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Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2016 1:38 pm**

One really fun part about business IMing is how the slowest typers also seem to be the ones who like to write large blocks of text instead of multiple smaller message.

wonderpug is now typing...

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2016 1:57 pm**

Luckily, we're moving the other way. The days of me trying to figure out the priorities on the 40+ tickets will, hopefully, be a thing of the past. The upper execs can have a steel cage match to determine what makes the top priorities for the organization, and we will work on them.

As much as I hate to pull back from the organization and the personal relationships, myself and my one minion attempting to support the coding needs of 200+ individuals and juggle responsiveness and priorities and "emergencies" just aren't working anymore.

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2016 2:17 pm**

I have a few partners who I would have to be restrained from assaulting if they discovered IM. Their repeated "status request" emails are bad enough.

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2016 2:50 pm**

Isgrimnur wrote:Luckily, we're moving the other way. The days of me trying to figure out the priorities on the 40+ tickets will, hopefully, be a thing of the past. The upper execs can have a steel cage match to determine what makes the top priorities for the organization, and we will work on them.

As much as I hate to pull back from the organization and the personal relationships, myself and my one minion attempting to support the coding needs of 200+ individuals and juggle responsiveness and priorities and "emergencies" just aren't working anymore.

:envy:

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2016 3:00 pm**

I can't imagine working somewhere with enforce distraction and an inability to concentrate. I'd be constantly shutting it down and only keep it up during set hours in the day.

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2016 3:15 pm**

LordMortis wrote:It's a constant barrage for me of I need I need I need and it always plays out the same,where a simple request that did not need to be addressed immediately now has to be addressed immediately and the simple request becomes a long dragged out distraction of one liners that don't adequately explain the other person's expectation.

And yeah that's how internal business is being migrated to over the last three years or so.

And I never get a chance to get into a concentration mode. I have large projects that require me to tune out the world to organize. Usually by doing code for dummies. But it's like the phone is ringing every five minutes. Only it's not the phone. It's an intercom where someone just busts in starts talking and you don't even have the luxury of showing them your work to respond with "Can't you see I'm working on a project?" And so I set my status to busy or away but no one cares. They just send messages anyway.

Today, I finally had it and exited Lync and am letting "missed conversations" go to my mail. I got to work on customer project for 30 minutes uninterrupted until just a few minutes ago where I got a call from someone annoyed that I did not respond to his IM. It felt glorious. A half an hour to concentrate on something. I kicked out a whole document. One of six for which an external customer is ready to kick my ass over.

The Do Not Disturb button is there for a reason.

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2016 3:25 pm**

hentzau wrote:The Do Not Disturb button is there for a reason.

Is that reason to taunt me? To laugh at me?

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2016 3:32 pm**

LordMortis wrote:
hentzau wrote:The Do Not Disturb button is there for a reason.
Is that reason to taunt me? To laugh at me?

I go DND constantly when I need to concentrate. Like, say, reading this forum.

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2016 3:38 pm**

hentzau wrote:
I go DND constantly when I need to concentrate.

4e? Or 3.5 still?

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2016 3:39 pm**

hepcat wrote:
hentzau wrote:
I go DND constantly when I need to concentrate. Like, say, reading this forum.
4e?

5th Edition. Migrated and haven't looked back. But I do miss the minion rules. It was fun throwing out hordes of things for the characters to wade through.

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2016 3:41 pm**

I haven't touched the stuff since 2nd ed.

I almost got back in for D20 but then I got distracted by I don't know what. MtG, maybe? Was that at the same time?

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:05 pm**

What'ya know, eh? You live above Canada.

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:07 pm**

Take off!

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:22 pm**

http://i.imgur.com/GDU2xh8.gifv

Really, we can't link gifv's as gifs?

Is there a plug in or something for that?

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2016 5:43 pm**

tjg_marantz wrote:http://i.imgur.com/GDU2xh8.gifv

Really, we can't link gifv's as gifs?

Is there a plug in or something for that?

Just drop the final "v" and post it as a gif.

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:02 pm**

Mah hero!

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:36 pm**

Now, can I assume that's the gifv you were trying to share - or was that just Max Peck's style of a "The More You Know" gifv.

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2016 7:51 pm**

Assumption correct.

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2016 10:10 pm**

I feel like Bruce Banner. Now a days I'm always angry, but I hold it in and don't show it.
Raising a 70 year old impaired child is hard.
I go thru a lot of aspirin.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2016 2:36 am**

the Aerosmith thread reminded me: at the Goodwill last weekend they were playing some 80s type rotation on the PA and this one song comes on that i haven't heard in years... probably decades. i had no idea who it was from, and i think my first guess was some Steve Perry solo thing. that's the guy from Journey, right? after some more thinking, i was nearly certain it was a David Lee Roth solo thing, purely based on the vocals (the "WOOO!"s in particular) and that it had more synthesizer than i thought Van Halen would ever use. today, i had enough and needed to look it up, based on an (incorrectly) remembered fragment of the chorus.

...close enough, i guess

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2016 4:07 am**

Ahhh yes Van Hagar. I remember those days. That song itself reminds me of great times...maybe even Six Flags. Ahhh what times.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2016 10:43 am**

I bought a bag of Oroweat English muffins instead of Thomas' since they were on sale, and I didn't realize the Oroweat ones are presliced. I just discovered they're presliced with a blade of some sort, and thus they have NO nooks nor crannies.

#forksplitforlife

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2016 11:03 am**

English muffins are the bastard stepchild of breakfast breads. Biscuits or toast over English muffins any day.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2016 11:06 am**

Isgrimnur wrote:English muffins are the bastard stepchild of breakfast breads. Biscuits or toast over English muffins any day.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2016 11:07 am**

They may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR BISCUITS!

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2016 11:14 am**

Wherever Trump starts the fence, we have to make sure you're on the other side.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2016 11:29 am**

Breakfast burritos are an acceptable substitute.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2016 2:35 pm**

Isgrimnur wrote:English muffins are the bastard stepchild of breakfast breads. Biscuits or toast over English muffins any day.

I can understand a good biscuit, but toast? TOAST??? Get fucking real.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2016 2:44 pm**

If English Muffins were basically free, I'd eat them. But as it goes, you pay extra money for a very specific breakfast food that doesn't last long. So good ole fashioned bread wins unless you get a hankering for a bagel.

I hear you can make a killer grilled cheese from English Muffins, though.

http://www.rachaelraymag.com/recipes/ra ... led-cheese

Only I am still offended by the idea of putting a slice of tomato on grilled cheese. <blech>

Ham, turkey, bacon, spinach. You name it and you can morph it into a stylin grilled cheese. But tomato? That's just cruel.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2016 2:49 pm**

English muffins are on top, followed closely by bagels.

Toast and biscuits bring up the rear. Which is in last place depends entirely on how they're made.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2016 2:53 pm**

You are all neglecting the majesty of the crumpet.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:00 pm**

Blackhawk wrote:English muffins are on top, followed closely by bagels.

Toast and biscuits bring up the rear. Which is in last place depends entirely on how they're made.

If I get stuck eating breakfast at McDonald's, I would take a sausage biscuit over a sausage muffin 100% of the time.

If it appeared in front of me and wasn't bad for my heart, I'd take pleasure in Biscuits and gravy like I don't take pleasure in eating oatmeal every morning. English muffins? Nope. Maybe once in a Continental breakfast experience every few years.

Toast is easy and cheap and gets a bonus point because putting butter and cinnamon on any of the others out of the toaster just doesn't right. It also makes for a better club sandwich or western omelette (sandwich).

So it goes Biscuit>Bagel>Toast>English Muffin.

I'm not even sure what crumpet really is.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:25 pm**

LordMortis wrote:I'm not even sure what crumpet really is.

They're somewhat similar to English muffins, but with a spongier, more chewy texture, and are typically served whole (instead of having to split 'em like muffins):

(Click to embiggen)

Suffice it to say, they're a delectable vehicle for butter n' jam; which is why "crumpet" also became British slang for an attractive woman.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:28 pm**

Anonymous Bosch wrote:Suffice it to say, they're a delectable vehicle for butter n' jam; which is why "crumpet" also became British slang for an attractive woman.

Huh. Learn something new every day.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:29 pm**

Makes sense, love to cover beautiful women in butter and jam.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:41 pm**

I will note that I classify biscuits and gravy differently than I do biscuits.

Around here you can buy a breakfast called a Hunter's Mountain, which is four biscuits, on top of which are hash browns, on top of which are scrambled eggs (at least a half-dozen), on top of which is about a gallon of white sausage gravy.

I won't eat them anymore, but I do miss them. They're like a tasty, greasy coronary on a plate.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:44 pm**

I will give you that crannies make for great sugary jelly pockets. And there was a time that bread product that served as better vehicle delivering more sugary preserves per mouthful was the better bread product and I miss those times.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:44 pm**

Blasphemy. I can get on board with arguments for biscuits over English muffins if you're just having them with butter and jam or something, but for breakfast sandwiches the English muffin is king.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:46 pm**

Blackhawk wrote:I will note that I classify biscuits and gravy differently than I do biscuits.

Around here you can buy a breakfast called a Hunter's Mountain, which is four biscuits, on top of which are hash browns, on top of which are scrambled eggs (at least a half-dozen), on top of which is about a gallon of white sausage gravy.

I won't eat them anymore, but I do miss them. They're like a tasty, greasy coronary on a plate.

I would try that! That's almost like mixing a farmers omelette with biscuits and gravy and chicken fried steak to the mix and you have a sausage trifecta of gravy goodness going on.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:48 pm**

wonderpug wrote:for breakfast sandwiches the English muffin is king.

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