What Irked You Today?

[Ace-Garageguy]

Had to miss the Mitty at Road Atlanta this weekend due to a medical thing. Gorgeous weather too...78F, 24% humidity...bugger. Can't really go outside or do much of anything, which is why I'm sitting here on the computer whining. Maybe I ought to get a hobby...

[espo]

4 hours ago, Pace said:

Don’t Know if this is the right topic for this but I’m suffering from pollen allergy which have irked me for several days now in a number of ways, hopefully it will get better in the end of May for me.

I share your pain. The trees here are dropping pollen in what can sometimes look like a cloud. I have to go to an Allergist once a week for shots plus take Antihistamines daily. My only relief is a hard freeze or a swim in the Pacific Ocean as the salt water seems to clear my senses.    

[russosborne]

Irk 1.Was supposed to sell some 1:1 wheels today. Guy was supposed to be here at 4. I wait til 5:30 (with my wife sitting at a phone store where I had to leave her) and nothing from the guy.

Irked on so many levels. Need the money, need the space, not happy about my wife having to stay at that place for nothing.

And this wasn't even CL. Something called OfferUp.

Irk 2. The phone store. Name starts with a V.

My wife went there to replace her phone under insurance. Found out she had a $150 or so deductible. They offer another option, get a new phone, with a $200 rebate or something, and it would cost $109 today. So she goes with that, sounds good, and the monthly payment is even less.

Well, out the door was over $300 after all the fees and BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH. If I had been there (Irk 1) I would have told them NO! We'll take the insurance replacement. Partly my fault, I was worried about getting home in time for the idiot in number one, so I wasn't thinking. I should have asked right away what the out the door cost would be.

Irk 3. The Pinto forum I am a member of is down again. happening due to too much bandwidth usage. The owner is working on getting a better provider, but the current one is starting to shut the forum down frequently.

Russ

Edited May 1, 2019 by russosborne

[Snake45]

My new Bose QuietComfort 25 headphones, bought to replace my beloved old QC15s, which just broke, have nowhere NEAR as good a tone. They sound tinny. They sound like $15 headphones, not like $300 headphones, although I must say the noise-cancelling feature works at least as well as the old ones, maybe even a bit better. 

But I'm disappointed with their sound. 

[HomerS]

From the InterWeb yesterday:

The pay gap at Citigroup, led by Michael Corbat since 2012, is the biggest among large U.S. banks. Corbat made $24.2 million last year, 486 times the median employee pay of $49,766.

...and companies wonder why they have high employee turnover.

 

[espo]

10 minutes ago, HomerS said:

From the InterWeb yesterday:

The pay gap at Citigroup, led by Michael Corbat since 2012, is the biggest among large U.S. banks. Corbat made $24.2 million last year, 486 times the median employee pay of $49,766.

...and companies wonder why they have high employee turnover.

 

And after these high paid CEO's put the company in the ditch they get a Golden Parachute and the working employees get zip. The CEO's way of making the companies profitable is to cut the pay and any benefit package employees may have. They rarely know how to make a business grow with any viable ideas of their own other than to slash and burn a company. 

[Snake45]

1 hour ago, HomerS said:

From the InterWeb yesterday:

The pay gap at Citigroup, led by Michael Corbat since 2012, is the biggest among large U.S. banks. Corbat made $24.2 million last year, 486 times the median employee pay of $49,766.

...and companies wonder why they have high employee turnover.

 

I could tell you stories about that place that would curl your hair, if you have any. It's like the entire management of the joint is trying to see if they can get themselves memorialized in Dilbert. 

We used to say the corporate motto was, "You're an important, valued member of the Citi family. Until you're not." 

[Rob Hall]

2 hours ago, Snake45 said:

I could tell you stories about that place that would curl your hair, if you have any. It's like the entire management of the joint is trying to see if they can get themselves memorialized in Dilbert. 

We used to say the corporate motto was, "You're an important, valued member of the Citi family. Until you're not." 

I worked a couple years in Arizona at Wells Fargo in IT...it was straight out of Dilbert..65-70 hr weeks, 5am conference calls about system emergencies, etc.   Very exhausting sweat shop environment.   

[slusher]

Had a tooth pulled today by an oral surgeon and i choose not to be put to sleep. The guy was rough he broke it twice and had to dig the roots out. I really believe the could have done better. I don't think I would let him touch me again....

Edited May 4, 2019 by slusher

[NYLIBUD]

17 hours ago, Snake45 said:

I could tell you stories about that place that would curl your hair, if you have any. It's like the entire management of the joint is trying to see if they can get themselves memorialized in Dilbert. 

We used to say the corporate motto was, "You're an important, valued member of the Citi family. Until you're not." 

Yea try working for CPS for 9 years.Talk about an exhausting job.Dealing with Hurt and dead children,and enough paperwork to reach to the moon..I couldn't last there anymore..I left that job a while back.

[Snake45]

15 hours ago, Rob Hall said:

I worked a couple years in Arizona at Wells Fargo in IT...it was straight out of Dilbert..65-70 hr weeks, 5am conference calls about system emergencies, etc.   Very exhausting sweat shop environment.   

There's a place in town here that has an even worse reputation than Citi. I was at Citi for 5 1/2 years and for at least the first four of them it wasn't bad at all, I really enjoyed the work and the people and the whole atmosphere of the place. Things started getting worse at the beginning of 2017 and from then on it just got worse and worse all the time and I wasn't sorry at all to get let go in the third quarter of 2018. 

[Rob Hall]

3 minutes ago, Snake45 said:

There's a place in town here that has an even worse reputation than Citi. I was at Citi for 5 1/2 years and for at least the first four of them it wasn't bad at all, I really enjoyed the work and the people and the whole atmosphere of the place. Things started getting worse at the beginning of 2017 and from then on it just got worse and worse all the time and I wasn't sorry at all to get let go in the third quarter of 2018. 

After I left WF I did a 6 month gig at McKesson, working on pharmacy software.  It was worse than WF—90+ hr weeks for a couple of months.  But I had a great hourly rate.   My current client in the insurance biz is much more mellow.  Little to no overtime and I work from home.  

[NYLIBUD]

OMG,now my new neighbors bought or found another dog.It howls,and whines just as bad as the other two.So now I’ve got to hear three howling dogs at 6 AM.Again,don’t get me wrong,I love dogs ,but not when I have to hear them while I’m trying to sleep...Oh and then I gotta deal with gardner’s/landscapers coming around to different homes at 8 am.I thought they had to wait till 9-9:30 am to start working.???

Arrrrrgggggggg!!!

Edited May 14, 2019 by NYLIBUD

[High octane]

Ron,

I believe that 8 a.m. is the allowed starting time in neighborhoods.

[NYLIBUD]

Well that’s sucks

[Rob Hall]

In my old neighborhood in Phoenix, the yard guys often showed up at 7am in the summer before the heat became insane.  Back in 2011 my next door neighbors did a major remodel of their house, and the construction guys would be out there hammering, etc at 5am as the sun came up in the summer...   here, my yard guys usually come around noon to 1pm.  

[slusher]

One thing I  have to get use too all spring and summer is grass cutting at all times of the day. Sometimes on weekends some cut at 7 am with dew still on the grass.

[TonyK]

On the subject of dogs.......I always believed that if I have dogs and you don't, there is no reason you should have to be bothered by them. I have 2 West Highland Terriers and they are very energetic but I've taught them to behave. They don't bark unless there's a reason to and that's rare.

The big problem I have is that so many people have dogs and it seems they have no reason owning them. They don't seem to have time for them, no walks, no play time, just leave them outside to be bored and lonely. Sad.

[Rob Hall]

5 minutes ago, TonyK said:

On the subject of dogs.......I always believed that if I have dogs and you don't, there is no reason you should have to be bothered by them. I have 2 West Highland Terriers and they are very energetic but I've taught them to behave. They don't bark unless there's a reason to and that's rare.

The big problem I have is that so many people have dogs and it seems they have no reason owning them. They don't seem to have time for them, no walks, no play time, just leave them outside to be bored and lonely. Sad.

I love Westies...we had two that passed away in 2011 and 2013.  Wonderful breed.   Dogs are definitely a big commitment...have 6 now--4 Yorkies and two terrier mixes, all rescues.   They live inside but get a lot of time out the fenced backyard. 

Mac and Maddie..

 

 

[NYLIBUD]

My neighbors dogs are adorable,I don’t know what kind they are.They are just very LOUD.And that’s when they are in the house.We have large homes ,but they are kind of close together, like all new housing developments.And as I said ,it seems like every other person in my neighborhood has a dog or dogs.

[peteski]

8 hours ago, TonyK said:

On the subject of dogs.......I always believed that if I have dogs and you don't, there is no reason you should have to be bothered by them. I have 2 West Highland Terriers and they are very energetic but I've taught them to behave. They don't bark unless there's a reason to and that's rare.

The big problem I have is that so many people have dogs and it seems they have no reason owning them. They don't seem to have time for them, no walks, no play time, just leave them outside to be bored and lonely. Sad.

Unfortunately you are correct on all counts.

[slusher]

Someone poisoned our cat. We found him dead on the carport. He would visit the girl cat next door and the guy next to them killed their cat a.year ago. My cat didn't get on cars never bothered anyone. I can only think it could have been him. He bled and foamed out his mouth. My wife and son are so hurt and my son took care of him. We adopted him. I just have to put it in God's hands....

[High octane]

1 minute ago, slusher said:

Someone poisoned our cat. We found him dead on the carport. He would visit the girl cat next door and the guy next to them killed their cat a.year ago. My cat didn't get on cars never bothered anyone. I can only think it could have been him. He bled and foamed out his mouth. My wife and son are so hurt and my son took care of him. We adopted him. I just have to put it in God's hands....

Sorry to hear that Carl as I used to be a cat owner and my doc suggested that I have no more pets after the last one. I know how hard it is to lose a cat as I went through that a few times myself.

[slusher]

10 minutes ago, High octane said:

Sorry to hear that Carl as I used to be a cat owner and my doc suggested that I have no more pets after the last one. I know how hard it is to lose a cat as I went through that a few times myself.

Thanks Nick, he was a blessing. Slept in his cat bed on the front bench every night. Going to miss him...

[cobraman]

So sorry to hear that Carl. People can be so cruel.