Random Rants
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For years I would ask my oldest if anyone was sick in her class...the response was always no. One day I commented that she must be the only one in her class that was always sick and couldn't understand how that was possible. Her response was that no one ever vomited in class...the lightbulb clicked for me that I had been asking the wrong question all of these years.
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Lost a document to the ether that I’d spent 2.5 hours on today. (Trust me, I’ve scoured my PC for it.) Bollocks.
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@SKT ah life in the petrie dish. I never get sick. Every breath I take in that building is like getting a flu shot…the wife on the other hand…she gets the residual germs and has to stay home from work. Somehow she seems like the lucky one!!
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@Mizmazzle I can totally relate to this. For many years (in a seemingly previous life) I worked in the retail/service industry…face to face with hundreds of people a day and handling money back when people still carried cash. Especially busy during the holidays and I was never sick…like weirdly never sick and my wife had the same problem. Your immune system is probably laughing at germs/viruses at this point!
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I truly believe that all stores should operate with a no quibble refund policy...
Very tired of having to order things, try them on, and return...for store credit...
Yes...measurements are good...but tough to nail the fit on boots/shoes and clothes in general for me...Just a reason i always try to order direct i guess...
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@popvulture don’t even want to think about it
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I swear probably the only downside to my loving IH is living here
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Dude I know how you feel. Wearing my lefty in the AC right now, just dreaming of a fall breeze...
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Billing your time, and justifying it, seems incredibly stressful to me @EdH . When my wife did her training contract she had to bill every 15 minutes of time she spent on something, and had to bill 6 hours per day. It blew my tiny mind. Now she’s in insurance and spends most of her time going through billing from legal firms, saying “not paying that, not paying that..”
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@jerkules 15 minute units? Was she at an American firm? I understand from my peers who have gone to firms that are HQ'd in the US that the smallest unit they bill is 15 minutes (the norm in the UK has traditionally been 6 minutes, so 10 units in an hour). What billing in 15 minute units means is that you can create crazy targets for the younglings: because every tiny email that takes you 30s to read magically becomes a quarter-of-an-hour when you stick it on the timesheet, you can get the younglings to bill in excess of 24 hours a day. My mates from law school said their targets in these firms were nuts.
I got sacked from a job for a car insurance company once. I was working for a subsidiary as a paralegal in their traffic accident claims dept. They had a good, automated database system that would practically write the court documents for you based on the data entered by the guys who received the claim in the first place. So it would take me ~3 mins to draft a claim form by clicking a few buttons and give it a once-over, a qualified solicitor would inspect it in 30s or so, and then I'd send it to the court. One day I noticed that we were including a claim for an hour of a solicitor's time in drafting this document. I raised this with a superior, questioning whether this was fraudulent (according to the statutory definition - a misrepresentation with the intent to thereby cause a gain to oneself or another or loss to another). I also questioned why we were discouraged from picking up the phone and trying to settle claims without having to issue formal proceedings. I was summarily sacked the next day, but with 2 months pay (to stop me complaining I guess). In my naivety I hadn't realised that inflating these little legal costs here and there was how the subsidiary I worked for made money. I'm sure other insurance companies do this too - end result is that everyone's insurance is slightly higher than it needs to be to pay commercially ruthless lawyers.
