RedmondLonghorn
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That's a good example, except nobody would actually do that, right? Right?
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Limp Ditka
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He's probably my favorite of the non usual suspects when people talk about great guitar players. How he plays that and sings at the same time amazes me.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
Captain Quinoa
Footballguy
Sont le mont qui vont tres bien ensemble
El Floppo
Footballguy
the youtube video immediately after that showing how he plays it in an interview... wow. I had no idea. very cool
shouldn't Otis's John Mayer hawkscreech have happened by now?
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
Decided to hold onto Tulo in a keeper league this year. Hope he plays about 140 games this year.
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El Floppo
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Officer Pete Malloy
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RedmondLonghorn
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Jayrod
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DA RAIDERS
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#### themMr.Pack said:
Bob Sacamano
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krista4
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Horrible mistake on my part. ####### up plans left and right. I think he did it secretly to get out of going to my Grandpa's 95th birthday party. OK, not so secretly.
I did just get word from Delta on my request for refunds for our flights. I mentioned here (well, in GMTAN1.0) that they had moved my flight time back by almost four hours, which I now used as a reason for them to refund me rather than deducting $600 and then giving me back credits. Not only did that work, but they misread my prior use of various credits to the tune of giving me back $200 in cash that I wasn't entitled to. I've made money from this cancellation. Quick, let's plan some more trips!
Osaurus
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RedmondLonghorn
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-fish-
Footballguy
krista4
Footballguy
Limp Ditka
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fantasycurse42
Footballguy Jr.
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fantasycurse42
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fantasycurse42
Footballguy Jr.
Aerial Assault
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BobbyLayne
Footballguy
I'm old enough to remember when the Indy 500 was a big deal.
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BobbyLayne
Footballguy
My dad raced in the Traverse City 250 snowmobile race in the 1960s. Remember two things vividly: my mom was not, under any circumstances, going to park the Ford LTD station wagon on the ice of the Little Traverse Bay. She made that very clear to the parking lot attendant. At which point he suggested she turn around and drive off the ice road she had been on for the last half mile. They other memory was of dad's Ski Doo 699 TNT catching on fire along the back straightway. Scared the hell out of me (he was fine, the sled was roached).
Aerial Assault
Footballguy
I'm fingering a Glock right now
mr roboto
Footballguy
go on
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
I got thrown under a bus today. A big bus...like one of those double-decker things they have over in Paris.
TL;DR at the bottom
Our district technology dept consists of 3 people. Rusty (director), Nick (network admin I guess), and Eve the technician. Eve is the one that actually goes into the classrooms and fixes stuff.
Now early in the year I was having some problems with my iPad and Apple TV. No less than four times I made "appointments" with Eve to come to my classroom and fix the problem. And four times in a row she either forgot or came late (which didn't help because I was teaching at the time). I never complained or said anything to anyone. Eventually she solved the problem.
Fast forward to this Monday. I come in in the morning and my desktop computer won't come on. Actually I could hear it start up and if you hit enough keys it would make bing-bong noises but no picture. Unplug it, check the ports etc, but still nothing. Oh it's an Apple so the monitor and comp are all-in-one.
So I get on my iPad and send an email to Eve. She calls me about 2 minutes later and says she's coming over. She gets there with her laptop and pulls up the remote desktop. My comp is working fine but no video. It's pretty obvious that it is toast. I tell her that I've been lazy backing up my files and that I would like to figure out a way to save what I can.
Long story short she realizes that I can use the TV in my room as an external monitor. We agree that I'll use that set up to collect whatever I need onto a thumb-drive and when I'm finished I'll let her know so that she can come get my busted computer and/or get me a replacement.
So I spend all my prep and lunch saving my files. By the end of the day I was 99% sure I had everything but wanted to double check Tuesday AM. That's when I would contact Eve.
Right after school on Monday we had a staff meeting in the library. After we took care of the usual BS the director guy, Rusty, shows up and says that if any one had and tech related issues or questions he would be available to answer them.
I go up to Rusty and ask him if he knew about my computer. He said he had heard something about it. I told him what Eve and I did that morning. I then told him everything was working out but I just wanted to know how long it might take to get a new comp once my old one was hauled away. That was all I asked him. There was absolutely no negativity on my end. Rusty says that since he was over on the same side of campus he would come by my room and check it out. I wasn't really sure why he wanted to do that but whatever. I went home right after that.
Tuesday morning I come in and out of habit I hit the spacebar on my keyboard. The comp wakes up. I check the desktop and it's obvious that I've now got a replacement AND all of my files are right there. Sweet.
Eve emails me a few minutes later and says that Dustin replaced my comp and backed up all my files. And that if I needed anything to let her know.
I reply back that everything is great but there were a couple of apps I needed. She takes care of that with remote desktop in less than 30 minutes. Double sweet.
Then this morning I realize that I am not connected to the printer I share with the other teachers in my pod. I email Eve and she takes care of that too. Awesome.
Then at 1:25 today I get this email from her:
But by that time I'm sure she was walking out the door with a cardboard box full of her personals, her tears filling up a Dr. Who or Bazinga! coffee mug.
Of course I have no idea what the hell Rusty actually told her but obviously he gave her the impression that I complained about her. What a #####.
I printed out all of the emails between her and I from the last 3 days and showed them to my principal. He asked me to forward the last one to him and he was going to talk to Rusty.
I didn't do anything else before I left for the day. I'm pretty sure that tomorrow I'm going to try to set up a meet between me, Rusty, and our assistant supernintendo. Rusty better have a damn good explanation for his bush-league bull ####.
tl;dr: Our district tech director fired our tech gofer chick today. She sent me an email blaming me for her firing because I complained to said director about her...which I did not. Director is going to get two punches if he can't explain it.
TL;DR at the bottom
Our district technology dept consists of 3 people. Rusty (director), Nick (network admin I guess), and Eve the technician. Eve is the one that actually goes into the classrooms and fixes stuff.
Now early in the year I was having some problems with my iPad and Apple TV. No less than four times I made "appointments" with Eve to come to my classroom and fix the problem. And four times in a row she either forgot or came late (which didn't help because I was teaching at the time). I never complained or said anything to anyone. Eventually she solved the problem.
Fast forward to this Monday. I come in in the morning and my desktop computer won't come on. Actually I could hear it start up and if you hit enough keys it would make bing-bong noises but no picture. Unplug it, check the ports etc, but still nothing. Oh it's an Apple so the monitor and comp are all-in-one.
So I get on my iPad and send an email to Eve. She calls me about 2 minutes later and says she's coming over. She gets there with her laptop and pulls up the remote desktop. My comp is working fine but no video. It's pretty obvious that it is toast. I tell her that I've been lazy backing up my files and that I would like to figure out a way to save what I can.
Long story short she realizes that I can use the TV in my room as an external monitor. We agree that I'll use that set up to collect whatever I need onto a thumb-drive and when I'm finished I'll let her know so that she can come get my busted computer and/or get me a replacement.
So I spend all my prep and lunch saving my files. By the end of the day I was 99% sure I had everything but wanted to double check Tuesday AM. That's when I would contact Eve.
Right after school on Monday we had a staff meeting in the library. After we took care of the usual BS the director guy, Rusty, shows up and says that if any one had and tech related issues or questions he would be available to answer them.
I go up to Rusty and ask him if he knew about my computer. He said he had heard something about it. I told him what Eve and I did that morning. I then told him everything was working out but I just wanted to know how long it might take to get a new comp once my old one was hauled away. That was all I asked him. There was absolutely no negativity on my end. Rusty says that since he was over on the same side of campus he would come by my room and check it out. I wasn't really sure why he wanted to do that but whatever. I went home right after that.
Tuesday morning I come in and out of habit I hit the spacebar on my keyboard. The comp wakes up. I check the desktop and it's obvious that I've now got a replacement AND all of my files are right there. Sweet.
Eve emails me a few minutes later and says that Dustin replaced my comp and backed up all my files. And that if I needed anything to let her know.
I reply back that everything is great but there were a couple of apps I needed. She takes care of that with remote desktop in less than 30 minutes. Double sweet.
Then this morning I realize that I am not connected to the printer I share with the other teachers in my pod. I email Eve and she takes care of that too. Awesome.
Then at 1:25 today I get this email from her:
I was floored. Now obviously Rusty wanted her gone for some reason. But nothing in the brief conversation I had with Rusty on Monday afternoon could be construed as "complaining". I sent her a reply stating that and that I was actually very happy with how much she had helped me.
But by that time I'm sure she was walking out the door with a cardboard box full of her personals, her tears filling up a Dr. Who or Bazinga! coffee mug.
Of course I have no idea what the hell Rusty actually told her but obviously he gave her the impression that I complained about her. What a #####.
I printed out all of the emails between her and I from the last 3 days and showed them to my principal. He asked me to forward the last one to him and he was going to talk to Rusty.
I didn't do anything else before I left for the day. I'm pretty sure that tomorrow I'm going to try to set up a meet between me, Rusty, and our assistant supernintendo. Rusty better have a damn good explanation for his bush-league bull ####.
tl;dr: Our district tech director fired our tech gofer chick today. She sent me an email blaming me for her firing because I complained to said director about her...which I did not. Director is going to get two punches if he can't explain it.
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RedmondLonghorn
Footballguy
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
Any chance that you made a sarcastic comment that was taken the wrong way? I mean, this is you we're talking about here.
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
Oh and before anyone asks: Eve is a solid -4 on the Offdee scale.
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
for tomorrow's meeting.
fantasycurse42
Footballguy Jr.
You monster!!
Seriously, Rusty is a ####. He wanted her out and he's a huge ######, so he blamed you. I'm sure this is obvious to you.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
GroveDiesel
Footballguy
Yikes. I'm guessing that her not showing up on time didn't just happen to you and her boss was fed up. Maybe he had told her to replace your computer ASAP and when he found out it wasn't he canned her. But crappy to blame you regardless.
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
I actually think he went ahead and replaced my computer as a way of saying "you're not doing your job so I'll have to do it". Yeah, total richard move on his part to totally misrepresent the brief conversation I had with him.
krista4
Footballguy
Sorry they put you in the middle.
They might have bigger issues than just yours if they fired her over some trumped-up BS.
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Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
Captain Quinoa
Footballguy
