Office Complainers
A couple weeks ago we moved from our suburb office back to our previous downtown office.
The move itself I didn’t mind, the only drawback is paying for parking… other than that I have no problems working downtown as it has some perks like actually walking to lunch, seeing the waterfront, watching bums in the park, whatever… but there are some stubborn coworkers that refuse to accept the fact this is where they will be working for a long time.
These few people honestly have nothing better to do than to find the smallest things to complain about, like:
- how they actually have to walk an entire block from the parking ramp to the office
- my umbrella turned inside out, like it never happened before
- It took me 10 minutes to park my car
- I miss going to the mall to go shopping during lunch
- the printer is too far away
My answers are:
- most of you need the exercise
- buy a real umbrella, not the tiny one that fits in your purse
- learn to park better,faster
- shop online as the mall downtown doesn’t have much to offer
- don’t use the printer, write it out by hand and the exercise won’t hurt
My complaints to them:
- you talk to loud and the cigarettes make your voice even more annoying
- who cares about your boyfriend/girlfriend/transient
- where some quiet shoes, I swear you can strike oil wearing them
- do you job and shut up
- DO NOT USE THE SPEAKER PHONE TO CHECK VOICEMAIL
This topic has been slightly mentioned in one of my previous posts, but it needed some more attention.
Pimp My Drobo!!
Check it out fellas!!!
Drobo now has a Developer Community!
Here are few SDK applications and utilities.
- UPnP/DLNA (available now!)
- iTunes Music Server
- Rsync
- FTP
- Web
- AFP
- Squeeze Center support
- Eye-Fi support
I can’t wait to get one now!!!!!!
SB is 5 years old
As of 4/18/2008 Snowbrain is officially been running for 5 years.
Not much to say, we started with 3 members and got up to and still have 5 members but with everyones lives changing (jobs/kids/hobbies) there is not as much time for blogging for everyone. So I would foresee most the activity this year being mostly from me. Which is fine as I know my other members still check in from time to time and leave comments as needed.
Heres to another year!!
Below are the previous links to celebrate this day:
- 4 Years Old - forgot to blog it last year
- 3 Years Old
- 2 Years Old
- One Year Old
Bacon Cook Book!
Its been a long time since I have posted. I came across this and figured I’d post it for everyone.
2008 Objectives
Since I see a lot of others posting their 2008 goals for the new year I figured I would set some myself.
- Accomplish whatever I set myself out to do
Simple, this way if I PLAN on doing something I will make sure I get it done. No hard feelings, objective complete. This way there is no stress for the year. Sanity is a good thing, no reason to get all worked up if you fail.
2008 will bring more homebrews, hopefully some ALL GRAIN batches as I have done a lot of reading on them and think I have a good handle on what I need to do.
Sound/Smell proof my Cubicle
As I sit here (with headphones on) and still over hear EVERY stupid conversation that goes on throughout the day, I get more annoyed that people are so inconsiderate with their coworkers. This is why I am thinking about sound/smell proofing my cubicle.
Things like:
- Cell phone ringers - turn them on vibrate, thats what the options for
- Conversations - if personal, take them out of the office, I don’t care about what you did last night, or what you are doing tonight
- Scents - perfumes and colognes use them sparsely
- If you leave your cubicle take your phone with you
- Talk in a normal decibel, If I can hear you, your talking to loud
- Stop moaning or making stupid noises as they irritate everyone that surrounds you
- If I can hear you from 30 feet away, your ANNOYING, Shut up!!
So based on a couple of these above issues has really determined me to Sound/Smell proof my cubicle. I don’t know how yet, but something has to be done as I should not be constantly bothered by irritations from my surroundings as they hinder my overall performance on doing my own job.
If anyone has some suggestions, you know how to contact me as I am going CRAZY!!
Some of the above bullets where taken from Cubicle Etiquette 101
Good How About Yourself?
Seeing I work in a office with a customer support agent sitting right next to me one of the most ANNOYING things to hear is the ever infamous…”Good How About Yourself” phrase. Years ago when I was working at a Bike Shop, my old boss would say this all the time and me and my coworker would tease him every time he said it. I guess since I am getting older I get more annoyed by repetitious phrases that seem to cut through me whenever I hear them.. This includes the one I blogged about before “To Be Perfectly Honest“. Of course I wear headphones to drown out as much noise from the outside world as possible, but I do not want to be completely deaf by the time I am 40 so I play them at a reasonable level.
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