Yeah, try wiring in a new 220 circuit into a 1980s mobile manufactured home. Especially one where the toilet seems to leak directly onto the ground underneath, less than two feet from where the wires need to come down from the box.
I think Iād repair the leaking shitter first.
Not possible, unfortunately. It was the pipe from the bottom of the toilet to the septic tank, and the whole setup was fnckedā¦ Suffice it to say that the only way to fix it would have been to move the trailer.
You have kids, right? Toss one of them down there with a flashlightā¦
He has girls. No matter what he does, it will be sexist.
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ITās a hole in the wall, not the floor, so they just need to go in there. And yeah, anything I do is sexist.
My youngest does have a rhinestone covered sparkly tactical flashlight. And the oldest a shotgun, maybe send them in as a team.
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I know youāre trying to help with advice not to stress as much over the amount of work we have. You tend to undermine your own advice by frequently trying to figure out how many days left you have before you can retire and Iām seeing a lot of ānot my problemā and ādonāt careā.
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I do my job well in spite of you, not because of you.
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Dear $Luser
No, I will NOT help you with your warezed version of AutoCAD. Youāre on your own there.
Good luck.
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Is it odd that the thought of the shotgun doesnāt scare me, but the rhinestone covered flashlight does?
Well, the flashlight is in the hands of an eight year old and it has one of those tactical bezels on it.
I send you an excel document with questions and blanks for answers. You reply with an email with the answers entered with manual bullet points.
I really appreciate the response, you are among the first, but wouldnāt it have been easier for everyone to put your answers in the document?
Iāmā¦Iām just tired of fighting that battle. Itās just not worth it anymore. If we do X, theyāll just complain about Y. The only reason they arenāt complaining about Y is that we havenāt done X, so they canāt get to Y. Itās just kicking the can further down the road.
I donāt give up easy. But Iām done with this one.
Dear $Mangler and $Manglement
So youāre willing to purchase new orifice stationery (desks etc) for two departments, but you canāt be assed to purchase a new and proper server?
If the current server crash and burn, donāt come cryingā¦ I will tell you off in a not-so polite manner.
I do not feel
- Completely alone
- Thrown into a mess of project management with little context, poor documentation, and people not even comprehending what is expected of them to get the project completed.
Iām going to move forward and take a seat at the table because I actually care about this.
[I did say this during a briefing this morning. My (new) boss laughed like he just couldnāt believe someone would admit to not giving a flying ratās ass about the earlier briefings (which were IMPORTANT, but not INTERESTING). Heās learning about me the hard way.]
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I thought meetings were only for manglers to practice sleeping with their eyes open.
You know, you guys rely on the billable hour so much, but you take such few precautions in making sure you donāt lose any time you spent working on things. Even something as simple as a separate spreadsheet saved locally can save you a bunch of headaches. Instead, you prefer to keep having said headaches and bugging us about it. You want to be careless, reap the rewards.
Where to start? Oh, this is so much fun.
- Chances are the company will retrench me and take on somebody else to manage the network etc
- Iām not worried about 1.
- If they do so, then I wish them luck - they gonna pay a pretty penny. They will have a hard time as I doubt the new person will be able to do everything I didā¦
- Quite looking forward to it if it comes to passā¦ will force me to look at alternative jobs!
So, yeah, suck it $damager!
I didnāt just now figure out Iām in the wrong file after spending the last hour and a half switching from two tier to three tier while adding another specific insurance option and two more plan options thereby expanding from 6 different options to 36.
Iād love to say that. Making changes like this to active quotes is one of the most career threatening things I do. Itās not that big of a deal to type numbers into a spreadsheet, but once you get multiple iterations into negotiations and then start adding exponentially expanding options I can really screw shit up. Even if itās just the wrong header somewhere, because now itās wrong in 33 places.
Add to all of that, this one is already āsold.ā The worst type of sale. The ideological and presentation sale. Itās ideal if numbers are presented along with the song and dance, but if you make the sale before you can deliver a competitive quote it just makes me sick to my stomach. Because if the numbers arenāt competitive, everyone gets pissed. Because itās already a done dealā¦ you know,except for pricing, and then the sales person acts like I took money from their kids.