What grinds your gears?

[Yoda]

Fire drills at 9:20 on a Monday morning. I don't care if it's a test to see if our responsibility system works, or it's a better test when we're not expecting it, it's Monday fucking morning.

[CCS]

Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays!

[Baal]

Turning to Alcohol is the only solution.

[Markh]

Originally Posted by Baal

Turning to Alcohol is the only solution.

Alcohol: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

[Spink]

Whoever starts this scaremongering bullshit GMG

http://www.times-age.co.nz/localnews...toryid=3784058

Mum comes home from some social quilting group thing and says how she's sorry she was late but she had to drop one of the people home because of increased gang activity in masterton, "people said they're targetting women" and then quoted this story to me about how a woman went to a gas station and the attendant saw a man get into the back of his car, so the attendant called the police.

I said find me the news article that says it happened, but I bet you won't because this is just scaremongering bullshit. Today she sends me an email linking the above news article =x

[CCS]

Four were made on Thursday morning alone and one customer had even locked her car before she went to pay, Mrs Miller said.

"She said that she had heard the rumour and didn't want to leave her car unlocked.

She should lock her car anyway so that opportunist thieves don't snatch stuff from the car! JEEZ!

[Sauron]

people with snapper cards who shove past people paying by cash or a ticket.
Are we that desperate to get a seat?

[chiQ]

Originally Posted by CCS

She should lock her car anyway so that opportunist thieves don't snatch stuff from the car! JEEZ!

That's what I thought too.

[Haydos]

What GMG: A yorker that hit my big toe right on the spot in indoor.. massive blood blister and cracked nail.

[MoP]

Ruby on Rails grinds my gears. Even though it's bright and shiny, it's just a goddamn toy

[xor]

Parking 600m away from work on a rainy day and realising I forgot my jacket

[Mickey]

Reading a teaching CV today with the following sentence. "I really want to teach in Auckland becoz....."

CV Deleted.

[Baal]

Pistachios that haven't cracked open. There's always a few in every bunch and I never know whether to throw them out or attempt to open them somehow.

[Hazmat]

Coughing, and feeling a pinch that *could* be stitches bursting but I can't be arsed maneuvering to look

[Havs]

Asking 4 people who I am interviewing "Could you estimate how many weddings there are a year in New Zealand. There is no right answer, just walk me though your logic". Obviously, this helps me understand how they will cope in situations they might not have encountered before and how they go about solving a problem.

What GMG? Oh, I dont know ... how about not having one person answer in a way I would expect an adult too.

First person "errr i don't know ... 1000 ... yeah ... thats my guess" How did you arrive at that estimate? Let me know how you worked it out... "what? I guessed!?! How could i know exactly how many weddings there are, Ive only been to a few."

Second person "I used to work in a bar, we had 3 weddings a month ... there are heaps of bars in NZ ... 3 X 12 ... errr can I have a calculator? ... err that number times heaps ... i dont know , like times a 1000"

HEAD ASPLODES!

[Baal]

Stupid question, stupid answer.

[Mickey]

Originally Posted by Hazmat

Coughing, and feeling a pinch that *could* be stitches bursting but I can't be arsed maneuvering to look

Use a mirror.

[CCS]

Originally Posted by Baal

Pistachios that haven't cracked open. There's always a few in every bunch and I never know whether to throw them out or attempt to open them somehow.

Put them between your back teeth and crack those fuckers. MAN UP, GIRLY TEETH!

[CCS]

Originally Posted by Mickey

Use a mirror.

Only women carry mirrors everywhere with them

[Hazmat]

Originally Posted by Mickey

Use a mirror.

Which would involve moving around...

I'll check next time I go to the bathroom...

[CCS]

Yes, please let us know if your ballsack has burst and is seeping pus. Pics or it didn't happen.

[StN]

Stitches? He just cellotaped mine

[Mickey]

I didnt actually think Youd be home alone Hazmat, i figured someone could have got you a mirror.

Ignore CCS, we don't really want pics.

[CCS]

'BRING ME A MIRROR, I WANT TO INSPECT MY BALLS!'



I'm pretty sure StN provided pics when he had the snip :/

[Havs]

Originally Posted by Baal

Stupid question, stupid answer.

How on earth is that a stupid question.

Exercises like that are some of the best ways to understand a potential employee.

[Hazmat]

Originally Posted by Mickey

I didnt actually think Youd be home alone Hazmat, i figured someone could have got you a mirror.

Ignore CCS, we don't really want pics.

Wife is home with me, but we don't really have any portable mirrors.
They're all good. The size of a tennis ball, but all good.

[CCS]

'WIFEY, INSPECT MY BALLS! I THINK THEY MAY HAVE BURST AND I DON'T HAVE MY MAKE-UP MIRROR HANDY!'

[Hazmat]

Originally Posted by CCS

'WIFEY, INSPECT MY BALLS! I THINK THEY MAY HAVE BURST AND I DON'T HAVE MY MAKE-UP MIRROR HANDY!'

"And while you're down there......."

[StN]

Balls - no, not mine.

[Baal]

Originally Posted by Havs

How on earth is that a stupid question.

Exercises like that are some of the best ways to understand a potential employee.

Well if I got asked a question like that in a job interview.

1. I'd tell you that any answer was pointless without at least some statistical snippets to work off.

2. I would cease wanting to work for you at that point because you've already wasted my time and yours for no good reason.

[CCS]

Originally Posted by CCS

I'm pretty sure StN provided pics when he had the snip :/

Oh, he did.

[Baal]

Pics of melon sized testicles or it didn't happen.

[StN]

Aww - you rememebred - Ha! Made you look at my nutsack again!

'd

[Hazmat]

Originally Posted by Baal

Pics of melon sized testicles or it didn't happen.

Oh the nadgers are fine...it's the scrote filled with blood that's enormous.

[StN]

Originally Posted by Baal

Stupid question, stupid answer.

Is it? I'd say that I'd seen the wedding/engagement announcement pages in the Herald on a Saturday, and there were roughly X number each week, subtracting a few for those that don't follow through, and given that AKL has just over 1/4 of the country's population, it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to extrapolate those numbers out for a whole year across 4 Million people.

Unless the job interview was for a goat shaver, and not someone who might need to work something out for themselves based on readiliy available information sources.

[Havs]

Originally Posted by Baal

Well if I got asked a question like that in a job interview.

1. I'd tell you that any answer was pointless without at least some statistical snippets to work off.

2. I would cease wanting to work for you at that point because you've already wasted my time and yours for no good reason.

Haha wtf. I guess that's your answer then. It also gives a pretty clear indication to your personality, something which an interview is all about.

How is it any different from someone giving you a programming problem to solve, in order to access your coding skills? It's all about understanding how you think and how you will work in the given organisation.

The question clearly states, there is no RIGHT answer. It's all about working through a problem and making intelligent, rational decisions. Jesus, you could say 4million weddings a year and still pass with flying colours, as long as your method made sense.

[CCS]

No, it's a fucking stupid question. Anyone that asks it should probably just pull their head out of their arse and ask something sensible.

[Baal]

it's a dumbfuck question. We have stats.govt.nz for a reason.

http://www.stats.govt.nz/products-an...o-releases.htm

[Havs]

You have to be taking the piss...

[Baal]

Originally Posted by Havs

Haha wtf. I guess that's your answer then. It also gives a pretty clear indication to your personality, something which an interview is all about.

Yes, I'm there to do a job, not answer stupid time wasting questions.