consumer calls my business line. Starts talking about something that has nothing to do with me. I interject, tell them they’ve got a wrong number.
Consumer proceeds to start arguing with me, they looked it up on the internet.
This happens more frequently than you’d believe.
I also get emails with people’s fire insurance policies and the like. And the emails seem to be unanimously from very PO’ed people. I don’t know who they’re trying to reach, but I don’t know anything about fire insurance.
I can only imagine how this conversation would go:
You know, they can’t put anything on the internet that isn’t true. So let’s suppose i am a malicious employee of the company you are trying to reach. I don’t want to do any work so i will pretend you didn’t call. What should you do, try another number? Great idea!
The fact that I didn’t answer the phone ‘london life’ is often their first clue. Then I ask them who they’re trying to call. Then I tell them that’s not me. Then they start arguing.
Reminds me of this:
Touch Tone Terrorists also had some good ones!!
I’m watching the recent Spanish Zorro TV series, and the number of day / night continuity issues are mind blowing. At least once an episode, it will be the middle of the day, 2 characters will leave on a 30 minute horse back ride, and then arrive at their destination in the middle of the night.
Isn’t that how time zones work or something? Maybe daylight savings time?
I was trying to verify a record count in Excel by filtering. So I put down an autofilter and end up with one too many rows. After playing around for too long, I find that autofilter expects row 1 to be a header, so it doesn’t apply the filter to the first row. The spreadsheet had no header. And since the filter pulldown thingies cover most of the first row, I couldn’t see that the filter wasn’t being applied to that row. I guess it makes sense, but it took far too long for me to notice what was wrong.
Not sure why I’ve been so achy in the last couple days. More muscle than bone achy. I did not want to get out of bed this morning. 
I didn’t get into this industry to be a project manager.
That’s been my life the past week as well. I don’t want to do this but someone is trying to spin up a $45M program without keeping Finance and Accounting looped in, and I didn’t sign off on their changes to the risk parameters. Thankfully I had a call with their boss and their grand-boss yesterday who helped straighten this all out.
My espresso machine… apparently the inside of the boiler is coated with something like Teflon. They got a bad batch and the coating is flaking, so they want to send me a new machine. It’s fine, but now I have to fill out the forms and then when they send me the new one I have to box up the old one and send it back. It’s fine, but this is an annoyance I don’t need right now.
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I had a brilliant random question last night but wasn’t able to post it and can’t remember what it was.
Those look like boobies with sign-holding pasties.
Wish they sparkled Katy Perry style.
The original Jaws that came out in 1975?
I think there’s a statute of limitations on movie spoilers. I’m not precisely sure what it is, but less than 49 years for sure. Maybe 5 years is where I’d draw the line. Possibly 10. If you can’t find time in 10 years to see a movie that you really want to see and be surprised about, that’s on you, not me.
Heh, the post that I was responding to was OLD. Someone liked my post that was right near it, so I didn’t notice how far back it was. Oops!
Challenge: accepted
…and completed!
I’m at sbux trying to actuarialize and the wifi keeps cutting out!!! 