McJeff215
-
Posts
564 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Posts posted by McJeff215
-
-
Just one of those things you notice....
Last scene before commercial break shows walkers eating the guts of the home owner on the porch. First commercial is for Kentucky Fried Chicken. :wacko:
This this. I noticed that as well and even made a comment to my wife about it.
The Maggie scene... from what I understand, in the comic, the Governor keeps Michonne around longer and repeatedly rapes her as means to find the location of the prison. This was likely a means to tie that together.
-
My employer has stopped supplying coffee because "there's no budget for that." Needless to say, I'll have a new employer on the 26th.
-
It's hot.
I'm in a foul mood today. Incoming.
+21 on the heat. +1 just doesn't cut it.
I flew to San Antonio and back on Monday. Delta gave me the seat just behind the jet engine and just in front of the bathroom. I couldn't hear myself think and everything smelled like crap. Really. Worst flight ever. I kept having flashbacks of the "Lost" pilot as that's what it sounded like back there.
We're moving office buildings because my company doesn't want to pay for this office. Moving back to a place we used to be. The area of town is worse (most dangerous public transportation stop in the city), parking is more expensive, and the floor above us has a data center on it. Not a problem, except for when the Lieberts kick on the floor rattles and the noise is god awful. At the same time, they bumped our health insurance by 20% (for those of us on ONE plan, they left the other one alone) and passed on raises this year. The whole time, they're telling us that "work balance" and "employee satisfaction" is a high priority. Bah. I just want to do my job without having to deal with crap like this.
I haven't had a weekend without company in over a month.
Okay. I feel better! That's just so therapeutic.
-
Watching our CEO make $1.4 Million last year while getting my request for a $2k server denied because we "just can't spend the money right now." Seriously? We're a profitable company!
-
Southern hockey fans. Went to see the Thrashers and Stars tonight. I'd be surprised if that place was more than half full. Same old Max, BTW. Skate like hell and then cough up the puck.
-
Work. More specifically, no one knows what's going on. No one. I work for an internet company that doesn't offer shopping cart. Well, let me rephrase, you can't have a shopping cart under "yourdomain.com." How elementary is that? To top it off, we can't even "commit" to when we will as VP A and VP B and VP C haven't yet hashed out our "ecommerce strategy." This isn't hard. I can automate the install of an OSS shopping cart package in probably less than a week. But, see, we need to take something dumb simple and wrap all of this corporate-esque shizat around it... why?
I'm 160% convinced that companies that are A) public or B) employ over 100 people are crap. From top to bottom crap. This includes my employer. When the focus goes from customer happiness to Wall Street, or you can't expect to see the same person behind the desk every day, you lose something.
-
I appreciate your concerns. Now for the good news and bad news.
Good news (even though I could reserve it for PASabresFan's Saturday thread): the ENT specialist told me that it was more likely due to work-induced stress, so no vertigo there. Plus, he told me to cut back on salt, caffeine, and fried-type foods. (This is motivation for me to try to lose between 40-50 pounds). At least I have a NordicTrack treadmill at home to walk on.
Bad news: Since my family doctor gave me an indefinite out-of-work notice from last Monday, I had to send that in to my company. Given that the initial diagnosis was vertigo-like symptoms, this became a DOT factor. There is no way a safety-conscious trucking company would allow me to drive under those conditions. Now, I have to wait for my ENT specialist to fill out a specific return-to-work form as to why I should be allowed to drive again. This could not have come at a worse time. Two weeks with no paycheck.
I had that same stuff happen. I thought I had brain tumors or a screwed up ticker or something. Turned out it was stress in my case as well. Glad to hear that's all it was.
-
Not being in the top ten complainers.
shrader 249
Bmwolf21 204
inkman 199
LabattBlue 166
Crosschecking 157
d4rksabre 149
spndnchz 113
PASabreFan 107
McJeff215 94
Buffalo Wings 85
95. Finding out our other office is getting prizes, free food, and great equipment while I have to kick my workstation to keep it from buzzing and pay for Cokes. Finding out because I started following them on Twitter makes it that much more fun.
-
One more... guys that do conference calls, on speaker phone, that sit ten feet away. Echo. Echo. Echo. Get a damn conference room. Use one of the offices you're in. You're annoying.
-
1. Russian verb structure. Holy crap. Confusing.
2. Cancer.
3. Enroth. I really wanted to see him take another game after shaking out the "first start jitters."
-
Mulch with lawnmower(no bagging)> Blowing>Raking
Making the wife do it>Mulch with lawnmower(no bagging)> Blowing>Raking ;)
1. Cancer.
2. Atlanta traffic.
3. Direct TV, HD Hockey, and Versus.
4. Sleeping like crap last night.
-
1. My father-in-law found out yesterday that he has terminal cancer... when we woke up from the operation that was supposed to keep that from happening.
2. My littlest one just looked at my Sabres jersey and said "Banana Shirt!"
-
Breaking in a new wallet. Feels like I've got a brick in my back pocket.
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
-
iPhone games that do not respect the "vibrate mode" and the way coworkers look up when that happens in a meeting.
-
Facebook is having a big tech support issue right now - a lot of people are unable to access their own profile pages, and therefore can't reply to wall postings, add/edit photos, etc. My profile is one of those affected, and it's very frustrating, because FB seems to have no damn clue what the problem is nor do they have a timetable for a remedy.
I like FaceBook. Living 1000 miles South of home, I can still keep in touch with all of my old friends on a daily basis.
Today's Complaints:
1. I can't take this big shiny new 24" iMac to work with me tomorrow. I don't know how I'm going put up with the 17" POS I have there.
2. NetApp NFS locking went to hell this morning due to some buggy code, but the operations manager decided to roll back code changes I made the night before, even though the two are not related. I'm parallel to him org-wise, but on the development side. He didn't like when I told his people not to do it, but they listened to me over him because I'm right more often.
3. Above manager's people bitching to me about how their department sucks.
4. I spent six months working on my own products to sell on the side and then accidentally brought it up at work in a moment of sheer stupidity. Our management loved it and now they want to use it at work. Now, if I sell it myself, I'm in violation of my employment agreements. Damn it!
Good lord... Edit..
http://thrashers.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=56744
Please, come see us play? Please? Gotta feel bad for the players... "Wow, I'm going to the NHL!! I've been claimed by.... Atlanta?"
-
1. As I posted in another thread -- still no HD for Sabres games on MSG if you're not in WNY.
2. I bought a Dell laptop in February 2008 and paid $250 or so for the extended 3-year, in-person warranty. It was a lemon. It died every few weeks -- just shut down. Each time, I'd have to go through the phone menu, talk to tech support in India for about an hour, they'd finally send the tech dude out to fix it, he'd show up with the wrong part, they'd send the right part (usually a replacement motherboard), he'd replace it, it would work for a few weeks, then die again. At one point I had to send it in to Dell for them to work on it in their shop. Same result. Finally, after about 5 or 6 repetitions of this BS, they sent me a replacement. This was about a month ago.
The GD new laptop is completely schizophrenic and freezes up every 60 seconds. It's unusable. Here we go again on the tech support merry-go-round.
I hate Dell.
I've been an Apple guy for years (Hush, I just like them better). I'm going to pick up a new machine soon. I made the mistake of looking at the Wintel prices and now I'm cringing a bit. Do I want to give Dell a whirl? HP? Or, do I stick with the Apple machines that I've been so happy with for years. I'm thinking Apple, but good Lord, that's some serious cheese.
Oh, and just about corporate everything.
-
just check your monthly statement.It will show if you have auto-renew.
I called to check and they said I'm good to go, and then spent 10 minutes trying to sell me Sunday Ticket as well as some "Super Fan" package that's a bundle of those things.
-
9 days left till the opener and no CI package this year :unsure:
That automatically renews, right? I should just be billed for it, um, soon?
-
I hate C's. They should be removed from the english language all together. Sure, that would give my mom the incredibly awkward name of "hristine", but I'm fine with that.
Also, please not that the letter in question never appeared in a single word in this post.
We could go Cyrillic. C == S and K == K. No S. How's that?
Today:
My POS CTO was up here this week, sat on the other side of the floor, and didn't so much stop by. We're a 700 person company. When we asked about our yearly reviews? "We only give our raises if you've been promoted or otherwise had a change in responsibility." What about COL and the major slashing we've done to our benefits? "Yeah, we're not so good at that." Yeah, but I'd bet you cleared a million this year.
-
I was just in a supermarket picking up some stuff for dinner. I was walking through a narrow aisle and there was a cart sitting in the middle, making it just wide enough for one person. This guy was pushing a car in the opposite direction, so I stopped to let him pass. I made it very clear that I was waiting for him to pass. The ass stops his cart parallel to other cart, blocking the entire path. Are people really this stupid (yes, I know they are)? The worst part was that he didn't even stop there to pick something off a shelf. He stopped there so he could turn around and talk to his wife.
I was picking up prescriptions a couple days ago and the clerk asked the man in front of me if he had any questions. He said, "no, but my wife might." He then pulled out his cell phone and called his wife! But, the catch? Her told her to come to the desk and waited on the phone while she walked from the other side of the store! When she showed up, she took another call while I was waiting.
After she left, and I went to get my medicine, she had forgotten to sign all of the privacy stuff and they had to go get her to finish.
Total. Idiot.
-
Fugging central AC blowing out at home, followed by a big DDOS at work the next day. Yuck.
Oh, and giving that dog in my avatar a bath because it got stupid and jumped into a pond. Ever wash one of those things? It took 45 minutes just to get it wet.
-
Fugging central AC blowing out at home, followed by a big DDOS at work the next day. Yuck.
-
...and those that face racism today in 2009 as if it were 1959.
There's truth to that. I've lived down here for ten years and outside of Atlanta, it's quite old school. I've been deer hunting with my father in law and a good segment of the guys there were so racist it was embarrassing. Comments like, "let's give the deer guts to the n-family up the street, they'll eat anything." Outside of the metropolitan areas, there's quite a bit of it. You do get it both ways. I've been called all kinds of names walking to my car after work. The South is still a very racially charged area.
-
Or it's kind of like Chris Matthews, or Keith "the pervert" Olbermann, or the dearly deceased Peter Jennings ("the country just threw a temper tantrum"), all targeting the belief systems of the left. They have a following, and it's all in the same vein as leftist propaganda like just about anything Michael Moore has produced. They can block entrances to recruitment centers, force their policies on institutions of so-called higher learning, force changes in the public school curriculum and so on. Fortunately, none of the signs saying, or screams of, "kill Bush" ever actually amounted to anything.
We're saying the same thing. None of those examples you've listed are acceptable - especially blocking entrance to a recruiting center. As far as forcing changes in the public school curriculum goes, that's happening on either side. See the ongoing "Creationism vs. Evolution" debate here in Georgia. As for Mr. Moore, a lot of the stuff he's put out there is just as misleading as whatever Hannity may be spewing forth on any given day. Hannity pimps it as coverage, Moore pimps it as documentary material. It's politically charged opinion in most cases independent of who the mouthpiece is. I have a problem with that no matter what the ideology happens to be.
I'm just sick of seeing Democrats clapping why Republicans sit, or Republicans clapping while Democrats sit. The terms "Liberal" and "Conservative" shouldn't be considered derogatory in really any political context. Healthcare is a total microcosm. The current system can use some work, but it has really just melted down into partisan squawking. If the other party thought of it, it sucks. Period. That sucks.
OT: Cell Phones
in The Aud Club
Posted
I have a Nexus 6. Honestly, it is too big. I'll go back to something smaller after I put some miles on this thing.