04-01-2015, 12:00 PM | #1563 | |
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That leaves middle management types, which is sort of where I am. But I'm also civil service with 12 years service time, so others will go before me. The boss says I'm safe, but who knows. He may not even be safe, so there's no guarantee for me. Wifey is tenured faculty, so unless they close down the whole campus, she'll still have a job and we could live on just her salary if need be. Not something I want to try out, though.
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04-01-2015, 12:48 PM | #1564 | |
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Look at all the universities going out of business. I suppose the bottom line is it's no different than a co. going out of business. The elite universities which weren't "that" hard to get into when we were in HS, typically have <5% acceptance rates and yield rates of >82%. that makes it really tough for kids to get in nowadays, and I hear even legacy kids. BUT, they are so doggone dirt cheap. As long as your household income <= 200k, $20k or less on a sliding scale. My friend is sending her kid to NYU, and after grants, loans, work study, she has to come up with $30k? WTF. For NYU? And an elite school would be free in her case as her income is around $55k. No governor can solve the above. The only person who has any control is the student.... |
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04-01-2015, 09:41 PM | #1565 |
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When you're so bored at work, you're tempted to revive an old fad just for the hell of it, but realize your boss has a "die-hard engineer" mentality and therefore is kinda on the strict side... And no, this was part of a mix, not something I purposely searched out.
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04-02-2015, 09:50 PM | #1566 |
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Don't know if this is FWP or just plain FAIL...
But my dumbass boss upgraded servers, but instead of waiting until after work and moving all the files so nothing is missing (which he's there daily until 8PM anyway), he does the migration apparently on morning of the 31st (because every single file has a "date modified" of that day), compresses EVERY file so that it'd open slower and consume more resources (which the slowness was why we even performed the infrastructure upgrade in the first place), and worst of all, everything stored on the server between March 31 and this morning... GONE. All without consulting the IT guy (me), and the graphic designer who did most of his work during those days (also me). I am still hitting my head against the wall as I type this.
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04-02-2015, 10:00 PM | #1567 | |
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04-02-2015, 10:18 PM | #1568 |
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I never log on to Bimmerpost during work, plus he drives an Acura (so not likely to be a Bimmerpost member), plus he barely speaks ANY English... Besides, for flushing my work and that of 2 other coworkers down the toilet, I can call him whatever I want... That was some quality work with my own drawing tablet, dammit!
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04-02-2015, 10:21 PM | #1569 |
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Maybe that's the least of his worries I'm sure he finds a 100 other ways to let it known his to his boss his true feelings
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04-02-2015, 10:24 PM | #1570 |
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No backups for those days?
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04-03-2015, 11:10 AM | #1571 |
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I hated that I had to replace all the network infrastructure on a day the company was CLOSED. No way would I do that while people were at work. I remote in way after (or before) hours to even reboot a server for windows updates, then come in an EXTRA 30 minutes before to make sure it restarts.
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04-06-2015, 01:18 PM | #1572 |
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So, I planted some watermelon in the garden (there are certain activities you just can't trust to hired help) then while I was sitting out in the afternoon sun sipping a Steelhead, these flies kept buzzing around. The cabana-girl season around here typically doesn't start until May Day, so I didn't have anyone on hand to gently fan the flies away.
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04-06-2015, 02:06 PM | #1573 | |
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04-06-2015, 02:55 PM | #1574 |
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Laugh all you want, but I bought one of those plastic watering cans. I use a post-hole digger to get a nice depth of about 6 inches, then put the planter media in there and bury to a depression of about 1.5 inches. Then twice a week I walk around and pour water into the depression.
Habanero - 12 Jalapeño - 22 de Arbol - 2 Tomato - 15 Calabacita - 5 to start, sprouting more Watermelom - 5 Stevia - 1 |
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04-07-2015, 08:57 AM | #1575 |
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I was just printing some approval reports. First one came out no problem. Second one, computer starts giving me an error log for a print driver host that isn't working. Instead of fixing it, I now need to get up, go to the store, and buy a new one, then wait 2 months to get my expense check back.
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04-07-2015, 10:41 AM | #1576 |
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The fact that Apple hasn't done the obvious and built a printer into the iMac just pisses me off. What are they waiting for?
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04-07-2015, 11:27 AM | #1578 |
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False alarm guys, I accidentally picked the printer off my desk and put it on the floor and kicked it and it seems to be in working order again.
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04-07-2015, 11:58 AM | #1579 |
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I got a scratch on my phone. I hate having to buy new phones over and over at full retail every time one gets scratched. Instead of shelling out $899 every time, why can't they do 4 for $3,500 or give us some break?
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04-07-2015, 12:12 PM | #1580 |
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I usually upgrade my phone when I find out my friends upgrade their phones. I just bought an iPhone 5C for $40 off my coworker because he went to the 6, basically brand new with an otter box and all since it didn't fit his new phone.
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04-07-2015, 12:50 PM | #1581 |
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And speaking of cell phones has anyone taken up sprints offer to cut your bill in half?
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04-07-2015, 12:53 PM | #1582 |
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All kidding aside I have a junk Razr Maxx (it was nice way back when), I don't want to give up my unlimited data (I avg. 700 MB per month LOL and I have a co. hotspot). but I just don't want to give it up. My wife has a Galaxy S3 that I can have, if my razr maxx were to die. Would love to get a S6, but not practical...
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04-07-2015, 01:45 PM | #1583 |
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My brother was with some small telco that got bought out by Verizon. He had unlimited data with the small company and Verizon has to honor that agreement as long as he doesn't enter into a new contract with Verizon. He's refuses to do anything that will rewrite his contract and he regularly runs up 20-30GB/mo by watching Hulu and other online stuff. His USB WAN device is his only internet access. Verizon must hate his ass.
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04-07-2015, 04:40 PM | #1584 |
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I have an old Sprint unlimited everything. They continue to grandfather when I renew for 2 more years when get the wife or son a new phone.
My poor old i4 is starting to not hold a day's charge, and takes forever to find a name in my list of about 100 contacts. |
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