Monday, April 30, 2007

Well, people don't want to answer their phones right now, which would be okay with me except I have a deadline approaching and I have numbers to meet. Doesn't is suck that my neck is on the line dependant upon whether or not people 1. are home 2. feel like answering their phones and 3. want to devote several minutes of their time to a seemingly pointless survey. I don't see the fairness there...but I guess that's what I'm paid to deal with. Riiiight.

In happier and more useless rambling...I read the funniest thing ever in the May issue of Spin. It was music festival dos and don'ts and I was nearly crying I was laughing so hard. When I get a chance (during work of course) I will post them. Hopefully it will bring tears to someone else's eyes as well.

Okay, so the other day I was around a certain someone (who will remain unnamed) and he was driving me and another unnamed person crazy. After like 20 minutes of monotonous, rediculous rambling he goes "Oh, there's something I forgot to do earlier." Not that I really cared what it was, but I figured he was going to write himself a reminder note on his hand, or make a quick phone call on his cell, maybe even go to the bathroom...but he drops and starts doing pushups. What the heck?!

Now here's something that absolutely drives me insane...when a radio station inserts new lyrics into songs. WSOC is horrible for that. It's so annoying, leave the song the way the artist intended for it to be, don't selfishly self-promote in the middle of it.

Another thing I don't get, which came up in conversation the other day, is how come we get radio for free, based on advertisements, but we have to pay for television, even though every ten minutes five minutes of commercials interrupt? While I'm on the topic of things I don't understand...tipping. Not that I' m against it, I know waiters and waitresses get horrible pay and that tipping is necessary, but I don't understand the system. Why should I give them a % of my total bill? What does that have to do with anything? If I order a $3.00 salad the waitress has to make one trip with my food. She'll get a... 60 cent tip. The next time I order a $50.00 lobster. She still makes one trip, but now I'm supposed to give her a $10.00 tip. How is that fair to either one of us? I think there should be a set tipping amount for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Okay, I'm done with that now.

Congrats if you've read this far and are still with me. I only have 29 minutes left of work.

We've had three windows shot out at work during the past four months. Rediculous isn't it? And sad. Who has nothing better to do than drive around downtown and shoot out windows.

One last thing before I go...how come you can clearly tell someone to answer "strongly agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, or strongly disagree" and then two point five seconds later after you read the first statement they answer "yes" or "no"

PS, oh yeah, and also...my plant in my office is still alive!! It was looking pretty bleak for awhile, but it lives!

1 comment:

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