Random Rants 94 I rant at the thread title and shake my fist menacingly.

[Voidwalkin]

There's a new Poise pads add I saw with the words "Laugh confidently".

What indignities life throws at us.

 

[Ordnael]

Saturday with friends someone mentioned the reborn dolls craze and I was like WTH!?, people go to pediatry wards asking for treatment for dolls! And now I read a few paragraphs of an article on the reborn dolls on a online newspaper I like to consult and now I feel sick

 

[Voidwalkin]

The quality control woman at work is behaving like a boss without any authority.

Worse still, she does not understand our product, nor the stresses of production. Even rudimentary details elude her grasp. It's actually quite shocking.

She will stand and watch you work for an hour, everyday, and in 3 months, has found 1 defective product, out of the tens of thousands(probably closer to 6 figures, maybe over) of products processed.

I'm unsure how management is allowing that. That is approximately four hundred and fifty labor hours to catch one defective product. The estimated value of said product is 125$.

Cost to company reputation negligible, quality is already way up(coinciding with the beginning of my stay, imagine)

Labor hour cost estimated to be approaching 10000$, to pay her to stand there(she revealed her wage and I did the math)

Really quite obscene. May consider new employment elsewhere.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Labor hour cost estimated to be approaching 10000$

She is making $10,000 per hour?

 

[Voidwalkin]

She is making $10,000 per hour?

Oh absolutely not, lol

It's the approximate sum of what she's made watching people(but not actually checking product, the role of QC there) over three months. 450 hours x her wage nears 10k, yeah.

I only get watched for an hour per day. Some coworkers have it worse. About 9 total hours per day watching various people work. Driving people nuts.

Eventually, she will be terminated, if she keeps that up. Already been told by senior people not to, can't help herself.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Thanks for the clarification.

 

[danjuno]

I've reached the point where I feel like I'm not cut out for using Linux (at least for anything more strenuous than running Firefox or LibreOffice).

 

[Ordnael]

Tried Mint to keep an old laptop alive for a while...it somehow worked, having a fanatical brother for Linux helped in those times, he was kinda of my helpdesk
Eventually that laptop died out and on my criteria for the next purchase was SSD memory and of course good old, still new at the time, Windows 11
It just works for the little stuff I ask out of that computer with no fuss, and not having to call on my helpdesk every time something was not working or asking for command prompts to make it work is also a plus for me
My take is that Linux is for people that enjoy taking that extra mile to make a computer do something. Windows is for people with less time, less patient and, according to my brother, the lazy. Well that's me

 

[Klaus Hergersheimer]

I can never spell colloseum right. Colliseum. Whatever; I see red squiggly lines typing this.

 

[Birdjaguar]

In Rome they spell it Colosseum.

 

[Arakhor]

And Colosseo, of course, but that's due to how the -um and -us of Classical Latin changed into the -o of modern Italian.

(See also the Circus Maximus, known in Italian as the Circo Massimo.)

 

[soundjata]

It is burning hot here and now.
Canicule, you know. It is painful.
Still no aircon. But it's getting harder to resist

While humans are dying with their tongue outside, do you know what animal is striving?
Ants are. They like it hot! Oh lord Hymenoptera

The hotter the summer the more queens hatching, says some BBC article...
But I can confirm that because, every night before sunset, I have to fight (with vinegar lol) for every square inch of fissure in the walls, to prevent waves of flying ants entering my house, which they seem to consider like a reproduction haven

My brain overheating makes me cynical.
When we are extinct, ants will reign on earth

 

[Voidwalkin]

Hot here too. Had a couple 95 degree days. My AC couldn't keep up, still not back down to my preferred 64 degrees.

 

[Voidwalkin]

I can never spell colloseum right. Colliseum. Whatever; I see red squiggly lines typing this.

I think for me, and some other people, restaurant is that word.

Occasionally, bureaucrat will get me too, though less often.

 

[Voidwalkin]

A brief question of fairness

I am occasionally asked to work with another team member.

This team member is unable to physically handle the job. She is more experienced, but produces a lesser product at lesser volume and with greater errors. She speaks little English.

Consequently, she is frequently given easier jobs. Less weight, less responsibility, as well as moved to altogether different areas of the department with less difficulty. On most workdays, I am soloing a job so fast paced and physical that the 2nd shift crew, which contains two people, is similarly beneath my volume and quality.

I have worked at this place for all of 4 months. Should I just go ahead and press for a raise?

 

[Birdjaguar]

A brief question of fairness

I am occasionally asked to work with another team member.

This team member is unable to physically handle the job. She is more experienced, but produces a lesser product at lesser volume and with greater errors. She speaks little English.

Consequently, she is frequently given easier jobs. Less weight, less responsibility, as well as moved to altogether different areas of the department with less difficulty. On most workdays, I am soloing a job so fast paced and physical that the 2nd shift crew, which contains two people, is similarly beneath my volume and quality.

I have worked at this place for all of 4 months. Should I just go ahead and press for a raise?

First, help her get better and faster with improved language skills. Document that effort. Compile your history of work around both quality and quantity for at least 3 months preferably 6 or more months. Then, make sure you understand your company's raise policy. If giving individual raises for performance is part of it, take your records and her improved performance to your boss and ask about getting a raise. Ask for it based on your record and your ability to make her a better employee.

 

[Gori the Grey]

You absolutely deserve a raise. When you ask for it, don't reference the inability of the other team member. If it's true that you do twice what a two-person second shift does, you can mention that, again without badmouthing the individuals involved--just putting purely in terms of productivity.

Don't be in "rant" mode when you ask for the raise, in other words. Just make the case on the basis of your value to the company.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

When I was mowing my lawn on Monday the mower suddenly gave out halfway through my front yard. When it wouldn't start up again easily I tipped it to look underneath and saw all of the oil fall out of it at once. It somehow got a couple of cracks and one obvious hole in the oil pan. I'm not sure when or how. I had hit a hidden tree stump earlier, which caused it to shut off, but it started up easily and worked fine to handle a third of the lawn between that and finally giving out. I had broken a blade after hitting a rock or root about a month after getting this mower ago and was surprised then it cut clean through a water pipe 2 months ago without seeming to harm the motor, so I guess repeated collisions could have weakened that oil pan. When I checked a repair shop yesterday I found the replacement part would cost $126 and when they add the cost of labor to install it I'd be almost at the $300 I paid for the machine. Perhaps it could be covered under the manufacturer warranty, but I doubt it. I had a 10% off $300 or more Home Depot coupon expiring soon I I went ahead and bought a new one on my way home from work.

I was going to Home Depot anyway to get a door to install between the kitchen and garage at the Habitat ground up build, but they did not have any fire rated doors in stock there or at any other nearby location. It couldn't be shipped until Monday, so we won't be able to install the last door with the group tomorrow.



After work today I decided to take a hike in the park for the first time in a couple months. Last time I was surprised to find that the nearby lake was missing, due to work being done to repair the dam. I expected it had been long enough for the work to be done and was hoping to see the lake return, but instead I found the muddy plain where the lake used to be has transformed into dense grassland.

On my way back home I took a slightly different path than usual, since I saw a clearer route that I thought led to the part of our back fence which was leaning over enough that I'd be able to jump over it instead of needing to move through some prickly branches and vines to get to the gate. When I got closer I realized I wasn't that near that part of the fence but was merely standing atop the pile of debris that the grading grew left after filling our pool back in the spring. I realized I couldn't jump over it and was turning to head towards the gate, when I got stung by a yellow jacket.

Then I got stung by 5 more yellow jackets before I could reach the gate and get home.

After going inside, taking some Benadryl, and taking my clothes off to get in the shower I got stung a 7th time.

One of the yellow jackets was hiding inside my shirt. It flew around the bathroom for about 5 minutes before I was able to swat it with a flipflop.

Edit: I guess there were actually 2 yellow jackets hiding in my shirt, as I found and killed another one Saturday evening just sitting on the wall next to the front door.

 

[bene_legionary]

What a day...!

 

[Broken_Erika]

One of the batteries in my DVD player remote exploded and covered the inside of the remote with Battery Vomit. Now half the buttons on the remote no longer work!