@CB, honestly if any campaign is going to do it I wouldn't mind if they were the first! I think that they have created a product the fulfills a need, and will actually help people. Even the fact the they are drawing attention to the need for people to fidget will help. As the awareness spreads, more people will be allowed to fidget and live happier more productive lives because of it. Hard to feel bad about that! ;)
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-16T09:42:51-04:00
So glad this is my last early morning for a while. Not least of all because this coffee tastes like ass.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-16T09:45:24-04:00
@LZ, congrats! And good luck on your hot sauce competition! So many ways you could go with that one, I would be curious about a smoke or fire roasted habenero combined with that guava... I think the smokey flavour could kick it up a notch and help balance the sweetness. If it works out, you'll have to bring some up with you!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-16T09:47:22-04:00
As far as favourite beers go, I really don't care for most of them. I never have. When I was younger, I would get drunk, then start drinking beer! ;) But, the one exception to that rule is Innis and Gunn, that stuff is amazing! I can actually drink the whole bottle, not just the top 2/3 of it! Tasty to the last drop!
Mike Kabala 2016-09-16T09:55:40-04:00
@LZ, if it's really bad, you could say that you drink Bad Ass Coffee.
@BaKhan: Love me some Gunn! That stuff is so awesome...I might go pick up a bottle or two on my way home tonight.
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-16T10:19:14-04:00
Smoked habañero... That's a good idea!
I had planned on tamarind to balance out the sweetness, but I wasn't sure if that would be enough. There'll also be some ginger in there, which should also help.
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-16T10:20:17-04:00
Have you guys ever tried Occulto? That stuff's not bad, either. It's agave infused and aged on tequila staves
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-16T10:30:41-04:00
@LZ, does it smell or taste like Tequilla? If so, then nope! I can't even smell tequilla without feeling my stomache churn... bad bad bad experience with it!
Yeah...tequila and I don't get along well...it likes to come back for seconds, no matter when/how I drink it.
Mike Kabala 2016-09-16T10:34:15-04:00
Wish it came in K cups. I'm too lazy to grind my own, especially before I've had my morning coffee.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-16T10:43:32-04:00
@CB, yeah, I have that adapter that you can put your own ground coffee into your kurig, but I almost never use it. Too lazy... ;) If I want it bad enough, I'll use my french press... needless to say, doesn't happen very often. ;)
Okay...I think I've seen the most self entitlement related news story of the year...a couple planning to sue the NHL for human rights violation because they were told they needed a ticket for their infant(who is still breastfeeding).
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-16T11:08:44-04:00
I haven't had tequila, so I don't know whether Occulto tastes much like it. It's a sweet beer with a bit of bite to it
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-16T11:13:57-04:00
I understand where the couple is coming from in thinking they shouldn't need a ticket for their infant. Suing is way over the top, though. If I found myself in that situation, I'd probably protest needing a ticket, make a case to the venue for why I shouldn't need one for the infant, and then ask for a refund on the tickets I already had because I don't want to pay for it.
Actually, I have been in that situation, now that I think about it. I did protest, and they told me that the only rule was that the infant needed a ticket, which they could offer me a discount on. They said this with a wink and a nudge. I ended up getting a $5 nosebleed ticket for the baby, and then we went and sat in our 5th row seats, holding the baby. Everything worked out.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-16T11:14:55-04:00
@LZ, well then, I'll make sure that we rectify that situation when you guys come up! My wife loves it and we have a couple of high end brands. One of them has a suger skull bottle, but both bottles we have were well over $100. I did some research and made sure I got her some good ones, I like to do my best to spoil her once in a while! ;) http://www.1-877-spirits.com/spirits/kah-anejo-tequila
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-16T11:16:10-04:00
I just noticed that they say in that description its only available in the US, I beg to differ... ;)
I can't look at ANY page that involves alcohol while at work...they have it blocked completely. It was funny, because when we did our Christmas party back in 2014, the receptionist had to do research for it, and couldn't do a lot of it at work because of the filter.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-16T11:49:59-04:00
@GM, years ago I figured out how to beat our work filter. Translate what you're looking for into a different language, Russian seems to work well, then the filter won't block it, translate the page, and you're in! ;)
Mike Kabala 2016-09-16T12:44:04-04:00
@GM, @BaKhan, another way to get around the work filter is to smuggle in an "unauthorized" laptop and HotSpot and do your research off the corporate grid.
That is ... unless your corporate policy considers that grounds for termination ...
Hooray for not being able to finish entering the new hires into both systems...so many entered, but job codes not being set up, and my manager wanting them a certain way(and her being off since yesterday) doesn't help.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-16T14:05:30-04:00
@Geist, don't worry, you'll get your fill of maple! By the time you leave you'll be over it for sure! ;) As per the butter tarts, you'll have to take that up with GM's mom!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-16T14:07:35-04:00
@Geist, well, we're nothing if not enablers... ;)
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-16T14:26:37-04:00
It's over. The nightmare is over. The week has been vanquished.
I caught a glimpse of myself in a mirror and sold it to a circus it was so startling. I don't know whether I need 10 hours of sleep, a pot or two of strong coffee, both, or just a new passport registered to Zem Mattress McPhil and a new life somewhere far from here where I have wide access to a bed, a pot of strong coffee, and basically everything that isn't how I feel right now.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-16T14:29:21-04:00
Huh, I've been reading so much of the Hitchhiker's Guide recently even my sleep-commenting is starting to resemble Adams' writing style. I only wish I could write like him!
Mike Kabala 2016-09-16T14:43:59-04:00
Doesn't a name like, "Zem the Mattress" automatically associate you with Douglas Adams?
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-16T14:47:18-04:00
@Zem, congrats for making it through your week! Now get some sleep young man! ;)
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-16T14:59:56-04:00
CB, I hope so! Zem is my favorite character of any story ever, and I was born on what would become Towel Day, so I'm pretty sure I'm the chosen one or something like that.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-16T15:00:48-04:00
GM... wow, they were planning that one for you! Someone must like you but not know how to show it, so like a kid they pick on you to show affection! Because damn you have a secret admirer!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-16T15:05:12-04:00
Nothing like having to rush the design on Sunshine Villages snowmelt... O_o
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-09-16T15:07:10-04:00
This is silly. If I see someone on the plane like this, I will giggle at them and give them a PBR.
@Geist, lol, I honestly think my wife would love that! hehehe! She always sleeps on planes, or travelling anywhere on anything really... ;)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-16T15:45:12-04:00
Ha ha! Finished that whole massive design in under 30 mins! Who's the man!?! No seriously, who? Cause he's not me, or I wouldn't be here, I'd be busy being awesome somewhere... ;)
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-09-16T15:58:11-04:00
@BaKhan: You da man! Especially if your bacon maple brittle takes off. I'll be looking to join your company when you become filthy rich.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-16T16:10:42-04:00
I still call Taster Premier. Maybe even an alpha or "I am the one who knocks" in the title somewhere.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-09-16T17:33:25-04:00
Ok kittens. I'm off for the weekend. There are three festivals and an anniversary card game that I'm suppose to attend. I'll need a vacation from all the fun.
Be safe and I'll chat with you guys Monday!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-16T17:34:23-04:00
Need a vacation from fun? Is that what they're calling mondays now?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-16T17:45:13-04:00
Half hour nap and coffee it is/was! Nap was, coffee will be. It's an exciting lesson into the past, present, and future tenses of exhaustion!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-17T02:09:27-04:00
Man... maybe a few new games was a bad idea. But two of them were ones I've been wanting to buy for awhile spurred by the fact that Civ V and all its DLC were like $12, down from like $130-ish!
Nothing like ordering your coffee in the morning, and the four people who ordered AFTER you, getting theirs first. And my order is VERY simple...large dark roast, black. They had regular(1 cream 1 sugar), double doubles, and other things that are complicated before I got mine...I even got my food before my coffee.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-19T10:26:30-04:00
@GM, see, this is where driving would have saved you that agrivation! Right now you're limited to the Timmy's thats closest, where, if you drove, you could pick one up, on the way. ;) Hope you have and excellent day my friend!
@BaKhan: Then I have to either be on the rotation for the parking at work(there are limited stalls, and people are on rotation for when they can get it), or pay the insanely expensive cost of parking downtown. Hell, as is, I'm tempted to drop the daily coffee and put that money towards my savings instead.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-19T10:30:53-04:00
@GM, yeah, working downtown sure has its drawbacks! I'm so glad I don't do that anymore... ;) Me and public transportation don't get along all that well... ;)
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-19T14:30:22-04:00
"FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK"? That is a long F-bomb!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-19T14:31:34-04:00
You're effen a right it is! ;)
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-19T14:32:04-04:00
That kind of F-bomb could wipe out a Japanese city! Oh, sorry, dark humor. Probably not the best place for it. ;)
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So instead of not getting enough sleep to start the week, I just got barely more than minimum to start, that'll wear off in 2 days, and THEN I can fail to catch back up! Much nicer!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-19T15:17:55-04:00
Wasn't that an H-bomb? o_O
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-09-19T16:29:51-04:00
Sorry I haven't been talking much today. Tons and tons of work plus the accounting big wigs are in the office this week. Plus training. Plus working late.
Plus me having no life. (What else is new) Plus me walking further down the road to spinsterhood.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-19T16:41:19-04:00
@Geist, sorry the burden is heavy! Hopefully the rapidly approaching kitten con will help allieviate some of the pressure! ;)
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-09-19T16:45:01-04:00
@BaKhan: you don't know how much I'm looking forward to it. I'm going to bathe in maple syrup. Eat plenty of your special short bread cookies. Hide zucchinis in LZ's room. Much fun will be had.
@Geist: I'm the same way with all the stuff that is thrown at me, with half assed work done on it. And on top of it, something that my manager needs for a legal dispute, she wants me to find because I don't have enough on my plate already(sarcasm anyone?)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-19T16:48:10-04:00
@Geist, we made some "special" chocolates this weekend! They worked out pretty darn awesome I must say!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-19T18:48:16-04:00
2 exams this week. Fun to be had all round.
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-19T21:45:14-04:00
My missing bottle of Zombie Snot came today! As an apology, they threw in a free bottle of Chilimaster's Reserve, as well!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-19T21:48:25-04:00
That's awesome! I know nothing of the sauce, but that's cool nonetheless!
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I've never understood shipping. I ordered from Amazon, and it told me via tracking that it left Kansas City, Mo. That's nice, that's like one day's drive away! Nope. It went half the country in exactly the wrong direction to Auburn, Washington. Because it's obviously MUCH more efficient. Sure, maybe not as many shipping trucks go from Kansas City to Omaha, but it sure seems like it'd save alot of time and energy to send it that way.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-20T00:07:49-04:00
Dang. Now I'm getting so into Civ V!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-20T09:12:22-04:00
Morning kittens!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-20T09:28:54-04:00
@LZ, congrats on the hot sauces! Speaking of which, where is your campaign at young man? ;) Also, any progress on that new one you're working on?
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-09-20T10:06:43-04:00
Morning kittens.
Bomb scare this morning has half the floor evacuated. My department was allowed to stay where they are because we are farthest away from a potential blast.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-20T10:10:44-04:00
@Geist, jesus! Is it safe? They should just let you guys go!
I'm starting to reject any paperwork that isn't the proper version, if anything is missing, and I will refuse to pay guys if the paperwork is late. I am tired of working late nights because people can't get me what I need, before I need it(I just got hire paperwork for a guy that started Sept 2, today).
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-20T10:41:20-04:00
@GM, that isn't being heartless, thats being practicle. If you keep enabling people by accomadating their bs, thats being foolish, or just crazy. The only thing that motivates people to change is pain. Make them wait till the next pay cycle, or keep sending back improper paper work, till they get it right. It will piss them off, sure, but the hope is that they will learn. If you just take all of thier work on your shoulders, it adds to your stress and makes you even crabbier. Save your sanity, make those people do as they should!
Doesn't help that when my manager reviews the new hire packages, after they're input into the systems to ensure they are accurate, she won't fix anything(I input 40 within the last two working days), she will just drop it back off with stickies saying what needs to be fixed...I'm ready to snap at anyone, and everyone.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-20T10:51:22-04:00
@GM, thats lame, but, as a silver lining, it gives you permission to do the same. Missing information on the forms that were sent in, put some stickies on there asking for information, or highlighting missing areas, and send it back to them! If its good for your manager, its good for you. In my opinion...
We have the completely wrong new hire package being used(this is one from 2014, if not earlier). We revised it, and sent it out(well, the HR girl that's no longer here did) back in early Aug, if not mid July. The new package was made so people can fill it out on the computer, so we can read everything and not see a 7, when it's really a 1, or a 4 that's a 9(so many errors with those). We get incomplete direct deposit information, and as of Sept 1, it's mandatory direct deposit. I will not chase down ANY paperwork anymore, if they wonder why something is missing, well I didn't get it in time, and it's too late to put it on this payroll.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-20T11:03:54-04:00
@GM, so be proactive man! Find that email, and resend it out with the note that this is the only acceptable new hire package, anything else will be discarded with out even being read. Or something. When I first started in my departement, our customers used to run roughshod over us all the time. It took me a while, but I managed to get most of them trained. Everything used to be a rush, omg, emergency, panic!, then I started to call them out on it. And I instituted a policy by where, if you tell me its a rush, I drop something else to do it for you, and then you don't pick it up for two weeks, it wasn't a rush, and you won't be getting the privellage again. Find their point of pain, and make them feel it. They'll come around.
Might have found the root of most of my problems. People being given the wrong information. Supposedly one of the new hires is only temp, so the admin was told not to do a new hire packet for them...which would be fine if she wasn't being paid through our system.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-20T11:43:47-04:00
I'd say just say the things you said here on some company-wide missive just to make sure the record is straight on all accounts, accommodate minor things, but if it's the wrong form or something, or missing swaths of information, then send it back.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-09-20T11:45:59-04:00
Woo! Of the 3 things in 2 separate shipping packages I ordered on amazon, one got here 2+ days early! Now if the other one could stop fooling around in Washington. It went from Missouri to Washington, completely bypassing Nebraska in the process! They could have duct-taped it to the bumper of some random passing truck headed this way and it would've worked better!
Lord Zombitten 2016-09-20T12:39:58-04:00
BaKhan, I learned on Saturday that the guy hasn't even freaking started on the new logo. I wasn't too happy with that news. The new sauce is done. It tastes fantastic! Guava, pineapple, strawberries, tamarind, lemon juice, salt, ginger, and smoked habañeros. My wife thinks it's way too hot. I think it's about right.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-09-20T12:55:28-04:00
@LZ, that sounds amazing! The sauce, not the slacker... ;) You should tell him you're gonna force feed him one roasted habanero every day he isn't done, that should help motivate him! ;)
@CB, honestly if any campaign is going to do it I wouldn't mind if they were the first! I think that they have created a product the fulfills a need, and will actually help people. Even the fact the they are drawing attention to the need for people to fidget will help. As the awareness spreads, more people will be allowed to fidget and live happier more productive lives because of it. Hard to feel bad about that! ;)
So glad this is my last early morning for a while. Not least of all because this coffee tastes like ass.
@LZ, congrats! And good luck on your hot sauce competition! So many ways you could go with that one, I would be curious about a smoke or fire roasted habenero combined with that guava... I think the smokey flavour could kick it up a notch and help balance the sweetness. If it works out, you'll have to bring some up with you!
As far as favourite beers go, I really don't care for most of them. I never have. When I was younger, I would get drunk, then start drinking beer! ;) But, the one exception to that rule is Innis and Gunn, that stuff is amazing! I can actually drink the whole bottle, not just the top 2/3 of it! Tasty to the last drop!
@LZ, if it's really bad, you could say that you drink Bad Ass Coffee.
@CB, that made me think of this! https://www.kickinghorsecoffee.com/en/coffee/kick-ass-whole-bean… its actually a really tasty cup of coffee!
Morning kittens.
@BaKhan: Love me some Gunn! That stuff is so awesome...I might go pick up a bottle or two on my way home tonight.
Smoked habañero... That's a good idea!
I had planned on tamarind to balance out the sweetness, but I wasn't sure if that would be enough. There'll also be some ginger in there, which should also help.
Have you guys ever tried Occulto? That stuff's not bad, either. It's agave infused and aged on tequila staves
@LZ, does it smell or taste like Tequilla? If so, then nope! I can't even smell tequilla without feeling my stomache churn... bad bad bad experience with it!
Yeah...tequila and I don't get along well...it likes to come back for seconds, no matter when/how I drink it.
Wish it came in K cups. I'm too lazy to grind my own, especially before I've had my morning coffee.
@CB, yeah, I have that adapter that you can put your own ground coffee into your kurig, but I almost never use it. Too lazy... ;) If I want it bad enough, I'll use my french press... needless to say, doesn't happen very often. ;)
Okay...I think I've seen the most self entitlement related news story of the year...a couple planning to sue the NHL for human rights violation because they were told they needed a ticket for their infant(who is still breastfeeding).
I haven't had tequila, so I don't know whether Occulto tastes much like it. It's a sweet beer with a bit of bite to it
I understand where the couple is coming from in thinking they shouldn't need a ticket for their infant. Suing is way over the top, though. If I found myself in that situation, I'd probably protest needing a ticket, make a case to the venue for why I shouldn't need one for the infant, and then ask for a refund on the tickets I already had because I don't want to pay for it.
Actually, I have been in that situation, now that I think about it. I did protest, and they told me that the only rule was that the infant needed a ticket, which they could offer me a discount on. They said this with a wink and a nudge. I ended up getting a $5 nosebleed ticket for the baby, and then we went and sat in our 5th row seats, holding the baby. Everything worked out.
@LZ, well then, I'll make sure that we rectify that situation when you guys come up! My wife loves it and we have a couple of high end brands. One of them has a suger skull bottle, but both bottles we have were well over $100. I did some research and made sure I got her some good ones, I like to do my best to spoil her once in a while! ;) http://www.1-877-spirits.com/spirits/kah-anejo-tequila
I just noticed that they say in that description its only available in the US, I beg to differ... ;)
I can't look at ANY page that involves alcohol while at work...they have it blocked completely. It was funny, because when we did our Christmas party back in 2014, the receptionist had to do research for it, and couldn't do a lot of it at work because of the filter.
@GM, years ago I figured out how to beat our work filter. Translate what you're looking for into a different language, Russian seems to work well, then the filter won't block it, translate the page, and you're in! ;)
@GM, @BaKhan, another way to get around the work filter is to smuggle in an "unauthorized" laptop and HotSpot and do your research off the corporate grid.
That is ... unless your corporate policy considers that grounds for termination ...
@CB: With me being in payroll, pretty sure they would consider it grounds.
@GM: I feel entitled to all the maple syrup Canada has. And it's butter tarts.
http://www.1-877-spirits.com/spirits/kah-anejo-tequila
Did someone say tequila and sugar skulls??
Oh great. Something else on my list that I want to buy. You are determined to make sure I don't have any money to spend when I get to Canada.
Hooray for not being able to finish entering the new hires into both systems...so many entered, but job codes not being set up, and my manager wanting them a certain way(and her being off since yesterday) doesn't help.
@Geist, don't worry, you'll get your fill of maple! By the time you leave you'll be over it for sure! ;) As per the butter tarts, you'll have to take that up with GM's mom!
@Geist, well, we're nothing if not enablers... ;)
It's over. The nightmare is over. The week has been vanquished.
I caught a glimpse of myself in a mirror and sold it to a circus it was so startling. I don't know whether I need 10 hours of sleep, a pot or two of strong coffee, both, or just a new passport registered to Zem Mattress McPhil and a new life somewhere far from here where I have wide access to a bed, a pot of strong coffee, and basically everything that isn't how I feel right now.
Huh, I've been reading so much of the Hitchhiker's Guide recently even my sleep-commenting is starting to resemble Adams' writing style. I only wish I could write like him!
Doesn't a name like, "Zem the Mattress" automatically associate you with Douglas Adams?
@Zem, congrats for making it through your week! Now get some sleep young man! ;)
2 more hours before I jump ship.
3 for me, and things are starting to get hectic with everyone just realizing they need stuff for this weekend... >.>
I just got more new hires to enter...
CB, I hope so! Zem is my favorite character of any story ever, and I was born on what would become Towel Day, so I'm pretty sure I'm the chosen one or something like that.
GM... wow, they were planning that one for you! Someone must like you but not know how to show it, so like a kid they pick on you to show affection! Because damn you have a secret admirer!
Nothing like having to rush the design on Sunshine Villages snowmelt... O_o
This is silly. If I see someone on the plane like this, I will giggle at them and give them a PBR.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1879934341/facecradle-travel-pillow-upgrade-to-sleeping-class…
...I can see people chocking with that thing around their necks....
I've seen those. I've thought they look pretty functional, but even more stupid-looking.
Life Goals: http://9gag.com/gag/axDYw21
@Geist, lol, I honestly think my wife would love that! hehehe! She always sleeps on planes, or travelling anywhere on anything really... ;)
Ha ha! Finished that whole massive design in under 30 mins! Who's the man!?! No seriously, who? Cause he's not me, or I wouldn't be here, I'd be busy being awesome somewhere... ;)
@BaKhan: You da man! Especially if your bacon maple brittle takes off. I'll be looking to join your company when you become filthy rich.
I still call Taster Premier. Maybe even an alpha or "I am the one who knocks" in the title somewhere.
Ok kittens. I'm off for the weekend. There are three festivals and an anniversary card game that I'm suppose to attend. I'll need a vacation from all the fun.
Be safe and I'll chat with you guys Monday!
Need a vacation from fun? Is that what they're calling mondays now?
Half hour nap and coffee it is/was! Nap was, coffee will be. It's an exciting lesson into the past, present, and future tenses of exhaustion!
Man... maybe a few new games was a bad idea. But two of them were ones I've been wanting to buy for awhile spurred by the fact that Civ V and all its DLC were like $12, down from like $130-ish!
Aaaaaaah! I want that face cradle pillow!!
Aaaaaah! A Creeper!
Howdy!
[Whatever the goodbye equivalent of Howdy is]!
Home. Very busy weekend. Tired. Time to start preparing for the coming work week
Easy weekend for me. I needed it.
The more sleep I get, the worse I feel in the morning. Why does this happen to me?!
Good morning kittens!
Morning BaKhan.
@Geist, good morning! So dish! What all craziness did you get up to?
Morning kittens.
Nothing like ordering your coffee in the morning, and the four people who ordered AFTER you, getting theirs first. And my order is VERY simple...large dark roast, black. They had regular(1 cream 1 sugar), double doubles, and other things that are complicated before I got mine...I even got my food before my coffee.
@GM, see, this is where driving would have saved you that agrivation! Right now you're limited to the Timmy's thats closest, where, if you drove, you could pick one up, on the way. ;) Hope you have and excellent day my friend!
@BaKhan: Then I have to either be on the rotation for the parking at work(there are limited stalls, and people are on rotation for when they can get it), or pay the insanely expensive cost of parking downtown. Hell, as is, I'm tempted to drop the daily coffee and put that money towards my savings instead.
@GM, yeah, working downtown sure has its drawbacks! I'm so glad I don't do that anymore... ;) Me and public transportation don't get along all that well... ;)
@BaKhan: There was someone passed out on the train this morning, I could smell the mouth wash rolling off them.
@GM, gross! I find that the c-trains are even worse than the busses that way, also the smell of urine is quite off putting as well. Nasty!
Public transit!? Eeeeeewwwwww!!
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And that's the abbreviated version. -.-
Oh, and family friendly version.
Is there a pg-13 version? ;)
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That work for PG-13?
@GM, PG-13 allows one eff-bomb per movie! ;)
That entire asterisk area is one long f-bomb.
"FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK"? That is a long F-bomb!
You're effen a right it is! ;)
That kind of F-bomb could wipe out a Japanese city! Oh, sorry, dark humor. Probably not the best place for it. ;)
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So instead of not getting enough sleep to start the week, I just got barely more than minimum to start, that'll wear off in 2 days, and THEN I can fail to catch back up! Much nicer!
Wasn't that an H-bomb? o_O
Sorry I haven't been talking much today. Tons and tons of work plus the accounting big wigs are in the office this week. Plus training. Plus working late.
Plus me having no life. (What else is new) Plus me walking further down the road to spinsterhood.
@Geist, sorry the burden is heavy! Hopefully the rapidly approaching kitten con will help allieviate some of the pressure! ;)
@BaKhan: you don't know how much I'm looking forward to it. I'm going to bathe in maple syrup. Eat plenty of your special short bread cookies. Hide zucchinis in LZ's room. Much fun will be had.
@Geist: I'm the same way with all the stuff that is thrown at me, with half assed work done on it. And on top of it, something that my manager needs for a legal dispute, she wants me to find because I don't have enough on my plate already(sarcasm anyone?)
@Geist, we made some "special" chocolates this weekend! They worked out pretty darn awesome I must say!
2 exams this week. Fun to be had all round.
My missing bottle of Zombie Snot came today! As an apology, they threw in a free bottle of Chilimaster's Reserve, as well!
That's awesome! I know nothing of the sauce, but that's cool nonetheless!
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I've never understood shipping. I ordered from Amazon, and it told me via tracking that it left Kansas City, Mo. That's nice, that's like one day's drive away! Nope. It went half the country in exactly the wrong direction to Auburn, Washington. Because it's obviously MUCH more efficient. Sure, maybe not as many shipping trucks go from Kansas City to Omaha, but it sure seems like it'd save alot of time and energy to send it that way.
Dang. Now I'm getting so into Civ V!
Morning kittens!
@LZ, congrats on the hot sauces! Speaking of which, where is your campaign at young man? ;) Also, any progress on that new one you're working on?
Morning kittens.
Bomb scare this morning has half the floor evacuated. My department was allowed to stay where they are because we are farthest away from a potential blast.
@Geist, jesus! Is it safe? They should just let you guys go!
Time for me to become the cold heartless bastard a lot of people think I am.
@GM, if it makes you happy, go for it! ;)
I'm starting to reject any paperwork that isn't the proper version, if anything is missing, and I will refuse to pay guys if the paperwork is late. I am tired of working late nights because people can't get me what I need, before I need it(I just got hire paperwork for a guy that started Sept 2, today).
@GM, that isn't being heartless, thats being practicle. If you keep enabling people by accomadating their bs, thats being foolish, or just crazy. The only thing that motivates people to change is pain. Make them wait till the next pay cycle, or keep sending back improper paper work, till they get it right. It will piss them off, sure, but the hope is that they will learn. If you just take all of thier work on your shoulders, it adds to your stress and makes you even crabbier. Save your sanity, make those people do as they should!
Doesn't help that when my manager reviews the new hire packages, after they're input into the systems to ensure they are accurate, she won't fix anything(I input 40 within the last two working days), she will just drop it back off with stickies saying what needs to be fixed...I'm ready to snap at anyone, and everyone.
@GM, thats lame, but, as a silver lining, it gives you permission to do the same. Missing information on the forms that were sent in, put some stickies on there asking for information, or highlighting missing areas, and send it back to them! If its good for your manager, its good for you. In my opinion...
We have the completely wrong new hire package being used(this is one from 2014, if not earlier). We revised it, and sent it out(well, the HR girl that's no longer here did) back in early Aug, if not mid July. The new package was made so people can fill it out on the computer, so we can read everything and not see a 7, when it's really a 1, or a 4 that's a 9(so many errors with those). We get incomplete direct deposit information, and as of Sept 1, it's mandatory direct deposit. I will not chase down ANY paperwork anymore, if they wonder why something is missing, well I didn't get it in time, and it's too late to put it on this payroll.
@GM, so be proactive man! Find that email, and resend it out with the note that this is the only acceptable new hire package, anything else will be discarded with out even being read. Or something. When I first started in my departement, our customers used to run roughshod over us all the time. It took me a while, but I managed to get most of them trained. Everything used to be a rush, omg, emergency, panic!, then I started to call them out on it. And I instituted a policy by where, if you tell me its a rush, I drop something else to do it for you, and then you don't pick it up for two weeks, it wasn't a rush, and you won't be getting the privellage again. Find their point of pain, and make them feel it. They'll come around.
Might have found the root of most of my problems. People being given the wrong information. Supposedly one of the new hires is only temp, so the admin was told not to do a new hire packet for them...which would be fine if she wasn't being paid through our system.
I'd say just say the things you said here on some company-wide missive just to make sure the record is straight on all accounts, accommodate minor things, but if it's the wrong form or something, or missing swaths of information, then send it back.
Woo! Of the 3 things in 2 separate shipping packages I ordered on amazon, one got here 2+ days early! Now if the other one could stop fooling around in Washington. It went from Missouri to Washington, completely bypassing Nebraska in the process! They could have duct-taped it to the bumper of some random passing truck headed this way and it would've worked better!
BaKhan, I learned on Saturday that the guy hasn't even freaking started on the new logo. I wasn't too happy with that news. The new sauce is done. It tastes fantastic! Guava, pineapple, strawberries, tamarind, lemon juice, salt, ginger, and smoked habañeros. My wife thinks it's way too hot. I think it's about right.
@LZ, that sounds amazing! The sauce, not the slacker... ;) You should tell him you're gonna force feed him one roasted habanero every day he isn't done, that should help motivate him! ;)