For two hours a week I have to check invoices and mark them as 'goods received'. It's crap and I'd rather be reading Slashdot, I mean creating spreadsheets. Someone's got to do it and you can't get a temp in for two hours a week...
If an invoice landed on my desk for $50, I mark it for payment without much thought. It wouldn't be worth the time and effort to get the boss to countersign it. The accounts payable department would then pay it within 30 days. It really is that simple.
Others on this thread have suggested invoicing, following up with a statement (which are seen as friendly reminders), and making a phone call or two asking for a payment date. I'd say the same apart from leave the aggression at the door.
What is your time worth? You're on about spending 30 minutes shouting down the phone to save $10. I'd like to think I could earn $10 in half that time.
1. Find website with strategy laid out. 2. Remember: build 1 Command centre, 5 grunts, research Tech tree C, build fuck-off long-range super-gun. 3. Win.
I get fed up with buying a game three months after the release date (cheap), only to find the veterans have mastered every weapon and strategy. I can;t even be arsed with the Cheevos after I've finish the single player side.
Only L4D2 has provided any multiplayer enjoyment because it was a Christmas present and no one had any advantage over me.
That's not always true though. In the UK, you can quote the data protection act and request that someone qualified deletes all data relating to yourself.
I've done it many times, normally after they've pissed me off and caused me to waste some of my time. Tell them that an administrator is not qualified, and clicking a 'delete' button is not enough. Offsite backups deleted too.
Maybe they do and maybe they don't. There would be fun and games if they contacted me in the future.
If ever you hear an English man, putting on a fake south American accent, saying "Gee mister, you sure know your weapons". That is me and I'm taking the piss.
I still write to disk using Word macros and all other Office packages - not sure anything has changed. Create the FSO and off you go. No errors, no user interaction except for the opening macro dialog, which everyone clicks without thinking.
I didn't realise these were so common. I've had one since I've owned a mobile; that's about 20 years. The land line has always been on the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) list.
And in the ten years I've had a desk job, only one there too. I was almost sold a fitted kitchen for my area in the open plan office. The microwave and integrated ironing board would have been sweet...
It's called touting here and when the tout (read official ticket office staff) buys half the stock before the general sale, it creates a false scarcity.
Saying that, I've bought tickets at 10% of the face value by missing the first 5 minutes of a sporting event. It can work both ways.
Which is what I do, along with space to page-down. So please, all you web developers, stop focusing on a textbox onload. It's annoying. Stop all the other 'helpful' shit too; I don't have time to Greasemonkey the whole net.
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My cheap as fuck Kodac scanner wont scan paper money. I've tried it.
There is no error as such but it does launch FF and displays a helpful page about naughty, naughty people who pirate money.
For two hours a week I have to check invoices and mark them as 'goods received'. It's crap and I'd rather be reading Slashdot, I mean creating spreadsheets. Someone's got to do it and you can't get a temp in for two hours a week...
If an invoice landed on my desk for $50, I mark it for payment without much thought. It wouldn't be worth the time and effort to get the boss to countersign it. The accounts payable department would then pay it within 30 days. It really is that simple.
Others on this thread have suggested invoicing, following up with a statement (which are seen as friendly reminders), and making a phone call or two asking for a payment date. I'd say the same apart from leave the aggression at the door.
No, but it should be.
What is your time worth? You're on about spending 30 minutes shouting down the phone to save $10. I'd like to think I could earn $10 in half that time.
I play RTS too. Skirmish normally involves:
1. Find website with strategy laid out.
2. Remember: build 1 Command centre, 5 grunts, research Tech tree C, build fuck-off long-range super-gun.
3. Win.
Online RTS is boring.
I gavitate away from multiplayer.
I get fed up with buying a game three months after the release date (cheap), only to find the veterans have mastered every weapon and strategy. I can;t even be arsed with the Cheevos after I've finish the single player side.
Only L4D2 has provided any multiplayer enjoyment because it was a Christmas present and no one had any advantage over me.
And when they squeeze too hard, you say:
I'd hate to be your cock, wanker.
That's not always true though. In the UK, you can quote the data protection act and request that someone qualified deletes all data relating to yourself.
I've done it many times, normally after they've pissed me off and caused me to waste some of my time. Tell them that an administrator is not qualified, and clicking a 'delete' button is not enough. Offsite backups deleted too.
Maybe they do and maybe they don't. There would be fun and games if they contacted me in the future.
Bollox.
No. No. No.
<p>I paid £12 for Borderlands a few days ago off eBay (hoping its on the doormat whern I get home).
<p>I will end up selling it for £6 or £7 in a few months time.
<p>Secondhand on the Xbox wins.
If ever you hear an English man, putting on a fake south American accent, saying "Gee mister, you sure know your weapons". That is me and I'm taking the piss.
I bounce off the walls for a couple of days if I "give up" the green. A lot of mates do too. Falling asleep also suffers for a couple of days.
But I've done the same; gone for years or months or days without. It doesn't compare to giving up the fags.
Half true.
My granfather used to spray nicotine in his greenhouse to kill bugs.
I have used a mild soap solution to kill bugs in mine.
I still write to disk using Word macros and all other Office packages - not sure anything has changed. Create the FSO and off you go. No errors, no user interaction except for the opening macro dialog, which everyone clicks without thinking.
I joke at work that this months password is July2010.
Most people know I'm joking. The rest think it's a fantastic idea.
I threaten mine with the Children's Home.
Try it sometime. The mental pain lasts longer than the physical.
Simpler and cheaper to use Usenet. You get all that encryption stuff too.
SP2 here. 3,000 people in this building alone. 20,000 people company wide.
I look forward to the next infection. Blaster was a blast.
I didn't realise these were so common. I've had one since I've owned a mobile; that's about 20 years. The land line has always been on the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) list.
And in the ten years I've had a desk job, only one there too. I was almost sold a fitted kitchen for my area in the open plan office. The microwave and integrated ironing board would have been sweet...
I too have a unique name. Well, not so unique as I share it with one other.
He is an amercian basketball player. Not a very good one if I'd led to beleive his stats.
Boy, is he in some trouble when my posts get linked to him!
Is it really?
It's called touting here and when the tout (read official ticket office staff) buys half the stock before the general sale, it creates a false scarcity.
Saying that, I've bought tickets at 10% of the face value by missing the first 5 minutes of a sporting event. It can work both ways.
http://newsarse.com/ is a British sporting version. Good for a giggle.
Those of us?
Those of us, who sit at a monitor all day, get free yearly eye tests in the UK.
Which is what I do, along with space to page-down. So please, all you web developers, stop focusing on a textbox onload. It's annoying. Stop all the other 'helpful' shit too; I don't have time to Greasemonkey the whole net.