I am on address 14.
Jobs would be easy. As a teacher you start in September and leave on August 31st. Except when you do temporary or supply work. But I have always updated my CV of proper jobs. So the only problem would be temp jobs in the vacations when I was a student.
I have the wrong address on my marriage certificate
When we married I was a newly qualified lawyer with a salary, and the NE Man was a PhD student with no salary. We got a mortgage to buy our first flat solely on the basis of my income.
When we filled out our marriage schedule the registrar objected to us both having the same pre-marital address. She asked what my parents address was, deleted my actual address the flat I had bought!) and substituted my parents' address.
Our marriage certificate makes it look as though it was my husband's flat.
At some point in the future some hapless historian is going to write Analysis of marriage certificates in the Highlands of Scotland show that pre-marital cohabitation was still taboo in the 1980s and 90s, indicating the ongoing influence of the Free Church...., when it fact it was just the Registrar buggering up everyone's marriage schedules.
I am on address 14.
Jobs would be easy. As a teacher you start in September and leave on August 31st. Except when you do temporary or supply work. But I have always updated my CV of proper jobs. So the only problem would be temp jobs in the vacations when I was a student.
Or when you leave at the end of December or the end of April (the other choices in England and Wales) or whenever the heck 4 term time weeks notice falls (as in Scotland or FE).
Hubby was applying for some kind of security clearance, and they wanted my previous address for the past 15 years. It was easy, at the time I had been married to him for 20 years. I have kept page 1 of my tax records forever. It makes it easy. That said I locked myself out of my online bank account and was amazed at what they knew that I had forgotten. They would give me the name of a street and ask where it was. They went back to the grade school address.
I consign to hell the Medicare system and the Kroger pharmacies" website. First the website: they are convinced that I do my grocery shopping at the Kroger store at Towers Mall in Roanoke. That's more than forty miles from me, and I don't recall ever buying anything there. They don't give me information about any other stores.
Making an appointment for a flu shot has suddenly become far more complicated than it used to be. They are asking for much more information when you make the appointment. They used to wait to write down your Medicare number when you went for the shot; now they want it in advance. They al;so asked for a "group number". I had never heard of that, so I left it blank. I finally did get an appointment, and I sucessfully fought off their efforts to send me to Roanoke.
Ha! Home Depot is doing much the same with me whenever I try to see if they have whatsits in my home store. I am NOT on the other side of the city, thank you!
We don’t need rain to bugger the trains; if it geys hot enough in summer rails get overheated and buckled… cause of much grief to chorisyers travelling from inner city to Parramatta ( 24 km) to rehearse on a stinker of a Wed evening🙀
We don’t need rain to bugger the trains; if it geys hot enough in summer rails get overheated and buckled… cause of much grief to chorisyers travelling from inner city to Parramatta ( 24 km) to rehearse on a stinker of a Wed evening🙀
Oh a whole variety of weather can mess with GB's rail network: too much rain, too little rain, too hot, too cold, too much snow, the wrong sort of snow, leaves, wind, storm surges, fog, cows,...
In the end my train was about 15 minutes late in leaving, but once we got going there was a 40mph speed limit, which didn't help matters. Got there in the end though.
Today ICTH the festering pile of uselessness which is SharePoint, which exists solely to make simple things difficult and complicated things utterly impossible.
More succinctly, it’s a pain in the arse. This morning I discovered that if channels and data have been deleted from a specific team in MS Teams, it doesn’t delete the data on the bloody sharepoint - you have to go to share point and delete it manually.
I hate Sharepoint. A lot of our departmental reference guides have been moved to it and finding stuff is a pain unless someone's given you a direct link to it. Uploading something to the correct bit of it so that it shows up where you expect it to be is an adventure into the wilder and more untamed areas of cyberspace.
Piglet - it's a platform where you can upload files which in theory are available to read/download by whoever you want them to be available to. Guidance docs often go that way.
Piglet--think of it as a bookcase that everybody in your company* can access, except it stores computer files. So theoretically I can put document x up on Sharepoint and tell you the location of it, and you can go grab it. Of course, you have to have the electronic permissions to do so, or even to see the directory (folder) in the first place--which is IT's job to give you--people off the street can't just barge in and grab stuff (you hope).
That's okay, but the suckiness occurs when people airily say, "Oh, of course you know where we keep that stuff, why do you keep bothering me for a link?--just go look!" and you spend ages looking and feeling like an idiot because you see NOTHING, only to discover that in fact, IT did NOT give you the appropriate permissions when you were hired/transferred to this project/etc, and so you can't see a bloody thing--and everybody thinks you're an idiot, though it's not your fault at all.
Another Sharepoint hater here. Though it’s not as bad as a system called Digigov, which supposedly manages all our leave, personal reviews and training records. I once wrote an informal guide for the team on how to submit your personal review objectives on Digigov; it worked quite well as I used phrases like “At this point the obvious thing would be to do X. DO NOT DO THIS or Y will happen. Instead, go back to the previous page (there is no back button so you’ll have to repeat the whole tedious cycle again to get there) and do Z. THEN save, but don’t press submit…”
I quite like Sharepoint, but then I'm the one providing info to other people. Power Automate is a dream come true for those of us who like algorithms but lack the patience to learn to code and it lets me drop the files in a folder, the relevant tags and descriptions in an Excel file and then populates parallel Sharepoint sites (because corporate and educations users are on different systems) without me having to life a finger. Oh, and because they're in subsites I have full control over permissions so no-one needs to bugger about with IT to get access.
Our organisation is slowly moving to Sharepoint. The problem is no-one's put any training notes together, they keep on saying go look at the Microsoft site. All very well, but it all appears to be videos, and I don't learn from them! I need the info written down so that I can refer back to the relevant bit without having to wade through a video, pause it, rewind and re-listen 10 times, and still fail to get it to work.
Our organisation is slowly moving to Sharepoint. The problem is no-one's put any training notes together, they keep on saying go look at the Microsoft site. All very well, but it all appears to be videos, and I don't learn from them! I need the info written down so that I can refer back to the relevant bit without having to wade through a video, pause it, rewind and re-listen 10 times, and still fail to get it to work.
Have to say nobody gave me any training on Sharepoint I just started prodding it and Googling to see if I could make it do what I wanted. Generally Sharepoint is pretty well (if informally) documented and places like Stack Overflow have already highlighted most of the hard limits.
I hope they do, but the laws of the universe dictate that the more you need a transcript / double speed, the less like it is that they will be provided.
I know the current conflict is something that many feel strongly about, and opinions are certainly polarized, but TICTH some of the responses I've seen on social media since the weekend.
And also while I'm at it, the general insensitivity and the gloating that I've also seen, from people sitting there reading their screens in comfortable and safe situations and rejoicing in the deaths of people they've never met who (on either side) have been caught up in something they didn't ask for.
Trades that put up an enquiry form/email address on their website. Welcome to me, as my hearing loss means online communication is easier than phoning. But do they respond? Do they fuck.
Trades that put up an enquiry form/email address on their website. Welcome to me, as my hearing loss means online communication is easier than phoning. But do they respond? Do they fuck.
I'm wondering what trade it is where respond or fuck are the options...
Trades that put up an inquiry form/email address on their website. Welcome to me, as my hearing loss means online communication is easier than phoning. But do they respond? Do they fuck.
The same for me it is so annoying. I have two different ones out there this week waiting for some kind of response.
TICTH the bastard in the white van who drove into my car, causing considerable damage, and then drove off. I got his number and reported it to the police, but I suspect he’ll deny all knowledge and there’s nothing I can do. I’ve been meaning to buy a dashcam for months. I’ve now ordered one.
TICTH the bastard in the white van who drove into my car, causing considerable damage, and then drove off. I got his number and reported it to the police, but I suspect he’ll deny all knowledge and there’s nothing I can do. I’ve been meaning to buy a dashcam for months. I’ve now ordered one.
If you've got the reg number, your insurers will be able to pursue him and his insurance company. This is quite separate from any police action and denying knowledge won't help him as it's balance of probabilities, so if the reg matches the vehicle description they've got him and his insurers will deal with the TP claim regardless of if he calls it in. You can also pursue any uninsured losses (e.g
bus/taxi fares, insurance excess)bagainst them once they're identified by the insurer.
Do you have legal costs cover on your policy? That would make things easier.
TICTH the bastard in the white van who drove into my car, causing considerable damage, and then drove off. I got his number and reported it to the police, but I suspect he’ll deny all knowledge and there’s nothing I can do. I’ve been meaning to buy a dashcam for months. I’ve now ordered one.
If he did considerable damage to you car, it’s unlikely that there was no damage to his van, and that damage might undercut any denials on his part.
Some white vans are so scruffy and battered anyway that more recent damage might be hard to detect...but yes, it's a thought.
TICTH the white van drivers (and others, in cars) who career at far more than 30mph through our narrow village street, narrowly missing poor disabled people (such as Me) who really are disabled enough already...
We've asked for a 20mph limit, but no luck so far.
What is it about the color white? Here the major threat to life and limb is white pickup trucks driven aggressively on the freeway. I had one that scared the crap out of me every day on the way to work some years ago, until the day I saw it engulfed in flames on the side of the road.
I think that, in the UK at least, white seems to be the base colour for most vans - at least, the sort of van used by many small tradesmen etc., who have a reputation for driving badly...
I think that, in the UK at least, white seems to be the base colour for most vans - at least, the sort of van used by many small tradesmen etc., who have a reputation for driving badly...
Almost all vehicles are cheapest in white, so if you're buying for utility rather than appearance white is the preferred option. It also makes it easier to source replacement bodywork.
I think that, in the UK at least, white seems to be the base colour for most vans - at least, the sort of van used by many small tradesmen etc., who have a reputation for driving badly...
Almost all vehicles are cheapest in white, so if you're buying for utility rather than appearance white is the preferred option. It also makes it easier to source replacement bodywork.
And a white van shows much more clearly any advertising etc that a tradesman/person may apply.
It also allows wags to finger-write clearly in any dust or dirt on the white paint, thus:
I wish my wife was as dirty as this van (in one hand) She is, mate, she is (in someone else's hand)
TICTH our new smoke detectors. The Scottish government brought in a new law that all smoke detectors have to be interlinked and either wired into the mains or have a tamper-proof battery. We replaced our old battery smoke detectors with the latter. Today one of the new ten-year-battery detectors started bleeping. The ten year battery has lasted less than two years.
It has a sticker on it saying "Date of replacement 31 Dec 2031." I wish.
Fun question - is this a one-off malfunctioning detector, or will the rest start beeping soon? We have a spare detector to replace it, but if another one goes, I think we'll have to replace the entire set.
TICT the deepest pits of H our tamper proof smoke detector. I know it has to go to the recycling centre, but where to put a bleeping tamper-proof detector meanwhile? I tried putting it in the wheelie bin, but we could still hear it bleeping inside the house, and presumably our neighbours could hear it too. I then dumped it in the green cone, but I can still hear the ******* thing. So now I'm going to have to retrieve it from the green cone (yuck!) and do what? Bury it?
Smoke alarms are the devil. I once lived in a block of flats where they were so sensitive they'd take umbrage if you even thought about possibility of looking in their direction. It was like living in a war zone. The damn things would go off at any time of day or night and you'd be forced to scramble and evacuate, whatever the weather. It only took some idiot deciding they wanted toast at 3am and everyone else had a broken night.
I hate smoke alarms and would never have one voluntarily. I have them here but that's because the house was already fitted with them when I got it.
I have one for the same reason NEQ does - it's The Law. Mine started chirping a few months ago and I was very grateful to a taller (and cleverer) friend for replacing the battery for me - I wouldn't have a clue how to dismantle and remantle the bloody thing.
Drunks making toast were the bane of my and Mrs Feet's lives the first year we were married and lived in a flat on the 3rd floor of student halls. It got to the point where I would leave my boot by the bed so I could slip them straight on to go down when the alarm went off, and then usually have to wait for the building to be given the all clear.
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Jobs would be easy. As a teacher you start in September and leave on August 31st. Except when you do temporary or supply work. But I have always updated my CV of proper jobs. So the only problem would be temp jobs in the vacations when I was a student.
When we married I was a newly qualified lawyer with a salary, and the NE Man was a PhD student with no salary. We got a mortgage to buy our first flat solely on the basis of my income.
When we filled out our marriage schedule the registrar objected to us both having the same pre-marital address. She asked what my parents address was, deleted my actual address the flat I had bought!) and substituted my parents' address.
Our marriage certificate makes it look as though it was my husband's flat.
At some point in the future some hapless historian is going to write Analysis of marriage certificates in the Highlands of Scotland show that pre-marital cohabitation was still taboo in the 1980s and 90s, indicating the ongoing influence of the Free Church...., when it fact it was just the Registrar buggering up everyone's marriage schedules.
Or when you leave at the end of December or the end of April (the other choices in England and Wales) or whenever the heck 4 term time weeks notice falls (as in Scotland or FE).
Making an appointment for a flu shot has suddenly become far more complicated than it used to be. They are asking for much more information when you make the appointment. They used to wait to write down your Medicare number when you went for the shot; now they want it in advance. They al;so asked for a "group number". I had never heard of that, so I left it blank. I finally did get an appointment, and I sucessfully fought off their efforts to send me to Roanoke.
Oh a whole variety of weather can mess with GB's rail network: too much rain, too little rain, too hot, too cold, too much snow, the wrong sort of snow, leaves, wind, storm surges, fog, cows,...
Disgraceful. Trains would run so much faster if they didn't have to stop for passengers.
Piglet - it's a platform where you can upload files which in theory are available to read/download by whoever you want them to be available to. Guidance docs often go that way.
Piglet--think of it as a bookcase that everybody in your company* can access, except it stores computer files. So theoretically I can put document x up on Sharepoint and tell you the location of it, and you can go grab it. Of course, you have to have the electronic permissions to do so, or even to see the directory (folder) in the first place--which is IT's job to give you--people off the street can't just barge in and grab stuff (you hope).
That's okay, but the suckiness occurs when people airily say, "Oh, of course you know where we keep that stuff, why do you keep bothering me for a link?--just go look!" and you spend ages looking and feeling like an idiot because you see NOTHING, only to discover that in fact, IT did NOT give you the appropriate permissions when you were hired/transferred to this project/etc, and so you can't see a bloody thing--and everybody thinks you're an idiot, though it's not your fault at all.
Bitter, me? Why, yes. Yes I am.
(I sometimes find these helpful as I can read quite quickly, and the process is quicker for me than sitting there listening to someone.)
Have to say nobody gave me any training on Sharepoint I just started prodding it and Googling to see if I could make it do what I wanted. Generally Sharepoint is pretty well (if informally) documented and places like Stack Overflow have already highlighted most of the hard limits.
Ditto. I often do two things. 1. Run the video at double speed. 2. Bring up the captions (not always possible).
And also while I'm at it, the general insensitivity and the gloating that I've also seen, from people sitting there reading their screens in comfortable and safe situations and rejoicing in the deaths of people they've never met who (on either side) have been caught up in something they didn't ask for.
I'm wondering what trade it is where respond or fuck are the options...
The same for me it is so annoying. I have two different ones out there this week waiting for some kind of response.
If you've got the reg number, your insurers will be able to pursue him and his insurance company. This is quite separate from any police action and denying knowledge won't help him as it's balance of probabilities, so if the reg matches the vehicle description they've got him and his insurers will deal with the TP claim regardless of if he calls it in. You can also pursue any uninsured losses (e.g
bus/taxi fares, insurance excess)bagainst them once they're identified by the insurer.
Do you have legal costs cover on your policy? That would make things easier.
TICTH the white van drivers (and others, in cars) who career at far more than 30mph through our narrow village street, narrowly missing poor disabled people (such as Me) who really are disabled enough already...
We've asked for a 20mph limit, but no luck so far.
Almost all vehicles are cheapest in white, so if you're buying for utility rather than appearance white is the preferred option. It also makes it easier to source replacement bodywork.
On new vehicles it's usually about £500 extra for a colour other than white.
And a white van shows much more clearly any advertising etc that a tradesman/person may apply.
I wish my wife was as dirty as this van (in one hand)
She is, mate, she is (in someone else's hand)
It has a sticker on it saying "Date of replacement 31 Dec 2031." I wish.
Fun question - is this a one-off malfunctioning detector, or will the rest start beeping soon? We have a spare detector to replace it, but if another one goes, I think we'll have to replace the entire set.
I hate smoke alarms and would never have one voluntarily. I have them here but that's because the house was already fitted with them when I got it.