EXT — THE WHITE HOUSE — NIGHT
Text appears on screen: January 31st, 2021.
An entourage of Hum-Vees bust through the gates in spectacular fashion. TED, ICE T and a newly buff HARVEY hop out of the lead Hum-Vee armed to the teeth.
TED
Surprise motherfuckers! I bet ya thought we forgot!
HARVEY
It’s time to end this shit once and for all. I ain’t your fall guy no more. The Proud Boys taught me all about not wankin no more!
ICE T
Damn, we really need to work on your problem with over sharin. But lets ice these fools. Fuckin’ Kamala Harris!? Fuck the police!
Secret service agents come pouring out into the portico, guns drawn. They slowly advance towards the caravan of Hum-Vees. Then, suddenly they holster their weapons and take kung-foo poses and begin running at the protagonists one at a time.
Harvey punches the first to approach him in the sternum and bashes the second into the side of the Hum-Vee.
A secret service agent rushes at TED and attempts a ‘flying dragon’ kick.
TED
Enough of this horseshit!
Ted pulls his side-arm and shoots the guy in the dick. A very Verhoven explosion of vicera occurs.
ICE T
Lets waste these motherfuckers!
Automatic, semi-automatic and even non automatic gunplay ensues. Ultimately our band of marauders prevails, covered in blood and guts.
TED
They thought what happened at the capitol was insurrection, but they ain’t seen nothin yet!
“non automatic gunplay”
That’s my favorite kind.
Junk silver is up another 10% since the market opened. Up 20% since Wednesday.
Oh, and 10 days delay after receipt of payment.
The wankers at Reddit are fucking everything up.
Let them have their fun. They’re pissing off all the right people.
I think you mentioned a different site in the last thread, but do you also follow this one?
This all should be automatic!
Yup, I feel a little dirty like Ted’s must when he does this kind of thing.
Um,…,er,…so Ice T will be our new Overlord come morning?
My Hummer is powered by two AGT1500 with a CAT 3126 as a standalone unit for an onboard generator that powers the HIFUSC DEW and associated hardware. I appropriated it from the CIA in Kandahar where my unit engaged them in a battle of who can broadcast the most obnoxious rock music from a helicopter-mounted loudspeaker. This is relevant because we won the competition with ‘You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet’ by Bachman-Turner Overdrive, which I have to say was not well-received by the locals.
And that’s how you take care of business as you let it roll down the highway, right there!
I’m gonna end up finding that I’ve stayed awake all night to finish these assignments for tomorrow.
I’m fairly certain we had a BTO puns thread quite recently. I’m all in favor of more.
Every day and every way!
Should probably save it for the weekend.
This is just the leaked script for the next Expendables movie, isn’t it CPRM?
I like my T: hot, green and Chinese.
Countdown until the Feds visit us….
Ha. They are regular commenters.
Ones name starts with T and ends in ulip. The others initials rhyme with KK.
Sounds like something a fed would say.
Whatever. Those in the know know.
So…Mr. Bond, you admit it.
That’s just your Treadstone training talking
Any snow?
The chair is against the wall.
I’m not your handler.
I found your reply funnier than I should have. Whatever fed.
I’m on multiple lists. Everyone here is probably list “adjacent” at best. I failed background during hiring at LAPD, despite not even having any misdemeanors other than traffic and the traffic ones were thirty years ago. They said I had no respect for the law and I responded, ” Yes, and what you’re doing right now is totally justifying my lack of respect.”
Of course what they meant was “you have no respect for law enforcement in the form in which it is so often practiced, because you hold such enforcement, rightly, to a high standard, and believe absolutely that rule of law means said enforcement and enforcers themselves cannot be above the law. What they perhaps meant was “this guy ain’t gonna fall in line and do like the union says”. You never know. Maybe, maybe not. That’s a cynical take that’s easy for me to make from here.
Yeah, well, I wasn’t applying for cop, btw. I was trying to get in as a mechanic, because they have a bunch of motorcycles.
Same applies I think ?
LOL nice job
Yeah after The Woodchipper Incident I am absolutely on a list. Yay.
Wow. Social credit score for the win. Good job California!
*deletes comment about lists*
That is Zoom happy hour talk that I am only comfortable giving to the Chinese and the NSA plants that monitor those.
*writes down ‘Sloper’s name to give to my Chinese masters*
Even worse, they kept me on the “hired” list for two months. I didn’t get any bites from anyone else, even though I was the highest score on the testing for that position (out of, literally a couple of hundred applicants). I had to lobby to get removed and the minute I did, I got hired by the airport.
Countdown
I watched it a couple of times. This is the final countdown.
TED
They thought what happened at the capitol was insurrection, but they ain’t seen nothin yet!
B-b-b-b-baby they just ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
Alternatively
“This may be my favorite meme of all time.”
https://twitter.com/MagnusPanvidya/status/1355374177251954691
I don’t get it.
It’s probably because it’s too wordy.
It’s because, it’s a shitty meme.
It is not!
Support for the r/wallstreetbets guy converges from all corners of the ideological chart, or something.
Fun fact: Bachman the younger, Tal Bachman (now in his 50s himself) writes the occasional conservative column on Mark Steyn’s website.
https://www.steynonline.com/10607/tal-bachman-christians-come-back
No freaking way. I know I closed that dag gon tag.
I feel your pain, Limey.
It was a lively read, outside my usually sphere of awareness. Interesting. I should check Mark Steyn’s site more often.
The ones labeled “Mark Steyn Show” have an audio (podcast) that I listen to faithfully.
Steyn is alternately hilarious and pessimistic about the state of modern western culture.
He nails some points I’ve been making for a while (Article here). Many modern Christian churches really struggle with any level of depth.
“.@JussieSmollett is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know. I’m praying for his quick recovery.
This was an attempted modern day lynching. No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. We must confront this hate.
4:30 PM · Jan 29, 2019”
https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1090361495119187969
This dumb cunt thinks lynching is totes legal. Lol!
It was a more innocent time.
I got a page-a-day calendar of True Crime for Christmas (I’m admittedly hard to shop for).
Instead of the usual true but bizarre crime story, today’s page says:
I wonder who put the Libertarian flakes into the calendar editor’s breakfast.
No idea but from what I gathered from the morning links whoever it was doesn’t masturbate.
You know who else doesn’t masturbate?
Kylie Minogue fans?
I fear that one is lost on me.
No links to vintage 80’s KM videos? For shame, Ted’S.
This is from 2001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHood00sNJU
Kylie Minogue plus The Hives. That’ll work.
I always picture that ad when I read “Kylie Minogue”.
+1 rip the system
Not after chowing down them cornflakes.
https://twitter.com/LivingScribe/status/1355763018869710852
WTF??
Oh Deer!
No. No deer. Butt too high. Run too fast.
Will do anything for clicks?
*for a buck
*Hurk*
+1 Courier font
-1 lack of “Previously on ‘A path to Wellness'”
It’s not Courier on my system. I get Liberation Mono instead.
I put it on Reader View.
Won’t show the comments or I’d keep it in that mode at all times.
-1 advertising and other distracting bullshit FTW
Virtual high five to Rhy.
?
No kidding. 😉
I just discovered a drawing/art tutorial channel on youtube by a guy called Alphonso Dunn. It’s really good. I felt for sure I’d have to wade through hundreds of amateurish, awful channels about drawing hentai and Disney princesses before I found anything this good but I guess the algorithm already knows what’s good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc7Au8geGno
Marvellous.
Thanks for the post CPRM.
You made me feel better, CP, until I saw the buck chug-ugg.
Some really famous Italian philosopher is alleged to have said, “It ain’t over ’til it’s over”
Not sure what he meant but I’m gonna wait and see.
Thanks, CP, drinking coffee from my favorite cup
Are you confusing me with CPRM?
Count Potato Replicant Mechadroid
Makes sense. You research the derp, and your android counterpart processes it into bizarre short stories and cartoons.
*shredding documents*
Someone posted a link to a “domestic terrorism” overview in one of the posts today.
But we missed this gem.
Fuck not closing tags.
And they don’t even look at the ’70’s. You know, back when the leftists would rob banks and kill a few people to raise money so they could make bombs, in order to blow up court buildings and free the black panthers, so they could then begin the Marxist revolution. Oh, that’s right, those people are now professors at major universities and besties with former presidents, nevermind!
And they’re training the next generation of Marxists. I expect a return of seventies-style fun times soon.
Are they going to bring back 70’s drugs?
I’ve always wondered what bennies and quaaludes were like. I burned out on coke and ecstasy back in the day.
‘ludes were like instantaneously being as drunk as possible, only without any of the stomach issues, I.E. no throwing up. Max confidence and energy, minimum intelligence. Gorilla biscuits.
Gorilla Biscuits “Start Today”. NYHC to the max. https://youtu.be/RjR0GUOAXOU
Can I keep modern weed?
However good 70s drugs were does not extend to weed. Modern weed is infinitely better than the Mexican brick weed of the 70s.
I think I prefer nineties weed. Modern weed is just… too strong for me. And it’s not like I smoke every day any more so every time I rarely encounter it again I have to learn that lesson all over again.
90s weed is fine.
Just not that shit green crap that tastes like ass.
Their kid is the DA of San Francisco!
Actually they did.
They remarked that the level of violence and casualties are far lower than in previous times:
Well, at least they got that part right.
They even made a point to remind us that terrorism, even by their twisted definition of what constitutes terrorism, doesn’t even rise to the level of “average year” since 94.
Just wait until public schools open again. We’ve probably pushed a great many children and teens who where on the brink before the shutdowns over the edge. Now they’re just waiting for the opportunity. Once they get their hands on those shiny new guns their progressive parents bought to stave off the roving packs of alt-right nazis that never showed up it’s going to get ugly.
They’re also being quite creative in defining terrorist acts. While they have an aura of impartiality, the mask slips every once in a while.
For instance. This is considered “Far Right Terrorism”:
As is the guy who shot a protestor who pointed a gun at him over the summer.
And, not fucking coincidentally, while they do count Antifa attacking courthouses and police stations as terrorism, they DON’T count the countless other buildings destroyed by Antifa in their 4 month long fit. Burning down private property while in mass riots in an attempt to sway politics is just regular old crime, according to their survey, unlike brandishing a gun while saying “White lives matter” is clear right wing terrorism.
All that said, we had a scant 5 deaths attributed to terrorism (by their definition), and the one attributed to “extreme right wing terrorism” is a pretty case of SELF DEFENSE (the guy in Austin).
more toyah
https://www.nme.com/news/music/robert-fripp-toyah-willcox-declare-love-rocknroll-latest-cover-2868760
Can you thee my nippleth thwough my thweater?
I for one support Elmer Fudd in her transition.
That reminded me of Meryn Cadell, who was trans WAY before it was the cool thing
Menopause… oh yeah, nature’s birth control.
Yeah, you might Fripp over them!
Why would those people keep their home so cold? “I love my house real cold, drop another degree from the thermostat, baby!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_ZeDn-hHGE
I miss shaking hands. It’s odd to meet a new business acquaintance and not see each other’s face and just be standing there without the traditional “I offer my weaponless hand as a goodwill gesture.”
Ot Friday when I gave my employee his 15 year service award with no ceremony but a verbal congrats and handing him his framed certificate.
Awkward!!
I haven’t had any occasion to shake hands since the Before Times. I got my current job in September without meeting anyone in person.
But yes, this is a very disturbing thing. I expect people will be afraid of each other for years if not decades.
I shake hands.
Not with everyone, and not all the time, but I shook the hand of 2 complete strangers while engaging in
protected 2A activityterrorism at the gun range just yesterday.That said, he is new to the range.
Probably a fed.
I stick my hand out when I haven’t seen an old friend for a long time. Haven’t seen many this past year but got my hand shook every time. Can’t/won’t stop, bumping elbows doesn’t cut it.
We should just bow to each other like the Japanese at this point. The higher up the victim chain a person scores, the deeper you bow to them.
If the person is a non-gender-otherkin-pansexual-furry-hermaphrodite you must prostrate yourself before them and lick the floor.
Yeah – I got my 20 year service certificate in a folder in one of the interoffice courier bags.
But I also got $$$ deposited directly into my savings account, so I didn’t care.
You get recognized for that?
We only get recognized at the 30 year mark when we go “so long.”
Every year for the employee “holiday” breakfast (held in January – cheaper to rent a facility, I suspect) we recognize everyone who hit multiples of five years during the previous year. This year, of course, the breakfast was “just order in breakfast for the folks at your location so we don’t risk spreading the ‘VID.” Too bad, because for the last couple of years, we’d had local minor celeb “emcee” the event, and he’s a lot of fun.
At my job, I get the impression that the upper management has a dislike for the rank and file. Probably because we point out the flaws in the pie in the sky* plans.
*no reference to the local romanian intended
I was “let go” two weeks before my 20-year. Then they hired me two years later.
— So I get to keep my seniority, right?
— LOL no
I’m about to hit my 5 years with the city. I get a lump sum of about 60 hours of VC and my monthly allotment goes from 7.3 to 11.3 hours. They can keep the 5 year pin.
I got a Tiffany brass desk clock for my 5-year. No idea what’s it’s worth or anything but it’s still sitting on a pile of storage crates in my home office today.
For my 15-year I got a hundred-dollar gift certificate and that only after I “reminded” them lol.
My five year selection was a cheap ass black and decker drill. Made in USA so it’s got more sentimental value than the gift card or other cheap ass gifts that i subsequently got.
My secret wish would be something unique that you can only get as a anniversary gift, maybe engraved/branded. I can buy myself cheap bargain basement electronics or whatever if that’s what I wanted.
5 year was some sort of framed cert, 10 was an etched mirror thing (plus a dinner+drinks thing with the CEO and others – but no +1 for that, which was sort of awkward; I drank far more than was advisable at a business function). 15 is in November, so we’ll see.
Yah my clock is engraved with my name and shit. Kinda neat for just a 5-year. Each anniversary got less and less imaginative.
My last job, at one year I got a company branded pen.
5 years, I got to select from a number of ~$100 items. I ended up getting a 22 inch TV which now resides in the garage. Decent speakers and a Roku I had to buy on my own, but at least now I have music in the garage.
I must be taking crazy pills because I didn’t realize that recognizing the left’s obsession with turning cities into dangerous shitholes meant I have to support tanks on the street.
It’s for your own good.
“time of increasing violent crime”
It was going down, way down.
Yeah, it’s as if there is nothing in between anarchy and tanks lining the streets.
It’s sobering to realize you have a more sophisticated understanding of this stuff than perfessional think-piecers.
Yeah, and not only because think-piecers are often stupid.
But because the system allowed their stupidity to be fast tracked and amplified as the only kind of reasoned argumentation.
I can ignore an idiot. I cannot ignore the structure that incentives idiots and places them in positions of power and influence.
I have mentioned I was stuck in OKC for about a decade. I had a chance to see these guys at the shittiest bar in the city for something like $20 in the mid to late 90’s. I didn’t do it. I have made some idiotic decisions in my life and that one is right up there.
You ever catch the “Hillbilly Love Gods?” They played at some club down in the Stockyards.
Naaa, never did any clubs down there. Did have an awesome steak though.
I skipped seeing Sonic Youth because I didn’t want to spend $20 when I had never heard of the opening act. The opening act was Nirvana.
I’d spend $20 to see them do Daydream Nation and nothing else. In a heartbeat.
Never cared for Nirvana.
Haa. I have gotten drunker than any decent human being should in the bar Nirvana got their start in Aberdeen WA. But then again I have been really drunk pretty much anywhere I have been so that is just a minor point.
I saw Nirvana on their first tour, way before anyone knew who they were.
I’ve seen Sonic Youth at least a dozen times. I remember Thurston calling me a couple times to talk about shit. Kim seemed to hate me, lol.
When the Eagles had their “Hell Freezes Over” tour, I was in Pheonix. I was gonna come back to see them, but tickets were 500.00 a seat and up. They played Sun Devil stadium the next week after L.A. On A lark we went down to see if there were scalpers and paid 20.00 a seat to see them out there. My L.A. people were Jelly as all hell.
I bought tickets to the Stones Bridges to Babylon tour and took the soon to be whats her face number 2 and some of our friends. Most excellent show at the OU stadium in Norman OK. I think I paid a couple hundred bucks for the four of us off some scalping website back in the day.
*to the then*
It’s hard to keep the “what’s her face” tenses straight. As long you didn’t have to give her half, it’s all good.
Naaa, she had hers I had mine. Easy split. Just sucked because I lost a good friend.
I think that was the last concert I even went to.
Wife and I paid $200 each to sit in the cold. As soon as the concert started everyone stood up. I couldn’t see the stage because of the people standing in front of me so I wound up watching the whole thing on the giant TV over the stage. Two months later HBO showed basically the same thing that I watched. Could have saved myself $400 plus a hotel room and just watched it in my living room.
I was a part of the load in crew for that Sun Devil show. I took off as soon as they came on stage because I can’t stand the Eagles.
Well that sucks.
Thx. Watched to whole tihing. At first I’m thinking NFW. But he made it look easy. Fun to watch someone who’s really good at what they do.
“Fun to watch someone who’s really good at what they do.”
Yes.
I worked with a backhoe operator on a job in Renton, WA. We were digging around several 90,000 gallon propane tanks. He stops and says, “There is something down there.” I hop down in the hole and dig up a 10 foot section of nearly rotten garden hose. It literally fell apart when I lifted it up but he could feel it through the controls.
The guy who usually drives the backhoe on Curse of Oak Island is a veritable artiste with that thing.
Ya, I know a guy like that. It is impressive.
That was fun.
That’s a fun channel. I like hedblom too.
https://youtube.com/channel/UCXuY8udERTCYNHWQfw-CbJA
I think this is one of the best covers out there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J06yQb4lbPk
I’m a big Motörhead fan but their covers tend not to work for me. I just don’t find they added anything to the song.
I think about songs they released and Ozzy released. While I enjoy both, I prefer the Motörhead versions.
?♂️
Slutty Sunday gives me tingles in my no-no spot.
https://archive.li/Tgh6a
7, 23, 42
6, 11, and 22
It lives. Thanks, CP. Gave me something to read while I wait for my kid to finish up her Jr. high entrance exam. Her prediction on the test: “If I can pass it, anyone can.” Ugh.
I got ten bucks I could fail it.
That is absolutely not true. You don’t have ten bucks.
*smacks straff in the head with a newly rolled roll of quarters out of the car ashtray*
Some idiot across the street shoveled his sidewalk when it’s forecast to snow for another day.
How much? Is it in the “gotta shovel it before it gets too deep” territory?
That’s what I’m thinking.
Or maybe he was bored, or wanted exercise, or to get away from his yappy ass wife.
No. Regardless, there is no obligation to do it until it stops snowing.
I shovel my walkway as it snows.
Not because I’m under the illusion that it won’t be covered up again, but to save my back.
I’d rather shovel 2” of snow a couple of times, than try to engage 5 or 6” at once.
I don’t live in a heavy snow area, but we did have 2 occasions (in the same winter no less – 2015, I think) where we got over a foot.
I learned valuable lessons from that.
…. another day and half.
Out here in the NJ ‘burbs I’m forecasted for around 16 inches at the minimum and 28 at the maximum.
Even with the snowblower that’s at least two times I’ll be out moving snow. But I’m certainly not starting tonight.
Yeah it’s very little so far. Maybe an inch. No indications that it will reach the forecast 16 to 22 inches.
Just started where I’m at, though we don’t have anywhere near the forecast you do. We’re looking at 2-4”.
But that’s a pretty good snow here.
We’re only due 2-5″ (*something, something* “your mom”).
I’ve got some early-onset old-man-ism going, and my fingers go numb at the drop of a hat (Raynaud’s, I’m assuming). I am no longer indifferent to the cold and snow.
Welcome Florida’s newest resident, slumbrew.
I’d normally say “Charleston”, but I’m warming to Florida, what with the whole “let’s not destroy our entire state economy for a manageable respiratory illness” thing.
I remember when DeSantis got elected. He took a lot of grief. I’d say he has done an admirable job during difficult times.
I gotta take my kid up to the snow next weekend. The hills are white about a half hour’s drive from us. There’s probably enough snow to ski at Waterman. That’s maybe 45 minutes away if the snow doesn’t slow you down. We just go to the first spot of decent snow and sled around in a canyon. Meanwhile down here it’s 75 or so at mid-day.
Isn’t this just a sequel to Three Kings?
Four Kings?
Two Kings (nsfw – naughty words)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3yEP5WJNPI
Y’all can have your tragic boating accodents in Missouri.
+1 Lake of the Ozarks
Whittaker House Inn. LOL Vanessa and Eric have a pond.
“ Currently, the ATF says being a medical marijuana card holder excludes a citizen from purchasing firearms.”
Didn’t know that. Medical treatment means you are no longer a human, eh?
Mentally ill people have issues too…
Lead cures depression.
It certainly does.
I could qualify for med-pot but I’m not done buying guns.
..er, to replace the ones that went overboard.
When you buy a gun you need to certify that you don’t violate any federal drug laws. A medical marijuana card is an evidence of lying if you answer the question in the only way that allows a gun purchase.
That’s common knowledge in Mass. It was discussed at the basic firearms course I had to take.
Fucking NERDS!
Nice
a newly buff HARVEY
And I was thinking this was Harvey Kinkle working out. At least I didn’t think it was an imaginary giant rabbit.
I did.
Sigh.
GODDAMMIT.
I’m fighting both Eyepiece (sorry Trash but there’s a nasty bug and I saw it hit you earlier too!) and my Adblocker lately.
“I like you, Harvey; I’m on your side.”
Another decent cover.
That was very good.
If you like the Floyd, this is a good cover. Killer guitar solo starts building around 3:30 mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R6StQfLNbw
That was awesome.
Well, that cortisone shot to my knee lasted almost 2 weeks. ? Nothing damaged, just regular old arthritis.
Arthritis. Can relate. I try to ignore it.
I took the whole week off so I am drinking my face off on a Sunday night. Haven’t done that in awhile. Sometimes it needs to be done. I am not in london or particularly like the city but like the song.
You’re just an excitable boy, WS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4-pexSVWzM
Nice.
https://twitter.com/SallyMayweather/status/1356063437550465026/photo/1
This will be the third time I listened to this today. I am in an uncommon good mood.
Not related to the link, but I’m going skiing tomorrow in what should be 12″+ of genuine East Coast powder!
“East Coast powder”
Lies. “East Coast powder” = 1 1/2″ of snow over 3″ of ice.
Of course normally that’s true, but it’s 17 degrees and snowing where I’m going tomorrow, with a forecast high of 23. Even the snow here in Jersey is light and powdery tonight.
And getting snorted off a hooker’s butt.
“East Coast powder” makes me think of something illegal.
Nice! I am going to get the snow board out of its bag this week. We have gotten nothing like 12″ around here and I am not making the drive to where they did. Charging my gopro batts so I can make people dizzy on the next zoom chat.
Very nice. Kind of reminds me of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3J_2R9rAp8&list=OLAK5uy_nznfbOMyruTyQ1CAOO8AON_qXVbA4fAA8
That’s probably my favorite music link posted on Glibs. I listen to that song quite often and have it on my top driving playlist.
I got to see them open for Gov’t Mule about 10 years ago at the Iowa homecoming. I didn’t know anything about them at the time and they were really good. A couple of the guys joined Mue for a great, pretty rendition of Wild Horses.
Howdy. Here I am, for now. Later, I will be somewhere else, or maybe nowhere. My new vape battery is working muuuuch better than the old one.
Better stock up now, as vapes are going to get scarcer and more expensive, thanks to the scum in the federal government.
And of course “the scum” refers to the political class, not the entire federal workforce. 😉
https://archive.li/SoBbJ/1de0ca0851e68bef2b7e8494c81ae6f141f2cf8b.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/jF2Ku/c320c58130a5691e5e5dc5bd4e4e04fb9267992d.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/pkyFW/713363615d68e1c59f217e1c5255c7768b96e059.jpg
NSFW.
Nice progression – am I just noticing now that these postings are in size order?
He was building up to a big finish, apparently.
Are you a father yet Q?
Are you saying he should get a paternity test?
Music for Harvey’s escapades: https://youtu.be/Nmj1FTBPTQc
Being a manager has been surprisingly more eventful than I originally anticipated, and it’s only been 3 years. I’ve had to fire a guy, file a sexual harassment complaint on an employee’s behalf, deal with a couple of resignations, defend a couple of my guys against baseless accusations of wrongdoing or belligerent behavior (I document EVERYTHING at work), learn the COVID policy inside and out, offer a tissue when needed, and be a den mother who removes splinters and always has bandaids in her purse.
But that didn’t prepare me for having one of my direct reports call in emergency time off tomorrow following his adult son’s accidental shooting of himself.
I hope it’s a full and speedy recovery, and that it really was an accident.
I’m pretty sure this isn’t in the manager training course.
MOrnin Glibs
Mornin’, Yu. Got snow?
Does leftover snow from the last storm count?
Would you have to clean any off your car if you had to drive somewhere?
If so, yes.
I donno, I didn’t look at my car, I wasn’t driving anywhere, I was taking the trash to the curb.
Also, did you get any further?
Yes! Finished “MM” and the war stories. After a couple more swallows of coffee, I’ll try to compose some feedback.
Sent.
Got it.
You sound like agood manager to work for.
That’s some crazy bad luck.
Didn’t see that last bit coming. ?
Yikes! Second your hopes.
Getting shot is too good for whoever at google is responsible for the gmail interface.
What is the fucking point of the label system if it does NOTHING to clear the clutter from the inbox so I, I donno, can actually see the damn emails I care about from the massive clutter of the automated messages?
Google’s answer – label the messages you care about.
I CAN’T! The ones I care about don’t have a pattern to filter on. They’re the ones from real people, not the easily identified deluge of automated system updates that I used to so easily send to other folders so that my inbox only showed abberations from the pattern. I don’t have any means of setting up a filter for “not like all the rest of these patterns”. The tools aren’t there in the system. And they wouldn’t be needed if the filtered messages simply don’t clutter up the damn inbox once filtered out!
Whoever at the state decided we should use this garbage deserves worse than the google folk.
Oh, there it is. Found the option – counterintuitively named, so that you’d never think to actually use that one.
No, moving it to a folder is not fucking “archiving” it!
I need to calm down, I’ll burst a blood vessel at this rate.
All I’m trying to do is catch up on my email – something that should be simple and mindless.
My biggest beef with the communications at my job is that we now have TOO MANY ways to communicate with each other since we got MS Teams. I could already call or e-mail (Outlook, thank goodness, NOT gmail) my coworkers. Now I can also call or send written messages through MS Teams. And if someone calls me through Teams, I have to pick up, turn on, and put on the headphones that I do NOT want to wear all day.
We have phones, emails, trams, google chat, however much time skype has left, trouble tickets, and probably some more I’ve forgotten.
Phone calls are all but dead at my job. It’s all either Teams chats/calls or emails. I don’t like the fact that a certain coworker *cough* has a habit of calling me out of the blue when I cannot hear it because my headphones are always plugged in and guess what I’m not chained to my desk all day.
Otherwise I’m reasonably pleased with the system.