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[Maxperson]

Oh, wait. Now I know...

Thanksgiving dinner with the extended family.

We did that last year. Thanksgiving with the family at Yosemite. This year we told the family about four weeks ago that we were invited to a friend's place for Thanksgiving(we get invited most Thanksgivings) and wouldn't be available. Last week he actually called me and invited us. I told him the story and said I was glad he didn't make us into liars.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

so....there's a reddit: A sub dedicated to making fun of Ea-Nasir, a Sumerian merchant circa 1750 BC, who sold exceptionally naughty word copper.

@Scribe so it gets EVEN better
Another one of tablets they found was a letter from him to some of his buddies to "act cool" when other merchants came around asking for the metal he owed them. And even then, the clay could not have kept its shape, were it not fired. tablets for writing short-term messages have no reason to be fired. Which means that someone set fire to his house or it burned down for some unrelated reason.

Found another one:

Now imagine how many complaints were lost because someone was selling bad clay or scribe’s tools…

Hell, for all we know Ea-Nasir was a Captain of industry, involved in many commercial ventures…. Kind of an Assyrian Acme Products.

 

[Maxperson]

At my former employer, they transitioned us from "bank your vacation, we'll pay it out" till "Nah, we're not going to do that anymore, 0 rollover" in a 6 month period.

Trying to take 47 days of vacation over 6 months while still getting actual work done was an interesting challenge.

I used to be with a firm that helped people get Social Security disability. One year the feds changed their policy and you could no longer have more than X hours of vacation banked and the excess had to be used before the end of the year. That December(and possibly a week or two of November) the entire appeals department was gone. They had maybe a couple people there to answer phones, but nothing could get done.

 

[Gradine]

Also @Gradine

Okay. I have to admit that I saw Gradine's gif, and all that registered was The Usual Suspects ... maybe my brain was primed by TwoSix's comments few minutes ago....

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You know who is the common denominator, but I won't speak his name. Anyway, when TwoSix replied I actually looked again and I was like... OH.

I thought I knew, but I keep spacing on his name. I do space out sometimes. I'm like... a person who spaces out. Wonder if there's a term for that.

My favorite thing is when the incomparable Billy Eichner noted that the monster in question invented something that had never existed before: a bad time to come out.

A picture can be worth a thousand words. Anyway, despite my VAST and INCOMPARABLE media literacy*, I have never watched Brooklyn 99.

You'd like it, I wager. I don't think you do criminal law, but like any police show I'm sure is going to have frustrating law-based inaccuracies, but it's all in good fun.

Given one of your past avatars, I still think Owl House should be much higher on your watch list though, if you still haven't gotten to it.

 

[Umbran]

I didnt even consider that. The guy had his complaint to the manager carved, and then hand delivered through enemy territory.

That looks like cuneiform. It was generally pressed into clay tablets, not carved into stone.

 

[Bedrockgames]

That looks like cuneiform. It was generally pressed into clay tablets, not carved into stone.

I am so glad writers no longer have to work with clay

 

[J.Quondam]

I am so glad writers no longer have to work with clay

Yeah, that stuff really gums up the typewriter.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Whew. I would 100% get red text if I posted that in the actual correct thread.

 

[RealAlHazred]

I work in a Data Center. There's two of us who go onsite: the primary guy, and me. I'm a sysadmin, so it's mostly remote; I usually end up going in maybe once every two weeks or so. I have a lot of remote work on my plate.

The onsite guy has been making noise that he's leaving for a few months now. Two months ago, my boss, the tech lead, and myself interviewed a guy we liked, so we approved him. The approval went in and... nothing. Not a peep for months.

Last week, my cooworker gave his two weeks' notice. I am off next week for vacation; that is the week the new onsite guy is supposed to start, since he was suddenly hired. Everybody else in my group is in other countries: India and Argentina. So, he's supposed to start, but there's nobody to actually let him into the Data Center and show him around, which doesn't matter because it will take two weeks for his ID to come in. So, there'll be nobody to do any onsite work next week.

And it could all have been avoided if they'd hired the new guy when he was approved. He'd have had two or three weeks of orientation from the guy he would replace, and all would be well.

I'm pretty sure my boss has been getting heat from his higher-ups to cancel my vacation (I haven't heard anything, but you just know), but I'm equally sure he doesn't want to suddenly have two vacancies in his department....

 

[Ryujin]

I work in a Data Center. There's two of us who go onsite: the primary guy, and me. I'm a sysadmin, so it's mostly remote; I usually end up going in maybe once every two weeks or so. I have a lot of remote work on my plate.

The onsite guy has been making noise that he's leaving for a few months now. Two months ago, my boss, the tech lead, and myself interviewed a guy we liked, so we approved him. The approval went in and... nothing. Not a peep for months.

Last week, my cooworker gave his two weeks' notice. I am off next week for vacation; that is the week the new onsite guy is supposed to start, since he was suddenly hired. Everybody else in my group is in other countries: India and Argentina. So, he's supposed to start, but there's nobody to actually let him into the Data Center and show him around, which doesn't matter because it will take two weeks for his ID to come in. So, there'll be nobody to do any onsite work next week.

And it could all have been avoided if they'd hired the new guy when he was approved. He'd have had two or three weeks of orientation from the guy he would replace, and all would be well.

I'm pretty sure my boss has been getting heat from his higher-ups to cancel my vacation (I haven't heard anything, but you just know), but I'm equally sure he doesn't want to suddenly have two vacancies in his department....

Sounds like typical HR shenanigans. They don't seem to understand the level of urgency and think that someone with the appropriate skills can just walk on-site, with zero onboarding, and somehow intuit the peculiarities and culture of a new workplace.

One of our faculties had an excellent departmental assistant. She used to be one of our switchboard workers and took a small promotion from the IT/Comms group into this faculty. Because of her exposure to our group she understood the importance of being on top of the department's tech. She kept excellent records, scheduled when equipment was up for replacement, and the like. She also knew our policies extremely well, which made it a pleasure to work with her when her department needed help. When she retired, she offered to hang on for an additional few weeks to train her replacement. In the end there was a two week gap between her leaving and the replacement starting. for several years that faculty was one of the worst on campus to deal with. At least until a couple of us managed to 'train' the replacement right.