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I have drawn 30 logos for these guys. They hate them all. Neither do they have any constructive comments. Sometimes they pretend to, but its inevitably a feint -- "can you change that to this kind of flower? Okay, but now that you've altered the design to my requirements I hate it for unrelated reasons I could have mentioned before if I didn't hate you, do something else". I suppose they just enjoy paying me to call me an idiot. It's not like they even hired me as an artist, they're just too cheap to hire a real one.
Sure enough, they hired a real artist. If they accept a vividly crappy design just to spite us and make it clear they were yanking our chain, I will be annoyed. If they ride this artist to the ground as thoroughly as they used me and my boss up, I'll be satisfied.
Sure enough, they accepted the "real artist"'s design. And they should, it's a great design.
It's great because it includes absolutely nothing the board demanded of them, though. No fruit. No veggies. No tubers. No north stars, season references, haiku, regional symbols, or any other such bullshit.
I suppose being a real artist means knowing where to disregard the crap.
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I really hate those automatically flushing toilets in public restrooms. The damn things flush before I can inspect my work product. How am I to know whether I am a good boy or not if I can't see what I did?
Also posted elsewhere for maximum effect.
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Fucking OnTrac shipping.
They are the worst option if you live in an apartment building. My building just posted a flyer in the lobby telling delivery companies not to just dump packages in the lobby as they get stolen, so instead they are dumping them by and in the elevator.
I just delivered someone's package left on the floor of our elevator.
A few more times and I might just send a bill to OnTrac.
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This could go in many threads but...
Fuck you, you white privileged hippy assholes who preach peace and love right up until it harshes your paranoid anti-corporate perfect world ideals and then you don't give a fuck about others and how things affect them, you shitty fake enlightened fuckwads.
(California has on the ballot a measure to not only legalize marijuana but to retroactively re-sentence people put in jail for the offense, but multiple white hippies are against it because it seems too corporate and may impact 'small growers profits' fuck all the brown people jailed for something they take for granted, they can rot until the perfect anti-corporate bill comes along to make sure crunchy granola white mom and pop stoners can still make a profit.)
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Fucking office politics, non-profit turf wars, and really having no fucking clue what I'm doing, I'm thinking I may have made a big mistake in taking this job.
And my former boss who said he had my back, took the job I really wanted for himself. Fucker.
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Is officially the holiday season now. I got my "you WILL donate to the United Way" paperwork dropped off at my desk with the "suggested" donation amount penciled in by my name. I'm not sure why they bother with the paperwork and don't just continue to take out automatic payroll deductions. Oh well, the company gives raises and such and has a fancy tuxedo wearing formal Christmas party so I can't complain too terribly much.
However, as an added benefit this year, we can no longer direct our United Way funds to individual charities like we could in the past. I guess some of them felt left out. I donated to the homeless shelters or hospice rather than Catholic Charities. Plus, I would look up the ones I earmarked and send them something directly to boost their cut significantly; bypassing the UW overheads. I may as well write separate checks this year, one to the group of charities and another to pay off the high salaries of the big wigs who run the scam.
BIG FAT FUCKS WORTH OF UNITED FUCKING WAY, HOLIDAY FUCKING CHEER, HODELY FUCKING HO.
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Motherfucking roof rats. Costing me a bundle to get rid of your late-night-scratching asses. I can't just poison or trap them; I need to make this goddamned house rodent-proof. Oh, and they're in the crawlspace as well, although apparently they're still called "roof rats" 'cause they don't actually specialize. I'm replacing my entire vapor barrier under, and insulation over, to get rid of every last drop of ratshit and ratpiss, then my guy comes in and seals every damned vent and gap. I might not have gone to this extreme, except that I just got an asbestos abatement (minor, another long, stupid story) and replaced my entire attic duct system and I don't want the motherfuckers chewing on it.
I'm too decrepit and arthritic to do this shit myself, so these little Guatemalan guys are crawling all under the house right now. Actually, they're almost done. The attic shit gets done on Wednesday, then the pest guy seals the fuck out of everything on Thursday. I'm spending metric buttloads for this, but when it's done, it's fucking done. Then maybe this goddamned house, which I thoroughly like but hate the halfassed shit previous owners have done to it, will be properly liveable through the winter and beyond.
Or maybe I should just start cracking my neighbors' skulls and feasting upon the goo inside. Whichever will work better on the tax forms next year.
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Motherfucking roof rats. Costing me a bundle to get rid of your late-night-scratching asses. I can't just poison or trap them; I need to make this goddamned house rodent-proof. Oh, and they're in the crawlspace as well, although apparently they're still called "roof rats" 'cause they don't actually specialize. I'm replacing my entire vapor barrier under, and insulation over, to get rid of every last drop of ratshit and ratpiss, then my guy comes in and seals every damned vent and gap. I might not have gone to this extreme, except that I just got an asbestos abatement (minor, another long, stupid story) and replaced my entire attic duct system and I don't want the motherfuckers chewing on it.
I'm too decrepit and arthritic to do this shit myself, so these little Guatemalan guys are crawling all under the house right now. Actually, they're almost done. The attic shit gets done on Wednesday, then the pest guy seals the fuck out of everything on Thursday. I'm spending metric buttloads for this, but when it's done, it's fucking done. Then maybe this goddamned house, which I thoroughly like but hate the halfassed shit previous owners have done to it, will be properly liveable through the winter and beyond.
Or maybe I should just start cracking my neighbors' skulls and feasting upon the goo inside. Whichever will work better on the tax forms next year.
Yuuuuuuup had that last year. We pretended it was just one. The son of a bitch was chewing on a single board in the crawsplace every fucking night. After a while he quit giving af if we pounded on the floor and quit chewing. I got under there and found where he had torn the shit out of the insulation, so I taped over the little hole (amazing how much noise he made to chew a 1.5" hole...) with foil tape.
Two nights later, back again. We set regular traps, no-kill traps, tried different kinds of bait, and eventually glue traps, which I used to have objections to, but I wanted this fucker dead. Somehow he managed to set a couple of them off without dying. Did not matter. Filled in voids with foam, found a couple of holes into the craws place, screened them off and filled them with rocks - he just dug his way through the rocks and tossed the screen aside. Even put small-mesh screens over the crawlspace vents just in case he was squeezing through there.
Finally, we realized from his digging patterns that he was coming in through the ceramic pipe surrounding the PVC condensate drain for the furnace, so I just filled that pipe with Bondo. Didn't hear from him after that, but had the crawlspace enclosed for good measure. (It really needed it anyway.)
Good luck! The crawlspace improvements have been totally worth it, rat or no rat, btw. Not just because the contractors noticed that part of the water line from the main was the original pipe from the 50s that was mostly rust.
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Make sure to use metal screens on things, rats can chew through practically everything else, including concrete if they have the time and willpower.
OH yeah, we're going a couple steps better on that front. Not just metal screens of sufficient teeth-proof hardness, but braced from the inside so the bastards can't push them in and get around them that way.
My guy is on the hook for 2 years and I'm going to hold him to it aggressively if there are any signs of weakness. I'm gonna be like a survivalist gun nut, but just against the invasion from the ratones. If anything crops up in that time, I can address it and stay all impregnable and shit. At least for the crawl space, I've got a shiny new 10 mil vapor barrier, so any disturbance will show up like a neon sign as long as I'm arsed to actually look.
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Oh yeah, I almost forgot -- fuck you too, you filthy fucking raccoons. It's actually a symbiotic thing between the raccoons and rats; the raccoons slash the fuck out of the foundation vents, then the rats move in. At least I've already removed the ill-advised, rotten-assed deck that used to be outside the master bedroom, to lead to the crappy, nonworking jacuzzi we ripped out. Now MAYBE the vicious little masked assholes will leave our vents alone, as we no longer have anything substantial enough to shelter them.
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I can't find the general election thread, so I'll just put this here.
There have been plenty of elections that didn't go the way I thought they should. Plenty that I thought were disastrous, stupid, shortsighted, etc. But this is the first single election result that has made me simultaneously shocked, disgusted, furious, and thoroughly ashamed to be a citizen of the US.
Towards the end of his run, I couldn't see Dubya on TV without having the urge to smash his face in. Trump gets to start out that way.
At least "Take back our country" might actually mean something next time. If there's anything left to take back.
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Yes I fucking know Friday, I saw that shit in the theater, it was awesome. I also know actual human people named Felicia and it is possible to bid them goodbye without invoking that shit. Can you imagine how fucking tedious that shit would get if that was your name? Grow the fuck up.
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HELLO OLD THRAD. I WANT GOOGLE TO KNOW ABOUT THIS ONE.
So you remember I tried to buy those David Byrne tickets before, but they sold them all to scalpers instead? Well, he announced a second show, so I patiently waited and did everything exactly right to get tickets from AXS, and at the very last step, they say my credit card didn't go through! I try two more times, both rejected, and then they release my tickets and tell me the tickets I wanted are sold out now! So I try to buy the next most expensive ones, and that fails twice.
So I fucking call the number for AXS, sit on hold for about 15 minutes, then decide to call Visa. Visa tells me that ALL FIVE TRANSACTIONS WERE APPROVED.
So I call AXS back and also email their tech support and am like, "Fuck you fucks, I bought four tickets, give me four tickets and reverse the OTHER SIXTEEN you're trying to charge me for." I was on hold for an hour before the system gave me the option to have them call me back.
They did, eventually, and I was not mean to the lady because she just works there, but holy fuck. She said she can't really do anything, and I ask if she can maybe escalate to someone who can, but then she says, "Hey, that's not sold out. I can sell you the tickets now."
So supposedly, I now have tickets finally, but I won't get official confirmation until the 5th, so I will be extremely nervous until then. And then all they have to do is reverse the charges on the TWENTY SUPERFLUOUS TICKETS they charged me for.
Goddamn motherfucking shitknockers. How can they suck this much at the main thing they're supposed to be doing?
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My god that exact thing happened to me trying to get tickets to the Lion King. Well, not EXACTLY like that. I used my debit card, bought 2 tickets, system told me it was declined. Tried again, declined. Called box office, neither transaction shows up in their system, so no tickets. BUT THEY HAD A HOLD OF ALL OF MY MONIES. They told me to "just wait a couple of days and the money would be refunded. They hijacked $600 for a week. I did eventually get tickets though.
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What the fuck? I found some other stories just now about this happening to other people too. It's looking like it's pretty common for AXS to take your money, at least temporarily, and then fail the transaction so you don't even get what you were trying to buy.
I was also pretty scared about the money, even though it was on a credit card because I know I have a low limit, and twenty-four Red Rocks tickets aren't cheap. I guess it's high enough, though. I think. Can't really be sure yet.
Because now, of course, I'm really nervous about that thing where I don't get confirmation until after a while, so I thought I'd sign into my account and at least see if I can see it there, but it keeps giving me a "Bad Credentials" error so I can't.
I even changed my password in case it was somehow wrong, and then they added insult to injury by having some cutesy little message about how I should try to remember it this time, with a bunch of pointless question marks and exclamation points. Hint: Fuck cutesy error messages making fun of people, ESPECIALLY when it's your system that's at fault.