What is pissing you off this time?

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by monster

Forgetting son's appointment yesterday -$80 for no-show

Ouch.

[Clodfobble]

Holy shit, that's an expensive no-show fee. I guess they charge you for the whole appointment.

[monster]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Holy shit, that's an expensive no-show fee. I guess they charge you for the whole appointment.

yeah. and the insurance won't pay for fuck-ups so deductibles and all that become irrelevant

[footfootfoot]

The previous administration's unchecked narcissism has reached Trump-Level grandiosity and denial. I want to stab myself in the brain.

What.
She.
I.
Don't.
Even.

[Griff]

Sorry foot, do your best.

[monster]

Still, apparently, I only have 1 hour and 21 minutes left to work this week, and still have fuckloads to do, so it's pretty certain that I will make that up in overtime

[monster]

Thunderboi's English teacher again......

the "rubric" for the second big assignment is even more fucked up than the first. Not only were four parts of it due the day before it was even set, but there's shit like first do this (due 4/21) then this (DUE 4/20) then this (due 4/13)...... So we emailed her about it and she's "yes that's right, they're just guidelines to shoot for..... how in the fuck are you supposed to shoot for the day before the fucking assignment is set? and and and.... Does this English teacher understand the word "then"? aaaaaargh

[xoxoxoBruce]

English teacher, not math or logic which seem beyond her comprehension. I suppose it would no good to correct her.

[footfootfoot]

Yeah, they really should have enacted No Teacher Left Behind first.

[Griff]

My brother is a department head in Engrish. He tells me the War on Teachers™ has pretty steadily reduced the quality of his applicants. Bright folks don't want to be abused by the politicians and press while trying to survive the first 5 years of teaching when the prep hours are horrific and you're more likely to be bumped in a layoff...

Maybe the pendulum will swing back a little when Betsy DeVos saves education from its unprofitably.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Yeah, they really should have enacted No Teacher Left Behind first.

Heh. That's funny, right there, I don't care who ya are.

[monster]

This school has some great English teachers. He had one last tri. this one is a Devos Special ahead of her time

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by monster

This school has some great English teachers. He had one last tri. this one is a Devos Special ahead of her time

Confession: I just tried to figger out what Devo had to do with anything.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Devos
Devo's

Like black lives and commas, apostrophes matter.

[Clodfobble]

Dell's technical support team can LICK. MY. BALLS.


I have a hardware issue, either with the video card or the motherboard. It is 1000%, no-possible-alternative, crystal-clearly, a hardware issue. Dell support says we have to go through a few hours of diagnostics and OS reinstalls and "create a new user to see if it happens over THERE" bullshit. I already did all that troubleshooting myself, but they have a protocol, fine, I get it. We go through the rigamarole. Three or four times the guy asks me to describe again what exactly is happening, which is this spastic screen flickering and image rendering issue. He can't see it when he remotes into the desktop because it most reliably happens during bootup, which kicks him off his remote session. After checking everything else, he agrees it is a hardware issue, sends me a box, I send in the machine.

A week later I get my laptop back. They have replaced the LCD screen and the hard drive, neither of which were suspected to be the problem. Within an hour of beginning to set my machine back up, it full-on bluescreens. Fuckers. I try to keep going, the bluescreening gets worse, and meanwhile the flickering issue has not resolved in the slightest, despite being "checked for full functionality" before leaving the repair depot.

It now occurs to me to take my phone and record a video of the flickering issue. I do so, put the video on the desktop, and call IT support again. The woman wants to run diagnostics, refuses to watch the video I've helpfully created for her. After 30 minutes, at exactly the stroke of 7:00 PM my time, she has "internet connectivity issues." 5 minutes later I receive an email saying I can call back, give them this reference number because she is now off her shift. Internet connectivity my ass.

Shortly after, I get an email from the guy at the repair depot. "Just confirming that everything is working great! Reply if there are any remaining issues." Oh hooray, maybe I can skip the first-tier support bay and start with people who already know what's been done so far. I reply. He does not. I wait all weekend (really I was too busy to deal with any of this anyway.)

Monday morning. I open yet another chat session. I say please look at the previous logs. The problem is described in detail, and the failed attempts to solve it should be too. It's a hardware issue. They need to replace the video card and/or the motherboard. "Let's just check and see if we can correct the bluescreen errors first." FUUUUUCCK. YOOOOOOOU.

I ask her to watch the video. She ignores me. She spends the next 2.5 hours fucking around with drivers and diagnostics, then it helpfully bluescreens again. She calls me, I tell her what the error was, and connect her again. It bluescreens again. I tell her what the (different this time) error was, and connect her again. I ask her again to PLEASE just watch the video. She ignores me. She spends another 1.5 hours finishing her diagnostics, has me try to reproduce the flickering issue ("Yes, it's still happening." "Okay, try again now." "Yes, it's still happening." "How about now?" "Yes." "It's still happening?" "Yes." "Describe again what exactly is happening." "I took a video. It's on the desktop.")

She finally watches the video. "Oh. This clearly looks like it is a hardware issue."

NO. SHIT. SHERLOCK.


They're going to send me another box. So I can send it back to the repair depot and get the video card and/or motherboard replaced. Or maybe they'll decide to replace the memory this time, because why fucking not?