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OMG, FINALLY, but the killer didn’t pay for THIS crime…

By: Dawn in People Who Are..., Late, In the News, Children, Motherhood/Moms, Fatherhood/Dads - on December 16th, 2008

poor Adam Walsh…

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28257294/?GT1=43001

I was 11, ELEVEN, back when this happened!!  too bad this a$$hole didn't get to go to jail for this crime, even though they long thought he was the one that did it.  he's been dead now for almost 10 years!!!


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Sad, VERY Sad

By: AKsnowbunnie in People Who Are..., Late - on October 29th, 2008

I would have thought with the amount of people complaining about the political posts something would have been done by this site to correct the problem. But alas, nothing HAS been done. I mean how many times do we have to complain about it? I guess Iggy and the people that run this site don't care about us at all. I can't remember the last time I saw the PM do a peeve. Of course it could be buried by all the political posts that we have been complaining about for months now.

It's sad to see a good site go bad because of a FEW rotten apples. And it's not just TGIX ruining it, because he's not the only one posting about it. Pathetic to think that people are running around with the attitude that they can do whatever they want whenever they want. This site is just like bad parents - they're lacking some disciplinary action! I have been sick all week and I come back to find the place ransacked by political posts, AGAIN, and now RK is leaving.

Pretty sad on the peeve-peoples part, to know they will just sit there and watch this site lose good people that the MAJORITY of the people here WANT here just to let the bad apples have their say. Looks like I'll be moving back to weekly visits, because I know when the election over it's going to turn into a "I told you this and that" bull**** forum, so I'd rather find a better site that actually DOES something about problem users! 

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ARGH

By: AKsnowbunnie in People Who Are..., Late, Rude, Automobile, Financial - on October 10th, 2008

My Friday morning has been destroyed. I have never wanted so badly to rip someones arm off and beat the ever living piss out of them with it! I called yesterday to get set up to get my studs on the SUV. The guy says they don't do appointments, but that as long as I'm there at 7am to drop my car off it will be done by the end of my work day (which is perfect for me). 

So I get up early, and get my lazy butt moving (still tired after the hockey game). I arrive at the business 10 minutes before 7. I sit in my car and listen to the radio. There are three other people waiting by the door. Time passes slowly, and I see the clock in the building hit 7. OK no problems, it's a windy rainy morning, perhaps he's running late. Five minutes later my coworker shows up and I said "Go to work, I'll get a cab there. Let them know I might be a few minutes late".

I grab my stuff and I go stand with the other people (now there's 8 people standing there). We're standing around, some are reading, some are chatting, and I overhear a guy say "Yeah he told me the open at 8 but to get here about 7:30."       WHAT????

Apparently I was the ONLY person told to be there at 7, everyone else was told 7:30ish. WTF is up with that??? I have to be to work at 7:30! Why the hell would you tell a customer to show up half an hour before you tell EVERYONE else. Now I'm fuming mad, getting more and more pissed by the minute.

Finally at 7:20 I couldn't take it anymore. I had 10 minutes to get to work and this anus still hadn't shown up. I decided that I would rather pay $100 more for the tires then miss time at work and pay for a damn cab ride because this company owner is a jack-a$$ that can't tell everyone the same thing! Now I have to call a few other places and pick one, then set up an appointment. These other places are ALL pre-approved by coworkers for being good, knowing their $hit, and getting it done when they say it'll be done as well as being there when they tell you they will be there!

GRRRRR I think maybe I'll go look for steel and relive some of this stress I have. 

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GRRRR….

By: WADV in People Who Are..., Late, Loud, Messy, Bossy, Snobs, Stupid, Rude - on September 17th, 2008

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The second half of my week….

By: AKsnowbunnie in People Who Are..., Late, Messy, Bossy, Snobs, Life, Stupid, Rude, Workplace - on July 17th, 2008

Well, this is just one of those weeks I am guessing. After my ****ty day Tuesday, I woke up Wednesday and my neck ended up super screwed up in the first hour of my day. I went all day in severe pain until I could finally go see my chiropractor. Still in pain, but have a much larger range of motion, and it's even better today. Sorry if this rant is long, but I have to get it all out, and it's better to tell the whole story then just part.

Anyways, yesterday at work the Receptionist called off. Typically when our receptionist doesn't come in the dispatcher and GM answer phones. Well the dispatcher decided not to come in as well. Being I had nothing to do I went down an answered called to save the GM a MAJOR headache (he now has to take ALL dispatch calls). Not to "toot my own horn" but I'm an AWESOME receptionist, and I don't mind doing it OCCASIONALLY as it's a nice change of pace. If it paid what I get now I'd do it too, but I have school loans and a car loan to pay off. Everyone has always said it too, every person at every job tells me it. I don't think it's hard to be good at it either. You treat people how you would want to be treated. A friendly voice that wants to help! Well this is not how any of the receptionists have been, and the dispatcher is HORRIBLE at being nice.

Including today I have been receptionist for a total of three days (two in a row right now, one from a while ago). Being in that position I see how bad our dispatcher is doing. I've heard from everyone, but now *I* am taking the flack from customers for what she isn't doing. This includes emergencies. When someone calls up saying "The fire department is getting sick of showing up for false alarms because my sprinkler pressure is messed up" - that's an emergency. When someone says "Something in my mechanical room has discharged" - that's an emergency. Situation #1 has been happening for two days, and #2 happened two weeks ago. So luckily these people got to talk to me, who WANTS to help them, and WANTS the company to do well (job security anyone?). We have a department that has not been scheduled to do any work this month. This is the same lady that bitches when she has a phone call, yet because of her position she gets 90% of the calls.

Today was "talk about the situation with the dispatcher" day. Her reason for being out the last two days?? "I'm tired"…. Yet she has a perscription for Xanax already… So the GM, owners daughter, and myself had a 45 minute chat about the situation. When the owners daughter got married, I sat around with department managers and was blown away by the amount of stuff she ****s up. When they try to tell her, she blows up at them. When the GM tells her, she blames the techs and cries. After us all standing around discussing it the owners daughter said that her father needs to know about it. Which he already does, but doesn't want to say anything. 

Just before lunch the GM took the owner into the conference room and had a "closed doors" meeting. I am hoping it has something to do with this dispatcher, being as the conversation about the receptionist being replaced was over before the owner even got there. There was also a 35 second discussion of "Should I go through a temp service or place an ad for a new receptionist" which makes me think they weren't talking about that.

I did lunch today with a few coworkers who explained the situation more. This has apparently been going on for years, it just gets a bit worse as time goes on. They say nothing will happen about it, and that nothing will get done. They say that being the dispatchers son married the owners daughter the owner will not get rid of the dispatcher. I think that's bull, and I don't see why that would be grounds to NOT fire someone. If you're not doing your job you shouldn't have that job. I even told the GM to give me a promotion for a day to do the deed. Although I'm a great receptionist, I don't take **** from people.

This afternoon was quiet, but every time there was a problem with someone, it had to do with the dispatcher. I even had a lady call up about some past due invoices she got a letter about. She hadn't paid them so we were about to send her to collections. She tells me flat out "I have sent your company 5 letters saying NOT to do work at any of these locations. I will pay this bill but I am sick of you doing work where we are not authorizing it, and us being stuck with the bill". I realized this was a good opportunity. I told her flat out "Yeah, that's pretty messed up, and there is nobody to blame but the person sending them there. Here's what to do: with your payment include ANOTHER copy of the letter telling us not to work there. Next, I'm going to give you the owners name, and I would like you to send him a copy of this letter, and perhaps explain the situation. I think he should know what's happening". And I gave her the owners name. I also let the GM know, who said if he knew that's what was going on he would have asked her to send HIM one as well! Hard to argue with complaints in writting, crying bitch dispatcher or not!

After work I do the chiropractor, and decided to get Subway for dinner, something easy and I can relax when I get home. I go in and there's nobody in there. Just a lady with three children. Shouldn't be too long, right???  RIGHT???             RIGHT???   Holy ****ing half hour. I almost knocked this bitch out, but I didn't want to scar the kids. Now that I look back I think I should have knocked her out. Maybe the kids would have learned to either know what they want or let someone who knows go AHEAD of them. GGGGGGRRRRRR   If I knew that what I know now, things would have gone differently at Subway today.

Now I'm home, and my friend has sent me a package. His tracking number says it was delivered at 9 am, but I don't have it. I'm supposed to go meet a friend tomorrow night, but she's got a slight cold that I do NOT want to get. Man, what a ****ing week. TG tomorrow IF!!!!

Oh - on a side note I haven't been on during the day because the receptionists computer SUCKS donkey dick. And the GM and I are ready to place some bets that the receptionist AND the dispatcher BOTH call off again. My intentions of work tomorrow are to be receptionist again.

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AK needed this, perhaps someone else out there does as well. . .

By: WalterTH3rd in Work Peeves, Driving / Traffic, People Who Are..., Late, Loud, Messy, Bossy, Snobs, OT: Not Necessarily a Pet Peeve, Politics/Politicians, Lawyers, Life, Health, Stupid, Rude, Workplace - on July 15th, 2008

Picture yourself walking down a nice quiet path in the woods, you can hear birds chirping, but they are in the distance. Picture hearing a bubbling brook up ahead, you are calm, you are calm, you walk on. . . .

Now just picture yourself next to this brook, or maybe a stream, you are calm as you listen to the water running by, you are calm, you are calm.

Now picture yourself holding that <enter name here>'s head under the water, you are calm, he WILL stop struggling soon, you are calm, you are calm. Now there is nothing but silence, you can’t even hear the birds, only sound now is the stream as it carries your disruptions away, because you STAYED CALM, YOU STAYED CALM. (C:}Innocent

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these were meant to be TEMPORARY!!!!

By: Dawn in Uncategorized, People Who Are..., Late, In the News, Life - on July 9th, 2008

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25607578

they offered 2 to me and my family, but hell, what was I supposed to do, sleep in one with David and put the kids in the other?  NOT!!  

SOOOOO glad I didn't take this route, instead I suffered at in-laws for NINE months.  

and still NOW almost 3 years later, people are STILL living in these things!!!  HELLOOOO!!  3 years!!!  get it together people!!!  even I got a job!!! 

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Ms. Tardy

By: karipaige in People Who Are..., Late - on June 20th, 2008

I have a co-worker who is late at least 2 times a week.  Which wouldn't be such a big deal except she and I are required to be there BEFORE 8:00 am sharp, because we have to turn the phones on (they are turned over to an answering service at night).  She always has some "reason" why she is late, such as she rode with someone else to work and they drive slow, her stomach was upset and she had to take an extra long shadoobee before coming to work, she was up late talking with "whoever" because they were having a crisis, her alarm clock broke, etc.  While her excuses are some that I have never heard before, most of them are just lame.  I say get your tushy to work on time or quit and let the job go to someone who cares enough to get here on time or early!!

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Finally getting paycheck!

By: WADV in Late - on June 5th, 2008

The bosses wife called him and laid a guilt trip because he went of and forgot it at home. He calls and is apologising profusely and said he beat her bloody for messing it up.

Anyway he is meeting me at the bank to give me my check.

Woohoo!


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Overachieving?

By: AKsnowbunnie in Work Peeves, People Who Are..., Late, Messy, Stupid, Rude - on May 23rd, 2008

I'm not sure if that's the right word for it, but here goes. My coworker had a job that he wanted to bid. His superior told him NOT to bid the job. He bid the job anyways, and now we have the project. He was told that he was in charge of all the design work being he bid it after being instructed not to. He does not have the qualifications to design, but the person with the qualifications does not work with the type of system being installed. Mistake #1 - bidding something you were told not to.
So then it came down to my drafting the plans. I was patient being it was his first time doing this, but he had no clue what he was doing, or how to do it. He kept saying "well you know how to do this" and I kept explaining "No, I don't, I just draw what is handed to me". I don't know how systems work, or spacing requirements, or part numbers, or wiring information. I am handed a piece of paper and I draw what is on it. Mistake #2 - thinking I know things I am not paid to know, or went to school to learn.
Yesterday I got a call from the Fire Marshall (luckily a former coworker) who had MAJOR problems with the plans. He knew it wasn't my fault, but wanted to let me know the issues so they could be taken care of. I wrote them all down, and left a note for the coworker that he needed to see me. This morning I came in and saw him and said "You need to get with me so we can correct these plans". He has not gotten with me. I have been having allergy problems and wanted to get it done before I took my meds, but he left and did not sit down to figure this out. Mistake #3 - pissing off the person that can save your ass, the same person that is now loopy on meds and worthless.
One of the issues the Fire Marshall had was that when the plans were submitted, there was no product information (cut sheets). Coworker just called my superior and asked him to tell me to print these off for him. I just went to see my superior and asked him "Did he tell you where they are or am I doing an internet needle-in-the-haystack search". He told me to talk to this coworker when he gets in. Now again, I do not work with products or in the field. All smoke detectors look the same to me, and some heat detectors look like smoke detectors to me. It's not my job or responsibilty to be able to tell them apart, it's my job to draw where they go on a floor plan. Mistake #4 - ASSuming people know things that are above and beyond their level.

I'm just furious. I have tried and tried to maintain my cool with this guy on this project, but it's just getting to be more and more of a headache (on top of the sinus one I already have). I have tried to explain things to him on what HE needs to give me and he always says "chill out, we can figure this out". I just want to say "No, YOU need to figure it out as that is what YOUR job as a designer is, my job title says Drafter". So there's an hour left in the day, not near enough time to get this all done, and he's still not here. I hope he doesn't expect anything when he gets here! Thank god it's a long weekend.

Hey wait - I have to add this now that I've done some thinking… It IS a long weekend, and he SHOULD have come to see me today! The more days that pass, the farther the items the Fire Marshall said get from my brain. Yes I wrote them down, but I was on the phone and wrote short little notes, no major details.  So then… Mistake #5- Not doing things when they are fresh in someones head!

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69:00

By: Dawn in People Who Are..., Late, Customer Service, Stupid, Financial, Computer, PC - on May 19th, 2008

THAT is how long I was on the phone with Dell about my computer JUST a few minutes ago!!! My comp was fine yesterday and today when I turned it on, it said "windows could not be opened due to a missing or corrupt file…windows/system32/config/…" OK, when I called dell, I was transferred FIVE times. five diff people asked me my name, then for the express service code, then the problem and so I read the screen to them word for word, ALL FIVE OF THEM, and all five said that they would transfer me to tech support!! HELLO…I THOUGHT that was what I called to begin with! anyway, they say they are going to transfer me and that "for future reference, for quicker service, next time you have a problem to call 1800-624-9896 and key in your express service code…" WELL THAT'S WHAT I DID WHEN I INITIALLY CALLED!!! and I told all FIVE of them that too and ALL FIVE had the same speech about calling the right 1800 # and putting in the code,etc. so WHY then OH WHY was I transferred BACK to FOUR OTHER PEOPLE who told me the EXACT SAME EFFIN THING!!!!! THANK GOD that the fifth person assured me that she would get me to tech support cuz if I had to explain the problem ONE MO' TIME…..anyway, as you can see, 69 minutes later, it's fixed and I'm back online!

off topic:::

while I was on the phone with dell, my son gave me the mail and you'll NEVER believe what I got, or what David got….a letter saying that his "check" would be here by 5-23. and in the same breath I opened the next letter AND IT WAS THE FRIGGIN ACTUAL CHECK!!!! how screwed up is that ****??? alas, mine has still yet to come…letter or check!!

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so nestle, inquiring minds want to know…

By: Dawn in People Who Are..., Late, Financial - on May 9th, 2008

Did you get your money?? You used turbo tax like I did so you are supposed to get your money today in the bank, but I was told it would be mailed.  So I'm curious…


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Pay Attention Drivers!

By: AKsnowbunnie in Driving / Traffic, People Who Are..., Late, Stupid, Rude, Automobile - on May 7th, 2008

So I have been giving into temptation lately and eating fast food. It's just sooo yummy. Today, I was on my way to BK when I had the stupid driver of the year near me.

We are heading north, me in the right lane of the left turn lanes, her in the lane to my right which goes straight. In the middle of the intersection she decided she needed to be right where I was (illegal move - can't change lanes in an intersection). She doesn't care though, and cuts me off, almost hitting me. So of course I flip her off. Not because I was cut off, but because she pulled an illegal move.

We turn left. I am in the far right lane, her in the lane to my left. She slows down, and suddenly is moving into my lane. I decided "Screw this loony" and sped up to get in front of her. There she is, looking BACK at me, about 4" in my lane, flipping me off. Also, her car had this stupid "In Memory Of So-and-so" crap on the back window, they do that up here - I have never seen it anywhere else. I think it's just ANNOYING, and apparently made it too hard for her to drive AND flip me off…

HELLO? You broke the law by changing lanes, now you aren't even looking where you are going….. do you not understand why you were getting the finger from me? Not only did she screw up once, but she screwed up a second time, almost instantly!! I flipped her back and then she sped off. All I could think was "Damn I wish I was a cop".

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I’m so OVER it now!

By: Dawn in People Who Are..., Late, Life, Stupid, Financial - on May 5th, 2008

I called the IRS BACK AGAIN today to see why my money wasn't there.

and NOW this person tells me, after half an hour on hold, that my money will be MAILED OUT on may 23!!??  WTF??  I asked her then WHY did the other person tell me that I would have my money since last Fri. by midnight.  she said that the lady was just reading from script and that they have been having problems with the direct deposit mess.  and the reason why MINE is getting mailed is because (she said) I got my refund as a loan??!!  NO, WRONG, it didn't happen that way!!!  we used turbo tax and filed ONLINE and my money was sent to my BANK ACCT. within TEN DAYS!!  where the eff did a loan come into play in there???? 

I'm so mad NOW I could eat nails!!!  I'm so broke and I really needed it NOW!!

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Don’t believe the IRS

By: AKsnowbunnie in People Who Are..., Late, Stupid - on May 2nd, 2008

My roommate told me that he got his check today. The last two of his soc. are behind mine, and I'm 80. 

The system is flawed. Just know you're getting a check sometime this year and don't make plans on it, LOL! 


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where is my money????

By: Dawn in Shopping, People Who Are..., Late, Life, Financial - on April 28th, 2008

I KNOW it's supposed to be direct deposited today, but WHEN???

I hope it doesn't take too long.  I need to go get things for the house!

has anybody else checked to see if their tax rebate was put in their account yet?


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what do you think of this?

By: Dawn in People Who Are..., Late, In the News, Hollywood Stars, Laws, Lawyers, Financial - on April 25th, 2008

http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=311040&GT1=77 01

my husb seems to think that because he's black that he got so much time.  well I don't know, I mean, he KNOWINGLY did NOT file taxes!  I mean, maybe 3 years is a bit much and maybe they're trying to make an example out of him, but how do you just NOT file takes, ESP. with all the money he made??!! 


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1:00 has come and gone…

By: AKsnowbunnie in People Who Are..., Late, Rude, Car buying service - on April 20th, 2008

So this Rude woman has contacted me about buying my car. She sent me an email and asked me to call her. I did that night, as I emailed her and told her I would. She had her phone turned off so I left her a message including my number. The next day she sends me another email, asking me to call again. I don't know why she couldn't, but whatever. She tells me it's urgent that she gets a car this weekend. I call her and she says "I will come see you at 1. It's now 2 PM and I haven't even gotten a call from her.

Now don't get me wrong, I had no plans for today other then to wait for her to see my car. But then I got a phone call that my plates are in at the dealer, and I figured after she came I would go get them. Well I've been here an hour waiting for her to call. No phone call saying "Oh, can I come at a different time" or anything like that, just left me hanging.

I've decided SCREW her rude late rear-end, I'm going to get my plates. To think, I even washed the car for her. I hope the other guy comes and buys it, because I will tell this lady I still have it then when she's on her way tell her it was sold. I might as well get back at her for wasting my time right?

EDITED TO ADD:  So I wrote this post, and grabbed my purse and keys. As I got ready to turn the knob to open the door and leave, she pulled up. Still no phone call from her when she was on her way. She sure got lucky.

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I checked my mail today

By: AKsnowbunnie in People Who Are..., Late - on April 16th, 2008

And no Peeve Characters were there. Then I turned around and saw the CPO standing there watching me with a disgruntled look on his face and a bloody knife. Luckily I had my own knife and was able to whoop up on him and knock his lights out so I could escape.

You still alive Navy?


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got this in email…

By: Dawn in Uncategorized, People Who Are..., Late, Loud, Bossy, Suggest-A-Peeve, Stupid, Rude - on March 31st, 2008

Tips for Handling Telemarketers

Three Little Words That Work !!

(1) The three little words are: "Hold On, Please…"

Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.

Then when you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task.

These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.

(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?

This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone.

This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a "real" sales person to call back and get someone at home.

What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to immediately star t hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer !!!

(3) Junk Mail Help:

When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these "ads" with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.

When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these "ads" with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.

When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.

Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs them more than the regular 41 cents postage "IF" and when they receive them back.

It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was 39 cents before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.

If enough people follow these tips, it will work —- I have been doing this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.

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my question for the day

By: Dawn in Uncategorized, Shopping, People Who Are..., Late, Life, Motherhood/Moms, Fatherhood/Dads, Stupid, Financial - on March 31st, 2008

I'm about to leave to run an errand BUT before I go, I MUST ask this question:

WHY is it so HARD for a man (my husb) to give a woman (ME) money??

Y'all know I was laid off about 2 weeks ago and we did get our tax refund but we have to try to conserve it since I lost my job so I don't ask for ANYTHING.  He KNOWS I have no job, I.E. no money!  WHY should I have to even ASK him for money when he KNOWS I need it and I have none at all and IF I DO ASK, WHY IS IT SUCH A F**KIN PROBLEM TO GIVE IT TO ME!!??  I need to go grocery shopping and get gas…that's all I do since I have NO job!  I don't go anywhere (to conserve gas) and I don't eat out!!

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well, NOW we know.

By: Dawn in People Who Are..., Late, Messy, In the News, Boyfriends, Girlfriends, Health, Stupid - on March 13th, 2008

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23618592?GT1=43001

even GROSSER now that I DO know!!! 


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Coolest Clock

By: Madaboutmesses in People Who Are..., Late, Life - on March 11th, 2008

http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf


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My Boss!!

By: MNolen in Work Peeves, Late, Messy, Stupid - on February 28th, 2008

Ok, so I am LOVING my new job, but my boss is an idiot!! He doesn't do much, if anyhting! He is rarely in the office, and is usually running around. I haave to get his "OK" before I order anything or buy anything that we might need if it is over $100. Well today, he was no where to be found, so I just kept trucking ordering stuff. I called to get the P.O.'s and placed orders and coordinated shipping, got price quotes, and took the city credit card and truck to walmart and got supplies for the guys that he would never say yes or no to………so I sais yes to all of it. We had a party for a guy leaving for Iraq at the city hall, and so we all went up there. My boss has not been seen all day, but he was there. I told him what I bought, and at first he said " You should have ordered that from Bryan, not Austin, cause I could have picked it up." I reply "It's being shipped." "Oh" was all he said. So then I told him I ordered all the pipes the Water Department needed, and he asks me if I called around to get the lowest price. I told him that there were 5 quote sheets on his desk, and I ordered the cheapest one, delivery will be next Wednesday. Oh! He said again. Well he didn't talk to me the rest of the party. That was fine, but we got back to the office, he asked why I was trying to make him look bad. I told him, I was just trying to tie up loose ends, and get the stuff done so we could start the project. I guess he didn't realize I am not just gonna sit there and do NOTHING!! Hell someone has to do what he isn't, right?? Isn't that what I am there for????

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What do I do???

By: navybrat76 in Uncategorized, Work Peeves, People Who Are..., Late, Bossy, Snobs, Workplace - on February 27th, 2008

Well, as many/some of you know from my previous postings, I work for the military recruiting.  Because I work for the military recruiting, I am also a part of the family readiness group.

Let me go into the back brief of this situation….I am a contracted employee first of all.  I do the planning and coordinating of all Family events on my personal time.  The Soldiers, spouses and children are like family to me.  I would do anything within my power to help any of them with anything.  (maybe this is where I am in a tricky situation)  I have been doing this since day one of employment, and 99.9% of all the spouses love the fact that I do this because that means they don't have to step up to the plate to do anything.

Well, last night we had our first meeting of 2008 for all the spouses.  It turned out pretty well, we had good attendance and everyone enjoyed themselves.  There was one issue that came up.  One of the spouses made a comment.  That comment was "shouldn't the family readiness group be for only true members of the family and not some civilian that works for the company as the secretary?".  That kind of hit me like a ton of bricks and I didn't know what to say or how to react.  I was busy sitting down with the children that were there and reading them stories and playing with them to keep them occupied during the meeting.

Is there a such thing as caring too much about the people that you work with and their families?  Should I just back off and let them handle the things they want to (or in some cases not want to)?

Since my new commander has arrived I have really felt more and more like I am not part of the company.  There have been comments made that have hurt that she has said like "oh, I forgot about you" or "oh, I didn't think that you were part of the company because you are of course a civilian" or "you wouldn't understand".

Well, I do understand.  I have served my country and my flag, 2 years in the Navy, and 4 years in the guard.  Not only that but I have been a spouse of someone who served in the guard, even though our marriage dissolved after he got out and upon him cheating on me.  So, I do understand the life of the military.  I work around all the recruiters, I see what they go through on a daily basis.  I see how they have to be pushed, I see the punishments that come down.  Not to mention, I have been in my job for 3 years now, and I have dealt with having a co-worker in the office that was a complete and utter lazy jack a$$!

Should I stop caring?  Have I let myself get too close to everyone? 

I don't know what to do.  Anyone out there with some suggestions? 

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well, well, well….

By: Dawn in Shopping, People Who Are..., Late, OT: Not Necessarily a Pet Peeve, In the News, Hollywood Stars, Music, Financial - on February 26th, 2008

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23359218

Maybe he could borrow from Janet?

But hey, is it just me or does anyone else think that this should have been paid off WAY before now with all that money he made years ago?? 


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question…

By: conanabanana02 in People Who Are..., Late, Boyfriends, Life - on February 8th, 2008

ok, i wont use a "lets say…" i will just tell you what happened.

last night adam worked until 11 and went out immediatly with his friends. i knew he was going out and wouldnt be back until around 5am like usual whenever he goes out. my alarm goes off at 6:30 and hes not in bed with me. so i get a little worried. i didnt get a phone call, either. so i think maybe rather than waking me up he slept in the living room. i check. hes not there. ok, now im pissed. so i shower and get ready for work hoping he would call me during that time. no call still. by now its 7:12 and i head out the door for work. he calls to let me know hes on his way home. we get in a fight about how its too late and he should have called last night if he knew he wouldnt be home by the time i woke up. then he tries to turn it around on me saying that if i was THAT worried i would have called him in the morning. he says he didnt want to call and wake me up just to have me yell at him about waking me up. my thoughts are who cares. get me angry waking me up, at least i know what youre going to do so i dont get the suprise of you not being home when i wake up.

so basically my question is…should i have gotten so angry about him not calling me to let me know he was going to be THAT late? i knew he would be home around 5am or so that wouldnt have bothered me. but he knows my schedule and he should have known that i would wake up wondering why he wasnt home. his excuse for not calling me was that his cousin got so drunk he puked on himself so adam was taking care of him. ok, so call me during THAT time. i guess his cousin is the one who drove and needed to sober up a bit before he could drop him off.

now a new argument is how he can let his cousin drive SO drunk that he pukes on himself. if he knows his cousin has a habit of drinking heavily even though hes driving, why is he still letting him drive to the bars? i dont want his cousins dumb ass getting my boyfriend mammed of killed.

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Update.

By: snowkat1995 in People Who Are..., Late, Loud, Messy, Bossy, Snobs, OT: Not Necessarily a Pet Peeve, Stupid, Rude - on January 30th, 2008

I am so bad!  I just called my sister and used the hubby's name in vain.  I told her that his leave got changed and he would be home early next week.  She is freaking out right now and is scrambling to get out in two days.  Of course he isn't coming home until March but I had to resort to underhanded sneaky things to remove the problem.  I feel elated right now.  She is so gullible she believed everything I told her and I milked the story good.  If you want details you will have to send me an email to get the story I told her.


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Igno you make me sad!!!

By: AKsnowbunnie in People Who Are..., Late, Bossy - on January 13th, 2008

I sent you my email Friday Igno, it can't be that hard to get it up here!!!!


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this just proves my point!!!

By: Dawn in Driving / Traffic, Cell Phones, People Who Are..., Late, In the News, Stupid, Travel - on January 7th, 2008

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/News/TrafficJamBlameCellPhoneUsers.aspx

I KNEW IT!! those idiots CAN'T talk and drive!! at least they should get in the right lane!!! whenever I'm stuck behind someone slow, I always glance over when I pass them and 99.9% of the time they are ON THE PHONE!!!!!! One even almost HIT ME from NOT paying attention!!!!

WHERE IS EVERYBODY TODAY???Frown

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