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I've kinda said this before, but the worst part about this stuff is that it really doesn't bother me. That sounds bad. It really does.. Because what kind of person isn't bothered by talking to a hysterical mother who just found her 6 month old daughter dead? Then as the medics talked her through stuff she described some things that are a bit graphic and I'm not going to share because it's probably disturbing, but yet I'm not really disturbed by it. I'm totally desensitized to shit like this and if anything THAT is what bothers me. The guy who drowned on the phone with me last year too. That should've bothered me. I heard him die. That's fucked up. But the fact that I didn't really think about it afterwards makes me feel like a terrible person.
This call specifically, I was slightly upset for all of 3 mins till the phone rang and I took the next call about something stupid and trivial and I was back to hating people. It just makes me feel really awful because I feel like it is such an innate human emotion to be upset by these types of things and I'm not.
Don't feel awful. It's the nature of the job - you're trained to be as unemotional as possible. It's sad because it dehumanises the experience and alienates you from a person reaching out to you in the middle of a traumatic, life-changing incident - but it's because there are other people who also need your help (unless they're calling about something stupid and trivial like certain people). You can't focus entirely on helping the next person if you're still thinking about a call from earlier. You really can't afford to think about these things until afterwards. You're doing an important job (and doing it exactly as you're supposed to), but unfortunately, it can also be a very depressing one.
Dave Maynar... you were a dispatcher? Was this before or after architecture? What else don't I know about you? Oh, and can I call you Dispatch Dave from now on? ...no? Well, too bad.
Not dispatch. I worked at a drug rehab. Lots and lots of horrible stories and experiences.
I work with suicide prevention - so I'm with you guys on the front of having jobs that force you to deal with and/or hear about depressing shit all the time. Luckily for me though I am not the one who has to talk directly to the people who are struggling (I say "luckily" because I know that it would definitely start to impact me TOO much, having to deal firsthand with it every day), but still. The topic is devastating.
Considering you've found the need to respond to my threads as if you are threatened by me I offer you some peace my confused counterpart. May you find peace in your restless soul.
In addition to work training, life experiences, etc., people definitely have their own natural reactions to death. My mom realized that she can come to terms with it easier than the average person, so when she retired she started volunteering at a hospice center.
Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.
Post by crazykittensmile on Apr 20, 2015 13:15:52 GMT -5
I hate work more than usual today. My boss emailed me this morning asking if there was a REASON something I was emailed about on Friday afternoon wasn't done yet. On Monday morning. WTF.
There are 15 people who work on my floor and one kitchen. For almost seven years (anniversary is tomorrow actually!), I have bought almost every other dish soap. Last week when the last one I bought was running out, I decided to put my foot down and take a LONG break from buying one. "It's not the money, it's the principle." The soap ran out on Tuesday and still no one has replaced it! I brought in a mini one and am keeping in my desk for personal use. Part of me is ashamed of being stubborn and not just buying another... but really.. 15 people. We only go through 2-3 a year. If each person bought in just one it would last us 5-6 years.
In case you all were just dyyyyiiinnngggg for an update, tomorrow will be 3 weeks since we ran out of dish soap and the kitchen is still soapless! I am not sure if people are doing what I am doing and using a personal stock, or if they're just bringing things home with them?
Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.
I hate work more than usual today. My boss emailed me this morning asking if there was a REASON something I was emailed about on Friday afternoon wasn't done yet. On Monday morning. WTF.
COME ON, GET ON THE BALL, GIRL! WHY AREN'T YOU WORKING ON THE WEEKEND? but really, that's annoying.
I hate work more than usual today. My boss emailed me this morning asking if there was a REASON something I was emailed about on Friday afternoon wasn't done yet. On Monday morning. WTF.
COME ON, GET ON THE BALL, GIRL! WHY AREN'T YOU WORKING ON THE WEEKEND? but really, that's annoying.
Right? I wanted to respond with "Because weekend." But obviously didn't
There are 15 people who work on my floor and one kitchen. For almost seven years (anniversary is tomorrow actually!), I have bought almost every other dish soap. Last week when the last one I bought was running out, I decided to put my foot down and take a LONG break from buying one. "It's not the money, it's the principle." The soap ran out on Tuesday and still no one has replaced it! I brought in a mini one and am keeping in my desk for personal use. Part of me is ashamed of being stubborn and not just buying another... but really.. 15 people. We only go through 2-3 a year. If each person bought in just one it would last us 5-6 years.
In case you all were just dyyyyiiinnngggg for an update, tomorrow will be 3 weeks since we ran out of dish soap and the kitchen is still soapless! I am not sure if people are doing what I am doing and using a personal stock, or if they're just bringing things home with them?
Do you have handsoap in the kitchen? I've seen people use that before. Soap is soap, I guess!
The voicemail on my work phone decided to stop picking up. For god knows how long. I wondered why all of those people that called while I was out on vacation did not leave a message. Really? For real? This place is turning in to Office Space.
In case you all were just dyyyyiiinnngggg for an update, tomorrow will be 3 weeks since we ran out of dish soap and the kitchen is still soapless! I am not sure if people are doing what I am doing and using a personal stock, or if they're just bringing things home with them?
Do you have handsoap in the kitchen? I've seen people use that before. Soap is soap, I guess!
Ahh yeah. There is. And that is provided by the college. I haven't really seen anything in the drying rack either, but plenty of people don't regularly use it to begin with.
Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.
Post by Dave Maynar on Apr 21, 2015 11:17:40 GMT -5
The admins in my office take turns handling the front desk. My admin's shift is Tuesday morning from open until 12:15. At 12:10 today, he was cussing mad because his relief wasn't at the front desk already.
Post by snowmanomura on Apr 21, 2015 12:20:50 GMT -5
It's common practice (and courtesy) to make a new pot of coffee when you take the last of the current one. People have begun leaving just a tiiiiny bit in there, enough to assuage their miniscule guilt, I guess. But not enough for a cup of coffee. It's not even hard, the coffee is premeasurwd and the water comes direct from the wall. Literally, throw a pod in the filter and pish a button. Lazy quacks, I need my fix.
It's common practice (and courtesy) to make a new pot of coffee when you take the last of the current one. People have begun leaving just a tiiiiny bit in there, enough to assuage their miniscule guilt, I guess. But not enough for a cup of coffee. It's not even hard, the coffee is premeasurwd and the water comes direct from the wall. Literally, throw a pod in the filter and pish a button. Lazy quacks, I need my fix.
That's turrible. People do the same thing with the toilet paper rolls here, they'll leave 1 square (or even less, sometimes!) just to avoid changing it out...
It's common practice (and courtesy) to make a new pot of coffee when you take the last of the current one. People have begun leaving just a tiiiiny bit in there, enough to assuage their miniscule guilt, I guess. But not enough for a cup of coffee. It's not even hard, the coffee is premeasurwd and the water comes direct from the wall. Literally, throw a pod in the filter and pish a button. Lazy quacks, I need my fix.
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It's common practice (and courtesy) to make a new pot of coffee when you take the last of the current one. People have begun leaving just a tiiiiny bit in there, enough to assuage their miniscule guilt, I guess. But not enough for a cup of coffee. It's not even hard, the coffee is premeasurwd and the water comes direct from the wall. Literally, throw a pod in the filter and pish a button. Lazy quacks, I need my fix.
That's turrible. People do the same thing with the toilet paper rolls here, they'll leave 1 square (or even less, sometimes!) just to avoid changing it out...
That's turrible. People do the same thing with the toilet paper rolls here, they'll leave 1 square (or even less, sometimes!) just to avoid changing it out...
Changing the water cooler bottle.
I make the boys do that. We have seven of us in the office and only two men. The last time I changed the cooler, I smashed the shit out of my thumb and they wanted to take me to the urgent care it was so bad. I even have a water cooler at home. I make my son change it. Fuck that thing. Sorry, not sorry.
We're lucky, we got rid of water coolers yearrsss ago and have water filtration systems that come from the wall. The water is quite delish and cold, and no one has to change it.
Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.
We're lucky, we got rid of water coolers yearrsss ago and have water filtration systems that come from the wall. The water is quite delish and cold, and no one has to change it.
We had something like that at my office in Carson City. It was mostly great, except that every day around 2:00, people apparently just drained it, so it would run out of water and you'd have to wait forever for it to fill back up. You would think that in that situation, you would still be able to get the room temperature water because it was flowing from the pipes and didn't need to be cooled, but even that water would just come out in a trickle.
Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.
I've never had ours run out. Maybe we don't drink enough water around here? Or maybe we're just way cooler than you.
Well, you're definitely way cooler than us, but that goes beyond water.
I think we had a few people who monopolized it a little bit. I know that my boss would go in and fill up two large sports bottles of water all at once every afternoon. I have no clue how big the reserve tank in ours was, but I imagine that depleted it quite a bit.
Post by thonybones on Apr 21, 2015 14:45:16 GMT -5
Just left my last day working at wildfire and I could not be more happy. Now to celebrate with going to the hawks game tonight. Then start at the casino tomorrow
The facility I work at is on what was once farm land, and is across the street from a farm. There were a couple days two weeks ago where it reeked of cow manure in the afternoon, coming from across the street. Now fly season is back for another year. They seem to congregate in the two places you most don't want to see them either: cafeteria, and the main bathroom.
It's going to be another unpleasant summer, I can already feel it.
Post by crazykittensmile on Apr 23, 2015 10:29:04 GMT -5
I'm so bummed out at work today. Morale is at an all time low with no sign of improving anytime soon. Missing my work BFF sooooooo hard this week. Bleh.
Well, the good work day I had Saturday has gone out the window. This girl I work with coooonstantly bitches like nonstop. Every time someone marks her she bitches. "Wtf asshole! Shut up." "Omg 204 why the fuck are you asking me!!!" It gets so old to listen to. The this other girl's trainee complained that she was too rough on her so she is being switched to me. So now I have to listen to Danielle passive aggressively talk about how she didn't want to train anyways and she doesn't care. Yet she keeps bringing it up.
I'm an hour into my shift. It's gonna be a long night.
My company was really cool for awhile and now it is a sinking ship. Some guy started last Monday and was fired on that Friday morning. So now my boss is interviewing a guy to replace him who is a US Citizen but whose parents are from Iran. His first name starts with the letter A but is a Middle Eastern name. My boss was telling us in the meeting that this guy is starting next Monday and when he interviewed this guy, my boss suggested instead of going by his birth name, that he should go by "Alex" instead and they will make him business cards with his Anglicized name. I'm quitting sometime between now and Thursday so as an employee, I don't really give a shit but as a human, this racist shit still happening and so blatantly really pisses me off.
Can you report that to HR? That's incredibly messed up.
My company was really cool for awhile and now it is a sinking ship. Some guy started last Monday and was fired on that Friday morning. So now my boss is interviewing a guy to replace him who is a US Citizen but whose parents are from Iran. His first name starts with the letter A but is a Middle Eastern name. My boss was telling us in the meeting that this guy is starting next Monday and when he interviewed this guy, my boss suggested instead of going by his birth name, that he should go by "Alex" instead and they will make him business cards with his Anglicized name. I'm quitting sometime between now and Thursday so as an employee, I don't really give a shit but as a human, this racist shit still happening and so blatantly really pisses me off.
I used to work at a mail order pharmacy that was really bad about that. Once when someone was hired from Nigeria and when my supervisor heard her name she told that here your name is going to be Jane. It was a really bad environment there.
I am so annoyed! The backup server isn't working. Our IT is based in India of course. Our headquarters is in Augusta for those that don't know. So basically they are trying to fix the server. They are asking for a local IT person to log onto the server, knowing damn well they are the only IT people we have. I have a shit-ton on my plate, but I have to continuously get up and do shit for them to try to get it fixed. I don't have access to half the shit they want me to do, and I can't understand the other half of what they are asking. It is pissing me the fuck off and I am stupid busy. /rant sorry