The rant thread.

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Re: The rant thread.

Postby cmsellers » Wed Jan 22, 2020 3:28 am

I googled, and found a lot of stuff suggesting that Pyrrhura conures start puberty between 1 and 2 years, but I can't find when it typically ends. However, based on what I know about other species, the rule of thumb seems to be that puberty seems to last roughly as long as it took to hit puberty, maybe a little longer. So hopefully, he'll be out of it by age four.

The only bird I ever got young enough to go through puberty was one lovebird. He hit it about a year after I got him (from a pet shop, unfortunately, so not sure of his age), lasted about a year and a half. During that period, he became extremely aggressive towards almost all the other birds in the house (except my sun conure, whom he decided was his mate); once it passed, he mellowed out towards all of the birds who had been in the house when he went through puberty. (The female lovebird, we got later, and he never warmed towards her.)
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby SlayerGoddess » Thu Jan 23, 2020 6:56 pm

I guess I just assumed that Mr. Green was already going through puberty when he killed Hugo. Other than that, his puberty seems to be doing well. He wants to spend time with both my boyfriend and I, and he's not nipping, although I suspect that's because he still won't let us touch him. For all I know, he may get used to hands later on and start nipping like crazy.

Willow was already 8 when we got her, and a quite well rounded bird. It's probably good we never went through puberty with her, because if she had chosen a favorite person and started attacking the other she could have done some damage!
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby cmsellers » Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:11 pm

My Friday was awful, I might post all about that later.

Then, today, I very nearly had an accident, because someone just blew straight through a stop sign. I had to slam the breaks hard to avoid them, and it was a two-way stop sign, so I definitely had the right of way. Fortunately, I did not have an accident, because I've learned once already that if you have an old car you've kept in shape that gets totaled, you don't get even half of what you'd need to replace it with a comparable car.

@SG: Yeah, I would have assumed that the murder was the result of puberty hormones.
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby jbobsully11 » Thu Jan 30, 2020 6:08 am

After telling me last month that I’d be trained on the bottle fillers in the main packaging area, today my boss said they’re “too complicated,” despite the fact that almost everyone else in my department was trained on them about six months after they started working there (which would have been mid-October 2019 for me), and I’m one of the best operators at other stations that have about as many things to keep track of. I always suspected they thought I was too stupid to learn how to do my job, but damn.

I really have to get out of there.
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby cmsellers » Thu Jan 30, 2020 8:07 pm

Why is it that neurotypical people seem to hate long email exchanges and always want me to reach out by phone? Not only is phone the worst possible mode of communication for me (since I can read facial expressions, but can neither read tone of voice nor use it properly), but phone conversations tend to be stream-of-consciousness by their nature, making it harder to make sure all issues are clearly addressed.
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby NathanLoiselle » Thu Jan 30, 2020 10:55 pm

Because phone conversations are more efficient for them? I mean it's not like they can read your mind and know that it's not more efficient for you. Or can they?
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby SlayerGoddess » Thu Jan 30, 2020 11:27 pm

I hate being forced into phone conversations, too, so you're not alone in that.
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby Kivutar » Fri Jan 31, 2020 11:27 am

As someone who hates phone calls, there are a few reasons:
- It's faster and real-time (assuming that something isn't left unresolved as you describe)
-Most people get something out of tone of voice; not as much as with face and body language included, but you can usually at least tell how much attention the other person is paying
-They might not want to put something in writing
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby CarrieVS » Fri Jan 31, 2020 1:42 pm

I dislike phone calls but sometimes if there's a lot of questions or what have you, what would be hours or days of back-and-forth email can be achieved in one sitting if you're able to respond to each other as you're talking.
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby Absentia » Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:07 am

Personally, I almost always recommend e-mail when someone is trying to contact me at work, because I don't have a work cell phone and I'd rather chew glass than deal with voice mail. But there are situations where phones are an unfortunate necessity. If something is urgent and/or important, e-mails are too easy to miss or procrastinate on, and some people just don't check their e-mail very often (or at all during business hours, meaning we can have exactly one message in each direction per day.)

There is also a significant number of people who are elderly, techphobic, functionally illiterate, and/or lacking in reliable internet access. If you work with a lot of such people (or are one), I imagine phone becomes the default pretty quickly.
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby iMURDAu » Tue Feb 04, 2020 6:41 pm

So last year I had to go to physical therapy for a while. It was expensive. We've been paying on it monthly, per the arrangement we made with the hospital.

They sold the last $90 that they L O Fucking L would've gotten paid yesterday to a collection agency who only wants $40.

We just saved $90 :D

I will be more than happy to notate my credit report in a couple months. Not that we're going to need to use credit for anything for a long time but it'll make me feel better to shit on the local hospital's billing department.

Uh is there a hospital system in America that isn't overeager to send a bill to collections? I've had this happen before when I lived in Ohio too. Except in that case I was a minor under my parents insurance and something happened where insurance didn't cover everything and once I turned 18 I got a collection notice from something that took place 3 years prior. Out of principal they didn't get paid either.
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby Windy » Thu Feb 06, 2020 6:01 am

Why the hell does the standard software technical interview involve writing a page of code on a whiteboard?
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby NathanLoiselle » Fri Feb 07, 2020 8:09 pm

I don't know Windy. But I don't understand why you need to take a typing test for a market research call centre job.
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby Pedgerow » Sat Feb 08, 2020 5:34 pm

It's the only way to be sure you really can do it without any help at all. A lot of IDEs will auto-complete most of the stuff you need to type, letting you focus on the parts that matter but at the same time encouraging laziness and a total lack of thoroughness.

As for the phone thing, I do IT support as a job and we all passionately prefer emails to phone calls, to the extent that I am allegedly legendary for answering the phone right away instead of just staring at it hatefully whenever it rings. However, I got very angry recently when some woman just CCed us in on an email chain that had been going on for weeks. Our support ticket just said, "Please see below", and I had to read through about 50 emails, which all included the "This message is confidential; if you believe it was sent in error then bla bla bla" boilerplate, to find out what the hell she wanted me to do. Because she was too damn lazy to say what she wanted. In that situation, I would have preferred it if she had called.

Anyway, I come here with a rant of my own: pornographic videos in which an attractive lady in her 40s or 50s keeps interrupting the good stuff to tell me that she is my mother. She never is, and it's incredibly off-putting.
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby jbobsully11 » Sat Feb 08, 2020 7:00 pm

Pedgerow wrote:Anyway, I come here with a rant of my own: pornographic videos in which an attractive lady in her 40s or 50s keeps interrupting the good stuff to tell me that she is my mother. She never is, and it's incredibly off-putting.

Would it be better if she was, or worse?
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