What's bugging you? *2023*

[jerichoholicninja]

I'm far from a green freak, enviro-nut but it really bothers me when people can't even do the simplest parts of recycling. The first thing I do everyday when I get to work is take all the pieces of paper out of the garbage can and put them in the recycling bin which is less than an inch away from the garbage. I'm talking large amounts of whole sheets of paper not just little scraps or postit note type things. My work had an event last weekend and on Monday I had to cleanup stuff from that which meant I broke down about 10 very large boxes most of them full of paper packing material. After I collected it all my boss helped me take it behind the building where I assumed we had a dumpster for recycling. Nope, he chucked it all in the trash and I died a little bit inside.

[nate82]

8 minutes ago, jerichoholicninja said:

I'm far from a green freak, enviro-nut but it really bothers me when people can't even do the simplest parts of recycling. The first thing I do everyday when I get to work is take all the pieces of paper out of the garbage can and put them in the recycling bin which is less than an inch away from the garbage. I'm talking large amounts of whole sheets of paper not just little scraps or postit note type things. My work had an event last weekend and on Monday I had to cleanup stuff from that which meant I broke down about 10 very large boxes most of them full of paper packing material. After I collected it all my boss helped me take it behind the building where I assumed we had a dumpster for recycling. Nope, he chucked it all in the trash and I died a little bit inside.

Majority of recycling just goes to the same place your trash goes to.  Paper though does get recycled at a higher rate than other things. 

[jerichoholicninja]

32 minutes ago, nate82 said:

Majority of recycling just goes to the same place your trash goes to.  Paper though does get recycled at a higher rate than other things. 

I'm aware of that which is why I make such an effort to recycle paper as much as I can.

[BrewersSuperCollector]

On 6/30/2023 at 10:26 AM, jerichoholicninja said:

I'm far from a green freak, enviro-nut but it really bothers me when people can't even do the simplest parts of recycling. The first thing I do everyday when I get to work is take all the pieces of paper out of the garbage can and put them in the recycling bin which is less than an inch away from the garbage. I'm talking large amounts of whole sheets of paper not just little scraps or postit note type things. My work had an event last weekend and on Monday I had to cleanup stuff from that which meant I broke down about 10 very large boxes most of them full of paper packing material. After I collected it all my boss helped me take it behind the building where I assumed we had a dumpster for recycling. Nope, he chucked it all in the trash and I died a little bit inside.

I agree. I think the only way change will occur. Instead of having weekly garbage pickup and bimonthly recycling pickup, local communities have weekly recycling and bimonthly trash. That will push many people to think about recycling more.

[GAME05]

Or you could do like everyone by me does and simply throw your garbage out your car window as you're driving.

[GAME05]

The boss warned me not to vape in my work truck. I'd be the first one to say I'm addicted to nicotine though I have no desire to quit. It doesn't leave any smell nor do I do it in the public eye. I don't want to stop every 20 minutes to get out and have a puff, nor could I go hours without it. If the boss asks I won't lie because that's a career-ender, but I think I'm in line to get a few write-ups in the near future.

He's new, so still in that sticker-for-every-small-policy phase where other bosses don't care. At the same time I recognize it's not the biggest thing to ask and I'm being a bit stubborn and petty yet still inclined to tell him he's eventually just going to have to write me up.

[CheezWizHed]

With Twitter and the internet in general, I have fairly low expectations for the ability of sports bloggers to write a decent article,. But my goodness there are people out there that couldn't pass a jr high grammar class.  I don't know if I could intentionally write this poorly.  

Players like Dean Lowry and Tyler Lancaster, who had seen a lot of snaps for the Packers in recent seasons, were, for the most part, strictly interior defenders and more so space eaters rather than penetrating defensive linemen, which this system requires, and is the type of player Devonte Wyatt, a 2022 draft pick, is.

https://packerswire.usatoday.com/2023/07/11/packers-emphasize-versatility-along-defensive-front-to-maximize-scheme/

 

[Samurai Bucky]

On 7/12/2023 at 10:22 AM, CheezWizHed said:

With Twitter and the internet in general, I have fairly low expectations for the ability of sports bloggers to write a decent article,. But my goodness there are people out there that couldn't pass a jr high grammar class.  I don't know if I could intentionally write this poorly.  

Players like Dean Lowry and Tyler Lancaster, who had seen a lot of snaps for the Packers in recent seasons, were, for the most part, strictly interior defenders and more so space eaters rather than penetrating defensive linemen, which this system requires, and is the type of player Devonte Wyatt, a 2022 draft pick, is.

https://packerswire.usatoday.com/2023/07/11/packers-emphasize-versatility-along-defensive-front-to-maximize-scheme/

 

The problem is that mainstream outlets will use bloggers as source material.  Journalism is nothing like it used to be.  How many times do we see misspellings on the crawlers in local and NATIONAL news outlets.

It would be interesting to be in Jim Hoyt's journalism class now.  It was, at least, interesting 30 years ago.

[homer]

49 minutes ago, Samurai Bucky said:

The problem is that mainstream outlets will use bloggers as source material.  Journalism is nothing like it used to be.  How many times do we see misspellings on the crawlers in local and NATIONAL news outlets.

It would be interesting to be in Jim Hoyt's journalism class now.  It was, at least, interesting 30 years ago.

Ha! I had Prof Hoyt

[Zad Fnark]

Not having fun...

Mom passed away a couple weeks ago.  An aneurysm in her aorta decided to blow up.  She never made it to the final hospital. 

The same thing killed my Dad two years ago.  No clue he had one.  We knew about her as she had two of them.  She had surgery on the first shortly after my Dad passed.  It wasn't a fun time as a 5-7 day stay at the hospital turned into 6 weeks when her kidneys wouldn't start up again.  Eventually they did.  After that, she decided to not have surgery on the second one.  It would have been worse than the first surgery, as they would have had to cut her open top to bottom to get to it.

We knew it was a ticking time bomb, but thought this would be some time out yet.  I guess not.  Doctors were giving it about 20% chance a year to blow.

My two brothers and I have been busy trying to get her house cleaned up.  Since Dad died, she let a lot of things slide.  We still haven't gone through all my Dad's stuff in the garage yet.  It took us two days to split his extremely large firearm and reloading collection.

Thankfully the three of us are pretty tight knit, so we can get through this without any real issues.  Some families seem to go to war over stuff like this.

[nate82]

People spelling Wiemer incorrectly......

[GAME05]

My vending commercial kitchen caught up with me. They hadn't been invoicing me. I'd told one of their workers to assuage my guilt over the free kitchen, who apparently didn't pass the message on. But they've hired a new girl to go over their books and she found me.

She said they'd completely lost my rate sheet and asked if I had it. I do, but gosh I won't be able to find it, since that'd be the only way they could back-charge me.

But either way, at the same time I've decided to cut back on my number of days vending, they'll likely charge me in the neighborhood of 40% of my current income.

I've heard of a potential opportunity on Saturdays. It would give me six vending stints per month but still just three days in total. Just a 12+ hour day. Then there's also winter when I don't make all that much. Or maybe I find a bar and vend after work a couple days per week.

In all, it suddenly has me thinking maybe it won't be profitable enough to keep vending. I'm just not doing it enough days per week to make it work. I should be able to recoup most or all of my capital costs because carts re-sell well, at least. Of course don't want to jump to this conclusion quiet yet, though.

My fallback option was to buy crates of return items and re-sell them on ebay. It's at least another option to not work on somebody else's clock. Unsure of the typical $/hr yet, though.

[GAME05]

Also trying to decide if I should switch golf courses. The current one I can walk up without a tee time and play whenever and it's a beautiful course and perfectly maintained. The other one I hear is a nice course, but tee times will likely be a little more difficult to get, and they also do forced foursomes. But I'd save about $200/mo.

[hawing]

It's my turn at what's bugging me. 

Some of you know I work at a research library that's part of a state agency.  We hire work-study student employees to help with many tasks because work-study funding means a portion of wages is covered by federal funds.  The hiring process, which peaks at this time every year, requires balancing three different bureaucracies and it's usually a slog even when things go as they should.  

This year I sent the job ad to the UW-Madison folks who post them, and they notify me that they can't place my ad because they don't have a 2023-2024 contract from our agency yet.  Our HR office is supposed to do this by August 1 every year. 

So okay, HR dropped the ball.  I notified HR of the situation and was told "The 2023-2024 signed contract has been sent to UW. It went out in the last week."  That wording made me wonder if it was code for "whoops, we forgot, we just did it now."  And indeed, UW notified me this morning that the contract arrived yesterday and will be processed in the next few days.  (Students are just now moving back to Madison and I need staff in place by the 28th - so even a few days' delay is problematic.)

So my suspicion is almost certainly correct and HR forgot about it until they saw my reminder.  W H Y not just say "Oh no, we overlooked this, we just got it done, sorry for the delay" ??  I't's annoying enough that I can't advertise for new students or do the forms for returning students for a few days, but I'm frankly more annoyed that HR wouldn't own up to what's most likely a simple mistake.  Heck of an example to set for the rest of the agency.  😠  

 

[AKCheesehead]

I've got neighbors that keep a German shepherd tied up on their deck.  Any time anyone or anything passes by it barks.  It's annoying as all get out, and there's no way I can keep my window open to sleep at night. I'd go talk to them about it but there's no getting past that dog to knock on the door, and I've never once seen the people that live there.  I'd put in a noise complaint with the city but, the neighbors are cops and my guess is it wouldn't take long at all for me to get pulled over after putting in a noise complaint on them.

[LouisEly]

On 8/18/2023 at 7:10 PM, AKCheesehead said:

I've got neighbors that keep a German shepherd tied up on their deck.  Any time anyone or anything passes by it barks.  It's annoying as all get out, and there's no way I can keep my window open to sleep at night. I'd go talk to them about it but there's no getting past that dog to knock on the door, and I've never once seen the people that live there.  I'd put in a noise complaint with the city but, the neighbors are cops and my guess is it wouldn't take long at all for me to get pulled over after putting in a noise complaint on them.

You could do the old-fashioned way and write them a letter.  You know their address.

If that doesn't work, put a diphenhydramine tablet into a hot dog and lob it over the fence.

[AKCheesehead]

18 hours ago, LouisEly said:

You could do the old-fashioned way and write them a letter.  You know their address.

If that doesn't work, put a diphenhydramine tablet into a hot dog and lob it over the fence.

The letter is probably what I"m going to go with.  Although I don't actually know their address, as it's all PO boxes in this town.  So a note under the wiper of one of their police cruisers is what it'll have to be.

[LouisEly]

3 hours ago, AKCheesehead said:

The letter is probably what I"m going to go with.  Although I don't actually know their address, as it's all PO boxes in this town.  So a note under the wiper of one of their police cruisers is what it'll have to be.

I would also offer a gift in exchange - something that you will offer to do for them, a baked good, a fresh-caught fish or hunted animal cooked up.  Reciprocity works well in marketing and nudging people towards a desired behavior.

[CheezWizHed]

19 hours ago, LouisEly said:

I would also offer a gift in exchange - something that you will offer to do for them, a baked good, a fresh-caught fish or hunted animal cooked up.  Reciprocity works well in marketing and nudging people towards a desired behavior.

So donuts, obviously! 😂

[BrewerFan]

 

On 6/30/2023 at 10:26 AM, jerichoholicninja said:

I'm far from a green freak, enviro-nut but it really bothers me when people can't even do the simplest parts of recycling. The first thing I do everyday when I get to work is take all the pieces of paper out of the garbage can and put them in the recycling bin which is less than an inch away from the garbage. I'm talking large amounts of whole sheets of paper not just little scraps or postit note type things. My work had an event last weekend and on Monday I had to cleanup stuff from that which meant I broke down about 10 very large boxes most of them full of paper packing material. After I collected it all my boss helped me take it behind the building where I assumed we had a dumpster for recycling. Nope, he chucked it all in the trash and I died a little bit inside.

I used to work at an insurance company and they were so...over the top obnoxious, they made a point to NOT put any paper in recycling. This was just out of College, but it was literally...hundreds of pieces of paper a day and they insisted it "all goes to the same place."

So I feel you on this one. Just the huge folders....aside from the ones that were supposed to go in the lock box or whatever(a locked box with SS numbers on them where we'd have a company come each day and pick it up to dispose of it).

Of course soda cans and bottles, all ended up in there. 

 

Some people make a concerted effort to do exactly the opposite of what you ask of them. 

[CheezWizHed]

On 8/25/2023 at 1:31 AM, BrewerFan said:

Some people make a concerted effort to do exactly the opposite of what you ask of them. 

Like moderating an internet forum! 😂

[GAME05]

I get up every morning and play a game or three of OOTP (a baseball manager simulation game) just to wake up a little. You can simulate through a game in a second, or you can manually play every game which takes about 15 minutes. Well I've manually played every single game and am up to the 2049 season and for no real reason the game decided it won't load up for me anymore and I have to start over. 

[CheezWizHed]

2 hours ago, GAME05 said:

I get up every morning and play a game or three of OOTP (a baseball manager simulation game) just to wake up a little. You can simulate through a game in a second, or you can manually play every game which takes about 15 minutes. Well I've manually played every single game and am up to the 2049 season and for no real reason the game decided it won't load up for me anymore and I have to start over. 

2049 is the end of the world!  Or maybe just the end of organized baseball?

The oracle has spoken!

[nate82]

5 hours ago, GAME05 said:

I get up every morning and play a game or three of OOTP (a baseball manager simulation game) just to wake up a little. You can simulate through a game in a second, or you can manually play every game which takes about 15 minutes. Well I've manually played every single game and am up to the 2049 season and for no real reason the game decided it won't load up for me anymore and I have to start over. 

I can't remember which version but if I played up to a certain year the game would always crash probably has to do with how they calculate years is my guess.

[Baldkin]

Milwaukee is hosting a massive high level ultimate frisbee tournament this weekend, and it's probably going to be the hottest Labor day weekend ever. 

I just hope the players survive the weekend, and get the level of competition they want.