Quote :

"It is really aggravating when a customer/vendor/co-worker/whoever doesn't take me seriously because I look younger than I am."

Haha I'm sort of in the same boat...22 with a baby face = too young?


A meeting between myself and 3 employees of the client
Me: so blah blah blah blah blah

Mgr #1: yes, blah blah blah. I think we've done it that way since '93...or before you were born...har har har

Yankee Director: you know I was just thinking he looks young enough to be my daughter's age and she's only 26

Mgr #2: yeah, you've got to be what like 25-26?

Me: something like that

Mgr #1: No he's gotta be way younger than that

Mgr #2: maybe this is part of some freshman internship :p

Yankee Director: why are they sending an intern to waste our time

Me: i'm not an intern

Mgr #2: we're used to consultants having a little more experience is all

Me: ...so blah blah blah blah and blah blah

Mgr#2: well shit. this kid might his stuff.

Yankee Director: must be Googling under the table

Me: getting the last laugh as I think about the $380/hour they are wasting right now

12/14/2011 6:44:12 PM

colleague [2:38 PM]:
hi

ssjamind [2:38 PM]:
hi

colleague [2:38 PM]:
I have to ask you - is your neighbor to your right starting to get on your nerves a bit

ssjamind [2:40 PM]:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation

colleague [2:41 PM]:
hahahahaha

12/14/2011 6:46:58 PM

hahaha

12/14/2011 6:49:16 PM

Me: I need the times of your flights or accounting won't accept this.
Her: My flights were 11/18 and 11/20.
Me: Okay but I need the times. Like did you take off at 4:00pm? What time were the flights?
Her: I already told you, they were 11/18 and 11/20.
Me:

12/15/2011 11:08:35 AM

Over the years

Catered Christmas dinner + bonus
Catered Christmas dinner + prepaid visa + gift basket
Catered Christmas dinner + prepaid visa
Catered Christmas dinner + gift basket
Catered Christmas dinner
Christmas pot luck
Christmas pot luck + 8 days of furlough time

Hope you didn't use any vacation this year.

12/15/2011 11:42:17 AM

lol sounds like my husband's work. Except this year they "upgraded" from potluck with a cooler of beer to crappy hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar at the Sheraton downtown.

12/15/2011 11:45:06 AM

^^Next year your Christmas gift will be a pink slip, sounds like.
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For the last, oh, four hours they have been hammering, drilling, and sawing on concrete and cinder block in the room directly above my office. It was fucking annoying when it started with primarily hammering. Now they've got the drill running almost constantly with loud hammering going on too. Right. Above. My. Fucking. Head.

Someone is about to take a drill through the temple if this keeps going on.

12/16/2011 12:39:16 PM

a girl i know works in an office with a Jehovah's Witness, so they can't have birthday parties or holiday celebrations because it is against the JW's religion to participate in celebrations. They instead have to call them "luncheons" so the JW can participate.

[Edited on December 16, 2011 at 1:03 PM. Reason : ]

12/16/2011 1:02:47 PM

^ That's some bullshit right there. If your religion doesn't allow you to do something, don't do it. Don't cause everyone else to bend to your whim God I really hate bullshit like that

12/16/2011 1:11:06 PM

and it's not like she wants to abstain... she just wants them to call it something else so it's "ok" for her to attend.

12/16/2011 1:12:38 PM

Yeah that's the part that really pisses me off. I'm sure God will say that you using a language loophole to disobey his word is going to go over well when you meet Him If you're going to practice a religion that has rules like that, just fucking follow them the way they were intended.

12/16/2011 1:16:03 PM

Don't even try to pass the blame to me!!

12/16/2011 3:19:06 PM

At what point do you go to HR to request that a coworker shower more often? I can smell him 3 cubicles down and im ready to vomit.

12/16/2011 3:26:03 PM

I would go sooner rather than later.

12/16/2011 3:27:37 PM

Quote :

"HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable"

Ahh yes, it's time for the email service to shut the bed again.

12/19/2011 8:30:44 AM

The damn Microsoft Sync program is shitting the bed and causing me to lose all sorts of files and documents. The fucking consulting application we use doesn't work, and the IT consultant of course isn't answering his phone or responding to service tickets.

Looking up the fix on Microsoft Support myself, I have to delete some corrupted files, but some of them look important and I don't want to screw up the computer by deleting, say, the Desktop config file. Oh, and by the way I have to lose all of the files that haven't been synchronized ...not that I can get to them now anyway

12/19/2011 9:25:44 AM

welcome to the shittiness of Microsoft Sync

12/19/2011 9:43:52 AM

My coworkers are so fucking weird when they start talking personally (about non-work related stuff)

12/19/2011 9:50:02 AM

Our internet has not been working, so I am using a different network. I checked my email, there was an email sent out to our department stating "if you are having internet troubles then email OIT, it should be fixed soon though"

... how would one email you if you cannot get online?

12/19/2011 12:23:20 PM

The same way you are reading it.

12/19/2011 12:41:14 PM

yea,thanks smartass I am not on campus at the moment

the email was for people on campus

12/19/2011 12:42:01 PM

And? Cell phones, open wireless, etc.

I agree it's dumb to send it and expect people to easily see it, however, it is not outlandish to think people have other ways to send an email about a problem.

So beyond that, those that have not seen it have surely called by now if they were that worried about it.

12/19/2011 12:44:34 PM

not all humans have smartphones glued to their faces

12/19/2011 12:45:26 PM

Uh-huh. But a whole shitload do.

12/19/2011 12:46:01 PM

I don't care, I fucking hate mondays and the 14 billion stupid fucking emails that come with it clogging every clogging my computer with all that is evil.... slowly killing my only link to the outside world

12/19/2011 12:48:13 PM

Starting to get cards and other assorted small gifts from co-workers

Hate feeling the guilt of not getting anything for them...oh well

Just got a Christmas card from one of them, and wasn't even signed by the giver..WTF. Guess I can reuse it for someone, or just re-gift it back to them LOL

12/19/2011 2:27:28 PM

One person in my office burns popcorn EVERY time (also other disgusting foods people heat up and take to their cubical and the smell makes you want to gag)....singing with headphones on (so you dont know how LOUD and AWEFUL you sing) and humming...also loud personal calls (again, cubicals).

12/19/2011 2:34:19 PM

Stupid cunt at the print center was being an insufferable bitch when I went to pick up my order this morning. She's lucky I was in a good mood this morning or I probably would have flipped out on her

12/19/2011 2:44:09 PM

^^^those are the best card givers. just keep passing it around.

12/19/2011 2:45:45 PM

Oh the microwave here currently looks like a Dexter crime scene, before he cleans it up.

The receptionist has flat out refused to clean it because a "bunch of nasty-ass white boys messed it the fuck up, they can clean it or keep using it dirty." LOL.

BTW - I don't ever use it.

12/19/2011 4:34:54 PM

Do you have a case of the MOONDAYS?

12/19/2011 4:35:15 PM

Yesterday as I'm leaving work, I get to my car and there is a nice brand new bumper sticker on my car!!! ( )

i figured it was a kid (i work at a school) who just wanted to get rid of it... nope... checked my email this morning and one of the heads of one of our programs had sent an email saying "you will find a surprise in the parking lot! Merry Christmas!!"

UGH.

(luckily after investigating i found out it was just one of the magnet ones, but) DON'T FUCKING PUT SHIT ON MY CAR. I had every intention this morning (before i saw the email) to get the school resource officer to check the video and find out what kid did it.

12/20/2011 7:43:53 AM

^it was just a magnet and they told you it was there. u mad?

what did the magnet say?

12/20/2011 7:51:52 AM

LOL

if it was one of Smath's students, they would be getting a F-

12/20/2011 7:58:46 AM

it was a school bumper sticker. nothing offensive. Some places i've been do if you mess with a person's car you get shot. I'm not super particular about my car, but don't put shit on it. I hate bumper stickers in general. i've seen those magnets scratch the paint on many cars if there is the slightest bit of dirt between them and the car.

granted, i was a lot more pissed before i realized it was a magnet.

12/20/2011 8:00:41 AM

I hate when people slap a magnet on my truck. they're all like, "this looks good man, you should leave this on here" and I'm all like, "YOU SHITFUCK. DID YOU CLEAN THAT MAGNET? DID YOU CLEAN MY TRUCK? NO?? WELL THANKS FOR THE SCRATCHES, ASSHOLE. And no, I won't leave it on there because I don't feel like having even more scratches on my truck."

12/20/2011 8:56:01 AM

haha for me it'd be like "oh hey thanks- i was looking for something to cover up the scratches"

12/20/2011 8:59:00 AM

^ lol yeah same. But still, how fucking weird for them to just slap magnets on people's cars without asking permission. They should know that some people are anal retentive about their cars.

12/20/2011 9:10:43 AM

We're having a potluck every day this week. You're supposed to try to impress me. Why don't season anything? Chef Boyardee has better ziti than this.

12/20/2011 11:13:43 AM

Daily potlucks sound tiring.

12/20/2011 11:15:25 AM

It worked out pretty cool this week. There are only three working days, and we divided ourselves among them. I brought jerk chicken yesterday, so I don't have to worry the rest of the week.

12/20/2011 11:16:54 AM

Every time I'm about to get up to use our scanner, I hear somebody else start using it. Guess I'll have to kill some more time on tdub until they're done.

12/20/2011 11:42:37 AM

it's so cold in this part of the office building. i miss my comfy 3rd floor desk with floor to ceiling windows. now i'm in what i like to call "the basement" - cold and dark.

12/20/2011 11:58:59 AM

^^ My favorite sound is walking into the teacher's lounge and hearing the silence of the copier not being in use

12/20/2011 12:09:47 PM

Two co-workers (both early 40s) that went to UNCA have been reminiscing about the "old days" next to my office for the last 40 mins. YOU'RE OLD, GET OVER IT!

12/20/2011 3:20:04 PM

The guy who sits about 4 feet away from me (we share a rather large cube area) has been hacking, coughing, sneezing, sniffling, and generally sounding miserable all day yesterday, and despite my fervent hopes, is still here today. When you're that sick, for God's sakes, STAY HOME. I have to sit 4 feet away and breathe in his germs all day. If I'm sick at Christmas because of this (a strong possibility at this point) I'm going to be seriously pissed.

12/21/2011 9:09:50 AM

maybe it's allergies.

12/21/2011 9:13:50 AM

Quote :

"Two co-workers (both early 40s) that went to UNCA have been reminiscing about the "old days" next to my office for the last 40 mins. YOU'RE OLD, GET OVER IT!"

Ha. One day 20 years from now you'll be sitting at work talking about the good old days, except the conversation will be worse. Remember Skyward Sword, Lady Gaga, Silly Bandz, the Pitbull Dr. Pepper commercial, and the Transformers movies?

12/21/2011 9:23:02 AM

the fact that this is the busiest time of the year and people just drop the mic and walk away

leaving everyone else to put out their fires

12/21/2011 9:24:37 AM

^^^I wish. If so they came on all of a damn sudden and with great ferocity though.

12/21/2011 9:27:50 AM