grasshopper_mouse

grasshopper_mouse , 23 hours ago

I couldn't date a cop

grasshopper_mouse , 2 days ago

Not gonna lie, I do miss phones with tactile keyboard buttons. My last dumb phone had a mini qwerty keyboard and I loved that thing.

grasshopper_mouse , 2 days ago

Lots of escapism hobbies where I can immerse myself in a completely different world-- video games, comics, sci-fi and fantasy books and movies/shows.

grasshopper_mouse , 4 days ago

A few years ago Brachs candy I think it was made Thanksgiving dinner flavored Candy Corn. They had turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, greenbean, apple pie, and gravy candy corns mixed in a bag. The cranberry apple pie were great but the stuffing tasted like vomit. Everything else was just meh. I never bought a bag again.

grasshopper_mouse , 4 days ago

ACPO

grasshopper_mouse , 6 days ago

Matt Smith, the 11th Doctor in Doctor Who

grasshopper_mouse , 7 days ago

Is he maybe just a really literal person and took the forwarded email with instructions "send THIS to them" as "send this email to them", but then he knows his work responsibility is to send the product, hence why he sent both the product and the email?

Do you have an SOP or exact steps to follow written down in a very clear, concise manner (yes, even something as simple as "after employee A sends the email, employee A will notify employee B to send out the product by forwarding the customer email to employee B"; I'm talking reaaaallly literal steps here)?

Can you give other examples of times he's messed up in a similar way?

Does he have poor reading comprehension? ADHD?

I train employees a lot in my current job and jobs prior and I've learned that everyone interprets things differently and learns at their own pace. Most times you can adapt to their style, but sometimes people are just mentally out to lunch 24/7 and not fit for the job.

grasshopper_mouse , 6 days ago

It sounds like this person isn't remembering the procedures then, even when you've explained it to them and they've already done the task before (Or they're just a lazy fuck that doesn't care one way or the other and maybe never will). There is no "fixing" the individual, you need to correct their behavior while also giving them plenty of opportunity to get it right and with all the tools and guides they need readily available. How long have they been working in that position? Maybe they just need more time.

As others have stated, if the directions aren't already in writing, you should either write them down for the employee or, better yet, make the employee write them down, then review it for accuracy. This should in theory help them commit the process to memory, plus now they have their own guide to refer to.

Another bonus (for you, not the employee) of getting the process in writing is that if/when this person messes up again, now you have something to point back to and say "Remember when we went over this and you wrote it down and I verified that your notes were correct? Did you follow those notes this time? If yes, why did (mess up) happen anyway? If no, why didn't you follow the notes?" Make this person explain themselves, don't just sit there and be mad and say nothing to them.

This could also be a case of weaponized incompetence/ learned helplessness. If they fuck up a lot, you stop giving them work, but they're still there getting paid anyway, right? Now you're just paying them to either stand around or do menial tasks and not what you actually hired them for.

Start documenting their fuck ups, and tell them you're doing so. You're better off having a paper trail to point to when you have to fire them.

grasshopper_mouse , 7 days ago

I'm a remote worker. Does wasting my own supplies count?

grasshopper_mouse , 7 days ago

Olives are the best
Change my mind

grasshopper_mouse , 7 days ago

Hint of Lime Tostitos and guacamole. I could eat an entire bag, which is why I rarely buy them.

grasshopper_mouse , 9 days ago

This is great! Person in the middle is questioning their life choices.

grasshopper_mouse , 11 days ago

From a woman who's father failed in many ways: Be present, be willing to listen, and actually give a damn. My father wasn't any of those things when I was growing up, he just sorta came and went as he pleased and if he cared, he sure didn't show it. I went NC with him from my teens until my 30s, and we now have a semi-decent relationship, but man, I will be forever jealous of those "Daddy's girl" women who adore and admire their fathers and their fathers love them so much everyone can tell.

grasshopper_mouse , 13 days ago

I wish I was still gaming but I gotta get up early to take my car in for an oil change

grasshopper_mouse , 14 days ago

Alcohol. Yes, I know it ain't right.

grasshopper_mouse , 13 days ago

Right? The problem is, sometimes I'm like, "Wow, do I drink too much" but then I'm like "Naaah, I drink way less than (insert the name of an alcoholic you personally know here)", but sometimes it still feels like I drink too much anyway?

grasshopper_mouse , 16 days ago

I'd travel to other countries and explore them by myself (I'd need way more than 24 hours though).

grasshopper_mouse , 17 days ago

Personally, I do not find men (or women) that are as built as that photo of Arnold attractive. I do like nicely-toned arms though, I am definitely an "arms" chick, as in, I find muscular arms in particular attractive. But there's definitely a point where if the muscles are too big, it starts to be less appealing.

grasshopper_mouse , 17 days ago

I'm definitely on the hate apes train, Chimpanzees in particular. They're not cute and are freakishly strong and I think it's insane some people keep them as pets.

grasshopper_mouse , 24 days ago

One of my coworkers left his car parked in his driveway for so long that a pigeon made a nest between the windshield and the windshield wiper, just right in that little space where it comes together with the hood.

grasshopper_mouse , 24 days ago

It will be the hottest year on record

grasshopper_mouse , 27 days ago

They used to make these things called "Shrinky-Dinks", which were sheets of thick plastic that you would color with pencils, then cut them out and stick them in the oven and they would shrink down to a smaller size.

Well one day when I was 3, I decided I could do this by myself, except that I put them in the toaster oven on the grate on like 400 degrees. Of course that shit melted through the grate and onto the heating element inside the toaster oven. Thankfully my parents noticed the smell before a fire started. Not sure how much a toaster oven cost in the '80s, but they had to get a new one one.

grasshopper_mouse , 28 days ago

I can't drink as much as I used to without experiencing an all-day headache the following day.

grasshopper_mouse , 28 days ago

Hah! Yeah, I've read about people having multi-day hangovers. I've definitely never had that happen before, but I'm "only" 44, maybe time will tell.

grasshopper_mouse , 29 days ago

Here's a few rumors I heard about camel spiders while deployed to Iraq from '05 - '06:

They can run up to 25 mph

They can grow to the size of house cats

They aren't actually spiders or scorpions, they're their own weird type of insect, which leads some people to believe they're aliens

When they bite you, they inject you with a poison that numbs the bitten area, so you can't even tell you got bit

They will climb into your bunk at night and clip your hair with their jaws to line their nests

If you see a camel spider, don't shoot it because you're more likely to accidentally shoot your foot than the spider

grasshopper_mouse , 29 days ago

I dunno, I'm a lady and it didn't scare me. Most male soldiers had a high n' tight haircut, which leaves longer hair on the top of the head, about an inch in length at most. Also, barbers weren't exactly readily available all the time, and hair regulations kind of went out the window depending on your location in county.

grasshopper_mouse , 29 days ago

I believe it! :)

I did see a guy beat what was supposedly a baby camel spider with a pushbroom, and it didn't die, so he grabbed a foot locker and dropped it on top of it, and that definitely killed it.

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

Northernlion/The Library of Letourneau, he plays videogames and just kinda does a stream of consciousness thing that often has nothing to do with the game itself. It's entertaining and he has a nice voice.

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

Absolutely loved this show

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

-AAAAAAAA-

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

You called??

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

Most songs by Leo are pretty good

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

An oldie but a goody

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

Came here to mention Bill Bryson, his books are great, The Body: A Guide for Occupants was an excellent read, I learned so much!

Richard Feynman is also great, his "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" is such a trip.

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

Let's goooooo!

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

What happens to the people who actually believed this? Imagine someone quitting their job because "the world is ending on Monday." They tell all their friends and family goodbye. They stop paying bills. Then Monday rolls around and....they're still here. Now what? Do they go beg for their job back? How do they face their friends and family again? It sounds so embarrassing.

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

I just imagine someone trying to get their job back and their former boss laughing in their face. Maybe this is how some people become homeless (because I presume they are mentally unstable to begin with).

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

So it's just excuses and more made up nonsense to try and justify their existence. Mental instability is wild.

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

Ooo, I'll get to live through 3 more ends of the world! Excellent. That was a wild read, thanks for the links.

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

I realize it's a legit school, but the "Mailman School of Public Health" just makes it sound like it's an article from The Onion.

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

The Mad Ship by Robin Hobb. It's the second book in her Liveship trilogy. It's much better than the first one, which was very slow to start.

I aim to read all her books in The Realm of the Elderlings series eventually (current book I'm on is #5). She's not my most favorite writer, but she's up there.

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

1989 Acura Integra hatchback. Cost me $3k in 1999. It was the most expensive thing I'd ever bought at the time. It had a sunroof and flip-up lights that I thought were so cool. I loved that car. Taught my younger brother how to drive in that car. I sold it for like $300 in 2002 when I had to get rid of it because I was moving away and taking it with wasn't feasible. Buy then I'd driven it into the ground and it was leaking oil constantly. Still was an awesome car, though.

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

Nissan Versa, so many weird blind spots.

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

My high-school math teacher made us all submit our work in these tiny notebooks that were like less than half the size of an American standard notebook, with unlined paper. He would write the homework problems on the board and then you had to copy them into the tiny-ass notebook and then hand write all your work on the single tiny-ass page, he would fail you if you used more than one page or side of a page because "One page is all the room you need to work out a problem."

I am really horribly bad at math and even writing numbers down is hard for me, sometimes i can't even read what I wrote, so being forced to write them even smaller was a nightmare. I barely passed his class. Plus he was just a total dick in general to anyone who struggled in his class, and most students did (it was already the math class for dumb people), and we could all tell he didn't want to be there.

I hope he's miserable whenever he is now.

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

Yup, you had to take the page out and turn it in.

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

Yes, because I won't need my organs when I'm dead.

grasshopper_mouse , 1 month ago

Unless you explicitly stated in the exam that they had to show their work with their answer or fail, even if the answer was correct, then I say pass them. It's on you to be specific as to what you want to see on the exam. Maybe they worked it out on scratch paper and didn't turn that part in with the exam?