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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

An LW dinner report, brought to you by that famous restaurant known around the world, Sam & Ella's (by no means, is there any relationship to this post's author).

One large broiling pan (for the sliced chicken breast/veggie mixture)
One small pot, for the Jasmine rice
7 cubes Chicken Bouillon (5 for the veggies and chicken, 2 for the rice)
3 cups of baby carrots
2 cups of water (for the veggies and chicken)
6 good-length celery, chopped
2 large Vidalia (sweet) onions, halved and sliced
3 large chicken breasts (after cooking, sliced randomly while cooking in the complete mixture)
1 cup sliced mushrooms (I prefer portabella, but, this time, they were just regular ones)
3 cups of water (for the rice...I make a LOT, so it'll last for a three meals refrigerated... c'mon, microwave - chuckle)
1 16 oz. container Sour Cream (added to the veggies and sliced chicken)
Liberal Adobo seasoning
Italian seasoning
White ground pepper, just enough
Cooking time: 45 minutes for the veggies and chicken, 14 minutes for the rice (after letting the rice soak for awhile, to create wonderfully separated (not too sticky) Jasmine rice...

After cooking everything, it all gets thrown together; clean as you go, and the kitchen stays spanky...
I'm a little sore, due to the weather pattern (lots of low pressure, and precipitation in the form of rain). Cold and wet weather makes my spine ache. So, I threw everything together for the next few days... rest, LW, rest... zuben, PattiCakeUS, huh, bjacks12, andruoid, Kaat72, Brian706, everyone... be well. LW
 
I told my scheduling manager that Christmas eve, and Christmas day, I'm not coming into work. If I'm scheduled, I'm not calling, I'm not showing. What do they do, they schedule me today. So, I told 2 managers yesterday that I want off the schedule for today.
I've told 4 managers so far that I won't be coming in.

So, they call me today... I didn't even pick up. I told them straight up. I'm not calling, I'm not showing if they schedule me. That's their fault.
 
sfbloodbrother said:
I told my scheduling manager that Christmas eve, and Christmas day, I'm not coming into work. If I'm scheduled, I'm not calling, I'm not showing. What do they do, they schedule me today. So, I told 2 managers yesterday that I want off the schedule for today.
I've told 4 managers so far that I won't be coming in.

So, they call me today... I didn't even pick up. I told them straight up. I'm not calling, I'm not showing if they schedule me. That's their fault.
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sfbloodbrother, you're indispensable to the upper management at the Mickey D's you work at. Now, it's time to ask for a raise in pay... so, Happy Holidays, bro. Either way you decide, I wish for you all the best. LW :)
 
Christmas Eve. The weather got up to 68° F today, but, a little twister sent the plastic chairs outside flying across the yard. When I took the dogs out, I put the chairs back where they belonged. Gosh... such wet weather. The yard out back has turned into a lake, from the runoff across the street. The neighbors over there don't have an irrigation ditch... and, the guy's alcoholic wife will yell epithets at me from across the street every once in awhile (she knows that I don't drink, and it gets on her nerves).

Christmas Eve. Thank goodness for the Dish network on TV, and my tunes... it's definitely lonely, out here in the willywags. I have no tree, or any material gifts here - though, I'll have a new, more powerful PA/Amp for performing around January 6 - thanks to my cousin and best friend :).

May everyone here have a wonderful Holiday season, and revel in the look you see on your kid's faces tomorrow morning. I'll remember my past Christmas experiences, and keep up the positive vibrations. This is your friend, from the USA, LW :)
 
sfbloodbrother said:
I told my scheduling manager that Christmas eve, and Christmas day, I'm not coming into work. If I'm scheduled, I'm not calling, I'm not showing. What do they do, they schedule me today. So, I told 2 managers yesterday that I want off the schedule for today.
I've told 4 managers so far that I won't be coming in.

So, they call me today... I didn't even pick up. I told them straight up. I'm not calling, I'm not showing if they schedule me. That's their fault.
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I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you done have a job if you no call no show for 2 days...........
Hope it all works out for you. [emoji16]
 
MLSS said:
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you done have a job if you no call no show for 2 days...........
Hope it all works out for you. [emoji16]
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It wasn't as much as a no call no show I told them for maybe a week now that I wasn't going to show up on the holidays. So it's their fault for scheduling me when I told them not to.
 
sfbloodbrother said:
It wasn't as much as a no call no show I told them for maybe a week now that I wasn't going to show up on the holidays. So it's their fault for scheduling me when I told them not to.
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I had an employee tell me that once. So I scheduled him, and when he didn't show up I fired him.
A request off is a request off and nothing more, simply telling your boss you are not gonna work period, is irresponsible and not very professional...........
You have your own circumstances and I don't really want to know what they are. Their are consequences for everything that we do, both the employer and the employee, but I'm sure you already know that.

But hey, why talk about downer stuff during Christmas, so Merry Christmas happy new year and good luck with your employer. I truly hope that it all works out.
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They won't fire me. They do nothing when other people don't show up. But that's not the point.

I told my scheduling manager to not schedule me on Christmas eve and Christmas on Sunday. That was 2 days before the schedule was made. That counts as a "request off" because I told the scheduling manager. But she scheduled me anyway. I don't think it's fair that on a day I requested off I get scheduled. So yeah that pissed me off. I'm not going to call them, and I didn't show up because I already requested off.
 
I put in my time today before the drive into the mountains. Thanks to reckless drivers that last half hour really took it out of me.

So I'm in front of the stove with the dog - the rest of the family is taking the Christmas Eve walking tour of the pueblo and the farolitos.

Well, the silly drivers took my body out of the game but not my spirit. :)

http://beyondtaos.com/blog/luminarias-vs-farolitos-issue/
 
EarlyMon said:
I put in my time today before the drive into the mountains. Thanks to reckless drivers that last half hour really took it out of me.

So I'm in front of the stove with the dog - the rest of the family is taking the Christmas Eve walking tour of the pueblo and the farolitos.

Well, the silly drivers took my body out of the game but not my spirit. :)

http://beyondtaos.com/blog/luminarias-vs-farolitos-issue/
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EarlyMon, may you and your family enjoy NM, and have a Merry Christmas.

Like I've written here before, people who drive nowadays turn their vehicles into their own Sovereign Nation. They don't signal that they're about to make a turn, or, a lane change. Then, you have the speedsters that weave in and out of traffic, passing too closely to the front of your vehicle - without the directionals, once again. On the opposite side of things, you have the brake pedal riders who just confuse anyone behind them. When I lived in South Carolina, people who made right turns slowed to a crawl as they approached, and made the right turn. As if they were in a parade. The older people drove like they were the Commodore on a boat... you could almost envision a huge compass on their dashboards, and the passenger saying "Keep your heading at 15 degrees, Captain."

Taos sounds beautiful. Enjoy your Christmas Holiday with your family - LW
 
A Christmas Rant - by LW

We've had some wet, windy weather over the last three days. Now, our Humane Contain HC-8000 (manufactured by High Tech Pet) electric fence/collar dog control system isn't working. I took the dogs outside earlier, and noticed that there were no lights on at the system's power box, when I turned it on. Then, a guy on a Harley rode by (this is the first Harley that I've seen going down our little dirt road) - pulling in his clutch lever, and blipping the throttle. Laddy, the Border Collie, started running really close to the fence, barking uncontrollably.

Java, the Irish Setter mix, started toward her favorite escape spot in the fence. I called her off, and, all I can say is:

My nerves are frayed. Now, it looks like I'll have to take them out one at a time - on a leash. Ho, ho, ho, and a Merry k*** m* @$$. Just once, when my lady leaves to visit her family in Colorado, could something just go right??

"I've got dem 'ole kosmic Clonazepam blues... ohhh, ye-ea-eah... my problems - dey all come in twos... mmm-hmmm... Lawd have mercy, what I am gonna do..."

If anyone wants to contribute lyrics to this blues tune, feel free. Man, it's only 4:10 pm EST, and I'm mentally and physically exhausted... wish me luck, everyone. Merry Christmas, nonetheless...
LW
 
People who post messages on facebook to their friends/relatives/whatever who are no longer with us, that they miss them/love them/happy birthday/whatever. I doubt they have facebook in heaven so it seems weird to me to put that there for the whole world (basically everyone but the person the post is addressed to) to see.

FYI I have a grandma who's been gone for a few years now, I talk to her every now & then but not in front of other people, because that would be weird :D

Edit: Maybe my rant should just be "facebook" because there's a lot about facebook that bugs me, LOL!
 
No, you aren't weird. I believe that those I lost are in my heart and mind and I need no outward remembrances. Therefore I do not have to post them.
Glad you talk to your Grandma.

I sat Shiva for 3 years for a cat.
 
So apparently my request off for Christmas eve was just a "request" they don't have to give it to me if they don't want to.

But all the managers acted like it didn't happen.
 
That is the general nature of the word 'request'.

Any job is like that. You request time off, if it fits the schedule, they give it to you. If everybody requested the same time off, somebody's not going to get it. Thus, it's just a request.
 
I managed to get through yesterday, lonesome with two dogs, and a non-existent containment perimeter to keep the dogs from escaping, and getting shot by one of my redneck neighbors.

I love Country Folk. Yet, I'm against those crazy rednecks that bait game to hunt them, and my immediate next-door neighbor (who's a part of that 'set') got charged with Animal Cruelty, due to shooting his next-door neighbor's cat last year.

We had to go outside one late night, because he was shooting any animal that got into his yard with a 12-gauge Mossberg, and tell him to stop. He shook his head, and stormed into his house.
He apologized later.

Dig this. According to an unnamed peace officer that I know, the same guy got his next-door neighbor (the owner of the cat) deported back to Mexico. The deported guy's wife packed up, and left. They seemed nice. What a shame.

There needs to be more Love and Mercy on Planet Earth, don't you think? I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas - LW
 
You aren't going to do much with people like that. They are not really secure in their skins and afraid of change and the unknown. Quite a few don't seem to make the connection between cause and effect.

Unless you totally want Big Brother or a true Nanny State, you can't do much about them. The old system of shunning works, and that's up to an individual to shun or not.
 
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