Grinding Away..Things that grind your gears, part three

[legal_hit]

Re: Grinding Away..Things that grind your gears, part three

Well, they CAN be, but as you hinted at, what happens when they stop living lavishly because there's no more money? Will she get bored with sitting at home watching movies or whatever?

Exactly, if she even stays with him, because in a way, he's lying to her.

BTW - this is partly from experience. One of the guys I dated when I moved to NC used to spend, what was in my mind, way to much money on me. I enjoyed the presents and being spoiled. When it came time to start thinking about settling down, I started to worry that he was too loose with his money and that we wouldn't be able to afford the things we needed in the long run.

 

[The Rube]

Re: Grinding Away..Things that grind your gears, part three

...hotel stuff...

Just talked with my friend. They said they'd give me an upgrade. At the block rate. My friend said, in a polite matter, * you. This should be good, since my friend knows some higher up execs in the company, and it would become very public, if not legal, if the hotel reallllllly wants to push it. No way they want that over $120. It's just not worth it to them.

The fine print states in an exact manner, that due to any overbooking/oversight/etc, they will find me a hotel room elsewhere, and transportation at their expense to that hotel, but at the rate they confirmed, which is $0.00.

Remember kids, knowing is half the battle.

 

[Old Pio]

Re: Grinding Away..Things that grind your gears, part three

Just talked with my friend. They said they'd give me an upgrade. At the block rate. My friend said, in a polite matter, * you. This should be good, since my friend knows some higher up execs in the company, and it would become very public, if not legal, if the hotel reallllllly wants to push it. No way they want that over $120. It's just not worth it to them.

The fine print states in an exact manner, that due to any overbooking/oversight/etc, they will find me a hotel room elsewhere, and transportation at their expense to that hotel, but at the rate they confirmed, which is $0.00.

Remember kids, knowing is half the battle.

They're gonna do training videos about you!

 

[jen]

Re: Grinding Away..Things that grind your gears, part three

I have not come across a bigger hypocrite in a long *** time... Why the hell do females have the power to comepletly change guys? Really? It just causes problems

I've seen this happen to female friends too. all of a sudden, anything they liked or thought before is totally different because of who they're with.

 

[Terrierbyassociation]

Re: Grinding Away..Things that grind your gears, part three

Just talked with my friend. They said they'd give me an upgrade. At the block rate. My friend said, in a polite matter, * you. This should be good, since my friend knows some higher up execs in the company, and it would become very public, if not legal, if the hotel reallllllly wants to push it. No way they want that over $120. It's just not worth it to them.

The fine print states in an exact manner, that due to any overbooking/oversight/etc, they will find me a hotel room elsewhere, and transportation at their expense to that hotel, but at the rate they confirmed, which is $0.00.

Remember kids, knowing is half the battle.

There is a reasonableness standard to any contract. You really think that you deserve the room for free? Because of a glitch? Pretend you're handed back too much change at the register. Do you just keep it?

I don't know what they have offered you since the glitch. Maybe they've been awful to you. But its not reasonable to believe you deserve a free room because the hotel software had a glitch.

 

[BadgerAlum@WMU]

Re: Grinding Away..Things that grind your gears, part three

My first day off in ages where I haven't had to still get out of bed to take my husband to work, and no commitments for the band or appointments, and work calls me up to come in and work for awhile.

I said no. I need a break, I'm dehydrated from yesterday (try being a bass drummer in 87-degree heat in a long, no-shade parade and playing every block) and I haven't had a chance to do good things for myself in a long while.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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Symantec in general. I administer the AV server at our company and I can't tell you how much I hate them. Unfortunately, they put out the "best" enterprise security suite. That and this was the package management went with.

 

[Terrierbyassociation]

Re: Grinding Away..Things that grind your gears, part three

Symantec in general. I administer the AV server at our company and I can't tell you how much I hate them. Unfortunately, they put out the "best" enterprise security suite. That and this was the package management went with.

I like the last two sentences. (But feel for you.)

 

[The Rube]

Re: Grinding Away..Things that grind your gears, part three

There is a reasonableness standard to any contract. You really think that you deserve the room for free? Because of a glitch? Pretend you're handed back too much change at the register. Do you just keep it?

I don't know what they have offered you since the glitch. Maybe they've been awful to you. But its not reasonable to believe you deserve a free room because the hotel software had a glitch.

Well, during the intial phone conversation, I questioned it, to make sure, and the guy said yes, that rate was correct. He could have overridden it quite easily, and/or not given me that option (since there was another, differently set-up room also available at the wedding block rate). Since he didn't, that contract is valid. And this wasn't some snot-nosed kid at the front desk. Most (if not all hotels nowadays) have an actual reservations manager to avoid things like this.

In other words, I deserve the contract that they promised me, after it having been questioned in the first place and still being offered the terms.

And the cash register thing has happened, and I've noticed it, and questioned why I had more than I should, and it was corrected then and there, not 2-3 weeks later, as is the case with this place.

Anywhichway, just got word that the hotel is honoring the $0 rate for the one night, and the wedding block rate for the other night, as was confirmed in the first place.

 

[Terrierbyassociation]

Re: Grinding Away..Things that grind your gears, part three

The moral of the story is complain until you get what you believe you deserve because of employee stupidity.

 

[The Rube]

Re: Grinding Away..Things that grind your gears, part three

The moral of the story is complain until you get what you believe you deserve because of employee stupidity.

Actually, I only started to complain after I heard from the bride (not them, they did not contact me, despite me making the reservation) about the price change. Once I heard that, that was the moment that I decided to make sure I got the room at the quoted price.

 

[leswp1]

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People who get in the passing lane and stay there no matter how long a line of cars behind them. SLOW cars stay to the right. Don't pull into the only passing lane for miles and block all the cars that can go up the mountain at speed

(doesn't help I didn't want to go home to begin with)

 

[bostonewe]

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The growing trend of people playing music on their cell-phones without headphones on the T. Basically, putting the phone on speakerphone and then playing music. I don't want to listen to your music and I'm sure no one else does either. Put on some dåmned headphones.

 

[zamboni crash-test dummy]

Re: Grinding Away..Things that grind your gears, part three

The growing trend of people playing music on their cell-phones without headphones on the T. Basically, putting the phone on speakerphone and then playing music. I don't want to listen to your music and I'm sure no one else does either. Put on some dåmned headphones.

And people who use that music as their ring tone and leave their phone at their desk and when it goes off the entire office is subjected to 30 seconds of extra loud calypso music or gangsta rap or whatever.

 

[Old Pio]

Re: Grinding Away..Things that grind your gears, part three

People who get in the passing lane and stay there no matter how long a line of cars behind them. SLOW cars stay to the right. Don't pull into the only passing lane for miles and block all the cars that can go up the mountain at speed

(doesn't help I didn't want to go home to begin with)

A few years ago some bonehead Nebraska state troopers decided to engage in a "rolling roadblock" on I-10 between Omaha and Lincoln. They drove side by side at exactly the speed limit, creating an enormous, angry bunch of drivers behind them. Like all Barney Fife wannabes, they argued that to want to go around them meant you were speeding, and that's against the law. Finally upper management in the patrol had to order them to knock it off.

Anybody (cops or otherwise) who deliberately squats down in the passing lane at exactlly the speed limit (even better, a couple of miles under) needs to lose their licenses (or in the case of cops, their jobs). Non cop geezers who do it need to answer the question: who made you a deputy? It's NOYFB how fast somebody else drives. Move over, now. You pull that garbage on the unstricted parts of the autobahn and they'll run you off the road.

 

[The Rube]

Re: Grinding Away..Things that grind your gears, part three

A few years ago some bonehead Nebraska state troopers decided to engage in a "rolling roadblock" on I-10 between Omaha and Lincoln. They drove side by side at exactly the speed limit, creating an enormous, angry bunch of drivers behind them. Like all Barney Fife wannabes, they argued that to want to go around them meant you were speeding, and that's against the law. Finally upper management in the patrol had to order them to knock it off.

Anybody (cops or otherwise) who deliberately squats down in the passing lane at exactlly the speed limit (even better, a couple of miles under) needs to lose their licenses (or in the case of cops, their jobs). Non cop geezers who do it need to answer the question: who made you a deputy? It's NOYFB how fast somebody else drives. Move over, now. You pull that garbage on the unstricted parts of the autobahn and they'll run you off the road.

I actually saw something similar to that a few years back. It was on 6 lane interstate (3 lanes each side). A state trooper sat in the middle lane, doing 50 in a 55. NO ONE was passing him, for whatever reason (I think people think if you pass a cop, you're busted). I passed him doing 55. * him. And he didn't do anything. I'd like to believe he chuckled because everyone else was that darn stupid.

 

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

Re: Grinding Away..Things that grind your gears, part three

The growing trend of people playing music on their cell-phones without headphones on the T. Basically, putting the phone on speakerphone and then playing music. I don't want to listen to your music and I'm sure no one else does either. Put on some dåmned headphones.

They do this when I'm working too. No one wants to hear it while they shop either.

Anybody (cops or otherwise) who deliberately squats down in the passing lane at exactlly the speed limit (even better, a couple of miles under) needs to lose their licenses (or in the case of cops, their jobs). Non cop geezers who do it need to answer the question: who made you a deputy? It's NOYFB how fast somebody else drives. Move over, now. You pull that garbage on the unstricted parts of the autobahn and they'll run you off the road.

I've sort of done this while on the interstate if some **** is tailgating me and I happen to be pulling up next to a car in the travelling lane. Though I am doing 80/85 in a 70/75 at the time. I just pass the car slower than I would have.

 

[Old Pio]

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They do this when I'm working too. No one wants to hear it while they shop either.


I've sort of done this while on the interstate if some **** is tailgating me and I happen to be pulling up next to a car in the travelling lane. Though I am doing 80/85 in a 70/75 at the time. I just pass the car slower than I would have.

I'm inclined to give you the benefit of the doubt--namely that you don't do it regularly. Besides, chronic tailgating has been identified as a reliable predictor of people who stand a greater chance than average of getting into an accident. Rear firing grenade launchers would be a desireable accessory.

On a drive from Chicago back to Omaha several years ago, this subject came up on WGN and wouldn't you know it, a geezer called in to announce that he deliberately squatted down in the passing lane because "anybody passing me would be speeding." The two gals were dumbfounded by this clown. Where's your badge, grandpa? The obvious fact is that a clown like this is far more dangerous over the long haul then some guy driving at the upper end of what the troopers will let you do without pulling you over.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Re: Grinding Away..Things that grind your gears, part three

Rear firing grenade launchers would be a desireable accessory.

I'll take two.

 

[legal_hit]

Re: Grinding Away..Things that grind your gears, part three

A few years ago some bonehead Nebraska state troopers decided to engage in a "rolling roadblock" on I-10 between Omaha and Lincoln. They drove side by side at exactly the speed limit, creating an enormous, angry bunch of drivers behind them. Like all Barney Fife wannabes, they argued that to want to go around them meant you were speeding, and that's against the law. Finally upper management in the patrol had to order them to knock it off.

Massachusetts state troopers used do this, but only in bad weather. Which, given the penchant of some SUV drivers to think they are invincible isn't a bad idea.