The Official Status Thread
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The offers were gone fast, faster than you could believe?
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Status: Wondering why Dicsores did not turn at least that first footnote into a bulleted list; it did yesterday.
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The worst part is that the place I work has a cultural problem where people think it's better to drag yourself in like a "hero", coughing and sniffling through the day.
I used to do this, not to be a "hero," but because being at work was less work than staying home. At work I could sit on my butt and stare semi-consciously at a screen, possibly trying to do something productive once in a while, but at home I was expected to run around taking care of kids and doing chores. "You're not dying; you can do X, Y and Z. I have to do it when I'm sick..."
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Installed new system (Ubuntu Server). Ping google.com not working. Spent 40 minutes trying to find the problem. "Oh yeah, we block pings in this network". Well fuck you.
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Done reporting bugs for now. Still a lot left that needs to be officially unofficially reported, but foods here.
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Status: Waking up and seeing blakey went on an answering rampage through the forums. There goes my morning...
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Status: Got my "Reader" and "Bug Reporter" badges over on meta.d.
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Status: FUCKING HELL WHY DOES THIS MOUSE DOUBLE CLICK WHEN I CLICK ONCE?
Filed under: I though my taskbar buttons were broken, Also double-clicking triple-clicks
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Having the same problem. It's very... fun.
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Status: Took money out of "ATM". Said "Thank you". There were people around. FML.
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Status: Took money out of "ATM". Said "Thank you". There were people around. FML.
You'll get the last laugh when you're the only survivor of the robot uprising.
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eating lunch and thinking about how ridiculous it is for a company to behave such that a sexual assault by a member of staff on a member of staff is only to be handled by the company if the victim is making a formal complaint. If another employee makes such a complaint (along with a 12 page document detailing various related incidents), which is confirmed by the victim, and the victim fully supports said complaint, and makes it clear that they would be making a complaint where they not already on a year's sabbatical from the company to study, and now living several hundred miles from the company's offices, making it difficult for them to be involved in a complaints process, it is to be disregarded, as it cannot be formally processed because of reasons.
my lunch is not very sexy
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Sounds like the right thing there after all that malarkey would be to skip the company process and get the police involved immediately.
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its relatively minor, the kind of thing police wouldn't deal with, plenty of witnesses but its the kind of sexual assault where if they did anything about it they would all be quietly thinking "are you SERIOUSLY getting us involved about something like this?"
in any case, neither the victim or the reporter feel safe working with the perpetrator and have told the company as much. A tangentially related process (perpetrator is generally aggressive to everyone) is underway and the perpetrator is on the thinnest of thin ice. Obviously, they also are fully aware of being on the thinnest of thin ice, and are smart enough to tread extra carefully until the end of the deadline the company must set for keeping that ice thin.
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Just getting into the office after baking doughnuts for the office.
I forgot how hard those are to make.
oooh... but they are worth it!@
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Status: Attempting to replace all my blood with coffee so I can stay awake for the long day ahead of testing and monitoring build scripts and unit tests, a.k.a. babysitting progress bars.
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Attempting to replace all my blood with coffee
I would recommend not doing this unless you have found a way to enrich the coffee with hemoglobin. The hemoglobin molecule is remarkably suited for transporting O2 into and CO2 out of the body. The O2 and CO2 bind to different sites on the molecule. O2 binding to hemoglobin in the lungs changes the shape of the molecule in a way that encourages the release of the CO2, and release of the O2 elsewhere in the body changes the shape in a way that encourages binding of CO2.Caffeine does not have this property. Thus, replacing all your blood with coffee without hemoglobin enrichment will likely result in your being wide awake as you quickly asphyxiate due to lack of O2 throughout your body.
Edit: However, I now observe that it has been 3 DiscoHours since @mott555 made his post. If he was actually successful, my warning is probably too late, $deity rest his soul.
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Is there a way to flag someone for pedantic dickweedery without nominating and possibly rewarding them with the badge?
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I usually just respond with a:
FLAGGED
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This is a good a place as any for my 2^9th post.
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I'm sick and don't have to work until monday.
... I hope it won't get any worse than it already is.
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Status: going off-campus for lunch specifically because they're doing some stupid lunch "event" (called "The Carnival") and closing all the cafeterias for it.
It costs $8. Going off-campus, I'll probably spend closer to $11. But it's the principle of the thing.
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This is the second time they've closed the cafeterias for some "event", meaning you can't get fresh coffee after noon. I mean it's bad enough that we don't have free coffee, but being unable to get fresh coffee anywhere on campus should be criminal. Coffee vending machines are ass.
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I'm sick and don't have to work until monday.
... I hope it won't get any worse than it already is.
Here's a "get well, soon" cookie then:
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Remembering why I so rarely brew a cup of loose-leaf tea at work; I don't have a strainer here. Mmm, chewy tea.
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...tuots dna trohs topaet elttil a m'I : sutats
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Remembering why I so rarely brew a cup of loose-leaf tea at work; I don't have a strainer here. Mmm, chewy tea.
Can't you utilize something else? Paper coffee filter? Sock (clean)? Pantyhose (also clean, unless you like a bit of a fetish), plastic foil with some small holes poked into it with a pin? Comb (difficult)?
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I have neither a clean sock nor clean pantyhose at work; I have no idea whether any coworkers do, but somehow I don't think asking would be a good idea. Coffee filters are readily available, and would probably work. Coworker has a strainer I could borrow if I really wanted to. But the pot has a built-in strainer with too-big holes that keeps most of the leaves in the pot; only a few wound up in my cup.
The bigger problem, actually, is that I put too much tea in the little single-serving pot. The result looks like coffee, and tastes almost as bad. This is a situation in which I would use milk in my tea, if I had any.
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Stringing along Indian fake tech support who want me to let them take over my computer.
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Status: Dangerously close to being required to do architecting for our strategic partner. Their dev team is in India and doesn't know shit.
I refuse to use the new emojis, so you'll just have to read everything. No fancy pictograms.
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Lasted about an hour over 4 different guys. I think the last guy had called me before. He was definitely smarter than the other guys, who apparently couldn't pick up on the fact that I wasn't running Windows when I asked questions like which version of Ubuntu did their remote access stuff run in. Eventually, he just started cursing at me, much to the amusement of the room.
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Wondering why (dangerous; that way lies madness) Dicsores asks for confirmation before abandoning a reply containing a full quote, but not if it contains a partial quote.
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asks for confirmation before abandoning a reply containing a full quote, but not if it contains a partial quote
I remember asking Atwood why that's the case 2 months ago and getting completely ignored.
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I remembered seeing it discussed before, but didn't remember the reason, if any. Being dicsores, of course, there isn't any reason (or at least no reasoning).
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It's even more complicated. There are three scenarios:
- Highlight text and click quote reply. This starts a post with a partial quote.
- Click reply. Click the full quote button.
- Click reply. Highlight text and click quote reply.
In scenario 1, Dicsourse does not request confirmation if you click cancel. In scenarios 2 and 3, confirmation is requested upon cancelling. It would appear that the behavior of the cancel button has to do with the current state of the editor when compared to its initial state. This as opposed to something simple and sane, like checking if the text box is empty.
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It would appear that the behavior of the cancel button has to do with the current state of the editor when compared to its initial state. This as opposed to something simple and sane, like checking if the text box is empty.
By Jove, I think you've got it! It makes sense. I even think it's sane. If the current state of the editor is unchanged from its initial state, don't require confirmation. One could debate whether it's the right thing to do; the behavior appears to be inconsistent, but I don't think it's crazy.
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Could always bring your own coffee pot and not share and/or charge for month usage. $5/mo per person will result in a decent amount of profit.
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Nope, bringing in your own appliances is "against the rules" and I don't have room for it anywhere anyway.
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It was against our rules too. Funny how accessible coffee makes people look the other way.
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OK well go back and look at the picture of that desk and tell me where to put it.
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Height/width scale estimated.
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Ok well I'm bluffing, I'm still not bringing one in.
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OK well go back and look at the picture of that desk and tell me where to put it.
You could replace the phone with the coffee pot; work life is usually more pleasant without a phone anyway.
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I have neither a clean sock nor clean pantyhose at work; I have no idea whether any coworkers do, but somehow I don't think asking would be a good idea.
I cycle to work an have clean clothes, including socks, at work. This may not help you much as...
- It's Friday and I'm wearing the last of my socks
- I'm in Brisbane, Australia and I suspect you aren't
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OK well go back and look at the picture of that desk and tell me where to put it.
Did you say there was an empty cubicle near you? (Can't be arsed to search the thread for obvious reasons.)
If so, you could turn it into the coffee cube.
Ok well I'm bluffing, I'm still not bringing one in.
This notwithstanding.
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I'm in Brisbane, Australia and I suspect you aren't
It would be rather quicker, not to mention cheaper, to run (or even crawl) to the supermarket and buy a tea strainer.
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Status: Was listening to 2 storage guys (no cup) talk storage, now listening to The Stone Roses
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Didn't add many new reports tonight, improved formatting. .. Tired. Nap time.