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Things I hate today

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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
 
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.
 
KMFJD said:
Dominican drivers
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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. 😛
 
BarkingGhostar said:
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.
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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.
 
Chaotic42 said:
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. 😛
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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.
 
cbrunny said:
30 Jan 2017:

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

And you?
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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.
 
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.
 
KMFJD said:
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.
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Are you there for work? Or are you a snowbird?
 
WT said:
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.
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Dealerships love people like you.
 
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Loop2kil said:
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.
 
Anubis said:
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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.
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Haha, and here I thought I made the word up referring to me watching the hour glass on a computer.
 
Chaotic42 said:
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. 😛
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If I was a doctor, I would totally accept mangos. Mangos are legit!
 
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