Darkside wrote:
Did he really take a week off at the beginning of what could be the only 2 playoff appearances that Chicago Sports teams will have this year? Why the hell would you do THAT? Maybe yourmom knows. But dumb as hell.
This is another of those weeks where your "causal listener" is in for the one week or so a year that they listen to sports talk.
A massive Bulls showing in the first three games and a huge resurgence of the Blackhawks and he's gone and we've got fill ins. When Meat isn't renewed, there's gonna be a big ass I told You So coming from the board. Something tells me that although they have to grant PDO requests when they get them, they're still shaking their heads at the guy when he chooses the times he does.
I remember when we were installing an Avaya S8510 at a major call center in Lombard, we were displacing a big ol Nortel Option 81C. All you need to know is that these are big ass phone switches, capable of handling several thousand sets, so it was about a 5 week job to design, install and cut over.
We were all reassigned to this site temporarly to do design and install. The new system was to run side by side the old one. Design and install took 4 weeks, and the new system was basically up and running when the primary technician for the site told my management that he needed to take a week off to drive to LA to go to a family event that was happening the week that we were cutting over. Cut over day is big, I think we started on Friday at 5pm, went until 2am Sat, back at 8am Sat until about 1am Sun, then Sun from 11am to 6pm or so. The following Monday we all were to work the help desk to assist the customer the first couple working days of the new system.
Now he worked there for 5 years, had the vacation time. And he was granted it but the boss was pissed because this was a major installation, for a customer who bills over 10k a month, and it was HIS site, and he wasn't there to help "cut over" the new system because he had a vacation request.
The day after the cut, I was working the "help desk" (you dial HELP from your phone and it went to a couple phones we had set up in the switchroom for "day after support") the big boss here came into the room and told me that this was now my site, my customer. The old tech, vacation guy, was assigned to smaller Norstar systems, of which there was a combined monthly revenue of less that 3k for all systems.
When layoff time came 7 months later he was first to go. His sites weren't billing enough to "cover his nut" (if you'll pardon the expression).
“Ok, I don’t like to gear my material to the audience but I’d like to make an exception because I was told that there is a convention of plumbers in San Francisco this week – I understand about 30 of them came down to the show tonight – so before I came out I worked-up a joke especially for the plumbers. Those of you who aren’t plumbers probably won’t get this and won’t think it’s funny, but I think those of you who are plumbers will really enjoy this…
“This lawn supervisor was out on a sprinkler maintenance job and he started working on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom 7″ gangly wrench. Just then, this little apprentice leaned over and said, “You can’t work on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom 7″ wrench.” Well this infuriated the supervisor, so he went and got Volume 14 of the Kinsley manual, and he reads to him and says, “The Langstrom 7″ wrench can be used with the Findlay sprocket.” Just then, the little apprentice leaned over and said, “It says sprocket not socket!”_________________
STU-GOTZ wrote:
Well Mac told me to to tell you to go FUCK YOURSELF!!! ..So now it's been said .. .
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