What Annoyed You Today? (4 Viewers)

[MIflyer]

The other day I got notified by USAA that one of their vendors had disclosed my credit card info and they were sending me a new one. Then they called me before 0900 and asked if I had made four credit card purchases today totaling almost $2000 from some place in Texas and to destroy my card right away.

This crap has got to stop! Let's make it credit card fraud a death penalty offense. And if it is happening from overseas, that is what nuclear armed ICBM's are for.

 

[fubar57]

Brutal. Canada just busted an Indian Tax scam that had earned the scammers over $17 million; got a few of them phone calls myself

 

[pgf_666]

Sounds like a good idea for a new thread. "Brain Dead Bosses and their Idiotic Ideas". Got a nice ring to it...

But..."Brain Dead Bosses" is, to say the least, usually redundant....

 

[pgf_666]

A1C too high, blood sugars too high, need to start taking Jardiance in addition to Metformin. I hate taking pills!!! Who knows what the long term affects of all these things are gonna do you you.

Well....

Jardiance has been reported to, rarely, cause certain infection, the ad is very deliberately vague and jargany about these, but in short--patients rarely develop gangrene of the genitals.....

It can also damage the kidneys....

So I convinced my doctor to switch to Januvia....so far--for me!--so good. Your morbidity may vary

 

[Tieleader]

Not being content with failing so miserably at their jobs that every warehouse across the country has to work 50+ hour weeks, including "voluntary" weekend shifts, that has cost the company ungodly amounts of overtime $ these morons at the Cali location lost a $28,000 order. Let me say that again...$28,000. Three zeros. Just shipped it off to parts unknown. Needless to say I think we lost a customer. How, HOW,HOW do these miserable f**ks STILL HAVE A JOB?!!!!

 

[pgf_666]

Not being content with failing so miserably at their jobs that every warehouse across the country has to work 50+ hour weeks, including "voluntary" weekend shifts, that has cost the company ungodly amounts of overtime $ these morons at the Cali location lost a $28,000 order. Let me say that again...$28,000. Three zeros. Just shipped it off to parts unknown. Needless to say I think we lost a customer. How, HOW,HOW do these miserable f**ks STILL HAVE A JOB?!!!!

The Peter Principle--or as one friend re-branded it, "The Pecker Principle" (he indicated he was referring to a famous cartoon Red-headed Woodpecker--Suuure he was.)

Anyways, these guys have clearly found their level of incompetence....

(we need one of these with flight goggles....--an not just )
(And if all else fails, spell it rinkidynck...)

 

[michael rauls]

Not being content with failing so miserably at their jobs that every warehouse across the country has to work 50+ hour weeks, including "voluntary" weekend shifts, that has cost the company ungodly amounts of overtime $ these morons at the Cali location lost a $28,000 order. Let me say that again...$28,000. Three zeros. Just shipped it off to parts unknown. Needless to say I think we lost a customer. How, HOW,HOW do these miserable f**ks STILL HAVE A JOB?!!!!

Sounds like you'd be better off if that whole California location just burned to the ground. We have some individual drivers like that. I think they do more damage to the trucks than whatever profit they might make for the company. Think the company's lucky if they brake even on those guys. And they never finish their work load so the rest of us have to go do it for them. Day after day, week after week, month after month, and in some cases year after year the same guys. Sometimes I do wonder" why is that guy still here"................
I feel your pain.

 

[MIflyer]

Several years ago our company's HQ, in Calif, agreed we needed a new printer - but that they would buy it and ship it to us. Why anyone would want to do that I have no idea; shipping for CA to FL is not cheap. The printer did not show up. We asked about it. Turned out the HQ had shipped it to our CA Central Coast office rather than FL. Whoops! So they then shipped it to us.

When it got here, there was a big hole in the box. Turned out the adapter that turned the paper around for two-sided printing was damaged. I got on the phone and ordered a replacement and when it came I was able to repair the new unused printer and finally get it into operation.

 

[at6]

Just out of curiosity what were you fishing for with shrimp? It's a great catfish bait around here( Southern California) but I didn't think there were alot of catfish that far north( maybe I'm wrong though) hence my curiosity.
Also, the great thing about shrimp for bait is if you don't catch anything you can go home and cook up the left over bait for dinner unlike say .........worms for example

Worms are millennial bacon.

 

[michael rauls]

Worms are millennial bacon.

You may be joking but I heard on the radio news today that somewhere in Europe some fast food chain tried offering worm burgers. Guess it was done up like a hamburger pattie but nonetheless it didn't go over too well. There were going to try crickets next.................Good luck with that.

 

[at6]

You may be joking but I heard on the radio news today that somewhere in Europe some fast food chain tried offering worm burgers. Guess it was done up like a hamburger pattie but nonetheless it didn't go over too well. There were going to try crickets next.................Good luck with that.

Worms didn't go over very well because no one wanted to wait with "baited" breath.

 

[pgf_666]

2 days off work and not 1 minute spare to start my He 111 kit

Me, it's otherwise beautiful kits that have one unredemable flaw

Like Spits with no gull-wings, or short-nosed Merlin Spits without the re-enforcing strakes where the wheel wells would otherwise fail, causing the plane to shed a wing in combat maneuvers. (oddly enough, the original Hasigawa Spit I had these, even though the kit came with prop, canopy, and markings for one of the very few Spits (until the VII) that didn't have these.Kit had other, serious problems, but this they got right.)

Or the worst general offender, the B-17, in 1/72 scale.

As far as I can tell, no mass-produced '17 has been produced with the outer skin properly done.The early Airfix model had raised rivits in about the right scale and position, but had raised panel lines that were almost impossible to clean up whilst still leaving any of the near-by rivets

The Revell model of the same era, while not bad for the time, was similar, but had bigger rivets.The Matchbox kit--no, I don't want to re-trigger the PTSD it gave me....Trench warfare at its finest!

Hase put out a better one, but the panel lines....and now, NO rivets.

If you've ever seen a real one, it is literally covered in the d*mn things. big ones. proud ones. On a polished nat-met one, you can see them in an image where the entire plain os only 3 inches long. (Alas, I no longer have that particular pic to post.) Note that most
'nekkid' Forts were polished, to reduce drag, and add a few knots in a business where speed is life....

Then came the Academy version, which had incised panel lines, a better interior, and a wider variety--you could find a kit of almost every production version, if you looked hard enough... but still no rivets--and the panel lines were a problem.

The '17 doesn't have butt-joined plates. They are lapped. More drag, but stronger, and lighter. The rivit/panel lines on the old A-Fix model clearly showed that arrangement; I don't know if it was because they were aware of the lapping, or they just put the rivets in the right places. Anyway, while they'd be not much thicker than a sheet of printer paper, it that, you can see the effects in clear sunlight in that same picture I had, showing the rivets.

So, a few years ago, I saw an article in a magazine--I think it was online, but --what was I trying to say about my memory? Anyway, the pic clearly showed that the bird was covered in rivets, in what appeared to be the right places.

So when I saw the kit on sale at half-price at a local hobby store, I forked out quite a few buck, trotted on home, and eagerly opened the box.

Oh, the rivets are represented, all right, about the right size and place.

As tiny pits! Thousands of them. Right next to incised panel lines. Everything else about the kit was great--almost perfect interior, both type of tail-gunner positions, beautiful transparencies, magnificently done interior, nice decals--and about ten times as much time to fix the rivets and panel lines that the entire rest of the project! I've thought of getting that old AirFix B-17G, fix the panel lines, detail the interior of the fuselage, and use all the other parts from the Revell to detail it. Should only take me about 250 hours, less than half the time it u/g the Revell hull.

I hear that AirFix is releasing a new Fort, but haven't seen any pix, but, unless they used that Lidar point-cloud system that gave us their new and excellent he-111, I 'm not not holding my breath, or buying the Pig while it's still in the Poke....

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[pgf_666]

This was at two in the morning a few weeks ago. I absolutely loath this...

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I suspect that part-or even all-of the problem is that many stores don't do regular cart runs to fix this. Also, it used to be, I'd see people taking the first empty cart that they'd run into on their way into the store--not so much, any more.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I suspect that part-or even all-of the problem is that many stores don't do regular cart runs to fix this. Also, it used to be, I'd see people taking the first empty cart that they'd run into on their way into the store--not so much, any more.

Regular car runs are not the problem. People not putting their carts into the dozens of designated cart corals because they are lazy is the problem.

 

[Tieleader]

Sounds like you'd be better off if that whole California location just burned to the ground. We have some individual drivers like that. I think they do more damage to the trucks than whatever profit they might make for the company. Think the company's lucky if they brake even on those guys. And they never finish their work load so the rest of us have to go do it for them. Day after day, week after week, month after month, and in some cases year after year the same guys. Sometimes I do wonder" why is that guy still here"................
I feel your pain.

I guessing its a tax loss write off thing. HQ seems so laser focused on getting the new Canada DC up and running they have "loaned" our best reciever as well for the next month to our loss. Hope canadian people are better workers. Thanks for the empathy BTW,appreciated. I was hoping this would be my last job before "last day", now I'm not so sure...

 

[Greg Boeser]

Another day at the DVS trying to convince them that my wife is a real person. IN spite of bringing in virtually every identifying document she owns - birth certificate, SSI card, passport, mil dependent's card, insurance papers, home title, bank statements, etc. they told us that her name was wrong. It seems that when Minnesota spent, like, a gazillion dollars on a new database system the program that transferred the names of people from the old system corrupted her name. It's been SEVEN trips since the beginning of the year, and though they claim that they've fixed the problem, I won't believe it until she receives her new license.

 

[WARSPITER]

Another day at the DVS trying to convince them that my wife is a real person. IN spite of bringing in virtually every identifying document she owns - birth certificate, SSI card, passport, mil dependent's card, insurance papers, home title, bank statements, etc. they told us that her name was wrong. It seems that when Minnesota spent, like, a gazillion dollars on a new database system the program that transferred the names of people from the old system corrupted her name. It's been SEVEN trips since the beginning of the year, and though they claim that they've fixed the problem, I won't believe it until she receives her new license.

Had a similar problem recently with ID. It had to be an original Birth Certificate (not an extract) which I still have although it's pretty close to museum fragility (Ancient Egypt style).
No problem there until the girl entered it in the system and it came back as invalid. It turns out that a few decades after my certificate was issued the "system" went from state
of birth plus four digits to eight digits only. Mine doesn't have eight digits so I was given a ten page document to fill out - #@$!!. A simple year / location addition to the software
would have fixed this but that would actually work ?

 

[MIflyer]

I went in to sign up for MEDICARE and they told me my SSAN data was wrong. They had no suffix on my name. I pulled out my original 1965 vintage SSAN card, that has the suffix right on it, but that did not matter. They had to send me a new one.

 

[Greg Boeser]

Technology will make your lives easier.

 

[michael rauls]

Technology will make your lives easier.

Ya, nothing like a 2000.00 dollar, delicate, heat sensative computer in a system where a 5.00 dollar switch would have worked just as well for example to make life better.