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The whole veteran identity thing has always annoyed me, I say that as a combat veteran from Desert Storm. I’ve never taken advantage of any veteran’s preference things like discounts etc. That said, I’ve recently started taking advantage of veteran’s discounts and I got my free lifetime America the Beautiful pass and will soon sign up for 100% VA healthcare that I qualify for now because of the PACT Act.
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I'm on a work trip and the fuckers in the hotel room next to me were talking so loud when I was trying to fall asleep that I had to put in ear plugs. They worked and I got to sleep, but then they fell out around 1:30 am and I woke up because they were blasting classical music. WTF. I'd almost rather they were having a party.
Call the front desk and they sent security up, the classical music gets turned off, then back on five minutes later at low volume.
Dog shit under the door handle? Actually, I'm in SF, so human shit might be easier to procure
Also, I installed the Clipper app to ride BART, and registering the account+adding funds twice resulted in 18 confirmation emails. ???
One of the benefits of so many serving during WW2 is that most of Congress were vets knew the consequences of war and the chicken hawks were easily put in their place. I use to hate the notion of the draft, but now our military is largely made up of have nots. Everyone should have some stake in the game so some kind of National service would be beneficial imoQuote:
Originally Posted by old goat
Take advantage of those discounts. I have no problem taking the senior discounts, Medicare and SS and all I did to earn them is get old.Quote:
Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn
At least the fuckers weren't fucking.Quote:
Originally Posted by dan_pdx
At least we got it to work. We loaded it on our phones. My android wouldn't take the money so we put two accounts on my wife's phone but only one would work. We had to get the cards and that wasn't easy either. What a bullshit system. I wonder how many people from out of town show up in the Bay expecting to use BART and find out they can't.Quote:
Originally Posted by dan_pdx
amused, annoyed?
Who dafuck thought "Yanno, it'd be great if I could just drink these oreos in my coke" or "what the world needs now is coke flavored oreos..."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money...3007/?tbref=hp
Getting stood up on a zoom meeting. A meeting that the other party asked for!
I certainly don't see anything wrong with using any benefits you are actually entitled to. Shit's expensive. Do whatever you can to save money.Quote:
Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn
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Originally Posted by Danno
Whistle Pig trying to muscle their way into the bourbon market; low volume/high quality goes right out the window.
Barrell as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by PB
Wild pea annoys me. It grows like a weed (well, it is a weed) along the road sides here. It makes nice red flowers but it is a rapidly spreading vine that is impossible to pull out once it gets established. We have a nice rock garden, thanks to my wife, but I do most of the weeding these days. I swear that a spot that had no pea yesterday can have 2 foot vines today. Like Jack's beanstalk. The stuff likes to hide in other plants. It's too intermixed with our desirable plants to poison it. So I just pull the vines out as best as I can, leaving the roots, and trying to stay vigilant. Any advice is welcome.
Sounds like Himalayan blackberry in the PNW. At least sweet pea isn't covered in thorns.
You know the drill. Nuke from orbit. Behead the remains.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
i have a late 20s employee who is the typical "does just enough to not get fired", but is from a rich family and is entitled enough to not absorb that the reason his peers have all surpassed him a while ago is because he shows minimal effort and ZERO initiative (he's been told this multiple times in his reviews).
Due to vacations we are light staffed right now (i am overly accommodating with vacations especially if you're doing something i deem cool), and this guy was already planning on taking off the first half of next week to attend a family function out of state. He just came to me this morning to let me know that he will be taking off the rest of this week because his parents dog is dying and will be put down this weekend and he needs the time to say goodbye. Mind you, he has a dog of his own and hasnt lived with his parents since HS so he might have lived with this dog for a couple years at most a decade ago. Am i being unreasonable to have this grind my gears?
You are being unreasonable to not fire him.
You are not being unreasonable to feel that he is grinding your gears. Tell him due to being short staffed due to pre existing vacations he is expected to be present when he is expected to be present after his previously scheduled days off. No show, no call, no job.Quote:
Originally Posted by californiagrown
I don’t think firing him is unreasonable. I do think telling him he has to choose his job or his dying dog from his childhood is unreasonable. It’s not a real choice anyways. If it isn’t this it’s something else.
Let him go. Stay away from the dying dog. There’s no win there, just a lot of righteous indignation.
Tell him “sure, go on home. Also this probably isn’t the best time but there never is a good time: it’s not working out here and best of luck in the future.” Cash him out before he leaves if you can.
Oh i did, im just really annoyed. He is just so fucking soft (this is just the latest in a pattern of soft/entitled/naive behavior). I'm likely short-timing myself so im not interested in firing and then spending the time training up a new guy/gal for his position, im just trying to coast smoothly into the sunset and this fuckers' putting some uphills in the way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mustonen
Whatever but just don’t let it grind your gears. Be professional. Be free Kala. Ski here now and all that but let it go
If for no other reason, at least he can console his parents in their loss; you did the right thing.
But tell him easy street is over and now you can surf on his back until he quits or you retire from that joint.
Or don't tell him and just catch the wave. Everyone's stoked then, but him.
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Originally Posted by Danno
Weddings annoy me :shrug:
Damn I'm a grumpy old fuk
I doubt anyone said "you're on mute" during seances.Quote:
Originally Posted by MultiVerse
Metlife has offshored their phone support, I think to the Philippines. They seem to understand me just fine, but my hit rate with them is maybe 50%. If they're going offshore, they need to offer their customers some accent acclimation training, maybe some videos or something. Or just use chat support as God intended
Somehow i got english speaking, apple pie eating, golddern american when talking to customer service lately with both my bank and my credit card company.
Unfortunately it was due to some pretty fucked up shit with my CC and now i get two months of switching every account over to the new CC.
Well, if they have to fuck up badly handling your money for you to get the American csrs, I'll stick with my new friends in the Philippines. I just start to feel bad after the third time I ask them to repeat themselvesQuote:
Originally Posted by Name Redacted
Ugly American ...... lean into it.
Ugly corporate american corporations outsourcing customer services to take advantage of lower wages in third world countries to enhance the bottom line for shareholders while simultaneously fucking over their loyal (barf) customer base. Get used to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by PB
Thankfully it has been forever since I called customer service. Last time I was expecting the Indian accent but nope Alabama and she was great. Please don't offshore support jobs.
After my last company got acquired the parent co was appalled at CA wages and preferred to hire customer support people out of Florida where they could get away with paying $25-30k/yr. Offshoring those jobs might have been a step up on sending them to the third world country that is Florida. Those people caused so many problems with existing customers because they were incompetent.
I don't remember what company it was, but I had a CSR with a little bit of a western drawl one time and asked where he was located. I don't remember the exact location, but he told me he was working remote somewhere where they were very few local jobs. Maybe one of the Dakotas?
Anyway, apparently making a few bucks over minimum wage was a great deal out there, with low COL. Why can't we have more of that?
I got the first of two Shingles vaccines Wednesday afternoon and I still have mild flu like symptoms and my arm is sore as fuck. How long does that shit last?
Not as long as the RSV.
1st fucked me up for a solid three days, mild symptoms including sore arm with redness for another four. 2nd dose I barely noticed.Quote:
Originally Posted by zion zig zag
Seems like the people I know got crushed by the 2nd dose. Ymmv. I’ve been too chicken to get one despite seeing first hand how painful it is on the wifey
I got the first and had no side effects at all, so I’m pencilling out 3 days for the second shingles, covid, and current flu.
I wonder if they could just combine the current covid with the current flu, it would make sense if they could.
My late wife got post-herpetic neuralgia after a dose of shingles - which affected the side of her head and eye. I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy. A sore arm for a couple of days doesn’t compare.Quote:
Originally Posted by mcski
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-...s/syc-20376588
It’s no joke. But the shot is definitely a lot more than a sore arm for most people I know. Still much better than the shingles. Even my Pharm friend said shingles vax was worse than covid. But i agree the alternative is much worse