Choo choo! All aboard the Complain Train!
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Because, "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." My job isn't a giant information network and still shit goes wrong because of communication issues over the phone or through texts. In my job we send people out to the location of our clients all the time to confirm details and see things for themselves to understand the job. Yes, jobs can be done remotely in a pinch or when someone important just can't meet in person due to distance but you can't just keep doing that and in particular the people turning up their noses piss me off.
As for pretending the pandemic isn't over, holy shit, what world do you live in compared to mine because aside from one or two stores, or one or two people wearing masks, when I go out the world looks like it did in 2019. Take precautions, don't be an idiot, don't just act as if we should just ignore being sick, but holy shit, acting as if things are no different now to what they were this time in 2020 is the real fantasy land.
I said already some some jobs can't be fully remote(yours obviously requires some on location presence) but there are plenty that can. I know I'm lucky enough to have a job where I can do everything I need to from a laptop and it works out fine. In fact, it's worked out so well that our ability to work remote has been made permanent. Sure, I sometimes have to work from the office, I can drive to the office if my laptop stops working and work from a workstation on site but a majority of the time I can work from my home on a laptop, talk to my co-workers, do presentations over videochat. It works out fine and I'm not sure why you're so mad that jobs that don't require a physical presence in the building have to be in the building especially if the company is fine with letting people work from home.
And I was alluding to it earlier that it's a lot easier to keep from getting sick and spreading sickness if you aren't around other sick people at the office because 1.) People don't have sick leave and/or 2.) People have sick leave but can't use it and/or 3.) People just come to work sick anyway because they feel pressured to work even if they're feeling awful. WFH means you can work with a cough(if you're not gonna take a sick day) and not risk getting anyone else sick(Or be responsible and wear a mask if you're coughing but a lot of people feel that makes them a commie or something).
As for the Pandemic, we just came off some massive case/hospitalization numbers over the winter because of the omicron wave and it's possible another is incoming(case numbers are going back up again) in the next few months. Nobody has declared the pandemic to be over except people who didn't think it was a thing in the first place(and just ignored the human suffering it caused). We're doing a lot better then we were in 2020 but we're not done with this yet. If we're lucky we'll be at the endemic stage sometime this year but we're the winters will probably continue to have surges and a lot more mask wearing(like when stores realizing half their staff got sick at the same time from being coughed by sick customers and suddenly having masks required in store doesn't sound like such a bad idea).
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My daughter moved back home to super save for a house. Her plan was to be here for 2 years. This meant I lose my addition where my 5.1 system is. I can live with that.
Then she got a dog. Which means sorta till she moves out, I have a dog. Thought the next time I'd be dealing with someone elses' poop, it would be grand kids dang it.
She just got a different nice car. The good news is, for the first time, she is off my insurance bill. The bad news is, her plans have changed so that she is here for 3 years.
Ah well. Keeps me on my toes.
Then she got a dog. Which means sorta till she moves out, I have a dog. Thought the next time I'd be dealing with someone elses' poop, it would be grand kids dang it.
She just got a different nice car. The good news is, for the first time, she is off my insurance bill. The bad news is, her plans have changed so that she is here for 3 years.
Ah well. Keeps me on my toes.
Funny how her plans became YOUR plans. I don't have any children, but I will forever wonder over unconditional, parental love. I mean, I love my parents unconditionally, but they took care of me for half of my life; I haven't done shit of note for them except not turn out a fuck-up if that's even worth mentioning. That said...
*sigh* These latest ads on Youtube about vaping and nicotine feel like they came out of the 90's with how melodramatic they are. Like, I don't smoke and don't think you should smoke or take addictive substances but this is just cringe with how it's presented.
After almost two weeks of constant coughing fits, a complete loss of my voice and severe sleep depravation, I have been diagnosed with walking pneumonia. And of course my local pharmacy closed half an hour before said diagnosis, so here's to another fun night of being up until half-past 3 in the morning constantly coughing!
It's why I have ad-blocker installed. Whenever I don't, or using a device that can't use the program, I get annoying Michigan based ads, or the stupid, annoying, ear splitting Liberty Mutual ads. I hate them so much!
I feel you on that. I've had infections like that, only once as bad as what you're describing, but I remember it. You have my sympathy.
Ooof, that sucks. Once had that too. Coughed so much and so violently I ended up bruising my own sternum, which of course was lots of fun. Get better soon.
This is gonna be a hot take (/s), but automated receptions when you call a store. Why do I need to vet my very real and human questions through a machine that requires I relay them in a very specific way only to hand the call off to a person after 45 seconds who then asks what my question is?!? We've tried calling multiple CVS stores just now inquiring on the availability of some oxygen tanks for an elderly friend, and each call starts with a diatribe about the pharmacy hours, COVID vaccine procedures, and a request that we say "in a few words" what we're calling about, then we're transferred to a human being who then asks what we're calling about... and that's even if someone picks up the damn phone!! I've got a solve for unemployment: make it several someone's job to answer the fucking phone, and leave the machines out of it. I don't need to "press or say" shit if I'm talking to a fucking human whose vocabulary isn't based off of a database of a select few terms it might understand. Automation in some areas is entirely overrated, mimicking convenience by being entirely inconvenient.
I appreciate the commiserations. I at least now have my sweet, sweet drugs that I am taking exactly according to directions because I am not looking to let this miserable crud get a second chance.
I feel like the entire first section of this video speaks to your travails.
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I'm trying to buy a new bookcase and I hate that I can't find pictures of bookcases with actual books on them. All the advertising photos just have the bookcases full of stupid chachkies. No I don't care what this bookshelf would look like with a globe and a bust of napoleon on it, just show it to me with some fucking books.
I'm surprised that I can't find anything about this already on the forums, but it looks like Musk buying Twitter is official.
Fuck him, and anybody who thinks people should be able to get rich enough to buy essentially a fourth of social media because they're whiny manchildren.
Fuck him, and anybody who thinks people should be able to get rich enough to buy essentially a fourth of social media because they're whiny manchildren.
What, not looking forward to a steady stream of "here's why this person who panned my latest moronic idea probably diddles children"?
...what? I mean, why do you need to see books in the advertised images? You know what books look like (more importantly, you know what YOUR books look like) and you know what shelves do; imagine that, then pick the set of stacked shelves that you find aesthetically pleasing.
Well, I would be, but I was booted off Twitter. So realistically this doesn't affect me, but having to hear about Musk in any way is torture so...
Given that Musk suffers from Asperger's, I want to applaud him for what he's been able to accomplish, but in the end, he's just another insanely rich psychopath with nothing better to do than flex his financial muscles in ways that most couldn't even fathom. I AM on Twitter a bit, but if his ownership changes anything in any appreciable way, I'll have no problem getting off the platform.
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Then why do they need to have anything on the shelves at all?
They're bookshelves, either show them bare or show them with books.
You're not wrong, just seems like an oddly specific and niggling complaint. If I saw an ad for a car I like, and a dog happened to be sitting on the roof... it wouldn't detract from my interest in the vehicle. I'd find it odd, for sure, but I wouldn't be dissatisfied enough to mention it. It's not uncommon for bookshelves to be used for stuff other than books. One could argue that in this day and age, MANY bookshelves are used for stuff other than books.