gewing Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 I am sitting in wet clothes in a wet tent full of wet things that need to get taken down in the rain and stuffed in the car. That is a really miserable situation. If you could at least let things dry before folding, etc, it would not be so bad... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted March 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 The damned cat is tormenting the poodle we're dog sitting for a friend. Other housemate is 'oh, she just needs to stand up for herself' but that did not work. Poor thing is a wreck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 I don't even have time to list all the reasons I'm cranky. Suffice to say there are too many, and I am much put upon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 That is a really miserable situation. If you could at least let things dry before folding, etc, it would not be so bad... True. Instead I had to take everything home wet and spent the rest of the day drying stuff off. In fact I still have a tent pitched in my garage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 A reason for you all to be cranky: I'm "feeling fine, drinking wine". A nice cheap Schadenfreude. Or is that Chardonnay? I forget. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 A reason for you all to be cranky: I'm "feeling fine, drinking wine". A nice cheap Schadenfreude. Or is that Chardonnay? I forget. It's Chardonnay. Do NOT drink the Schadenfreude. Also, there's a "Nice Happy" thread somewhere on the board, ya know? assault and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 It's nice and quiet in there, mostly. Xavier Onassiss 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 DON"T OPEN THE _#%(U#$&U ATTACHMENTS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 Too late. Hey, what's "Cryptolocker"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 It's nice and quiet in there, mostly. Well good. I don't mind people being all nice and happy over there. As long as they don't make too much noise. Now I'm gonna go back to lurking and grumbling.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 Too late. Hey, what's "Cryptolocker"? We lucked out there. It was just a relatively standard malware email thingy. ...At least I think so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 We've been getting a lot of those the past couple of weeks. Thursday's one spoofed the real domain for American Express so it sailed right in through the spam filter. Fortunately the link went to a known bad site so the firewall would have stopped it on the way out if anyone had tried to click on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 1, 2015 Report Share Posted April 1, 2015 Still waiting for my refund. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted April 2, 2015 Report Share Posted April 2, 2015 Wife in meeting with manager right now: Her job is being outsourced to India. Way to pay back nearly 20 years of loyalty, HP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 2, 2015 Report Share Posted April 2, 2015 Wife in meeting with manager right now: Her job is being outsourced to India. Way to pay back nearly 20 years of loyalty, HP. That sucks. One of the reasons I refuse to go back to a job that would probably rehire me is that the company treats its employees that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted April 2, 2015 Report Share Posted April 2, 2015 Well, there's good news. Her job's not being outsourced, it's being best shored! Yes, "best shored" is a term. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 2, 2015 Report Share Posted April 2, 2015 Well, there's good news. Her job's not being outsourced, it's being best shored! Yes, "best shored" is a term. Yeah, I would f__king flip the table if someone used that term while canning me. gewing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted April 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2015 Well, there's good news. Her job's not being outsourced, it's being best shored! Yes, "best shored" is a term. Never heard that one before. I have a friend whose company was 'right sized' though *Snort of contempt* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted April 3, 2015 Report Share Posted April 3, 2015 Wife in meeting with manager right now: Her job is being outsourced to India. Way to pay back nearly 20 years of loyalty, HP. SHITE. bastards. Well, my last couple printers have been Canon, maybe I won't go back to HP... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted April 4, 2015 Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 To be fair, this is the services division, which will likely fold in the near future. For small lasers, I'd still probably go with HP, it's one of the very few things they tend to do right. Overall, though, the company is run by bastards, for bastards. But the same can be said of many companies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted April 4, 2015 Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 To be fair, this is the services division, which will likely fold in the near future. For small lasers, I'd still probably go with HP, it's one of the very few things they tend to do right. Overall, though, the company is run by bastards, for bastards. But the same can be said of many companies. No-one wants to buy anything any more. (It's the demographics, stupid!) So we cut, cut, cut, cut to make the profit targets. I could swear that we're in a deflationary spiral, except that the numbers say that we're not. Anyway, just read a bit on the Huffington Post about a retail outfit in Massachusetts that can't hire "qualified people" to write resupply orders at $15/hour.So it is automating ordering. Now, let the record show that computerised ordering doesn't work. It's been one train wreck after another, from Walmart's we-can-still-limp-along high out of stock situation, to Target Canada's epic meltdown. To get a sense of why it doesn't work, consider the case in our stores (which haven't even automated ordering yet, just picking), where for two weeks we didn't have any Hellman's mayonnaise on the shelf, in any of the approximately million flavours and sizes it comes in, because the computers up the supply chain weren't recognising the string "Hellman." Now it's happening with De Monte brand canned fruit.... Nominally, the solution is to cut down the range of price variations, hence data entry operations --get rid of sales, and we'll be fine! It's like the solution to a foot that gets sore when you walk on it is to cut it off....Except that it was Walmart's retreat from that policy that began the spiralling trend to logistical disaster in the industry in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 4, 2015 Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 To be fair, this is the services division, which will likely fold in the near future. For small lasers, I'd still probably go with HP, it's one of the very few things they tend to do right. Overall, though, the company is run by bastards, for bastards. But the same can be said of many companies. HP went off into the weeds back in the Carly days, around the turn of the century, and has been lost ever since. Since then it's been palace intrigue at the top while the proletariat struggle on with no direction or support. (And by palace intrigue I mean it--spies, betrayal, everything short of murder. ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted April 4, 2015 Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 (And by palace intrigue I mean it--spies, betrayal, everything short of murder. ) That's the problem with the young folk today. No commitment. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted April 4, 2015 Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 HP went off into the weeds back in the Carly days, around the turn of the century, and has been lost ever since. Since then it's been palace intrigue at the top while the proletariat struggle on with no direction or support. (And by palace intrigue I mean it--spies, betrayal, everything short of murder. ) Ah, Carly, nobody has ever deserved being scapegoated more. Yeah, it's going to be a slow death, but one the wife and I are looking forward to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 4, 2015 Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 Who's Carly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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