Random thing you loathe right now.

clover wrote:
McIrishJihad wrote:

Dad has been using his Kindle, so for Christmas I picked up an Amazon gift card for him, and had it set to deliver via Facebook on Christmas Day.

Apparently, to redeem, you have to Facebook Connect.

Which results in a text from Dad asking me: "how do I use your gift card without losing my rite of privacy??"

If he uses Facebook at all the war is already lost, no?

DING DING DING!

Called my mom, he's afraid of getting "spam" in his email and direct mail by letting Amazon use FB Connect.

My argument back to him was that Facebook isn't learning anything new from Amazon, and Amazon isn't learning anything new from Facebook. At worst, you'd be letting Amazon post to Facebook, which you can limit to only display back to yourself. Then I walked him through how to revoke that access at Facebook.

Also tried to apply to his sense of reason by stating that the last thing either Amazon or Facebook wants to do is spam him, or lose him as a "customer" by selling his information.

Co-workers who won't go home when they're sick. F*** me. We're having a flu epidemic. People are going home for weeks at a time on a regular basis. If you're in the office blowing your nose and coughing constantly then please go home. Your wet throat clearing is not only gross, but scary.

DSGamer wrote:

Co-workers who won't go home when they're sick. F*** me. We're having a flu epidemic. People are going home for weeks at a time on a regular basis. If you're in the office blowing your nose and coughing constantly then please go home. Your wet throat clearing is not only gross, but scary.

COULD NOT AGREE MORE.

DSGamer wrote:

Co-workers who won't go home when they're sick. F*** me. We're having a flu epidemic. People are going home for weeks at a time on a regular basis. If you're in the office blowing your nose and coughing constantly then please go home. Your wet throat clearing is not only gross, but scary.

Out of interest, does your employer pay for sick leave? I can understand people coming to work sick if staying at home means not getting paid.

SixteenBlue wrote:
DSGamer wrote:

Co-workers who won't go home when they're sick. F*** me. We're having a flu epidemic. People are going home for weeks at a time on a regular basis. If you're in the office blowing your nose and coughing constantly then please go home. Your wet throat clearing is not only gross, but scary.

COULD NOT AGREE MORE.

The guy seated a row in front of me in class on Monday kept doing the same thing. For almost three hours.

I kept thinking:
A) That's disgusting.
B) Are you really swallowing all that sh*t?
C) Repeat "A".

McIrishJihad wrote:
clover wrote:
McIrishJihad wrote:

Dad has been using his Kindle, so for Christmas I picked up an Amazon gift card for him, and had it set to deliver via Facebook on Christmas Day.

Apparently, to redeem, you have to Facebook Connect.

Which results in a text from Dad asking me: "how do I use your gift card without losing my rite of privacy??"

If he uses Facebook at all the war is already lost, no?

DING DING DING!

Called my mom, he's afraid of getting "spam" in his email and direct mail by letting Amazon use FB Connect.

My argument back to him was that Facebook isn't learning anything new from Amazon, and Amazon isn't learning anything new from Facebook. At worst, you'd be letting Amazon post to Facebook, which you can limit to only display back to yourself. Then I walked him through how to revoke that access at Facebook.

Also tried to apply to his sense of reason by stating that the last thing either Amazon or Facebook wants to do is spam him, or lose him as a "customer" by selling his information.

So, wait. I would have to use Facebook to redeem a gift card for Amazon? I don't have facebook, does that make me screwed?

Only if you deliver it via Facebook I believe, at least that's what I'm getting from the first paragraph.

I know I received a bunch of regular old Amazon gift cards over the holidays, and I redeemed them on Amazon just fine, no Facebook connectivity required.

Jonman wrote:
DSGamer wrote:

Co-workers who won't go home when they're sick. F*** me. We're having a flu epidemic. People are going home for weeks at a time on a regular basis. If you're in the office blowing your nose and coughing constantly then please go home. Your wet throat clearing is not only gross, but scary.

Out of interest, does your employer pay for sick leave? I can understand people coming to work sick if staying at home means not getting paid.

People come in sick at our work all the time because they can't get a doctor's appointment on that short of notice, but have to have a note from a doctor to get their sick pay.

So the choices are go in and work while sick, stay home and not get paid, or go to urgent care and waste their time just to get a note and fork over so much money in the process that you might as well have just not gotten paid.

Generally, if they can, they just work sick.

I do it too, to be honest. Unless I'm really miserable.

In that case I direct all anger towards the company and their messed up policies and not the coworkers.

Psych wrote:

So, wait. I would have to use Facebook to redeem a gift card for Amazon? I don't have facebook, does that make me screwed?

Nope - I had it delivered via Facebook, so to redeem Amazon has to use Facebook Connect to verify that he is who he says he is.

If I had printed it, or had it emailed to him, it would be a code he could just copy/paste or enter on his Amazon account.

But Facebook was easiest, no printer at home, and I didn't want to send it to his work email address.

SixteenBlue wrote:

In that case I direct all anger towards the company and their messed up policies and not the coworkers.

+1

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

Yeah, we hardly ever get snow in Portland. Looks like it's gonna be another snowless year for me.

At least the dream of the Nineties is alive where you are.

Coldstream wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

Yeah, we hardly ever get snow in Portland. Looks like it's gonna be another snowless year for me.

At least the dream of the Nineties is alive where you are.

Well, it used to snow in Portland before it was cool.

DSGamer wrote:

Co-workers who won't go home when they're sick. F*** me. We're having a flu epidemic. People are going home for weeks at a time on a regular basis. If you're in the office blowing your nose and coughing constantly then please go home. Your wet throat clearing is not only gross, but scary.

It has been like that at my work for the last few weeks as well. But people would be happy to take off, but management is a bag of bastards that really frowns on any time off at all. Very frustrating.

Coldstream wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

Yeah, we hardly ever get snow in Portland. Looks like it's gonna be another snowless year for me.

At least the dream of the Nineties is alive where you are.

That's probably my favorite part of the show!

soonerjudd wrote:
Coldstream wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

Yeah, we hardly ever get snow in Portland. Looks like it's gonna be another snowless year for me.

At least the dream of the Nineties is alive where you are.

That's probably my favorite part of the show! :)

You guys... I'm so glad.

oilypenguin wrote:
soonerjudd wrote:
Coldstream wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

Yeah, we hardly ever get snow in Portland. Looks like it's gonna be another snowless year for me.

At least the dream of the Nineties is alive where you are.

That's probably my favorite part of the show! :)

You guys... I'm so glad.

Put a bird on it!

...that I've been up since 4am because of a bad head illness.
...that I slept very fitfully from 11pm to 4am.
...that I think my son might have it too.

Coldstream wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

Yeah, we hardly ever get snow in Portland. Looks like it's gonna be another snowless year for me.

At least the dream of the Nineties is alive where you are.

The 1890s!

Quintin_Stone wrote:
Coldstream wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

Yeah, we hardly ever get snow in Portland. Looks like it's gonna be another snowless year for me.

At least the dream of the Nineties is alive where you are.

The 1890s!

My boss misspelled Manti Te'o's name on our corporate Facebook feed. Twice.

Did I mention I work at a newspaper?

Having a baby in the car who is cranky because she's been stuck in her car seat for two hours. Why? Because I have to drive my mother-in-law around because my father-in-law is too f*cking lazy to do so. He's perfectly capable of doing so, but he prefers to sit at home (our home, you understand, not his) playing slot machine games on his laptop. And hey, it's not like I had anything better to do, right?

Also, I loathe in-laws that don't understand that it's not cool to come visit for two months. Also a lesser loathe to my wife for apparently being incapable of saying no to them, despite disliking them almost as much as I do.

Rallick wrote:

Having a baby in the car who is cranky because she's been stuck in her car seat for two hours. Why? Because I have to drive my mother-in-law around because my father-in-law is too f*cking lazy to do so. He's perfectly capable of doing so, but he prefers to sit at home (our home, you understand, not his) playing slot machine games on his laptop. And hey, it's not like I had anything better to do, right?

Also, I loathe in-laws that don't understand that it's not cool to come visit for two months. Also a lesser loathe to my wife for apparently being incapable of saying no to them, despite disliking them almost as much as I do.

2 months! Holy Jeebus on a hover-donkey, my heart goes out to you.

Yeah...1 week is my absolute limit and I'm even second guessing that.

Jonman wrote:
Rallick wrote:

Having a baby in the car who is cranky because she's been stuck in her car seat for two hours. Why? Because I have to drive my mother-in-law around because my father-in-law is too f*cking lazy to do so. He's perfectly capable of doing so, but he prefers to sit at home (our home, you understand, not his) playing slot machine games on his laptop. And hey, it's not like I had anything better to do, right?

Also, I loathe in-laws that don't understand that it's not cool to come visit for two months. Also a lesser loathe to my wife for apparently being incapable of saying no to them, despite disliking them almost as much as I do.

2 months! Holy Jeebus on a hover-donkey, my heart goes out to you.

My maternal grandparents used to do this to us.

I am loathe towards new instructors that feel they have to take a university course to the extreme edge of necessity just to show other staff they have teaching competency.

My maternal grandparents used to do this to us.

I have an opposite "loathe" in that sense. I'd love to have my folks live with us (or us with them) but I have to live with my mother-in-law since she has no other close relative in the country. It's really hard to keep an eye and socialize with people who don't like the internet and live 2 hours away. I'd love to just buy an entire city block and have the entire family move in, but that's ultimately just a pipe dream. Sigh.

Rallick wrote:

Having a baby in the car who is cranky because she's been stuck in her car seat for two hours. Why? Because I have to drive my mother-in-law around because my father-in-law is too f*cking lazy to do so. He's perfectly capable of doing so, but he prefers to sit at home (our home, you understand, not his) playing slot machine games on his laptop. And hey, it's not like I had anything better to do, right?

Also, I loathe in-laws that don't understand that it's not cool to come visit for two months. Also a lesser loathe to my wife for apparently being incapable of saying no to them, despite disliking them almost as much as I do.

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I loathe the fact that my beloved husband Rubb Ed was laid off today from his job.

Of course, it was the same old song and dance. "It isn't you. It's us. We accidentally created a similar job somewhere else and so we don't need you. But here's $5.00 and a pack of Mentos for your eight years of service. Don't let the door hit you on the way out."

Please keep Rubb in your thoughts and prayers.

Phoenix Rev wrote:

I loathe the fact that my beloved husband Rubb Ed was laid off today from his job.

Of course, it was the same old song and dance. "It isn't you. It's us. We accidentally created a similar job somewhere else and so we don't need you. But here's $5.00 and a pack of Mentos for your eight years of service. Don't let the door hit you on the way out."

Please keep Rubb in your thoughts and prayers.

sorry to hear that, Rubb and Phoenix. Sounds like a sh*tty severance package, to boot.