Useless Conversation

[Signe]

Oh.  I was considering taking you off my soft list and putting you on the hard list but you're soft again.   

[Lantyssa]

I'm sure your icon choice can help with that problem.

 

[Sky]

CAN THE WORLD PLEASE GET BACK TO CURING THE COMMON FUCKING COLD. GAH.

At least stay the fuck home and stop getting everyone else at work sick, ffs. There are at least three people with brutal hacking coughs that I'm trying to avoid today. Which means I'll need to use their computer at some point, of course. Fucking martyrs, buncha assholes.

[Yegolev]

I haven't gotten sick so far this year, and I have to assume that it's due to my now-wonderful mental health since everyone else is sick and still crazy.  Tangentially, I am now down to 10mg of Lexapro per 24-hour span.  It was a bit rocky at first but smoothing out now.

[Draegan]

I've been sneezing a lot over the last few days.  Also my nose is stuffed up, but strangely it's not my nose but the area right behind it.

Weird.

[Cyrrex]

Also my nose is stuffed up, but strangely it's not my nose but the area right behind it.

So, your brain is stuffed up?

Seriously, I can't stand those people who martyr themselves by showing up to work while in the midst of some nasty cold/flu.  Newsflash!  People aren't thinking "that Gary, what a trooper", they are thinking "thanks-a-fucking lot, Gary, you stinking douche product".  Stay home, ffs.

[schild]

I stayed home this weekend because I'm fairly sure the cold I got would kill a lesser man.

[Merusk]

Also my nose is stuffed up, but strangely it's not my nose but the area right behind it.

So, your brain is stuffed up?

Seriously, I can't stand those people who martyr themselves by showing up to work while in the midst of some nasty cold/flu.  Newsflash!  People aren't thinking "that Gary, what a trooper", they are thinking "thanks-a-fucking lot, Gary, you stinking douche product".  Stay home, ffs.

That's true for the people around you.  However, no boss or client I've worked for has ever accepted "I was sick" for missing a deadline or falling behind on the schedule.  Maybe your places of employ are different, but if I can suffer through a work day on cold medicine so I do NOT have to work those 8 hours on a weekend or the next few days to catch-up, I'll do so.

[Cyrrex]

Granted, it depends on the scenario and greatly on your boss.  I can essentially work from home if I have to, so missing deadlines isn't too much of an issue.  I can miss them for perfectly normal reasons.

Of course, if you have a boss that expects sick people to be at work for no god damned good reason (including missing deadlines that aren't really important), than that boss happens to also be a douche.

[Sky]

My boss is pretty cool about sick time, even if she's a martyr, too. But hey, if you work for someone who wants you to work sick, just go out of your way to infect them and everyone else. They'll get the point or shut down the office. No big deal.

[Engels]

However, no boss or client I've worked for has ever accepted "I was sick" for missing a deadline or falling behind on the schedule.  Maybe your places of employ are different, but if I can suffer through a work day on cold medicine so I do NOT have to work those 8 hours on a weekend or the next few days to catch-up, I'll do so.

And this is why working in the public sector is a better lifestyle choice for me than the private, where bosses can pull this shit.

[schild]

I get sick so rarely that if a boss or client tried to punish me in any way for missing a deadline I'd berate them extensively and publically and go out of my way to ruin their reputation. I'm not above burning bridges just to see the look on someone's face when they ask to see what it's like to get fucked in the ass by a fat guy in an overcoat.

Edit: Ironically, I ended up getting sick a lot (requiring surgery) back at GoDaddy, but that was mostly my fault for being a fatass so I had no one to blame. But generally, I'm not a fan of undeserved guff. Also, I've seen too many bosses not pulling their own weight and expecting the people under them to do so (and that might be my core problem with that sort of 'you can't get sick, i'm jesus' attitude).

[Rasix]

Granted, it depends on the scenario and greatly on your boss.  I can essentially work from home if I have to, so missing deadlines isn't too much of an issue.  I can miss them for perfectly normal reasons.

I'm glad at my work we have laptops, established tele-work practices,  and a sensitivity towards health/family issues.  They don't want you in the office if you're going to get everyone sick and causing other people to miss time. 

Of course, missing a GA due to anything short of surgery, death in the family or sudden catastrophe isn't allowed.  I've seen GAs out the door from vacation when the dates slipped into my pre-planned vacation. 

[HaemishM]

I'm glad at my work we have laptops, established tele-work practices,  and a sensitivity towards health/family issues.  They don't want you in the office if you're going to get everyone sick and causing other people to miss time. 

This. They are pretty good at my work about telling you to stay the fuck home so you don't infect the rest of the office with your bilious demon seed.

[Merusk]

I live in a very conservative area in a very conservative industry.  The whole IDEA of telecommuting is seen as, "one of those ways the damn hippies try to get out of working."  All the deadlines are very set-in-stone due to permit times, customer requirements and time frames to get the work done after my part is complete.  It would be incredibly easy to see if I was slacking, because I'd miss dates or work wouldn't be complete.

I could easily do the work from home on a laptop with any field calls forwarded to my house.  Nope, I have to be there, in the office I guess because otherwise I might.. what.. not work so I could miss a deadline and get fired?  Fuck I never see my boss or his boss 4/5 of working days so it's not like being IN the office is a requirement. But, for whatever reason its as foreign a concept as, "Hey I get paid SALARY and my work for the next few days is done. I'm going to cut out before 5:00 today."

I can't say it's just this company.  It's been that way for EVERY company I've worked for in Cincinnati.  "You work from 8 to 5, no later no sooner. No, it doesn't matter that you're on salary."

[stray]

Monophonic or Poly ringtones are so much cooler than this MP3 shit.

What is your ringtone? I've got some corny mono version of Express Yourself.  Upgraded from Tupac's California Love. 

[rattran]

My cellphone rings. Ring-ring. Ring-ring.

Fuck annoying tinny music coming out of people's pockets.

[stray]

Tupac's supposed to piss you off.

[edit] Oh btw, I should explain that mono tones ARE basically a ring. They're very non-intrusive.. just a little more interesting than rings. And funnier. You can actually hear them too, unlike some MP3 file. And I don't why a polytone would piss you off. They're so jolly 

[Yegolev]

I can't say it's just this company.  It's been that way for EVERY company I've worked for in Cincinnati.  "You work from 8 to 5, no later no sooner. No, it doesn't matter that you're on salary."

Isn't this an architecture thing?  My wife left that industry because it's full of luddite morons who can't use CAD, at least around here.  Also self-important bosses.  Can't forget that one.

My main ringtone, which is the part you hear after the vibrations, is the chocobo theme from FFXII.

[Merusk]

What's this polyphonic thing?   Is that the annoying garbage that lets people do stupid shit like, "Hey! Anser the phone! Yo, it's Me, <celebrity name> telling you to answer your phone, <insult appropriate for celeb.>"  I guess if I owned a cell I'd know more.

I can't say it's just this company.  It's been that way for EVERY company I've worked for in Cincinnati.  "You work from 8 to 5, no later no sooner. No, it doesn't matter that you're on salary."

Isn't this an architecture thing?  My wife left that industry because it's full of luddite morons who can't use CAD, at least around here.  Also self-important bosses.  Can't forget that one.

Possibly, but it's not Architecture so much as Homebuilding in my case (at least for the last 7 years)  since It's builders who own and push-around our white-collar asses in this segment of the industry.    You're right about luddite morons who can't use CAD, however.  There's no way anyone near their age tries to apply for a job and can't use it will get hired.  They're useless to the company, dammit!  You'd think they'd learn from that example, particularly with the economy being in the shitter and places closing/ downsizing all over.  They seem to think the stamp makes them invulnerable, even after letting 2-3 others with that same stamp go.   

Ah the aged. (And yes it's the aged, the guys with this attitude are always 50+)

[stray]

What's this polyphonic thing?   Is that the annoying garbage that lets people do stupid shit like, "Hey! Anser the phone! Yo, it's Me, <celebrity name> telling you to answer your phone, <insult appropriate for celeb.>"  I guess if I owned a cell I'd know more.

Heh nah, it's just corny midi files. Should have just said that.

Monophonic are just the "beep" based songs.

[Cyrrex]

Serious noob type question coming up - is there a good place to download good, free ringtones that won't try to trick me into paying for them and/or download a bunch of adware crap to my machine?

[Lantyssa]

Sakura Saku at the moment.

[stray]

Serious noob type question coming up - is there a good place to download good, free ringtones that won't try to trick me into paying for them and/or download a bunch of adware crap to my machine?

I'll use my own or find midi files, might cut it down to 30 seconds or something, and use an uploader site like this one (I have Sprint, but it says it works for other providers). You then get a text message to download your ringer and set it up.

If you want to buy ringers, most providers have a service for that. Or you could use a big site like MTV or something. I mean, they're reputable enough.. not like they're based in russia or something.

[stray]

jesus, store bought cappucinos are horrible. even mcd's is better than this.

speaking of which, mcdonalds isn't too bad, if you don't get em flavored. lattes, caps, etc.. otherwise, it's as nasty as this.

[apocrypha]

I have never yet found a chain-store or franchise of any kind that sells coffee that I like. But then I have crappy taste in coffee anyway, don't like it too bitter so I end up mostly drinking Douwe Egberts instant. More of a tea man really 

And it snowed here lastnight, 2cm deep! Purty! If my sciatic pain settles down some I'll get a-snappin' later.

[FatuousTwat]

I cut a chunk out of the Diablo II tristram music for my ringtone... I think it's been the same since I got my phone (2 years or so now).

[Endie]

Serious noob type question coming up - is there a good place to download good, free ringtones that won't try to trick me into paying for them and/or download a bunch of adware crap to my machine?

With just about any phone on the market these days you can choose any mp3 file you have wherever your phone stores its media and set that as your ringtone.  Just set up your pc to access your phone (may involve the disk that came with it, may involve only a usb cable) and copy the particularly outre Future Sound of London track you want to use for your alarm, set it and there you go.

If, on the other hand, your friend is the one lucky enough to know how to use a pc and they already have that copy of Fields of the Nephilim's Preacherman that you reckon will set you apart from rest of the common herd as a ringtone, you can get them to send it to you by bluetooth.

Emergency Edit: under no circumstances accept any offers from Ninja Sportz to "hook you up with a couple of really neat tracks I downloaded."

[Cyrrex]

I have an iPhone, and iTunes is so kind as to ask for a dollar to convert your tune - which you've possibly already given them a dollar for - into a ringtone.  I'm a major phone noob, so I don't know how to get around this, if it's even possible.

[Oban]

I have an iPhone, and iTunes is so kind as to ask for a dollar to convert your tune - which you've possibly already given them a dollar for - into a ringtone.  I'm a major phone noob, so I don't know how to get around this, if it's even possible.

If you want to jailbeak your phone, yes.

Otherwise, yeah you are stuck with the itunes ringtone generator thing.

[bhodi]

If, however, you downloaded a song, and have a raw mp3, you can convert that for free!

Fuck you, apple.

[apocrypha]

I have Ian Dury & The Blockheads, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll as my ringtone. Sometimes I don't answer just so I can listen to it and have a giggle.

And my SMS tone is a murloc gurgle. Funny when it goes off in the supermarket and someone in the fruit'n'veg aisle jumps nervously 

[Signe]

Oh great.  Thank you for putting Hit Me with your Rhythm Stick in my head.  It'll be there for a week unless someone mentions Tom Sawyer.

Damn.

[stray]

I've been hunting for a good midi of Tom Sawyer. Dying for it actually. 

My SMS is "ATATATATA!!" from Hokuto No Ken. That IS intrusive. I just turn the volume down for it actually, and let it buzz.

[Endie]

I have an iPhone, and iTunes is so kind as to ask for a dollar to convert your tune - which you've possibly already given them a dollar for - into a ringtone.  I'm a major phone noob, so I don't know how to get around this, if it's even possible.

Just to spite them, burn the tune to a cd in iTunes then rip it back into mp3 format.  You can now put it onto the makes-microsoft-look-like-open-source-hippies offshoot of a proprietary hell that you call a phone, and you can do it for free.