What Really Grinds Your Gears?

[NDdomer2]

is there a way all the high school year book stuff could NOT show on the front page?

 

[IrishLion]

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.

Assistant TO the Regional ACamp

 

[wizards8507]

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.

You're one of those assholes? Please contact the Auburn University Graduate School and teach them how to remove the online students from every fucking listserv in their address book. I'm in Connecticut, I don't need every goddamn e-mail every goddamn day about poetry at the student center or writing workshops in the library that's 1,000 miles away.

 

[TDHeysus]

You're one of those assholes? Please contact the Auburn University Graduate School and teach them how to remove the online students from every fucking listserv in their address book. I'm in Connecticut, I don't need every goddamn e-mail every goddamn day about poetry at the student center or writing workshops in the library that's 1,000 miles away.

I think its a known thing that no one reads past the 2nd sentence in organizational emails. Get your information in on the first 2 sentences, because after that ppl starting thinking of their next Starbucks drink and can't remember why they even clicked on the email in the first place.

 

[Irish#1]

Here's an example.

Instead of, "Doing some training, email if you need me". He writes....

Team,

I’m doing some more Computer Based Training for our new backup system, Axcient.

This involves me having to wear headphones.

If you need me right away, email is best, as that will pop up a notification on my desktop while viewing the training videos.

Thanks!

Sky

 

[Irish#1]

And another. Just tell me you need to go home to babysit.

Jim,

I have a sick kid at home and my wife has a meeting that she absolutely has to attend (annual case study for my oldest daughter with the handicap).

Her meeting is at 1:30 and could last over an hour. I was just going to go home for lunch and cover for her, but an hour won’t be enough time.

I can.
1. Take another ½ personal day
2. Work from home for the afternoon (good time for online Axcient training)
3. Come back when she’s done and work till 5:30 or so.

Any of these options work for me.

I apologize for the inconvenience. I really don’t have any other options.

 

[greyhammer90]

Here's an example.

Instead of, "Doing some training, email if you need me". He writes....

Team,

I’m doing some more Computer Based Training for our new backup system, Axcient.

This involves me having to wear headphones.

If you need me right away, email is best, as that will pop up a notification on my desktop while viewing the training videos.

Thanks!

Sky

And another. Just tell me you need to go home to babysit.

Jim,

I have a sick kid at home and my wife has a meeting that she absolutely has to attend (annual case study for my oldest daughter with the handicap).

Her meeting is at 1:30 and could last over an hour. I was just going to go home for lunch and cover for her, but an hour won’t be enough time.

I can.
1. Take another ½ personal day
2. Work from home for the afternoon (good time for online Axcient training)
3. Come back when she’s done and work till 5:30 or so.

Any of these options work for me.

I apologize for the inconvenience. I really don’t have any other options.

The tone of those emails sounds like you're in a leadership position. I'm willing to bet if those people thought they could say "I'm going home, call me if you need me" they would.

 

[Irish#1]

The tone of those emails sounds like you're in a leadership position. I'm willing to bet if those people thought they could say "I'm going home, call me if you need me" they would.

I am, and I prefer to keep it informal. My staff are in their mid 40's to mid 50's. They're hard workers and can be depended upon to do their work with little supervision. I trust them all including this guy. All of them except this guy will pop their head in and say, Not feeling well, heading home or Need to head home to me the furnace guy, etc.. I've told him many times, when writing keep it brief and to the point. I guess he just can't fight the urge to embellish everything. lol

 

[Black Irish]

I am, and I prefer to keep it informal. My staff are in their mid 40's to mid 50's. They're hard workers and can be depended upon to do their work with little supervision. I trust them all including this guy. All of them except this guy will pop their head in and say, Not feeling well, heading home or Need to head home to me the furnace guy, etc.. I've told him many times, when writing keep it brief and to the point. I guess he just can't fight the urge to embellish everything. lol

Or it could be he's been dicked over by capricious, jag-off bosses for making reasonable adult decisions, so he's become overly cautious when broaching subjects like those.

 

[Bishop2b5]

My wife won't eat leftovers and won't check the fridge before buying something, like butter or sour cream, to see if we already have some. I look in the fridge or the pantry and see what we have that's about to go bad and needs to be eaten. Not her.

She'll eat half of something and put it in the fridge until it goes bad, meanwhile making something new every day afterwards... and putting those things in the fridge until they go bad too. It's not uncommon for me to find 3 or 4 opened containers of the same exact brand of sour cream, butter, sandwich meat, cheese, salsa, etc. because of this.

Last year she bought one of those 1 lb. center cut hams because she was in the mood for a ham sandwich. She ate ham sandwiches for a couple of days until she was tired of them and just left the rest of the ham in the back of the fridge. A week later, another ham sandwich craving so she bought another ham. Same thing a week or so after that... and then yet again. I found half of 4 different hams in the fridge a month later, all of them spoiled. She'll buy a dozen donuts and eat half of them over the next few days, then let the rest sit on the counter until they get stale and have to be tossed out to the deer, and meanwhile go buy another dozen of a slightly different variety.

Every month we throw out an unbelievable amount of bread, tomatoes, bananas, sour cream, cheese, lettuce, ham, etc. because of this. She wastes at least $100 every month doing this. When I was growing up, money was tight and I bet my mom didn't waste $5/year this way. It's not worth a fight, but seriously chaps my ass that my wife wastes this much food this way.

 

[ACamp1900]

I hate eating leftovers generally speaking... I'm not cool with throwing away a ton of food either tho... the struggle, it's real.

 

[IrishLion]

My wife won't eat leftovers and won't check the fridge before buying something, like butter or sour cream, to see if we already have some. I look in the fridge or the pantry and see what we have that's about to go bad and needs to be eaten. Not her.

She'll eat half of something and put it in the fridge until it goes bad, meanwhile making something new every day afterwards... and putting those things in the fridge until they go bad too. It's not uncommon for me to find 3 or 4 opened containers of the same exact brand of sour cream, butter, sandwich meat, cheese, salsa, etc. because of this.

Last year she bought one of those 1 lb. center cut hams because she was in the mood for a ham sandwich. She ate ham sandwiches for a couple of days until she was tired of them and just left the rest of the ham in the back of the fridge. A week later, another ham sandwich craving so she bought another ham. Same thing a week or so after that... and then yet again. I found half of 4 different hams in the fridge a month later, all of them spoiled. She'll buy a dozen donuts and eat half of them over the next few days, then let the rest sit on the counter until they get stale and have to be tossed out to the deer, and meanwhile go buy another dozen of a slightly different variety.

Every month we throw out an unbelievable amount of bread, tomatoes, bananas, sour cream, cheese, lettuce, ham, etc. because of this. She wastes at least $100 every month doing this. When I was growing up, money was tight and I bet my mom didn't waste $5/year this way. It's not worth a fight, but seriously chaps my ass that my wife wastes this much food this way.

I'm guilty of the condiment/ingredient thing. If I'm at the store doing the shopping, and I forgot to see if we had butter, or sour cream, or shredded cheese, or Worcestershire sauce, etc., I'll just buy a new one, assuming that these types of things will be used soon even with extra present, or at least have a long-enough shelf-life that it I don't need to worry about the extra going bad.

We've now got like 4 bottles of Worcestershire sauce that have each been opened and lightly used in the past year, and 3 bottles of ketchup still waiting in the pantry.

My wife is guilty of this with perishables. She'll be in the mood for bananas or oranges, buy a bunch of them to put in the nice decorative fruit bowl on the counter... but then she needs to "let the bananas ripen."

By the time she remembers she has them, I've thrown them away because they were passing ripe and approaching "smells like a New York dumpster" territory.

 

[zelezo vlk]

You guys are acting like having "too much" butter is a thing. All you gotta do is make some grits and boom, your butter is gone.

 

[Bishop2b5]

I'm guilty of the condiment/ingredient thing. If I'm at the store doing the shopping, and I forgot to see if we had butter, or sour cream, or shredded cheese, or Worcestershire sauce, etc., I'll just buy a new one, assuming that these types of things will be used soon even with extra present, or at least have a long-enough shelf-life that it I don't need to worry about the extra going bad.

We've now got like 4 bottles of Worcestershire sauce that have each been opened and lightly used in the past year, and 3 bottles of ketchup still waiting in the pantry.

My wife is guilty of this with perishables. She'll be in the mood for bananas or oranges, buy a bunch of them to put in the nice decorative fruit bowl on the counter... but then she needs to "let the bananas ripen."

By the time she remembers she has them, I've thrown them away because they were passing ripe and approaching "smells like a New York dumpster" territory.

Oh yeah, I do the same thing (buying something because I'm not sure if we have any), and we ALL occasionally open something when there's a container of it already open. My wife just does it to such a degree and so routinely that it's starting to add up to a significant amount of money... enough each year to pay for a nice weekend getaway or a few car payments. I definitely know the smell of a NY dumpster in my kitchen too.

 

[ACamp1900]

My lady and I are real good about gerocery lists and only getting what we need when we need it and all that, but she's really big on having leftovers and I'm all about actually enjoying what I eat for lunch......

 

[IrishLion]

My lady and I are real good about gerocery lists and only getting what we need when we need it and all that, but she's really big on having leftovers and I'm all about actually enjoying what I eat for lunch......

You don't enjoy leftovers?

Is it the freshness factor that kills it for you, or how the food just isn't the same when it's reheated?

 

[ACamp1900]

You don't enjoy leftovers?

Is it the freshness factor that kills it for you, or how the food just isn't the same when it's reheated?

It can be this.. or the fact that I just don't want to eat the same stuff... I'm just adverse to leftovers generally... tho not all.... A lot of Chinese, Filipino, Chili, Pizza, stuff like that is okay... but most of what we cook at home... nah,I'll just go out and get a couple of asada tacos...

 

[IrishLion]

It can be this.. or the fact that I just don't want to eat the same stuff... I'm just adverse to leftovers generally... tho not all.... A lot of Chinese, Filipino, Chili, Pizza, stuff like that is okay... but most of what we cook at home... nah,I'll just go out and get a couple of asada tacos...

Man, half the fun cooking at home for me is cooking something awesome, and knowing that if I cook enough, I can eat it for several meals during the week instead of relying on the usual lunch options.

I cook to have leftovers.

My wife cooks to starve me.

Also, Chinese and certain pizza are often better when they've been sitting in the fridge over night. Something about them blossoms in that leftover state.

 

[ACamp1900]

I cook to have leftovers.

My wife cooks to starve me.

LOL, that's great... my wife is a GREAT cook, when she cooks actual food... too often though she's on her "Cali Girl" health food tofu and kale BS................

Also, Chinese and certain pizza are often better when they've been sitting in the fridge over night. Something about them blossoms in that leftover state.

Yep, this is true, soups and chilis too... those are actually better the next day...

 

[Andy in Sactown]

Man, half the fun cooking at home for me is cooking something awesome, and knowing that if I cook enough, I can eat it for several meals during the week instead of relying on the usual lunch options.

I cook to have leftovers.

My wife cooks to starve me.

Also, Chinese and certain pizza are often better when they've been sitting in the fridge over night. Something about them blossoms in that leftover state.

Oh, that chili I had simmering for 14 hours and froze half. Paying dividends with a little cheese and sour cream. Makes those frozen taquittos look pedestrian by comparison!

 

[Irish Insanity]

I hate eating leftovers generally speaking... I'm not cool with throwing away a ton of food either tho... the struggle, it's real.

I'm with this. There's probably only 1 or 2 things I'll eat as leftovers.

 

[greyhammer90]

Or it could be he's been dicked over by capricious, jag-off bosses for making reasonable adult decisions, so he's become overly cautious when broaching subjects like those.

Yarp.

 

[ND NYC]

the key to leftover pizza (or any bread) is this:

always wrap it (slices, or half a loaf of Italian bread) in ALUMINUM FOIL AND FREEZE IT.

keep the pizza slice, Italian bread IN THE FOIL, and place in the oven.
always uncover the pizza slices but make sure lay them in that foil; and keep loaves of Italian bread completely wrapped in that aluminum foil.

 

[ACamp1900]

Filipino adobo is amazing in general, and as leftovers... I'll say that much.

 

[Irish#1]

My wife won't eat leftovers and won't check the fridge before buying something, like butter or sour cream, to see if we already have some. I look in the fridge or the pantry and see what we have that's about to go bad and needs to be eaten. Not her.

She'll eat half of something and put it in the fridge until it goes bad, meanwhile making something new every day afterwards... and putting those things in the fridge until they go bad too. It's not uncommon for me to find 3 or 4 opened containers of the same exact brand of sour cream, butter, sandwich meat, cheese, salsa, etc. because of this.

Last year she bought one of those 1 lb. center cut hams because she was in the mood for a ham sandwich. She ate ham sandwiches for a couple of days until she was tired of them and just left the rest of the ham in the back of the fridge. A week later, another ham sandwich craving so she bought another ham. Same thing a week or so after that... and then yet again. I found half of 4 different hams in the fridge a month later, all of them spoiled. She'll buy a dozen donuts and eat half of them over the next few days, then let the rest sit on the counter until they get stale and have to be tossed out to the deer, and meanwhile go buy another dozen of a slightly different variety.

Every month we throw out an unbelievable amount of bread, tomatoes, bananas, sour cream, cheese, lettuce, ham, etc. because of this. She wastes at least $100 every month doing this. When I was growing up, money was tight and I bet my mom didn't waste $5/year this way. It's not worth a fight, but seriously chaps my ass that my wife wastes this much food this way.

My wife won't eat leftovers either, but if I go to throw some food out after dinner, she gets upset that I'm not saving it. lol

She also likes to complain about not having anything she likes to eat. When we go to the store I tell her to put whatever she wants in the cart, yet a couple of days after going to the store there's nothing to eat! lol

 

[Irish#1]

Or it could be he's been dicked over by capricious, jag-off bosses for making reasonable adult decisions, so he's become overly cautious when broaching subjects like those.

After I hired him, he mentioned that he didn't like his previous boss and was happy to get out of there. I never inquired as to the nature of the relationship.

 

[IrishLion]

the key to leftover pizza (or any bread) is this:

always wrap it (slices, or half a loaf of Italian bread) in ALUMINUM FOIL AND FREEZE IT.

keep the pizza slice, Italian bread IN THE FOIL, and place in the oven.
always uncover the pizza slices but make sure lay them in that foil; and keep loaves of Italian bread completely wrapped in that aluminum foil.

I prefer to reheat pizza in the oven, but if I'm hungover or at work, that's not an option. When microwaving, I saw a life-hack where you put a glass of water in the microwave with the pizza. It keeps the bread from getting overly flimsy or chewy.

 

[zelezo vlk]

You savages actually reheat your pizza?

 

[ACamp1900]

Having a terrible supervisor in your history can def impact the way you respond moving forward... as both employee and supervisor... I can always tell when a new staff member or new hire has Lunatic-Boss-PTSD.

 

[IrishLion]

You savages actually reheat your pizza?

Cold pizza is acceptable from certain places. There's one place locally where the pizza is actually BETTER when eaten cold haha