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09-04-2009, 05:39 PM
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California Sober
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Re: New And Improved Rant Thread, now with 50% more profanity!
Sounds juicy! Details?
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09-04-2009, 05:41 PM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Re: New And Improved Rant Thread, now with 50% more profanity!
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Hey, don't you have something you need to be doing?
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Yes, but I'm understandably reluctant.
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09-06-2009, 01:30 AM
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professional left-winger
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Re: New And Improved Rant Thread, now with 50% more profanity!
Uh, Comcast? You suck. $6.99 per month for a fucking converter box so I can actually use the fucking service that I already fucking pay you for? Fuck off.
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09-06-2009, 06:27 PM
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Coffee, tea, anti-Nazi
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Re: New And Improved Rant Thread, now with 50% more profanity!
We need a Comcast sucks thread.
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09-09-2009, 09:36 PM
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Re: New And Improved Rant Thread, now with 50% more profanity!
Didn't want to mire up the Member News thread with what amounts to a rant.
So today we learned that the entirety of IT infrastructure within the company I work at is certainly to be outsourced. To help quell some rumors that have been running rampant since the announcement everyone just received an email. That email had the following two paragraphs in it:
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• Today’s action has no immediate effect on jobs. We are starting the next stage of an evaluation process that will take several months. Once completed, a final decision on the scope of outsourcing will be made. This decision is not expected until the end of November at the earliest. If a decision is made to proceed with an outsourcing plan, transition would extend well into the first half of 2010.
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and 2 bullet points later:
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• In the event an outsourcing plan proceeds, affected employees would be provided with severance packages as well as “stay pay” for supporting the company with needed services through a transition. Over the next two weeks, employees in the identified departments will receive a letter outlining the details of individual severance pay, an incidental allocation bonus, and stay pay, which you would be eligible for if your position was displaced due to outsourcing. Outplacement services also would be made available to affected employees.
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Yeah that really sounds like this is just an evaluation of a possible outsourcing of jobs.
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09-09-2009, 09:54 PM
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Guðríð the Gloomy
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Re: New And Improved Rant Thread, now with 50% more profanity!
Got'cher resume updated yet? Seriously, something like that is an invitation to leave.
Speaking of that, I just finished updating my resume. I've finally realized that as much as I like what I'm currently doing, there is no reason for me not to be looking for another job where I will not have furlough days (which effectively amount to a 10% pay cut) and where I will have more than one week of combined sick/vacation leave per year. I may not find anything better, but there's little harm in trying.
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09-09-2009, 10:33 PM
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Re: New And Improved Rant Thread, now with 50% more profanity!
You know what the fastest way to get your problem solved is? Wait until I'm working on it, then call and interrupt me. For best results, ramble at me for almost ten minutes about your schedule and deadlines and how important this is.
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09-10-2009, 04:13 PM
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Re: New And Improved Rant Thread, now with 50% more profanity!
Waaaay too stressed out about work today. Why? I swear to invisible deities that every day I come in they add another duty to my already full workday. Everything I have to do has critical deadlines that are usually 24 hours or shorter. This is just getting silly. I'm so stressed I can't even curse!
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09-10-2009, 04:21 PM
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California Sober
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09-10-2009, 04:42 PM
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Guðríð the Gloomy
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Re: New And Improved Rant Thread, now with 50% more profanity!
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Waaaay too stressed out about work today. Why? I swear to invisible deities that every day I come in they add another duty to my already full workday. Everything I have to do has critical deadlines that are usually 24 hours or shorter. This is just getting silly. I'm so stressed I can't even curse!
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I have sooooo been there.
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09-10-2009, 06:34 PM
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Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short
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Re: New And Improved Rant Thread, now with 50% more profanity!
For the past four days or so, I've only been able to get maybe 2-4 hours of sleep a night, so I'm all dopey and shit, which I suspect is what made me BREAK MY COFFEEMAKER THIS MORNING.
My beautiful Chemex!
I think I'm just going to get a bigger french press rather than order another Chemex, though. I don't like having to order my coffee filters through the mail.
The swears of this post are: Fart, plop, stupid, and squirter.
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09-10-2009, 06:38 PM
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THIS IS REALLY ADVANCED ENGLISH
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Re: New And Improved Rant Thread, now with 50% more profanity!
OMG THE SQ-WORD! AND PL*P! IN ONE POST!
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09-10-2009, 06:56 PM
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Re: New And Improved Rant Thread, now with 50% more profanity!
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The swears of this post are: Fart, plop, stupid, and squirter.
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Reminds me of sesame street.
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09-10-2009, 07:37 PM
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Forum Killer
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Re: New And Improved Rant Thread, now with 50% more profanity!
Well, I survived a truck rollover. Proceeding south on a gravel road in my boss' old 3/4 ton chevy, I simply lost control for no apparent reason, fishtailing like mad. I kept it on the road as long as I could but there was very little control, finally spinning a 180 then slewing crabwise into the ditch.
It ended up on its side because of the cargo rack, leaving me dangling and startled but unharmed. I hurt myself worse climbing out of the window than I had from the crash, landing in brambles. I didn't even have to flag down a passing car, everyone stops here; one quick phonecall and friends started pouring in.
Investigation of my tracks revealed the rear passenger tire blew shortly before losing control. And this was a rear drive vehicle. Damn it.
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09-10-2009, 07:44 PM
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Re: New And Improved Rant Thread, now with 50% more profanity!
Glad you are okay!
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09-10-2009, 07:48 PM
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09-10-2009, 08:08 PM
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Guðríð the Gloomy
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Re: New And Improved Rant Thread, now with 50% more profanity!
Ditto! That's some scary shit, Corona.
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09-10-2009, 08:42 PM
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HOLY SHIT.
I am sending you skeevy old lady hugs on the internet, Corona.
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09-10-2009, 08:49 PM
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Re: New And Improved Rant Thread, now with 50% more profanity!
You're okay, that's the important part.
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09-10-2009, 09:19 PM
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Re: New And Improved Rant Thread, now with 50% more profanity!
Scary story Corona glad you are ok!
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09-10-2009, 10:23 PM
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Re: New And Improved Rant Thread, now with 50% more profanity!
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Originally Posted by curses
Waaaay too stressed out about work today. Why? I swear to invisible deities that every day I come in they add another duty to my already full workday. Everything I have to do has critical deadlines that are usually 24 hours or shorter. This is just getting silly. I'm so stressed I can't even curse!
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Well, I survived a truck rollover.
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Glad that you're alright.
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09-11-2009, 05:57 AM
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Re: New And Improved Rant Thread, now with 50% more profanity!
Thanks, guys.
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09-11-2009, 06:18 PM
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California Sober
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Re: New And Improved Rant Thread, now with 50% more profanity!
It took you 20 minutes to bring my food, and it was the wrong damn food! You say you thought I ordered the salad? Really? Then why did you ask me if I wanted to add a side salad? So now instead of enjoying my sandwich at a sidewalk cafe with my fiance, I am enjoying out of a to-go container at my fucking desk.
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09-11-2009, 06:19 PM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Re: New And Improved Rant Thread, now with 50% more profanity!
Bills, bills, bills, bills. Bills, bills, bills. Fucking bills and more bills. Then I'm broke again, just like yesterday. FML
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09-15-2009, 02:53 PM
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California Sober
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Re: New And Improved Rant Thread, now with 50% more profanity!
I'm still not divorced. I filed six months and three days ago (it's supposed to take six months and one day in California). Good thing I don't have plans to, like, get married or buy a house in the near future. Oh wait.
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