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Loop2kil

Platinum Member
Mar 28, 2004
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1. People that call me directly or come by my office instead of making a ticket
2. 2+ hour conference calls
3. Any amount of hour-glassing when I'm working...I have zero patience
 

Majes

Golden Member
Apr 8, 2008
1,164
148
106
1. Soccer (messed up my foot pretty good last week)
2. 5 day weeks.
3. lack of motivation
 

IronWing

No Lifer
Jul 20, 2001
73,332
34,816
136
IRS rejected electronic form because health coverage box not checked. I know I checked the box and saved the form. So open the form to see the box not checked. I check the box, save the form again, close the form. Open the form. Box not checked. Check the box again, save the form again, close form. Open form. Box stayed checked so resubmit. Accepted.
 

Chaotic42

Lifer
Jun 15, 2001
35,140
2,283
126
Dominican drivers
I'd like to head down there one day. I was talking with a guy from the US who lives there and he loved it, sans the electricity issues. He was a doctor and said sometimes patients would pay him in mangoes. :p
 

rh71

No Lifer
Aug 28, 2001
52,844
1,049
126
AT&T cutting bonus of the little guys (ahem, me) and laying people off during a fiscal year with stellar performance.
AT&T for not delivering on promises to the FCC/FTC on deploying fiber to me neighborhood even though two neighborhoods away has it. Failed in 2012 and 2014 and now 2016/17.
AT&T for discounting only the first wireless line for employees and telling their spouses and kids to go F themselves.
AT&T for buying DirecTV and in doing so leaving me feeling dirty (+10 year sub of DirecTV).
AT&T for not being able to deliver U-verse in any form or sell Internet service to me when they did years back. Yes, they went backwards.

ATT outsources some of their IT work to us, which comprises of 100% of my daily activities, so thank you for keeping me gainfully employed for almost the last decade, and hopefully many more.
 

KMFJD

Lifer
Aug 11, 2005
33,388
53,416
136
I'd like to head down there one day. I was talking with a guy from the US who lives there and he loved it, sans the electricity issues. He was a doctor and said sometimes patients would pay him in mangoes. :p
I've been here since October and it starts to wear you down after a while....it kinda has that wild west/lawless feel to it, in many ways it's a conservatives/libertarians wet dream here...money talks and will get you out of any problems you have with enough of it.
 

WT

Diamond Member
Sep 21, 2000
4,816
60
91
30 Jan 2017:

1. Car Dealerships.
2. Weak servers at work.
3. Vague instructions left by retired folk.

And you?

Can confirm #1. Bought an SUV last week, advertised as balance of factory warranty on window sticker. Sat down to negotiate price and trade-in value, settled on numbers that made both sides happy, then after I met with the 'warranty' salesman, first paper he slaps down for me to sign was to acknowledge that the SUV was 'As-Is' with NO factory powertrain warranty on it at all. Talk about being blindsided ! I questioned him on it, and felt it was dirty pool to not point this out while we were in the negotiation process. What I should have done was turned around and walked out of the dealership at that point, wait until they call me and offer to drop some on the price. My problem ? I was so enamored with the SUV that I just took my lumps and then added a bumper to bumper warranty, hoping that it would come in handy and I could at least have peace of mind (and lighter of wallet) at the end of the day.
 

dainthomas

Lifer
Dec 7, 2004
14,952
3,941
136
Frontier. The FIOS box in my garage is beeping incessantly and they're going to take a week to get out here and replace the battery.
 

MrSquished

Lifer
Jan 14, 2013
26,067
24,398
136
The fucking kids in the waiting room who are, as I type this, annoying the shit out of me.
 

ponyo

Lifer
Feb 14, 2002
19,688
2,811
126
I've been here since October and it starts to wear you down after a while....it kinda has that wild west/lawless feel to it, in many ways it's a conservatives/libertarians wet dream here...money talks and will get you out of any problems you have with enough of it.

Are you there for work? Or are you a snowbird?
 

MagnusTheBrewer

IN MEMORIAM
Jun 19, 2004
24,122
1,594
126
Can confirm #1. Bought an SUV last week, advertised as balance of factory warranty on window sticker. Sat down to negotiate price and trade-in value, settled on numbers that made both sides happy, then after I met with the 'warranty' salesman, first paper he slaps down for me to sign was to acknowledge that the SUV was 'As-Is' with NO factory powertrain warranty on it at all. Talk about being blindsided ! I questioned him on it, and felt it was dirty pool to not point this out while we were in the negotiation process. What I should have done was turned around and walked out of the dealership at that point, wait until they call me and offer to drop some on the price. My problem ? I was so enamored with the SUV that I just took my lumps and then added a bumper to bumper warranty, hoping that it would come in handy and I could at least have peace of mind (and lighter of wallet) at the end of the day.
Dealerships love people like you.
 
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Loop2kil

Platinum Member
Mar 28, 2004
2,605
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Early sunsets...limits my mountain bike time during the week and I get fatter.
 

Anubis

No Lifer
Aug 31, 2001
78,712
427
126
tbqhwy.com
1. People that call me directly or come by my office instead of making a ticket
2. 2+ hour conference calls
3. Any amount of hour-glassing when I'm working...I have zero patience

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Hourglassing is a state of strain, which is free of energy (ZEM: Zero Energy Mode) and can emerge in case of one-point-integrated solid- (hexahedrons) and shell elements.
 

Loop2kil

Platinum Member
Mar 28, 2004
2,605
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Hourglassing is a state of strain, which is free of energy (ZEM: Zero Energy Mode) and can emerge in case of one-point-integrated solid- (hexahedrons) and shell elements.

Haha, and here I thought I made the word up referring to me watching the hour glass on a computer.
 

Kaido

Elite Member & Kitchen Overlord
Feb 14, 2004
51,992
7,419
136
I'd like to head down there one day. I was talking with a guy from the US who lives there and he loved it, sans the electricity issues. He was a doctor and said sometimes patients would pay him in mangoes. :p

If I was a doctor, I would totally accept mangos. Mangos are legit!