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Official Rant of the Day

This is a rant. Just went through emails from last week and I’m on the road for four weeks straight starting next week. Ugh!!!
 
Got word Saturday that a fraternity brother of mine, also a coworker passed away. Guy was in his late 20s, early 30s. So dang young!
 
Memo to the freaking snowbird from Saskatchewan - DO NOT reserve a prime morning tee time and show up with your 14/15 year old grandson who looks like he's never played golf before, and proceed to give him on-course lessons and let him take 8 practice swings and hit 2-3 balls on every freaking shot. There are other people on the course behind you. A lot of them. A**hole.
 
BigMac said:
Memo to the freaking snowbird from Saskatchewan - DO NOT reserve a prime morning tee time and show up with your 14/15 year old grandson who looks like he's never played golf before, and proceed to give him on-course lessons and let him take 8 practice swings and hit 2-3 balls on every freaking shot. There are other people on the course behind you. A lot of them. A**hole.
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This is the worst. I am on the horn to the clubhouse early and often on this one. I don't care if it makes me a Karen.
 
My mom works for a non-profit, she lives with us in our spare house Will Smith in Fresh Prince style....So she volunteers in the community which i think is nice. Today she had to do interviews because they found out that one of their valuators , basically a person that would estimate value of some of the second hand art and other stuff they took in, was purposely undervaluing it by huge amounts so she could buy it herself and resell it for profit.

People are amazing sometimes. Can you imagine how horrible a person you have to be to do this? This whole non-profit is to help under-privileged families furnish their houses at reasonable prices.
 
MtlJeff said:
My mom works for a non-profit, she lives with us in our spare house Will Smith in Fresh Prince style....So she volunteers in the community which i think is nice. Today she had to do interviews because they found out that one of their valuators , basically a person that would estimate value of some of the second hand art and other stuff they took in, was purposely undervaluing it by huge amounts so she could buy it herself and resell it for profit.

People are amazing sometimes. Can you imagine how horrible a person you have to be to do this? This whole non-profit is to help under-privileged families furnish their houses at reasonable prices.
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There's a special place in Hell for people like that.
 
BigMac said:
Memo to the freaking snowbird from Saskatchewan - DO NOT reserve a prime morning tee time and show up with your 14/15 year old grandson who looks like he's never played golf before, and proceed to give him on-course lessons and let him take 8 practice swings and hit 2-3 balls on every freaking shot. There are other people on the course behind you. A lot of them. A**hole.
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Just do what @Jeff Spicoli does
Yell "Not Today!" and make your way past them.
 
As part of my "punishment" at work, I have to read through a policy and state in writing that I understand it. Yeah I get it, but the wording in it bothers me, specifically a segment about "meeting my supervisor's expectations". Knows nothing about the job we do, how we do it, who we actually work for (ie. Finance).

Something new has come to light in all this, in that we are pretty sure our manager uses AI to process all correspondence to staff in our department. We can tell by the wording, and by the actual words that are used/not used.... helpful that we also have an AI dept at the college. It bothers me immensely that someone unqualified and uninterested in our department floats through without doing the work that he is supposed to do.

In the end, I will end up taking it and doing the paperwork. But like 95% of me wants to walk in and throw it in their faces and quit. That other 5% likes to own a home, to buy groceries, and keep my child in the daycare at work lol.
 
Just_Brad said:
As part of my "punishment" at work, I have to read through a policy and state in writing that I understand it. Yeah I get it, but the wording in it bothers me, specifically a segment about "meeting my supervisor's expectations". Knows nothing about the job we do, how we do it, who we actually work for (ie. Finance).

Something new has come to light in all this, in that we are pretty sure our manager uses AI to process all correspondence to staff in our department. We can tell by the wording, and by the actual words that are used/not used.... helpful that we also have an AI dept at the college. It bothers me immensely that someone unqualified and uninterested in our department floats through without doing the work that he is supposed to do.

In the end, I will end up taking it and doing the paperwork. But like 95% of me wants to walk in and throw it in their faces and quit. That other 5% likes to own a home, to buy groceries, and keep my child in the daycare at work lol.
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Adulting sucks so bad sometimes.
 
Because I have been making this thread a daily go to - mini rant of the day.

I show up to work early and get things ready for teams to come train and practice because they book ice. As part of the national teams I feel obligated and well it isn't like me to do things half way.

So I show up early, do extra preps so they can have great ice to train on.

What happens?

They show up 20 minutes late, half a coffee, go out and train for 20 minutes then go home. They have the ice booked for 2 hours.

So why do I even bother putting in the work and effort to do this for them? Before anyone asks, I have made it know to the federation about these issues, but they don't seem to care. The hall doesn't really care either because we still bill them for the full time, but as national teams and teams that are being paid to play the sport I think it is just really poor form and a bad look.

Anyway, thanks for listening to the rant of the day! (This could be a daily one really.... 4 weeks till the end of the season!)
 
ESPN, has become very tough to watch anymore.

Molly Qerim, just seems like she hates working there. she is always annoyed at Stephen A and Mad dog, which i do understand, but the face she makes when they talk is hilarious.
 
The Mall of America is overrated. My kids were wowed by it. We all ended up with head colds because of it. And when I asked the kids what their favorite part was on the 4.5 hour ride home (that took 6.5 hours because of a crash on the interstate)......they both said the Children's Museum in Eau Claire, WI that we stopped at on the way there. Second place votes for the continental breakfast at our hotel and the hotels swimming pool. Not one mention about the Crayola Experience (which to be fair my daughter did love), the Aquarium, the rides.....nothing.

I could've saved a lot of money by never leaving the state. I mean yeah it's massive and impressive, but most of the stores are blah and the ride lines are so long, even my kids didn't have the patience to wait for them.
 
Couldn’t make it out of the season without another bug ripping its way through the house. But my daughter did tell us her head hurts, so maybe we’re almost out of that brutal stage where she’s sick and can’t tell us what’s wrong.
 
Nappy said:
The Mall of America is overrated. My kids were wowed by it. We all ended up with head colds because of it. And when I asked the kids what their favorite part was on the 4.5 hour ride home (that took 6.5 hours because of a crash on the interstate)......they both said the Children's Museum in Eau Claire, WI that we stopped at on the way there. Second place votes for the continental breakfast at our hotel and the hotels swimming pool. Not one mention about the Crayola Experience (which to be fair my daughter did love), the Aquarium, the rides.....nothing.

I could've saved a lot of money by never leaving the state. I mean yeah it's massive and impressive, but most of the stores are blah and the ride lines are so long, even my kids didn't have the patience to wait for them.
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My parents love to tell the story of my first trip to Disney World. Apparently my favorite thing was the shuttle from the hotel to the park. Sounds like you’re living the dream!
 
RealPretendPsychic said:
My parents love to tell the story of my first trip to Disney World. Apparently my favorite thing was the shuttle from the hotel to the park. Sounds like you’re living the dream!
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We had a trip to Disney World all but booked a couple years ago. At the time my kids were 5 and 3. I sat my wife down and I said, do we really want to spend this type of money when they might not remember any of it? We ending up cancelling it - because it would've been just like this.

Every vacation we go on the kids remember two things - the hotel and if it had a nice swimming pool. We might as well vacation at the hotel here in town.
 
RealPretendPsychic said:
Couldn’t make it out of the season without another bug ripping its way through the house. But my daughter did tell us her head hurts, so maybe we’re almost out of that brutal stage where she’s sick and can’t tell us what’s wrong.
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It's always better when they can tell you what's wrong. Worst feeling in the world as a parent when you don't know.
 
Nappy said:
We had a trip to Disney World all but booked a couple years ago. At the time my kids were 5 and 3. I sat my wife down and I said, do we really want to spend this type of money when they might not remember any of it? We ending up cancelling it - because it would've been just like this.

Every vacation we go on the kids remember two things - the hotel and if it had a nice swimming pool. We might as well vacation at the hotel here in town.
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So @Nappy is getting a pool/ice rink :ROFLMAO:
 
You get what you pay for in this world. And why is anyone surprised otherwise.

Edit: we had new hardwood installed by a contractor that was recommended by someone in my wife's family (the dreaded family friend). Well this guy was very cheap compared to others....and I was stupid enough to just go with it. Well 8 months later and there are still things that weren't finished. Oh and they put a hole in the wall and chipped the kitchen cabinet. But since they were a "family friend" we let them come back to patch hole and fixed cabinet. I'm done and don't feel like arguing anymore but the wife was just on the phone giving him the business again. Now they are coming next week to finish strip and some odd and ends....I don't want them in my house anymore. I'm just tired of it all and want to move on. Lesson learned
 
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AndyL05 said:
Daughter has 104 temp....going to be a long night
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This flu season has been brutal. My daughter has been home sick the last two days. I thought it was spring?! Hope she recovers quickly and you all get some sleep.
 
Nappy said:
The Mall of America is overrated. My kids were wowed by it. We all ended up with head colds because of it. And when I asked the kids what their favorite part was on the 4.5 hour ride home (that took 6.5 hours because of a crash on the interstate)......they both said the Children's Museum in Eau Claire, WI that we stopped at on the way there. Second place votes for the continental breakfast at our hotel and the hotels swimming pool. Not one mention about the Crayola Experience (which to be fair my daughter did love), the Aquarium, the rides.....nothing.

I could've saved a lot of money by never leaving the state. I mean yeah it's massive and impressive, but most of the stores are blah and the ride lines are so long, even my kids didn't have the patience to wait for them.
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We did a trip to the Mall of America right before my son was born, and I think we spent like 6 hours there. Walking around, eating, the aquarium. All in all, it was pretty underwhelming. I don't remember anything special about the trip other than the giant LEGO statues, the PGA Superstore I stopped at, a crazy rainstorm on the drive back, and a hotel that had the window screen blow in because of the storm.

Its big, there is stuff there, but the stuff repeats multiple times. How many LIDS or Silver Jeans do you need in a mall? The amusement part is cool, but we just walked through it.
 
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