Balance, don’t let Dave Lister ever cook dinner for you.
Cat: “This isn’t a meal, it’s an autopsy.”
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I once watched most of the Red Dwarf canon over a long weekend.
I didn’t know my inner voice could be set to “Lister” before then.
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That’s on my to do list. I used to have the first three or four seasons on my iPod (5th gen, 30GB with video). I think I once watched the first season and a half or so while traveling, but binging on a 2.5" screen doesn’t count, right?
Heh, we got told to wash your hands before eating.
But as field technician that was a luxury. You sometimes ckeaned your dusty and grimy hands as best as you could before eating.
Never got sick, or dieded yet.
Ook, are they making you do the NewOldJob onboarding stuff? I did that once:
Worked for a place for a summer as temp help. It was during a move, and I ended up spending a week as laptop delivery guy, so I got to know the building pretty well. Then, the summer over, I left.
Came back in about 8-9 months for a full-time job. Had to do new-hire orientation, which included a tour. Felt very funny in the IT parts since I knew the IT crew. Also during the tour, since I knew the building pretty well.
Good times when training walks you through places and everywhere you go people are like, Hey, Woodman, what’s up?
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Nah, thank goodness they did not.
On my first day the server need to be rebooted, and it was a good time as any to send out an email from my work email informing $all_workers that $server will be down for maintenance between 1830 and 1930.
All were happy to see me back in the saddle.
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If you have a gmail email account, how can your email be “crashed”? I don’t even know what that means.
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- purdy compootah hard drive crashed
- email program crashed
- somebody gon durn watch some pr0nz or downloaded some warez and cryptolocker sais hai
- or it can be as simple as fiddling with the view layout and bollixed it up good and proper…
Anything at all (I have a cold and have lost my voice).
More specifically:
Your voice sounds remarkably like Kenny Rogers’ voice, and how do you manage to do all that singing without opening your mouth?
I think you may have missed the point of what busking is about.
GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY!
I swear to god. Often.
One of the things I was taught early in life was to always be aware of my position in the flow of things. Mostly by my dad screaming at me as written above.
Get through the turnstile, just stop and have a conversation with someone.
Get HALFWAY out of the elevator, pull out your phone and check your messages, one foot still in the elevator.
Walk up a long ramp reserved for wheelchairs and expect the guy coming down the ramp IN A GODDAM WHEELCHAIR to move over so you can get by.
Stop dead in a busy, congested hallway, causing people to bump into you, then turn around and go the other way, but be upset because there are people in your way.
Hold a meeting IN A DOORWAY.
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I’m right there with ya. I may have told the story here before, but I used to do service calls to fix equipment in schools, mostly typewriters & faxes. This is back when they had rooms full of typewriters for typing classes. I usually tried to time my walk to & from the classrooms when the halls were empty, but on the rare occasion I got caught in the hallway between classes. Probably good to mention that for most of my career as a service tech, I carried this kind of tool case…
… loaded with 25+ pounds of tools. Also, I didn’t saunter down the hallway, I was cruising, with the tool case swinging. (If I walked too slow, the tool case got heavy fast,) So, if I’m walking down the hall when the bell rings, and kids come flooding out and not are paying attention, they were probably destined to have sore knees, because I just stayed on course and speed.
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If you are talking at me, I will not understand what you are saying. I will be vaguely aware that you are saying something, but I won’t know what it is until you start talking to me by repeating it so that you get my attention.
How much time is wasted by people talking to the air in the general direction of a person and then having to repeat it because they don’t know the words were intended for them?
Get the other person’s attention first, then say what you want to say or ask your question.
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Holy crap, you work with my last QA person!
I do this all the time. I’ll just start talking to people. I like to think it’s not a big deal, because I don’t throw a fit when the other person finally notices me and has no idea what I am talking about.
But probably not.
Nobody’s thrown a fit when it’s happened to me. It’s just that it doesn’t seem like it should be that hard to get someone’s attention before you start talking to them. Because they don’t, here’s what my thought process is:
(When thinking or concentrating on something.)
Wait. Was that directed at me? Better slam on the brakes for what I’m thinking about and divert my attention over to them to get them to repeat what they said.
(Deals with whatever it was they were talking about after they repeat it.)
Okay, now where was I?
Sometimes, I don’t remember or I have to start going back through the sequence to figure out where I had to stop so suddenly. In contrast…
(Somebody says my name or makes eye contact or otherwise gets my attention.)
Okay, someone’s definitely talking to me. I better start slowing down what I’m thinking about so I can get to a point where I can pick back up where I leave off.
(…I need to talk to you about/ask you about…)
Okay, I’m ready to deal with your situation. You have my attention. What’s the story?
(Question is answered/point is acknowledged/situation is handled.)
All right, back to where I was with a minimum of fuss. Ah, there it is.
No.
What I actually said was:
ME: "The advertised price is $200."
HE: "Would you take $100?"
ME: "I’ll tell you what. I’ll meet you in the middle. $210."
HE: "Wait. You’re supposed to come down."
ME: "Okay, okay. $220."
HE: "NO! You’re not … Okay, $200."
ME: "Sorry, I can’t do that because the price is $230."
HE: "What? The ad says $200!"
ME: "Why do you think you can offer me $100 for something worth $240?"
HE: "$240? NO! I’ll pay $200."
ME: "My mistake. Will you pay $250?"
HE: “YES! $250! Jesus! Just stop!”
Actually worked.
TLDR: Don’t be a dick.
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@Rizak: I salute you, good sir.
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@Rizak - Top marks for awesome selling technique!!
I wish I’d thought of this idea about four months ago. It would have helped more then. But winter gave us reminder last week that it wasn’t quite done yet.
Everybody’s seen the people standing on the corners with a cardboard sign that lists their reasons for being there. Could be a scam, could be the truth. You never know, and my brother once told me the story of where he stopped a person he was traveling with from giving a woman money because he knew she was a professional beggar. I think he said she’d get picked up every night by a limousine or some other fancy car.
But anyway, there are people that have “cold and wet” or something similar on their signs. I got to thinking that those emergency blankets that you get for camping don’t cost much, just $2 or $3. They’re ones that are made out of aluminized polyester and reflect body heat back towards you. Those probably could help them out more than money could.
So, I’ve bought a few and I’ll tuck a couple of dollars into the package. That way, maybe they’ll be a little warmer and less hungry.
As to whether I’m helping scammers and the blanket will get thrown away, that’s a possibility. I just hope that if I were somehow to get in a position where I’d run out of other options and had to stand on a corner with a cardboard sign, someone would be willing to take a chance on me.
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