[Abyss]

Loki, on 18 November 2012 - 12:06 PM, said:

The forum mobile version keeps force closing on me.

That's what you think.

Defiance, on 20 November 2012 - 05:55 AM, said:

Just found out that I completely mixed up the date of a Steven Erikson appearance in my state. For whatever reason I thought he was going to be here next November (don't ask how I screwed that up). Then I come to realize that it was this year and the time has already come and gone.

We'll understand if you feel the need to end it all.
...or just pound your face against your keyboard a lot.

[worry]

I don't think meeting SE is that big a deal. I mean Abyss met him and it's not like he's grown infinitely more imperious in the few short weeks since then or anything. Not even a little bit. He's barely mentioned it! Same with his genteel humility upon finding an early copy of Cold Days.

[Adjutant Stormy~]

It's only a week. Just remember how short a time it's been since the last one.

Messing with my groove: Sick, again - twice in a week. This time bad sore throat, coughing, the good stuff.

[Ain't_It_Just_]

The dress rehearsals for this musical I'm doing (as part of the backstage crew) are starting to become a joke. There's no respect between cast and crew, barring a few individuals, and they just wander onstage and get in our way whenever they please. The stage manager panics over the least little thing and can't even get us a copy of the updated script so we know when what goes where. And we run stupidly overtime every night, so I get there at 6 and end up leaving at midnight. It's still fun but sometimes I just wanna scream. But we might be getting paid so that would make it worthwhile and then some.

[Abyss]

The lack of people acknowledging how awesome it is that i got COLD DAYS this week is messing with my groove.

...oh, wait, no it isn't... BECAUSE I'M READING COLD DAYS RIGHT NOW. RIGHT. NOW.
I AM SCRATCHING MY BACK WITH THE BOOK AS I TYPE THIS HOW DO YA LIKE THEM APPLES YOU ENVIOUS NON-SE-MEETING SCUM????


...ahem....

Of course, you would all feel better if you just went and read the promo chapters at Butcher's site.

[QuickTidal]

So there is this Doucheroo who I work with, he's one of the coordinators for the sales people....and so his job is to coordinate a job from outside through our processes so the sale person doesn't have to, of which I am responsible for design (sometimes) and preflight (other times)...he's meant to order barcodes or the like, and in this specific situation translations.

So I have had two jobs for two different customers that I awaited translations for....in both cases the translator (who the coordinator hired) fucked up and didn't send me charts showing what things translated to what (AKA just Spanish....as if I could pick out what English words and sentences each Spanish part went with). The first time it happened I noted it as strange for a company who's bread and butter was TRANSLATION to not send it back as a chart...and said maybe we should look elsewhere for translation. I mentioned this to the coordinator and he seemed just nonchalant about the whole thing. Fast forward a few weeks to the second job...which the translator did the same thing...and the job was late because of it. So I mentioend to the coordinator again that we should maybe find someone else to do the translations...and I copied the sale person who understood what I was saying and asked my opinion. I said the coordinator could probably Google a list of good translators and the like.

This did NOT go over well.

This guy lost his shit. Emailed back saying he was displeased with this path of events (copied in his actual direct boss) and that he doesn't have TIME to be finding another translator, and he'd used this translator for years, and that if I had an issue with them then I could find a new translator.

I was a little surprised, to say the least. It was a STRONG reaction to a suggestion to help benefit timing to the customer.

So I responded by saying "Sorry, up to him. Just a suggestion." and left it at that not wanting to get into it with him.

But he's spent yesterday and today going around the office bitching and complaining about me to people (who are better friends with me and told me what he said) and even went into his direct boss to complain about me, and say that he should not have to be ordering barcodes or translations.

It should be noted, this guy is known to be lazy, and spends the first few hours of each day wandering around chatting with people.

So the only thing I could establish is that this guy is riddled with guilt about his lackluster work performance that the minute ANYTHING draws attention to him (in this case I wasn't pointing any fingers at anyone, just saying the translator fucked up twice in a row) he gets his back up. He is known to also SCREAM at people for no reason.

Anyways, messing with my groove because it annoys me that someone like this is allowed to behave like this and that he can actually try to stand on moral ground while saying eh doesn't want to do something that is a part of his job description.

What the hell is wrong with some people?

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 22 November 2012 - 05:54 PM

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 22 November 2012 - 05:53 PM, said:

...What the hell is wrong with some people?

delusions of adequacy are a fragile thing.



Also, i'm betting he doesn't have COLD DAYS.

[worry]

Declare him fired.

[Tiste Simeon]

Abyss, on 21 November 2012 - 02:55 PM, said:

Of course, you would all feel better if you just went and read the promo chapters at Butcher's site.

Wait, there are promo chapters on his website, you should have said...

[Loki]

Unexpected guests.

It's like a sudden, unforseen invasion.

Just because I like you doesn't mean I want you knocking on my door unexpectedly.

For starters it means putting on pants.

[Puck]

The earpieces of my music player are broken... Noooo How am I supposed to live through gym without music?

[Tiste Simeon]

So yesterday I had a knock on the door & there was a bailiff telling me I owed the Council £1300!! Apparently I had not been paying council tax, as I thought that the direct debit I had last year would continue but it didn't. They had also sent me a warning notice but when it got sent it accidentally got mixed up with a bunch of other stuff and I never got round to opening it. All in all, a very honest mistake and I have managed to sort it not, but flipping heck, gave me a right scare and it has taught me a right lesson! Also means I am a bit strapped for cash in the week that Cold Days comes out... Abyss, want to send me your copy once you're done??

[Adjutant Stormy~]

I had some candid talk with my father and grandfather tonight.

AND LITERALLY EVERYTHING I'VE EVER KNOWN ABOUT MY FAMILY IS A LIE.

ALL OF IT.

AND TO BOOT, MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER IS PROBABLY AN IRREDEEMABLE NAZI.

HOORAY.

[QuickTidal]

Yikers Stormy, that sucks.

[Abyss]

Tiste Simeon, on 22 November 2012 - 11:17 PM, said:

Abyss, on 21 November 2012 - 02:55 PM, said:

Of course, you would all feel better if you just went and read the promo chapters at Butcher's site.

Wait, there are promo chapters on his website, you should have said...

It's not too late. The book is streeting as we type so it's not like you;'re cheating yourself of anything by reading them like i did and then i finished the book at 3am last night and now i'm trippin HARD and periodically flashing back to it and HOLY DRAGONFUCKNUTS THAT DID NOT JUST HAPPEN OMFG JIM BUTCHER YOU GLORIOUS MADMAN!!!!!

...sorry, sorry, that might take a week or so to wear off...

Loki, on 23 November 2012 - 01:50 AM, said:

Unexpected guests.
...For starters it means putting on pants.

Why?

Puck, on 23 November 2012 - 08:23 AM, said:

The earpieces of my music player are broken... Noooo How am I supposed to live through gym without music?

Staples.

Tiste Simeon, on 23 November 2012 - 10:00 AM, said:

So yesterday I had a knock on the door & there was a bailiff telling me I owed the Council £1300!! Apparently I had not been paying council tax, as I thought that the direct debit I had last year would continue but it didn't. They had also sent me a warning notice but when it got sent it accidentally got mixed up with a bunch of other stuff and I never got round to opening it. All in all, a very honest mistake and I have managed to sort it not, but flipping heck, gave me a right scare and it has taught me a right lesson! Also means I am a bit strapped for cash in the week that Cold Days comes out... Abyss, want to send me your copy once you're done??

I would but it's presently being rendered down to liquid form for IV transfer via dirct cerebelum shunt later tonight.

Adjutant Stormy, on 23 November 2012 - 11:30 AM, said:

I had some candid talk with my father and grandfather tonight.

AND LITERALLY EVERYTHING I'VE EVER KNOWN ABOUT MY FAMILY IS A LIE...

This doesn't involve super-powers by any chance, does it?

[QuickTidal]

You said Shunt.

haha.

Don't mind me. it's been a weird day.

[Loki]

I'm all for equality between the sexes.

What annoys me is when people use the fact that equality hasn't been established in one area to get away with fostering inequality in another area.

Apparently it is sexist to have male only gyms but acceptable to have female only gyms. The reason this is okay according to one of my self-titled feminist friends is because women don't have equal rights in the corporate world.......Perhaps it is just me but I fail to see the logic there. You are responding to inequality by creating more inequality? How is that suppose to fix anything?

Equality is a two-way street. If women would like female only gyms/banks/etc then, by their own desire for equality, men should be entitled to male only establishments as well.

The original feminist movement wasn't about women gaining more rights than men, it was about gaining the same rights as men.

Just don't claim your desire is equality when it's not.

/end rant

[Illuyankas]

Uh, not to rain on your parade there, but men are, have always, and will annoyingly continue to be entitled to whatever the fuck they want for the foreseeable future anyway. Plus once we get rid of that terrible shitty culture - and it is a culture, not a biotruth or whatever bullshit fuckheads try to peddle - that tells dudes they can and should hit on and leer at women at all times and that they don't have any say in the matter, those gyms won't be needed.

[worry]

Yah...I mean arguing against a privately owned "men only" gym is stupid, because whatever, let them have their gym, but since it's not based on any actual feminist premise to oppose men only gyms, and is just this one lady's crazy opinion, then you don't have feminism to blame. Just one dumb (on this issue) friend who also happens to be a feminist. Like if she was a carpenter, it wouldn't be carpentry's fault she said something dumb.

[Illuyankas]

I wound up back into the Anime discussion thread because clearly I enjoy pain and I also misclicked again and I don't want to shit up that thread's actual Japanimation discussion by reminding the people in it they're talking about how sexy the schoolchildren in this one anime are again but seriously Japan is so fucking terrible no matter what the good points are.