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Have you ever come to the sudden realization that you really do not like a coworker?

I spent time in a meeting with my boss and someone else on the team going over a process flow Ted had made. First: not formatted according to standards, but that is an easy (if tedious) fix. Second: process steps were lumped together that should have been separated.

I made notes during the meeting, created a brand new work flow, and sent it back over to the boss, who forwarded it to relevant parties.

Ted sends a message back with a new flow attached, but using his old one and not the one I created.

This guy is an analyst that will not listen when other people are giving information. Then goes off on his own little happy path as if nobody said anything at all.

Drives me bonkers. Now, there is a meeting with him this afternoon that I will have to resist the urge to tell him to shut up and listen for the 50th time. And not so nicely this time.

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I have the same problem. I keep telling my boss to quit making the view from my "desk" so beautiful. It's too distracting. But they never listen. :)
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Wow, bill_g, the things people have to do to earning a living! (On the other hand, if I had to drive the roads that you drive, I would be sitting in a corner gibbering. I love the mountains, but fortunately my partner does the driving.)
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FiveAcres wrote: Tue Sep 14, 2021 9:01 am Wow, bill_g, the things people have to do to earning a living! (On the other hand, if I had to drive the roads that you drive, I would be sitting in a corner gibbering. I love the mountains, but fortunately my partner does the driving.)
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Centralized planning? This just triggered my memory of a tourist travel to Laos a quarter of a century ago. One day was reserved for a day trip out of the capital Vientiane. The tour guide showed me a local iron foundry along the way. We westerners would call it a mom-and-pop shop by size, but of ourse it was government run. The story that stuck in my mind is this: some project somewhere in the country required iron pipes, so they requested that resource from the ministry. The ministry told them that there were no iron pipes available, wait for the next five year plan. The ministry scheduled the production of iron pipes, but not just the tens the project requested, but somewhere in the hundreds, cause once done they can be called from stock. So some time during that five year plan a batch of iron pipes got produced after allocation of ore and coal. The project was told they could now build whatever they had planned many years ago. The project received the number of pipes they had requested. And the remainder of the stock was piled up in the yard. Of course open, it's only iron. Like open in a tropical hot humid climate is good for plain iron. So the years went by and nobody needed pipes of said size. And the rust gnawed on the pipes. And the pipes grew thinner. And one day the ministry allocated a number of pipes of that stock to a new project. And the administrator of the foundry didn't remember to have ever seen any pipes. The ministry got angry believeing that the foundry had embezelled the stock. A police crew showed up, a search for the product was started. Somewhere in a corner under thick lush greenery some remains were found, paper thin and rusted holes. The foundry had never been allowed to recycle the unused pipes, smelt them down for a different product :cantlook:
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Not just central planning that leaves unfinished towers sitting around. Just looked at Vegas (or, for that matter, the big giant hole in Chicago that was supposed to be the big giant screw).
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We read a book for the Fogbow Book Club (may its archives RIP) that I remember as JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. I remember I hated it and I never finished it.

Does anyone remember this? If it wasn’t Vance’s book which one was it?

This could also go into the Getting Old Sucks thread. ;)
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I am now learning how to be a RW "digital soldier/citizen journalist" for a mere $13US on udemy from Michael Knight. funny thing, all his "research hunting is all social media. and if i work it correctly, I can monetize on rumble, bitchute, youtube...
the course is not worth the regular price of $89US
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Phoenix520 wrote: Tue Sep 14, 2021 6:22 pm Does anyone remember this? If it wasn’t Vance’s book which one was it?
Think it was Deer Hunting With Jesus.
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Phoenix520 wrote: Tue Sep 14, 2021 6:22 pm We read a book for the Fogbow Book Club (may its archives RIP) that I remember as JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. I remember I hated it and I never finished it.

Does anyone remember this? If it wasn’t Vance’s book which one was it?

This could also go into the Getting Old Sucks thread. ;)
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That’s the very one. That was my opinion, too.

Elaborate away, at your leisure. ;)
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Hay! Look! Is that you, Sugaree? How are you?
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Phoenix520 wrote: Tue Sep 14, 2021 8:02 pm That’s the very one. That was my opinion, too.

Elaborate away, at your leisure. ;)
One detail that struck me as fake was when he said someone suggested to him that he apply to Yale Law School on the “second round” of applications. I don’t recall law school applications happening in rounds. You apply; you get in or you don’t. I think it’s unlikely in the extreme that he didn’t get in *anywhere* the first time around, but did get into Yale later. And someone suggested to him, Hey, Dude, how ‘bout Yale? Bullshit.

I don’t know what happened. He did go to Yale; I don’t doubt that. I went to a middle-tier law school, and some of my classmates transferred to better schools after the first year. I think that’s a possibility, and actually makes more sense to me than applying to other schools but not going, and then later applying and getting in to a top school.
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Maybenaut wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 1:26 am
Phoenix520 wrote: Tue Sep 14, 2021 8:02 pm That’s the very one. That was my opinion, too.

Elaborate away, at your leisure. ;)
One detail that struck me as fake was when he said someone suggested to him that he apply to Yale Law School on the “second round” of applications. I don’t recall law school applications happening in rounds. You apply; you get in or you don’t. :snippity:
I was rejected by Georgetown Law School. The people who supported me, including high level successful graduates from that school, got me into the "second round." So yes, there are 2nd rounds. At the time I was a (local) leader in reproductive rights. Denied again, nor surprised.

Surprisingly, Catholic University snatched me up immediately. It has a history of civil rights. My only problem there was with the Constitutional Law professor. Of course, he called on me re Roe vs Wade and ranted. A lot. I told him that his problem was with SCOTUS and not with me. Nonetheless, he docked me 5 points and gave 5 points to all the other students. And recently I saw that he's still ranting....
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Nonetheless, he docked me 5 points and gave 5 points to all the other students.
Evil. :smokeears:
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Oh man, the autumnal equinox is a week from today, and sure enough, the weather is deteriorating by the day. It's not even going up to 90° today (OK, 87°)! I want my summer back! :violin: :crying:
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Speaking of Roe v Wade, being in rural OR, yesterday I heard Roe being applied as a supporting arguement against gummint vax mandates.

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Foggy wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 9:25 am Oh man, the autumnal equinox is a week from today, and sure enough, the weather is deteriorating by the day. It's not even going up to 90° today (OK, 87°)! I want my summer back! :violin: :crying:
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Foggy wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 9:25 am Oh man, the autumnal equinox is a week from today, and sure enough, the weather is deteriorating by the day. It's not even going up to 90° today (OK, 87°)! I want my summer back! :violin: :crying:
Well, next time get yourself born on a planet that isn't tilted 23.5 degrees. ;)
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Is there a jury in WI who can resist this face? I think
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OMG, that's the most unfierce red panda in the world. I already named him 'Buttercup'.

That animal is so cute! ❤️
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Kansas boy’s insect entry at state fair wins prize – and triggers federal inquiry
Creature was a dead spotted lanternfly – an invasive moth-like bug that has been causing massive damage to plants in eastern states

Alexandra Villarreal in Austin
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A young contestant’s proud entry at the Kansas state fair caused a flap when a judge saw the specimen submitted in the boy’s exhibition box – and it prompted a federal investigation.

The show item was a dead spotted lanternfly the boy had discovered at his home – an invasive moth-like bug that has been causing massive damage to plants in US eastern states but had not previously been thought to have reached Kansas.

The boy won a prize at the fair and correctly identified the insect but the creature itself was flagged for attention by the US Department of Agriculture’s animal and plant health inspection service. The agency will now investigate how the invasive species made it to Kansas, the Hutchinson News reported.

Since arriving in Pennsylvania, probably via a shipping container from Asia, spotted lanternflies have ravaged the US north-east in recent years.





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I haven't seen one here yet, but the rule is, "See one, kill one." Then report it to the state.
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