McJeff215

Georgia heat.

Credit card processing fees. I'm trying to start a little side business to supplement the income. Merchant accounts, credit card processing gateways, per-transaction charges, monthly minimums... Stores ought to have a 'cash price' and a 'credit price.'

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Yeah, who gives a sh*t? He's on a 1 year contract and people expect him to move? Seriously? SERIOUSLY? Would you? Today's complaint...Feel good corporate meetings and attendees that won't shut the hell up so we can get out. People dress up and ask stupid questions like "So, where do you see the company headed from an M&A point of view?" Shut up and sit down. Do you honestly think that's going to be answered honestly? You work for a public company and this random Veep is in front of 20 random people, ranging from secretaries to systems administrators. Stop dressing pretty for the boss man and do your job better, that's how you'll move up.

That bugs me as well. People bitch and moan about the weather all Winter long (even here in GA), but when it gets all nice, it's AC time. Open up the windows, air out the house, let the 65mph wind smack you in the face for a while!

Try living in Georgia. I can't take the f*cking dog outside without breaking a sweat. My complaint this week? I turned 30 on Sunday. Yuck.

Or more likely they don't have the $ to cover the beer and smokes, so they write a bad check waiting for tomorrow's pay day.

Crappy executives that shield themselves with loads of unnecessary project management. How is it f*cking possible for corporate priorities to change twice a week? This guy is lost.

A friend of mine works for a Navy contractor and has the same complaint. He's a hardware guy and tells me that he can rack a machine, but he can't plug in the fibre channel cables or power it up. The storage team and the cable teams do that. To have these things done, he has to fill out forms, which have to be cleared by security, which are then forwarded on... the whole process can take up to a year. From the time a machine gets put in a rack to the time it's powered up and can access storage? A full year. This my friends is where your taxes go. For comparison's sake, I could rack one up, power it on, and configure all of the fibre storage in probably an hour. Today's complaint? Two. Last week my husky ate a garter snake.. and barfed it up. Today? She ate a bird. I hope she keeps that one down. Secondly, we just got a message that "we have hired a knew Director of Social Marketing." Yea. You read that right. My benefits are going down again and we're a) paying someone that spells like that and b) hiring someone to screw with FaceBook all day? Where's my emergency cyanide pill? Anyone up for a Montana commune?

Yeah, and I've done that stuff in the past. I tend to think it just breeds unwanted confrontation these days. No one is going to change because I decide to haul in my own coffee pot. I might bring in a French press and keep it at the desk. Not trying to be jerk, but still saving a couple dollars a day. It's just frustrating. We were bought a year ago and all (yes all) of our benefits have been cut by the new parent company. Insurance, refreshments, flex spending, COL increases, telecommuting - all of it. We've even been cut back on development hardware and we use that to do our jobs. At the same time, the *parent* company increased their benefits a little. So at every one of these meetings they tell us how excellent our benefits are. Since we're based out of state, all of the higher ups have offices here in Atlanta as well... chock full of state of the art computer hardware that's used once every six months. I'm using a 17" screen to write software all day and they told me to bring in my own monitor if I want to use something better. I'm wired to work my ass off. Nights. Weekends. I feel like I'm not earning my salary if I don't get it done. Having yet another cut is kind of a kick to the nuts. I need to start a small business, at least I control my own direction that way. If I fail miserably, I can blame myself! Ok! Sorry for the rant... I feel better now, though!! :thumbsup:

Ha... one meeting later and now our health insurance is going up. Ten minutes earlier, in the same meeting, the said that we made record profits this quarter..... but our health costs are going up? They went on to tell us we need to exercise more because they're worried about our health. Translated? Stop costing us money!

The nickel and diming here at work... we've had this swamp water coffee machine for years, but it was free. We got a fancy new one today, with a "50 cents per 7 oz cup" slot. Starbucks is cheaper than that!

I've seriously seen one in Atlanta... "BJ Gal." Today's complaint is simple. Traffic. I freaking hate it when it takes more than an hour to get home from work. What a wasted hour of life.

I go out of my way to help folks in a different department at work and they can't so much as reply to a simple email when I need something. This hasn't happened once. Not twice. Probably a good two dozen times. If not more. This group is notorious for this among us technical folks. When I bring it up, it's always something I've done wrong. Perhaps I approached it incorrectly, used the wrong tone, or wasn't persistent enough. Hell, I'm logged in doing something now because they "forgot" to tell the night shift dude to do something last night. I don't get this. How is it my problem? Why aren't these other guys kicked for playing black hole? I'm ultimately responsible for all of the systems. If I just ignore it and it breaks, it's my fault too! Bah.

The fact that I told my twistd server to use /dev/null as it's log file instead of syslog so I could just dump the log trash to the bit bucket instead of keeping it around, and it decided to rotate /dev/null. So now I have /dev/null.1 through /dev/null.168. To make things worse, the /dev/null that's left isn't a char. device any longer, it's a root owned 0666 file. So now I'm planning on a long night of fixing Linux machines and redeploying my twistd components. Yay. Politics, too. I'm sick of that. First GW "can't speak", and now Obama's a tool for using a teleprompter... :doh: These are things that really shouldn't matter, yet we bicker...

Then can I have them?

My 20 month old daughter took all her clothes off in the time it took me to get up from the couch and refill my cup of coffee. When I saw her there, she just started peeing. I grabbed her. When I turned around, the dog was cleaning it up for me. All of this before 7:00 AM this morning. (Quite honestly, I found it rather funny). Real complaint: The ATM at the bank ate my damn check, which should have cleared Monday. It hasn't yet, so now I'm having to get them to reimburse overdraft fees. Yay. Does anyone know of a bank that doesn't "take 1 to 3 business days" to do the simplest damn task? This is annoying.

#5. People that complain about not having anything to complain about. ;)

They use the ones in Atlanta for missing child alerts, which I think is a *great* idea.... i.e.. "Child Abuduction Alert... Mazda 626 NC Plate #123abc. Call 911."

A few today... 1. People that go off on how ridiculous religion is when they're reminded Lent just started. Why do this? What's the point? Whatever my beliefs are aside, I don't care whether you think organized religion is a crock or not. Do you expected the devoted Catholic that has ashes on his forehead to just up and say, "By God you're right! To hell with this!?" Smile, nod, and leave it at that. If you really believe people are going to be convinced, have a go at telling the Muslim extremists to stop blowing sh*t up. 2. The $700 I spent last week on fixing my truck that has 2,100 miles on it. I hit a damn chunk of metal on the way home from work. Two tires and a rim. 3. I had yesterday off and woke up *sure* today was Sunday. I made my cup of coffee and parked my ass on the couch for some TV when my wife asked me when I planned on going to work. Why the hell did she ask me that? She ruined my Sunday. 4. My *slowly* improving ice skating skills. I want to play some freaking hockey.

Yeah, I know... it just gets a little old after 12 years!

You ought to hear the a$$holes here in Atlanta do that.... "It's going to be unbearably cold tomorrow, a low of 17 and a high of 34. Treacherous. Severe! Don't stand outside! Keep your stove going! Painful! Close the schools!" Shut up, tool.

The fact that I found a copy of "Corporate Incentive" and "Executive Monthly" magazine here at work today while writing software on a sh*tty 17" monitor that we can't afford to upgrade.

Tomatoes. I hate those things. I refer to them as "Satan Berries." They ruin everything, I tell you! Here in GA, they put traffic lights on all of the express way ramps. They're setup to only let one car through every second or two. If there are two lanes on the entrance ramp, there are two lights, and they alternate. Brilliant idea, GDOT. You just pushed the backup all the way the hell down onto the surface streets. Now, not only does it take me 15 minutes to get on the damn express way, I have to fight through surface traffic while sitting in the queue. The fact that I've lost the same 30 pounds three times.

I bought an adapter for my iPod and started staggering my drive to work a bit more. :D

1. Politics in general. It seems like everyone GOP is seething with anger and hatred as of late. That's a big mistake on their part as it's going to ensure they stay out of office. I think I'm done with politics for a while. 2. My employer cut company funded gym memberships and didn't tell anyone. Surprise! Your membership with us is longer valid. This comes after no COL increase, insurance cuts, parking cuts, staffing cuts, flex spending cuts, 401k contribution, cut by two thirds, introduction of a 401 vesting, increase in cost of drinks... and our execs all got 15% raises. We're a company of less than 300. I'm two from the top. I don't get this. We're turning a healthy profit even though the economy sucks. Feels a lot like we're using the economy as a reason to kill benefits. 3. My beer belly.