DIS Dads The Official DisDads Rant Thread

[middlepat]

Captain,

Here's an idea, you can pair a pre-emptive strike with an offer to partner. Say something to the effect of "instead of waiting until Christmas, let's work on this sooner so the railing will be there for you sooner. Here are some styles that I think would work with our decor, which one do you like?"

So long as you don't let them order off the menu you get to to provide the options.

 

[AirGoofy]

My rant today. I'm 135 miles away from my children on Father's Day. And, just like other companies, there are a bunch of other Beverlys who don't do any work and get paid more than I do. I've looked for other jobs, but this ain't the best time and I live in a town of 55,000 people, so there's not a lot of competition. I just have to remember the other benefits.

 

[jmwest]

Aarghh!!! Those peanut butterin beverly ticket websites can kiss my.....

DW and I were trying to get tickets for Paul McCartney at Wrigley Field. DW got through on the website and landed on the field 22 rows back seats. Then the rush to fill out all your info within 3 minutes happens. She gets it all in and it gets hung up and then times out

No concert for us.

 

[Emma's Dad]

WHY?!? Why do I have to take time out of MY day to wait for a cable tv guy to show up at my house to install a stupid CABLECARD! I have to pay them $30 for a 2 minutes job... and wait around 2 hours to do it. They don't even have the option for the self install any more. Apparently too many people find it too difficult to remember to write down the required information first.

 

[AJRitz]

WHY?!? Why do I have to take time out of MY day to wait for a cable tv guy to show up at my house to install a stupid CABLECARD! I have to pay them $30 for a 2 minutes job... and wait around 2 hours to do it. They don't even have the option for the self install any more. Apparently too many people find it too difficult to remember to write down the required information first.

No, they have to do a truck roll so that their clueless installers can learn how to install cable cards. You will likely have to explain to the installer how to install the card and what to do after the card is installed. Make sure, before the installer leaves, that you can tune in all of the channels you're supposed to be getting (digital cable package channels are notorious for not being tuneable initially).

And you get the privilege of paying to be his teacher.

 

[AirGoofy]

WHY?!? Why do I have to take time out of MY day to wait for a cable tv guy to show up at my house to install a stupid CABLECARD! I have to pay them $30 for a 2 minutes job... and wait around 2 hours to do it. They don't even have the option for the self install any more. Apparently too many people find it too difficult to remember to write down the required information first.

I thought you were going to rant about creating a new thread.

 

[afwdwfan]

Have you ever just screamed the F-Bomb out loud at work?

I just did... it feels really good, actually. The boss is gone, our grain grader is gone, so I'm pulling triple duty. That's not the bad part though, we are getting in a lot of wheat that was harvested over the weekend and every load has to have a sample pulled and various tests done. We have a machine that gives us a test weight and moisture number, but it is away for repairsand the loaner they sent us is junk so we are down to using an old machine that just gives us moisture and we have to get test weight by measuring and weighing... just a longer process with more steps. We sent our machine out a month ago to get it calibrated and ready so that we'd have it in time for wheat harvest. We called them daily last week asking about it. Even though it was junk, I guess their thought was that they'd sent a loaner, so they never got in a hurry. Last Friday when the loaner finally quit completely, we called and asked them to make sure they get ours done and overnight it so we'd have it this morning. We were told to expect it by 10 am. At 12 pm, I called them and asked about it. The response, "yeah, we missed the UPS shipment on Friday. It is sitting here ready to go out today." PEANUT BUTTER & BEVERLY!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[trennr]

So your working on project X in your own cube with a co-worker X. Co-worker is the lead engineer on project X.

While I'm trying to replace a part on a Circuit Board...co-worker start eating his apple. He's a noisy little Beverly....and hearing people eat is a real peeve of mine...except...he's my senior...I'm stuck...I want to explode and tell him to eat his peanut butterin beverly apple in his own peanut butterin cube.

Noisey Apple Eating drives me

 

[dvczerfs]

So your working on project X in your own cube with a co-worker X. Co-worker is the lead engineer on project X.

While I'm trying to replace a part on a Circuit Board...co-worker start eating his apple. He's a noisy little Beverly....and hearing people eat is a real peeve of mine...except...he's my senior...I'm stuck...I want to explode and tell him to eat his peanut butterin beverly apple in his own peanut butterin cube.

Noisey Apple Eating drives me

oh we have the same peeve here in our house!! my mil can get chompin and smackin away at times.tammy will ask her, "mom, is that good?" and it stops. or another one we use is " hows that steak!!"

 

[Mrmrezg]

So your working on project X in your own cube with a co-worker X. Co-worker is the lead engineer on project X.

While I'm trying to replace a part on a Circuit Board...co-worker start eating his apple. He's a noisy little Beverly....and hearing people eat is a real peeve of mine...except...he's my senior...I'm stuck...I want to explode and tell him to eat his peanut butterin beverly apple in his own peanut butterin cube.

Noisey Apple Eating drives me

My son was eating a sandwich yesterday, smacking away, right in my ear. So, I told him, "that sounds like a good sandwich, go fix one for me". Solved two problems, his noise and my hunger.

 

[afwdwfan]

So your working on project X in your own cube with a co-worker X. Co-worker is the lead engineer on project X.

While I'm trying to replace a part on a Circuit Board...co-worker start eating his apple. He's a noisy little Beverly....and hearing people eat is a real peeve of mine...except...he's my senior...I'm stuck...I want to explode and tell him to eat his peanut butterin beverly apple in his own peanut butterin cube.

Noisey Apple Eating drives me

Understand completely. My mom chews gum louder than I ever thought humanly possible. One of my all time worst Disney memories was being stuck in the car driving to Florida while she was chewing gum.

Just to give you an idea how bad it was headphones turned up all the way and my head buried between 2 pillows couldn't muffle the sound. I still have nightmares about it.

 

[jason4024]

My son was eating a sandwich yesterday, smacking away, right in my ear. So, I told him, "that sounds like a good sandwich, go fix one for me". Solved two problems, his noise and my hunger.

Both my in-laws do this same thing. I occasionally catch my wife also. The DW gets the looks and knows exactly what I am bothered with. Since my lap band surgery, I just pull the "not feeling good" and wait until everyone is done eating when we are at the in-laws house.

 

[dvczerfs]

My son was eating a sandwich yesterday, smacking away, right in my ear. So, I told him, "that sounds like a good sandwich, go fix one for me". Solved two problems, his noise and my hunger.

 

[wasnotafan]

Compressor on the heat pump went out. No choice but to replace it because it is on the house we couldn't sell when we moved (AKA the vacation house). So now even if SWMBO agrees to put the house back on the market we can't until we get this fixed.

 

[scott2997]

So I'm having a fence installed on the back property line. Have had the material at the house since the middle of June. Hired the "fence guy" who has done most of the fences in the neighborhood. He said he'd do it after he did one of my neighbors places....no problem.

We went on vacation and come back home and I give him a call. He says - did you call the "call before you dig" people? Nope...have to wait another 2 days before they show up before he can do anything. No problem, we can wait 2 more days.

So Tuesday I sign his contract and give him his 50% down deposit. He says "we'll get started Thursday morning and have it done by Friday". Great!

Well I call him this morning to let him know that my wife is home if he needs anything. Then he calls me back and leaves me a message "Well my cousin is up from Texas and I was hoping I could have today off and start tomorrow and finish Saturday"

The problem is, my wife had already re-arranged her schedule to be home today so she could allow him access to the material etc...

Bottom line is....if you say you're going to start on Thursday, already knowing your cousin is in town, you'd better darn well start on Thursday.

It just peanut butter's me off!

 

[afwdwfan]

If I can make it through today without knocking somebody the peanut butter out, it may be one of my greatest feats of self restraint ever.

 

[AJRitz]

So, you all remember that flat tire I had in the airport parking lot when I got back from Colorado last week? I got my new tires put on the car on Wednesday (btw, tirerack.com is AWESOME. I spent less money with them for better tires than I would have spent buying tires locally - even with the shipping cost figured in. I ordered the tires the the Friday before the 4th of July holiday weekend and they were delivered without any expedited shipping or processing charges by July 6, two days after the holiday).

Since I was putting four new tires on, I told them to go ahead and do an alignment too. Well, I saved a bit of money, since the alignment didn't get done. The mechanic brought me out and showed me that I have a number of suspension parts with too much play in them to do an alignment. So instead of four brand new tires and a fresh alignment, I have four brand new tires that are going to be wearing strangely due to the suspension issues, while I figure out where I'm coming up with just under $1000 to do all of the suspension work that needs doing.

Sigh.

The timing on this could not possibly be any worse.

BEVERLY!!

 

[afwdwfan]

I have four brand new tires that are going to be wearing strangely due to the suspension issues, while I figure out where I'm coming up with just under $1000 to do all of the suspension work that needs doing.

Do you know what is worn/needs replaced? While suspension is a very important component of a vehicle and it is vitally important that it is done right, it really isn't all that complicated to work on yourself if you have the tools. If you're talking shocks, ball joints, etc, they are typically fairly simple bolt on type replacements.

 

[jmwest]

Oh, so I'm not the only one with tire problems today? I noticed a screw in one of the rear tires this morning so on my lunch hour I went over to a local tire shop to see if I could get it fixed. Turns out there are multiple holes in that tire and the other rear tire is dry rotted. 3 months ago I had put 2 new paws on the car and wasn't planning to do these 2 til later. Now my car has 4 new feet.

PEANUT BUTTERIN BEVERLY!

 

[AJRitz]

Do you know what is worn/needs replaced? While suspension is a very important component of a vehicle and it is vitally important that it is done right, it really isn't all that complicated to work on yourself if you have the tools. If you're talking shocks, ball joints, etc, they are typically fairly simple bolt on type replacements.

Yeah, I'm putting a call in to the kid you did my brakes for me (he's the boyfriend of our favorite babysitter). We'll see if he can handle it. He's quite talented. It's ball joins and tie rods that need replacing. Parts are a big chunk of the cost.