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Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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MinnieM123 said:
We never got out of school for heat either. I recall there would always be days in June when we'd sit there and sweat buckets. Miserable learning environment -- I guess they figured that the Northeast didn't have too many really hot days toward the end of the school season.
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Maybe that is way we don't know nothin. I'd take notes and sweat would drip on my paper and smug the ink. Or the dog ate it.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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In that line though, my entire school experience, including college didn't have any AC. I started school in upper, upper NY and finished HS and College in Vermont. Admittedly much cooler then in the southern areas. However, it was some hot in Sept. and June, but, heck we didn't have AC at home either so we were used to it. Uncomfortable, yes, but we always pushed through and didn't know any better at the time. Central AC was never a thing in those areas until the 70's and not much then. To this day it is hard to find homes with Central Air. They rely on Window AC's in certain room. Living room, kitchen and certain Bedrooms. We honestly were far more concerned with not freezing to death during our extended subzero periods of time.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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MySmallWorldof4 said:
Bats are cute. Scorpions are not.
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I think I’ve posted this before...? 🤔
Anyhoo, years ago at work I walked outta’ my office to get somethin’ from the kitchen. Wasn’t gone more than 3 mins., but, as I was walkin’ back into my office I noticed somethin’ on the floor right in the doorway...yep, a bat. :cyclops:
I, discretely (as per previous office conversations I knew some would freak), scooped it up with 2 pieces of cardboard and gave it a dumpster interment. :cautious:;)
How that little bat got all the way from the Congress Avenue Bridge to our office, I still have no clue...!!!!! :D:hilarious:

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And, since our Frost Bank Tower was built several years ago I’ve always referred to it as the Frost Batman Tower...!!!!! 😄


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donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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MinnieM123 said:
Hey @figmentfan423 , you'll love this! Community center in my area is offering free sewing lessons in October and I signed up. (Can you believe it? :joyfull: ) I think they teach you how to make an apron. So with a limited retirement budget, I could sew aprons for Christmas gifts. "Merry Christmas, I'm on Social Security, have an apron." :hilarious:

I think it would be a lot better if they taught you how to make dog jackets instead, because no one wears aprons anymore . . . LOL. :p
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Hey!!! :bored:
I happen to like wearing aprons...!!!
No particular reason...I just like wearing aprons... :cyclops::cautious::cool:


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StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
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Long work rant...

I have this one salesperson out in our west coast office. Woman makes sooo many mistakes inputting her sales orders, and she's insists on doing everything herself even though we have a huge support staff to do the administrative stuff for the salespeople.

A few weeks ago, I found she made a huge error on one of her sales orders and it was reporting like 37% loss on a huge order. It created a whole mess and it was an administrative error on her part that I had to fix, along with my boss. I had a good working relationship with her, but basically, since I found the error, she's been very cool with me. Basically, I found the error, asked her what happened, she tried to pin it on me, and my team member on the email chain turned around and politely but firmly said no, this was your error. I had to go to another manager and explain the error. I didn't beat around the bush about it. Basically, she looked really bad. My boss asked for a meeting about it to make sure it doesn't happen again with another manager. She declined without explaining her reason (her calendar showed as available). Basically in that meeting, the other manager, since she didn't show up, did not speak very kindly of her. Basically, he said the same thing as I did: if she gave the order to the admin team to complete, they would have done it correctly; they do this all day everyday.

Today, at 5 pm, she sent over an urgent request for my team. Another request that technically a support person should be handling, but nope. I happened to be around and planned to work until 6, so I took the request. I completed it for her and said hey, this is updated, but there's this issue. She emailed me back this one sentence reply that made no sense to me. I emailed her back asking for clarification. I waited a good ten minutes for a response, but it was close to six and I left.

I normally don't check email when I get home, but I did this time. She sent a reply at 7:15 pm. Basically saying where I should find the information and that she needed it done by the end of the business day today. I'm like, so you sent an urgent request in at 5 pm, I took care of it, but then that still wasn't good enough for you so you're bugging me at 7:15 pm? Haha, no that's not getting done for you. Wait until tomorrow and then you can explain it to the customer.

I think my next step needs to be for my boss to reach out to her boss. I thought about CCing her boss on another email, but chose not to.

I'm soooo done with her.
 

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