Not to mention that AC posting isn't limited to trolls. New readers just wanting to chime in, people who don't want to say something that will be linked to them (you see a lot of non-troll AC posts in threads dealing with personnal, hard issues... depression/suicide, sexual preferences, etc).
You left out things like "leaking industry secrets" and "badmouthing/telling on the boss". Both things you wouldn't want filtering back to the company you work for. Or to future employers if you're someone who actually uses their real name as their login, for that matter.
I'm a Coloradan stuck in Arizona and have heard of a device that can switch between a swamp cooler and an air conditioning unit. Because I'm a Coloradan and have no clue, someone could have been pulling my leg. It may be the Arizona version of the Snipe Hunt. But it might be worth a call to your local heating and cooling place.
My swamp cooler doesn't seem to be working for shit compared to yours. It was 97 yesterday outside and 88 in my house, then when night hit it was actually warmer in my house than outside despite the air being pulled in from outside. Considering my place is Cinderblock, I have to wonder if the 9 degrees cooler was from that rather than the swamp cooler.
If anyone has any suggestions about what the hell might be wrong with my swamp cooler, feel free to let me know! It has a new belt, new water pump, new pads...
At our company, it predates SOX. But SOX has certainly caused us myriad other problems. Including rolling out a new ordering system before all the bugs were worked out.
Oh, and taking away the ability of the service rep to just go ahead and give you your money back. Now those poor people have to tell the customer they're forwarding the request on for review. It's nice to be able to say "It's done. Check your card and the money will be there in 72 hours or less." Now it takes weeks.
And while we're on the subject of passwords, can we please get rid of those "change your passwords EVERY THIRTY DAYS!" systems?
Amen!
I have to try to remember a *lot* of different passwords for work. If they unified the logins on these tools, it would help tremendously. You can try to have the passwords sync up, but the reset time frames on them are all offset. I had to change my Corporate password 2 weeks ago, my windows password one week ago, and my network password on Friday. As a result, I've typed in the wrong network password first try almost every time today.
Another frustration is the 100% numeric password for voicemail. It used to change every month. I--and many others--communicate primarily with email. This translated into having to change the password every time we got a voicemail before we can listen to it. It appears that they have changed the reset time length to several months now. Probably because they were tired of resetting passwords for everyone all the time.
My sister is a vegetarian, and I get sick if I don't have meat. (Plus I'm allergic to onions and the green pepper family, so there goes at least half the easily available vegetarian options.) I'd never heard that 8% would die without meat in their diet, now I can tell Mom I'm not making it up!
Vegetarian is definitely not better for me.
My sister also happens to be the kind of person who needs this kind of protection for her computer, so I hope no one is trying to draw any parallels with that.
Since no one else has chimed in and I ran registers in the U.S. for many years, I'll chime in here.
For the coins, we have bins for the penny, nickel, dime and quarter plus an extra one that could certainly be used for the 50 cent piece but in which you usually find paper clips, rubber bands and stamps. Occasionally you'll see a forlorn 50 cent piece or a foreign coin sitting in it.
For the bills, there is a corresponding number of slots for ones, fives, tens, twenties and checks. Large bills, coupons and odd-size company checks go under the till in the drawer.
On top of all the other things that can go wrong, detached parent waits until 40 minutes into the call to tell you "Oh, by the way, Johnny tried to flush it. Could that be a problem?"
My card says "see ID" on it so sometimes I hand over my drivers license with the card. I often have to explain why I did so.
I too worked in retail. I saw many cards with no signature on it.
I would suggest to the customer that if they didn't want to sign it that they write something such as See ID on it. (I've also seen CID, I bet that throws some people...)
More than one customer said they didn't sign it so no one could use it if they steal it. I would explain that if someone stole the card they would sign it themselves and then the signature would be guaranteed to match. Some people would ask to borrow my pen at that point to write "See ID" on the card. But many just returned the card to their wallet unsigned.
Many campgrounds have official hosts who basically have to babysit the campground. I think this will be a big bonus for some of them. And just think how nice it would be to be able to google some first aid while the ambulance is trying to figure out how to get up to where you are.
I, too, have been trying to convert my coworkers. We were on the night shift and after all the supes left (I was psuedo-supervisor) I fired up the DVD player in the i-pod and positioned it so anyone near my quad could see it. I had the most popular desk in the building and my co-workers were also wondering why the show got cancelled. That's actually a great way to make a slow evening at work go much faster. =)
Despite all their reports that UFO's do not exist, the report lists references to UFO encounters as partial justification for this research.
"There are also a small number of credible reports of individuals
who reported being teleported to/from UFOs during a UFO close encounter, which were scientifically
investigated (Vallee, 1988, 1990, 1997)."
I think the key line, though, is the line above that one:
"Most claimed instances of human teleportation of the body from one
place to another have been unwitnessed."
Gee, I wonder why?
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Not to mention that AC posting isn't limited to trolls. New readers just wanting to chime in, people who don't want to say something that will be linked to them (you see a lot of non-troll AC posts in threads dealing with personnal, hard issues... depression/suicide, sexual preferences, etc).
You left out things like "leaking industry secrets" and "badmouthing/telling on the boss". Both things you wouldn't want filtering back to the company you work for. Or to future employers if you're someone who actually uses their real name as their login, for that matter.
I'm a Coloradan stuck in Arizona and have heard of a device that can switch between a swamp cooler and an air conditioning unit. Because I'm a Coloradan and have no clue, someone could have been pulling my leg. It may be the Arizona version of the Snipe Hunt. But it might be worth a call to your local heating and cooling place.
My swamp cooler doesn't seem to be working for shit compared to yours. It was 97 yesterday outside and 88 in my house, then when night hit it was actually warmer in my house than outside despite the air being pulled in from outside. Considering my place is Cinderblock, I have to wonder if the 9 degrees cooler was from that rather than the swamp cooler.
If anyone has any suggestions about what the hell might be wrong with my swamp cooler, feel free to let me know! It has a new belt, new water pump, new pads...
At our company, it predates SOX. But SOX has certainly caused us myriad other problems. Including rolling out a new ordering system before all the bugs were worked out.
Oh, and taking away the ability of the service rep to just go ahead and give you your money back. Now those poor people have to tell the customer they're forwarding the request on for review. It's nice to be able to say "It's done. Check your card and the money will be there in 72 hours or less." Now it takes weeks.
Corporate password is just it's name. It gets me into about 3 things that I use with any regularity.
On that note, you certainly have made me feel better about the number of passwords I do have to remember!
3nuff, I do that already, doesn't make it any less a pain in the ass to change it every month though.
And while we're on the subject of passwords, can we please get rid of those "change your passwords EVERY THIRTY DAYS!" systems?
Amen!
I have to try to remember a *lot* of different passwords for work. If they unified the logins on these tools, it would help tremendously. You can try to have the passwords sync up, but the reset time frames on them are all offset. I had to change my Corporate password 2 weeks ago, my windows password one week ago, and my network password on Friday. As a result, I've typed in the wrong network password first try almost every time today.
Another frustration is the 100% numeric password for voicemail. It used to change every month. I--and many others--communicate primarily with email. This translated into having to change the password every time we got a voicemail before we can listen to it. It appears that they have changed the reset time length to several months now. Probably because they were tired of resetting passwords for everyone all the time.
My sister is a vegetarian, and I get sick if I don't have meat. (Plus I'm allergic to onions and the green pepper family, so there goes at least half the easily available vegetarian options.) I'd never heard that 8% would die without meat in their diet, now I can tell Mom I'm not making it up!
Vegetarian is definitely not better for me.
My sister also happens to be the kind of person who needs this kind of protection for her computer, so I hope no one is trying to draw any parallels with that.
And how could you possibly leave out the Guide entry on towels?
Are cash registers different in the US?
Since no one else has chimed in and I ran registers in the U.S. for many years, I'll chime in here.
For the coins, we have bins for the penny, nickel, dime and quarter plus an extra one that could certainly be used for the 50 cent piece but in which you usually find paper clips, rubber bands and stamps. Occasionally you'll see a forlorn 50 cent piece or a foreign coin sitting in it.
For the bills, there is a corresponding number of slots for ones, fives, tens, twenties and checks. Large bills, coupons and odd-size company checks go under the till in the drawer.
On top of all the other things that can go wrong, detached parent waits until 40 minutes into the call to tell you "Oh, by the way, Johnny tried to flush it. Could that be a problem?"
Intuit doesn't own Quicken Loans, they just let that company use the name. They split Quicken Loans off some time ago. Two years maybe?
My card says "see ID" on it so sometimes I hand over my drivers license with the card. I often have to explain why I did so. I too worked in retail. I saw many cards with no signature on it. I would suggest to the customer that if they didn't want to sign it that they write something such as See ID on it. (I've also seen CID, I bet that throws some people...) More than one customer said they didn't sign it so no one could use it if they steal it. I would explain that if someone stole the card they would sign it themselves and then the signature would be guaranteed to match. Some people would ask to borrow my pen at that point to write "See ID" on the card. But many just returned the card to their wallet unsigned.
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Many campgrounds have official hosts who basically have to babysit the campground. I think this will be a big bonus for some of them. And just think how nice it would be to be able to google some first aid while the ambulance is trying to figure out how to get up to where you are.
Free? Where I live the Sci-Fi channel is in a Tier you have to pay for. And I haven't bothered to pay since they stopped showing "Sliders".
I, too, have been trying to convert my coworkers. We were on the night shift and after all the supes left (I was psuedo-supervisor) I fired up the DVD player in the i-pod and positioned it so anyone near my quad could see it. I had the most popular desk in the building and my co-workers were also wondering why the show got cancelled. That's actually a great way to make a slow evening at work go much faster. =)
Despite all their reports that UFO's do not exist, the report lists references to UFO encounters as partial justification for this research. "There are also a small number of credible reports of individuals who reported being teleported to/from UFOs during a UFO close encounter, which were scientifically investigated (Vallee, 1988, 1990, 1997)." I think the key line, though, is the line above that one: "Most claimed instances of human teleportation of the body from one place to another have been unwitnessed." Gee, I wonder why?