/\It seems to be a universal truth that the higher up the ladder you ascend the less oxygen gets to your brain.
That happened at my last job. They updated the inventory check in system over the weekend without bothering to tell anyone. Come Monday morning and you're trying to check in freight and the new software is incompatible with the old operating system. Every store had the same problem. Lost three days while corporate tried remote fixing from their end. It was one of those, "Did anyone think to do a Beta test first before installing it?" situations that left everyone frustrated because you had to either accept the freight without checking it in, or print off a manifest and do it by hand. Either way, it was a tedious process and left the inventory count off.
I finally got it to work! Corporate sent an email several months ago saying the program HAD to be run in Chrome. Otherwise, it would not work. After waiting for ages for someone to get to get back to me on this latest "update", I thought, "I wonder if it will work in Firefox?" It does. Been scoring away since then. My supervisor, however, still can't get it to work in ANY browser. At least I have something to do now.
New neighbor is parking in the fire lane that's clearly marked no parking. Might have to call the HOA on this one. Garbage truck isn't going to be able to get through if they continue to park on the street.
It happened again! I saw a jaywalker run across one lane -- the direction with no vehicles coming -- and then slow down to a casual stroll to cross the lane that had vehicles coming.
*shudders* I do not miss inventory. I also recall my last Black Friday before changing careers when they released the new chip credit card system without stress testing the system first. Suffice to say, that amount of shoppers using a new system caused multiple crashes and outages of authorizations for credit card sales. In other news, I was driving to work with a truck in front of me with holographic stickers. Now, I'm sure they are fun but in the morning sun they constantly flashed red looking like brake lights coming on. So, I would slow down only for it to shift and the sticker to change color to blue...sighs. Long commute.
That's a new one. What's the context they're using it in? Just trying to figure out what they want it to mean.
They're always coming up with weird new expressions. Remember when "dank" meant wet and chilly, and "sick" meant "suffering from illness"?
Alternate way of saying "First of all" used by some non-native English speakers and adapted as internet speak by the youths.
F*ckin' campaign ads. I am so sick and tired of them. Not only on tv and the radio, but now they're interrupting my YouTube and Paramount+ streaming services.
Wiktionary (not exactly an authoritative reference, I know) attributes it to non-native speakers whose own language lacks the b/v distinction. That's understandable. I have relatives who struggle with the V sound for that reason. "Vee" becomes "bwee," for instance. For more formal academic stuff, it seems like spellcheck should catch it. I just tried in Word, and it suggested "First able," "Firs table," or "Fir stable." Maybe it is becoming a frequent enough error that "first of all" should be added as a suggestion. Other errors based on mishearing are already included. For example, if you enter "for all intensive purposes," it flags it for grammar and suggests "intents and" to replace "intensive." Kor
I'm getting campaign texts, and they're only coming from two people that are competing against each other.
They should just ban "astroturfing" and be done with it. Require all campaign ads to say exactly who is funding them. No more sock puppets, front groups, or 'dark money'. Just absolute transparency. All secrets are lies.