Re: Reasons To Be Grumpy thread

Magdalena · « **Reply #3540 on:** October 26, 2019, 08:26:40 AM »

Awww.

I'm sorry to hear this, Firebird.

xSilverPhinx · « **Reply #3541 on:** October 27, 2019, 12:13:13 AM »

Quote from: Firebird on October 26, 2019, 04:44:34 AM

Thanks everyone.
We made the tough decision to put her down tonight. It was painful, but also the right thing to do. I was there and she was clearly deteriorating. Even if she got better we only would have gotten a couple more months with chemo. It wouldn't have been fair to her to keep trying to prop her up.
We'll tell the 3 year old tomorrow morning and see how it goes. She's resilient but also loved her a lot, so it could go either way.

Siz · « **Reply #3542 on:** October 28, 2019, 01:28:12 AM »

Grumpy? Yeah.
Billy Zedding Rubin is why.

I come home to find this interloper in my house using zeds like they're going out of fashion. And in place of perfectly adequate esses. They're not even inserted where they sound like zeds. It's a disruption to the whole letter economy. Don't come running to me when the esses revolt, and the zeds start demanding equal writes!

Why, Billy? Why?

billy rubin · « **Reply #3543 on:** October 28, 2019, 11:39:22 AM »

i am deeply sorry. i had a traumatic education and the horror i experienced has forever scarred my ability to express myself in methods of communication other than shouts and screams

Buddy · « **Reply #3544 on:** October 29, 2019, 04:29:35 PM »

The entire computer system is down for the whole greater Michigan/northern Indiana market. We can't process transactions, open any accounts, or do any account maintenance. Who knows how long it will take for everything to come back up.

Ecurb Noselrub · « **Reply #3545 on:** October 29, 2019, 06:17:15 PM »

Condolences, Firebird.

Tank · « **Reply #3546 on:** October 30, 2019, 04:00:47 PM »

New topic for Petrol Heads here Petrol Head Thread

xSilverPhinx · « **Reply #3547 on:** October 30, 2019, 04:31:39 PM »

A reason to be grumpy: time flies so fast, I can never get everything I want done.

billy rubin · « **Reply #3548 on:** October 30, 2019, 08:20:22 PM »

my foot hurts.

i live in a hundred-year old house with worn-out softwood floors, and my lovely wife has just finished digging a splinter out of the bottom of my foot that i've been trying to ignore for three days.

like this, except foot-like

Dark Lightning · « **Reply #3549 on:** October 30, 2019, 11:47:42 PM »

I usually just let the wood turn to poison and then the splinter pops out along with the pus.

I don't think that that splinter mark in the picture is going to buff out.

xSilverPhinx · « **Reply #3550 on:** October 31, 2019, 01:24:33 AM »

Quote from: Dark Lightning on October 30, 2019, 11:47:42 PM

I don't think that that splinter mark in the picture is going to buff out.

No...I don't think it is.

Tom62 · « **Reply #3551 on:** November 01, 2019, 07:47:45 PM »

Wasted four hours on my valuable spare time to finish a bloody Java programming challenge for the second part of a job interview. The challenge had little to do with programming itself, but more with how to use certain complex frameworks. Although I managed to do the challenge in time, I should have told him to stick it in a place where the sun doesn't shine. I expected a single exercise, the challenge however had twelve. Is that kind of behaviour acceptable nowadays? Maybe I should send them a big bill.

billy rubin · « **Reply #3552 on:** November 01, 2019, 09:31:13 PM »

lol

when i do a job interview they put me in a 32,000 pound truck with a 50-foot turning radius and then go look for 30-foot corners.

sometimes the truck weighs 83,000 pounds and has a 48-foot trailer, and they tell me to back it up through their congested yard to the gate 500 feet away.

Tom62 · « **Reply #3553 on:** November 02, 2019, 08:02:46 AM »

Quote from: billy rubin on November 01, 2019, 09:31:13 PM

lol

when i do a job interview they put me in a 32,000 pound truck with a 50-foot turning radius and then go look for 30-foot corners.

sometimes the truck weighs 83,000 pounds and has a 48-foot trailer, and they tell me to back it up through their congested yard to the gate 500 feet away.

Now that would be a real challenge and far more fun.

xSilverPhinx · « **Reply #3554 on:** November 03, 2019, 06:59:55 PM »

Quote from: Tom62 on November 01, 2019, 07:47:45 PM

Wasted four hours on my valuable spare time to finish a bloody Java programming challenge for the second part of a job interview. The challenge had little to do with programming itself, but more with how to use certain complex frameworks. Although I managed to do the challenge in time, I should have told him to stick it in a place where the sun doesn't shine. I expected a single exercise, the challenge however had twelve. Is that kind of behaviour acceptable nowadays? Maybe I should send them a big bill.

Job interviews - Exploiting people before they're employed.