Topic: Your Job: The Movie (Read 177821 times)

Mongrel · « **Reply #340 on:** May 19, 2009, 10:07:54 AM »

LULZ for today:

Our network connection to the home server in NJ is a travesty. It's slow as dirt and on the worst days it takes as long as fourty-five minutes just to log in. I sent another email cc-ing various individuals to our IT department, which is cursed by a horrible "ignore it 'till it goes away" Director.

The lower peons (who are helpful and efficient - when they actually know what to fix), not knowing what to do forwarded it to the IT Director. The Director decided that he would basically blow us off by saying it was the responsibility of the landlords of our building to fix our network issue. To further hammer his point home, he added the CEO to the cc list on the email... only the CEO replied, telling him to do his damn job and actually fix the problem.

Hoist on his own petard!

How sweet it is.

Brentai · « **Reply #341 on:** May 20, 2009, 04:48:00 PM »

It happens all the time but this is the first time I've actually met a client with the balls to actually tell me he was going to pay his invoice as late as he possibly can. And here I was thinking I wouldn't have to coast for a few months on my last big check.

Mongrel · « **Reply #342 on:** May 25, 2009, 07:31:35 AM »

So as bad as things were at the beginning of the year, we never actually had a situation where someone was saying straight up "I need [X] tomorrow or someone's going to die". Usually orders are far enough out that our screw-ups just made shipments tight. But this one isn't even our fault for a change.

Why did I have to get TWO calls like that on MEMORIAL DAY WHEN THE WAREHOUSE IS CLOSED AND EMPTY AND THE SHIPPING COMPANIES AREN'T PICKING UP ANYTHING ANYWAY. That's a rhetorical question. Canadians generally don't need to know about Memorial Day, much less make plans based on it's effects. It's just some really shitty cooincidental timing.

It's frustrating because of the two hospitals calling, the harder hit one is one I've repeatedly warned not to order shit at the dead last minute - but they always do.

Christ... the 'Just-in-time' distribution model was killed by September 11th. People are going to have to GET OVER IT and stop placing orders at the absolute last fucking minute and go back to carrying reserves. Yes storage costs money, we all get that, but the party is OVER, people.

(Before anyone asks, I've already done all I can on my end, arranging loans and shit... otherwise I'd hardly be posting on the boards).

SCD · « **Reply #343 on:** May 25, 2009, 08:00:27 AM »

Yeah, that party of open borders was pretty damned sweet when it lasted..

Anything, anytime, anywhere.

Thad · « **Reply #344 on:** May 25, 2009, 02:54:11 PM »

Quote from: Iron Mongrel on May 25, 2009, 07:31:35 AM

It's frustrating because of the two hospitals calling, the harder hit one is one I've repeatedly warned not to order shit at the dead last minute - but they always do.

Well, you know, their job is probably a lot like yours or mine -- there's more shit to be done than man-hours in a week to do it, and if they DID order on time, something else would have to give.

Or maybe it's like my job in that the person who does the ordering sits on her ass all day reading TMZ and looking at purses.

Mongrel · « **Reply #345 on:** May 25, 2009, 03:27:30 PM »

Well, see, here's the thing. Think of it like a tank of gas.

You have a 'full' marker and an 'empty' marker. There's also that little area past the 'empty' marker, which (for lack of a better term) we shall call the "OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK" zone.

As long as you drive, you'll have to stop for gas sooner or later, and at somewhat regular intervals.

These are the idiots who don't fill up at the three-quarter mark, nor do they even do so when they hit the empty mark, no, these are the idiots who like to be in the zone.

It's just stupid because all you need to do is change your mental definition of just how much stock constitutes 'being low on gas'.

Brentai · « **Reply #346 on:** May 25, 2009, 03:43:54 PM »

And to bring the analogy to its endpoint, the engine is powering somebody's pacemaker.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #347 on:** May 29, 2009, 08:49:25 PM »

Today I taught a Sikh about veggie dogs and burgers. He seemed really impressed by how they made them almost look like meat! Then he found out they had eggs in them and was like

Mongrel · « **Reply #348 on:** May 30, 2009, 04:38:10 AM »

The vegan ones had damn well better not have eggs in them.

Büge · « **Reply #349 on:** May 30, 2009, 08:27:50 AM »

Some veggie burgers do. The ones you get at Lick's for example.

Mongrel · « **Reply #350 on:** May 30, 2009, 10:45:17 AM »

I used to make those one this one line I worked on at a meat plant years ago. I can confirm that nothing earthly goes into those suckers.

They do however taste quite excellent for a vegetarian burger.

JDigital · « **Reply #351 on:** May 30, 2009, 02:48:47 PM »

Vegetarians I can understand--they don't want to eat aminals out of sympathy for fellow living creatures--but what's the deal with vegans? Do so many people have a moral objection to shearing sheep in the summer, or are they all buying into PETA's exaggerated claims about the welfare of livestock and the quality of farm produce?

Ocksi · « **Reply #352 on:** May 30, 2009, 03:18:53 PM »

ever watched a cafo video?

Fortinbras · « **Reply #353 on:** May 30, 2009, 03:32:33 PM »

As I understand it battery egg laying chickens get literally vacuumed up at the end of their laying cycle and dumped en masse into an enormous Treehouse of Horror style spinning blade. No kiddin'. I don't really trust a packaged veggie burger to use free range eggs.

Friday · « **Reply #354 on:** May 30, 2009, 03:57:19 PM »

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they don't want to eat aminals out of sympathy for fellow living creatures

right, they eat plants instead

wait

Ocksi · « **Reply #355 on:** May 31, 2009, 06:29:18 PM »

There's something to be said for a CNS.

That said, even with no moral qualms about quality of life for your food animals, I'd recommend checking out the true costs of eggs, for example.

King Klown · « **Reply #356 on:** May 31, 2009, 08:10:30 PM »

I like how brown eggs sell for more, despite there being no difference between them and the white ones.

Wait.

Niku · « **Reply #357 on:** June 06, 2009, 04:39:40 PM »

goooooo planet

Friday · « **Reply #358 on:** June 06, 2009, 06:22:58 PM »

I don't understand how you keep doing this

Kayma · « **Reply #359 on:** June 06, 2009, 06:30:37 PM »

It took me a second, but I got it.

Never stop.

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