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aimeeandbeatles
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I'm not sure. I can't find the lease to check.
Zkribbler
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I opened up my absentee ballot today. It had to be returned by June 4th. 
Special elections are horrifically expensive. But this one had only one (1) item: an increase in school assessment -- apparently no one there can spell "tax."
Gee, you think maybe the outcome has been predetermined.![[pissed]](/images/smilies/pissed.gif "Pissed [pissed]")
Special elections are horrifically expensive. But this one had only one (1) item: an increase in school assessment -- apparently no one there can spell "tax."
Gee, you think maybe the outcome has been predetermined.
Read their lips.
You don't need running water to piss and you can go seven hours without flushing your toilet. Modern society has made you soft.
Rant: About to fire one of the security guards. Part of his job is to investigate alarms and clear them in a timely manner using camera footage and badge scan records. He does not clear the alarms in a timely manner. I know this because I get bi-hourly logs that tell me what alarms have been cleared, who cleared them, and how long the alarm was active before it was cleared. The guard in question knows this, but assumes I don't actually look at the logs. Well, I do because I do take security very seriously and I want our guards to be top notch, especially since our guards are some of the highest paid in the area.
At first I let it go because he has only been working here a few weeks so I just chalked it up to him not being familiar with our systems yet. However, I went back and looked at the camera footage of our security office (yes, we have cameras in there specifically to make sure the guards are doing their jobs) and found the reason he is so slow is because he is always playing on his phone and watching YouTube on the company computer. Both of which are expressly against company policy for the security guards. So I talked with all the shift supervisors and told them to basically start micromanaging him to make sure he is doing his job. Apparently he has been copping an attitude with them because of it and still isn't clearing alarms in a timely manner, so I've decided he has to go. I already talked with my boss about it and he is in full agreement so now it's just a matter of finding his replacement.
Judgmental much?
Judgmental much?
It sustains me.
Zkribbler
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If your company has a progressive discipline policy, I see the verbal reprimand step was ineffective and indeed seems to have been counter productive.
You may want to evaluate how much money the company put into his training and how much more it will cost to recruit and train a replacement. Would a suspension without pay be enough to straighten him out? If so, you'd be saving the company money by refraining from firing him.
We contract our security out to a security company, so it doesn't really cost us any more or less than it already does when we tell the security company we don't want a particular guard at our site anymore. And they are just going to pull another guard from a different site, send them to us and hope it works out. That's kinda why I hate contract security. You never know what kind of guard they are going to send you.
On the flip side, I also don't feel bad about firing the guy since he is only going to get fired from our site, not the security company he works for and they'll just transfer him to another site. So it's not like he'll be completely out of a job, he's just probably going to take a bit of a pay cut.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Weird flex and it's not okay.
Lexicus
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We'll all have a laugh about it when Commodore is digging latrine trenches in the reeducation camp though
Hygro
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You're going to leave your house at some point. Pretty rational to time it to when there's no water.
Snerk
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Well I know what Bear Grylls would do..
edit: you know sometimes stale memes can be quite refreshing
edit: you know sometimes stale memes can be quite refreshing
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When did you become so sensitive?
The sad part about this is that you aren't joking. You really think imprisoning people you disagree with is a good idea.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
About stagnant pools of human waste? I don't think I've not been sensitive.
Hygro
soundcloud.com/hygro/
If it's yellow let it mellow.
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I have on several occasions tried to book a train from Irvine to the Bay Area and have always been stymied by the lack of train routes. This has been especially frustrating because I live blocks away from a train station that is on the major commuter line that connects to passenger tracks that run the length of the whole state.
I just found out that if you are using google maps to plan a trip and you select 'train' as the travel option, you have to go into an option menu and tell it to only look at trains. Otherwise, it will only show you results for bus routes because those are generally faster. The problem is that Google tries to minimize travel times and since buses are often used to connect between train stations, the software allows buses to be included in a train route. And because the buses are usually faster at getting you from one end of the state than the other, the software defaults into all-bus routes unless you go into the options and tell it to ignore buses altogether.
I'm pissed because I've ignored jobs that were within train commuting distance and have flown/driven on a couple of long trips when I could have taken the train.
Oh well, at least I figured this out for the future.
I just found out that if you are using google maps to plan a trip and you select 'train' as the travel option, you have to go into an option menu and tell it to only look at trains. Otherwise, it will only show you results for bus routes because those are generally faster. The problem is that Google tries to minimize travel times and since buses are often used to connect between train stations, the software allows buses to be included in a train route. And because the buses are usually faster at getting you from one end of the state than the other, the software defaults into all-bus routes unless you go into the options and tell it to ignore buses altogether.
I'm pissed because I've ignored jobs that were within train commuting distance and have flown/driven on a couple of long trips when I could have taken the train.
Oh well, at least I figured this out for the future.
Broken_Erika
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Looks like @Takhisis might have a rant today...
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