What's bugging you? (2011)

[1992casey]

hawing, I'm with whizkid. I'd stick to what you know about this employee based on your contact with him on the job. If he was cool around you, it doesn't reflect poorly on you to report that even if he was the biggest turd in the world elsewhere.

[hawing]

Good god, MJLiverock. I suppose that story is awesome now, maybe not so much when it was happening to you.

 

The style of UW-Madison housing violations that can get you into University (not just housing) suspension-ville are fairly major: assault, theft, selling prohibited substances, stuff like that. If something like that has happened, it'll probably turn up if he does reapply because my employer does background checks for every hire (including re-hires). Then again, if he is able to reapply, it'll be because his appeal was successful. Ehh, it'll become clearer soon enough.

[Funketown]

MJ, your story made me think of the only time I was written up during my two years of dorm life.

 

My floor Freshman year had a really awesome RA, the type of guy who would pretty much just let things be as long as students weren't bugging anybody outside of their rooms. A few huge trees had just been cut down outside our dorms, and there were several cross sections of the trunk, about a foot tall and 2-3 feet wide. A couple of my friends and I rolled the logs up to our floor (only a half flight of stairs) and stacked them up to the ceiling in front of his door. As we were about to finish, some RA from another building who was doing rounds wrote us up. I'm still bitter about that.

[GoudaBrew]

"Where's the "escape" key?"

 

- My Boss

[MJLiverock]

MJ, your story made me think of the only time I was written up during my two years of dorm life.

 

My floor Freshman year had a really awesome RA, the type of guy who would pretty much just let things be as long as students weren't bugging anybody outside of their rooms. A few huge trees had just been cut down outside our dorms, and there were several cross sections of the trunk, about a foot tall and 2-3 feet wide. A couple of my friends and I rolled the logs up to our floor (only a half flight of stairs) and stacked them up to the ceiling in front of his door. As we were about to finish, some RA from another building who was doing rounds wrote us up. I'm still bitter about that.

The RA on my floor was a pretty cool guy and we all got along with him. He was about 8 years older than us freshman, and was in the National Guard so he was always gone one weekend a month. After all the problems with the hall director went down my RA actually quite being an RA a few weeks later and he started spilling the beans on how the Hall Director and a few of the RA's discussed in meetings about trying to bust my floor for as many infractions as possible and to spend more time on my floor during rounds to be sure to catch anything at all. Of course the jerk RA who liked my girlfriend was all over it, he used to sit outside my door and at 12:00 on the nose bang on the door(waking up the nearby rooms with his banging and yelling) and escort my girlfriend out of the building on weeknights (opposite sex visitors had to leave at midnight on weeknights, she lived in a different dorm).

 

Other than the jerk RA and his issues with liking my GF, the only reason I can think of for the focus on my floor was the jerk guy RAwas cross country runner (my gf was a distance runner on the track team) and the hall director was a marathoner, and the one really annoying female RA pretty much hated anything to do with sports/(men, meat eaters, non art majors, etc.) and my floor had a fair number of football and baseball players whom they must have hated and enjoyed making trouble for.

 

 

[stoutdude04]

I miss college.

[ilovebeer]

That the NFL and it players came to agreement, now we have to listen to all the local media talk Packers.

[ilovebeer]

In construction zones when a lane is closed people don't get over until the last second also people don't wait in line when there is a sing that says please wait for next available person.

[jjkoestler]

I live in Madison, and I understand that people love riding their bicycles. I loved riding mine too, but then I turned 16, got a drivers license, and ditched the bike. Attention bicycle riders (I refuse to say bikers as that conjures the image of tough guys; not people pedaling a bicycle wearing spandex that matches their helmet). You cannot have it both ways. You cannot be a vehicle AND a pedestrian. If you want to be treated like a vehicle and ride in the road then you need to obey traffic laws and pedal faster than 4 mph. People would throw things at my jeep if I was driving 4 mph in a city. The other day I saw a group of bicycle riders pedaling around carrying signs that said something to the effect of "bicycles have equal rights," and they were intentionally riding slowly and taking up an entire lane to prove their "point." I couldn't honk though because they would run me out of Madison and take away my liberal card for daring to disturb these champions of bicyclists rights.

[bani1717]

My dad likes to say that with regard to bikers, equal rights are not special rights.

 

I can see how a bike rider could legitimately act as a pedestrian after riding on the road (eg, by waiting to cross at a crosswalk instead of trying to make a left turn), or vice versa, since at different times it's safer to ride as one or the other depending on where you are. But if you're going to do that, you have to be aware of your surroundings. When I'm riding on the road, it's pretty much either in a bike lane or on a quiet road with plenty of room where I'm not in anyone's way.

[Glennron]

I miss college.

[RightFieldCoder]

ilovebeer wrote:

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That the NFL and it players came to agreement, now we have to listen to all the local media talk Packers.

Plus 100 rep points.

 

In construction zones when a lane is closed people don't get over until the last second.

I actually used to hate this. Then I read this and try to do it all the time.

[JumpinMacFlash]

You cannot have it both ways. You cannot be a vehicle AND a pedestrian. If you want to be treated like a vehicle and ride in the road then you need to obey traffic laws and pedal faster than 4 mph.

I love riding my bike too and I've been doing it more lately as well, but you're absolutely right. Someone riding a bicycle on the road should act as a vehicle, and they have a responsibility to follow traffic laws. The biggest reason being their own safety. I understand that most cyclists can't maintain a 25 mph speed, and that's fine. I understand that at some points they'll have to move into lanes of traffic because of parked cars. I don't understand when cyclists aren't paying attention to traffic and riding in the middle of the road. If my wife and I ride, we'll ride two-wide on less busy roads, but quickly get in line and off to the side as traffic approaches. Really, co-existing isn't hard, but it really amazes me how much conflict there is. A lot of drivers don't get it, and a lot of cyclists just seem ignorant. I'm really understanding toward the plight of cyclists, but I can't condone simply irresponsible biking habits.

[GAME05]

worked 12 hours today, all outside, in thick jeans and 100-degree heat. (I understand the rest of the country is like this, but this is pretty mild by me.) The boss adds "And we're not even into the heat of the summer yet!" i felt like quitting right there and moving to Canada.

[bani1717]

The most irritating thing (in Madison at least) about bicyclists is when they blow through a stop sign/red light when there's other traffic/pedestrians around. I've almost gotten hit by bikes multiple times that way. One of my friends was so pissed about it that he said he was going to start getting close enough to just kick the bikes over when they do that. That's obviously extreme, but sometimes I wonder if something like that is the only way these people will realize they're endangering themselves and others, in addition to breaking the law....

[Hammer]

I think that I have finally come to the realization that I am not a kid anymore. Softball was rough as hell tonight and it just shouldn't be that way...

[MJLiverock]

I realize people like golf, it's not my thing, but I understand some people like it. But why do golfers feel the need to tell me or anyone who will listen about the incredibly boring details of their golf round. I get it you chased the ball all over the course, sometimes it was in long grass, sometimes it was in sand, sometimes it rolled further than you wanted and others not enough and once in a while you hit it straight about 250 yards. It just isn't an interesting story.

I don't go around telling everyone, "Oh you should have seen my softball game last night, they played a rover on me in left field but I hit it over his head on a line into the gap. I must have hit it 200 feet and the grass was pretty dry so the ball rolled all the way to the wall. I was pulling into second when the centerfielder missed the cutoff man and the ball just scooted past the third baseman so I ended up with a triple on a ball hit into left center. Can you believe it? Then two inning later I batted again but the pitcher really skyed one on me and I popped it up to the shortstop."

 

I would feel like a total tool going on like that to coworkers or business associates yet if it is a story about a golf ball I am supposed to be interested and not think the tale is a total bore? I think I may start telling stories about my dart game in the basement to follow up on people's golf stories just to see the reaction. I'll regale the great details of, "Well I really needed that triple 20 but instead I hit a double one and you know that isn't worth anything...

[GAME05]

a lot like Liverock, i hate having to listen to people's dreams. "I had the craziest dream last night..." guh. i don't care! why are you telling me? yeah, i have dreams, too, but i don't go around telling everyone about them.

 

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slightly overqualified for the job--check.

moves me back to Carolina--check.

a nice work location--check.

a fun job--check.

...and then at the bottom I see it pays a whopping $24,000 per year. they've got to be kidding.

[JimH5]

I'm bugged by some of the infomercial channels on Directv. I'm scrolling down the program guide looking for something for my kid to watch, and to get there, I have to scroll past a program called Brazilian Butt and another one called Perkier Boobs.

 

I'm able to blockout the descriptions on the truly adult stuff, but for some reason these two are right there as I'm looking for SpongeBob.

[cwolf2012]

At my softball game on Tuesday, I slid into second and tore a 4x6 inch section of skin off the side of my leg (bad slide, my fault). I'm basically incapable of sleeping on my back, so the last several nights, I haven't been able to sleep more than a couple hours at a time. Eventually, I roll over to my left side and bam, shooting pain wakes me up.

 

Also, non-stick gauze is definitely not non-stick. I changed the dressing on the wound today, and basically tore off all the skin that had healed. That was even with soaking it in water beforehand.

[stoutdude04]

I just let those air dry. Try not to sleep on it. Those are the worst though for sure. Non stick gauze does not work.

[cwolf2012]

I had to dress it. I was playing hockey the night after.

[stoutdude04]

Ah, well then thats a different story. Cant even imagine with the shin guards pressed right against it...youch.

[mothershipconnection]

Have you tried gobbing it with vaseline before wrapping? I've never had one that bad, and in such an inconvenient spot, but when I've wrapped bad cuts, I'll use vaseline or A&D ointment before wrapping.

[Funketown]

Yesterday my wife and I went to the DMV to get our NC driver's licenses. We had to wait 4.5 hours to take our vision tests and rules tests. Got there at 8:30, left around 1:30.