In reply to Mike (Forum Supporter) :
I've found muting accounts slightly more effective than "less of this" or outright blocking.
I just wish reels would follow some sort of pattern. I click a food video, I might get 2 or 3, then it's crotch rockets running from cops, thirst traps doing pause challenge nudes, golf, real estate investment scams, and a bunch of other stuff I don't care about. The food never comes back!
Mike (Forum Supporter) said:Dammit Facebook, I did not say "maybe later," or, "in a month, my taste for drivel will improve."
I 👏 said 👏 no.👏
And if they're the "less suggested posts," maybe stop showing them to me at all.
They mean "fewer".
In reply to NickD :
N7 as in Mass Effect?
I seem to have the most annoying clients recently
" You completed exactly on time and slightly under budget, and did everything you said but we kinda changed our mind and were wondering if you could do more for less" essentially several times this year.
I guess I'm sorry for being a man of my word, strictly explaining thru multiple mediums how the project will go and actually being cheaper than budgeted?
Seriously, wtf?
Antihero said:In reply to NickD :
N7 as in Mass Effect?
Yeah I had bought a leather jacket like the one in ME3
NickD said:Antihero said:In reply to NickD :
N7 as in Mass Effect?
Yeah I had bought a leather jacket like the one in ME3
That's awesome, I've almost bought one a few times
Antihero said:I seem to have the most annoying clients recently
" You completed exactly on time and slightly under budget, and did everything you said but we kinda changed our mind and were wondering if you could do more for less" essentially several times this year.
I guess I'm sorry for being a man of my word, strictly explaining thru multiple mediums how the project will go and actually being cheaper than budgeted?
Seriously, wtf?
Start adding a 10% "Expectation Management" line item. If they are cool, tell them you'll remove it. If they pull this crap, leave it in.
slefain said:Antihero said:I seem to have the most annoying clients recently
" You completed exactly on time and slightly under budget, and did everything you said but we kinda changed our mind and were wondering if you could do more for less" essentially several times this year.
I guess I'm sorry for being a man of my word, strictly explaining thru multiple mediums how the project will go and actually being cheaper than budgeted?
Seriously, wtf?
Start adding a 10% "Expectation Management" line item. If they are cool, tell them you'll remove it. If they pull this crap, leave it in.
Not a horrible idea, but I really just like not dealing with these sorts of people at all. I think a lot of them go in hoping to find something wrong so they can get a partial discount and are annoyed they can't.
It's a weird line of thinking, I just you know ......do a good job in a timely fashion so maybe I'm just weirdly old school to them?
In reply to wae :
Nah, less, because they can't count the number exactly, and have no intention of doing so even if they could.
I need to hang a banner at work that says
'Don't let perfection get in the way of excellence.'
The building isn't going to fall over if an equipment tag isn't perfectly placed the way you'd like it. It'll be ok.
Meeting with city manager tomorrow evening.
Avgas pump/card reader is approaching 6 months inoperative. (Volunteer) airport commission just coasting between monthly meetings. Things in disarray since former commission chairman had to resign effective July, so it's understandable how things got this way-- it's not intentional malice, but the results are the same whether the neglect is benign or not.
Probably going to end up on airport commission (sounds far grander than it is) out of this-- application already submitted, but need an opening for a member outside of city limits.
Didn't really expect an airport project to go along with the airplane purchase, but I can't do nothing and expect to get best value out of the purchase.
Though the pavement layout isn't really suited for autocross, who knows-- hit me up next season and maybe I'll find you a way.
Grinding sparks in my right ear and now its really hurting.
That job licked balls.
Left bottom premolar finally gave up the fight and needed to be extracted. The pulling was ROUGH and this evening has been quite painful.
Glad I have a stash of narcotics because without them my happy ass would have gone to the ER.
I hope it's less sucky when I wake up.
I'm sorry. I don't particularly enjoy getting shouted at. I'm going to berkeley off back to bed.
Took me about 3 1/2 minutes working under the hood of the Miata to bleed. Par for the course.
Selling things these days.
"let me know first. I want it!" Apparently doesn't mean anything. Four days later we're now in "I need to ask the lady first and I'll try to let you know in a day or two"
Business as usual.
GM, you berkeleying idiots, you made the fuel pressure line out of stainless steel, you couldn't do the same with the vapor return line?
Think you can get m12-175 and m10-150 threaded rod/all thread here in NH on the weekend...nope. Then add that your engine hoist's cylinder is bad too.
I just want my engine on the stand, berkeley.
In reply to barefootcyborg5000 :
Thankfully, I haven't gotten that yet. Selling a truck cap, and seem to have tons of interest, so I am guessing I priced it right. No one has actually made it out to check it out though.
On the flip side, there's an SUV for sale near me. It's been for sale for five weeks, with a significant price drop in that time, I asked the guy a question, and got a two word caveman-esque response. Then I asked if there was any time this weekend I could check it out. No response. I have a feeling I know why it's been for sale so long.
Ran across an uber-rare old-school corporate IT job, and even though I'm fully qualified and it's very similar to jobs I've worked before, I must spend many hours stressing that something might be slightly wrong with my resume which would cause an algorithm to annihilate it in the blink of an eye before any human sees it, or cause some human (possibly a clueless HR drone) to discard it after glancing at it for, on average, 6 seconds. Among those hours of contemplating and worrying I may even spend a few seconds further tweaking the content. What could be wrong specifically? That's a total mystery. All the information is in there, but maybe not in the ideal form to be understood by an algorithm or someone who knows jack E36 M3 about the work in question.
Sometimes I think conveying qualifications via interpretive dance would be an improvement. At least that way the comical absurdity of the process would be impossible to hide.
If I need to go to an auto parts store, I will almost always prefer to go to O'Reilly. It's the closest one to the shop, I've had better luck with the parts they carry, and they tend to be more knowledgeable. But for the love of all that is holy, they need to get their act together on ordering parts. If it's in stock, everything is fine. If I have to order something, they either cancel the order and send it back because it comes in and they never tell me or I have to keep going back to the store to check on it. Placing an online order is always a crapshoot. The process is to place the order and they send an email saying that they have the order and to wait until a second email comes in to tell you that it's ready. Standard. But that second email never comes. Sometimes I can go to the store and it's just sitting there waiting for me. Sometimes I'll go to the store a couple days after the expected date and they have absolutely no idea that they were supposed to be working on an order.
I'm not sure how this is so difficult at this point in time.
In reply to wae :
That exact thing happened to me yesterday in Bolivar, TN. I had to go in for some other parts and on top of my order being lost, it was like their social hour. I finally slapped the counter and said "How 'bout getting off that cell phone. I'm ready to get out of here". Pissed me off.
I tried Oreo-flavored Coke Zero. I say this as someone with a massive sweet tooth. It is an affront to every deity that may or may not exist. It is the liquid equivalent to Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs from Calvin and Hobbes.
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