What Really Grinds Your Gears?

[zelezo vlk]

A Browns jersey getting jacked off your front porch by a Los Angeles gang has to be the most ACamp story of all time. Were you eating chorizo tacos while playing WWE video games with your daughter at the time of the theft?

While mentally making plans to go to Westwood

 

[BobbyMac]

You should put your little Lite-Brite football dolls out on the front porch. Set up the Browns vs the Raiders and see if they only steal the Browns.

If so, tell the police it's not a local gang but a poorly dressed, mentally handicapped white gang from NE Ohio.

 

[ACamp1900]

You should put your little Lite-Brite football dolls out on the front porch. Set up the Browns vs the Raiders and see if they only steal the Browns.

If so, tell the police it's not a local gang but a poorly dressed, mentally handicapped white gang from NE Ohio.

bitch, please...

 

[wizards8507]

When your mother in-law comes over with her sister, brings bags full of useless shit for your daughter that needs to immediately be donated, and puts MSNBC on your television.

 

[ulukinatme]

When your mother in-law comes over with her sister, brings bags full of useless shit for your daughter that needs to immediately be donated, and puts MSNBC on your television.

My gawd...you want useless shit? My mother in law is constantly pushing crap on my wife that she bought at Goodwill but later decides she doesn't want. My wife will come home with a trunk full of stuff and doesn't know if she wants to get rid of it because her mother gave it to her...I'm like "What?!" I say quit accepting it all together. The woman has a problem, I don't know what it is, but she shops at Goodwill like regular people shop at department stores. It's fucking Goodwill. She'll buy a bunch of toys and crap for my kids too, like my kids don't have an entire playroom filled wall to wall with brand new toys. My MIL is the definition of compulsive shopper.

 

[Ndaccountant]

When your mother in-law comes over with her sister, brings bags full of useless shit for your daughter that needs to immediately be donated, and puts MSNBC on your television.

how dare they disrupt your viewing of E!

 

[wizards8507]

My gawd...you want useless shit? My mother in law is constantly pushing crap on my wife that she bought at Goodwill but later decides she doesn't want. My wife will come home with a trunk full of stuff and doesn't know if she wants to get rid of it because her mother gave it to her...I'm like "What?!" I say quit accepting it all together. The woman has a problem, I don't know what it is, but she shops at Goodwill like regular people shop at department stores. It's fucking Goodwill. She'll buy a bunch of toys and crap for my kids too, like my kids don't have an entire playroom filled wall to wall with brand new toys. My MIL is the definition of compulsive shopper.

YES!

We have a really good Savers near us and my wife is always finding like-new "designer" clothes there for our daughter. Mini Boden, Hanna Andersson, that kind of thing (I hate that I know that). My wife has actually turned it into a small eBay business. But my MIL has taken that to mean we love every piece of shit from every thrift store on the planet. She brought us a set of bookends that are actually really nice except they're hand-painted with the name "Jennifer" on them (not my wife or daughter's name). WTF are we going to do with that? "I figured we can just paint them" she says.

To add to it, my FIL passed away before we were married and my MIL's sister is unmarried and they always travel together. So I essentially have two MILs.

 

[RDU Irish]

When your mother in-law comes over.

You really could have stopped right there. To add "with her sister" is obviously an exponential increase in gear grinding.

 

[ulukinatme]

YES!

We have a really good Savers near us and my wife is always finding like-new "designer" clothes there for our daughter. Mini Boden, Hanna Andersson, that kind of thing (I hate that I know that). My wife has actually turned it into a small eBay business. But my MIL has taken that to mean we love every piece of shit from every thrift store on the planet. She brought us a set of bookends that are actually really nice except they're hand-painted with the name "Jennifer" on them (not my wife or daughter's name). WTF are we going to do with that? "I figured we can just paint them" she says.

To add to it, my FIL passed away before we were married and my MIL's sister is unmarried and they always travel together. So I essentially have two MILs.

The hand-painted "Jennifer" piece nailed it for me. My MIL bought about 2 dozen old, crappy lamps from a Goodwill and had some crazy idea about refurnishing/restaining them with my wife and selling them for a profit. My wife was like "Uhhh....okay?" They sat in MY garage for 3 years collecting dust and taking up space. I finally was able to offload them to my SILs last fall.

Our MILs have a problem.

 

[greyhammer90]

My gawd...you want useless shit? My mother in law is constantly pushing crap on my wife that she bought at Goodwill but later decides she doesn't want. My wife will come home with a trunk full of stuff and doesn't know if she wants to get rid of it because her mother gave it to her...I'm like "What?!" I say quit accepting it all together. The woman has a problem, I don't know what it is, but she shops at Goodwill like regular people shop at department stores. It's fucking Goodwill. She'll buy a bunch of toys and crap for my kids too, like my kids don't have an entire playroom filled wall to wall with brand new toys. My MIL is the definition of compulsive shopper.

At least she compulsively shops at a place that's cheap.

 

[connor_in]

MIL..........F?

 

[gkIrish]

When you give two weeks' notice and people start giving you work to do that they never would give you before.

 

[ACamp1900]

My mom does that stuff too... constantly buying the kids more stuff... we are constantly donating stuff away to make room... she doesn't even buy discount which is worse bc it's not like my parents ever made decent money and what little she has she blows on brand new toys and the like that get used for all of a week then put away never to be used again... can't talk sense into her.

 

[IrishLion]

When you work for a state entity that is currently dealing with a budget crisis, and when jobs get cut or open lines don't get filled, and that work from those unfilled positions gets shifted onto current employees with no incentive at all.

I know this work needs to be done, and I know we all have to take one for the team right now until the budget evens out, but when Joe Blow is making 86k a year to be the "face" of the department, but he actually doesn't do jack shit, maybe it's time to think about some "forced retirement" and some re-worked job descriptions to help balance some salary discrepancies.

 

[wizards8507]

My MIL just sent me this article.

6-Year-Old Girls Already Have Gendered Beliefs About Intelligence

 

[woolybug25]

My MIL just sent me this article.

6-Year-Old Girls Already Have Gendered Beliefs About Intelligence

I think I would like to have lunch with your MIL and discuss trolling strategy. We obviously both have harassing you as a favorite hobby.

Is she hot?

 

[connor_in]

MIL..........F?

I think I would like to have lunch with your MIL and discuss trolling strategy. We obviously both have harassing you as a favorite hobby.

Is she hot?

previously asked...not answered

 

[woolybug25]

previously asked...not answered

He's clearly trying to stall us...


We demand answers.

 

[GowerND11]

He's clearly trying to stall us...


We demand answers.

No Picture, No Peace

 

[wizards8507]

 

[woolybug25]

I'd hit it...

 

[Irish#1]

When you work for a state entity that is currently dealing with a budget crisis, and when jobs get cut or open lines don't get filled, and that work from those unfilled positions gets shifted onto current employees with no incentive at all.

I know this work needs to be done, and I know we all have to take one for the team right now until the budget evens out, but when Joe Blow is making 86k a year to be the "face" of the department, but he actually doesn't do jack shit, maybe it's time to think about some "forced retirement" and some re-worked job descriptions to help balance some salary discrepancies.

Now you know how the private sector feels. lol

 

[NDdomer2]

When you give two weeks' notice and people start giving you work to do that they never would give you before.

just get to it 3 weeks later!

 

[Irish#1]

People who don't listen.

Our network contract is up for renewal. I've been working with several vendors on new networks that would increase bandwidth, drop fiber into all locations, provide fail over capabilities and roll telephony into the network.

I decide to have the vendors come in and do a presentation for my staff. Figured it was a good learning experience for those that normally don't get involved in this area of IT. Prior to the meeting I let everyone know that nothing is final. I'm still negotiating pricing & terms and they should keep their questions to the technical aspect.

As soon as the overview is completed and the vendor asks if anyone has any questions, I have one who asks what this is going to cost and how soon it will be implemented. He then goes on to tell the vendor that he is personally disappointed in the web interface used for managing network changes.

This is the same guy that is an expert on everything and will write a 500 word e-mail to let everyone know he is going to lunch.

I was ready to castrate him yesterday.

 

[tadman95]

People who don't listen.

Our network contract is up for renewal. I've been working with several vendors on new networks that would increase bandwidth, drop fiber into all locations, provide fail over capabilities and roll telephony into the network.

I decide to have the vendors come in and do a presentation for my staff. Figured it was a good learning experience for those that normally don't get involved in this area of IT. Prior to the meeting I let everyone know that nothing is final. I'm still negotiating pricing & terms and they should keep their questions to the technical aspect.

As soon as the overview is completed and the vendor asks if anyone has any questions, I have one who asks what this is going to cost and how soon it will be implemented. He then goes on to tell the vendor that he is personally disappointed in the web interface used for managing network changes.

This is the same guy that is an expert on everything and [B]will write a 500 word e-mail to let everyone know he is going to lunch[/B].

I was ready to castrate him yesterday.

Apparently his brother works for me. SMH

 

[IrishLion]

This is the same guy that will write a 500 word e-mail to let everyone know he is going to lunch.

Apparently his brother works for me. SMH

There's a new faculty member in my department that does this. Emails for everything that doesn't actually require an email... and long meetings for things that could've been short emails.

She also likes to call all of us together for "huddles" first thing every Monday morning, even though she doesn't technically supervise most of us, but then she gets pissy and wants a time-study every time her subordinates work outside of her division.

She's really great.

 

[Irish#1]

Apparently his brother works for me. SMH

There's a new faculty member in my department that does this. Emails for everything that doesn't actually require an email... and long meetings for things that could've been short emails.

She also likes to call all of us together for "huddles" first thing every Monday morning, even though she doesn't technically supervise most of us, but then she gets pissy and wants a time-study every time her subordinates work outside of her division.

She's really great.

You have my sympathy.

I have nine people who report to me. They are spread across three buildings. I have very few rules and don't care when they go to lunch. Because we're spread out, I do ask that they send an e-mail out to the group when they go to lunch. That way we don't bother them while they're at lunch, but we know to call their cell if it's urgent.

The majority of the time, this same guy will also send a lunch e-mail similar to this, "Going to lunch, but first stopping by building 1 to help a user with....". It's his way of being able to extend his lunch a little. I finally tired of his antics and replied to him while copying my staff with a reply of, "Just wait and send the e-mail when you really go to lunch". Everyone was cracking up and asking why I didn't do that sooner. lol

I'm not going to bitch and moan if you take an extra 10-15 minutes for lunch as long as you're carrying your weight.

 

[ACamp1900]

I work for a private university as head of student services, I also teach a wide range of courses... obviously both jobs require sending out numerous mass emails to students.........

fuck me sideways....

for every mass email I send out I'm guaranteed to have, within 48 hours, at least three emails from students included in the email asking numerous questions that were explicitly and plainly answered in the mass email. They simply don't read them.

 

[ACamp1900]

There's a new faculty member in my department that does this. Emails for everything that doesn't actually require an email... and long meetings for things that could've been short emails.

She also likes to call all of us together for "huddles" first thing every Monday morning, even though she doesn't technically supervise most of us, but then she gets pissy and wants a time-study every time her subordinates work outside of her division.

She's really great.

Ugh... this is worse than the students... we have a faculty member that just can't ask a question, but has to give the ten minute background behind each question... can't just send an email, but has to send a novel when and where a simple one sentence email would do... and every single damned meeting she sits in on is guaranteed to be 30 minutes longer simply due to her presence... it's worse for me because she apparently had my position at some other school and thinks that makes her qualified to to act as my direct second or some such... up in everything.

 

[Black Irish]

I work for a private university as head of student services, I also teach a wide range of courses... obviously both jobs require sending out numerous mass emails to students.........

fuck me sideways....

for every mass email I send out I'm guaranteed to have, within 48 hours, at least three emails from students included in the email asking numerous questions that were explicitly and plainly answered in the mass email. They simply don't read them.

And I thought the kids knew how technology worked. I feel your pain. I sent out weekly updates to the entire staff at my last job. I put in the very first line of the email, in bold print, "Do not reply to this email!" I explained that the entire staff did not want to read their responses/questions, so compose a separate email to me with any responses. Sure enough, at least one person every week would reply to it and I had to do one-on-one sessions with people about how mass emails work.