It was connected to the network, just without internet access. Rebooted everything, didn't work. Took a long hot bath, and now it works!Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
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It was connected to the network, just without internet access. Rebooted everything, didn't work. Took a long hot bath, and now it works!Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
Clearly your rock & roll stink was fouling up the connection :p
The heat and humidity in Istanbul today. It's horrible. It's even hard to breathe.
Getting promoted next Tuesday, part of my responsibilities now is handling our businesses side of payroll for about 200 people which I started doing 3 weeks ago as part of my training/transition. Make even 1 mistake and somebody's on you like a ton of bricks, make a few and hell breaks loose. Getting paid is why people do the job afterall.
Unfortunately while being relatively new to it I'm not making mistakes, our accountant from a company in Wales we've sourced that part out to is (she is also relatively new to her role). The frustrating thing is I'm constantly on the phone to her and I can tell what she's doing wrong but she won't listen! :mad:
Now I've got a guy who's off sick, so entitled to Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) by law. I've had a series of frustrated phone calls from someone who wants his money he's entitled to and threatening to call HMRC if I don't pay him, while she's sitting their telling me he's not entitled to anything. I have 40 minutes until the banks close and now awaiting what must be my 10th phone call with her in about 3 days. I've read the guidance on HMRC's website as to the regulations, understood them and manually calculated it and he's eligible. She's not thinking about it, just entering (the wrong) dates into a computer system and basically saying to me "computer says no". Of course the computer's saying no, you're entering the wrong numbers which if you understood what you were doing would be obvious! :mad:
you gotta just love mindless drones which believe anything a computer tells them. Wait, I've got just the appropriate quote for you:
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
-- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Buh. I sympathise Rand. Payroll can be a bit of a 'mare.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
'Grats on the promotion though. :up:
Thanks Tim :)
Now that last half hour was 2 of the most frustrating phone calls ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
Firstly to the "accountant" who is actually it seems a "clerk" who enters numbers into the computer and does what it tells her. She did not understand SSP whatsoever, she just knows how to use the computer. Seriously! :noob:
Eventually managed to talk her through her own computer system I've never even seen, heard of or used to find out the reason he's 'not eligible'. Apparently he's not earned enough. He's earned 86.87 per week on average apparently. You need to have earned an average of £97 per week for the 8 weeks before you became sick on average to be eligible.
Only problem is, according to his wage slips I have copies of I make out his wage average to be £102, thus making him eligible, even if only just. She doesn't understand how it works though and can not manually work it out like I have, computer says no :bulb:. Her boss is back on Friday so I could talk to someone who knows what they're doing then.
So next a polite phone call to him to try and explain the problem. Did not stay polite for long. I'm a "fucking wanker" who should go around to his house to get my "fucking nose kicked in" apparently. :rolleyes:
Seems like a pretty good reason to fire the guy. I'm sure that will make him enjoy the check in the mail next week even more.
I have no proof besides my word, awkward firing someone on sick leave without proof.
Don't you have at will employment? You could wait until he comes back from sick leave to do it. Do you really trust a guy like that in the workplace? If he acted like this toward you, he probably does the same with co-workers and/or customers.
A/C guys have been working on my unit for the last five hours. What should have been an easy swap of a coil turned into a whole section being changed out because Lennox doesn't make the coil part anymore. :mad:
Luckily, though:
1) It's an overcast day (but humid and in the 90s F)
2) I have ceiling fans in the bedrooms
3) The replacement is free because the previous house owner got a ten year warranty on the unit, and it only cost us $15 to change the ownership of the warranty over to us!
I love quoting this to people, the phrase "rightly apprehend [a] confusion of ideas" is amazingQuote:
Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro
Sort of within reason during an employees first 12 months. During their first 12 months rights are very limited (this is when you sort the wheat from the chavs). However there are limited exceptions http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg...mId=1073793717Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
I'd think claiming SSP (which he'd argue it as) could reasonably fall under: for having sought, in good faith, to assert a statutory employment protection right
Uh, wait, you have to earn above a certain threshold to earn sick pay? That doesn't quite sound right to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
Whats messing with my groove today? The organizational ability of modern operating systems. Pretty much the only way to organize stuff is via drives, folders, and naming. What would be nice is a group or divider of sorts, that way I can divide a folder up into organized and labeled sections, yet keep the contents visible and easily selectable. For instance, completely unrelated to what I'm doing, you have some photographs from a series of vacations, and wanted to organize them by both vacation and individual sections of that vacation. Currently you'd have to do something like:
EuroTrip 2010
├ Spain
├ Italy
├ France
├ Germany
└ United Kingdom
Then in order to browse through them later, you'd have to access each individual folder before you could view the contained images. If we had some better organizational method, you could have a folder labeled EuroTrip 2010, grouped divisions labeled with each country name, and the ability to view all of the images at once without having to drill down into folders, and back out of them, while still keeping things intelligently organized. In real life they have dividers for binders and folders, so why not for operating systems?
Edit: In Windows 7 you can organize by groups, which in fact function like how I'd imagine the above to operate, but you can only group by things like date, file type, and a long list of other things, but this method of grouping relies on preset values, or editable values that an individual file type may not possess.
You could mass-name all photos of a specific country starting with the name of that country, but mass-renaming isn't easy in Windows. Some image viewer softwares let you browse several folders at once, but it's not always convenient either.
The problem is in my instance I have file types that don't have certain user editable variables, or that aren't photos, and while I do heavily use naming for organization, it becomes unwieldly when I have something named along the lines of ProjectXYZ_partABC_beautyRender_frame001.tif and want to group it with the Photoshop or After Effects document that generated it. Also it slows down knowing how many groups you have at a quick glance, and quickly ascertaining how many files are in that group.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nessus
The whole vacation and country thing was mainly to illustrate the usefulness to people who are not myself with more normal, but still complex, needs for organization.
For SSP yes, which is a fixed £79.15 a week no matter how much you earn.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTax...ured/DG_175843
If someone earns above £97/week then they pay National Insurance (tax). Only those employees are companies obliged to pay SSP for and if for some reason an excessive amount of employees are off sick in a year then the cost of that above a certain % of NI payments can be reclaimed from the state.
Below the NI threshold the state pays for their sick pay. It would be bizarre if someone paid £10/week went sick and got £79.15 a week.
It does mean that those on serious incomes lose out badly if they start to claim SSP. I'd struggle to pay my bills on that, but then again I'm not working on that!
I'm probably teaching my grandpappy to piss here, but have you tried ImageJ? I'm not sure if it'd help much with Photoshop, but I've found it's the best thing around for large amounts of, say, tiffs in the same folder.Quote:
Originally Posted by Illusions
Finally found out today why the computer says no and the clerk was right :)
The arsehole if I may call him that said to me he was going to extend his illness to the 28 week maximum permitted by law which would have left us oweing over £2000, but now he gets not a penny off us and quite rightly too. Quite lucky too.
He brought in ACAS to "sort us out". LOL, ACAS are quite lovely people really, they just want to sort out what the truth is, the truth is we're doing everything by the book properly so ACAS can now let him know that.
Assholes.Quote:
A transgender Georgia state legislative aide who said she was fired because of discrimination has gotten her job back, but she won't be physically in the office.
An agreement reached Friday mandates that Vandy Beth Glenn, a transgender woman formerly known as Glenn Morrison, be reinstated.
But Glenn's employer preferred she earn her paycheck from home, arguing that her presence in the office would be disruptive, the AJC reported. Though she won't be working, Glenn will be fully compensated.
Morrison said in a 2008 lawsuit that her boss, Legislative Counsel Sewell Brumby, fired her after she told him she would come to work dressed as a woman as she transitioned from man to woman.
The arrangement stands until there's a ruling on an appeal, which attorneys say could be years away.
It's still bloody hot in Istanbul. 33C, feels like 40+ due to humidity and not a breeze in sight for over a week now. I spend most of the week wearing little more than my underpants.
I'm guessing boxer briefs...Quote:
Originally Posted by Hazir
:)
From what I've been told boxer briefs are the only acceptable underpants.Quote:
Originally Posted by termite
Shit yeah, I wore jocks for way too long before I finally tried a pair of BB's. WTF was I thinking all that time wearing goddam budgie smugglers?Quote:
Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
Freedom is a comfy pair of boxer briefs - especially on a hot day. :D
I'd think regular boxers would be horribly uncomfortable. Who the hell wants to put on a pair of shorts under their pants?Quote:
Originally Posted by termite
Boxer briefs win for sex appeal, too. :yum:
Fuck yeah, those "regular" boxers, especially the silky material ones are just FUBAR - I tried a few different pairs over the years and they either cut my lunch (meat n potato's) in half or they rode up and stuck out the top of my pants - thereby giving me the appearance of some kind of a wannabe chav/homie/punk/wigga or whatever the fuck they call those stupid kids with their pants around their knees and their underwear around their armpits.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
That's the idea. :pQuote:
Boxer briefs win for sex appeal, too. :yum:
My first Xbox subscription magazine didn't arrive within the deadline :( even though I've gotten 2 Nintendo Powers, 2 Playstations, and a PC Gamer. They are all published and shipped by the same company.
Now I have to go through Amazon, to go through the publisher, to get it fixed.
3 AM temperature 27C humidity 83%. It's like living in a fucking sauna.
We get weather like that here, when we I was a kid we had air-con (nobody did) so we just dragged our mattresses onto the back lawn and slept outside under the stars (in our underwear ironically) - is that an option for you over the in NotConstantinopletown?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hazir
If you a fan but no air con, place a small wet towel behind the fan - not on the fan dude you don't want to get electrifried! We used to hang it off one of those clothes airer things and it worked ok even in high humidity.
Short of that, getting roaring drunk usually dulls the senses enough to pass the time. :) (though that wasn't something we did as kids)
SOOOOOOOooo anyway... I need to unload some shit that hasn't been messing with my groove for a couple of days, but in a deeper way it has fucked me over my entire life.
My groove is messed with by my poor old Aunt, she is severely disabled* (mostly blind, mostly deaf and in a wheelchair). Anyway, she turned 70 on Sunday and we had a huge family gathering to celebrate her milestone (she was never expected to live so long according to the "drips under pressure"). She lives in a home for the severely handicapped which, while they do an amazing job, it is essentially a nut-house and not much about it is "good".
Anyway, she had been very excited about the big party and talked about it for weeks leading up to the big day and then in a cruel twist of bad timing she became terribly ill the day before her party. So there we all were ready to celebrate, people had come from all over the country and she was so ill that she could only stay for 1/2 hour or so and, in great pain, she was taken to hospital for tests.
I've just found out she has a severely inflamed gall bladder and is still in hospital tonight receiving treatment.
Life can be unfair.
*Her mother (my Gran) contracted rubella while she was pregnant, resulting in my Aunt being born with Spastic Diplegia. When she was small she managed to be very active, learning to walk and even run as well as becoming a prolific reader of books. Sadly as she grew older, so her condition worsened and soon she was using a walking frame, having operations on her knees, hips and ankles. She had numerous other health problems and probably the cruellest for her has been going blind - she can no longer read and even the books-on-tape are difficult for her to hear.
Despite all this horrible shit happening to her throughout her life she has mostly been a happy person, always happy to share a story from her childhood about some mischief she got up to with her brothers & sisters (like setting the curtains on fire). She also loves to sing, whether you ask her to or not! :eek: Roll out the barrel (lets have a barrel of fun) is her favourite. :)
And as if life hadn't fucked her over enough she couldn't even get to have her one little fucking party with the people that care about her most.
:(