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Post by mox on Aug 30, 2013 10:20:39 GMT -5
People who act morally or think they are genetically superior b/c their body clock naturally starts at the crack of dawn and I can't sit through a meeting without coffee before 10. These same "Morning Zealots" are all totally useless if they need to talk to a client after 7 pm and in bed by 10. I am not a Morning Glory but I can easily work until 10 pm.
Some of us were meant to work second shift. 3pm-11pm. Work all night when the rest of the world sleeps, no commuter traffic, and sleep on the beach/boat/chaise during the daylight.
"Orange-a-tang" or being called a "'ranga" is a compliment in my part of the world. I know women that would kill to have your hair as their natural hair and hair color, tulip.
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Post by waterdog on Aug 30, 2013 10:51:33 GMT -5
Mine, I get home after working close to 17 hours on next to no sleep, work phones here wife answers the phone says I'm sleeping they say it is urgent and they need to speak to me. Wife wakes me up and they ask me if I can come in 4 hours early tonight because they screwed up on staffing for the long weekend. My first response was "You do know I need to sleep some time,Why would you phone this early?" The second thing I'm pissed about, is that in my sleep deprived state I said yes.
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Post by sprite on Sept 4, 2013 6:30:45 GMT -5
my partner's near-sexual obsession with the park brake on our automatic, which he insists on using like a handbrake on a manual car. until we switched cars to one where it's on the floor, he was using it while driving on hills and at intersections... argh. unnecessary!!!!!!!
last night he huffily asked, 'well then, what's it for?' der, incline parking! 7 more weeks... then we get our lovely car back. well, his. his lovely car.
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Post by Q-pee on Sept 4, 2013 7:28:12 GMT -5
A long list of colleagues.
I have some amazing colleagues, but today seem to be dealing with those who are grumpy and/or incompetent. It's starting to rub off.
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Post by no idea @wino on Sept 4, 2013 17:22:31 GMT -5
still another day in Paradise but south coast of NSW will do that to you!
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Sept 4, 2013 17:44:12 GMT -5
A long list of colleagues. I have some amazing colleagues, but today seem to be dealing with those who are grumpy and/or incompetent. It's starting to rub off. The incompetence? ;-) *flees thread*
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Post by Webs on Sept 4, 2013 23:14:58 GMT -5
Something my boss has needed to do for months and has put off HAD to be done TODAY.
After offering to do this for her for all those months, today, as I was going to a family dinner, dressed much nicer than normal, had to help her do this.
So yeah, I was really pissed off.
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Post by Q-pee on Sept 5, 2013 0:49:05 GMT -5
A long list of colleagues. I have some amazing colleagues, but today seem to be dealing with those who are grumpy and/or incompetent. It's starting to rub off. The incompetence? ;-) *flees thread* Yes, hence the grumpiness.
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Post by riverhorse on Sept 5, 2013 1:15:11 GMT -5
Moi - I've been awake tossing and turning since 3.30. The only upside of this was that I was up early enough to Skype HD for her birthday and got to see LC as well. It's going to be about 29C today - I think a nana nap in the hammock this afternoon is going to be a must-do
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Post by brodiebruce on Sept 6, 2013 7:27:06 GMT -5
Today I'm pissed off because earlier this week I had a small mountain of dead electronic stuff dumped near my desk which I have to arrange disposal of (proper disposal too, not just lobbing it in a skip).
One company has been pestering me for ages about this sort of thing but haven't had anything to collect. Rang them and e-mailed the sales guy directly but no response at all.
Got a quote from a second company and it was around £500 to dispose of. I can only approve up to £300 so had to go to Finance.
Finance flipped out at the cost (we're in the red....deep in the red) and said that I couldn't use that company and couldn't I donate the stuff to charity. Pointed out that no charity would take this crap and their response was "well, you're stuck then".
And I have a minor hangover.
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Post by riverhorse on Sept 6, 2013 7:30:54 GMT -5
Brodie, I'm assuming this is in the "soon to be ex job" - in that case, just leave it by your desk and walk away!
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Post by sprite on Sept 6, 2013 8:03:33 GMT -5
riverhorse is wise.
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Post by brodiebruce on Sept 6, 2013 8:25:57 GMT -5
Yeah, soon to be former job. I was tempted to just dump it all on Finance's desks and make it their problem.
Motivation is lacking. Sorely lacking.
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Post by sprite on Sept 6, 2013 21:05:04 GMT -5
seriously, put it all in a box, send out the emails, copy in line manager.
if on one replies, or finance isn't happy with the numbers, not your problem anymore. you can't force people to reply, and you can't force them to change their fees. by copying in line manager, you've let them know the status and in theory whoever takes over will know what's been done already.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Sept 7, 2013 4:14:21 GMT -5
I've been the conduit for those sort of charity donations for the last 20 years, and I've finally had enough - I aave no storgae space, and even though people in a developing country could use your books/clothes/computers, I don't have a source of money to freight them. If you want to donate them to charity, you have to provide the money to get them there.
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Post by no idea @wino on Sept 9, 2013 20:12:25 GMT -5
still nothing ....life is good
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Post by Webs on Sept 9, 2013 20:19:49 GMT -5
Fucking bigotted americans. That's whats pissing me off right now.
I think I might be unfriended soon. I scolded someone for using the excuse of 9/11 to be hateful.
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Post by itch4travel on Sept 9, 2013 20:32:44 GMT -5
My friggen cable/cell/phone company. I hate that the Canadian market has two major players and that's it.
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Post by sprite on Sept 9, 2013 23:14:57 GMT -5
wino.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Sept 10, 2013 7:16:44 GMT -5
The fact that the office at my accountant's didn't ring me a week ago to tell me my tax was ready to submit. Nw I have another week to wait for my refund.
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Post by Q-pee on Sept 10, 2013 12:10:08 GMT -5
Nothing.
But that might be the wine speaking.
**hic** PUI
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Post by brodiebruce on Sept 10, 2013 12:13:56 GMT -5
Hmmmm.
Nothing right now but with 8 days left (and counting) I really am struggling to give a shit.
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Post by Sticktoria on Sept 10, 2013 13:04:29 GMT -5
Everyfuckingthing.
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Post by no idea @wino on Sept 10, 2013 16:58:31 GMT -5
Tax refund arrived...........lifeisreallyfuckinggood@wino.com.
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Post by tucano on Sept 11, 2013 5:01:22 GMT -5
Washing machine broke over two weeks ago. We contacted letting agent, who contacted the landlord who agreed to replace it. Two weeks later, no sign of a new machine despite various calls and emails. Real pain having to go to the launderette every weekend.
We also said at the time that we were happy to buy our own if the landlord didn’t want to replace it. Wish we had as it would have been delivered by now!
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Post by no idea @wino on Sept 11, 2013 17:32:49 GMT -5
Found new digs for current contract so now living right on beach and its a maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagic day
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Post by psw on Sept 12, 2013 0:58:47 GMT -5
Somehow forgot to pay the Visa bill on time. Got hit with a fucking $25.00 late fee. First time since forever. Grump. Nobody to blame but myself.
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Post by no idea @wino on Sept 12, 2013 1:10:09 GMT -5
I had a negative positive on a OS phone bill, started out as 600.00 negotiated down to 300 so I am a happy camper with that.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Sept 12, 2013 1:39:40 GMT -5
the festival I was really looking forward to going to in November looks like it will be cancelled. In part to the stupidity of the promoter in not releasing the full line up. Second annoucement was due today, now he is saying not enough tickets sold, he's not sure if it is worth continuing. Cue angry FB rants from people saying maybe if he'd released the line up earlier (ie before two months out) people would have bought tickets, or if he goes ahead and lets people know the line up, ticket sales will go up. He has a history of doing theses stupid things, so keeping fingers crossed it his him playing silly buggers again, as I really, really really wanted to see Massive Attack again.
Oh, and he is usually prolific on FB and twitter, but has shut up for now.
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Post by Webs on Sept 12, 2013 9:15:31 GMT -5
Cramps
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