What you did today

[kirottu]

Audiobooks. Probably the best hangover invention ever.

 

Just close your eyes and let the calming voice take you to another world where piglets drum the trees, get secrets of spaceflight from bugs and no one has a hangover. Well, no one important anyway.

[BruceVC]

Its a public holiday in South Africa and I'm going to a yearly festival called Lusito Land

 

http://www.lusitoland.co.za/

 

Its really good fun, you get to move around different Beer Gardens sampling food like Sardines, Giblets, Prego Rolls and other delicious examples of Portuguese cuisine

 

Yaaay, I am excited

[Labadal]

Playing video games. Today is Labour Day over here.

[Gfted1]

I suppose I should ask this in the next iteration as well, but i'm currently so pissed at my job I just wrote a page long letter to one of the people at the franchise office (basically throwing out what led me to seek other employment and my problems with the establishment). Should I give it to her? or just let it sit (I make explicit that I'm seeking other employment at the current time, but won't terminate until I have a new job).

 

 

Simply ask yourself, what is to be gained? Very rarely does slamming the door on your way out accomplish anything positive. If you want to give your two weeks notice, that's great, but leave it at that.

[Walsingham]

 

I suppose I should ask this in the next iteration as well, but i'm currently so pissed at my job I just wrote a page long letter to one of the people at the franchise office (basically throwing out what led me to seek other employment and my problems with the establishment). Should I give it to her? or just let it sit (I make explicit that I'm seeking other employment at the current time, but won't terminate until I have a new job).

 

 

Simply ask yourself, what is to be gained? Very rarely does slamming the door on your way out accomplish anything positive. If you want to give your two weeks notice, that's great, but leave it at that.

 

 

"Doctor" Walsingham points out that making grand gestures is why God gave us testicles.

 

OK, that sounded like I'm telling you to gesture at them with your testicles.

 

Which I am.

[Labadal]

Well, I played enough video games so I went out on an eight kilometer run/walk. I mostly walked but decided to run some parts. I've been having trouble with my left shoulder and the upper side of my left chest, so I haven't been doing a lot of working out lately. It went fairly well today. I did feel some pain, but i decided that I should keep going and it feels alright now. Might repeat this after work tomorrow.

[Calax]

 

I suppose I should ask this in the next iteration as well, but i'm currently so pissed at my job I just wrote a page long letter to one of the people at the franchise office (basically throwing out what led me to seek other employment and my problems with the establishment). Should I give it to her? or just let it sit (I make explicit that I'm seeking other employment at the current time, but won't terminate until I have a new job).

 

 

Simply ask yourself, what is to be gained? Very rarely does slamming the door on your way out accomplish anything positive. If you want to give your two weeks notice, that's great, but leave it at that.

 

Well, I wouldn't be giving it to my store manager, I'd be giving it to the woman who gave me management training at the main office. And it's not really designed as a "well **** you!" letter, more as the written form of an exit interview.

[Rosbjerg]

The 1st of may, labours day. A day where socialist politicians usually have it very easy - holding speeches to roaring applause just blaming everything on the bourgeoisie.. Well today it went down a little different. Smoke grenades, tomatoes, deafening clapping and yelling to cancel out the speaker. Something is indeed rotten in the state of Denmark.

[Walsingham]

Well, I played enough video games so I went out on an eight kilometer run/walk. I mostly walked but decided to run some parts. I've been having trouble with my left shoulder and the upper side of my left chest, so I haven't been doing a lot of working out lately. It went fairly well today. I did feel some pain, but i decided that I should keep going and it feels alright now. Might repeat this after work tomorrow.

 

What do you mean 'trouble with'? Sounds a bit alarming.

[Labadal]

 

Well, I played enough video games so I went out on an eight kilometer run/walk. I mostly walked but decided to run some parts. I've been having trouble with my left shoulder and the upper side of my left chest, so I haven't been doing a lot of working out lately. It went fairly well today. I did feel some pain, but i decided that I should keep going and it feels alright now. Might repeat this after work tomorrow.

 

What do you mean 'trouble with'? Sounds a bit alarming.

 

 

It's not related to my heart, thankfully. I've made sure. The problem is that I've visited more than 5 doctors and none of them seem to know what the problem is other that everything that has to do with my heart looks fine. They haven't even had the common sense to do an x-ray. I haven't seen one (doctor) for a while now. Went to a rehab center a few weeks ago and they checked me out. They gave me some pointers on different exercises I should do. So I'm doing those rehab exercises plus starting to work out despite the pain. It actually felt good being out today. I  have missed running. A few years ago, I hated it, thought it was the most boring thing to do. Now it just feels so damn good, especially now that I'm more used to it. I'm thinking that if I keep up with my running, and then start going to the gym more often, the pain will go away. The problem is that I'm at the stage where I think going to the gym is boring. I'll make sure to get over this phase.

 

The good thing is that I work at a school and the kids usually want me to play soccer with them on their breaks, so that might help too. Plus, I've played a few soccer games with friends, so that might even more. Basically, being more active is what I personally believe will help me, but we'll see. I've had these problems for about 2 years now. Some periods, I feel the pain non-stop, but other times, it comes and goes.

[LadyCrimson]

Could the shoulder/chest be posture/sleep related? Pinched nerve? I'm glad it doesn't seem to be the heart, tho. Hope it's figured out/gets better.

 

Today I started to think I have a ghost in the house. The vertical blinds on the sliding glass door haven't stopped moving all morning. Seriously. They're in the "shut" position but keep riffling back and forth just a bit, like those metal ball "endless motion" clackers. Normally, could be the cat...but it's been hours. So either they're stuck in perpetual motion, or it's a ghost!

[Labadal]

Could the shoulder/chest be posture/sleep related? Pinched nerve? I'm glad it doesn't seem to be the heart, tho. Hope it's figured out/gets better.

 

Today I started to think I have a ghost in the house. The vertical blinds on the sliding glass door haven't stopped moving all morning. Seriously. They're in the "shut" position but keep riffling back and forth just a bit, like those metal ball "endless motion" clackers. Normally, could be the cat...but it's been hours. So either they're stuck in perpetual motion, or it's a ghost!

If I had a to guess, sleep related might be possible. I always sleep on my left side. I've thought about a pinched nerve, but it doesn't feel like that kind of pain.

 

Ghosts? I tell the kids at work that we have a ghost in our school. I sometimes do pranks, the results are hilarious. Oh, when I lose something, I can blame him. Poor ghost, I've blamed him for a lot of things.

[Malcador]

Watching a lot of bitter fans celebrating Barcelona losing (mainly teams they've beaten in the past and Chelsea pansies still sore about 2009 )

[Labadal]

It was great to see them lose like that and I don't even hate them.

[Rosbjerg]

Hmm, cleaning my room today and there's a surprising amount of blood lying around splattered in different places.. Interesting..

[Woldan]

Cleaned an old hard drive.....with 900 meters / second.  And my cleaning tool was the good old 7.62x51.exe

 

  

Edited May 1, 2013 by Woldan

[Serrano]

Audiobooks. Probably the best hangover invention ever.

 

Just close your eyes and let the calming voice take you to another world where piglets drum the trees, get secrets of spaceflight from bugs and no one has a hangover. Well, no one important anyway.

 

 

Audiobooks are the most relaxing thing ever.

Edited May 1, 2013 by Serrano

[Gfted1]

Cleaned an old hard drive.....with 900 meters / second.  And my cleaning tool was the good old 7.62x51.exe

What did you fire it with?

[Woldan]

What did you fire it with?

7.62x51 Nato 147 grain ball, one of my own reloads.

Hmm, cleaning my room today and there's a surprising amount of blood lying around splattered in different places.. Interesting..

Don't worry, thats perfectly normal....if you live in an abandoned hospital full of zombies and corpses.

[Walsingham]

 

Cleaned an old hard drive.....with 900 meters / second.  And my cleaning tool was the good old 7.62x51.exe

What did you fire it with?

 

 

Pure guess: ruger hunting rifle?

[Woldan]

Pure guess: ruger hunting rifle?

Ew, how dare you, I'd never own a Ruger, they're using cast parts and receivers. CAST! The word alone sends shivers down my spine! Good old forged steel or no deal. 

 

Shot it with an Australian International Arms Enfield Mk4.

Edited May 1, 2013 by Woldan

[Walsingham]

 

Pure guess: ruger hunting rifle?

Ew, how dare you, I'd never own a Ruger, they're using cast parts and receivers. CAST! The word alone sends shivers down my spine! Good old forged steel or no deal. 

 

Shot it with an Australian International Arms Enfield Mk4.

 

 

I had to look this up to be sure. You mean a modernised SMLE? You lucky bastard!

[Woldan]

I had to look this up to be sure. You mean a modernised SMLE? You lucky bastard!

Roger that, I love Enfields, and this ''modernized'' version rocks hard. Outstanding teak wood stock, chrome lined medium-contour barrel, parkerized finish, eats 7.62x51/.308 and M14 magazines plus there some minor bolt improvements which increases safety. Edited May 1, 2013 by Woldan

[Guard Dog]

First off Calax, don't send the letter. In the end nobody will care why you left once you are gone. You are going, that's the end of it. Even when you give your exit interview you should say nothing but positive things about the company, the time you spent there, and the people you worked with. Even the fools. Heck, especially the fools. Thanks them for the opportunity and try to forget for a moment every s****y thing about working there. What you say in your last interactions with management is what will be recorded and remembered about you. If you ever need to use them as a reference, odds are the person giving will not know you, or have ever met you. All they will not is what is recorded in your file when they look it up. you don't want anything that would cast you as being malcontented.

 

Telling someone off, clearing the air, bringing up grievances, even if done politely, might feel good but it is ALWAYS self defeating. Nothing you say will change the company one iota or improve the experiences of anyone else down the line. All it will do is leave a poor impression of you later on.

 

So keep your cards close, smile, shake hands and wish everyone well, lie if that is what it takes. Nobody will care why you are leaving and it does not matter anyway. Just make sure you are remembered well.

[Calax]

Only one person really knows that I'm close to moving jobs. I'm not sending anything, and honestly, don't think that I'd even get an exit interview, given that the managers were supposed to do all sorts of things (including teaching me how to count ****ing money) , but didn't.

 

So it'll just be "I show up, say I've got two weeks left and give the scheduling manager an official notice, then work for two weeks and am still on the schedule for the next week after that while everyone bitches at me."