May 4, 2019 4:25:59 GMT iNCY said:

My job is tonguing the hairy balls of the universe.... Almost half way through my 31hr trip home.

You own your own business, right, Ince? And a pretty successful one at that? Are you not at a point where you can onboard someone to take some of the hairy ball licking shot off your plate? Or is it more of just being a workaholic controllist; i.e., if you want something done right, gotta do it yourself?

May 4, 2019 16:26:40 GMT 🤯 said:

May 4, 2019 4:25:59 GMT iNCY said:

My job is tonguing the hairy balls of the universe.... Almost half way through my 31hr trip home.

You own your own business, right, Ince? And a pretty successful one at that? Are you not at a point where you can onboard someone to take some of the hairy ball licking shot off your plate? Or is it more of just being a workaholic controllist; i.e., if you want something done right, gotta do it yourself?

It's a nice idea, I had an extra person working for me before.
When I go to see customers and I try to send someone else, they always ask for me... I sort of am the business which is good and bad.
Also, with capital sales there is the problem that cashflow is lumpy, you might have a bumper year followed by a lean one and if you have too many people in the office the lean times can break you.
Don't get me wrong, we have always been profitable, but not being able to employ someone for less than 80k (120k for a technician) in the short term I would rather put that money in the bank. 

Whoever invented one-way screws can go fuck themselves. "Wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy" Doesn't apply to that guy.

May 22, 2019 23:52:48 GMT Ness said:

Whoever invented one-way screws can go fuck themselves. "Wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy" Doesn't apply to that guy.

Let's hear the story!

What were you trying to break into?

May 23, 2019 1:01:31 GMT 🤯 said:

May 22, 2019 23:52:48 GMT Ness said:

Whoever invented one-way screws can go fuck themselves. "Wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy" Doesn't apply to that guy.

Let's hear the story!

What were you trying to break into?

One of my jobs is changing locks for new tenants. Some boxes also have a large slot for packages. Eventually even those go bad. The "company car" is just a Ford Focus and I don't dress like a mailman (though I do wear a shirt with the postal logo on it) so I have been accused of breaking into a few boxes. It's led to a few fun exchanges.

"Can I help you with something?"

Do you know anything about changing parcel lockers?

"Um... no?"

Then probably not.

May 23, 2019 8:05:20 GMT Ness said:

Some boxes also have a large slot for packages. 

Tried out my 4th hand today on this big house I'm framing and it was another total fucking disaster. He knew my little brother somehow, he told me he had good experience but it had been a long time since he did any carpenter work. So I was excited and offered him $12 an hour to start out, which is really more than I can afford but fuck it I'm desperate at this point. First thing first he shows up with no tools, no nail bags, no hammer, no square, no tape measure, it's like what the fuck man. Then I find out he can't read a tape measure so I told him I couldn't pay him $12 and we butted heads pretty good about it, dude had me ready to grab him by the fucking throat. :lol:

I calmed the situation down and put him to work cleaning up the job and fetching lumber and the dude about falls out from exhaustion like he's about to die, and it wasn't even hot today it was really nice. You ain't gonna fucking make it dude, don't come back tomorrow hit me up Friday I'll pay you $10 an hour for today.

Then my little brother shows me the dude's facebook page he took pictures of all my work while he was supposed to be cleaning, arch entry ways and barrel ceilings inside, and posted it on his page like he did it. :lol:

And it's like fuck man, I still got to pay this dude $80 on Friday and as little as he contributed dragging ass the way he did I'm pretty much wiping my ass on $80 and flushing it down the toilet, this ain't a fucking wal-mart job this is some real fucking man shit going on here dude.

Wonder if he mentioned shinobimusashi on his page, saying he tried to teach the guy about the construction industry but the dude just don't wanna listen. That's why I ain't coming back tomorrow!

May 30, 2019 8:13:13 GMT Ness said:

Wonder if he mentioned shinobimusashi on his page, saying he tried to teach the guy about the construction industry but the dude just don't wanna listen. That's why I ain't coming back tomorrow!

Dude was out there for 1 day and all he did was clean, he should have posted a pic of a broom.

My company sold off the half of the company I partially support. I was supposed to be one of the peeps going with the sale but apparently not.

Good news is my current company wants to keep me for the half they are keeping and I've been promised a raise.

Bad news is I lose my 10 minute no traffic commute and my mostly private office for an open concept 'spot' (I don't think you can call it a desk). I don't know if I'm suited to a corporate office/open area environment so this should be interesting.

shinobimusashi

Hire Mike Nolan

May 30, 2019 14:55:12 GMT iron maiden said:

My company sold off the half of the company I partially support. I was supposed to be one of the peeps going with the sale but apparently not.

Good news is my current company wants to keep me for the half they are keeping and I've been promised a raise.

Bad news is I lose my 10 minute no traffic commute and my mostly private office for an open concept 'spot' (I don't think you can call it a desk). I don't know if I'm suited to a corporate office/open area environment so this should be interesting.

I’ve only read articles about this set up, but it sounds terrible.


Best of luck to you 😎

May 30, 2019 14:55:12 GMT iron maiden said:

My company sold off the half of the company I partially support. I was supposed to be one of the peeps going with the sale but apparently not.

Good news is my current company wants to keep me for the half they are keeping and I've been promised a raise.

Bad news is I lose my 10 minute no traffic commute and my mostly private office for an open concept 'spot' (I don't think you can call it a desk). I don't know if I'm suited to a corporate office/open area environment so this should be interesting.

That sucks... 
Hot desking and open office plans are a moronic idea and any business that does it cares little about productivity. 



My story of woe involves the machinery installation we are now doing.
I paid extra to get hotel rooms with full laundry facilities for the engineers. 
But do they wash their others or even use deoderantt?? Ha I say to you

Next week will be my last of 4 consecutive weeks away where I fly overnighg on the Friday to arrive on the Monday morning at 6 for work... The price of family time. 
Picked up a nasty cold that I can't shake, which is awful combined with air travel. 

Well, would you just listen to how I whine like a baby. 

May 30, 2019 9:42:44 GMT shinobimusashi said:

May 30, 2019 8:13:13 GMT Ness said:

Wonder if he mentioned shinobimusashi on his page, saying he tried to teach the guy about the construction industry but the dude just don't wanna listen. That's why I ain't coming back tomorrow!

Dude was out there for 1 day and all he did was clean, he should have posted a pic of a broom.

Is this the guy?

May 30, 2019 19:05:36 GMT iNCY said:

May 30, 2019 14:55:12 GMT iron maiden said:

My company sold off the half of the company I partially support. I was supposed to be one of the peeps going with the sale but apparently not.

Good news is my current company wants to keep me for the half they are keeping and I've been promised a raise.

Bad news is I lose my 10 minute no traffic commute and my mostly private office for an open concept 'spot' (I don't think you can call it a desk). I don't know if I'm suited to a corporate office/open area environment so this should be interesting.

That sucks... 
Hot desking and open office plans are a moronic idea and any business that does it cares little about productivity. 



My story of woe involves the machinery installation we are now doing.
I paid extra to get hotel rooms with full laundry facilities for the engineers. 
But do they wash their others or even use deoderantt?? Ha I say to you

Next week will be my last of 4 consecutive weeks away where I fly overnighg on the Friday to arrive on the Monday morning at 6 for work... The price of family time. 
Picked up a nasty cold that I can't shake, which is awful combined with air travel. 

Well, would you just listen to how I whine like a baby. 

I hope you feel better soon. 

With regards to the open office concept I've been told if you need to talk on the phone you have to book a 'breakout' room (no not the fun ones you pay to escape from).  I live on the phone between my field guys who have no access to computers and my vendors.  Guess I'll be living in one of those.  

Open concept is the worst.

Offices that embrace it should be burned to the ground.

May 31, 2019 1:22:59 GMT 🤯 said:

Open concept is the worst.

Offices that embrace it should be burned to the ground.

Is there enough combustible material in an open plan office?

Well apparently there are couch areas so you can take a break and yoga at lunch.   :suspic:

I don't have time for lunch and couch breaks. This is where I come for a break because I can't step far from my phone or computer. 

A lot of people in my team don't take lunch breaks. They just sit at their desk all day and eat lunch there. Some people even eat breakfast there. I don't understand it at all.

To be honest, I rarely use my full hour for lunch because it gets boring. But I do take 30-45 minutes for lunch and have a couple of 10-15 minute breaks at other times.

It should be legally permissible to kill every hundredth customer who makes a "That means it's free!" joke.

Jun 8, 2019 0:18:34 GMT KITN said:

It should be legally permissible to kill every hundredth customer who makes a "That means it's free!" joke.

Why every 100th? Why not every other?

Make life a bit of high stakes Russian roulette for those who can't resist bad dad joke level "humor".

My job is pretty stress free for the most part. Other than maybe a once a day "can do this random thing?" I'm usually just left to my own devices. And there are some days where I don't even get the random request. So at worst I'd say I have minor annoyances from dealing with customers and mail carriers/clerks. So I'm just gonna rant for a bit.

Okay so a lady put in for a lock change for her mailbox. All I have to go with is a name, address and phone number. After I'm finished I'll call them to either deliver them the keys or let them know to come get them at the post office. Sometimes I'll try knocking on the door, but if they didn't pick up it's usually a waste of time. But I like to make an effort so I can cross it off the list. So I called the lady. I ask for the name on the sheet, says it's the wrong number. Fair enough. I redial and she doesn't pick up. Not able to leave voice mail. I tried one last time and she starts yelling at me to stop calling her. LOL. I quickly ask her if she requested a lock change. She says yes. WHAT THE FUCK! Then who's name was on the paper?!? Husband. How is that a wrong number?!? She gave me a $20 tip in the end (not normal) as I think she felt bad for yelling. She said lunch was on her. That's cool I guess.

I'm actually surprised at the rate that people answer me when I call. Especially since my phone number has a different area code to the area that I work in. I completely understand if I go straight to voice mail given how much scamming/robocallers people deal with. And as such I'm surprised that my number doesn't ring as often as it does because I use my phone to contact these people I basically always answer my phone. And that's a big no no if you want to avoid scammers. So I changed this dude's lock, leave a message to get it and move on with my day. I put their keys in an envelope and try and make it as easy for them as possible. I put their name, address and what box # they're in, but I also tell them exactly where the box is. Such as it's in front of this address. Unless your complex has a centralized area where all the mail is, odds are it's not directly in front of your house.

I tell that long-ass story to tell you this, a dude calls me when I'm home. I pick it up because I'm a dumb mark and he tells me his lock doesn't work. Internally I groan because I know next time I go out I'll have to redo it for whatever reason. I ask him if he's at the right box. He says he's at the one in front of his house. I asked him to look at the envelope they came in as they should have the correct house number on it. He threw it away. Luckily I remembered what I wrote as it was an even number like 7400 or something and asked him to check that one. It works because of course it does. I just changed it. Get the fuck away from me dude.

I'm pretty quick to do these changes. Putting the address in the gps, going out and finding these boxes and then changing them is kinda fun in a way. It gets me away from the office and I can usually sneak off to Chick-Fil-A or something. I go 1-2x a workweek, depending on how many are in. Basically the longest someone has to wait for new keys is a week at the most. Sometimes people will call the office and whine that they've been waiting forever for new keys. Supervisors ask me if I've done this address. It's never been in the box so no. I go out and do it real quick. It's possible they did in fact put in a request and it never made it to my box or it stayed on a supervisor's desk and got lost in the mountain of paperwork they keep on there. But I think they're full of shit and lying just to get it done that day. Sometimes I've gone a whole week without doing any. Maybe I couldn't access the car or had other things to do. And people will call to bitch about it taking too long. So I have 4-5 to do. Some are a week old. Some are a day. Wanna guess who was bitching? Yeah, the newest one. Fuck off.

Okay, maybe there's some mild stress as I could go on another 20 paragraphs about minors annoyances but this is long enough and I doubt anyone wants to read about the misadventures of Ness going postal over a clerk not emptying their Pepsi can so when he dumped the garbage it spilled on his glove.

There's this one guy at work that I just can't stand. Even if I could look past his abhorrent comments on abortion (I can't) or ignore his grating Southern accent (I kinda can), I don't know what the fuck he does. All I ever see him do is wander around the store, ask how slow or busy it is, complain if it's dead, complain about the weather, ask how much money the store's made, and buy enough energy drinks to turn his blood fucking green. I've seen him buy more goddamn red bulls in one day than guys half his age buy all week. And it's not like he's stocking up or whatever, he does this EVERY. FUCKING. DAY. And I've seen him be rude to other associates and I've had more than one customer tell me that he's the rudest person he's ever met. I don't know why the fuck his probably-Tourettes-having-ass is here.

I think I'm getting disgruntled or I just need to take an extended vacation. A lot of minor stuff is bothering me lately. Cardboard box taking up most of trash can? Ugh. People keep assembling the customer boxes and then just leaving them there. I've tried to put them with the normal boxes, but nobody wants to use a box someone has already created despite being blank. So now I've gotta take it to the area I keep cardboard.

TAKE YOUR RECEIPT OUTTA THE KIOSK WHEN YOU'RE DONE. And no, don't put it on top of it you fucking asshole.

The good news is I sweat enough doing the lawn that it balances out all the fast food I eat. Haven't had any since Sunday, maybe that's why I'm agitated?

Jun 9, 2019 6:19:50 GMT KITN said:

There's this one guy at work that I just can't stand. Even if I could look past his abhorrent comments on abortion (I can't) or ignore his grating Southern accent (I kinda can), I don't know what the fuck he does. All I ever see him do is wander around the store, ask how slow or busy it is, complain if it's dead, complain about the weather, ask how much money the store's made, and buy enough energy drinks to turn his blood fucking green. I've seen him buy more goddamn red bulls in one day than guys half his age buy all week. And it's not like he's stocking up or whatever, he does this EVERY. FUCKING. DAY. And I've seen him be rude to other associates and I've had more than one customer tell me that he's the rudest person he's ever met. I don't know why the fuck his probably-Tourettes-having-ass is here.

We have one of those.  He's not rude but I have ZERO idea what he does even though he's always 'very busy'.  I've been asked 50 times what he does from other co-workers and higher ups.  I've learnt to answer 'as soon as you figure it out, you can let me know'.  Apparently, he came along when we bought another company and makes more than our VPs, but he's too expensive to get rid of.  Nevermind the fact that somehow he works all this OT and gets like 6-10 weeks off.  Doing what?!  He keeps flying under the radar because as someone higher up catches on, that higher up ends up leaving (on their own or otherwise).  It finally caught the attention of the CEO and he was given an offer: after 6 months (which is up in August) he either keeps his job (doing whatever he does) but takes a massive pay cut or walks the plank.  I don't care what happens frankly.   If he leaves I doubt they'll be a huge hole his absence creates because we don't know what he does!!!

I can’t stand watching people get fired. Honestly.

It breaks my heart. When people complain about a co-worker, it’s one thing. When people want that person fired; it stresses me out. Nobody knows what that other person is going through out of work. Why make their life harder?

Jun 12, 2019 1:18:57 GMT The Kid said:

I can’t stand watching people get fired. Honestly.

It breaks my heart. When people complain about a co-worker, it’s one thing. When people want that person fired; it stresses me out. Nobody knows what that other person is going through out of work. Why make their life harder?

I've pulled the trigger on people, numerous times. Despite what they're "going through" and believe me, they're all "going through" something when the gun is being loaded, - but, they've done the wrong thing, usually countless times. And usually, remain a problematic or toxic human-being regardless. 

Jun 12, 2019 9:56:27 GMT N A T H said:

Jun 12, 2019 1:18:57 GMT The Kid said:

I can’t stand watching people get fired. Honestly.

It breaks my heart. When people complain about a co-worker, it’s one thing. When people want that person fired; it stresses me out. Nobody knows what that other person is going through out of work. Why make their life harder?

I've pulled the trigger on people, numerous times. Despite what they're "going through" and believe me, they're all "going through" something when the gun is being loaded, - but, they've done the wrong thing, usually countless times. And usually, remain a problematic or toxic human-being regardless. 

Sometimes the things they're going through in their personal life are the result of same underlying core personality problems that got them fired.

So, in a way, sleep in the bed you make.

A company isn't a charity, and the workplace isn't where you go to get away from the things you're going through... especially if it comes at the expense of routinely fucking up and hampering others.

I guess. I don’t know. There’s always some people that deserve to get fired. That doesn’t mean I have to like it. It bothers me.

Think today was the first day since the weather got nice (Aprilish) that my phone actually died from overuse. So I had to force myself to do stuff out of boredom. Such a great job! So I was cleaning the microwaves and one of the [whiny] clerks comes in and makes a comment about how everyone here is messy and how she always cleans up after herself. Literally every person in my office claims they are one of the unicorns that doesn't leave a mess. If that was true I'd be even more bored at work. I just thought it was hilarious since I've seen her flick cigarette butts in the parking lot despite having two ashtrays right next to her. But yeah, she's one of the good ones. LOL.

It reminded me from one of Foley's books how everyone claimed to have been there live when he was thrown off the Cell. Amazing WWE still brags about setting records when they had about 6 million in attendance for that show...