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Author Topic: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Trust-o-nomics Edition  (Read 3698482 times)

scriver

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You know, there is some theory that "originally" people slept around 4+4 hours, with a break in the middle where they would go up and fiddle with stuff for a while until they got tired again and went to sleep the last 4 hours (but this was eventually changed by industrialization and technology screwing with our day and night routine in general). If it's true, maybe you have a stronger urge to follow that pattern than the average dude.
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If I wake up early I just force myself to stay in bed, or just meditate for the 2-7 hours until I need to wake up. Takes some getting used to, but it basically ensures you're rested.
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Lately for me, it's:
1. Go to bed between midnight and 2am.
2. Wake up around 6:45-7am.
3. Infuse myself with caffeine from 8am-noon, trying to fight off waves of drowsiness.
4. Rinse and repeat.

I've actually got my body trained to operate on 4-5 hours of sleep consistently for long durations without too much ill effect, as long as I can get a "total crash" day in there every couple of weeks, where I collapse at around 7:30pm or so and sleep for 11+ hours.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: TRAPPED! Edition
« Reply #10758 on: May 01, 2012, 11:34:07 am »

Stupid AC, stupid Furnace, too fucking heavy, arms are dead.
(ignoring the present benefits till next week)
For a minute there, I thought you were talking about a particular mission in Armored Core.

Apparently I am the only person in my family that still remembers its a good idea to pack food back up after cooking and not leave perfectly good food to spoil, bits of garbage about and piles of dishes all over the counters.

I know I am not exactly great in the cleaning department, but I dont waste food and I get the dirty dishes in the sink.
Seriously, I've bought a set of bowls, and several sets of forks and spoons because of this problem. And there's still never a clean fork, bowl, spoon, or plate when I need one.
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Armored core!!! It makes me rage when it somehow gets progressively worse as time goes on. I played the original through Nexus and it just finally crashed on the ground, unmoving, like a core with a double shoulder mounted plasma battery and on a floater base.
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Me: "Okay, I'm going to reset this login, but...and this is very important...don't try to log in until I tell you because the encryption key will have changed. Okay?" (and yes, I used vocal emphasis on the bold parts)

Agent: "Okay."

Me: "Okay, it's reset, let me just wait for the encry--"

Agent: "It still says failed."

Me: "What? Wait...did you just try to log in?"

Agent: "Yeah?"

Cue me starting all over because this guy puts the "Special" in Special Agent. I hope to God he's not an SRT sniper, I just can see how that would go. "Okay, initiate in three....two....*BANG*....WTF, did you just shoot that guy?" "Yeah?"
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One of my old friends from robotics is a total ass who I hope gets shanked while in prison. If you must know what he did, PM me, I will not be posting it.
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At a friend's prodding I sent an apology email to my boss for a disagreement we had earlier this week.  I'm suspended since Monday til next Monday, for insubordination.  Woopdy freakin doo.

The email consisted of an apology, a explanation of my actions (that placed myself as the mistaken one but hopefully makes clear my thinking during the affair), and a request that he get some sleep. (The friend is also a good friend of my boss, who is worried about his 20 hour days and not eating)

He took the entire thing and threw it back at me "calling bullshit" on the whole thing.  Implying that I'm just trying to do as little work as possible, telling me that I'm lying about how our remote system works on the client side, and says I'm trying to act tough in front of the new intern girl.


I have never slacked off at that job.  I loved working there and was happy to do my part with a company that's ethics I believed in.  Which I know few people in the working world can say.  I still love the job, though this whole thing has put a black sheet over it all.

I have been on the client side of that remote system many times, and know how it works from both sides, because he always has me set it up on the client side when I do a housecall.  He claims mouse movement from the remote end does not take control of the client's mouse, when in fact it does.  I can't do anything at all with the computer when he's working on it remotely, and says my attempts to not disturb the user, or notify them that we will be remoting into their system when we do, is just an excuse to fuck around and do the work as slowly as possible.  When he should know better on his end even!  He sees that whenever the client tries to use their mouse it just warps the mouse back to his mouse's position every second!  There is a reason they stop what they are doing when you are remoted in!  It's because they CAN'T continue what they were doing!  Can't you see that?  Somebody even complained about it once, and you completely misunderstood them and fixed a problem they did not have!

And all I was doing when he said I was acting tough was trying to explain myself when he confronted me.  And I'm not even attracted to the intern, yes, she's cute, but she's 9 years younger than me, she's too young.  It was him and the CFO always pairing me and her up on housecalls and making jokes about why me and her should hook up.  Not me.

Sorry for the rant, just needed to get all that off my chest before it ended up in a return email that would probably put me squarely in the unemployment line.  Carry on as you were.
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I used to work for a theater and we had touchscreen points-of-sale at the main and peripheral concessions. One night right around closing time Corporate decided to do an update on our terminals. It showed a box on screen with a percentage of update complete bar, and also a Cancel button. You can see where this is going right? We kept pushing the Cancel button for about 10-15 iterations letting it get up to around 50% completed before cancelling. So, eventually the corporate tech decided enough was enough and opened up a message prompt that said "Please stop pressing cancel" and it had an okay button and a cancel button. We pressed cancel yet again and started laughing. He then remotely locked the screens from touch input for the entire theater and so we had to let the update go through.

That little anecdote has kept me laughing and happy for the past few years.

So... lemme see if I am understanding this right. Your boss doesn't understand how your own service works? o.O
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Seems that way.  Last Monday was the first time it became apparent that he doesn't think the remote system takes over like that.  I've been working with him for about 6 months now thinking he knew everything about that remote system. 

But now that I see he doesn't it makes sense.  He has never been on the client side of that system, when he does need somebody to set up the remote on the client's side, either because no-one is present, or we fail to walk the client through the process, he always sent a tech out to do it, he never did it himself.  He seems to think it logs in as a second user like RDP does, instead of just taking over the active session.
« Last Edit: May 01, 2012, 11:34:00 pm by Greiger »
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Wow... but ya know, taking over makes the most sense! It keeps the end-user from fudging up your fixes while you are implementing them.
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Digging's a lot like surgery, see -- you grab the sharp thing and then drive the sharp end of the sharp thing in as hard as you can and then stuff goes flying and then stuff falls out and then there's a big hole and you're done. I kinda wish there was more screaming, but rocks don't hurt so I guess it can't be helped.

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When a bus company changes their schedule it should also update the site and all notify the bus stops that there was a change. Otherwise you might waste an hour of your time just sitting in the damn blazing heat of a midday sun waiting for a bus that won't come >:C
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REMOTE RAEG

I feel your rage. 50 to 60% of my job involves remote connections to clients, through RDP, VNC, secure web portals....

Your boss should really know how to do his own job before criticizing how you do your's.
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REMOTE RAEG

I feel your rage. 50 to 60% of my job involves remote connections to clients, through RDP, VNC, secure web portals....

Your boss should really know how to do his own job before criticizing how you do your's.
Im just angry of the people on the other side of the monitors:
"WHY ARE YOU TAKING THIS LONG YOU ARE STEALING INFORMATION FROM ME!!!!!!"
"Lady i found a butt ton of infections on this computer, takes longer to clean them out than getting them in"
"HOW DID THEY GET IN, I DONT LOOK AT PORN, YOU PEOPLE ARE SCAMMING ME I WANT MY MONEY BACK"
"I just finished my work on it, its all yours"
"ITS NOT EVEN FASTER AT ALL, THIS IS COMPLETE MISERY FROM YOUR COMPANY, IM NEVER DOING BUSINESS WITH YOU I WANT MY MONEY BACK"

FINE HERES YOUR MONEY AND ALL OF THE INFECTIONS BACK, FIGURE OUT HOW TO CLEAN IT OUT YOURSELF, YOU PAY ME TO DO SHIT YOU HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE ABOUT BUT STILL BITCH THAT IM DOING IT WRONG THEN YOU HAVE THE GALL OF CALLING ME A SCAMMER WHEN THIS A LEGITIMent COMPANY.
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