I'll just leave this here... Fairly self explanatory...
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Gripe du Jour:
My department is in the basement of the building, right by the back door to the employee parking lot. There is an entryway and another door that leads to the actual work area. Traditionally, that door was always left open, because one of the older employees would have a hissy-fit whenever it was shut (I don't know, the whole thing pre-dated my being in that department). Downside is, this time of year, whenever the back door opens, a cold draft blows through and across the hall...right into the department admin's office, freezing her out. That older employee retired at the end of 2015, so the admin asked if it was ok to finally start shutting the door through the winter. I didn't care...but then of course I had to listen an entire day of "why's the door shut?" from everyone who passed through. Most people were just curious, except for one guy, who seemed genuinely irritated by the 3 seconds it took to open and shut a door:
"Why's the door shut?"
- "To keep the cold out."
"So?"
- "When the outside door opens, the draft goes right into [Jane]'s office."
"Uh, yeah. So...?"
And he stands there and scowls at me for a minute before changing the subject to something else. I just looked back at him and shrugged, because I honestly I didn't know what he expected me to say. Good gawd man, you work 2 floors up and there are 3 other ways into the building. This has literally no bearing on anything you do.
[thermostat rant]
Are those people on the spectrum? It's like Rain Man, freaking out when his brother removed a book from his shelf.
HOW THE FLOCK DO PEOPLE GRADUATE WITH AN ENGINEERING DEGREE, AND NOT UNDERSTAND HOW A SIMPLE LOGIC CONTROL CIRCUIT WORKS? If the ambient temperature is above the set point of the thermostat, it doesn't matter if you set it to floccin' FORTY, it isn't going to make a difference. But she was all pleased with herself because "I was nice, I turned down the heat."
Nah, nothing like that, mostly just fear of change like fins said.
[Also, the guy's an ex-Marine, so I'm sure there was an element of "suck it up, you pvssies" in there. Doesn't really affect me either way.]
Good luck. I've tried explaining that one to my wife many a time. No success yet.
OMG This!!!! Don't Fvcking touch it, it's fine. No, you CAN leave the thermostat set at 68, have the furnace set to ON, AND the windows open when it's 76 outside this afternoon.... Cuz it won't floccing KICK ON UNTIL IT GETS DOWN TO 68 in here!!!!!
Paper steamers like this appear most days in the men's cubicles at work. Why does it annoy me?
Good luck. I've tried explaining that one to my wife many a time. No success yet.
Yup, exactly.
"Turn the furnace off, we're wasting power!"
Well actually....
The transformer in the furnace is ALWAYS on. Until you cut power to the furnace itself (usually a red switch in the vicinity of the furnace, or flip the breaker), the transformer will ALWAYS be converting 120v to 24v (all of the furnace's circuitry is on the 24v side). However, the power that's being drawn is minimal until the thermostat switch actually closes.
This is referred to as "ghost load".
Ugh. I've played day laborer as a mover a few times. Actually learned a lot about lifting heavy things. It's impressive what an average person can move with the right technique and a little leverage.
I did a move once and the guy had a pirate chest. The chest alone would have been heavy. This was no decorative piece. I don't know what was in it, but it was filled solid. The regualr movers said it was probably porno mags.
I work for a moving company, and today's job was....fun.
7 hours into the job (emptying a furniture store), cops showed up to stop the move. We weren't allowed to bring out one more piece.
Turns out, the client hadn't been paying rent for that retail spot in the Byward Market, and the corporation that owned the property called the cops to stop them from leaving. There was talk about making us put all the furniture back into the store (we just spent 7 hours padding and loading heavy furniture, we don't want to put it all back), but apparently the property manager was happy with us locking the trailer and putting a customs seal on it.
So now the client has to deal with the property manager's legal team before they're allowed to access their own property on our trucks.
Explain how Customs has jurisdiction over goods that have long been inside a store that's deep inside the country.
"Customs seal" is a common name for a standard type of seal that has non-customs uses, like any other time you want to prove to a first, second or third party that an item hasn't been accessed or tampered with.
Paper steamers like this appear most days in the men's cubicles at work. Why does it annoy me?
I don't even know wtf happened there.
Staff at my work cannot grasp the idea of thermostats. At all. Some don't understand GFCI outlets, either.
I don't even know wtf happened there.
Staff at my work cannot grasp the idea of thermostats. At all. Some don't understand GFCI outlets, either.
After you clarify that, then you can start explaining AFCIs....What don't they understand about a gfci outlet?
After you clarify that, then you can start explaining AFCIs....
What don't they understand about a gfci outlet?
What don't they understand about a gfci outlet?
Heh, no problem with that here:
1. There are no thermostats inside of commercial property in this country, other than those who are only accessible to maintenance men and apply to the entire building.
2. Every outlet in this country, that exists inside commercial property, is GFCI. Except for those that are placed two meters high on the wall and designated only for a refrigerator or freezer.
The one in my roommate's bathroom is CONSTANTLY tripped. I was wondering if there was an electrical problem until I found out she presses the button on it to stop the kids from electrocuting themselves.
I don't think she understands that it'll trip itself before that happens, unless the kids find a way to insert themselves into a circuit that's going back to neutral.
Shorting live and neutral is not an incredibly difficult task for some brats to accomplish.
Shorting live and neutral is not an incredibly difficult task for some brats to accomplish.
I had a conversation once with a coworker about earliest memories. He claimed he could remember an incident when he was three years old. Me: "What could you possibly remember when you were that young?"
Coworker: "The time I stuck a fork in a wall outlet."
I had a conversation once with a coworker about earliest memories. He claimed he could remember an incident when he was three years old. Me: "What could you possibly remember when you were that young?"
Coworker: "The time I stuck a fork in a wall outlet."
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