Just one of those things that you notice over the course of having to live in apartments.
Anyone who has lived in an apartment, at least in Florida, will have noticed this.
Most kitchens have some kind of over-head hood with a ventilation fan over their stove. Now in a house, they usually install this over-head hood ventilation so that it actually serves a purpose, but in an apartment it is not usually the case. In a house you find the ventilation actually draws the grease fumes/vapors up a vent that runs to the roof and expels them from the inside of the house to the outdoors. That is the ideal design and actually is the purpose of the ventilation unit's existence. In an apartment, though, it's as if the ventilation unit is only there for aesthetics, because all the units in the apartments merely draw up the grease fumes/vapors and then simply re-disperses them back in to the room, only just over your head. I fail to see the point.
Do they think we are so feeble minded so as to think they are kidding us? Are we so stupid that we don't realize that the grease is just being pumped right back out at us?
I'm only grousing about this because I just cannot stand a the smell and vile noxious air of a grease filled room because of the use of a deep fryer with no means to vent it. Gag!! And that is what is going one right now, so the windows and doors are open with the ceiling fan on to try to vent the place out in 40 degree weather. Nice.
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
The addendumizer
Do you have someone you know that does this in conversation?
A person who, while in a conversation with others, contributes their part to the conversation making their point and then when someone else contributes to make their point that person almost always feels the need to attach an addendum to the other persons statement. An addendumizer.
I have someone that I know who does this to me all the time and it is so frustrating. Not just because it is as if they are someone who is trying to have the last word every time, but because, although they probably believe they are "laser-focusing" my own point, they are usually in fact giving my statement's actual point an inflection, or skewing the statements meaning onto a tangent which, in fact, I was not attempting to make. It's as if they have nullified your point. You have a particular take on something and you express it precisely as you have intended only to have this boob, who doesn't actually follow your point, steer it back to the point they just made as if you are in total agreement with their take on the subject. So, you can never seem to make your point because they won't let you make your point and just let it rest.
I think these are the little things in life that explain the proliferation of liquor stores.
A person who, while in a conversation with others, contributes their part to the conversation making their point and then when someone else contributes to make their point that person almost always feels the need to attach an addendum to the other persons statement. An addendumizer.
I have someone that I know who does this to me all the time and it is so frustrating. Not just because it is as if they are someone who is trying to have the last word every time, but because, although they probably believe they are "laser-focusing" my own point, they are usually in fact giving my statement's actual point an inflection, or skewing the statements meaning onto a tangent which, in fact, I was not attempting to make. It's as if they have nullified your point. You have a particular take on something and you express it precisely as you have intended only to have this boob, who doesn't actually follow your point, steer it back to the point they just made as if you are in total agreement with their take on the subject. So, you can never seem to make your point because they won't let you make your point and just let it rest.
I think these are the little things in life that explain the proliferation of liquor stores.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Inherent limitations of an employer
I've been spending some time trying to do some house cleaning between interruptions. One of those interruption being a phone call. After stewing over the phone call during my house cleaning I've approached a point where I have a necessary pause during which I can take a break and decided I needed to write a little declaration.
Staffing agencies, employers and the like. LISTEN UP!
Just as the rest of the people and citizens in this country we call the United States of America, you reside and operate here by the grace of GOD. You are not special, and you are not privileged to special authority over others.
When a person is employed via a staffing agency or directly and the like there are contracts. Within these contract there is a tendency for the employing party to reach beyond there authority in attempting to declare restrictions on the party they are hiring. Such as the unmitigated audacity to tell the would be employee with whom they may or may not speak or what they may or may not say.
Again HEAR THIS employers!!! Let me make this clear again! You exist in this United States of America to operate only by the grace of GOD. Within this United States of America we have something called the Constitution and something call The Bill of Rights which is an extension of the Constitution. I don't mind breaking it to you but your little contracts do not supersede the Constitution or the Bill of Rights! You can write what you want, you can say what you want, but you cannot alienate individuals from their inalienable rights no matter how much you would like to, no matter how much you point to your contracts with unconstitutional declarations, no matter how much it makes you feel good, and no matter how hard you try. This is all by the simple fact that you exist and operate in the United States of America. Live with it!, Deal with it! OR GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR COUNTRY and go somewhere else where you can exist to your fascist hearts content!
Perhaps you have begun to notice, we don't play fascist here anymore!
Staffing agencies, employers and the like. LISTEN UP!
Just as the rest of the people and citizens in this country we call the United States of America, you reside and operate here by the grace of GOD. You are not special, and you are not privileged to special authority over others.
When a person is employed via a staffing agency or directly and the like there are contracts. Within these contract there is a tendency for the employing party to reach beyond there authority in attempting to declare restrictions on the party they are hiring. Such as the unmitigated audacity to tell the would be employee with whom they may or may not speak or what they may or may not say.
Again HEAR THIS employers!!! Let me make this clear again! You exist in this United States of America to operate only by the grace of GOD. Within this United States of America we have something called the Constitution and something call The Bill of Rights which is an extension of the Constitution. I don't mind breaking it to you but your little contracts do not supersede the Constitution or the Bill of Rights! You can write what you want, you can say what you want, but you cannot alienate individuals from their inalienable rights no matter how much you would like to, no matter how much you point to your contracts with unconstitutional declarations, no matter how much it makes you feel good, and no matter how hard you try. This is all by the simple fact that you exist and operate in the United States of America. Live with it!, Deal with it! OR GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR COUNTRY and go somewhere else where you can exist to your fascist hearts content!
Perhaps you have begun to notice, we don't play fascist here anymore!
Friday, July 26, 2013
Respect of space and time.
I'm sure some will say this is petty but sometimes the little things are the things that make lasting impressions.
It's a little thing but it annoys the living bat-snot out of me.
Why is it that members of a household can be minding their own business all morning and afternoon. Reading a magazine, doing a crossword, a puzzle or some other such activity. They are there content and occupied. Then the moment you go into the kitchen to get something to eat they suddenly have to jump up and be involved in the kitchen at that very same time. They come in causing you to have to compete to finish what you are trying to do. Whether you are in the middle of making your meal or trying to eat it, they suddenly have to pick that very time to mill about, clean, do dishes, etc. They had all the time before but they have to pick the time you come out to do something for yourself.
It would be one thing if it was an occasional coincidence, but when it is every freaking time then they have to be doing it for no other reason than to grate at your nerves. I will never understand what possesses a person to take pleasure in intentionally and proactively attempting to create displeasure for another person. There is nothing tangible or of substance to be achieved from it. It can only accomplish satisfying someone's sick personal pleasure of annoying someone. There is something to be said for living in solitude and the peace that comes from such a life.
Grrrrr!
It's a little thing but it annoys the living bat-snot out of me.
Why is it that members of a household can be minding their own business all morning and afternoon. Reading a magazine, doing a crossword, a puzzle or some other such activity. They are there content and occupied. Then the moment you go into the kitchen to get something to eat they suddenly have to jump up and be involved in the kitchen at that very same time. They come in causing you to have to compete to finish what you are trying to do. Whether you are in the middle of making your meal or trying to eat it, they suddenly have to pick that very time to mill about, clean, do dishes, etc. They had all the time before but they have to pick the time you come out to do something for yourself.
It would be one thing if it was an occasional coincidence, but when it is every freaking time then they have to be doing it for no other reason than to grate at your nerves. I will never understand what possesses a person to take pleasure in intentionally and proactively attempting to create displeasure for another person. There is nothing tangible or of substance to be achieved from it. It can only accomplish satisfying someone's sick personal pleasure of annoying someone. There is something to be said for living in solitude and the peace that comes from such a life.
Grrrrr!
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Been Working Again
Well, I've been working again for about a month and a half now. I am grateful for that fact and doing my best as I ply the trade of my employer.
It's not really my usual line of work, but I suppose it is related to the same field to a minuscule degree. I normally work as an electronic bench technician troubleshooting down to component level. The position I am working on this job is that of a field service technician. The bench technician work is definitely more pressured, challenging and requiring of skills in the field of electronics using scopes, meters, waveform monitors and actual schematics, while the field service position is relatively easy. Actually it's more like child's play, about repeating procedural tasks and occasionally facing an irate store manager with more immaturity than competence.
The good thing is that I rather like to travel so that takes some of the tedium down a bit, but in the short amount of time I have had in this job I am quickly reminded of the basis for my own quote on life. Which is, "Life is not difficult. People make life difficult". It so aptly applies to the work place in that you can have a job that is easy, but your co-workers, managers, or other people with which you are forced to interact can unnecessarily make that easy job a horrendous chore.
In my own recent experiences it has been in the form of omitted information for doing my work, bad information for doing my work, and/or wrong information for doing my work. There is an old saying that exists in the world of computers. It's usually brought up in regard to data manipulation in the context of databases or spreadsheets, but it applies to more than just these things or computers. It can apply to any situation where information is critical. The saying is, "Garbage in = Garbage out." If you put bad or wrong information into a database or spreadsheet, then the results you get after the data has been processed will be bad or wrong.
In the course of this job, I and my fellow technicians have been given erroneous information. In the course of my work I have no choice but to trust those who have given me the information and that the information is correct. But obviously this has resulted in work that was not performed as it should have been. Likewise, in the area of scheduling. I have arrived at and worked at locations that I should not have because, well, simply because they were listed on my assigned schedule when they should not have been. Now I understand we are only human and humans make mistakes. This is, however, work and a lot of people's time and money are on the line including the company's. Even at that, I can still remain of an understanding mind. The problem I have is when these people make these mistakes and proceed to attempt to cover their tracks while throwing you under the bus in order to cause you to take the heat while saving their own face. Now it is also infuriating when the very people or person that has done this and put you in this position is the very person to chastise you for the results they fostered by their own actions. That is a thing for which I have no patience or tolerance.
So, I'm back at work and grateful as I said. But it sure doesn't take long to be reminded of how a company can have those annoying little weak links in their chain, ready to sell you down the river.
I'll keep plugging on though. After all, it's only a six month contract and then I'll be out looking again.
It's not really my usual line of work, but I suppose it is related to the same field to a minuscule degree. I normally work as an electronic bench technician troubleshooting down to component level. The position I am working on this job is that of a field service technician. The bench technician work is definitely more pressured, challenging and requiring of skills in the field of electronics using scopes, meters, waveform monitors and actual schematics, while the field service position is relatively easy. Actually it's more like child's play, about repeating procedural tasks and occasionally facing an irate store manager with more immaturity than competence.
The good thing is that I rather like to travel so that takes some of the tedium down a bit, but in the short amount of time I have had in this job I am quickly reminded of the basis for my own quote on life. Which is, "Life is not difficult. People make life difficult". It so aptly applies to the work place in that you can have a job that is easy, but your co-workers, managers, or other people with which you are forced to interact can unnecessarily make that easy job a horrendous chore.
In my own recent experiences it has been in the form of omitted information for doing my work, bad information for doing my work, and/or wrong information for doing my work. There is an old saying that exists in the world of computers. It's usually brought up in regard to data manipulation in the context of databases or spreadsheets, but it applies to more than just these things or computers. It can apply to any situation where information is critical. The saying is, "Garbage in = Garbage out." If you put bad or wrong information into a database or spreadsheet, then the results you get after the data has been processed will be bad or wrong.
In the course of this job, I and my fellow technicians have been given erroneous information. In the course of my work I have no choice but to trust those who have given me the information and that the information is correct. But obviously this has resulted in work that was not performed as it should have been. Likewise, in the area of scheduling. I have arrived at and worked at locations that I should not have because, well, simply because they were listed on my assigned schedule when they should not have been. Now I understand we are only human and humans make mistakes. This is, however, work and a lot of people's time and money are on the line including the company's. Even at that, I can still remain of an understanding mind. The problem I have is when these people make these mistakes and proceed to attempt to cover their tracks while throwing you under the bus in order to cause you to take the heat while saving their own face. Now it is also infuriating when the very people or person that has done this and put you in this position is the very person to chastise you for the results they fostered by their own actions. That is a thing for which I have no patience or tolerance.
So, I'm back at work and grateful as I said. But it sure doesn't take long to be reminded of how a company can have those annoying little weak links in their chain, ready to sell you down the river.
I'll keep plugging on though. After all, it's only a six month contract and then I'll be out looking again.
Friday, February 1, 2013
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