tkdguy Posted May 2, 2006 Report Share Posted May 2, 2006 Re: The cranky thread I've had a really bad year financially. And things aren't getting any better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zornwil Posted May 2, 2006 Report Share Posted May 2, 2006 Re: The cranky thread Sorry, tkdguy. Will keep some good thoughts for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted May 2, 2006 Report Share Posted May 2, 2006 Re: The cranky thread Do you notice how sales representatives don't take no for an answer until you get loud? And then they're offended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 2, 2006 Report Share Posted May 2, 2006 Re: The cranky thread I had the opposite sales rep last night--the one who kept ignoring me, the person buying the clothes, in favor of bothering my wife with idle chitchat. "Do you have this in light gray? Do you have this in light gray? Do you have this in light gray? Am I just talking to myself here?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zornwil Posted May 2, 2006 Report Share Posted May 2, 2006 Re: The cranky thread I had the opposite sales rep last night--the one who kept ignoring me' date=' the person buying the clothes, in favor of bothering my wife with idle chitchat. "Do you have this in light gray? Do you have this in light gray? Do you have this in light gray? Am I just talking to myself here?"[/quote'] Somewhat similar thing at Chipotle, I often get a burrito that only has the spicy vegetables, rice, lettuce, and cheese. I don't even put on beans, mainly because that is heavy by itself. So technically it's even less than their veggie burrito. Well, the guy who made it (it was slow so he did the whole line) says something in Spanish to the guy at the checkout. The guy at the checkout gets confused. I tell him it's a veggie burrito but he ignores me, talks to his manager, who basically is telling him the same thing (of course, all of this is in Spanish since that's our primary language in this nation...). I repeat he can ring it up as a veggie burrito, but first he has to ring it wrong and have his manager correct it to be, of course, a veggie burrito as it should be. I tell him 3 times it's "for here" and still get a paper bag. Of course in his case perhaps he doesn't speak English. In which case he certainly shouldn't be working with the public. That's another whole issue that gets me cranky, how people can now live in this country with no sense of urgency to learn the language. People say it enables them to learn and survive better - poppycock, it enables them to stay impoverished in the barrio, that's all it does. And meanwhile degrades customer service further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 2, 2006 Report Share Posted May 2, 2006 Re: The cranky thread Time for another nice happy evening of playing Homework Ogre. Ah well. At least the WASL is completed tomorrow, and that stressor will be done with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 Re: The cranky thread For a second I read that as "Time for another nice happy evening of playing Ogre" which wouldn't have belonged in this thread at all. The one semester I graded papers, I learned to do it at 2am, a time of day when you couldn't help but be coldly efficient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 Re: The cranky thread Uh-oh. My manager is trying to manage. Does he not realise we have done perfectly well without him doing a damned thing for a year now? Why start now when he has only a month left? This will not end well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 Re: The cranky thread I don't have enough money to complete my Hero Collection by the end of the year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 Re: The cranky thread My Day At Work by Old Man 9am-10am: Now that we have successfully plugged a 30A IBM BladeCenter into a 20A circuit, we began the heroic effort to make it boot off the NetApp by the end of the day. The former just doesn't see the latter for some reason. 955am: Guess it would probably help if we plugged in the network cable right side up. 10am-1010am: Conference call, kept very short mostly because I'm the one controlling it. 1015am: Reminded, again, that I need to rush to make up a parts list for the local bank's archival storage system so that IBM can have a full week to peruse it at their leisure. 1020am-11am: Phone call with the storage engineer which veers off on several tangents despite my best efforts. 11am-1155am: More troubleshooting the BladeCenter. 1156am: Eureka! The cause of the problem is that we're mixing fibre channel and iSCSI blades in the same chassis, and apparently that's not allowed. Too bad that that was the whole point of the god damned demo. Noon-1230pm: Disgusted, I eat lunch. 1230pm-130pm: Frantically I try to get hold of people several time zones ahead of me to get them to work on the storage specification. Earliest we can get the parts list is tomorrow, which is late, but survivable. 130pm-215pm: Help to clean out old cube. I have many other things I ought to be working on, really, but I'm practicing work avoidance by... working? 215pm: Company president comes down to accuse all his employees of stealing laptops and demands that I track them all down immediately. 230pm: Pissy phone call from HR, who is upset that one of my engineers is upset that his expense reports get processed too slowly. What is this, fifth grade? 3pm-4pm: Conference call with the whiny NetApp rep, who wastes precious minutes of my finite lifespan by demanding that we not even jokingly imply that a NetApp could possibly ever go down, even though it can unless the customer buys the much more expensive clustered version. 4pm-415pm: Arrange tomorrow's schedule, which has me out at customer meetings all afternoon long. Need to start delegating that crap. 415pm-430pm: Catch up on email. Only 171 messages left to read, I **** you not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archermoo Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 Re: The cranky thread Do you notice how sales representatives don't take no for an answer until you get loud? And then they're offended. Actually, I can't really say that I have. If it is a phone solicitation I hang up before I have a chance to get loud. If it is in a store, I walk out before I have a chance to get loud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 Re: The cranky thread Unfortunately, I had to call them in order to cancel a subscription, which I had asked them to do before. The sales rep kept trying to give me the runaround until I started yelling. If someone called me, I would have had the answering machine pick it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 Re: The cranky thread I actually don't even bother with the answering machine. If I don't recognize the caller ID I don't pick up; if it's family they know my cell number. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 Re: The cranky thread I actually don't even bother with the answering machine. If I don't recognize the caller ID I don't pick up; if it's family they know my cell number. and they bail you out of jail? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 Re: The cranky thread *fights the urge to stab her boss with her pen to get his damn attention* If he's going to dump something on my lap, he could at least spend the TWO SECONDS I need him to be in his office long enough for me to get the information I need to DO this stupid thing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 Re: The cranky thread *fights the urge to stab her boss with her pen to get his damn attention* If he's going to dump something on my lap, he could at least spend the TWO SECONDS I need him to be in his office long enough for me to get the information I need to DO this stupid thing! I know that feeling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 Re: The cranky thread Oh, it gets better. My boss is going to be on vacation next week. So this'll be ALL in my hands. And neither of us can figure out what the heck's going on with it right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 Re: The cranky thread Ask if he has a contact number and USE it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 Re: The cranky thread Considering the amount of hands-on stuff he's doing to figure out where this $9.50 came from, I'm not sure a contact number would be very useful, even if he had one. My boss doesn't own a cellphone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 Re: The cranky thread Hotel number? Wife's cell? Or just leave it until he gets back and give 'em hell. off to bed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 Re: The cranky thread Dammit I want someone to get back to be with a time for a job interview. I'm DONE with my current department. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 Re: The cranky thread Why the music industry must die: I just paid $20 for 2 songs. Ok, what I really did was pay $20 for the Non-US release of the Anthrax album The Greater Of Two Evils which is a 2-disc release of the US version of the album. The difference? The second disc contains 3 tracks, one of which is a hidden track on the US release. Oh, and it's a fold out digipack. The two tracks that don't appear in the US are flippin' AWESOME. John Bush rules. They need to switch to a single worldwide release model where everyone gets all the music without having to chase this crap down. I'm sure this whole thing was some stupid inter-record company shiznit and all that. They shall feel my wrath .... collecting music is not an addiction. it's a sickness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 Re: The cranky thread I don't think I've bought a CD this millennium. The last one I remember buying was St. Anger, which was aptly named, because that's how I felt when I listened to it and then threw it in the trash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 Re: The cranky thread I buy very few CDs, but I've been buying a few lately. Turns out that, even when you buy a track off Napster, you can't actually listen to it. Not for long, anyway, and you CERTAINLY can't burn it onto a CD to listen to in the car. Feh. So that's my musical purchases lately - songs I wanted to listen to in my car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zornwil Posted May 4, 2006 Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 Re: The cranky thread The only CD I've bought in months has been Black Eyed Peas' recent one. Before that I think the only one I bought was the DVD-A that Beck put out last year or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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