of the pond..... They felt that the park district wasn't doing an adequate job at maintenance... And by that, I mean, they would only flood the rink about once every 6-8 days instead of every night like these guys wanted... So they took it upon themselves to drop a pump in a creek that flows through the park and flood the rink on their own overnight... Sometimes it would workout ok, other times, they would eff it up... Well, they totally effed things up this time :mad:

The Park district has yet to open the rink this year... Well, in thinking that adding more water on their own would encourage the park district to open the rink, these clowns reflooded the rink yesterday... WITHOUT REMOVING ANY OF THE SNOW... So now the entire rink has 1/2-3/4 inch of uneven, honeycombed frozen slush over the entire surface :mad: :mad: :mad:

I'm sick of these clowns thinking this is their own personal backyard rink... This is not the first time they have effed things up... This is the first time they have done something that will take more than a few days to work out however :mad: :rolleyes:
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Too bad you can't rent one of those industrial-size hot-air jets they use to de-ice airport runways to melt the entire thing (so that it can re-freeze flat), and then send them the bill for the rental and electricity!

When we lived in Wyoming, the outdoor skating rink was a real pond, and if it was a windy day when the water froze, there'd be ripples in the ice until the next warm day. Because of the altitude, you couldn't really maintain a skating rink very well: the sun would shine through the ice to the ground and melt it from the bottom even on a cold day while a pond remained frozen the entire time.
 
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