The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[Stevicus]

Pervert

It's actually 66° right now, so the forecast was slightly off.

 

[Wu Wei]

It's actually 66° right now, so the forecast was slightly off.

well..... I won't tell you the temperature here right now..... because I'm not a pervert

 

[Stevicus]

well..... I won't tell you the temperature here right now..... because I'm not a pervert

That's not what I heard. Not that I ever pay much mind to rumors and gossip.

 

[Wu Wei]

That's not what I heard. Not that I ever pay much mind to rumors and gossip.

You should not pay attention to rumors...that is unless I'm spreading them...then believe them to be true...

 

[sun rise]

You should not pay attention to rumors...that is unless I'm spreading them...then believe them to be true...

Pervert

 

[Wu Wei]

Pervert

 

[Brickjectivity]

89 here

 

[Wu Wei]

89 here

Perv......ayor of information

 

[Wu Wei]

well well well...got am email from the corp that was in the tone of an edict... I am to refer all issues to their help desk...... problem is, I don't work for them so...no... I don't think so......

There are several people her that know I am looking to retire, and much to my surprise, some have told me that if I retire... they are going to retirte because they don't want to deal with the corp bureaucracy, lack of response and extended response times with they do decide to respond

 

[sun rise]

well well well...got am email from the corp that was in the tone of an edict... I am to refer all issues to their help desk...... problem is, I don't work for them so...no... I don't think so......

There are several people her that know I am looking to retire, and much to my surprise, some have told me that if I retire... they are going to retirte because they don't want to deal with the corp bureaucracy, lack of response and extended response times with they do decide to respond

They'll miss the mauling of corp perverts.

 

[Revoltingest]

89 here

I'm only 71 (as of last month).

 

[sun rise]

I'm only 71 (as of last month).

Teenager.

 

[Stevicus]

Watch: California man accidentally pays neighbor's power bill for years - UPI.com

A California man discovered he has been mistakenly paying his neighbor's power bill for up to 18 years.

www.upi.com

"I thought there was a leak or someone was stealing my electricity or the meter was faulty because something wasn't right," he told CBS Sacramento.

A utility company employee came to examine Wilson's meter and discovered the company had been charging him for the unit next door, instead of his own apartment.

Wilson said the mix-up may have been happening for the entire 18 years that he has lived in the apartment.

"We acknowledge an error occurred in this instance, and we are fully committed to rectifying the situation with the customer and make the customer whole," PG&E said in a statement.

That's a rather odd way of putting it. "Make the customer whole."

I had a friend who used to work as a meter reader in Los Angeles. He told me he went into some pretty dangerous neighborhoods.

Still, it seems strange that a screw-up like this could go on for 18 years.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I watched When Evil Lurks last night. It was not the normal "I'm gonna laugh at how cheesy this is" and infact it makes the Exorcist look like the Wizard of Oz.
I was already drawn in, but that goat scene had me welded to the screen.
Joe Bob Briggs was right in that it's some serious horror.

 

[Stevicus]

 

[Shadow Wolf]

So demonstrating you're a well trained couch potatoe means you should work in IT?

 

[Kathryn]

So demonstrating you're a well trained couch potatoe means you should work in IT?

Apparently.

 

[Wu Wei]

So demonstrating you're a well trained couch potatoe means you should work in IT?

pretty much....

 

[sun rise]

So demonstrating you're a well trained couch potatoe means you should work in IT?

1 in a million.

Real IT world:

• change the toner cartridge on the printer
• move my monitor because the sun is in my eyes
• I need to leave for a customer presentation in 10 minutes and need a demo disk now (before the internet)
• "corner-office syndrome"

I wrote this one day when the mess I was dealing with became too much. The company no longer exists.

This place is like wandering thru a fog bank. Sometimes phrases like​

"job description", "organization structure", "plans", "timelines",​

"infrastructure" appear briefly and hazily thru the mist before vanishing​

back into nothingness. You try to walk toward the last location of these​

things but then bump into a tree or trip over a log labeled "this too has​

changed without notice". When you do spot a bit of clarity all you see is​

a number of people either chasing their own tails or a group all chasing​

each others tails in a chaotic assemblage.​

 

[Shadow Wolf]

1 in a million.

Real IT world:

• change the toner cartridge on the printer
• move my monitor because the sun is in my eyes
• I need to leave for a customer presentation in 10 minutes and need a demo disk now (before the internet)
• "corner-office syndrome"

I wrote this one day when the mess I was dealing with became too much. The company no longer exists.

This place is like wandering thru a fog bank. Sometimes phrases like​

"job description", "organization structure", "plans", "timelines",​

"infrastructure" appear briefly and hazily thru the mist before vanishing​

back into nothingness. You try to walk toward the last location of these​

things but then bump into a tree or trip over a log labeled "this too has​

changed without notice". When you do spot a bit of clarity all you see is​

a number of people either chasing their own tails or a group all chasing​

each others tails in a chaotic assemblage.​

That reads like a lot of things I've read about the tech world.
Ever read Microserfs by Douglas Coupland?