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It's no less than they deserve for making my life harder with their poor attitudes. I'm in a bad mood right now, so you'll have to excuse the name calling. And like I said, it's whites and blacks, so it's not like it's racial from my standpoint. I wouldn't be surprised at all if they had issues with taking direction from a yellow guy. In fact, in a few cases I know that was the root cause of their problems.
It's not the insults that separate higher and lower lifeforms. This is simply the superior beings acknowledging the truth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abdula
No what I meant is that you have no place in a conversation about superior beings.
-Well its isn't whether I hurt your feelings or not its just not something I think I should say.
Yes that's just unreasonable.
ugh...... thats all i have to say for today.
wow .... descended into the depths, huh?
My bitch for the day: yesterday and today I couldn't get enough sleep because recruiters started calling me at like 7:45 am.
Sure, it's my own fault for going to bed at 5 am, knowing that I'm in demand and all. But still! Effing recruiters... couldn't wait till like 11 at least?
Were they Mormons recruiting you for their religion?
Like most days, I'm happy to report no bitches today. Unfortunately a lot of people think I'm bitching when I'm just bringing up topics for discussion.
That's why I don't even give them my #...I make them email me instead.Quote:
Originally Posted by complich8
Another option is to get up a grandcentral account and just instantly send people to voicemail if you're not available.
Today I sliced my fingertip on the blade of the deli slicer and it hurt like a bitch. That thing is so damned sharp my finger wouldn't stop bleeding. At least I was smart enough to apply pressure to the cut right away and it's closed now but I'm wearing a fresh bandage just in case it re-opens. Hooray for fingertip cuts.
You work at a deli? Pretty cool man. I'd like to work at a deli.
I lost a pair of $60 sunglasses today. Add that to the $80 flashlight I lost a year ago out here, and it kind of sux.
Every time I see that word I think of "fleshlight."Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
Nope, job recruiters. Apparently someone with exactly my skillset is in an absurd level of demand around here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
However, the first interview I went to this month, I ran into some Mormons at the station while I was on my way home. I was dressed in a suit and tie carrying a backpack, they were dressed in suits and ties carrying a backpack.
They were the most understanding missionaries I've ever talked to. I didn't even have to break out my dabblings in Bible scholarship or my extensive repertoire of Zen parables to get them to go away.Quote:
Originally Posted by conversation with mormons
Anyway, Tuesday was the only day this week that I didn't have some sort of interview. Wednesday of next week is the first weekday that I don't have an interview scheduled yet. It's ... seriously getting a little out of hand. I think the interview I went to day is very likely going to result in a favorable sounding offer....
Nah, we just have a small deli at my parent's corner store...nothing crazy. I was bandage-free for a little while but then it started opening up again. I think I've gone through 5 bandages today.Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
I hope you wear gloves when preparing food with that gash. Small business ownership is even better. I worked at a Subway, which sort of counts as a deli. That sucked.Quote:
Originally Posted by fahoumh
Subway sandwiches are the best.
Depends which one and who makes them. I worked with this girl who didn't wear gloves when mixing the fake crab with mayo (by hand, not with a mixing spoon) or when making sandwiches, until it became mandatory. She still mixed the fake crab without gloves. Freaking gross.
Eww!Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
... I have an interview at 3 pm today in a place that's 20 minutes away by car, 35 minutes by bus and almost 2 hours by metro. I'm really wishing I had a car about now, but at least there is a bus that's a good option. Not like yesterday...
You don't own a car? Wow, what's that like?Quote:
Originally Posted by complich8
Maybe it's a good sign that the company isn't right for you, since it's so far away. Or is it just that the interview is far away, like at a nice restaurant?
not having a car has been pretty standard for me for a while. I had one for about 6 months in college until it broke down.
I've got roommates and friends that have taken care of transportation needs in the past, and both where I went to college and where I'm living now there's fairly extensive transit systems, so ... it works out ok either way.
But yeah, soon as I've got an offer, I'm going car shopping... there's a lot of lack of freedom when you've gotta pester your friends or roommates to go anywhere. Especially with the current roomies, who're both paranoid about their (relatively cheap, relatively shitty) cars and won't let other people drive them.
The interview today is actually at the site I'd be working. The interview yesterday was 2 and a half hours by train/bus, but is only 25-30 minutes by highway, in traffic.
Interviews... I should probably re-start sending curriculums...
current job pays well... better than what I earned on IT Testing... but Process Implementation kinda gets tedious...
I work in the same company, I just 'switched sides'. I became the 'user' who asks IT to do something...
God... I swear some people here are so damn useless... they use the damn system daily (telephone company) and never fully understand it...
But that is somewhat passable... what I hate the most is working alongside Marketing and Facturation (I am not sure about the word... but I am currently lazy and have a headache to check its the correct one)
I actually miss IT... but not working 4 extra hours daily is a bonus though...
Some guy from IT asked me if I wasn't interested on working with them, on Release Management (they manage what gets installed, and what gets installed on the -real life- server, not the testing ones. But they work almost everyday until 11pm or more... It seems interesting... and a way to learn more of Databases... but heck... they should give me at least 33% raise for me to accept that work... (usually work ends at 7pm)
Whatever...
I always wear a clean set of those disposable deli gloves when I'm slicing meat. Unless if it's for a sandwich for myself then I just wash my hands, well normally.Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
So Favre finally retired not really a bitch or a shocker, knew it was going to happen someday but still.
I interviewed for a what would have been a really good job last week. Pay wise i was thinking around 30-35,000 / year. So, today i came across this company advertising the position as $50,000 : ( *kicks self*
yesterday I had a big meeting w\ the owner, co-owner, and my 'boss' who hired me about making me full time. Basically I told them I need around $30,000 / year... so now i guess i'm waiting for them to either A.let me go, B.Hire me and pay me what I asked or C. Make an offer to pay me less than what I asked.
So now I have a handle on the job situation. I've got two offers on the table. One's a very competitive salary that I could probably get about $5k/yr more. The other's a grand less than the first's preliminary offer, and that's as high as I could get them to go, but it's a better job with better hours and benefits. Commutes are comparable.
So now I am faced with a dilemma: do I take the slightly lower-paying job with kickass benefits that'll guarantee me an 8 hour day and lower pressure, or do I take the higher-paying job with not quite as kickass benefits, which will not guarantee me 8 hour workdays?
To put it more directly: how much is 6 grand really worth to me?
That's up to you, complich8. Also depends on how much total we're talking here. $6k within the $50k range is more significant than $6k within the $100k range. For me, $6k pays about 3 months of bills....which...isn't that amazing. Over time, the cons of a job will carry much more weight than the pros, so don't accept terms that you might not be content with six months from now.
Or, if you're going to job hop like I did, which one will help you move up faster?
Well, the lower paying job is still a 12k raise over my last position, and has a stellar benefits package. As far as hopping goes, I think both are positioned as long-term, and either way I'll be doing better than average for the field, area and my experience level. Both have a lot of options and a lot of opportunity to explore, so I'm not going to stagnate like I was at my last job ...
I think I'm going to take the lower-paid one though. My gut feeling is that the pros outmatch the takehome pay difference (which would be ~$350/mo after taxes and whatnot). I mean ... the benefits package is absurdly good...
I took my car to get scheduled maintenance done today, and the $350 job turned into a $625 job when they found that one of my motor mounts was broken, and then when they replaced it and it didn't fit right they informed me that my 'sub-frame' is bent....
this means that the body shop i had my car in last year completely failed. they didn't even see this damage when they had my car, and this will be yet another thing on the long list i have of their failures. This is such a hassle, grrrrrrr.
Yeah, cars are damned expensive. Sucks to hear about yours. Hopefully things will eventually get straightened out for you.
My girlfriend is pregnant...
Congrats?!
....right?
No.
I'm 18 years old, just beginning to grow up from crazy angst emo makeup wierd haircute clothe dude into an ordinary pretty thai boy.
And she's not really into abort(?)..
well then how the hell did you get yourself in that position?
I have no idea.
Shit happens and it happens now. Shit shit scared that she can't do abortion (?).
if this were in another situation, like I had an apartment, sure, I would actually want to keep the baby but not while I still live with my parents.
- bad grammar and spelling
A lot of GW members seem to be pretty bad at this...
It appears that alot of anime and manga fans have this issue as well... must be the hentai as no condoms are ever used in it.
I think he was talking about the grammar and spelling.:confused:
I think he was referring to the number of people here who are from countries that don't practice contraception and population control.
My bitch: I owe $1038 in taxes for 2007. With the rebate check of $600 coming in a few months, it'll be only $438, but it still hurts. Well, not really.
Assertn's comment makes more sense if you've spent time on irc within the past few years.
Chiodos, why not just give the baby up for adoption then?
Yeah, if you had been there it would make a Whole lot more sense. Chiodos, hope things work out for you and best of wishes in whatever happens.Quote:
Originally Posted by KitKat
Someone's parents never had the Birds & the Bees talk with them...Quote:
Originally Posted by darkshadow
Quote:
Originally Posted by Spiegel
[ 18:29:07 ] *[ @Spiegel ] HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAAAAAAAAA
[ 18:29:12 ] *[ @Spiegel ] I mean, poor Chiodos
[ 18:30:14 ] *[ Joker-kun ] lol, nice Spiegel
you are so mean Spiegs ;o
Such malice.....
I have experience in his pain, it gives me right to laugh.
Questions:
How the hell is everyone getting laid but me?
How the hell isn't this thread in the pit?
Where do babies come from?
So what's the plan now Chiodos ?
Today bitch...
Last tuesday an 'unexpected' hurricane, without rain, assaulted the city.
We had car crashes, evacuated buildings because windows were falling, fallen trees, fallen... err... how do you call them... the big advertisements on the streets? the ones with coca cola and all that shit... well those...
One of these fell over a passenger bus, while it was moving. The crash was... spectacular... anyways...
We also had the power cut... from tuesday night until friday night... then again on sunday... and yet again today...
Almost 90% of the city didn't had light...
I really do not care about the city though... but it left me... incommunicated... I took vacations, but decided to spend them at home... no phone, no tv, no computer, no battery for laptop... no friends because they were working... bleh!
You probably know the answer to that.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Archangel
This thread is civil. The pit is not. Clearly you don't understand the difference between the pit and the rest of the boards. I suggest you re-read the description of the pit as found on the front page of the forums, and the "welcome" sticky in the pit itself.Quote:
How the hell isn't this thread in the pit?
And, to stay topical...
My bitch of the day: the recruiter who was trying to get me to take a worse job than the job I took totally fucking lied to me, because he was pissed about losing the commission for finding me. He told me I should expect 2 or 3 hours a day to go the 16 miles south to get to work if I took the job I took (as opposed to the pretty much guaranteed 20 minute northbound ride it'd be to take the job he was recruiting me for). But today I drove it between 8:30 and 9:00 am (pretty much peak rush hour), and it took like exactly half an hour. And that was with an accident causing slowdowns about halfway there.
Seriously, he was offering a pretty comical amount of money while I was on contract, but that'd just make the pay cut of going permanent sting more. And a 9-10+ hour workday + 40 minute round trip commute is WAY worse than an 8 hour workday + 60 minute commute.
Also, the salary they wanted to hire me (promising me 50+ hour workweeks) was, given the amount of work I'd be doing, NOT comparable to the salary I got. In retrospect, them trying to sell it like it was a great position was just ... shitty, really. If you need 60 hours a week of sysadmin work fighting fires, you don't hire one good sysadmin and expect him to put in crap hours, you hire two good sysadmins and expect them to keep up with the fires and improve the setup to the point where they're not constantly firefighting, and hope that either your business grows to support the need for them as they get on top of things.
Wow nice. Its been so long, I actually miss the hurricane season. I much prefer my NYC weather though cold, dark and wet.Quote:
Originally Posted by RyougaZell
Break out the candles and the flashlights and invite anyone over who is willing and able. Good times, good times.
Ah, I see.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spiegel
Sad thing is it came un-announced (sp?). It took everyone by surprise. And the media classify it as a hurricane... but it did not even get a name or anything.
Heck... it did not even rain... it just... had wind... at 120km per hour...
Im trying to find a better video... but here you can see the bus crashing, plus the sound and strenght of the wind
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5GYhvHQhEL8
EDIT:
Another of the bus:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jBe4cHPrN6o
Wind:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BQWw7DbmcvM&feature=related
A good summary:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_6XacsgnBIQ&feature=related
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Archangel
The plan? All I can do is give her support, show that I care and i actually want, how painfull it is for her, share all the shit with me.
I told her that we're in this together, whatever difficulties that she will face.
Today, soon, she try a pregnancy (?) test but the signs that's been showing, I am 69.83% that she is positive.
The thing is, in the current situation, I, we, can hardly keep the child. I don't really have that big fucking great future the way I've been raised but she has. I know I am labelling her but she has a big fucking talent and I don't want to ruin that for her. Atleast not yet.
I want to actually show the kid that there is a way fucking better world than the world that I live in. How naive and childish that seems to be.
ugh... yeah another one, actually, make that a very big fucking UGH.... ;(..
The bitching for the day?
Yes.
I will miss In Flames 3 times this year.
I was thinking of catching In Flames at the Village in 3 weeks or so, but I dunno. Their new stuff is really underwhelming. Children of Bodom and Job for a Cowboy are kind of alternately opening for them. Of course it would be JFAC opening at my show. Ugh.
Come Clarity was way better than their newest but meh, I still wanna see them even if their not the greatest band live. But still... : )
I was looking at the top 10 rated musical venues in DC.
Apparently, there's like two concerts that I think might be worth seeing in the next two months. One of them is already sold out, and the other is like $45 per ticket for a group of 6 or so bands playing, which means the one band in the group I'd be interested in seeing is going to have like a 3 song setlist.
Hmm...A minor complaint, but the other day I went out with a couple of friends to this event called "Club Day", where you are able to go to a bunch of clubs in an area of Seoul for a flat rate...long story short, one of my friends says "Let's get fucked up", which I thought he meant that we should just have a couple of shots; but he literally got so drunk that we had to chase him down (much to the chagrin of a few lusty ladies) and force him into a taxi. Nothing against getting drunk, but I wanted to get that off my chest, so to speak.
There's no need to sound so vague. Who's playing? Abba?Quote:
Originally Posted by complich8
actually it's worse now ...
Ensiferum is in the group of six, and they're sold out. Symphony X is a little more expensive and will sell out before I have a chance to convince my cohorts to check it out. I don't even remember who the more expensive performances at other venues were, because I wasn't really even into seeing them.
That's the big problem: the groups I'd want to see perform aren't coming here any time soon. I'm stuck debating whether it's worth the cash to go see hit-or-miss local shows at $15-$20 a pop to try to broaden my pool a little... but my roommates are kind of lame as far as willingness to go out and do stuff goes, so I'll probably be on my own if I do start doing that stuff.
K im down for some bitching:
I went to the barbed today and got maimed. Seriously i'm never going back to that place again. It's gonna be a long couple of weeks...
so....2 spider sightings in the apartment, one being a brown recluse prompted the over-reaction of bombing the apartment...
we were at home depot. i found a nice huge bottle of some sort of spray, labelled as scentless... the wife was eyeing the bombs and said something about it would take less time... and what not.
so, i get home at 9:30 after a very long day and its a disaster... everything needs to be whiped down and cleaned. omfg, this is seriously a nightmare. And im taking a break because apparently i wasn't doing things right after vacuuming the bedroom thoroughly, i un-bagged alot of our laundry so it can be folded and put away. i cant do that right so i'm just going to whine on here, and go play some counterstrike in a minute.
why didnt you just smash the damn thing, its freaking tiny.
Which would make it hard to find, which would make it hard to kill, which is why he used the fogger.Quote:
Originally Posted by darkshadow
@itadakimasu: at least it gave you a good excuse to clean the place for the first time in months.
By bitch: blowhards. People who talk like they know what they're talking about, when you know they don't know sh*t. Frustrating as f*ck to listen to one of these people go on and on, using key and buzz words the other guy provides, in order to make him sound like he knows something. People need some f*cking integrity. If you don't know what you're talking about, shut the f*ck up.
I don't mind April's Fools... in fact I love to see all the jokes posted... but what I hate is when the April's Fools jokes start 3 days prior to the damn day.
Downloaded the srt/ass file for hack TRILOGY, which I've waited forever, just to find it was a stupid joke. Bah!
I feel like bitching.
Those retards at that damn store didn't keep my jacket for me. So when my mom went to pick it up, NOTHING. So she figured she'd get me a new one from the shelf, but they didn't have my size anymore.
SEE. That's what happens when you procrastinate. I was supposed to pick up the jacket on Saturday...so she probably sold it. Or something. (but they normally keep stuff for 2 weeks. it was kepy for like, 5 days.)
Whore.
...That was MY jacket! :(
Yes, this irritates me on a daily basis.Quote:
By bitch: blowhards. People who talk like they know what they're talking about, when you know they don't know sh*t. Frustrating as f*ck to listen to one of these people go on and on, using key and buzz words the other guy provides, in order to make him sound like he knows something. People need some f*cking integrity. If you don't know what you're talking about, shut the f*ck up.
I've only slept 7 hours in the past 60. I almost couldn't stay awake last night, but luckily I never drink caffeinated beverages so pepsi is like a wonder drug for keeping me awake. I ended up handing in a 35% paper today that I wasn't happy with at all. I have another 30% paper due on Friday, as well as 4 job applications and a scholarship application due tomorrow. I thought that in linguistics I'd be free from this kind of stress. And I'm at the stage of sleep deprivation where I can't even be angry about it. Instead, I really just want to sit down in the middle of the computer lab and cry. Seriously, missing this much sleep messes with your emotions. I almost spent the entire night here last night, and I haven't eaten today because I've been feverishly working on my paper and then had 5 hours straight of class. I just keep reminding myself that it'll be over in two weeks. I want to go home.
I'll slow down the fire in this bitching thread and sayyy....
Today, I missed the buss from my girlfriend (late night) and had to WALK all the way home. You know what? It was super cold and I wore not so much clothing becuse the morning was summer hot AND the lights where all out...
Soo.....walking VERY long in the dark on the streets?
Hell no, never again!
Also, the Doc just said that if I take much more headache pills, I will die becuse the pills make some protective bakteria in your stumache go away wich will end up inside burnings... Ouch.
Erm....what type of headache pills do that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Chiodos
It's called.......
Alvedon in Sweden, the most common anti-headacke pill and it actually has this thing if you overuse it it may kill or lower the restistant bakteria prodiction inside your liver(sp?) and it may cause inside burning.
Wich will pretty much kill you, depends on the how much you take, whatever you've blend it with or if you take....
for instance a pill per day, it'll make your liver...not ROT but...
This was an interesting day in a very shitty manner.
It all started when I turned on my trusty (or so I thought) computer. I was greeted by a disk error instead of XP launching. Whilst still wondering what the heck happened, I noticed a bright flash from inside the case, and then the undulating toxic smell of components burning. After venting out the smoke I realised my main anime HD had indeed caught fire and was ruined beyond redemption. And my system drive was corrupted enough that even XP repair install wouldn't help it.
It turned out the IDE channel (yeah, I'm still using those instead of SATA), was rendered nonfunctional. Maybe it was caused by the HD that caught fire, maybe not, but it was enough to cause the XP on the system drive to go bad when I was trying to figure out why it didn't boot.
Ready to either take my katana and disembowel myself or do something about the whole mess I took the burnt drive to the shop, for, surprise surprise, it still had exactly one month of warranty left. Then I got myself a new HD because I wanted to save what I could from the corrupted system drive. And after installing XP on the new drive I was able to do that, using an external HD case to host the old system drive.
So, now I'm left with only one working IDE channel, and a fresh XP installation with nothing but virus scanner+firewall, Firefox and mIRC running. And some 100 gigas of downloaded anime poorer.
The only bright side of this all is that I lost the Rosario+Vampire anime episodes in the fire.
Ah, I was wondering what that was. Alvedon's active ingredient = Paracetamol. Basically, when it's metabolised in your liver, it breaks down to an intermediate, which is toxic. It's probably the safest pain killer in terms of side FX, compared to NSAIDS like ibuprofen, but is easy to overdose on. I think >4g a day = die of liver failure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chiodos
/off topic.
edit: How do hard drives catch on fire? I only have one, so I'm stuffed if that happened too. It's under warranty, but prevention is better than cure.
This part broke my heart, KitKat. I really hope your job applications go well and you get some much-needed sleep and good, hot food. Sleep deprivation is awful.Quote:
Originally Posted by KitKat
I have a strange complaint today: My roommate ate some of my peanut butter. I'm not too angry about that part, since I couldn't care less if he ate my food. I'm glad to share.
But did he have to mess it up? I had originally cut a line in the middle of the jar and only took peanut butter from one side. I was really looking forward to seeing a peanut butter jar half-full only on one side (for the lulz, as usual), but I just opened it up to find two clumsy scoops missing from the untouched half of the jar. I'm not usually anal about peanut butter, but Goddamn. I was working really carefully at that :mad:.
Don't ask me. Based on all the descriptions of hard drive failures I've read (like clicks of death, ball bearing failures and such) a spontaneous self-combustion was the last thing I expected.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
I should have taken a photo of it. But you never come to think of that when it matters the most (or when it's your own precious stuff that gets destroyed, and so you can't heartily laugh at it).
2 of my other roommates and I had a similar problem like this too...food was being stolen from the 3 of us and we all knew who it was. But the fact that pissed us off was that he lied about it. I'm happy to share my food anytime with someone who needs it...none of us understand why he never asked either. We confronted him about it too and he gave us his word that he'd stop AND he'd finally pay for the utilities I had been covering him for so I'm seriously like praying I get my money from him before I move out and the semester is over.Quote:
Originally Posted by XanBcoo
Although I looked at my bag of rice and it was in a different position today and the rice cooker wasn't washed too...I kind of hope I'm just being paranoid. I don't want to go through this crap again. -___-
Not paying the utilities and not cleaning the rice cooker? I wish that was the extent of my problem with my previous roommate.
lol i'm sorry, but that actually is a really strange complaint. kinda funny, really. although a half-full jar of peanut butter would be pretty neat.Quote:
Originally Posted by XanBcoo
my bitch: i can't find my pen stylus for my tablet. i've got a drawing that i've been working on for the last forever, and i really wanted to get some more of it done tonight, but my pen's apparently vanished into thin air, and i have no spares. i also have no idea how to go about acquiring another one, short of paying twice as much and waiting a week to get one off ebay.
I've got a similar problem with my tab, but since it's fried anyway, what use is the stylus?Quote:
Originally Posted by saman
Bitch for today: Library fines
Yesterday I had returned some books to the library that were both overdue. Now, I don't mind paying the fine on mine, but then my parents had me return DVDs that they took out, and are asking me to pay the fine on them. This is supreme bullshit. So, instead of paying only forty cents, I'm stuck paying $20.40, just because my parents can't return their own damn stuff.
Point of our stories: Roommates suck.Quote:
Originally Posted by Assertn
Another bitch: Not that the topic of economics is particularly hard but originally ALL our exams were done online. Exams include 2 quizzes, a midterm, and the final. But dammit...that's been taken away from us now. Apparently the Dean of Students sat in on one of my professors lectures (she's not a very good professor imo) and there were a couple of students talking about how easy it was cheat in class and how the class was a joke.
The Dean overheard them and naturally, got pissed off. So now my quiz tomorrow and the final exam will be in class and closed book. This class would've been a free ride but now I have to put some work into it now because of these idiots. I have my other pharmacy classes to worry about than this. -__- Seriously, you don't talk about how easy it is to CHEAT in class, especially if its THAT class you're talking about. That day the professor told us what happened I felt really bad for her though. She didn't even want to teach that day. I don't think she teaches very well but she just basically got hit in the face with a topic she really cares about.
Why are there idiots in this world? :(
WOOT! Another pharmacy student. :) We have some online quizes as well, but they're different. These ones are formative, but you have to get 100%. Unlimited tries. Thing is, it's the same questions exactly again and again, so you pretty much fail if you can't get it right second time round.Quote:
Originally Posted by NM
NM, are you doing a ECO/PHRM dual degree or something? Got confused.:confused:
Finals coming up. 6 finals in 10 days. WOOT!
Pharmacy students FTW!! But Economics is just a required class for us, I'm not doing it for an Economics degree or anything. I may consider getting my MBA though after I get my Pharm D. But I think I want to stick with practicing pharmacy instead. Now I know who to go after if I have questions here on the forum. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Today's bitch: Sunday Depression.
Every frickin' Sunday I feel it, and I curse it, but I just can't get around it. I just can't wait for summertime. :P
Summer time? I never have summer time. It's still school/work for the next two and a half years with no break.
It will be a good trial run for the rest of your life where you don't get any extended breaks except a yearly 2 week vacation and an occasional 3 or 4 day weekend. It's all downhill after college until retirement, at which time you're too old and tired to really enjoy it.
What do you do BoC? Sounds like you're doing some accelerated summer semester courses or something..Quote:
Originally Posted by Board of Command
I'm in a co-op program. It means I have alternating 4-month school/work terms. Work terms are mandatory and are generally real jobs, hence why I'm at ATI.
Dude, forget I said anything. I wouldn't want to be in your shoes...
Now for my real bitch:
I hate group projects. People have proved time and time again that they are always able to find some way to let me down. I just don't understand their mindsets behind this. It's okay if it's an individual mark and if you don't care enough to do a decent job then so be it. However, if you're in a group then you drag everyone down. Are they not aware of this? Do they not care about what the other group members think of them? Do they not feel guilty when someone else (ie. me) puts in a lot of effort and tries to pull the group together, while they exert a half-assed effort and let others down?
I never drag the group down because I never put myself in a position to do so. I'm always the unofficial, unelected group leader who organizes everything and assigns work to others. Of course, I also assign work to myself, and usually a large chunk at that. I do this because I no longer trust other people. I no longer believe that the other members can do as good a job as me no matter what kind of work they take on. So far throughout my life, there hasn't been a single exception to this trend. I've always been the "best" group member.
My most recent group project was no different. I pretty much organized everything and the others didn't seem to mind. It's always good for one person to stand up and rally the troops.
Problem with Member #1
This person said he'll write a majority of the report in return for not having to do any of the hands on part (building a bridge). Nobody opposed this idea, so he went ahead and did his thing. Originally, I told the group that I'll do the final editing of the report after everyone's done writing. Nobody opposed that idea either. Two nights before the due date, the guys were still quite behind on the report, so this person said he'll do the final editing instead. I okay'd it since I still had quite a bit to write, and I figured it can't be that hard. On the night before the project was due, the other two guys still haven't finished their parts (very small parts, actually), and it was already past midnight. This person told me he'll definitely have everything done and ready to go by the next morning, when the project is due. He also said he'll email out a copy of the finished report the following morning for everyone to check before he prints it.
The next morning, I get to class early and check my email. There it is - the final report. However, it was missing stuff on the title page, it was missing a list of references, it was badly formatted. I immediately sent out an email for him to fix some stuff. A few minutes later, I logged onto MSN in hopes that he would still be online, and he was indeed. I told him I skimmed through the report and mailed out a list of small changes that must be incorporated before he prints it. He then replied as if he read my email and is making those changes as we spoke. Great. 20 minutes later, he comes to class with the report printed out and none of the changes were made. I asked him what happened, and he said I never told him about any changes.
WTF...?
And we got a shitty mark on the report.
Problem with Members #2 and #3
These two never show up on time. One of these guys had our finished project (the bridge) and all he had to do was bring it from his dorm to class at 10 AM. He couldn't do that. It was 9:55 and he still didn't show up, so I was pretty worried. I called him and he doesn't pick up his phone. He eventually arrived at 10:20 and I didn't even bother asking him where he was. I no longer cared.
The other guy is horrible with communication. It felt like he never reads any emails, but he does.
Throughout this entire project, I did all I could to divide the work fairly among the four members. Why can't everyone just do their share? If I could write the entire report by myself, trust me I would. However, I couldn't because I also need to be there for the hands-on work because the other guys might not know how to build it for whatever reason. Even though I pretty much designed the whole thing myself, the other two guys appeared to be on the same page as me. It was a millboard bridge that held 460 lb., which put us near the top of the class. So yeah...I believe I did my part in terms of the design work.
The worst part about all of this is that I feel like all of this was beyond my control. I gave an honest effort and the rest was up to them, and they utterly and completely let me down. I just don't understand these other guys. They have less work than me, yet they do a poorer job and drag the entire group down with them.
That's pretty much the same reason I never like to work in groups. In fact, only recently, I was placed in a group with two other guys to create a report and presentation about the slang of the twenties. I said I would do the whole essay, while they only had to worry about the presentation. My report pretty much saved the grades. I got an 88 while the other two got 70s.
i really really need to stop going to US sites checking prices whenever im going to buy some electronics... Currently in the market for a camera and stumbled over the fact that cameras such as this HV10 is 320€ in usa and around 1100€ here. I know it's more expensive here due to higher salaries, currencies, taxes etc, but still irritates me as much every time.
Someone send it to me >_>
Sure, send $500US cash to me, and your new camera should show up in the next couple weeks.
It's been a bitch-free kind of day today. Besides having to put up with some truckers hanging out in my office, it was slow and a buddy showed me a cool manga scan website so I got to read some manga. I'm also one step closer to setting up an Xbox360 in my office to help pass the time. Not a bad day at all. Oh, and there's shrimp creole for dinner at the cafeteria. Here's hoping I don't jinx it and it tastes as excellent as usual.
edit: the shrimp creole was as awesome as usual.
Today's Bitch: Writer's Block
Ugh. Over the past six months, I've been working on a fanfiction series (laugh all you want). Only recently, I've gotten the case of writer's block where you can write something coherently, but you friggin' hate what you write. Nothing seems to be working. I've chalked it up to not writing my work down in longhand, but I'm kind of doubting that's the whole thing. I don't want to take any breaks, 'cause then I'm worried about not remembering half of my plot and screwing something up. Also, I can't stop because I've already started the latest installment in the series. So, I'm stuck, screwed.
Another possibility I've come up with is that I'm spending too much time on GotWoot, but that can't be the case, can it? XD
Anyway, that's all I got. Ani, glad to hear your shrimp was satisfying.
python862, too much time on Gotwoot? Then don't go to the AnimeNewsNetwork forums. But I'm not here to only bitch about those. Rather, the force inside compels me to keep posting there.
Full of elitists more often than not, idiots, and the occasional staff member with a very clear opinion who are more often than not completely closed to other viewpoints not on, or contrary to, their agenda. The pervasive holier-than-thou attitude through the forums against the Nazi-esque evil that are "fansubs."
Yet for some ungodly reason...I post there from time to time. Each time my posts (in response to someone else's) are utterly ignored. If you want a response, you have no choice but to Troll. Or I see willful ignorance rather than even the slimmest shred of research or unbiased opinion...and then I swear I will never post there again.
Definitely a better idea to just stay on Gotwoot.
Troll ? What's that : )?
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I've been looking at this for the last three days and it never changes and this James person doesn't even have a single post. I only noticed it a few days ago so I don't know how long its been happening but its just plain weird.
I noticed that too. I was thinking "he knows someone here, and he's PMing, but no posts.....Okay......
Have spambots learnt how to PM yet? (btw, Abdula, why's your post in the bitching thread?)
Clearly, spambots have learned to PM. That guy dropped off about 2000 private message in two days or so.
I've since banned him, banned his ip, and banned his email provider. Let me know if it happens again.
Geez, I go visit Chicago for a few days, and now im expected to be my mother's private chauffeur just because she used her debit card to get my rental car (I actually paid for it in full). I have no free time to myself on my vacation. I'm kinda looking forward to going back to Korea (almost).
This, really, truly does suck. That's why whenever I'm in a group, I step my game up, even taking on the responsibilities of others if necessary. Sounds to me like you were the lead in this project. In future projects, you might want to consider the following: These projects are usually long-term. If you're playing "team lead", you might want to consider overviewing the entire project, and dividing the work as fairly as you can (which doesn't necessarily mean equally). Both of these you've done. But the problem in how you handled it was you took their word that they would do what they said they would.Quote:
Originally Posted by Board of Command
There's a way around having to deal with this. Take a look at each person's responsibilities, and come up with what you feel are mini-milestones, for each person. Then, come up with set deadlines for each of them to reach those mini milestones. You may want to involve the group in coming up with this (or at least make it look like you involved them). Once the group agrees, whether or not they do what they should have, or perform as they should have, you have several points at which to evaluate where this project is heading, and try to take measures to improve the situation. Some other points are, if you do this, you might be able to go to whomever is going to evaluate your work, let that person or those persons know you did this, and then let them know that one or more of the the group members are jacking off when they should be working. You'll have very specific points that make that professor or boss sympathize with you and possibly aid you. Otherwise, you get what you got, assed out, and at the last minute, without a damned thing you can do. Again, I'm sorry man, that sucks.
Because it was beginning to seriously annoy me and I couldn't think of anywhere else to post it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Thanks and I will.Quote:
Originally Posted by complich8
i've been fairly sick these last few days and i'm getting better, but at the moment, i have no sense of taste left. i tried to have some fruit salad today, and it tasted like someone had poured chlorine over it. blech. it made me sad, because i love fruit salad :(
I'm sorry to hear that. I hate it when that happens! Every morning, I would anticipate getting my senses back. =DQuote:
Originally Posted by saman
I hope you get better soon!!! Then you can enjoy all the fruit salads you want!!!