I had to pull guest pillows for last night. I’d already stuffed the old pillows in the garbage can before I opened the new ones, so they were not an option. The old ones were cheap, flat, and sweat stained. I slso atrongly prefer down pillows which the old ones weren’t. I’d seen pillows on sale at Costco so I impulse bought them.
There’s a new guy at work. I like him, he’s really bright and has good ideas, but he has a terrible habit of asking a question and then never letting anyone answer.
If you want to do a monologue, then just do that, I guess. But don’t ask people questions and cut them off after five seconds.
3 Likes
Maybe he should become a stand-up comedian. Or at least take to the TED talk circuit.
I wouldn’t say he’s funny.
I developed a new premium-saving strategy on term life insurance for clients, using existing policy features. My upstream administrator didn’t even understand what I was asking. Got a hard no from the administration at the life companies. Went back twice explaining it, they’re now considering. basically ‘if a client does this and this, then they save $50 on their first month, right?’.
a bit annoyed because I sense that the ‘no’ isn’t ‘no we can’t do this’. it’s more ‘hey, that sounds like work, and I don’t like to work’. Also ‘we’ve never had anyone ask that before’ isn’t a reason for not doing it. Just because I know what I’m doing, and everyone else you deal with is a clown isn’t a reason to make my business work like the clown’s business.
2 Likes
I’m kind of dealing with this with my insurance agent. She explicitly told me “This company doesn’t offer an Advance Quote Discount”, so I bound insurance that day. Then I discovered they do have an AQD and came back, she said “well because you needed insurance that day, you aren’t eligible.” I said, “I didn’t need insurance that day - I decided to get it that day because there was no AQD, according to you, but there is, so I want it.”
She’s saying they can’t add it, so I’m going to have her to cancel that policy, rewrite me a new policy anywhere else for 7 days, then rewrite my original policy for 7 days in the future.
She first asked me “But why would you want to do all that? It will barely save you money”, and I responded, “I stand to save over $100 and I should have, but I was misinformed.” She continued to try to convince me against it and I decided the conversation wasn’t productive and wished her a good day.
She’s not going to be happy to do all the extra work she caused.
7 Likes
yaaay, my first ever Title IX issue as a teacher/instructor 
in my adjuncting … checking with my superiors for what the right next thing to do is
4 Likes
Sexual harassment? I’m used to seeing Title IX mostly in the context of sports, but I know it extends further.
Yup. Basically, older guy student provided unsolicited feedback about younger girl student’s looks via LMS inbox. So I’m working with the Title IX coordinator to make sure that he loses this deal (and to warn him about trying to make future deals) in accordance with established protocol.
4 Likes
I just did my required training on harassment. It’s a pretty complicated procedure, at least at the university level where I am. Good luck!
The NYT puzzles page doesn’t always track whether or not you’ve done the sudoko correctly. In particular, it often thinks I haven’t done the hard when I have, and as I don’t always bother to do it, I’m not always sure if I have or not until I start the puzzle.
1 Like
Continuing the discussion from Annoyed Thoughts: archive 1:
Update: haven’t quite had it 2 years yet, and it’s recently started leaking water from the bottom. 
Doesn’t help that the title of one verified purchase Amazon review is “They always break after about 2 years.” 
Will investigate some of the common causes once the current load cools down and we put it away.
2 Likes
I think it’s the rubber seal around where the door closes into the frame that’s loose at the bottom corners. Hopefully there’s an easy way to fix that.
2 Likes
Better than in his home, I’d guess…
We decided that the “easy fix” is to upgrade to a highly rated (for its kind of device) full-size portable dishwasher that is on super sale right now. 
It’s a GE 24" stainless steel one, that we’re getting from Home Depot. (And for a bit extra, they’ll haul off the old one too. One less headache.)
3 Likes
Yo, Bee Gee!!! I’m gonna be on an airplane tomorrow!!! 
I thought you got a warning?
Enjoy your misery.
IFYP
I went to my bank to get some US$ for my trip. Only 1 of 3 ATMs has US$ and it was occupied, so I went to the next ATM and did some banking. Just as buddy left, some lady came in and went to the US$ ATM!!! Had to wait darned near 3 minutes!!! 
2 Likes