Shit rolls down hill Godfry. It's always the same, the little guy pays for the mistake of the "important people". E.g., recently our health unit got into financial difficulties and asked the nurses to work without pay whilst still accepting delivery of carpets and big desks for management offices.
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There you go with them negative waves ... Why can't you say something righteous and beautiful for a change?
I hate JSTOR. I have too many google queries wind up at JSTOR, and I'm not about to pay over 10 dollars for every science article, just to satisfy my curiosity.
And you know what? Those who will suffer through the layoffs attendant to the belt-tightening WILL NOT BE THE SUMBITCHES WHO GOT US TO THIS POINT. No....They being executives of the institution, will continue and will continue to pull down six figure annual incomes, while nurses' aides, student assistants, clerical staff, lab assistants, and other support staff who will get pink slips. The numbnuts who was the university's point man and apologist on this project has been subsequently been promoted to executive vice president. The city engineer who sucked the city into involvement with lies has been terminated at the city and subsequently employed out of state by the private developer behind the whole nightmare, earning six times what he did working for the city.
They will also pull down a gigantic bonus equivalent to several "lesser" employees' annual pay for making the "hard decision" to make other people suffer. Also for which the stockholders will cheer and reward incompetence by improving share values.
No shareholders, no shares. It's a non-profit "public corporation" where the governance is by a board of directors appointed by the governor, with the institutional CEO serving as an ex-officio member. (The institutional CEO is the highest paid public official in the state, making more annual income than the governor.) From my view, the institution is the victim of the city elite who engineered this whole shebang, which includes a high-end, high intensity, urban-renewal project riverside condo development with my institution as a stakeholder in possible development of a second campus. Thanks to a child-diddling former mayor/governor, now a "retired" slick private attorney, the institution was sold a bill of goods, which they extorted the city to buy in on as the subsidy paying risk taker.
All mistakes are on the taxpayer (or premium payer) dime.
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I hate JSTOR. I have too many google queries wind up at JSTOR, and I'm not about to pay over 10 dollars for every science article, just to satisfy my curiosity.
And that is my rant.
I usually end up at Elesevier, purveyors of really expensive textbooks and far too expensive research articles.
You can take those results out of your search. For example, if you want to search for wibble but you don't want any results from urban dictionary, you search for this:
All right, Company. You tried to sell out to private investors, we all got high on money for a while, then the Democrats showed the only ghost of a spine they've demonstrated since taking power and cut the subsidies that your entire retarded business model is based on, the buyers backed out, the stock price plummeted, you pissed and moaned, you tried to strongarm me into writing your stupid astroturf letters to my representatives, you went to court, my stock is worth less than I paid for it (Thanks, Employee Stock Purchase Plan!), the options you've been giving me in lieu of real bonuses are worth less than nothing, I didn't even get any pretend bonus this year, you cut my benefits, you lie to me and tell me shit that is flatly contradicted by what I read in the news, and now you're laying off people that I work with and know? Fuck you, Company. How about you lay off the geniuses who decided to sell the company knowing damn good and well that their subsidies were drying up? How about you fire the CEO who mouthed off to the investors and dropped an F bomb on the earnings call last month? How about you just all go fuck yourselves????
*ahem*
I'm better now, I swear.
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Why is it that every night while I'm brushing my teeth and getting ready for bed (no matter what time that is) that you have to take a stink ass shit while I'm in there? WHY? You're telling me that you couldn't come up a little earlier and stink the place up and then use some air freshener? What the fuck is the problem with having a little courtesy? What? Do you honestly think that your shit stink is a commodity?? That everyone is just dying to get a good wiff of it? Well, let me clue you in, NO ONE WANTS TO SMELL YOUR SHIT. NO. ONE.
And.. speaking of shit, I strategically placed the air freshener within your reach from the toilet so that you'd USE THE FUCKING THING after you're done smelling the place up. So, how 'bouts you USE IT so that I don't gag on the overwhelming smell of your bodily waste when I enter the bathroom?!!
Well, I've asked politely for some consideration on this issue countless times and I've ranted about the lack of your consideration countless times, so you've left me no other alternative than driving my point home the hard way. Not hard on me this time, but hard on you. You get one more chance and then you pay the price. You will be disgusted and you will be pissed, this I can guarantee, but I will not be either. I will be quite pleased.
The above is an actual real life from this morning.
It happens again and I'm going to scoop some dog shit into a bag and place it beside his couch. I just haven't decided at what time of the day to do that yet. Do I want him to wake up to the stench or sit there wondering what the hell that smell is while he's watching the boob tube. Decisions, decisions....
Here's one I've just been moaning at a friend about. It's peaceful, most of the people around bore you to hell, you feel relaxed and slope off for a quiet cigarette and a bit of a walk just being there and composing this incredible thing you'll write if you ever live to be 155.
Then from nowhere "You alright?" "You sure?" WTF business is it of yours? Of course I'm alright - or I was as long as I got away from you.
Some people are so shallow and witless that unless they're constantly making a noise about nothing together they're frightened they might not exist. Or they're just plain bloody nosey - and I feel like giving them one.
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Here's one I've just been moaning at a friend about. It's peaceful, most of the people around bore you to hell, you feel relaxed and slope off for a quiet cigarette and a bit of a walk just being there and composing this incredible thing you'll write if you ever live to be 155.
I thought you said "wank".
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Then from nowhere "You alright?" "You sure?" WTF business is it of yours? Of course I'm alright - or I was as long as I got away from you.
Some people are so shallow and witless that unless they're constantly making a noise about nothing together they're frightened they might not exist. Or they're just plain bloody nosey - and I feel like giving them one.
I third that motion, Ermintrude! To blend some rants together, some people can't seem to imagine having an actual thought or three unless they're taking a shit.
My supervisor has been caught with illicit stuff on his work computer and may be fired. I'll probably find out tomorrow. I fear the end result will be the end of my at work participation at , which will curtail my participation by at least 75%. That's just not right.
On the other hand, if I got fired, it would greatly increase the amount of time I have for . Except for the being broke part, that would be cool.
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I hate JSTOR. I have too many google queries wind up at JSTOR, and I'm not about to pay over 10 dollars for every science article, just to satisfy my curiosity.
And that is my rant.
I usually end up at Elesevier, purveyors of really expensive textbooks and far too expensive research articles.
Bastidges!
For that matter, the whole college textbook thing is extortion in action.
And Elesevier? They deserve multiple trips through Cthluthu's maw. If for no other reason than the serialization of Biochemica et Biophysica Acta. :shakecthluthu:
I just love being told to "stop moaning", even if it is in jest, when you give me the wrong fucking roll out dates and ask me to get two servers ready for "go live" when all you other fuckers are in the foreign offices and I'm on my own in the London office.
Please conveniently forget that I am also doing my normal job along with this fucking roll out project. Oh, and of course, I'm available all hours of the day and night for queries about your fucking project. Fuckers!
You know what i got in my lunch guys? I was lucky if i got a peanut butter sandwich and an apple or am unpeeled carrot. Not only do you get a complete lunch, but it's nutritionally sound and varies every 2 or 3 days. I don't throw poison at you like the wives/mothers around you, either.
Lunchables? Sure, if you'd like your organs to give out at 30.
How about i just throw a sandwich at you and call it good? No more homemade burritos or falafels or panninis or quesadillas. No more cookies or squares or fruit salads or cake or pie.
I'm sick of this whole thankless fucking job.
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Re: Piss/Moan & Rant Thread, 2008
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