1. I just had 4 days off to go hiking and now I'm back at work and it sucks.
2. My legs are sunburned and I have to wear pants at work.
3. Just as I was typing #2 I overheard a coworker say, "What's a kilobyte?... There's no such thing as kiloBYTE, there's only a kiloGRAM. What is this, England?!" How stupid are you? First of all, kilo means 'a group of one thousand' - it applies to anything, not just metric measurements. I could have one thousand gallons and it would technically be a 'kilogallon'. Secondly, England traditionally doesn't use the metric system any more than the US. Hence their money is in 'pounds'. Thirdly, the US officially adopted the metric system in 1866, but since Americans are stupid and they oppose anything viewed as 'foreign', the average person hasn't readily accepted it, but it is used for anything official in the US. Look it up, a foot is measured officially as 0.3048 meter. Fuckin' idiot.
4. I had a customer bitching about a sales tax concern with his truck. He said, "Everybody pays sales tax!" Um, no. Actually 5 states don't pay sales tax: Montana, Alaska, Delaware, New Hampshire, and my home - Oregon. And probably Oregon is the only one where you truly don't pay sales tax because the others have municipally imposed sales taxes for certain items and services in most areas.
5. I had a customer asking to repurchase his truck. He works in his local school district and he used the comparison of a child not getting along with his teacher. He said that if the two can't get along then you put the child into a different class or a different school. That's a stupid idea. How about this: it's a school and he's the kid so he should be learning something about how to put up with people. School isn't just to teach academics, it's to teach people how to be responsible citizens as well. If everytime a kid whines and complains about something and they get their way, they will learn to expect that and act the same as an adult. Kids should be forced to 'suffer' in uncomfortable situations. How else are they supposed to learn anything? Stop coddling your children.
6. It's too hot to go outside.
7. I'm fed up with this - whenever I give a customer the address to a GM division, the zip code is 48232. Only ONCE... EVER... have I had a customer get it right the first time. It's possible at first that I wasn't speaking clearly enough, or sometimes it's a poor connection, but not any more. It's happened so often there's no fucking way I'm not clear enough now. I say it very loud, clear, and slow, and they still don't get it right. 75% of the time they repeat it back to me as 48...323? Can't you fuckin' people listen? 24% of the time they say either 48223 or 48332 - both wrong. 0.99% of the time people say something else stupid and 0.01% of the time they get it right with a margin of error of 0.01%, so basically nobody gets it correct. They use the same numbers, just not the right combination which makes no sense. If it's the same numbers then it's no more difficult or easy to get it right than it is to fuck it up. So this just means that people don't listen. Surprised?
2. My legs are sunburned and I have to wear pants at work.
3. Just as I was typing #2 I overheard a coworker say, "What's a kilobyte?... There's no such thing as kiloBYTE, there's only a kiloGRAM. What is this, England?!" How stupid are you? First of all, kilo means 'a group of one thousand' - it applies to anything, not just metric measurements. I could have one thousand gallons and it would technically be a 'kilogallon'. Secondly, England traditionally doesn't use the metric system any more than the US. Hence their money is in 'pounds'. Thirdly, the US officially adopted the metric system in 1866, but since Americans are stupid and they oppose anything viewed as 'foreign', the average person hasn't readily accepted it, but it is used for anything official in the US. Look it up, a foot is measured officially as 0.3048 meter. Fuckin' idiot.
4. I had a customer bitching about a sales tax concern with his truck. He said, "Everybody pays sales tax!" Um, no. Actually 5 states don't pay sales tax: Montana, Alaska, Delaware, New Hampshire, and my home - Oregon. And probably Oregon is the only one where you truly don't pay sales tax because the others have municipally imposed sales taxes for certain items and services in most areas.
5. I had a customer asking to repurchase his truck. He works in his local school district and he used the comparison of a child not getting along with his teacher. He said that if the two can't get along then you put the child into a different class or a different school. That's a stupid idea. How about this: it's a school and he's the kid so he should be learning something about how to put up with people. School isn't just to teach academics, it's to teach people how to be responsible citizens as well. If everytime a kid whines and complains about something and they get their way, they will learn to expect that and act the same as an adult. Kids should be forced to 'suffer' in uncomfortable situations. How else are they supposed to learn anything? Stop coddling your children.
6. It's too hot to go outside.
7. I'm fed up with this - whenever I give a customer the address to a GM division, the zip code is 48232. Only ONCE... EVER... have I had a customer get it right the first time. It's possible at first that I wasn't speaking clearly enough, or sometimes it's a poor connection, but not any more. It's happened so often there's no fucking way I'm not clear enough now. I say it very loud, clear, and slow, and they still don't get it right. 75% of the time they repeat it back to me as 48...323? Can't you fuckin' people listen? 24% of the time they say either 48223 or 48332 - both wrong. 0.99% of the time people say something else stupid and 0.01% of the time they get it right with a margin of error of 0.01%, so basically nobody gets it correct. They use the same numbers, just not the right combination which makes no sense. If it's the same numbers then it's no more difficult or easy to get it right than it is to fuck it up. So this just means that people don't listen. Surprised?
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