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Post by Auntie Cheesus on Jul 13, 2012 14:43:09 GMT -6
Welcome to the spot to get the random stupid stuff off your chest.
I'll start it off with a quintessential clusterfuck in civic planning: Putting the drivers' license office, the automotive registration/county tax office and the county health department clinic in the same building... where the parking lot holds 50 cars.
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Post by Ed Becker on Jul 14, 2012 3:48:37 GMT -6
I think in carny when I'm drunk. Typing in carny, not so much.
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Post by Auntie Cheesus on Jul 21, 2012 15:11:43 GMT -6
Dammit so much - I found out my nephew lost a friend in the Aurora, CO shootings.
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Post by hobblekitty on Jul 21, 2012 15:20:00 GMT -6
Auntie Cheesus: Dammit so much - I found out my nephew lost a friend in the Aurora, CO shootings.
OH NO! I'm so sorry to hear that!! :-(
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Post by desertgeek on Jul 21, 2012 18:55:18 GMT -6
Dammit so much - I found out my nephew lost a friend in the Aurora, CO shootings. My sympathies to him and all those who lost someone in those shootings. |
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Post by Ed Becker on Jul 22, 2012 2:42:17 GMT -6
Auntie Cheesus: Dammit so much - I found out my nephew lost a friend in the Aurora, CO shootings. Aw crap. Sad to hear this. Nothing but the best to you and him.
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Post by Auntie Cheesus on Jul 23, 2012 14:28:06 GMT -6
Here's one for all you guys that get chewed on because you forget the date of your anniversary:
For the past 7 years, I have remembered the date of my anniversary with my SO WRONG. It wasn't until I asked the kid what day of the week that my SO and I met on that I realized the right date... five minutes ago.
All these years, we had celebrated our anniversary based on the date he'd printed the maps to the spot where we met. Turns out, he'd printed the maps two days before we met.
So, how do I tell him I've been a moron for the last 7 years?
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Post by hobblekitty on Jul 24, 2012 12:55:56 GMT -6
Wow! Facebook disabled Smithy Smiths. Wonder if it was a spam bot thing or I was reported. CONSPIRACY but prolly a fake thing. Shoulda done Tim Smiths You are a damn ban magnet! Prolly pegged your name as fake, but I thought they had relaxed their standards a bit on that. Guess not. I know people who have had problems with their *real* names being pegged as fake on FB before. I have a friend whose last name is Dragon which he couldn't use on FB for the longest time because the systems kept kicking it out as fake. I also have an old friend from high school named Dolan Dolan (yes, first name and last name). I recall him having issues as well with FB. They are strict with that shit. |
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Post by Auntie Cheesus on Jul 24, 2012 13:19:55 GMT -6
Smiths: Wow!
Facebook disabled Smithy Smiths. Wonder if it was a spam bot thing or I was reported.
CONSPIRACY
but prolly a fake thing. Shoulda done Tim Smiths
Yeah, they probably triggered on "Smithy Smiths" as not being a real name. One of my cats had her account pop with "please provide a phone number to verify account", so we just made her a new account. The original account had the name on her adoption papers "Vanna White". We changed her name to "Vanna LaPerna". They still haven't caught on to "Abbey Rhodes" yet.  Vanna LaPerna  Abbey Rhodes (seated next to her opinion of Vanna)
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Post by Auntie Cheesus on Jul 24, 2012 14:20:54 GMT -6
Smiths: in other news, i've spent over 4 hours in a comcast chat to try and get a damn third cable box for the house for no charge.
it's been going that well.
That seriously blows goats for quarters. With Time Warner, it was five minutes on a call and all I had to do was say I was seriously considering switching to Verizon FIOS because they offered whole house DVR service. Suddenly, three free HD boxes with DVRs.
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Post by hobblekitty on Jul 24, 2012 15:06:57 GMT -6
LOL @ "blows goats for quarters". I'm totally stealing that.
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Post by Auntie Cheesus on Jul 24, 2012 15:16:43 GMT -6
Oh, if any fWc member is looking for a place to live because they are transferring to the Dallas-Fort Worth area, let me know. Three houses in my neighborhood are sporting "for rent" signs on the lawns.
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Post by LucklessWonder on Jul 24, 2012 18:16:33 GMT -6
Oh, if any fWc member is looking for a place to live because they are transferring to the Dallas-Fort Worth area, let me know. Three houses in my neighborhood are sporting "for rent" signs on the lawns. If anyone sees anything cheap in the DC Metro area, let me know, I'm about to be kicked out of the house any day now... |
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Post by LucklessWonder on Jul 24, 2012 18:53:38 GMT -6
I'm down in Richmond, but got a buncha job interviews in and around DC (mostly fairfax/falls church, VA but some in Chevy Chase & Bethesda, MD.)
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Post by Ed Becker on Jul 25, 2012 5:17:04 GMT -6
Possible promotion at the radio ranch. Will most probably be me covering disasters, but shit. I got 20 years in, 7 with this company. I know the joint in and out. My weakness: I don't play politics.
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Post by Auntie Cheesus on Jul 25, 2012 13:26:13 GMT -6
Smiths: Ed Becker: Possible promotion at the radio ranch. Will most probably be me covering disasters, but shit. I got 20 years in, 7 with this company. I know the joint in and out. My weakness: I don't play politics.
covering disasters? Like the mexicans?
I was thinking "disasters" as in music festivals and drunken DJs.
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Post by Ed Becker on Jul 26, 2012 3:22:02 GMT -6
Auntie Cheesus: I was thinking "disasters" as in music festivals and drunken DJs.Nah, the only music festival we usually cover is Summerfest, which we do well. As far as drunk jocks, that isn't a problem anymore as radio, even the independent operators are pretty strict on this nowadays as the Feds say the operator (the guy or gal running the board) has to be sober. FCC fines, etc. When I started in '92 it was before deregulation and Clear Channel, etc. I started at a heritage AOR station called WQFM. Back then it was owned by a by a newspaper company from Scranton that also owned fewer than 10 stations. Times/Shamrock still operates the paper there as well as several radio properties. Let me put it this way: In my first year I was producing the morning show. I was 19. I usually never had a problem getting served in bars with other staff, but this one time I got turned down. It was the usual "Drink with Bill" shin-dig when the owner came to town at the bar at the then Holiday Inn across the street from the station in downtown Milwaukee. The next morning after the show I was bringing the prize sheets to the receptionist and whaddya know, there's Bill. Bill's this big Irish guy with a booming voice. He said, "Why the fuck weren't you at the bar last night?" I explained I was 19. He replied, "Well, where the fuck is your fake ID?" And then laughed his ass off and told me to not worry about it. There's a lot that I miss about radio pre-1996. The kids that have come up over the last 15 years have no idea how to cue-up a record or know how to do a segue since everything's on a hard drive and the automation takes care of it even it you're live. I also wouldn't mind going to a small market and actually doing community based radio. /GOML //CSB
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Post by Ed Becker on Jul 26, 2012 3:24:07 GMT -6
Smiths: covering disasters? Like the mexicans? Thank you, Mr. Garrison. lol
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Post by Auntie Cheesus on Jul 26, 2012 5:30:12 GMT -6
Ed Becker: Auntie Cheesus: I was thinking "disasters" as in music festivals and drunken DJs.
Nah, the only music festival we usually cover is Summerfest, which we do well. As far as drunk jocks, that isn't a problem anymore as radio, even the independent operators are pretty strict on this nowadays as the Feds say the operator (the guy or gal running the board) has to be sober. FCC fines, etc.
Yeah, I used to work in the news department at a 1000 watt station in northern California. For my "on-air" shift (Midnight to 6 AM, weekends), it was common for the DJ to make every third cup of coffee he drank an "Irish". I ended up getting fired for figuring out a way to skirt FCC regulations, much to the horror of the station owner: In the wake of the FCC v Pacifica Foundation decision, I had arranged an interview with George Carlin. We had advertised it as "an in-depth look at the law and broadcasting" and we ran the piece from 12:30 AM until 2:30 AM, closing the show with the famous "Seven Words" recording. At shift change, the station owner was sitting at my desk and told me I was fired. All that did was free me up to take the promotion from secretary/plant at Big Time Wrestling to a road agent position, since I was now free on weekends.
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Post by Ed Becker on Jul 27, 2012 3:05:47 GMT -6
Auntie Cheesus: Yeah, I used to work in the news department at a 1000 watt station in northern California. For my "on-air" shift (Midnight to 6 AM, weekends), it was common for the DJ to make every third cup of coffee he drank an "Irish".
Started with weekend overnights too. Got the spot when one of the weekenders went across the street and I was the only one there. On my first airshift (done plenty of board-opping and production) we were scheduled to take the main transmitter offline for tower work and the backup wouldn't fire. Engineer was out of town, the backup who built the studio didn't remember its quirks. I still did the show off of the exciter for the 5 blocks around 6th and Wisconsin in downtown Milwaukee. When the main was back up and I powered down what was running of the backup, I opened the panel on the transmitter that had the "DO NOT OPEN THIS DOOR DURING OPERATION" plaque on it, I opened it and a breaker was tripped. D'oh! Learned one from that. At least it was an overnight in Q1 so there wasn't much inventory that had to be rescheduled. As one who has never been a coffee guy, I drank a lot of Irish Coke. Auntie Cheesus: I ended up getting fired for figuring out a way to skirt FCC regulations, much to the horror of the station owner: In the wake of the FCC v Pacifica Foundation decision, I had arranged an interview with George Carlin. We had advertised it as "an in-depth look at the law and broadcasting" and we ran the piece from 12:30 AM until 2:30 AM, closing the show with the famous "Seven Words" recording. At shift change, the station owner was sitting at my desk and told me I was fired. All that did was free me up to take the promotion from secretary/plant at Big Time Wrestling to a road agent position, since I was now free on weekends. You are awesome. BTW, how brutal was your test for your license? I just had to send $35 to the FCC. Some of the people several years ahead of me bitched about going to the field office in Chicago to take a rather expansive written test for the same Class C radiotelephone operator's license that I just had to pay for.
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Post by Auntie Cheesus on Jul 27, 2012 9:29:49 GMT -6
I recall having to go to the San Francisco FCC field office, paid $25 and had to take a 100 question test. This was back when my work schedule looked like this: Get up at 5 AM, shower and dress. Leave house at 5:30 AM, drive 1 hour north to Sacramento. Arrive at 6:30, grab breakfast and open the office. Open safe, grab the bag with the receipts from the previous night, verify the cash count and do my receivables. Write the checks for the payables. Take the cash to the bank, get breakfast. Get out my big book of exams, start making calls to remind the guys of what they needed to get their asses working on (lab work, work visa renewals, physicals). Make coffee. Hand Roy his coffee as he walked in the door. Get checks signed and into the mail. Take notes on how things would be worked for the next 6 months, contact printer, get posters started. General secretarial until 3:30 Drive back to school for my communications classes on MWF, or labs on TTh. Get home at 10:30 PM. On weekends, I worked 12-6AM on air, did my prep at 11 and would do occasional commercial voice overs. So, you can see why I wasn't too upset to lose the weekend job. |
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Post by Auntie Cheesus on Jul 27, 2012 11:14:31 GMT -6
I got this in email today:
Hi ,
Hope you are doing well !!!
If you feel fit for my current opening " Deskside/Desktop Support Resource " which is based at Wellsville, NY. Please forward me your updated resume along with the best number to reach, so that both of us can help each other out with some good business...
Okay, beyond the fact that this reads like it was copypasta straight out of Google Translate, there's one tiny thing wrong: the job is for a location 1,433 miles from my current residence. Hell, it's 305 miles from the area code on my phone number. It is literally out in the ass end of southwestern NY.
So, for this week I have been offered jobs in NY, GA and OH.
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Post by Ed Becker on Jul 28, 2012 5:06:43 GMT -6
Auntie Cheesus: So, you can see why I wasn't too upset to lose the weekend job. Jesus. Can't say I blame ya. I remember people talking about the 100 question test from the feds. Seems like it lasted into the mid-late 80's as far as I can remember. Maybe this is a launch into a thread of "how you got into the business" for those of us that have been there. Your dayplanner is interesting, to say the least, and a part of the nuts and bolts of the business that isn't well documented elsewhere these days since the territories died out. I find that mundane stuff fascinating. Thank you for sharing.
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Post by desertgeek on Jul 29, 2012 10:48:33 GMT -6
1- My TF is officially expired. I ain't even sad.
2- Got things figured out for me to stream the Olympics on my computer. Fuck, it's awesome. Already jumped between archery, field hockey, whitewater canoeing and a replay of today's rowing this morning.
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Post by Auntie Cheesus on Jul 29, 2012 11:00:40 GMT -6
desertgeek: 1- My TF is officially expired. I ain't even sad.
2- Got things figured out for me to stream the Olympics on my computer. Fuck, it's awesome. Already jumped between archery, field hockey, whitewater canoeing and a replay of today's rowing this morning.
Yeah, I set that up on three systems here. This morning had the women's bicycle road race on the big screen, women's trap shooting on the small screen with 3m synchronized springboard in the mini-window.
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Post by Auntie Cheesus on Jul 30, 2012 6:56:22 GMT -6
Wish me luck, kids. Auntie Cheesus starts a new job this morning.
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Post by hobblekitty on Jul 30, 2012 11:22:45 GMT -6
Auntie Cheesus: Wish me luck, kids. Auntie Cheesus starts a new job this morning.
Good Luck Auntie Cheesus!!
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Post by Auntie Cheesus on Aug 7, 2012 18:26:00 GMT -6
As y'all may have noted, Auntie Cheesus started a new job last week.
Yesterday, crazy old Auntie Cheesus managed to close a $150,000 order.
Difficulty: Auntie Cheesus isn't in sales, she just happened to be on the way to the Coke machine and recognized the client as an old pal.
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Post by hobblekitty on Aug 7, 2012 18:28:30 GMT -6
Auntie Cheesus: As y'all may have noted, Auntie Cheesus started a new job last week.
Yesterday, crazy old Auntie Cheesus managed to close a $150,000 order.
Difficulty: Auntie Cheesus isn't in sales, she just happened to be on the way to the Coke machine and recognized the client as an old pal.
Kismet! Nice! *high five*
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Post by Auntie Cheesus on Aug 7, 2012 20:20:12 GMT -6
Smiths: Auntie Cheesus: As y'all may have noted, Auntie Cheesus started a new job last week.
Yesterday, crazy old Auntie Cheesus managed to close a $150,000 order.
Difficulty: Auntie Cheesus isn't in sales, she just happened to be on the way to the Coke machine and recognized the client as an old pal.
where's my cut?
You get your cut right after the damn sales weasel pays me MY cut.
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