WHAT MADE YOU GRIMACE & GRIT YOUR TEETH TODAY?

Fetch!!!!


Rollover!!!!

"It's all Adam and Eve's fault. Screw Adam and Eve. If they didn't have kids, there would be no dying. No one would be born or die."

From the mouths of babes.....

A young pup at Kinko's tried to tell me that when printing a document using alot of black, banding and white lines running through it is unavoidable. It took everything I had not to flat-out punch him in the head for trying to float that bold-faced lie by me. Especially when I just had two pieces printed there two weeks ago and they came out clean and crisp and beautiful. I was very impressed and my client was too. So much for that.

Is it easier to just lie to a customer than it is to do the job right?

See if you can find the person who did it right...

(signed, Kinko dominatrix)

I know. The older gent I usually transact with wasn't there this afternoon but another woman who was there both with the first job and the second job stood there mute, as if she couldn't attest to anything. I wanted to punch her too. It's shouldn't be about protecting each other or the business but making the customer happy.

After assuring me that it would probably print out the same, the pup agreed to redo it. I suggested that they clean the print heads. duh? The job is supposed to be ready tomorrow. If it prints out the same, I'm gonna pitch a boogie.

Grrrr! My husband just called to tell me his schedule has been changed beginning next week -- steady nights! And we've already arranged for visiting before and at Christmas (some out of town) around his current schedule. Grrr!

for several days, tried everything to access my wife's hotmail account. deleted temporary internet files & cookies, tried explorer & firefox, tried msn.com, hotmail.com, mail.live.com, rebooted the machine, no dice. no help from google (shucks) or microsoft's web pages (surprise, surprise), either. about only thing i haven't tried is the *solution* posted at a site that requires you to subscribe for 1 month to get their advice, although supposedly you can cancel at no charge. i'm not yet desperate enough to give out my credit card info.

regardless of what i do, after i enter her password, the browser goes into a long wait before it times out.

yitwail, have you tried using a different computer? At the library or wherever?

Sorry you're having troubles, at any rate. And please tell Mrs. Yitwail hello from me.

No hotmail advice from me, but sympathy. Also to Tai Chi and hub....

did try a different computer, and it works, but nearest library's a 30 min. drive away. and it's not only hotmail not working, my.yahoo.com, which i normally use as a home page, doesn't work either. in addition to what i mentioned earlier, also installed & ran Microsoft Defender, which supposedly detects spyware. will pass on hello to Mrs. Yw.

Tai Chi, that really sucks. I'll keep my fingers crossed that his schedule will miraculously change again to accommodate you two. There's nothing he can do?

Thanks for the sympathetic ear(s) osso and eoe. The news did improve somewhat. After the union rep got on the phone to management a compromise was reached -- hubby still going on night shift but day off schedule not to change until the new year. At that point all bets are off for everybody re: shifts as they try to accommodate three lay-offs (and more to come in future). It's not a very happy place right now.

Better, but eek!

I bought a second hand watch off Ebay, that just arrived.

As it is, it's way too small. Came with one extra link, but that's not going to be enough. So either I'm missing something in terms of clasping it, or he didn't give all the links.

Positive outlook...will take it to a watch shop.

Okay, I've had about enough of this writer's strike!

George Bush coming to town today so ALL major roads will be closed all day, we are effectively under house arrest. Not a beach day either. What a palaver, if they just stuck him in a taxi nobody would even notice him.

Back in the day when I had a cab, I would have been very happy to take him for a ride

Okay Montana. here we go...
A little backstory:

My business partner and our team is working on a project for our usual client but, for the first time, she is acting as a writer only and not as the marketing consultant, as she usually does. I asked in the very beginning if she would have an issue working for another consultant and she assured me that she wouldn't. But I knew better.

She called this morning perturbed because copy she's written has been rejected by the consultant. Her copy is much more exciting and dramatic than the consultant's suggestions, no doubt about that. I always say that she's a pain in the ass but she's the best at what she does.

What she has asked me to do is work up the cover of our proposed brochure, using her headlines, to present. Now, if she wanted only to present to the consultant, that would be one thing but she intends to email it not only to the consultant but the VP of marketing AND the president and owner of the company as well. And that's the rub for me.

Doesn't it sound like she's backdooring the consultant? Or kicking her legs out from under her? If the VP and Prez prefer her copy over the consultants', which she is banking on, wouldn't the consultant have every right to be plenty pissed off, not so much about the copy but how my partner went about presenting it? To me, it's just underhanded. And now I'm in it. I told her I would work up a cover only if everyone understood that it was a work-in-progress.

All I know is, if the shoe was on the other foot and someone pulled something like this on her, someone supposedly working for her, she'd be screaming about that from now until Christmas.

grrr.....
or should i get off of my high horse?

A brand new reason to grit!

I opened my voluminous bag on arriving at my friend's place today ... only to discover that the full bottle of water in there had not been securely screwed on. Yep, it drenched the entire contents of the bag. Including my mobile phone, which is now not working (of course!), dismantled & hanging out to dry - possibly dead. And my favourite (thoroughly soaked) bag is now hanging, inside out, drying out ( I hope!) in the breeze. AND a whole lot of stuff that was in it has now been thrown out.

Ahhhhhh, such is life!

Yep. That's pretty sucky, alright. But who slipped the water only halfway closed into your bag? What noodlehead did such a thing?