In reply to mad_machine :
I'm sorry to hear that. They really do fill our lives, and it's never long enough, no matter how long 17 years actually is.
In reply to mad_machine :
I'm sorry to hear that. They really do fill our lives, and it's never long enough, no matter how long 17 years actually is.
In reply to mad_machine :
That sucks. Has she considered adopting a senior dog? There are usually lots in shelters and they sadly aren't adopted nearly as quickly as younger dogs.
Ashyukun (Robert) said:In reply to mad_machine :
That sucks. Has she considered adopting a senior dog? There are usually lots in shelters and they sadly aren't adopted nearly as quickly as younger dogs.
This. Cant emphasize enough
Im tired of having to downshift my brain to understand where others are coming from.
As of Spring of this year, we are on our 4th evolution of our primary machine. We've been a company for ~20 years. (Just so you can do the math.)
Every machine has its own operator's and parts manual.
Our parts liason asks me, roughly once every 3 weeks if we have a parts manual for a machine with serial XXYYYYY (Where XX is the year)
"John, thats a Gen II. I sent you that."
"I didn't save it, can you send it again?"
Etc.
Ive sent him parts manuals. Ive sent operator's manuals. Ive sent combined parts and operator's.
He never has what he needs saved.
I dont get it.
In reply to Mr_Asa :
My wife had a coworker who told her, to her face, "Oh, I don't have to remember that because I know you'll remember it for me." Yeah, good luck getting anything else from her.
Put all the manuals in a zip file. Email it to him with a little list showing years covered by each generation. Then stop answering all those requests.
In reply to Mr_Asa :
John, my computer is down at the moment. I can't help you. Then never call him back.
I get similar questions from employees on occasion. Everyone who works for me gets a tablet when they start. That tablet contains every scrap of information I have dug up over 25 years of door repairs. Literally 1000s of pages of schematics, installation manuals, and part lists for manual and automatic doors. Some of it even covers hydraulic doors that haven't been made since the 1960s. It's all organized by manufacture and product. They have everything they need but invariably they call me first looking for information on some obscure part and my pat answer is, "It's in your tablet."
The cellophane caramel popcorn bag I just bought at Tractor Supply blew up inside the car when I tried to open it. That E36 M3 went everywhere. 
In reply to Toyman! :
We are small enough that he'd just come upstairs and bug me.
Duke said:In reply to Mr_Asa :
My wife had a coworker who told her, to her face, "Oh, I don't have to remember that because I know you'll remember it for me." Yeah, good luck getting anything else from her.
Gf has a coworker like that. I'm surprised she hasn't throttled the woman yet.
Mr_Asa said:Duke said:In reply to Mr_Asa :
My wife had a coworker who told her, to her face, "Oh, I don't have to remember that because I know you'll remember it for me." Yeah, good luck getting anything else from her.
Gf has a coworker like that. I'm surprised she hasn't throttled the woman yet.
My wife does that - she tells me to not let her forget something.
Me: so if I forget and you forget, it's my fault?
In reply to Mr_Asa :
I worked with a guy who was an ex CFL player. He would call over the cube wall for me several times a day. Too lazy to even get up and walk the ten steps to my cube door. He would ask the same questions over and over. I finally told him that he should start taking notes because I was done doing his job for him.
Mr_Asa said:In reply to Toyman! :
We are small enough that he'd just come upstairs and bug me.
Send it. Walk down to his computer. Make him save it, while you watch him do it. "Now you have it, and you know where it is."
The next time, tell him to get on his berkeley-horse and ride to the top of berkeley-off mountain.
Appleseed said:Mr_Asa said:In reply to Toyman! :
We are small enough that he'd just come upstairs and bug me.
Send it. Walk down to his computer. Make him save it, while you watch him do it. "Now you have it, and you know where it is."
The next time, tell him to get on his berkeley-horse and ride to the top of berkeley-off mountain.
Better than that, print it and hand it to him. If he says he wants a digital copy, tell him to scan it. And make him sign a receipt for it.
alfadriver said:Appleseed said:Mr_Asa said:In reply to Toyman! :
We are small enough that he'd just come upstairs and bug me.
Send it. Walk down to his computer. Make him save it, while you watch him do it. "Now you have it, and you know where it is."
The next time, tell him to get on his berkeley-horse and ride to the top of berkeley-off mountain.
Better than that, print it and hand it to him. If he says he wants a digital copy, tell him to scan it. And make him sign a receipt for it.
Open it, rotate every other page to be upside down, and save it as a one letter off name. Every time he asks, send him that copy. When he asks why the pages are upside down, tell him the problem is on his end and open your copy to show all the pages right side up.
So I'm sitting in a salon lobby, waiting. And listening to someone talk on the phone about someone else's cancer treatment. Seriously?!?!!? That's worse than being forced to listen to someone's meeting.
Landlord is still refusing to refund me the portion of the security deposit they took to replace the air filter, despite me showing them a receipt dated the day before move out for an air filter in the correct size. Among other things such as $400 of charges for touchup paint (apparently its my fault they didn't prep the cabinets properly before painting.) Guess its time to figure out how to file a small claims case
alfadriver said:So I'm sitting in a salon lobby, waiting. And listening to someone talk on the phone about someone else's cancer treatment. Seriously?!?!!? That's worse than being forced to listen to someone's meeting.
Listen closely. When they hang up, turn and ask them about Lynn's diagnosis and if she has to get treatment, who's going to look after Scraps, the pomeranian? When they sputter out, "How'd you know that," explain that they shared very sensitive, personal information with EVERYONE in the place.
Just found a note on the door that FedEx "attempted" delivery on a signature required shipment. One would think that such an "attempt" would include either knocking on the door or ringing the doorbell?
In reply to Rodan :
Never had anything shipped to you via FedEx before, huh?
Am I being entitled when i get irritated at cars in front of me that have the space to pull up farther to let me turn off behind them but they don't do so, causing me to get stuck?
Appleseed said:alfadriver said:So I'm sitting in a salon lobby, waiting. And listening to someone talk on the phone about someone else's cancer treatment. Seriously?!?!!? That's worse than being forced to listen to someone's meeting.
Listen closely. When they hang up, turn and ask them about Lynn's diagnosis and if she has to get treatment, who's going to look after Scraps, the pomeranian? When they sputter out, "How'd you know that," explain that they shared very sensitive, personal information with EVERYONE in the place.
She was complaining how the Mohs surgery made the skin tight around an area where basal cell was removed. I should have reminded her that tight skin is better than skin cancer. That, and it will stretch out over time- just stay discolored. Which is still better than tumor on your skin.
In reply to wae :
Oh, this definitely isn't the first time...
In reply to Rodan :
Ugh. I'm dealing with this for parts for the bar. Note the dates (today is the 8th):
In reply to Rodan :
better than them just leaving the package and the delivery guy signing for it himself. This happened with both the engagement ring i had made for my fiancee and the watch she got me as a gift. I was out of town with a multi-thousand package on my porch, had to call my coworker to go get it for me and hang on to it
In reply to budget_bandit :
No.
They are.
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