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Doktor Howl

Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on December 12, 2014, 04:16:40 PM
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 12, 2014, 01:20:55 PM
Did you hear the song of the Bridges?

Drowned out by the nonstop fucking rain and by the utter failure of Mike the Engineer.

I may as well have stayed at home.  Spent a fucking day getting soaked and learning NOTHING, because FATASS COULDN'T SHUT UP.  I finally was forced to throw his lunch into the river.

Then I came home and everything sucked more.  I'm so fucking mad I'm not prepared, at this moment, to go into it.

:sad:

Yeah, it blew.  And I'm actually kinda GLAD that you were too busy to meet for dinner, because I wasn't gonna be much company.  I was exhausted and too damn angry, and you didn't deserve to be subjected to that.

If it's any consolation, immediately after you left everything broke. Some people still don't have electricity. Mostly just the poor brown people, but still.

Nothing works in Portland.  I cannot be held responsible for these things.  Hell, my GPS tried to lure me into a dark alley, the signs to City Center LIE, and trains just randomly stop on crossings for 65 minutes.  I only ever found the airport by driving the 2.8 miles to your place, going up to Prescott, and taking the directions you gave me last time.

Even google maps lies.  I walked to a bar that was 7 blocks from the hotel, and I had to search for 45 minutes, because Google Maps told me to go the exact wrong direction.  And that was BEFORE I spent an entire day being unable to ask and recieve an answer even ONCE without fucking Mike interrupting to demonstrate to the guys (at the plant we were visiting) how well he understood their process.

Fortunately, there was this big river RIGHT THERE, and I threw his lunch in it.  This forced him to shut up and leave in a reasonable amount of time, thus preventing a homicide.

I got a bit lost finding that bar, too. And I allegedly know my way around.

Yeah, but this sent me back towards the Burnside bridge, which is the EXACT OPPOSITE DIRECTION.
Molon Lube

Doktor Howl

At noon, I have to attend a HAZWOPER class that is being given by our safety tech.  Bear in mind that safety tech doesn't know what he's talking about, but makes up for it by using big words wrong.  He also uses really bad analogies and sometimes likes to veer off into some weird fucking family counseling/advice for no apparent reason (not fucking kidding, and I'm going to wound his inner child if he pulls it today).

I am unsure how this is going to go.  I'm in a bad mood already.
Molon Lube

LMNO

Sometimes, I wish I had transcripts of your workday.

Doktor Howl

Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 12, 2014, 04:25:36 PM
Sometimes, I wish I had transcripts of your workday.

Imagine sitting in a conference room while a guy with no experience in your work explains your job to you.  The bald guy (me) goes full Tourettes, the boss AGREES with everything said during the Tourettes' fit but is forced for reasons unknown to encourage the safety clown, the engineer balances his coffee mug on his big Goddamn gut and looks around like a fairly pleased cow, and everyone else sits there rolling their eyes in fury inspired by their lives being wasted in this manner.

And that's just one meeting.

Jim and Lilly also keep insisting that he have a hand planning high-risk jobs.  I yell at him until he shuts up, then me and the guys involve plan the project.

And when none of the above happens, he writes long, incomprensible lists of things that COULD go wrong (they can't, at least not the way he describes them) and sends them to corporate in a a fashion that implies they ARE going wrong as described.

Also, when I was in Portland last month, the shitball didn't know where I was (none of his business), so he called HR and told them I had called out for 3 days and was abusing the sick policy.  No shit.

I can't decide if this job is making me a worse person, or just demonstrating what kind of person I actually am.
Molon Lube

Doktor Howl

Lastly, at what point is it okay to schedule a meeting or class for a bunch of salaried people that will go on long after the workday ends on a Friday?

I think I will ask lots of questions in this meeting.  If they think it's okay to stay an hour unpaid, let's see how they feel about 3 or 4 hours.
Molon Lube

Doktor Howl

I am looking thought his presentation.  There are short movies.  How does a Hazwoper class have ANYTHING set to Enya?

:crankey:

I FEEL THAT I HAVE BEEN VERY CONSIDERATE FOR A VERY LONG TIME, BUT THIS IS THE END OF THE FUCKING LINE.  THIS IS A GODDAMN CHEMICAL FACILITY, NOT A PBS SPECIAL. 

I am going to go full retard.  THE WHOLE THING.
Molon Lube

P3nT4gR4m

I can't get my head around making people stay back for an hour, without pay, on a motherfucken friday. Insurance job? Like maybe they actually want you to torch the place?

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

LMNO

Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 12, 2014, 04:56:03 PM
I am looking thought his presentation.  There are short movies.  How does a Hazwoper class have ANYTHING set to Enya?

:crankey:

I FEEL THAT I HAVE BEEN VERY CONSIDERATE FOR A VERY LONG TIME, BUT THIS IS THE END OF THE FUCKING LINE.  THIS IS A GODDAMN CHEMICAL FACILITY, NOT A PBS SPECIAL. 

I am going to go full retard.  THE WHOLE THING.

SAIL AWAY, SAIL AWAY, SAIL AWAY.

Doktor Howl

Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 12, 2014, 05:04:03 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 12, 2014, 04:56:03 PM
I am looking thought his presentation.  There are short movies.  How does a Hazwoper class have ANYTHING set to Enya?

:crankey:

I FEEL THAT I HAVE BEEN VERY CONSIDERATE FOR A VERY LONG TIME, BUT THIS IS THE END OF THE FUCKING LINE.  THIS IS A GODDAMN CHEMICAL FACILITY, NOT A PBS SPECIAL. 

I am going to go full retard.  THE WHOLE THING.

SAIL AWAY, SAIL AWAY, SAIL AWAY.

THE WHOLE THING
Molon Lube

Doktor Howl

Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on December 12, 2014, 05:00:04 PM
I can't get my head around making people stay back for an hour, without pay, on a motherfucken friday. Insurance job? Like maybe they actually want you to torch the place?

Occasionally, it has to be explained to Jim - in terms that he will understand - that making people feel like their free time is valueless is a losing proposition.

Molon Lube

P3nT4gR4m

By "explain" you mean intubated, right? According to the rules of etiquette, it's the only appropriate response. It'd literally be considered rude not to beat the shit out of him

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

Doktor Howl

Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on December 12, 2014, 05:36:30 PM
By "explain" you mean intubated, right? According to the rules of etiquette, it's the only appropriate response. It'd literally be considered rude not to beat the shit out of him

No, I just make sure everyone's as miserable as possible for the entire time, plus 2 weeks.
Molon Lube

Doktor Howl

The one ray of light right now is that the Paesior story might be made into a graphic novel.
Molon Lube

rong

Our maintenance superintendent left to go be a plant manager down south.  We're hiring.  Please apply - if anything just for the interview.  PM me for details if you are at all interested

"a real smart feller, he felt smart"

LMNO

Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 12, 2014, 06:45:50 PM
The one ray of light right now is that the Paesior story might be made into a graphic novel.

:banana: