Shit that annoys you

[anotherVTskibum]

When I’m bored and accidentally answer I try to see how long I can keep them on the line. Especially if I’m driving. The other day I had to tell the nice young man that I was at work now so it’s time to be done. They didn’t want to let me go because I’d given them a fake ssn and they wanted the DOB to go with it.

If you've got the time and patience, screwing with them and taking up as many resources as possible is a fair response. I don't have the patience, but one of my coworkers really gets into it.

[TurxSki]

When i wrecked my acl on the bottom of wolverine last June, I had wrod cowards yelling at me to move even tho I had my skis crossed. If I could have stood up they would have been dodging pole jabs

Hang on a minute.
*White Ribbons of Death* are an opening for the season phenomenon, imho, and not an end of season thing. So very different.
At end of season I am skiing at my strongest. At start of season, am still being kinda spastic.
Sorry you got injured.

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[mcski]

Never really thought them in terms of my own skiing only as strips of farmed snow where full run should be w too many kooks making unpredictable moves. Not sure how else to describe Alpine’s last week open

[old goat]

Hang on a minute.
*White Ribbons of Death* are an opening for the season phenomenon, imho, and not an end of season thing. So very different.
At end of season I am skiing at my strongest. At start of season, am still being kinda spastic.
Sorry you got injured.

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If those 2 foot wide, 100 foot long strips of brown snow strewn with rocks Dookey skis ass summer and fall aren't WROD, I don't know what is. (See Tahoe thread.)

[TurxSki]

If those 2 foot wide, 100 foot long strips of brown snow strewn with rocks Dookey skis ass summer and fall aren't WROD, I don't know what is. (See Tahoe thread.)

They are "patches". Just ask vets...you know...*PatchSkiing*.

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[PB]

And then there's Powdork's BRODs.

[old goat]

They are "patches". Just ask vets...you know...*PatchSkiing*.

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Depends on the ratio between width and length. If it's long and narrow it's still defined as a WROD by the OED>

[powdrhound]

On my busiest day of patch skiing with Vets there was a total of 7 people on the October Patch.
Crowding is not a problem.

[Lvovsky]

If those 2 foot wide, 100 foot long strips of brown snow strewn with rocks Dookey skis ass summer and fall aren't WROD, I don't know what is. (See Tahoe thread.)

Brown snow makes it BROD.

[old goat]

Excellent point.

[Core Shot]

Brown snow makes it BROD.

That’s just Ray . . .

Checks self. Self moderates.
Nevermind

[Mustonen]

Annoys and amuses: space heaters at work. In somebody’s infinite wisdom (likely mine) thermostats in buildings are usually set between 69 and 72. Female dominated industry.

We have informally allowed small space heaters on a limited basis, as long as they are not anywhere close to a thermostat and as long as they aren’t plugged into a UPS. Found out some offices have run with that and every single workspace in those offices, enclosed or open, has a space heater running all winter. Now IT is annoyed because every now and then somebody plugs one into a UPS and creates small chaos. They want this to never happen again and are arguing that space heaters don’t make any sense in a building with central HVAC with thermostats and zones. Reasonable enough, if we’re being reasonable….

I told them if they would like to be the face of an initiative to take heat away from (what happens to be) all the young to middle-aged women in the organization, they had my full support. Fun to watch them chew on that for a while.

I suppose we’ll set all building thermostats to 75 and see if the reliance on space heaters goes down.

[Dantheman]

I told them if they would like to be the face of an initiative to take heat away from (what happens to be) all the young to middle-aged women in the organization, they had my full support. Fun to watch them chew on that for a while.

Heh. Semi-related, we've been in a new building for a week and one end (my end) has been cold AF the whole time (for reference, it was 29* this morning and I rode to work in a t-shirt, so if I think it's cold, it's cold). They finally figured out today that the gas company mixed up which meters were connected to which units and disconnected one of our meters, so there literally has been no direct heat to this part of the building since we moved in. Whoops!

[skaredshtles]

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I suppose we’ll set all building thermostats to 75 and see if the reliance on space heaters goes down.

And then people will start complaining about all the hairy men in shorts and wife-beaters...

[Art Shirk]

Hey British Airways, I really dig the automated posh English guy who provides the menu options when you call in. I picture a monacled chap in a smoking jacket, sipping a single malt by the fire who is genuinely interested in helping me with my international booking.

Why did you forsake me? The next gal, who could have actually just been a Texas Instruments Speak and Spell, kept telling me her shift was over and she needed to leave. I’m cool with not working past your scheduled time, so just connect me with someone who is actually on the clock.

After being rushed off the phone and told my booking details were accurate and would arrive in my inbox, no email arrives until the next day. My daughter had turned into my son, and all the mileage plan numbers had been transposed. One even had 3 too many digits.

I call you back and there you are with your dulcet tones, lulling me back into your embrace. But then you transferred me again. This new colleague explained that I needed to pay 40 cents to give my daughter her uterus back and update the system. Good luck to me, trying to understand where that fee came from, but whatever. Then it’s 40 cents more to get the mileage numbers sorted.

Anyone heard of a 40 cent fee to fix a booking issue? Weirdest 80 cents I have ever spent.


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[paulster2626]

Annoys and amuses: space heaters at work. In somebody’s infinite wisdom (likely mine) thermostats in buildings are usually set between 69 and 72. Female dominated industry.

We have informally allowed small space heaters on a limited basis, as long as they are not anywhere close to a thermostat and as long as they aren’t plugged into a UPS. Found out some offices have run with that and every single workspace in those offices, enclosed or open, has a space heater running all winter. Now IT is annoyed because every now and then somebody plugs one into a UPS and creates small chaos. They want this to never happen again and are arguing that space heaters don’t make any sense in a building with central HVAC with thermostats and zones. Reasonable enough, if we’re being reasonable….

I told them if they would like to be the face of an initiative to take heat away from (what happens to be) all the young to middle-aged women in the organization, they had my full support. Fun to watch them chew on that for a while.

I suppose we’ll set all building thermostats to 75 and see if the reliance on space heaters goes down.

Where I work the building was made in like 1950-something, and has had bits and pieces added on throughout history. It's a real shithole. The HVAC system is so sketchy - one section of the office will be like a jungle while I'll be sitting there with freezer-like air shooting down on me from above. I know the cold spots in all the meeting rooms, which ones need a sweater, which don't, and which ones I should sit near the projector to occasionally warm my hands. Ceiling tiles are disgustingly dirty (I should share a pic), the place sucks the life right out of me. Good thing we only have to go in 2x a week now...

Anyway this shit annoyed me yesterday: dude beside me locks his desk whenever he gets up - even to take a piss or rinse out his lunch Tupperware™. Even when it's just me there. In 17+ years I've never gone in someone's desk so it's not like I have a reputation. Either he does not trust me personally or is hiding something. My curiosity is annoying me.

[The AD]

Annoys and amuses: space heaters at work. In somebody’s infinite wisdom (likely mine) thermostats in buildings are usually set between 69 and 72.

Wait, the temp in the building is between 69 and 72 and some people still need fucking space heaters?

Facilities at work has just about made my manager's head explode. I'm in a group that formed during Covid, so we never had a formal physical office location. We finally got one and it turns out there are a number of desks that are stand-up desks (motorized raise) in the area. Facilities told my manager that they'll need to remove these for anyone who doesn't have a medical waiver stating they need it. What a waste! They are actually going to convert the stand-up desks to normal desks because the rule is you need a medical rationale for a standing desk.

[Elkhound Odin]

They are called women


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[plugboots]

They are called women

I don’t understand how whole fucking gender can be born without a proper thermostat.

[Core Shot]

Anyway this shit annoyed me yesterday: dude beside me locks his desk whenever he gets up - even to take a piss or rinse out his lunch Tupperware™. Even when it's just me there. In 17+ years I've never gone in someone's desk so it's not like I have a reputation. Either he does not trust me personally or is hiding something. My curiosity is annoying me.

This has the makings of an epic tr.
when he’s on vacation pick the lock and investigate.

And yeah. Wtf with AC cranked in office buildings and all the ladies having under desk coochie heaters.
I thought the planet was dying.

[The AD]

They are called women

I'll give my wife credit on this one. We keep the house set at 68 and she usually wears shorts and a t-shirt with bare feet year round. I need slippers or socks in the winter or my feet get cold.

OTOH in her car she seems to either have it either full blast heat or a/c--no middle ground.

[Boissal]

My office is in a row of 3 and has no thermostat. The 2 offices next to me each have their own thermostat, and both seem to control what happens in my office. I suspect they also influence each other to some extent. Lady on one side is always cold, chunky dude on the other side whose uniform includes shorts year round is obviously always hot. I also have a floor-to-ceiling east facing window. I can't even begin to describe the temperature swings in there, going anywhere from mid 80s during summer mornings to high 50s in the afternoon. I actually use the stand up desk quite a bit, just pacing in place to try and stay warm. Have to wear sunglasses in the AM despite the dark shades and can't see my screen.
I get to scout lines on Timp and Box Elder though so no real complaints...

[Art Shirk]

Breaker just tripped here at my house in the middle of a work call. Why? Because my daughter, in her room, and my wife in her office, both had space heaters blaring for hours despite the thermo set at 69 in the house.


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[evdog]

We have informally allowed small space heaters on a limited basis, as long as they are not anywhere close to a thermostat and as long as they aren’t plugged into a UPS. Found out some offices have run with that and every single workspace in those offices, enclosed or open, has a space heater running all winter. Now IT is annoyed because every now and then somebody plugs one into a UPS and creates small chaos. They want this to never happen again and are arguing that space heaters don’t make any sense in a building with central HVAC with thermostats and zones. Reasonable enough, if we’re being reasonable….

I used to work with a girl who was always freezing. Thermostat was in her office and controlled the two offices next to hers as well. The neighbors would complain if she cranked the thermostat up, so instead she brought in a space heater. Which she would crank up instead. And when she did, the AC would come on and blast the other two offices. And hers, so space heater would get cranked up even more. Um.... maybe put a sweater on?


Also worked with a CFO who was paranoid. We owned the building. Finance was on the 3rd floor. He kept the elevator and stairwells locked so no one could get up to 3rd floor without being buzzed in by reception. Our half of the floor was also behind a locked door. And he'd still lock his office door every time he left, even if it was just for a minute or two. It's only finance staff in that little, secure 3rd floor bubble. I have no doubt he also keeps his desk drawers locked inside his locked office. Maybe he's worried who ever slayed the 3rd floor bathroom would infiltrate finance and ransack his office? In another amusing story he didn't trust our IT dept. So rather than have them back up our servers, he did it himself using this ancient backup computer in his office. CEO asked him one time, why don't you tell me who it is specifically you don't trust, and we'll fire them. Probably would have been everyone in the company. LOL

[Mustonen]

Wait, the temp in the building is between 69 and 72 and some people still need fucking space heaters?

There is indeed a campaign underway to reduce space heaters across the org. I might have stirred it up a tad. Literal tears have ensued. Those monsters.

Every time somebody brings needing more space heaters up to me I insist that the heat in whatever building must be set at 75 and until it is I don’t want to hear anything more about it.

Results have been amusing. I’m glad we have this to distract us from more important shit.

Wrong thread, sorry.