OT: THE OT Thread: Grass mowing szn is here

[MarkusKetterer]

I disagree with pretty much everything about him, but I got to deal with Starlink a couple of days ago. It’s a fascinating system. It was extra thick wires, which I found weird, but upon looking closer at it, it’s amazing. The full wiring is braided, which gives it extra strength. It also has extra fibre optics in it specifically meant to run heat through it. It attaches to the spindle, allowing the receiver dish to rotate no matter what’s going on outside. The price was insane to run the wiring, but I do gotta give props to the Twitter owner for trying to fix Northern problems

 

[Dubi Doo]

Haha I interrupted a dude watchin it today- got him to pause and talk at least, it’s somethin! Also I should actually watch, that One Piece remake was fantastic.

Oh, and- another one! Had a meeting tonight, big account, unfortunately my more veteran partner is sick so we pushed the majority of it to another day. Got more details, didn’t screw it up, we’ll save ‘em money and get ‘em better energy. Feels good man.

Met lots of fine folks today and a good number of doggos. Storm comin in, but life and people can be good sometimes. Doggos almost always good.

Man, One Piece is where it's at. I don't even watch anime, and that show drew me in. I'm even more surprised my wife was drawn into it. The fact she binged an anime show about pirates with me is wild. There was just so much substance, and I really cared about the characters.

 

[brian_griffin]

Re: Shows - Apple TV's upcoming series Palm Royale is based on a book by one of my wife's (current) friends / classmates from junior high school, Juliet McDaniel. Laura Dern bought the movie rights from her book. We don't have Apple TV but my wife will sign up for a free trial shortly.

 

[Chainshot]

I enjoyed Poker Face as a send up of Columbo. And it is cool that someone I went to school with is working on that show (found out after watching it). We are deep into Death and Other Details and so far it is pretty good.

 

[TehDoak]

The only show in the last year that really turned into appointment viewing was 'the last of us', and I didn't play more than the 1st chapter of the video game. The first and the fourth episode was just great TV.

 

[Gras]

Re: Shows - Apple TV's upcoming series Palm Royale is based on a book by one of my wife's (current) friends / classmates from junior high school, Juliet McDaniel. Laura Dern bought the movie rights from her book. We don't have Apple TV but my wife will sign up for a free trial shortly.

You should get the trial just for Masters of the Air

 

[oldgoalie]

I enjoyed Poker Face as a send up of Columbo. And it is cool that someone I went to school with is working on that show (found out after watching it). We are deep into Death and Other Details and so far it is pretty good.

That’s a fantastic series. I love Mandy.

You should get the trial just for Masters of the Air

Can’t wait for tonight’s episode.

 

[Gras]

That’s a fantastic series. I love Mandy.


Can’t wait for tonight’s episode.

I already downloaded it earlier today, just have to find the time to watch tonight.

 

[Ehran]

Yesterday I went to an Embassy outreach and it reinforced how beaurecrats have no sense of humor. I met the VA rep, did what needed to be done no problem. Saw that the Visa guy was just sitting around doing nothing so asked if he had a moment to answer a couple questions. I asked what were the chances that my caretakers could get visas for a trip in July. He goes ages, possessions ie houses etc. I tell him 22 and 23, 1st year nurses out of university, no children. He goes zero chance as no guarantee they'd return to Thailand. So I joke, guess just fly them to Tijuana a couple weeks before I fly so they can walk across the border as asylum seekers. He raised his voice and told me to leave

ONG... dis you?

I came back to open a pizza shop in Pattaya, Thailand

14 years ago, I went to practice making pizza at Pontillo's Pizzeria in Cortland, New York.
I came back to open a pizza shop in Pattaya, Thailand, named "New York Pizza House"
Our regular customers are American Expat in this city
Thank you to everyone in the Pontillo family who have worked hard since 1947 and passed on special deliciousness.
From generation to generation.

 

[Sabresfansince1980]

If I become a sponsor to this site, I can get rid of ads and the pop-up screen asking me to disable my adblocker, correct?

Edit - is PayPal the only way to pay?

 

[Ehran]

If I become a sponsor to this site, I can get rid of ads and the pop-up screen asking me to disable my adblocker, correct?

Edit - is PayPal the only way to pay?

Yes about getting rid of ads.

It's been a while but I think I paid by credit card, but don't ask me for the steps to get to that point.

 

[Gras]

If I become a sponsor to this site, I can get rid of ads and the pop-up screen asking me to disable my adblocker, correct?

Edit - is PayPal the only way to pay?

If you switch to Brave Browser they go away

 

[Old Navy Goat]

ONG... dis you?

I came back to open a pizza shop in Pattaya, Thailand

Nope my only pizza experience is eating. Outside of Bronx pizza for late night eats I avoid any American style. I like this Napleatonian style wood fired place next to my favorite gentleman's club

 

[TheMistyStranger]

Gotta fire someone for the first time tomorrow. It's been an interesting 4 month start to my career in management

ONG... dis you?

I came back to open a pizza shop in Pattaya, Thailand

Oh shit! Pontillos was one of three things I liked about living in Cortland. The other two were hanging out with @slip and a decent Chinese food place I cant remember the name of.

 

[slip]

Gotta fire someone for the first time tomorrow. It's been an interesting 4 month start to my career in management



Oh shit! Pontillos was one of three things I liked about living in Cortland. The other two were hanging out with @slip and a decent Chinese food place I cant remember the name of.

Had a great time TMS!

Small world. My buddy Jeff owns Pontillos in Cortland and his wife is Thai. I remember him years ago talking about helping a family member set up a pizza shop in Thailand. This must be it.

Got "have a drink with ONG in Thailand" on the bucket list. Was there in 2015. Need to get back, though not sure wifey would approve of that particular bar/club scene. Ahh screw her! lol

 

[Old Navy Goat]

Had a great time TMS!

Small world. My buddy Jeff owns Pontillos in Cortland and his wife is Thai. I remember him years ago talking about helping a family member set up a pizza shop in Thailand. This must be it.

Got "have a drink with ONG in Thailand" on the bucket list. Was there in 2015. Need to get back, though not sure wifey would approve of that particular bar/club scene. Ahh screw her! lol

That's why they have closed door afternoon Gentlemen clubs. The wives think you're out golfing with buddies while you're putting balls in pockets. The better ones even have pools, buffets etc

 

[MarkusKetterer]

 

[Chainshot]

Gotta fire someone for the first time tomorrow. It's been an interesting 4 month start to my career in management



Oh shit! Pontillos was one of three things I liked about living in Cortland. The other two were hanging out with @slip and a decent Chinese food place I cant remember the name of.

Good luck with the firing. I used to have a job where I fired a lot of people. I never got used to it.

 

[Old Navy Goat]

Good luck with the firing. I used to have a job where I fired a lot of people. I never got used to it.

It all depends on how bad that person is. I fired one girl on my birthday that was supposed to do an open house.i got called 30 minutes after the open house was supposed to start with the I don't have my key, can you open the house. Threw on a golf shirt, Tossed the dog in the car, drove 20 minutes to the house and she wasn't there. She showed almost 40 minutes later, by then I had an offer on the house so secured the 6% commission on a 400k home. Was quite happy walking into the broker's office the next morning to explain why I fired her, and how I didn't want her to have anything to do with my listing.

Now other people it's harder if they're just not performing to expectations. I let 5 or so girls go every month if they're not covering their salary. Some are lazy, no problem firing. Some just aren't made for the work, too shy etc they're harder

 

[Chainshot]

It all depends on how bad that person is. I fired one girl on my birthday that was supposed to do an open house.i got called 30 minutes after the open house was supposed to start with the I don't have my key, can you open the house. Threw on a golf shirt, Tossed the dog in the car, drove 20 minutes to the house and she wasn't there. She showed almost 40 minutes later, by then I had an offer on the house so secured the 6% commission on a 400k home. Was quite happy walking into the broker's office the next morning to explain why I fired her, and how I didn't want her to have anything to do with my listing.

Now other people it's harder if they're just not performing to expectations. I let 5 or so girls go every month if they're not covering their salary. Some are lazy, no problem firing. Some just aren't made for the work, too shy etc they're harder

I had staff once who were excellent as closers. I went on vacation for two weeks and when I got back, the GM of the place told me I had to let the closer guy go because he was late for work the first night I was on vacation. The GM didn't do anything about it. His other assistant didn't do anything about it. They didn't even write the kid up. It was weird how much they wanted to weasel out of it.

Then I had another position where I had escalatory write-ups written up as templates. I churned through some folks who were dragging everyone down in short order - even got a death threat from one of them - but I didn't particularly enjoy it. That also got me sitting in on (and doing the write ups for) most of the other managers at that place. That was some of what I didn't care for.

 

[Old Navy Goat]

I had staff once who were excellent as closers. I went on vacation for two weeks and when I got back, the GM of the place told me I had to let the closer guy go because he was late for work the first night I was on vacation. The GM didn't do anything about it. His other assistant didn't do anything about it. They didn't even write the kid up. It was weird how much they wanted to weasel out of it.

Then I had another position where I had escalatory write-ups written up as templates. I churned through some folks who were dragging everyone down in short order - even got a death threat from one of them - but I didn't particularly enjoy it. That also got me sitting in on (and doing the write ups for) most of the other managers at that place. That was some of what I didn't care for.

I can definitely understand that. I hate people kicking the can to avoid responsibility. Big Gus is a softy and gets sick when he has to let people go, fortunately his primary mamasan has no such compulsions as she sees them as taking money from her

 

[TheMistyStranger]

This guy is completely incapable of doing the job, retaining information, following directions. I feel like they dramatically misrepresented themselves in the interview, with their 25+ years experience. It's disappointing. I like the guy on a personal level, but I have to fix almost everything he does, and I don't have time for that. He has apparently never terminated a network cable before, doesn't understand "the point" of a patch panel, has failed multiple phishing tests...

 

[oldgoalie]

This guy is completely incapable of doing the job, retaining information, following directions. I feel like they dramatically misrepresented themselves in the interview, with their 25+ years experience. It's disappointing. I like the guy on a personal level, but I have to fix almost everything he does, and I don't have time for that. He has apparently never terminated a network cable before, doesn't understand "the point" of a patch panel, has failed multiple phishing tests...

sounds like he is in the wrong line of work. good luck. firing people sucks.

 

[MarkusKetterer]

For the second time in a week, I was in charge at work. Now the first time was fine, as I got to make all decisions and make people do different things, which resulted in 3 people working in different areas of the job, and it resulted in 1/7 of the job being fully completed.

Yesterday, two of us were supposed to work on the same task, while there was 2 different rooms to work on. The one room had 3 electricians working in that same room, so there was no point in both of us to be there. So I went and worked in another room and did half of that job. So now we have a really short day at work, but because of that decision I got in shit. Makes no sense, especially seeing the guy was fine working in that first room by himself, as he did it all morning.

I’m just figuring it’s my boss wanting someone in charge, but doesn’t want them to think independently and just does what he wants.

 

[Chainshot]

This guy is completely incapable of doing the job, retaining information, following directions. I feel like they dramatically misrepresented themselves in the interview, with their 25+ years experience. It's disappointing. I like the guy on a personal level, but I have to fix almost everything he does, and I don't have time for that. He has apparently never terminated a network cable before, doesn't understand "the point" of a patch panel, has failed multiple phishing tests...

I haven't done any of that in 10 years and I think I can still polish fiber optic connectors FFS.