I was just talking with a friend about how it’s no wonder sociopath’s climb the corporate ladder easily.
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Gather the entire shift for “lunch with the boss” and tell everybody to quit complaining about the pay scale. Use phrases like “you’ll never get rich working here” (quite true) then point toward the entrance and say “if you don’t like it, there’s the gate!”.
Lunch and candor, all in appreciation for the employees hard work toward the production goals. Not joking.
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All but two sets of plate-loaded dumbells at my gym have different sized handles. For example, the 85s have one thicker, well-knurled handle and one thinner, smoother one. It’s brutal and makes me angry every time I use them. I’m going to bring a micrometer next week just to see how much the difference is.
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Why do we break people down?
So we can build then back up…
… and then break them back down over and over again so we get more precise and more efficient at it.
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I love this level of dedication…
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We have this hung up in the office. Every so often someone from HR walks through the area and everything comes down, but this has survived quite a while.
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I am managing a consultant’s contract for my client (this is practically my whole job). This particular consultant cant just say what ‘they’ want. After the formalities, this is how the convo went:
C: Well, just to get straight to the point…
19 minutes later
C: So, how would you like to process our additional fee?
Me: Well, first, I’d like to thank you for your brevity and getting to the point in less time than usual. Second, no.
If this individual was a pitcher, 'they’d get a delay of game warning for their windup.
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So talked to a mechanic about quieting a noisy lifter and he had recommendations about a certain type of oil and using some Lucas. Then he said I’d be best off using a motorcraft filter because the flow back valve inside would hold oil in the top of the engine better than a generic one.
I told him I’d been using valvoline quick lube because they’re $5 more than buying the oil/filter myself and way more convenient.
“Don’t use them, they’ll cheat you with used oil and a crummy filter. You’d be way better off with the Ford one.”
I’m a super cynical dude and didn’t believe him, but I figured he’s a mechanic and knows more than me. Above pictured is the motorcraft filter for my truck, beside it is the one Valvoline put on.
To make matters worse, they cross threaded the bastard. I had to drive a screwdriver through the side to get it to rotate off and clean up the threads with a file.
I stand corrected. And fuck valvoline.
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I absolutely cannot fathom cross-threading a filter… You’d have to try to do that.
Other than the paranoia factor above, I kind of enjoy changing oil for some reason. For the “pisses me off” theme of the thread though I think I’m sitting on like 15 gallons of misc. used oil in the garage now that’s a pain to get rid of. Also, skid-plates. Fucking skid-plates.
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God damn it. I hate changing the oil, but now…
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Park your car over some gravel. Filter the oil with a coffee filter and add 10% acetone or mineral spirits. Put mixture into garden sprayer and coat the underside of your car with it.
Old hillbilly trick I learned that’s better than any undercoat. Old farmer I learned it from still drives a 77 fleet sided pickup with no rust in Western PA (they use a lot of salt on roads). He has had had 3 engines through it. Frame, body, break lines and fuel lines, springs etc… are all good.
Also don’t tell the EPA Haha. The oil came out of the ground right? You’re just putting it back.
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Pretty sure my environmentalist wife would divorce me if I did this
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Tell her about “tarring and chipping”. Which is how they pave some rural roads. They take chunks of ground pavement and pour oil over top. Much of which runs off the road into the surrounding environment. Watch her head rotate lol.
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The parts stores I buy oil and filters from take the used oil. There’s a big tank in the back you pour it in.
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Thanks, yeah the accessible tank is the best case option, most shops here only take 25 qts at a time though, so last time I had to tour the area going shop to shop.
We get many advertisements for debt and personal loans because we have a high credit score and low debt to income (trying to pay everything off forever).
“A loan is a solution.”
Really? What marketing geniuses let that ad copy run? I’m just annoyed about the poor saps who will spend their whole lives in crushing debt, never building any real wealth for retirement or their children because of stupid choices like this. They even have the nerve to have a happy family watermark on the loan offer. If both parents are playing with the kid, who’s working to pay off the debt?!
Rant over, get off my lawn. That is all.
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I got one for $150k yesterday. I just laughed my way to the garbage.
… One Hundred and Fifty Thounsand! 
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I’d get em when we had the business all the time for $500k. Floating interest rates… on $500k. I never grossed more than $350k. Nothing like going way over 100% DTI with your first loan.
Personal guarantee required of course.
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I get a kick out of seeing financing options when I’m looking at car parts. I can’t imagine the fuckup who borrows money to mod their car into breaking down faster.
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Being a father of two young kids, it is next to impossible not to accidently look like a creeper.
For example, I take my kid to a park. Some other kid takes an interest in us. My kid runs off to play on some equipment. I don’t follow him but watch.
For some reason, the other kid stays by my side and blabs on about something, to which I just prrovide stupid responses hoping it goes away.
Then the mother rocks up from whatever she was doing. Now I’m just some guy alone in a playground talking to her child
She calls her kid over, half panicked. In a panic, I need to make it clear that I’m not randomly in the park alone so I yell at my child to stop what he’s doing. He looks at me confused wondering what he’s done lol
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