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S~V~S wrote:Also at least you found out in the interview process. My brothers friend applied for, and interviewed for, what sounded like a dream job, and he did not find out until AFTER he was hired that it was not at all what he expected. But rather than taking and quitting a job in rapid succession blotting his resume, he is going to stick it out for a few years. He hates it, but he is sort of stuck for now.
That sucks. Do you mind if I ask what the job is? I'm in contact with someone who's looking for someone to do their business's social media marketing which is more or less exactly what I want, so maybe I have some better luck this time.
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S~V~S wrote:Also at least you found out in the interview process. My brothers friend applied for, and interviewed for, what sounded like a dream job, and he did not find out until AFTER he was hired that it was not at all what he expected. But rather than taking and quitting a job in rapid succession blotting his resume, he is going to stick it out for a few years. He hates it, but he is sort of stuck for now.
That sucks. Do you mind if I ask what the job is? I'm in contact with someone who's looking for someone to do their business's social media marketing which is more or less exactly what I want, so maybe I have some better luck this time.
It was a marketing analyst job. He *thought* he would be doing account and sales trend analysis, but it turns out he is basically doing key accounts customer service. He did not want to have to directly deal with customers and accounts, but that is an intrinsic part of his job. He makes more than he did at his last job but he basically does the same thing, and he was looking for growth more than money.
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I don't believe in superstitions but if Friday the 13th really is bad luck, then it must have struck me early this time around.

Since it's the new year, I need 2017 payroll formulas to run payroll this week. To obtain 2017 payroll formulas I have to install an software update on my office computer. Before I can install a software update on my office computer I have to download and install and update on our server computer.

Last Friday I attempted to install the update on our server computer but got caught in an endless cycle of being prompted to restart the server. I called the software company's tech support around 5:00 pm and was told that they couldn't stay on the line long because they were in Georgia and were being sent home early due to the winter storm heading for them. The guy said all I had to do was uninstall the software and install it again.

Not being an IT savvy fellow, uninstalling the most important piece of software for my job without any technical support sounded like a bad idea, so I waited until today. Unfortunately that meant my office manager wasn't going to be able to do anything in the software until I was done updating the server and all our work stations. I was trying to avoid this by doing it last Friday but it seems no good deed goes unpunished.

I call tech support at 9:02 am (they open at 9:00) and I'm told that 'due to high call volumes, no one is available to take your call.' Awesome. I have a bank report deadline on Tuesday and a payroll deadline on Wednesday. Fortunately, I was able to leave a message. Three minutes later I get a call from a tech support guy based out of Oregon. In under 30 minutes he resolves the issue with the server and we end the call. I've updated our work stations through the server several times before with no hang ups. Until now.

My work station rejected the update because I was missing a data file. At 9:35, I call back in to tech support and leave another request for callback. An hour later, a woman from Georgia calls me back. She tries repairing the software on my computer and the server but can't make progress. She tells me that she needs to transfer me to tier 2 support. Upon being transferred, I am greeted by the auto-response 'due to high call volumes, no one is available to take your call.' Instead of having me leave another message for callback, it hangs up on me. It's now 11:20 am.

I call back the number that called me and get the tech center operator. She asks for the name or extension of the person I need to reach but all I have is a case number. She puts me into the tier 2 support line where I sit on hold for the next 90 minutes.

Around 12:50 pm I give in and start eating lunch. Three bites later, tier 2 tech support picks up. We spend the next hour bouncing between the three office computers that use the accounting software and the server. We install updates and double check to make sure everything works right. Finally, the process is finished.

At 2:00 pm I go back to eating lunch and curse my luck. The last two weeks were four-day weeks due to the holidays and crunching five days of work into four was mentally draining. Thanks to my train wreck of a day, I now had just over four days once again to get all my week's work completed.

The only silver lining to all this is that we made an offer to someone for our administrative assistant position and she accepted. She could start later this week if her current employer doesn't want her around to fulfill her two weeks notice.
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Sounds like your tech support need to find new careers. This sounds like a very simple issue to me.
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Epignosis wrote:It's that time of year again for me...

"Mr. Brown...what can I do to bring up my grade?"

"BUILD A TIME MACHINE AND GO BACK TO THE DAY YOU WERE FUCKING AROUND."
I would just like to say that I have not related to anything more in my life.


"Mr. Torro, how can I get a B?"


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G-Man wrote:I don't believe in superstitions but if Friday the 13th really is bad luck, then it must have struck me early this time around.

Since it's the new year, I need 2017 payroll formulas to run payroll this week. To obtain 2017 payroll formulas I have to install an software update on my office computer. Before I can install a software update on my office computer I have to download and install and update on our server computer.

Last Friday I attempted to install the update on our server computer but got caught in an endless cycle of being prompted to restart the server. I called the software company's tech support around 5:00 pm and was told that they couldn't stay on the line long because they were in Georgia and were being sent home early due to the winter storm heading for them. The guy said all I had to do was uninstall the software and install it again.

Not being an IT savvy fellow, uninstalling the most important piece of software for my job without any technical support sounded like a bad idea, so I waited until today. Unfortunately that meant my office manager wasn't going to be able to do anything in the software until I was done updating the server and all our work stations. I was trying to avoid this by doing it last Friday but it seems no good deed goes unpunished.

I call tech support at 9:02 am (they open at 9:00) and I'm told that 'due to high call volumes, no one is available to take your call.' Awesome. I have a bank report deadline on Tuesday and a payroll deadline on Wednesday. Fortunately, I was able to leave a message. Three minutes later I get a call from a tech support guy based out of Oregon. In under 30 minutes he resolves the issue with the server and we end the call. I've updated our work stations through the server several times before with no hang ups. Until now.

My work station rejected the update because I was missing a data file. At 9:35, I call back in to tech support and leave another request for callback. An hour later, a woman from Georgia calls me back. She tries repairing the software on my computer and the server but can't make progress. She tells me that she needs to transfer me to tier 2 support. Upon being transferred, I am greeted by the auto-response 'due to high call volumes, no one is available to take your call.' Instead of having me leave another message for callback, it hangs up on me. It's now 11:20 am.

I call back the number that called me and get the tech center operator. She asks for the name or extension of the person I need to reach but all I have is a case number. She puts me into the tier 2 support line where I sit on hold for the next 90 minutes.

Around 12:50 pm I give in and start eating lunch. Three bites later, tier 2 tech support picks up. We spend the next hour bouncing between the three office computers that use the accounting software and the server. We install updates and double check to make sure everything works right. Finally, the process is finished.

At 2:00 pm I go back to eating lunch and curse my luck. The last two weeks were four-day weeks due to the holidays and crunching five days of work into four was mentally draining. Thanks to my train wreck of a day, I now had just over four days once again to get all my week's work completed.

The only silver lining to all this is that we made an offer to someone for our administrative assistant position and she accepted. She could start later this week if her current employer doesn't want her around to fulfill her two weeks notice.
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Dom wrote:
Epignosis wrote:It's that time of year again for me...

"Mr. Brown...what can I do to bring up my grade?"

"BUILD A TIME MACHINE AND GO BACK TO THE DAY YOU WERE FUCKING AROUND."
I would just like to say that I have not related to anything more in my life.


"Mr. Torro, how can I get a B?"


"Go back and not fail every test and quiz you have taken in this class"
Mr. Brown, Mr. Torro, could I retake the test after school/during lunch? :haha:
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Dom wrote:
Epignosis wrote:It's that time of year again for me...

"Mr. Brown...what can I do to bring up my grade?"

"BUILD A TIME MACHINE AND GO BACK TO THE DAY YOU WERE FUCKING AROUND."
I would just like to say that I have not related to anything more in my life.


"Mr. Torro, how can I get a B?"


"Go back and not fail every test and quiz you have taken in this class"
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Dom wrote:
Epignosis wrote:It's that time of year again for me...

"Mr. Brown...what can I do to bring up my grade?"

"BUILD A TIME MACHINE AND GO BACK TO THE DAY YOU WERE FUCKING AROUND."
I would just like to say that I have not related to anything more in my life.


"Mr. Torro, how can I get a B?"


"Go back and not fail every test and quiz you have taken in this class"
LOL, I can relate to this one too, which is even sadder since you'd think they would have learned from high school. :disappoint:
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Some days just don't work out right for no discernible reason. You end up feeling lonely when everyone is around, sad when you are having fun, hurt when no one has done anything to you that is hurtful. And then they pass again, and the next day is fine.

Today is one of those days.
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Golden wrote:Some days just don't work out right for no discernible reason. You end up feeling lonely when everyone is around, sad when you are having fun, hurt when no one has done anything to you that is hurtful. And then they pass again, and the next day is fine.

Today is one of those days.
I'm sorry Golden, and you're on vacation even. Come to chatzy if you can today and we'll cheer you up.
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Civility and consideration are dead. Very seriously.
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My oldest child threw up tonight. The smell seeped into the foam cushions, not to mention all but two rooms on the main floor. How can a four-foot-tall person contain that much vomit? How??!?
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G-Man wrote:My oldest child threw up tonight. The smell seeped into the foam cushions, not to mention all but two rooms on the main floor. How can a four-foot-tall person contain that much vomit? How??!?
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I don't want to live in that universe.
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Yep. That's about what it looked like.
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Elohcin wrote:I WANT A DISHWASHER!!!
I lived without one for one summer. It was bad.

Looking for a house now, and among all the old houses in our area, this is one thing we look out for. No matter how good the deal, no dishwasher = no buy.
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I'm a little bit sick and I haven't heard from Mongoose in weeks. I'm going to bug her now to comfort me during my time of illness.
Epignosis wrote:If llama is good, it means we exist in a universe in which multitasking llama can call out the first of two mafia while simultaneously calling out two civilians.

I don't want to live in that universe.
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thellama73 wrote:I'm a little bit sick and I haven't heard from Mongoose in weeks. I'm going to bug her now to comfort me during my time of illness.
She's busy with her new cat and being promoted. No time for sick llamas. Hope you feel better though.
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Sat Aug 21, 2021 3:24 pm Always good to remember that there is no such thing as a Mafia circumstance that is worth real human emotion. Sometimes it will naturally come out, but it can be contained if we just remember that this is a game on a message board forum that 99.99% of the population of the Earth has never heard of before. No matter how successful anyone is, it means just about nothing.

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thellama73 wrote:I'm a little bit sick and I haven't heard from Mongoose in weeks. I'm going to bug her now to comfort me during my time of illness.
She's busy with her new cat and being promoted. No time for sick llamas. Hope you feel better though.
I've been promoted, and it doesn't take as much time as you think.
Epignosis wrote:If llama is good, it means we exist in a universe in which multitasking llama can call out the first of two mafia while simultaneously calling out two civilians.

I don't want to live in that universe.
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My car is sick. After 11 years and 124,000 miles, it might be time to put her down. Not looking forward to that so soon after replacing my wife's car. :(
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All 99 of my problems stem from the fact that the politics thread was deleted and no one bothered to tell me.
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It wasn't deleted. It was extradited to North Korea. :feb:
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DharmaHelper wrote: Wed Jul 26, 2017 11:25 am All 99 of my problems stem from the fact that the politics thread was deleted and no one bothered to tell me.
Be thankful this is your only problem.
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Sat Aug 21, 2021 3:24 pm Always good to remember that there is no such thing as a Mafia circumstance that is worth real human emotion. Sometimes it will naturally come out, but it can be contained if we just remember that this is a game on a message board forum that 99.99% of the population of the Earth has never heard of before. No matter how successful anyone is, it means just about nothing.

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It's not deleted, it's in the mod forum. But nobody can post in it.
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Nothing says "Happy Saturday!" quite like over 100 ants (I counted as I killed) in the kitchen before breakfast.
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I damaged a nerve in my left arm which is affecting my fourth and fifth fingers, rendering them weaker and with less sensation than is normal. As you might imagine, this makes playing instruments a more frustrating affair. This morning, I couldn't even make a proper barre chord (I can this afternoon, but it takes more effort than it should). Recording has becoming difficult.

To add to my troubles, my left speaker is now dead. :evileye:

If troubles come in threes, I don't want to know what third left item is going to fail. :suspish:
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:eek: How did you hurt your hand?
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Epignosis wrote: Wed Aug 02, 2017 2:15 pmI don't want to know what third left item is going to fail. :suspish:
I hear that you can function completely fine with only one...
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That's terrible, Epig. Having something happen to my hands counts as the least desirable thing in my life. Is it recoverable? If so, I'd recommend having it rest as much as possible, despite any process of recording and such. I remember having experienced some bothersome sting in my left foot's middle finger and I told myself it must be from abusing the soft piano pedal. After some time, it was all ok again.
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Ricochet wrote: Wed Aug 02, 2017 7:19 pm That's terrible, Epig. Having something happen to my hands counts as the least desirable thing in my life. Is it recoverable? If so, I'd recommend having it rest as much as possible, despite any process of recording and such. I remember having experienced some bothersome sting in my left foot's middle finger and I told myself it must be from abusing the soft piano pedal. After some time, it was all ok again.
It's because if I roll over on my left side when I'm sleeping, I am most comfortable sliding my left arm under my head like a second pillow. I don't know why this is. I've slept like that for ages. The funny thing is I don't do that with my right arm if I roll over on my right side. I guess one particular time this past week was enough to compress a nerve.

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Damn. I do that sometimes as well.
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I used to do that quite often. I would shove my whole arm up and be laying on my elbow/upper arm. My broad shoulders require more neck support than my sorry little pillow could provide. Then I got a super-firm pillow. Very thick. I'm still getting used to it. Scary thought though, nerve damage.
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I'm almost positive I have cubital tunnel syndrome. I'm hoping an elbow brace at night helps.

Guys, I can't even bend a guitar string for a whole note.
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Epignosis wrote: Tue Aug 08, 2017 2:42 pm I'm almost positive I have cubital tunnel syndrome. I'm hoping an elbow brace at night helps.

Guys, I can't even bend a guitar string for a whole note.
:hugs: epi, this is shit. I hope that it heals.

My sister, who is a pianist, suffered carpal tunnel. It took her a while of non-use, but she can play the piano now. She just can't do it for extended periods. I'll be praying for you.
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Epignosis wrote: Tue Aug 08, 2017 2:42 pm I'm almost positive I have cubital tunnel syndrome. I'm hoping an elbow brace at night helps.

Guys, I can't even bend a guitar string for a whole note.
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Golden wrote: Tue Aug 08, 2017 3:30 pm
Epignosis wrote: Tue Aug 08, 2017 2:42 pm I'm almost positive I have cubital tunnel syndrome. I'm hoping an elbow brace at night helps.

Guys, I can't even bend a guitar string for a whole note.
:hugs: epi, this is shit. I hope that it heals.

My sister, who is a pianist, suffered carpal tunnel. It took her a while of non-use, but she can play the piano now. She just can't do it for extended periods. I'll be praying for you.
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Oh epi thats terrible. I had to look it up because I had never heard of it. For anyone else who doesn't know here was the definition I found:

Cubital Tunnel Syndrome is a condition that involves pressure or stretching of the ulnar nerve (also known as the “funny bone” nerve), which can cause numbness or tingling in the ring and small fingers, pain in the forearm, and/or weakness in the hand.

Epi, what do you think caused it?
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It's the way I sleep.
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Is it something that will go away given enough time avoiding the cause?
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Spacedaisy wrote: Wed Aug 09, 2017 1:31 am Is it something that will go away given enough time avoiding the cause?
God, I hope so.

I slept with the elbow brace for the first time last night. I think it helped keep my arm straight most of the night. I believe I've gotten much better about not sleeping on it, so there's that much.

I also located some exercises that are supposed to help. A number of people (including musicians) have claimed they helped.
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Oh good Epi I hope that works.
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To anyone who cares, my hand is back to about 90%. I have some numbness in my little finger and some mild weakness in my ring finger, but other than that, I feel good.
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Epignosis wrote: Mon Aug 14, 2017 8:09 pm To anyone who cares, my hand is back to about 90%. I have some numbness in my little finger and some mild weakness in my ring finger, but other than that, I feel good.
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Epignosis wrote: Mon Aug 14, 2017 8:09 pm To anyone who cares, my hand is back to about 90%. I have some numbness in my little finger and some mild weakness in my ring finger, but other than that, I feel good.
So glad to hear it!
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Epignosis wrote: Mon Aug 14, 2017 8:09 pm To anyone who cares, my hand is back to about 90%. I have some numbness in my little finger and some mild weakness in my ring finger, but other than that, I feel good.
Thats good to hear Epi, glad it didn't require any intervention from a doctor.
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Be safe Juliets, I've been worrying about you.
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Spacedaisy wrote: Sat Sep 09, 2017 6:52 pm Be safe Juliets, I've been worrying about you.
Thanks Daisy - we'll be as safe as we can be.
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TFW you're trying to purchase Trans-Siberian Orchestra as a surprise birthday gift for your wife only for Ticketmaster to either offer garbage seats on the side of the arena or say "Sorry, there was an error with search. Please try again later."

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