Random Thoughts That Don't Warrant Their Own Thread: 2024

RTR

 

Reminds me of a story about your mom

 

I love u

 

Definitely one of those “if I knew for sure I wouldn’t die” situations. But I think it would be amazing to ride in one during this exercise.

 

Taques

 

Why is pen15 so funny

 

Amazon can fuck off. My kindle signature edition has just completely stopped functioning a year after use and because it is out of the 1 year limited warranty, the best they can offer me is 20% off a new device. No service for returning the faulty device and having someone take a look at it and repair or often a replacement. They're so large and amorphous that it's always some other department's responsibility and the customer service chat is worthless. Anyone have any recommendations on cutting through the bullshit to get a replacement?

 

This is how it is with insurance companies, credit card companies, and most national banks. Capitalist hellholes.

Don't have an answer tho, sorry you're going thru this

 

yea, i know that it's par for the course. I feel like once upon a time Amazon would actually resolve this shit pretty well, but now that it has the entire world in a corner, they have full runway to tell everyone to fuck off

 

I always call, which is having them call you. The chat is bullshit. Also, I know some people aren’t into it, but my iPad operates exactly as it did the day I bought it and it’s 7-8 years old now.

 

If you ever did time in a cubicle, why do you still lock your computer every time you get up?

 

Took me a while to break the habit wfh, but now I just walk away. With everything wide open. If my 3 year old steals data I’ll own it.

 

I dont anymore. I dont lock it at the office either. But there was a time where I did.

 

There might be a place near you that fixes electronic devices? Save you a little bit of money probably.

 

When I first started in public accounting we were issued cables with a lock that we were supposed to use to tether our computers when at client sites (maybe even in the office too, don't remember at this point). They insisted we also do this when we were at our big trainings (the Q Center, I'm sure others here have had the misfortune of being there). If you didn't do it during lunch they would go around and snatch the untethered computers.

 

Damn, that's a different level.

 

should have answered those calls asking if you want to extend your warranty

 

I usually don’t unless I’m going to be away for more than a few minutes so it sets my teams status to away.

 

For reals, though. Nothing invoked fear like my company commander doing an open locker check. Someone was gonna be unlocked and everyone was gonna pay.

 

Gus heard it too, but his mind had not moved very far from his favorite subject whores

 

This meme is accurate in my experience.

 

Uh what

 

No idea and I’d like to keep it that way.

 

Why though?

 

At my first internship in 2011, there were four of us interns, two in one department and two in another. We had trainings as a group for a few days before splitting to our departments. So we’re about 5 days into this job, in the new area, and I go to the bathroom without locking my computer. The other intern sends a message to the female intern in the other department how “I know we just met but I’m really into you” and all kinds of other shit. So I’ve been vigilant about it from that day.

I’m somehow really good friends with that guy still and we work in the same group

 

That's potential "meet me in the Publix parking lot" level behavior

 

Do you lock your computer at home?

 

Did you score?

L.O.L.

 

Nope, my wife and I work for the same company so we work from home on the same days. I doubt she’s going to get crazy and send anything like that, but that would be funnier to me than a dude I had known for 4 days

 

Beware of the ol’ screen flip and promise of donuts email

 

Owsley

 

This is a good tag. Being in Atlanta Owsley has probably seen this creature.

 

Been a while since I’ve been to the zoo, but we’ve got a membership to the botanical gardens and they’ve got a massive one in the indoor rainforest exhibit.

 

Damn I was there last month and didn't see it. The one at the zoo is right there with Kamado dragon for most terrifying thing they have.

 

I’m shocked it took this long for someone to tag TMB’s Steve Irwin

 

This is why I habitually locked mine forever. Leaving your computer unlocked was asking for it.

 

Yall would really have people go to your computer and send emails and shit? That's foreign to me.

 

Yes. Would also set your desktop image to something embarrassing.

It was a sales office full of frat bros and ex athletes that had Peter Pan syndrome. Myself included. It was a lot of fun but also extremely cringey in retrospect.

 

Sounds like some Wolf of Sesame Street shit

I just came up with that, it's alright.

 

I deal with shitty internet, an ancient computer, and a miserable VPN through my old company I contract for. I regularly have to control + alt + dlt to close a frozen program.

It really grinds my gears that, upon doing so for Word, Outlook, anything, Microsoft then makes you wait longer while it "reports the problem to Microsoft."

Motherfucker, you can't even open a Word document, I don't want to wait longer while you send this into an internet abyss that will serve no purpose.