taks Posted December 10, 2008 Posted December 10, 2008 Hearing these stories makes me glad that my customers are only engineers. one of my bosses from harris (i worked with 5 "bosses" and one other "employee" while at harris) used to call in to IT to complain about the computers. their response was always along the lines of "well, your engineers aren't complaining to us" and he snark back "yes, you're correct, they aren't because they're spending their time fixing the issues that weren't supposed to exist in the first place!" he was livid. I took a blood sample today. from somebody? what, did you sneak up behind the poor sap and just stick a needle in? ^GD: agreed. my mother worked dillards while i was in high school. that didn't last long (now she's classified as an engineer with boeing, oddly enough). taks comrade taks... just because.
Meshugger Posted December 10, 2008 Posted December 10, 2008 (edited) Hearing these stories makes me glad that my customers are only engineers. one of my bosses from harris (i worked with 5 "bosses" and one other "employee" while at harris) used to call in to IT to complain about the computers. their response was always along the lines of "well, your engineers aren't complaining to us" and he snark back "yes, you're correct, they aren't because they're spending their time fixing the issues that weren't supposed to exist in the first place!" he was livid. Sounds pretty much like my job Currently, the process engineers aren't happy with the interface of their engineering tool and wishes to have it re-designed, which i have done the whole week. I am still waiting for the call: "You know what? the old one is still better. Lets just scrap the whole idea". I took a blood sample today. from somebody? what, did you sneak up behind the poor sap and just stick a needle in? Err, me fail english, that is unpossible I meant that i have to give a blood example today for the health exam that i have tomorrow. My employee wishes to have his software specialists (my title) in good shape! Edited December 10, 2008 by Meshugger "Some men see things as they are and say why?""I dream things that never were and say why not?"- George Bernard Shaw"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."- Friedrich Nietzsche "The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." - Some guy
Deraldin Posted December 10, 2008 Posted December 10, 2008 Had my Macroeconomics exam this morning and overall I think it went rather well considering how badly I screwed up the midterm. I was 15 minutes late getting there (damn roads were horrible) but apparently that wasn't a problem. A couple other people walked in at the same time I did. The exam was only supposed to be two hours, but I was out of there in just over an hour. *checks his Accounting Exam* W00T! It isn't due tomorrow! I don't have to finish it tonight, so tonight will be sleep night! Hurray! Accounting exam is due Friday by 1pm.
Shryke Posted December 10, 2008 Posted December 10, 2008 i have a hangover and it sucks once again we took over the bar last night. there's about 25 or so of us that go every week and once again i bumped into someone i haven't seen in ages and got bought drinks when your mind works against you - fight back with substance abuse!
Trenitay Posted December 10, 2008 Posted December 10, 2008 Shryke is the coolest New Zealander in the history of Australia. Hey now, my mother is huge and don't you forget it. The drunk can't even get off the couch to make herself a vodka drenched sandwich. Octopus suck.
Shryke Posted December 10, 2008 Posted December 10, 2008 uh... okay? oh, and i found out that apparently Australia has more sheep per population now than New Zealand so suck it Archie! when your mind works against you - fight back with substance abuse!
Guard Dog Posted December 10, 2008 Posted December 10, 2008 I come to this thread to vicariously re-live my 20's by reading Shryke's posts. "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Shryke Posted December 10, 2008 Posted December 10, 2008 I come to this thread to vicariously re-live my 20's by reading Shryke's posts. i don't know if that should worry me or not i'm a perfectly well behaved 21 year old when your mind works against you - fight back with substance abuse!
Trenitay Posted December 11, 2008 Posted December 11, 2008 Yeah! Shryke's an angel. Hey now, my mother is huge and don't you forget it. The drunk can't even get off the couch to make herself a vodka drenched sandwich. Octopus suck.
Calax Posted December 11, 2008 Posted December 11, 2008 Worked again today, Had two customers that were in bad moods on the phone, one was pissed because Ubi appearently shut down Haze's online multiplayer (probably because nobody played it) and was just trying to get people to stop buying Ubi games. (at least I think it was ubi, I didn't pay much attention) The other one was a guy who's rich enough that he owns two homes, one in Sac one at Tahoe, he bought rock band 2 about 3 weeks ago, and the drums went bad on him, so he calls US (even though there is a GIANT YELLOW STICKER on the box saying call EA with any hardware related problems) and demands that we take it back and either give him a new band kit, or give him his money back. I tried to explain to him that we can't take it back, but he just kept getting angrier and angrier. Finially I asked the floor manager if we could do a return and he kinda shrugged because while it's within 30 days (the defective guarantee on all our items) we couldn't really do anything about it. So I told the guy we might be able to do a return, he (I guess) thought I said that he COULD do a return of the entire item. Finially when the assistant store manager got there I talked to him, and he passed the buck to the store manager (who didn't work today). I donno if the guy showed up or when he would. Then we had a little old lady with bottlebase glasses, and a cane, who couldn't speak coherently, so I had to print out some reciept paper for her to write on (badly I might add) and then me and her husband or caretaker (I don't know which) had to translate the constant nyah nyah nur nyahs that the lady was shouting after I figured out exactly what she wanted. Turns out she wanted two reciepts for, of all things, gift cards because the cards were going to two different people. Oh almost forgot, I had a customer ask me for "a Gameboy PS" I finially translated that into a gameboy advanced SP and went digging for the best one in back (we only carry used anymore). Meanwhile my coworker/boss had to deal with a lady who wanted a used psp, and he was bringing out everyone that we had that looked good and she would shoot them down because they weren't perfect. (he later started cussin up a storm about her when no customers were present). On a lighter note, my coworker ended up screwing around with a thief who traded in his games by charging a refurbishment fee on each game that the guy brought in. the guy was surprised when what he thought was going to be over 50 in cash came back as 22 and change. the reason my coworker gave for the refurbishment? They didn't have cases. the guy gets frustrated and goes to Placerville because they "don't care if he has cases or not" and the coworker after the guy went out the door, called the placerville store and told them he was coming, then they made up a rule that he had done all the trades he could for the month. Its an interesting situation to be put in where you KNOW the guy is stealing but can't really do anything about it. You can't outright call him on it, and you can't really do anything else except for some stuff that is left up to the employee (like a refurb fee or faking a rule). Even though we should be able to call the cops and give them his home address (Pawn shop laws require that every trade in have a home address, and a signature for store credit, if you hand out cash you have to have a drivers license #) but the cops wouldn't do squat. They haven't done squat the past 4 times we got broken into (which eventually made the company extend a wall over windows and replace the glass with smash resistant safety glass.) even though they had a video of the guys breaking a window, and shuffling out at least four rockband kits, or just taking everything that was on our back counter and running out the broken window. We've been able to deal with thieves in the past (usually by either charging the refurb fee or refusing to purchase their items) but I'll always remember one night where four guys came in AS we were closing and practically demanded we take their games. The lead employee at the time started demanding all kinds of information out of them which they refused, so he simply kicked them out (they tried to use a PO box as their address, which isn't allowed on trades) closed up and walked away. Probably one of the biggest bothers when you shut down is those people who don't realize that you're closed and walk up tug on the door and then look at you as if you are just out to get them, then start bangin on the door and pointing. Even though there is a list of our hours right next to the handle they never look down and sometimes they call the phone inside the store just to get us to open up (depending on who's working the phone usually doesn't get picked up after close). Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.
Guest The Architect Posted December 11, 2008 Posted December 11, 2008 uh... okay? oh, and i found out that apparently Australia has more sheep per population now than New Zealand so suck it Archie! Yeah, but New Zealand still has more sheep raped per population than Australia. So suck it Shryke!
Musopticon? Posted December 11, 2008 Posted December 11, 2008 Wales still beats both of you in sheep/manlove quota, I totally know because I've been there. So suck it, you dolts. Last class today, then it's winter vacation time! kirottu said: I was raised by polar bears. I had to fight against blood thirsty wolves and rabid penguins to get my food. Those who were too weak to survive were sent to Sweden. It has made me the man I am today. A man who craves furry hentai. So let us go and embrace the rustling smells of unseen worlds
Darth Allanon Posted December 11, 2008 Posted December 11, 2008 I learned today that women cannot be trusted! Always knowing the answer doesn't make you smart, but being able to discover the answer does.
Shryke Posted December 11, 2008 Posted December 11, 2008 neither can leprechauns when your mind works against you - fight back with substance abuse!
Trenitay Posted December 12, 2008 Posted December 12, 2008 Why can't women and leprechauns be trusted? Hey now, my mother is huge and don't you forget it. The drunk can't even get off the couch to make herself a vodka drenched sandwich. Octopus suck.
Enoch Posted December 12, 2008 Posted December 12, 2008 Why can't women and leprechauns be trusted? Dishonesty, born out of paranoia, born out of every man who talks to them being motivated only by desire for their treasure.
Darth Allanon Posted December 12, 2008 Posted December 12, 2008 Dishonesty, born out of paranoia, born out of every man who talks to them being motivated only by desire for their treasure. ROFL! So true... Always knowing the answer doesn't make you smart, but being able to discover the answer does.
Trenitay Posted December 12, 2008 Posted December 12, 2008 I Dont want a leprechauns treasure. Hey now, my mother is huge and don't you forget it. The drunk can't even get off the couch to make herself a vodka drenched sandwich. Octopus suck.
Deraldin Posted December 12, 2008 Posted December 12, 2008 I'm trying to figure out this last problem for my accounting exam. It gives you such a small amount of information to start with that I'm not sure how to proceed. I know it can be done, but I'm just not sure how.
Deraldin Posted December 12, 2008 Posted December 12, 2008 I think I just figured out the last little bit of this question! Hurray! Now I just have to hope that my ghetto math is correct. My entire answer for this question is really loosely held together by a few basic assumptions about how I'm supposed to get through this. Calculating Materials, Labour and Overhead Variances is so much more complicated than it needs to be when you only have about 10% of the actual information to start the problem with. I swear the problem required me to work in circles to answer everything.
Meshugger Posted December 12, 2008 Posted December 12, 2008 Let me guess, Linear Programming Models or general Problem Solving, right? "Some men see things as they are and say why?""I dream things that never were and say why not?"- George Bernard Shaw"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."- Friedrich Nietzsche "The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." - Some guy
taks Posted December 12, 2008 Posted December 12, 2008 econ if i'm not mistaken, right deraldin? fun stuff. math developed to describe what amounts to emotion. ick. taks comrade taks... just because.
Deraldin Posted December 12, 2008 Posted December 12, 2008 (edited) I'm trying to figure out this last problem for my accounting exam. Although Macroeconomics is almost as much fun. Edited December 12, 2008 by Deraldin
Shryke Posted December 12, 2008 Posted December 12, 2008 i'm half asleep and at work... went out to a gig last night to see some band from Melbourne, and also a couple of friends' bands going out again tonight to an ex's flatwarming. i told her i'd probably leave early as i have work the following morning and she threatened to tie me up if i even thought about leaving anytime before 4am when your mind works against you - fight back with substance abuse!
taks Posted December 12, 2008 Posted December 12, 2008 I'm trying to figure out this last problem for my accounting exam. ah, mesh and i are both tarded. taks comrade taks... just because.
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