The Official Status Thread
-
Oh, OK I see what you are saying now. I was arguing against the going from Whoosh to Snowflake as only 40% of the top Whooshes had Snowflake, thus while correlated it wasn't a strong enough correlation to justify giving out Snowflakes for being at the top. Whereas your first comment was pointing out that 66% of Snowflakes were top Whooshes thus top Whooshes should give snowflake.
-
Yeah - in hindsight, I could have been clearer.
-
There's a much stronger correlation between بول and ... Badge edirrevO tfeL-ot-thgiR
-
we're geeks! we're bad at naming things!
Speak for yourself! Are you like Rodney "Gateship One" McKay or something?
-
Status: apparently my internet connection isn't stable enough to upload a 250kbps video of Dwarf Fortress in real time for more than a minute and a half at a time.
Time for a 4G phone.
-
TIL, and now my day wasn't a total loss.
-
Status: wearing long underwear for the first time in my life because it's that cold out.
I grew up in a place where that was de rigueur, except that fashion, per se, wasn't involved. That's why I live in the south now.
-
Wondering why I was just assigned a project when my last day is Friday.
Hah. Wait until Friday to ask why.
-
-
Current status: project is now on hold since I don't have the necessary permissions for what I need to do.
I sure hope you pointed that out to someone, preferably someone who already knew your last day is Friday, so you don't have to say that part.
-
@chubertdev said:
Wondering why I was just assigned a project when my last day is Friday.
Hah. Wait until Friday to ask why.
Swing by a pet supply place and pick up a couple of live crickets and leave them in your drawer. That way when someone comes by on Monday to ask about it, there'll be a proper cricket sound to go with your empty workspace.
-
-
Shirking from Home.
Tomorrow I'll be shirking from office as it's closer to where I need to be tomorrow night and has the movie channels.
-
If the badge was "someone missed the joke", then you'd get the whoosh. But the badge is "someone didn't get the joke", which is not the same.
This seems like pendantry, so enjoy your flag.
-
Tomorrow I'll be shirking from office as it's closer to where I need to be tomorrow night and has the movie channels.
I have Thu/Fri off, and they usually let us out a couple of hours early the day before certain holidays. I probably won't be doing much shirking or "working" tomorrow, as this is our busy season, kind of like how (I assume) tax preparers don't get vacations in early April.
-
Its an unofficial half day like Christmas Eve was. I didn't even speak to my boss all day and cleared off at 2pm (usually were told to go by 1) while the rest of my team stayed working waiting for the official word. That came at half 4 after I'd already got home and started festive drinking.
They weren't impressed by the boss after that as there was nothing else to do and everyone else in the dept was let go by half 2.
I'm doing the same tomorrow and recommended they follow suit.
-
I grew up in a place where that was de rigueur, except that fashion, per se, wasn't involved. That's why I live in the south now.
See the reason I want to flee the South is I miss actually having winter.
-
I didn't even speak to my boss all day and cleared off at 2pm
We usually get let go around 3, apparently out of solidarity with one office who can't leave until then due to business processes. Sometimes they finish early and we're all out by 1, but that's fairly rare, and last week they just let everyone else go a bit earlier.
half 2
This is one of the more annoying Britishisms. Is it half-past, or half-before the hour? Why can't you people just say "two thirty"?
-
See the reason I want to flee the South is I miss actually having winter.
I understand some people like snow, but I grew out of that by the time I was a teenager. I hate being cold. I would live up north for enough money, but I'd rather not have to put up with snow. If Houston weren't a humid swamp I'd probably move there for the coast effect, or back to Florida.
-
-
Does anyone refer to times as half before the hour?
I wouldn't put any linguistic abuse out of reach of the people who invented rhyming slang.
-
This is one of the more annoying Britishisms. Is it half-past, or half-before the hour? Why can't you people just say "two thirty"?
It's half 2. As in, you take the unix timestamp for 02:00 and right shift 1.
-
I understand some people like snow...
Yes, everyone who is a fully competent adult.
@FrostCat said:or back to Florida.
See, you are crazy if anything could get you to live on America's wang.
-
Shouldn't that be "W"FH?
when was the last time @pjh WFH'd FH?
i fully expect most of them to be in a pub or similar.
-
Yes, everyone who is a fully competent adult.
How much time have you spent in 35 below wind chill, or sub-zero temperatures? I had enough to decide I don't want any more.
-
I grew up in Anchorage so not real Alaska (culturally), but yeah I've had a fair amount of experience.
-
I grew up in Anchorage [...] I've had a fair amount of experience.
Ok, fair enough. I figured you might actually say something like that. I submit that the fact that you like snow may indicated a frostbitten brain.
-
To be fair it also means I'm used to actual coats not the crap jackets that many lower 48ers think of as a winter coat.
-
Does anyone refer to times as half before the hour?
Germans do. [i]Halb zwei[/i] means 'half one'. It's confusing.
-
Status: just got a call about something missing TAT (turn around time) to fix it. At the latest it missed TAT 4 hours ago. Also I'm not on call this week, the outsourced guys just called me for it due to being unable to reach others (note: this is a system I maintain so at least they got that right). Told them to downgrade as risk no longer applied.
-
@FrostCat said:
Hah. Wait until Friday to ask why.
Swing by a pet supply place and pick up a couple of live crickets and leave them in your drawer. That way when someone comes by on Monday to ask about it, there'll be a proper cricket sound to go with your empty workspace.
@FrostCat said:
Hah. Wait until Friday to ask why.
Swing by a pet supply place and pick up a couple of live crickets and leave them in your drawer. That way when someone comes by on Monday to ask about it, there'll be a proper cricket sound to go with your empty workspace.
This is totally going to happen.
-
-
Status: just got a call about something missing TAT (turn around time) to fix it. At the latest it missed TAT 4 hours ago. Also I'm not on call this week, the outsourced guys just called me for it due to being unable to reach others (note: this is a system I maintain so at least they got that right). Told them to downgrade as risk no longer applied.
One of my biggest regrets about leaving my current position is not seeing the TAT graphs after ServiceNow was implemented
-
Germans do. Halb zwei means 'half one'. It's confusing.
So does Dutch. Half twee is 13:30 (or 2:30 if you're nocturnal).
-
Half twee is 13:30 (or 2:30 if you're nocturnal).
Typo or does it not even mean the same thing at both ends of the day?!
-
13:30 (or 2:30 if you're nocturnal).
It's different depending on whether its in the morning or afternoon? That's weird
-
-
-
I wouldn't put any linguistic abuse out of reach of the people who invented rhyming slang.
Touché
-
-
-
Oh, it gets worse in southern Germany.
Viertel Zwei ("quarter two") is 1:15 and Dreiviertel Zwei ("three-quarters two") is 1:45.
-
Status: Required to stay slacking at work until 17:00.
ToDo: laugh hard at colleagues who start THE MIGRATION at 17:01. I hope they'll get to go home before 2015.
RealWTF: governmental rules dedicating that one should be status X on 31/12 and status y on 1/1 in a 24/7
-
Status: Required to stay slacking at work until 17:00.
Boss says he's thinking about letting us clear off at 3.
I'm sticking with my original plan and clearing off by 2 - he wasn't online until 10:45 so it all balances out.
-
To be fair it also means I'm used to actual coats not the crap jackets that many lower 48ers think of as a winter coat.
I've mentioned this before, but I spent a winter in Green Bay, where we DID get two weeks of -5 temps with another 30 degrees of wind chill. Plus I spent two winters in far upstate New York. It's not Alaska, but it's about as close as it gets in CONUS. (Plus, where I grew up was pretty cold too, but not quite that cold.)
-
This is totally going to happen.
We can tell how much you liked the idea by the fact that you double-quoted.
-
-
Nor my fault either.
-
The
beatingsflaggings will continue untilmoralecomprehension improves!
-
The beatingsflaggings will continue until moralecomprehension improves!
..... well that's encouraging.... so what happens when i end up with like eighty bajillion woosh flags? hmm?
<fake rage>
when will it be enough‽ huh‽ will you constantly rub salt in my wounds? or will you just switch to using rocksalt instead of buckshot and get presalted wounds‽ huh‽
what do you say then‽ huh‽ you ■■■■■■■ing ■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■ers!
</fake rage>/me smiles prettily
ah... that was fun.
-pause-
why are you all backing away from me? and why do those two nurses have one of those jackets that the arms wrap around the back on?