In the good old days, you would target a company, ring them up, and try to find out who the manager or director was responsible for the product or service you were selling. You would either
a. Try to get put through to them.
b. Write to them.
You would work at the sale. These days it's "Ooh! He's head of..... Hello there, would you like to buy my shit?"
LinkedIN was about offering or seeking employment, but users have turned it into a shark-infested pool of so-called salespeople.
#RantOver
I hate living in a country where they think a liveable wage is a little over $7 and a state where $15 is the minimum wage. I'm barely making $17/hr with commissions, but that's on good weeks where customers actually buy their shoes in my department. The 1st is tomorrow and I need to somehow come up with a little over $600 by the 5th or I'll have to pay an additional $50 fee because Feb is a slow month. Gods I hate it here
#ThankYouforComingtoMyTedTalk #minirant #rantover #goingtocrynow
@tofticles @tokeriis @IO hvis det var en leder, så ja, så ville den definerer mediets holdning. Jeg læser den mere som en klumme/kickstarter.
Og … Jeg er ikke nødvendigvis enig med hende, jeg synes blot ikke, at indlægget burde føre til et totalt boycut af alt hvad Zetland laver og skriver fra nu og i al evighed. Eller give anledning til endnu en skyttegravskrig.
Remember children. If you're going to buy a refurbished laptop (or PC), it's refurbished, 2nd hand. Someone has used it before you! It is not NEW and probably not the latest piece of kit.
Most resellers make peanuts on 2nd hand kit so you asking fifty bazillion questions because.
A. You can't really afford it.
B. You're worried in case it's not what you think.
Is an utter, soul-destroying pain in the fucking arse!
Oh, and asking for pictures makes me want to tell you to "Fuck Off"
#RantOver
Sup yall!!! Can I just say this? English 225 can kick ass!!!!!! rofl!!!!! I hate research unless it's somethin I know about, anybody who's anybody that know me knows this about me, ugh!!! #RantOver #SorryYall
Also, while it's a sweet idea that the USA has decided - for now - not to impose tariffs on UK goods and services because our Prime Minister was 'nice' to their President, it just might be because we've made ourselves geopolitically fairly irrelevant over the last nine years
And one final thought: When Starmer says he doesn't think there's a choice between closer ties to Europe or closer ties to the USA... unless he's planning to cosy up to China, he's flatly wrong. That's *exactly* the choice he has. And there's only one sensible option
*shrug*
CN homophobia, rant
Today my son told me that a classmate found my Instagram profile (which contains mostly #pole fitness content) - and shared it with the class.
According to the class I'm
- gay (and they're using that as an insult)
- a stripper (insult again)
- a firefighter
My son doesn't want me to hide anything but knowing that he's already being harassed I don't necessarily agree.
Obviously this is not (only) the kids fault, the parents also didn't do a good job educating their kids about tolerance and diversity. May I scream at all of them?!
It's the conviction that "that which is different must be punished" which gets me. I was naïve and thought that people in our generation learned that such a behavior is not acceptable.
But no, they either haven't learned or at least didn't pass it on to their kids.
I just discovered that the Bureau of Meteorology are "improving some of the climate website services".
Sounds good. Tell me more!
"The Bureau will no longer:
- issue fortnightly Climate Driver Update details
- publish Climate Model Summary charts and data
- issue El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Outlook Watch and Alert statements including the ENSO dial.
"
Um. OK. This must be some new meaning of the word "improvement" of which I wasn't previously aware.
#RantOver
#BoM #BureauOfMeteorolgy #TheBureau #climateServices #rant #sigh #fadeToGrey
I have spent the morning in M365 hell.
Dear Microsoft. Get a bloody grip! Why do I need three separate locations for implementing GDAP. Thanks for making me jump through your authenticator hoops and why do I need three tabs and your refusal to accept Chrome or Firefox so that I have to use your shitty Edge.
There are over eight billion people and counting on this godsforsaken burning blue marble & a vast majority of them are NOT worth your personal time or breath.
There was an old adage from the hell bird site that warned against being the “main character of the day” but the meta has long since shifted. Now there exists an entire industry of the most insufferable people on God’s green Earth vying for this protagonist status through daily garbage takes. #rantover
Former student is sending me messages about grant money and Jesus. Determined to get me involved with some wackadoodle “grant” money and insists I apply for it. She was hilarious and fun as an 8th grader a few decades ago, but lately she’s become a Jesus freak and has now added a layer of insistent crazy sauce. #rantover
If you are part of a large whatsapp group for organising anything (sports team, club etc) you should receive an instant fine if you post ANYTHING to the group that is not of benefit or importance to that group.
I am fed up of looking at my phone seeing 200 messages and spending half hour wading through humorous comments people have replied to someones meme or photo they have posted.
I hate whatsapp. #rantover
It's official! Price hikes, mystery fees, ad overkill, anti-sharing policies, tier-based pricing, and poor content. Streaming is just internet-based cable vision. Can't wait until #streamcutting becomes a thing. I am beginning to cancel as I type this!
#streaming #cordcutting #cordcuttingisdead #netflix #hbomax #max #disneyplus #paramountplus #peacock #hulu #itsalltrash #rant #rantover #offmychest
The climate crisis is already happening. If you want to bet on technologies to support the transformation, they need to be in existence and deployable today.
#rantover
So a couple of people have said to me, "They've got plenty of money!" (i.e. pensioners) Even the wife said, "Have you seen all the pensioners in Marks & Spencer?"
My response is the same as Jeremy Clarkson's. "So, in other words, you work hard all your life and put some money aside so that your retirement, where you have no other income other than your pension, is slightly more comfortable and along comes a group of people who notice you have a couple of quid and take it off you to give to some workshy layabout. And they call that socialism."
I'm not angry because I already knew this was the kind of thing Labour does and will always do. The Labour Party may well change its outward appearance, but at its core, the only idea they have is to take from one to give to another. Labour's idea of 'growth' is to increase the size of public employees so that:
A. There are more union members.
B. Employment and wage increases are guaranteed.
I don't need to go on vacation. My mother sends me an a guilt trip about every other day. Bad part is she's ambulatory and she can not drive. I am the only one of my siblings that does not work. So I get assigned to drive Miss Daisy. Which is driving me crazy. #RantOver
𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻.
Wanna know why I'm a moaning caaant? This is why.
A guy has a 2011 PC running W7, but Office won't activate on it. He sends us a second PC he's found and asks us to transfer everything over. The only trouble is that it's that old story: "If it's slung up the back of a cupboard, there's a reason." It's a 2009 PC!
I offer him an i5, 32GB 256 M.2 plus M365; he tries to tell me they have a bunch of M365 licenses and "Can't we use one of those?" after telling him to basically fook off, he then says, "Well, you can have it here in a bit can't you?" I have to explain that; basically, he's wasted the morning, and now our guys are starting lunches, and if he's lucky, he'll have it this afternoon.
Why do people take three weeks to decide and then think they can have it within the hour?
