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1 hour ago, HRSchenker said:

Went to eat at one of my favorite Dallas restaurants and the guy at the front asked me "can I help you?" in the most abrasive tone possible. I told him "table for 2" and he responded "2 what?". "2 people....for here". "We don't have a server with a name that sounds like that". Someone had to shake him out of the trance he was in so he could realize I was asking for a table for 2 so we could eat at the fucking restaurant. He walks us to the table and continued on saying "ohhhh I thought you were looking for a table with a specific server". I just stared at him. No reaction. This is the same guy who mocked me last Christmas for spelling my wife's name after he kept asking me over and over what I said. "Yeah buddy I can spell". Well obviously not if you're having to ask me over and over again. 

The concept is awesome but the execution is terrible. That was our setup growing up and my mom would always do dishes during movies or TV shows. This was before DVRs so you couldn't just pause and wait for mom to stop banging plates together. The list of shows where I missed most of the episodes because she's slamming dishes is endless. 

Dallas has some really shitty service folks 

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10 hours ago, HRSchenker said:

The concept is awesome but the execution is terrible. That was our setup growing up and my mom would always do dishes during movies or TV shows. This was before DVRs so you couldn't just pause and wait for mom to stop banging plates together. The list of shows where I missed most of the episodes because she's slamming dishes is endless. 

dishes slamming, ice cubes being dispensed, garbage disposal running, etc. could barely hear myself think

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Scanning qr codes for a menu. Fuck that shit. 

Waitstaff morons. 

 

 

Taco flats. Have to scan a qr code for their tap beer list. I grumble, bartender says its because the list is updated so often, they can't print paper menus. I order. He says, "oh we don't have that one on draft anymore." 

I say then just bring me a german style pilser, which is what the one I ordered was. He looks at me like I'm speaking German. 

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We and two plumbers have been sitting here at home for three hours waiting for the utility inspector to come by to check the work that was completed last week.
In the meantime we cannot use our water & toilets.
We have tried to communicate via phone messaging & emails to our local utility provider to no avail, as has the plumbing company.
Am getting very pissed off, as this appointment for the inspection was made last week.

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34 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

We and two plumbers have been sitting here at home for three hours waiting for the utility inspector to come by to check the work that was completed last week.
In the meantime we cannot use our water & toilets.
We have tried to communicate via phone messaging & emails to our local utility provider to no avail, as has the plumbing company.
Am getting very pissed off, as this appointment for the inspection was made last week.

Go sit in front of the inspectors haus or ask to use his toilet?

 

We hardly ever speak of it or have to police our own, by this dickhead is the exception.  Bad apple in our barrel.

Student from Orange charged with raining down beer and spit on officer after UT/A&M game

 

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5 hours ago, Armybrat said:

We and two plumbers have been sitting here at home for three hours waiting for the utility inspector to come by to check the work that was completed last week.
In the meantime we cannot use our water & toilets.
We have tried to communicate via phone messaging & emails to our local utility provider to no avail, as has the plumbing company.
Am getting very pissed off, as this appointment for the inspection was made last week.

Poop in a box and mail it to the inspection office. 

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I go into the office every other week, I rotate with this woman, so we never see each other. Every day, the person in the office has to put the daily filings into a folder and that folder gets put in a filing cabinet. A drawer can fit 6 months of folders in it, so every 6 months you have to start a new drawer. At the beginning of July, I started putting the folders into a new drawer. But when I came back, I noticed she must have forgotten because she put her shit in the wrong drawer. I moved it and didn't say anything.

It has been 6 fucking months and she is still putting her shit in the wrong drawer. I was going to say something but I wanted to see if she would eventually figure it out but nope. I guess she thinks it's like a bag of holding, you can just fill it up forever and it will never get full. If I were a younger man, I might wonder how she could be so oblivious but I'm old and have been married twice, so I know the deal. 

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behind 3 different people with just one working brake light each today. came from the factory with 3 working brake lights. but you fucks only each have 1. fuckers.

 

also, what the fuck is with the epidemic of people hitting their brakes when you merge in behind them on the freeway? swear two or three times a day i slide behind someone only for them to hit their brakes. there's no one for 400' feet in front of them in their lane and no one in the other lanes in front hit their brakes, so i can only assume it's in reaction to me.

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9 hours ago, elfenix said:

behind 3 different people with just one working brake light each today. came from the factory with 3 working brake lights. but you fucks only each have 1. fuckers.

 

also, what the fuck is with the epidemic of people hitting their brakes when you merge in behind them on the freeway? swear two or three times a day i slide behind someone only for them to hit their brakes. there's no one for 400' feet in front of them in their lane and no one in the other lanes in front hit their brakes, so i can only assume it's in reaction to me.

Be gentle, they're new drivers!  Or at least that's the bumper sticker that seemingly half the cars in Austin are sporting.

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40 minutes ago, Native Horn said:

Be gentle, they're new drivers!  Or at least that's the bumper sticker that seemingly half the cars in Austin are sporting.

Those drivers need extra training. Make sure to drift into their lane, tailgate them, and weave right in front of them. It will help with their training. 

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Most times I park my truck as far away from any other vehicles as possible. I don’t mind the extra distance to walk. Just in the last 5 weeks alone, where I had no choice of where to park, my truck has been hit 3 times. One being a young girl backed into my rear bumper while she was backing out of the parking space behind mine. Fortunately there was no damage to my bumper but messed hers up a bit. Second, someone opened their door into the side of my truck leaving a nice chip in my paint. I have a white truck and now there is a nice quarter inch diameter black spot on my truck. I see it every time I get in my truck. Just today I noticed that someone hit the front of my truck and broke my front license plate holder and put a nice crease in my plate. Just last September someone was vandalizing cars in a parking garage in Shreveport and my truck fell victim to them too. They hit the top of my tailgate and put a big crease in the top of it.

People suck at times.

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i swear there was a thread around here about how much panera and jason's deli suck and now i can't find it. if i could just get jimmy johns to fuck us over we'd never get their shit ass trays of terrible bland sandwiches ever again, just like the other two.

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continuation of my gripe with Outlook: in the old monthly calendar, you could click on a date, and drag out the timeline for the calendar event.  like if you were creating a 2-week long vacation entry. 

now you must click on a single date and fill in the time manually.  in-fucking-furiating.

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On 12/4/2024 at 4:20 PM, Sandman said:

I go into the office every other week, I rotate with this woman, so we never see each other. Every day, the person in the office has to put the daily filings into a folder and that folder gets put in a filing cabinet. A drawer can fit 6 months of folders in it, so every 6 months you have to start a new drawer. At the beginning of July, I started putting the folders into a new drawer. But when I came back, I noticed she must have forgotten because she put her shit in the wrong drawer. I moved it and didn't say anything.

It has been 6 fucking months and she is still putting her shit in the wrong drawer. I was going to say something but I wanted to see if she would eventually figure it out but nope. I guess she thinks it's like a bag of holding, you can just fill it up forever and it will never get full. If I were a younger man, I might wonder how she could be so oblivious but I'm old and have been married twice, so I know the deal. 

 

Two passive aggressive people in a death match. 

 

 

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16 hours ago, elfenix said:

i swear there was a thread around here about how much panera and jason's deli suck and now i can't find it. if i could just get jimmy johns to fuck us over we'd never get their shit ass trays of terrible bland sandwiches ever again, just like the other two.

Any time I get a new assistant the first rule I give them on day one is that ordering Jason’s Deli for lunch is a fireable offense. 

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8 hours ago, 52-80 said:

continuation of my gripe with Outlook: in the old monthly calendar, you could click on a date, and drag out the timeline for the calendar event.  like if you were creating a 2-week long vacation entry. 

now you must click on a single date and fill in the time manually.  in-fucking-furiating.

click the "all day" button. then just choose your ending date.

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5 hours ago, Iceman said:

click the "all day" button. then just choose your ending date.

for some reason our scheduling software ignores all day events. oh you thought you were on vacation all day? sorry, bob bobson scheduled a meeting at 9 am. you should have blanked out 9 am to 5 pm.

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Any time I get a new assistant the first rule I give them on day one is that ordering Jason’s Deli for lunch is a fireable offense. 

The maddening thing is that I really like the Jason’s muffuletta and cup of gumbo combo. But is that available on the catering order? Nope. Sorry, best we can do is a tray of utterly mid ham and turkey sandwiches and shit. We can’t possibly provide you with our best, most popular menu items.
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I wanted to get a set of Dominos to play with the relatives and the local Target-style store only had these and oh my god it is some cheap shit


i mean not only is it a hollow lightweight throwaway, the fucking backside has different numbers from the injection molding or whatever so you can literally just memorize what dominos other players have from looking at rhe back

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On 12/7/2024 at 9:44 AM, Brisketexan said:


The maddening thing is that I really like the Jason’s muffuletta and cup of gumbo combo. But is that available on the catering order? Nope. Sorry, best we can do is a tray of utterly mid ham and turkey sandwiches and shit. We can’t possibly provide you with our best, most popular menu items.

I finally convinced our office person to order from the menu (New York Yankee). And then our order got cancelled at 12:15.

That sandwich tray sucks so hard. 

Jimmy Johns is the same way. I'd crush an Italian Night Club. But we get that dumb box of mix and match bullshit cut into 3rds because office workers can't have a normal size sandwich.

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1 hour ago, elfenix said:

I finally convinced our office person to order from the menu (New York Yankee). And then our order got cancelled at 12:15.

That sandwich tray sucks so hard. 

Jimmy Johns is the same way. I'd crush an Italian Night Club. But we get that dumb box of mix and match bullshit cut into 3rds because office workers can't have a normal size sandwich.

Reminds me of back in the day when I was still newly married, the ex-wife would go to, or host, baby and wedding showers. There would always be leftover finger sized sandwiches of the worst kind. It couldn’t be some normal ham and cheese sandwich. It had to be some “cute” or “fancy” sandwich like cucumber or some other crazy main ingredient that no one liked.

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Feeling y'all for sure!  We get Door Dash lunch on the daily, and try to do a bulk order for everyone or split into two orders to minimize costs.  Last week, another Gen Alpha lunch-badging asshole comes in around lunch, but called a coworker ahead of time, and double-dashes the order, and caused the order to get delayed by 45 minutes.  45 minutes our order was ready and getting cold at the restaurant while the driver waited for his order.  And of course, he was gone by 2pm.  

In general, the epidemic of lunch badging around here is infuriating.  Show up and do the job you're getting overpaid for, and stop taking advantage of the fringe / French benefits.  If only we had an Office Manager with the balls to sit their asses down and put them on notice, but we're a satellite office with no real OM presence. 

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