Random Thoughts V

[cowgirl836]

Freeloaders.

I don't know if it was denial or what but even when I had a good feeling we were going to be laid off first thing that day I still took a lunch. I was back at the house by 8:30.

haha, I was so hangry when I wrote that! But seriously, all day meeting - same as yesterday - and no lunch. We got lunch yesterday. Like I said, I'll bring a lunch if I need to bring a lunch, but I like to know the day before. Of course, that would require planning and advance notice which this pm seems to be allergic to.

 

[jcyclonee]

I started to give terrible project manager props for putting together a real dinner tonight (even though I can't attend) instead of Uno's.

So I take that back. We are meeting 9-4 today and there is no lunch. It's on our own. Yesterday it was provided. Last time it was provided. Like, I don't really care if we do or don't, how about you just ******* let me know prior to 12:10pm the day of. You know, so I know whether or not to bring a damn lunch. Just like it'd be nice to get a damn agenda the week of so I know which days I'm actually needed. Goddamn, this **** pisses me off. I can tell my coworkers are like wtf, no lunch? Plus there was a whole debacle this morning where someone else took over the meeting because the pm has no clue what is going on. UGH.

Did CG just post the perfect comment?

 

[BoxsterCy]

Abby Faber in the football forums. Its sad to see someone look for something to be negative about in that.

I wouldn't have known who you all were talking about if someone hadn't done a quote reply. Don't remember why but this guy/gal was on my ignore list. If you make my ignore list it means you have posted like a total d-canoe at some point.

I can get why someone might be a little skeptical of the photo PR but to cross over to total cynicism seems a little too much. If the gal can benefit and feels good about it than why not not, it's a win win.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Been awhile since CG used "hangry". I like all of the little CG-isms.

Hell, my own auto-correct now changes sandwich to sammich.

 

[GTO]

I started to give terrible project manager props for putting together a real dinner tonight (even though I can't attend) instead of Uno's.

So I take that back. We are meeting 9-4 today and there is no lunch. It's on our own. Yesterday it was provided. Last time it was provided. Like, I don't really care if we do or don't, how about you just ******* let me know prior to 12:10pm the day of. You know, so I know whether or not to bring a damn lunch. Just like it'd be nice to get a damn agenda the week of so I know which days I'm actually needed. Goddamn, this **** pisses me off. I can tell my coworkers are like wtf, no lunch? Plus there was a whole debacle this morning where someone else took over the meeting because the pm has no clue what is going on. UGH.

I'm an account manager/project manager and it is not my ******* problem if people don't plan accordingly. If people expect to be hungry around noon every day, perhaps they should "manage" the "project" of their own lunch. I can't take care of everyone in this damn company to make sure all their basic needs are met.















I kid, I kid. I'm responsible for the catering for all my meetings and booking client dinners! :wink:

 

[cowgirl836]

I'm an account manager/project manager and it is not my ******* problem if people don't plan accordingly. If people expect to be hungry around noon every day, perhaps they should "manage" the "project" of their own lunch. I can't take care of everyone in this damn company to make sure all their basic needs are met.















I kid, I kid. I'm responsible for the catering for all my meetings and booking client dinners! :wink:

I was going to give you the one finger salute.


So if you are in the DFW area, you take your clients to Uno's, for dinner, right? Or say you didn't have time to organize an evening dinner for a meeting on the schedule for two months? Yesterday one of our people walked into the meeting from something else and the pm asked the vendor to give an update on what we had talked about. I had to bite my tongue. You could totally see the surprise on the vendor's face of wait, what? Me? Aren't you running this?

 

[GTO]

Funny thing about scheduling the catering is that sometimes we get some people with really specific requests. I had a client one time ask for a salad because they were on a diet. During lunch she just proceeded to go on an on about how good our food looked and how she could not eat it. Awkward.

Since that time, I no longer ask ahead. I order whatever the **** I want. Someone has a dietary restriction? They better tell me before I order or they're SOL. Don't like chicken? Guess what, I want chicken so everyone gets chicken. Eat your free meal and STFU.

 

[Cyclonick182]

So I admit I have a thing for acoustic covers but I just stumbled on this one while looking for something to listen to and I really like it.

[video=youtube;dnFtliFODBI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnFtliFODBI[/video]

 

[roundball]

I despise East coast people scheduling meetings during my lunchtime...

At my former employer I worked mainly with a supplier in the U.K. Of course we needed to have our daily meetings even on Fridays when they all leave at noon. So we had to have it before they left. I really hated it when we were on 9/80's and it was my Friday off.

Sometimes I have people in the east schedule meetings at 6:30 or 7am CT. Terrible.

I started to give terrible project manager props for putting together a real dinner tonight (even though I can't attend) instead of Uno's.

So I take that back. We are meeting 9-4 today and there is no lunch. It's on our own. Yesterday it was provided. Last time it was provided. Like, I don't really care if we do or don't, how about you just ******* let me know prior to 12:10pm the day of. You know, so I know whether or not to bring a damn lunch. Just like it'd be nice to get a damn agenda the week of so I know which days I'm actually needed. Goddamn, this **** pisses me off. I can tell my coworkers are like wtf, no lunch? Plus there was a whole debacle this morning where someone else took over the meeting because the pm has no clue what is going on. UGH.

I'm an account manager/project manager and it is not my ******* problem if people don't plan accordingly. If people expect to be hungry around noon every day, perhaps they should "manage" the "project" of their own lunch. I can't take care of everyone in this damn company to make sure all their basic needs are met.















I kid, I kid. I'm responsible for the catering for all my meetings and booking client dinners! :wink:

 

[GTO]

I was going to give you the one finger salute.


So if you are in the DFW area, you take your clients to Uno's, for dinner, right? Or say you didn't have time to organize an evening dinner for a meeting on the schedule for two months? Yesterday one of our people walked into the meeting from something else and the pm asked the vendor to give an update on what we had talked about. I had to bite my tongue. You could totally see the surprise on the vendor's face of wait, what? Me? Aren't you running this?

Catering for my work just comes from our cafe. For dinners, we usually go to a swanky, expensive place where I would never usually go on my own.

 

[cowgirl836]

ha, I have watched every one of my coworkers drive back in. They all had to go get lunch. Other than one of us, we pretty rarely go buy lunch so I can tell they all thought it was going to be provided too. What seems really cheap is making the vendor go get lunch as well.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

I wouldn't have known who you all were talking about if someone hadn't done a quote reply. Don't remember why but this guy/gal was on my ignore list. If you make my ignore list it means you have posted like a total d-canoe at some point.

I can get why someone might be a little skeptical of the photo PR but to cross over to total cynicism seems a little too much. If the gal can benefit and feels good about it than why not not, it's a win win.

I got into an argument with some rando on Facebook when ESPN posted the story. Said pretty much the same stuff, but was even more douchier.

Wasn't it the Iowa media that first broke the story? Hard to say it was TCU pandering when they weren't even the ones that brought it up in the first place.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

ha, I have watched every one of my coworkers drive back in. They all had to go get lunch. Other than one of us, we pretty rarely go buy lunch so I can tell they all thought it was going to be provided too. What seems really cheap is making the vendor go get lunch as well.

Cowgirl's mad.

 

[cowgirl836]

Funny thing about scheduling the catering is that sometimes we get some people with really specific requests. I had a client one time ask for a salad because they were on a diet. During lunch she just proceeded to go on an on about how good our food looked and how she could not eat it. Awkward.

Since that time, I no longer ask ahead. I order whatever the **** I want. Someone has a dietary restriction? They better tell me before I order or they're SOL. Don't like chicken? Guess what, I want chicken so everyone gets chicken. Eat your free meal and STFU.

I complain to DH about free lunch sometimes because when PM does get lunch, it's always the one same place. Then I see the other lunch organizer people order lunch from all sorts of cool places and I'm jelly. But I don't ***** to the people about their free lunch. I take, and I eat.

 

[cowgirl836]

Cowgirl's mad.

that post wasn't mad anymore, just like laughing as I watched them all drive back in

 

[Cybirdy]

I got into an argument with some rando on Facebook when ESPN posted the story. Said pretty much the same stuff, but was even more douchier.

Wasn't it the Iowa media that first broke the story? Hard to say it was TCU pandering when they weren't even the ones that brought it up in the first place.

I thought I first saw it as a repost from Dallas area newspaper, but that was on FB. It wasn't like Boykin himself started it, it was more a human interest story. He just happens to be a Heisman candidate. Like others have mentioned, I don't think Heisman voters consider the charity activities of candidates. I would much rather see these types of stories than to see things pop up in my FB feed about Lamar Odom.

I always try to read the stories of the kid captains. These kids have usually been through a lot with potential ongoing issues for life. Who was the poster who was looking for a pink girls' ISU jersey--I thought a sister or relative of his was going to be a kids' captain.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

So I admit I have a thing for acoustic covers but I just stumbled on this one while looking for something to listen to and I really like it.

[video=youtube;dnFtliFODBI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnFtliFODBI[/video]

If you like acoustic covers, I'm sure you've already heard of them, but Boyce Avenue has a playlist of like, 140 acoustic covers on YouTube, and pretty much every cover is awesome.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Hey, Chaser, the bike pants I ordered last night are supposed to be delivered Saturday!

Boxster:jiggy:

Chaser :skeptical:

 

[Cyclonick182]

If you like acoustic covers, I'm sure you've already heard of them, but Boyce Avenue has a playlist of like, 140 acoustic covers on YouTube, and pretty much every cover is awesome.

I've never looked at their channel to see everything they have; just listened to what pops up when youtube auto picks for me. I'm going to check out their channel now that its looking like a slow afternoon.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Catering for my work just comes from our cafe. For dinners, we usually go to a swanky, expensive place where I would never usually go on my own.

One of the (only) perks of my first marriage was recruiting meals with my ex. When his company was recruiting someone, they had a host, usually someone already holding a similar position with the company, with a general connection of research emphasis. If the recruitee brought his wife, I went along to talk housing, schools, yadda yadda. Yeah. Arm candy.

But the good part was they would expense it as "don't spend more than $50/head on food & drinks". Doesn't sound like a lot now, but even in San Francisco that was quite a bit back in the late 70's, early 80's. Alioto's (and another whose name I can't remember) on the Wharf, China Station over in Berkeley...