and yes ax, i'm with you on tthe WTF RICK WTF WARREN
not as much as mine, sorryYou don't care about Ashley and her worst Christmas card ever?
good lord. 7:52 am and there's a train coming by. there honestly should be a law about this. anyone trying to come on or off the main road will now be late for work, because a freaking TRAIN is going by during rush hour.
well i mean what's annoying about it is since they're always freight trains, they could run for a minute or 15. and i've seen them just randomly stop before. i know they have to because they haven't been given the go-ahead to keep going or have been told to stop since another train's nearby or something, but i just think it'd be nice if they weren't allowed to go through here between say 7:30-8:00, then 5:00-5:30. just one hour a day isn't bad. why they decided to put a major street running parallel to the only train track i think still in use in this city beats me. it's better when you go east a little more because then the train track isn't right there so you're not necessarily stuck, but right in this area, it's about half a block from the street.Aww, the poor diddumses. :solitary tear:
Hate to think how they'd cope in a city with a real public transport network, where trains run every four minutes each way.
aaaaaaaaand it's 8:03 and the first person in our department finally came in. the other two aren't here yet. since timeliness isn't a big deal apparently, you'd think they wouldn't turn on our phones until maybe 8:15, to give everyone time to get their computers up and running. i mean, we've already got calls holding. why morons call right when someone opens is beyond me, but whatevs.
since we work 8-5 i personally think the phone lines should be open 8:30-4:30, to give everyone time in the morning to get every program up (we have to open tooooooooons of stuff), then in the afternoon to wrap up any loose ends like sending customers a letter or even just finishing reports.
ooh, that's cool. at harrah's we could clock in up to seven minutes early for our shift (that was a company-wide thing, even when i worked in pbx where all you needed to open was as/400 to be able to look at hotel rooms and such) and obviously clock out up to seven minutes early. (since time was calculated in 15 minute interims there was no way i was working even one minute past when i clocked in + the eight hours. i'm not working for free!) that was more than enough time for you to get everything open.I love this idea. I wish AmEx worked similarly. We get 5 minutes at the start of our shift and 5 minutes at the end to get our crap together.
But then, everybody takes 10 minutes or so and logs out for illegal breaks, plus there's times when they put thru a security patch and the whole damn computer just randomly shuts off...and you have to restart it 3 times to get it up and running again cause it's a piece-of-shit Dell, and you're logged out for that...
Actually, it's a wonder any work gets done
ha, oops. i didn't even notice that! should i fix it or leave the title as is to mock her?Also, Bonnie, way to misspell superthread.
i knew i would get such a response from you
it's more wishful thinking than something i think could ever actually be done. i mean, it'd be nice if at least there was a schedule, at least if everyone knew the train came by every morning at 7:52, well if you were late for work as a result of the train then it's poor planning on your part because you knew. but i know if they could run on a schedule, it would.
ultimately, if i were to blame anyone it'd be city planners, for building so much stuff right on top of a major freight line. since the train's never been used for public use (aside from amtrak which i'm sure uses it, but i mean city-wide public transportation of course) there was no need to build everything here. just even one block north would've been perfect. i mean, the train tracks were built well before people really settled in this area so that's definitely to blame, not the trains.
Also, Bonnie, way to misspell superthread.
At ours, you can't even log in 1 second early, or it throws off your schedule adherence metric for the day. Luckily, the only people concerned with this are the ones who do the scheduling. And since they often leave us with only 6 people to take calls after 10 PM, they can fuck off.ooh, that's cool. at harrah's we could clock in up to seven minutes early for our shift (that was a company-wide thing, even when i worked in pbx where all you needed to open was as/400 to be able to look at hotel rooms and such) and obviously clock out up to seven minutes early. (since time was calculated in 15 minute interims there was no way i was working even one minute past when i clocked in + the eight hours. i'm not working for free!) that was more than enough time for you to get everything open.
i clock in here early too so i'm all ready to go. no one's said anything to me about not being allowed to leave early, and even though they count every minute you're here payroll's kind of complicated. you get paid 40 hours a week no matter what, so i'm not sure how they handle overages.
and we had the same problems where i used to work with those stupid security updates. it'd randomly pop up the computer was shutting down. and since they were idiots and ran everything through our computer, even our phone, you could still technically take calls while your computer was off if it was shut down and you didn't log off first. well, when everything freezes you can't. but when you're computer's off or frozen you can't do anything for a customer, unless it's a simple question like "what are your department's hours" or in the case of my last job, "when was this confirmation letter sent out" or something.
it's all craziness.
oh, i agree. for things like that, we shuld foot the bill. the train drivers i assume don't care if they're driving on the ground or on a bridge. here's the thing. the street i take to work also runs parallel. that street is called poplar pike. the main road is poplar avenue. so for me i go poplar pike - side street - poplar avenue. driving on poplar avenue is ridiculous, there's a traffic light every block because it's so popular (hurrr!!) and none of the lights in this city are sychronized - so if you get one red light you get them all. but that's another story.Yeah, I've seriously thought about going into transport planning, I know I'd be good at it, but I think I would get too frustrated by important projects never getting the funding they need.
There is of course a simple solution, grade separation, so that you don't have the level crossings in the first place. The problem here is that grade separation is typically charged to the railway, when in fact it should be charged to the road users. The road users are the ones who have a problem; they are the ones who want an overpass or underpass or whatever. Hence they should pay for its construction. Especially since their road use is SPECTACULARLY subsidised by government to an obscene level. But of course, it never works out that way, and instead the railways end up spending money making life easier for entitlement whore road users, money that could be much better spent on maintenance, newer equipment, etc.
If people had to pay the true cost of driving, 90% of the population would sell their cars tomorrow.
okay
I hadn't even noticed!
I think Khan should keep it until it's pointed out to Bonnie.
good lord, what a crappy system. at harrah's it was calculated every 15 minutes, so if you worked from say 10:45-8:00, you'd have worked 8.25 hours. here it's calculated to the minute, so if you clock in and then right back out, you worked 0.02 hours. lol.At ours, you can't even log in 1 second early, or it throws off your schedule adherence metric for the day. Luckily, the only people concerned with this are the ones who do the scheduling. And since they often leave us with only 6 people to take calls after 10 PM, they can fuck off.
Everything's run through our computers, too. And when one of those patch thingies comes thru, a little window from the scheduling dept. will pop up, saying that if you got the warning that the patch is going thru to log out and reboot. But everyone gets the warnings at the same time...so nearly everyone logs out at once to reboot their computers, which take some coaxing to work after said patch installation and bogs down the entire system for 30 minutes. Those guys are brilliant.