teh flu- voice gone, fever, flushed, flop sweats, chills, sore throat, runny nose, aches, lungs full o crud, appetite suppressed, work not getting done, blah blah blah :thepain:

Awww, here griff:

Strep throat. My son has it. I have it. The odds of my wife and daughter escaping seem small.

That looks like a Flint painting of the world.

damn computer viruses.

I thought it was alphabet flu.

but its so... so... beautiful.

Fastest moving cold ever, goes from nothing in the morning, to severe coughing around noon, sore throat by 3, nasal stuff by 7 and now this morning a head so full of fluid that it threatens to push all other organs out of my skull.

UT, you might want to get one of those screen protectors.

i knew you were in trouble when i saw mr dallas blow on you last night.

Over 300 letter mailout to go out
All envelopes labelled up and franked
But STILL waiting for client to approve the contents

Bearing in mind it's 17.20 and the post is collected from 17.30-18.00 I guess I'm coming in to do it tomorrow (which is a holiday here)

sigh

yeah....
that's some bad joo joo thar, steve. you infected him virtually.

::makes a note of this shit::
-note to self.....never piss strepdallas off in the chatroom. checkcheck!

So I'm home again today due to strep. (24 hrs. after starting meds to become non-contagious.)

Tomorrow is Good Friday, which is a holiday at my job.

As often (but not always) happens they've decided to close a couple hours early this afternoon. Therefore, I had to "waste" a sick day on a perfectly good work day when a) there wouldn't have been many people there anyway and b) I could have gone home early.

Now I'm mildly irritated because I just remembered Good Friday is one of the few holidays for which we don't get a day off. Yeah, I'm spoiled.

we get fucked out of all of our holidays. fucked hard.

I bet you do. I always think about people in lines of work like yours, where you work a lot of holidays. Are sales up because others are off work, or are they usually otherwise occupied but you need to be there for those who do come to buy?

mostly it's because we're all whores. the owners fear that if they close, and the guy down the street is open, he'll lose deals. which is probably true, but to be open on new years day is just sick.

what i meant about getting fucked is that on the rare occasion that we actually close....like thanksgiving and christmas.....we have to work our day off.

man.....now i'm all bitter.

This is "mildly irritated." "Bitter" is the thread across the hall.[/Monty Python]

Sorry, man. When I win a bigass bunch of money, I will buy my beamer z4 from you, if you sell them.

Dude, I sooo remember that. We actually got all the owners on our street to agree to close on sundays. It was acknowledged that if one opened all would reopen. Each store was averaging 5/6 sales per sunday - not enough to make it worthwhile, but they were so stinking paranoid that the first two weeks they made a skeleton crew come in and just sit there while they watched the other dealerships on the street to see if they stayed closed. We just sat there and played cards with the doors closed and lights off. On the third week the Buick store's sales manager sent one of his guys after someone just window shopping. We were all reopened within an hour.

I remember years ago I worked a a large chain craft store which shall not be named, and they decided to open on Christmas. Luckily for me, my job depended on UPS and FEDEX deliveries, and their bosses were sane so I got to stay home that day. Since then, the poor sales that day have made them decide against opening on Christmas, Thanksgiving etc

I worked a second job at the Country Club for quite some time (also did full-time when I was between other jobs) and the two biggest days of the year were Easter and Mother's Day. I"m talking hundreds of people, double seatings, etc. We worked our butts off and all I could think about was my family having a great time together. And, it wasn't lucrative, they aren't supposed to tip at the Club (15 % gratuity added to checks but we never saw it.) I hated it. So, I am sooooooooo spoiled now, and it eases the pain of some of the other not so great things.

The guy across the hall who listens to all phone messages on speaker phone at high volume (and usually calls back that way too.) I just heard some helicopter mom saying "blah blah blah financial aid blah blah do we do blah blah ICK CETERA ICK CETERA."

People who say ick cetera should be shot. People who say it twice, when one ick cetera already encompasses any future ceteras, should be drawn and quartered, and then shot.

Seriously.

From the start of the day:
Our blender is broken. WHY is it still there HM, I thought you'd fixed it? If it's broken - bin it!
So I put my smoothie in progress in the Magic Bullet (more washing up) which made a fierce racket and didn't blend properly either. Had to throw 1/3 of smoothie away due to big lumps of banan (bleurgh) left in it.

Diz tried to pee on the mat. I am all for bringing the litter tray back, but HM wants to carry on. It worried me because I'm not meeting my cats' needs at present so they are making their own choices and it's not their fault that the choice is wrong. Anyway, I chucked him out, and this way learned the cat flap is not working, as he was waiting, shivering 45 mins later when I left the house.

I noticed HM has put wet washing to dry overlapping my should-be-dry-by-now washing. Okay the top I wanted to wear was dry, but I object on the grounds of common sense - I told him last night not to put another wash on, he needed a clean white shirt for tonight at approx 18.00 so there wasn't really any need to get it done before my clothes were dry.

People keep ringing about the Olympic Torch finale - all well and good, but every single call so far has been answered in the information pack they have received. Sigh.

Despite this, I am actually very happy as I have been paid, I have a smaller pair of trousers on today and I am on top of my work (and therefore slacking in the Cellar while the office is empty)

Oops - just remembered another thing. My sister's birthday tomorrow and I thought I'd send her something from Lush - nice & small, goes in the post, token gift etc. Oops, forgot. I don't live in Leicester any more and there is no Lush within walking distance. She'll just have to have a card like the last few years!

I poked the side of the top of my foot with a stick yesterday, and it's mildly to moderately irritating me today. I'll keep you updated.

:corn:

I'm going to count apprehension as mild irritation:

I don't know if Homeless Guy will be gone when I get home or not. He either a) quit his job b) decided not to go to his job last night c) actually did get suspended for an error (although he told me last week it was a write-up and his supervisor told him not to worry about it) d) got fired or e) quit going and quit going long before last night (but he did give me his bi-monthly, bi-weekly, whatever it is...every two weeks contribution last night.) He has been employed for about 3 months after about a year and half of not working.

I told him this morning he might want to check to see if his sister wants a roommate. I said I can't go through all that crap again (i.e. supporting him.) He asked me why I was upset when after all he is the one who should be upset and what does it have to do with me?

What it has to do with me is that I can't support a guy who I'm not even in a relationship with.

Still, here I am feeling bad. But, him moving would be the best thing for all. This is going nowhere, it's been going nowhere, and it will continue to go nowhere.

That is all. :(

Sincerely,

Lois Loan

OMFG my SourceAnyWhere connection is going so goddamn slowly today, at this rate it's going to take me over an hour to check in less than thirty stupid files. But they're all in different folders, see, so I can't even select all of them and just let the stupid thing run, I have to start off a new process every 2 minutes.

The correct answer is, of course, "It has nothing to do with me, since you are not living here anymore. Get out. And you still owe me the money from last night, whenever your lazy ass does get another job."

Thanks Clod. (I'm such a freaking wimp.) :blush:

What kind of development are you doing?[/nosy]

Heh... It's educational software (both for traditional education as well as corporate training programs,) but the actual development's not my department, I just provide the source audio files for the deploy.

I haven't heard anything from the temp agency yet.

this is all made up, right?

Call them.

I'm supposed to be having a birthday party Sat night, but Red was diagnosed with Influenza B yesterday despite getting a flu shot. I'm not irritated at him, just the virus and the really bad timing. We even were having the kid shipped off to grandmas for the night. *sigh*

No way! I am sorry, Labrat. :(

what's mildly irritating me today?

all you clique-y motherf*ck**s!

Harrrrrrumph! :mad:

Snow overnight. Slick roads. Fatalities reported during drive time traffic reports. Interstate lanes closed due to ice. Good grief.

the damn comb binding machine. Urg.

people who pass themselves off as considerate posters posting clickies that actually download shite rather than taking you to the site where you can decide for yourself if you want it. One more on the Do Not Trust list.

The weather, it's only been in the mid 70's. I am ready for summer.

:lol: We got 4 inches of the white stuff again last night :rolleyes: -the pool opens in 59 days ffs

Uh...want to share with the class...whose links we should avoid?

Yeah really - I missed that too.

I called and spoke with their not-the-brightest-bulb-in-the-box receptionist....and I've been "put on the active list" so...we'll see.

In my temp agency experience, you need to call every morning until you have an assignment.

Depends on the agency really.
I was registered with a good one and ended up friends with someone who used to work there. They hated the temps who kept calling, because the agency really was on top of things.

Then again I was registered with a place that asked my 3 times for my CV for 3 different permanent placements, despite the fact they were supposedly looking for temp work for me. Riiiiiiight. Got nothing from them at all in the end - no interviews, no temp work, nada. Hope their children went hungry.

The microwave started emitting sparks/lightning this morning. (Inside the cooking chamber.) Further investigation showed they were coming from a part of the side panel that seemed to be burned and weakened. Indeed it sort of collapsed when I pressed my finger against it.

We now have a new one... spending the money was aggravating, but not so much as the process of shopping & picking one out.

I missed my nap.

Next time, reduce your elevation.

Gastro

Pukey smelling leather car interior

Dryer's broken, so I cant dry sheets that I have changed twice a nite for the weekend

I've decided to finally yank my resume from the major job sites: Monster, CareerBuilder and HotJobs. Back in the day, they were incredibly useful, and I've actually gotten a job off each of them. Now, you just get the shit spammed out of you with suspicious foreign job offers or companies that don't seem to even look at your resume. I've had enough of that bullshit...I'll stick to the local sites that I use, which don't seem to suffer from that crap.

Yea...Syc..I'm screening people now before I send the resume. They may get my e-mail addy but not a scrap more before they talk to me. They don't get a first and last name either. People understand the need for exercising caution, and that also makes you look good. All you have to do is be polite and request information about the job and show interest in what they are doing. They will reply....and then you are able to judge what you are dealing with. And forward your res. from there.

I will never send out my resume or post it for the anonymous again. That was a dumb idea. If people are really interested in hiring someone they will not mind disclosing a little bit about who they are and their company first. That method saved my ass the other day. They have to contact me personally before they get their hands on my info. Duh. Seemed like a good idea for a long time. It's just not. Heh.

I screened these guys the other day before I sent the resume. The ad on craigslist seemed pretty legit. (office position admin. assist.) This is a snippet of their response:

Position Description:
Your responsibilities will involve processing responses from online ads (this
process is fully covered in the step-by-step training.) You may choose to work
part-time or full-time, and earn $1000-$3000+ per week. You do not have to contact
anyone by phone. All you need is a computer with a valid e-mail address and
basic typing skills. Each ad takes approx. 15-20 minutes to process - you will have a
virtually unlimited amount of ads so you may work as much as you want and
at the time you choose. There is no contract to sign and the amount of work you
choose to do is up to you. This opportunity has unlimited possibilities - a
perfect option for stay at home moms or dads, college students or anyone who
wants their work to revolve around their life, and not the other way around.

Compensation:
You will be paid $25 to $35 for each ad that you process, depending on the ad
you choose. Payments will be made directly to you. The typical rep will make
$60-80/day with at least 2-3 hours of work.


:(
How ironic, processing fake ads, like the one you responded to. F'ing great.

I didn't quite yank my resume--I decided to change my settings to anonymous for now--but I'm still getting shitty job offers. I think I'll actually hide the resumes tonight.

I have absolutely no sales experience...mostly training/development and management. How the fuck do people translate that to being good in sales? Fuck that...

Still no word from the temp agency...considering joining up at another one, and also going around begging for jobs...or something...I dunno.

I think I was signed up with 4 or 5 at one point when I lived in Philly. When one pissed me off, I'd call another. Fortunately, the last one I was with was very good to me.

I went to a reputable one here in town the day before yesterday. I went by there because I accidently ended up at an interview for vaccuum cleaner sales. :( They wasted my time and they knew it..I haven't gotten a call back, nor the phone call they said I would get within 24 hours (from the agency). I think I got something good anyway. We shall see today! Cross your fingers, it sounds awesome. And doesn't include me leaving the house and commuting, wasting a lot of gas!

The last time I had a position with a temp. company I went through a buy-out situation but went with another job after 3 months. (A job the temp. company did not know about or get to have a say in) So I don't think I am welcome back to that one, though they were good and definitely acted as agents for me. Some agencies are better than others, and there are less jobs to fill here (definitely a recession)so having someone represent you for permanent hire is not a bad idea. Some of the agencies here have people that represent you like an agent, and talk you up more than you would be able to, so it works out if people are willing to buy you out instead of just hiring someone that came in without an agency.

Of course I haven't signed any paperwork with the temp/permanent hire people yet, so I can do what I want! And if they don't call me back like they said, I won't be.
:)

this jackson-pratt drain is pinching and hurting me. it's really bugging.

When can you get rid of it?