The complaint compartment.

[Fixastuff]

Get them a 20 pack of Modelo Exspecial. I've seen plenty of worn out shovels, but never a worn out pick.

I replaced one OK guy with 2 great guys! I guess my complaint is putting up with ok for a couple years(until he didn’t show up for 3 days with no contact).

 

[Jstpssng]

I replaced one OK guy with 2 great guys! I guess my complaint is putting up with ok for a couple years(until he didn’t show up for 3 days with no contact).

That sounds like you learned the meaning of the saying; "hiring him was like losing 2 good men."

 

[Fixastuff]

I had to go around some people talking in cars in neighborhood, in those 3 inches off the edge I smushed a big dog poo. Really stank and got all in fender. Glad I don’t have wide hanging out tires that seem popular for no known reason.

 

[WinterDeere]

I had to go around some people talking in cars in neighborhood, in those 3 inches off the edge I smushed a big dog poo. Really stank and got all in fender. Glad I don’t have wide hanging out tires that seem popular for no known reason.

I really don't get the wide set tire thing on pickups, these days. It reduces the payload and hauling capacity of the truck, by creating a cantilever on the axle flange, although I'm sure few take that into account. It also sprays stones and road dirt all over the sides of your truck, and at vehicles behind you. It also looks stupid.

I think they got it right 60 years ago.

 

[bcp]

I really don't get the wide set tire thing on pickups, these days.

I suspect they are replicating the toy truck they loved as children.



Bruce

 

[Fixastuff]

Someone called the cable company I subcontract for to complain and ask when someone was coming to fix there yard!!

The funny part was I was still in the yard just getting started digging holes and drilling!

We had it done, restores, seeded and strawed the same day.

 

[paulsharvey]

Someone called the cable company I subcontract for to complain and ask when someone was coming to fix there yard!!

The funny part was I was still in the yard just getting started digging holes and drilling!

We had it done, restores, seeded and strawed the same day.

If I had to guess, upper middle class neighborhood, possibly getting into the lower end of upper class? So, utility work, road work, ect, normally lower a d lower middle class, they are just excited to get the road paved/internet/water, whatever, and almost never complain. Rural folks (excluding horsepeople...) normally dont either. The extreme upper end, also tend to understand your making sausage, don't watch, just wait for it to be done and enjoy it. It's the upper middle and lower upper, that expect everything to look perfect instantly... "you sodded the side of the road with cow field grass", well yep, we did, and give it 2 or 3 good rains and it will look fantastic, but right now, it does have weeds, and cow crap in it.

 

[Jstpssng]

Not a complaint, just an observation.
I did grow up around traffic lights but we don't have any within 40 miles of here. I guess I need to study up on regulations.
I was taught that green means go, red means stop. Yellow means it's about to turn red so you should stop if you can safely do so.

I was in town this weekend and apparently that's been changed? Green means sit there until it turns yellow, then go through the light while making everyone behind you wait for another cycle. Yellow means go. Red means speed up 20 mph so that you get into the intersection before traffic starts crossing.

Is this the new law?

 

[ultrarunner]

Not a complaint, just an observation.
I did grow up around traffic lights but we don't have any within 40 miles of here. I guess I need to study up on regulations.
I was taught that green means go, red means stop. Yellow means it's about to turn red so you should stop if you can safely do so.

I was in town this weekend and apparently that's been changed? Green means sit there until it turns yellow, then go through the light while making everyone behind you wait for another cycle. Yellow means go. Red means speed up 20 mph so that you get into the intersection before traffic starts crossing.

Is this the new law?

What I saw today in my 9 minute drive home from work had me thinking it was a movie shoot or someone with the police in hot pursuit but the police don’t do that any more.

One at a railroad crossing with the arms down and a stream of cars getting out of line driving up the empty oncoming lanes and going sideways through the arms.

The second was a red light every one stopped and late model pickup goes into the left turn lane and hits a hard right with tires squealing across the front of the two lanes of cars waiting for the light to turn to continue.

Seldom are these cars plated so maybe they did just rob the liquor store because that about all that is left open here…

Maybe time for a dash cam?

 

[Jstpssng]

Maybe time for a dash cam?

What are you going to do with it when you do film something?

 

[ultrarunner]

What are you going to do with it when you do film something?

For insurance purposes if I get smacked.

I didn’t mention the wreck on the way to work were someone making a left turn from mid block median got t-boned by a car just going down the street.

I don’t know if it’s the thrill driving recklessly, practicing for a sideshow, simple impatience, running from the law or someone high on drugs… any of which can ruin an innocent bystanders day.

Instead of a stray bullet it’s a out of control car.

Oakland neighbors install anti-sideshow barriers, city removes them

A fed-up group of Oakland neighbors is calling on the city to make their streets safer.

www.ktvu.com

 

[paulsharvey]

Dash cams can save you in very specific instances; but often, I would say most of the time, show contributing negligence on you too. I would say something like 80-90% of accidents could be prevented by either party.

You following too close, your speed above posted. Heck, had a friend where insurance said because he had changed lanes like 400 ft before an intersection, it caused confusion, leading to him getting rear-ended...

Anyways, just think twice about dash cams, and even more times about dual facing, audio, or ones that also capture any vehicle data, such as speed, breaking, acceleration, or anything that auto loads to the cloud/website.

 

[Jstpssng]

My company truck has a dash cam. On more than one occasion I have reviewed something to see what happened. Last summer I hit a moose- how in the heck do you NOT see a 1000 lb animal at 8:00 AM on a sunny morning? The dash cam showed that it came out of the ditch, and there was no way to know it was there. It also showed that my reaction time and stopping distance beat all of those tables we saw in driver's ed. I was able to get slowed down and cut the wheel so that the moose got back up and walked away.

 

[ultrarunner]

At least when public safety ignores traffic signals and lane markers it’s with lights and siren…

In my experience the drivers are young males and often single occupant in city streets…

Far more I’ve seen in city streets compared to blowing by on the freeway like I’m standing still even taking to the shoulders to pass…

When caught most have no license, insurance and a good bet vehicle not registered and surprisingly stolen…

A couple of coworkers with newer cars where able to have the car remotely immobilized which facilitated recovery.

 

[Jstpssng]

At least when public safety ignores traffic signals and lane markers it’s with lights and siren…

In my experience the drivers are young males and often single occupant in city streets…

Far more I’ve seen in city streets compared to blowing by on the freeway like I’m standing still even taking to the shoulders to pass…

When caught most have no license, insurance and a good bet vehicle not registered and surprisingly stolen…

A couple of coworkers with newer cars where able to have the car remotely immobilized which facilitated recovery.

This is nothing new. Young males have always been invincible. Most of us survived, but there's always a few that don't.

 

[Fixastuff]

This is nothing new. Young males have always been invincible. Most of us survived, but there's always a few that don't.

In the 90s I had a friend that used to like running into trash cans on back roads for fun. He was doing it one afternoon and for some reason decided not to hit this one can. Drove past it and there was an older man bent over messing with a push mower right behind it he couldn’t see.

Lucked out for everyone involved. He didn’t hit trash cans anymore but did plenty of other dumb stuff. lol.

 

[Jstpssng]

In the 90s I had a friend that used to like running into trash cans on back roads for fun. He was doing it one afternoon and for some reason decided not to hit this one can. Drove past it and there was an older man bent over messing with a push mower right behind it he couldn’t see.

Lucked out for everyone involved. He didn’t hit trash cans anymore but did plenty of other dumb stuff. lol.

Something I could never understand but some people think it's funny to run over street signs. They must have specially built bumpers or something, accompanied by a lack of brain cells.

 

[Dftodd]

How about every single large corporation constantly adding new training every year, often that has nothing to do with your job. Or adding a new wonderful payroll system to replace the old two systems; but wait; you still need to go into system 1 to view your PTO and system 2 to get tax docs; so we didn't roll out a new system to replace two old ones; we just added another on top to it.

On the training, I get that you need fire safety every year, but then we add "preventing micro aggressions in hiring" and "recognizing and preventing human trafficing" and 12 other trainings, every year...

We've had the payroll service changed a couple times. And there was some growing pains for awhile when they made the switch.

When we switched to the payroll hosting site we use now there was some growing pains.

Management had to use the new system to submit for time off.

Hourly people had to use the old system.

I would submit time off and my boss wouldn't respond to the request soon enough and it expired. So I resubmitted, and told him about it.

That's when I realized he was looking in the new system. I finally had to log in on the new system in my office to prove to my boss we weren't able to submit for time off yet. And that he needed to log into the old system for our time off.

It was about nine months before they got our time off balances switched to the new system and finally fazed out the old system.

 

[Dftodd]

It's absolutely critical that as a US employee that works in the US, I need to know what to do if my cab driver in the Philippines bribes a cop at a check station... I can't pay it, he can, but it need to report the bribe to my office head...

I'm just complaining; and I don't really disagree with some confined spaces, trench safety, fire safety, traffic control training; but all big corps seem to knee jerk react to everything, and assign trench safety training to the girl answering phones, after an incident

We get the knee jerk training on occasion due to someone's darwinism.

We are forced to use auto retracting blades at work.

Someone cut themselves being a bone head.

So we had mandatory knife safety training.

The next week, some idiot in Modesto California decided to use his leg as a table while using a knife to cut insulation on a wire. Knife slipped, dude cut the living snot out of their leg requiring stitches.

More mandatory knife safety training and a company wide policy of using only safety blade or auto retracting blades.

 

[Dftodd]

My company was once going through an on-site IRS audit. It lasted several months. The auditor didn’t come in on Fridays as he had to go into his office to do his time sheet. He made it clear he would be retiring soon and we WOULD be his last assignment.

I used to have an old guy that did my taxes for $20, a form.

Harry was a retired irs tax auditor.

You would meet with him for 20 to 30 minutes at his mobile home in a over 55 trailer park.

His wife usually offered you a giant chocolate chip cookie when you left.

In two weeks you stopped by and picked your forms back up to mail in.

He sure made tax time easy