The retail employees at my office are receiving training next door. The crowd consists of heavy machinery mechanics and customer service reps. Based on the noise they’re generating, you’d think it was a meeting of emphysema sufferers.
This domain was set to expire on 7/16, but I got a job in the suburbs.
Hey folks. Been a while since I rapped at ya. I guess I haven’t been very grumpy. I could bitch about the weather, but that signals the end of this blog.
IM clients should completely block messages like “hey, did you see my email?” Have a little confidence, people. I don’t know about your email client, but mine tells me when I have unread messages. Even worse is a phone call with the same question. Stop that. Is the answer ever “no?” Often, I’ll get these IMs before my email client has even pulled the message from the server. I guess I should answer “no” in that case. Even if your email is really important, give the recipient an hour. He/she is probably busy, just like you. He/she might even be working on something more important than your request. OMG! Also, don’t ask “are we there yet?” in the car, and don’t chew with your mouth open.
It’s likely that only people who work in IT networking encounter this, but I wish people would stop using the word “sunk” when they mean “synchronized.” It sounds really ignorant. I’ll accept “synced,” but are we really that lazy? Has our desire to avoid burning calories finally breached the walls of the spoken word?
“I’ve got the interfaces sunk.”
Why do people say things like that? It’s a language abortion. I don’t even hate all corporate-speak. Some of it is quite clever and it’s fun to be a part of a secret language that only cube-monkeys understand, but this one sounds like someone taught Cletus how to navigate IOS.
I want the ability to send a “your message has been deleted because you requested a read receipt” read receipt.
Corporate work wear policies are total bullshit. It doesn’t make me more productive. It doesn’t make the company look better. I think this is part of the “we trust our employees 100% but not really” policy that most US corporations implement. Do they think that if I’m allowed to dress myself I’ll show up in their sterile halls wearing booger-encrusted cutoff jeans and a “fuck you” t-shirt? I sit in a cube all day. The only person that I see face to face is the guy who empties my trash can. Why do I need to purchase and wear clothing that is only going to be seen by him? Dude is wearing old soccer shoes, he doesn’t care how I look.
This lovely little pit is the result of people being too lazy to take two extra steps. This is a very high traffic sidewalk and many people are going to/from lunch so they’d better hurry! They tried to put up a little fence to prevent this but it only made it worse since people would walk even further into the grass to get around it.
Does this guy think he’s impressing his female co-worker by giving her explicit detail of all of the bar fights in which he’s participated? The only thing impressive is the volume and projection of his voice.
