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11 minutes ago, PvilleStang said:

When the WNBA attendance and viewership reaches within 50% of the NBA, we can talk.  Until then, go get those endorsements!

You don’t get it. WNBA players work just as hard as NBA players. Therefore they should be paid the same. Don’t distract from the argument by pointing out irrelevancies like attendance, TV ratings, revenue from licensing, or other similar silly numbers. Just pay them more. C’mon man. 

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2 minutes ago, nnm said:

You don’t get it. WNBA players work just as hard as NBA players. Therefore they should be paid the same. Don’t distract from the argument by pointing out irrelevancies like attendance, TV ratings, revenue from licensing, or other similar silly numbers. Just pay them more. C’mon man. 

 

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9 hours ago, nnm said:

You don’t get it. WNBA players work just as hard as NBA players. Therefore they should be paid the same. Don’t distract from the argument by pointing out irrelevancies like attendance, TV ratings, revenue from licensing, or other similar silly numbers. Just pay them more. C’mon man. 

 

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15 hours ago, nnm said:

You don’t get it. WNBA players work just as hard as NBA players. Therefore they should be paid the same. Don’t distract from the argument by pointing out irrelevancies like attendance, TV ratings, revenue from licensing, or other similar silly numbers. Just pay them more. C’mon man. 

 

 

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Unsolicited DM's on Linkedin offering training to help me be better at my job. Today it was learn spanish in one on one classes (virtual). Um, I am a 4/4 in Spanish, grew up in Latin America. At least read my damn profile. Linkedin is becoming Facebook/twitter 

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Yes, yes...that's hilarious.  So original by the Babylon Bee to recycle a 20 year old joke...but with a new name.  

I admit, only women's hoops I watch are a couple of high-stakes UT Women's games (UCONN, OU, NCAA Tourney, etc.) because my oldest is getting really into hoops.  

But Caitlin is gonna be much richer than either of us in a few years given her endorsement potential (plus she's charismatic and can sell ice to an eskimo).  Just like I don't "get" the fascination with Taylor Swift...Caitlin has this crazy idea to elevate the confidence level of young women, like my daughter, through sport (like Taylor through music and civic engagement).  

To the above point though, "They work just as hard as men do, so they should be paid just as much" is irritating bullshit.  That's not how life works.  Off-shore oil rig workers work as hard as anybody, but they don't get paid as much as the O&G CEO,  That mentality makes me surly.  

To put it into male-dominated sports parallels.  Formula 1 drivers make way more than NASCAR drivers.  They both put in the hours and are at constant risk of injury.  Difference is driving most F1 circuits is 1000x more difficult than turning left 1000 times in a row.  

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Sits in truck to do whatever seems important.   I had a guy in front of me and he left.  I filled with diesel and Mr. Considerate finally got out to start filling his truck when I was driving off.  
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1 hour ago, closetohumping said:

People

 I take Sebastian and my daughter's ugly chihuahua to the Tanglewood dog park every evening. There is a pretty good group of regulars who go. I tolerate the dog people, but I know every one of the regular dogs' names.  It's my happy place. I guess I just don't relate well to people. Is there a name for an elderly single gentleman who lives alone with a house full of dogs, because that's how I envision my old age.

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I'm going out of town on Tuesday. Yesterday I ordered a few last minute things on amazon, nothing life or death but some shit I wanted for the trip. Everything I ordered was listed as being delivered today, which is why I ordered the stuff. Fast forward to this morning and everything is now delayed until after I'm leaving. Fucking amazon. All that shit will be returned when I get back.

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19 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Clients who get you on a call at lunch time (timezones, they give zeros fucks) and do not know what their client needs. A waste of an hour for all.

 

Coworkers who insist on booking meetings at 1pm NYC time knowing all well I'm in central time, and it's screwing with my lunch hour.

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2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

I’m a super big fan of the people who love to get to their office super early, and decide to start calling people then. Love it when my phone rings and it’s a client or some such while I’m brushing my teeth at 7:00 am. Dude. The rest of the world does keep farmer’s hours like you do.

Shit, I have three clocks up in the office just so I can keep up with time zones. My favorite is the 1AM call from Africa about some BS that was solved weeks ago. "So did you order the paper clips for project x?" No Mofo, that is your fucking job.

NZ is the best. They are behind in hours, but tomorrow. They forget that it is sunday here and keep scheduling meetings their mondays.

I am going to send them.

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5 minutes ago, cabowabo said:

The amount of time it takes people to conduct a god damn transaction at an ATM machine. And I'd say about 70% of the time the person is not dispensed any cash. Fuck people.

Yeah, it's annoying but I give 'em a pass these days.  A lot of folks age 40-80 are stuck in this weird nebula where they're not totally comfortable yet with mobile banking/fintech and a lot of transactions they would normally do in the teller lanes can't be done anymore because every single day in this country-10 bank branches permanently close their teller lanes.  And nobody wants to park and go inside.  So they at least see the ATM on the bank premises and feel a little safer depositing the checks or transferring money at the machine they know to be secured by the bank. 

Since our firm bought a 50-state chartered bank to use to 'host' myriad fintech platforms, I still make it a point to go inside to individual branches to see what's going on inside.  Makes me surly, Americans are paying an extra 50bps on their mortgages and business loans so 6 people can sit around inside doing nothing in a prominently placed building at $35/foot.   

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We have electronic message boards throughout our facility with various information scrolling like a slide show.  Every month the company displays the names of the individuals that are celebrating work anniversaries or are having birthdays in the given month.  There are quite a few people that work here that goes by their middle name and not their first name.  The message board only displays their first and last name.  Without fail, each month there are multiple people on the board that has their first name listed but not the name that they commonly go by.  I get it if the employee has worked here less than 3 to 5 years but some of the people up there are 20 to 40 plus year employees.  How hard is it to actually personalize the message?
As someone who goes by his middle name I support this message.



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My bank branch actively steers everyone toward using the ATM services (or worse, to the app or website), it's like you have to pass their Gandalf "you shall not pass" to be allowed into the teller line. No you fuckers, it's like self checkout, sometimes I'm going to have you guys do the work.

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6 minutes ago, Sam Lin said:

My bank branch actively steers everyone toward using the ATM services (or worse, to the app or website), it's like you have to pass their Gandalf "you shall not pass" to be allowed into the teller line. No you fuckers, it's like self checkout, sometimes I'm going to have you guys do the work.

Probably for another thread, but if you could elaborate on your experience...I'd be interested.  I haven't really seen that.  I just see teller lanes open one day and the next day they're closed down with pylons in front of them on a weekly basis in Austin.  And the interior lobbies are shuttering down too (although not as quite the same speed).  But I've yet to see a teller direct somebody to get out of line and go the ATM instead.  They're just accelerating their own obsolescence.  

I once had my own analyst work up a quick fake pro-forma and preliminary business loan application on a "store" that would make $15/foot in revenue on a $25/foot lease (we didn't get into other G&A, just a quick beta test).  The loan officer of course immediately told him, "Well your other expenses and employee costs aside, just on the real estate model---we couldn't loan you the money because of your inability to just pay off the NNN lease costs."  Obviously the branch was subsidized by online activities and corporate, but Drew tells him, "Well your branch costs $25/foot and you only bring in $15/foot in revenue through this branch on its own."  Apparently the Asst. Mgr. was quite shocked and maybe rebooted his life choices after that.  There's lots of dying physical business models, but the banking one is so surly-inducing because they're the gatekeepers to most real estate, their model is so fucked up, they tend to put their branches in the most prime locations, and they pass all those costs along to us in the form of higher payments/fees and we get less in interest.  

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Multiple visits multiple BOA branches. You go in and there's a "greeter" at a terminal. They ask wtf you're there for, you tell them, and they 80% of the time tell you it can be done at the ATM and would you like them to show you (deposits and withdrawals are most of these)? Or it can be done on the web site. If it needs an appointment they ask if you made one online, and when you say no they graciously check the schedule and help you schedule something on their terminal, usually hours away if you're lucky, in a few days if less lucky.

It isn't the teller telling anyone to get out of line. The greeter fucking actively deters you from being able to get in to the teller line.

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On 4/30/2024 at 9:47 AM, Brisketexan said:

I’m a super big fan of the people who love to get to their office super early, and decide to start calling people then. Love it when my phone rings and it’s a client or some such while I’m brushing my teeth at 7:00 am. Dude. The rest of the world does keep farmer’s hours like you do.

You can thank sales gurus for that.  "Call CEOs at 5, they're already hustling and will respect your hustle.  One call close!"

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Multiple visits multiple BOA branches. You go in and there's a "greeter" at a terminal. They ask wtf you're there for, you tell them, and they 80% of the time tell you it can be done at the ATM and would you like them to show you (deposits and withdrawals are most of these)? Or it can be done on the web site. If it needs an appointment they ask if you made one online, and when you say no they graciously check the schedule and help you schedule something on their terminal, usually hours away if you're lucky, in a few days if less lucky.
It isn't the teller telling anyone to get out of line. The greeter fucking actively deters you from being able to get in to the teller line.

I switched banks specifically because of this greeter. I figured that was better than stabbing the guy.
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3 hours ago, Sam Lin said:

Multiple visits multiple BOA branches. You go in and there's a "greeter" at a terminal. They ask wtf you're there for, you tell them, and they 80% of the time tell you it can be done at the ATM and would you like them to show you (deposits and withdrawals are most of these)? Or it can be done on the web site. If it needs an appointment they ask if you made one online, and when you say no they graciously check the schedule and help you schedule something on their terminal, usually hours away if you're lucky, in a few days if less lucky.

It isn't the teller telling anyone to get out of line. The greeter fucking actively deters you from being able to get in to the teller line.

I haven't seen that yet.  Like an even more annoying Wal-Mart greeter?  Wow.  I guess it's a conditioning exercise to get you used to doing shit outside/online/mobile.  The people at those desks aren't doing anything.  Nobody just rolls in on a whim to rollover an IRA, that's not a thing.  Gotta be awkward for those employees to watch a fellow co-worker purposely encouraging customers to leave to they have less and less justification to exist.  

1 hour ago, tbone_ said:


I switched banks specifically because of this greeter. I figured that was better than stabbing the guy.

"Welcome in sir, thank you for your new business.  We always like to ask what made you switch banks so that we may better serve you?"

tbone, "I stabbed the greeter at my last bank in the kidney.  Also your CD rates look more competitive."

"Okay, we'll that's a capital crime since it was an FDIC institution.  But we can let that slide because we're running a promotion right now on really exciting home improvement loans."  

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The number and size of bags that people carry on to airplanes these days. It had to have added a minimum of 15 minutes to the boarding process today. Fuck people and fuck the airlines for not reigning this shit in. 

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31 minutes ago, Lat22 said:

The number and size of bags that people carry on to airplanes these days. It had to have added a minimum of 15 minutes to the boarding process today. Fuck people and fuck the airlines for not reigning this shit in. 

Sorry that you’re boarding group 9.

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On 2/12/2024 at 3:17 PM, Scheiss Meister said:

As someone who goes by his middle name I support this message.

I am celebrating a major anniversary at work next week. I told HR a couple of months ago that if the name that I go by wasn’t on the certificate then I wasn’t accepting it. The certificates come from our corporate office so who knows what will be on there. I further told HR that I didn’t care if they had to white it out and hand write it in. We will see what happens but I feel like I am going to be disappointed since I most likely will leave the reception without a certificate.

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14 hours ago, Sam Lin said:

My bank branch actively steers everyone toward using the ATM services (or worse, to the app or website), it's like you have to pass their Gandalf "you shall not pass" to be allowed into the teller line. No you fuckers, it's like self checkout, sometimes I'm going to have you guys do the work.

"I want to flirt with the teller with the big cans"

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