Just because 81 is the man, I will answer car questions but.

CorduroyGirl

Well, I HATE everything about my job! I LOVED the academic part of electrotechnical and computer engineering but I am yet to find a job that I like, hate them all... Definetely wouldn't do the same if I was to chose my career today, it's a great 5 years learning, programming cool stuff, messing around with robots and controllers, with image and video processing, with signals, with math... But it's only 5 years...

Little things that annoy me... Well, once you get tagged as "the computers girl", everyone will call you for everything even remotely connected to computers... Most of those things I DON'T KNOW NOR DO I CARE!

So yeah... Should probably start thinking about some changes... Hope 30 is not too old for that :P

EDIT - Forgot to mention how I hate when someone calls to go out for a drink and after the first few words... "Oh, yes, I've been meaning to ask you something: my computer......" :evil:

mickeyrat

Cavstarr?

Whats the recommended interval for changing the headlight fluid?

Wma31394

Cavstarr....

What would the correct ignition timing be on a 1955 Bel Air Chevrolet, with a 327 cubic-inch engine and a four-barrel carburetor?

unlost dogs

afroannnie wrote:

I'm a R &D Scientist that gets to work with Chlamydia & Gonorrhea pretty much everyday...quote]

Chlamydia & Gonorrhea: Great name for a pair of housecats.

Or a new-age duet.

Really, they are actually quite nice words and it's a shame they've been associated with venereal diseases.

"For my wedding, I chose a bouquet of pale pink chlamydia."

"I'd like an order of sauteed eggplant with a melange of tomato, onion and basil, on a bed of gonorrhea risotto."

It's not that hard to imagine, don't you think?

afroannnie

unlost dogs wrote:

afroannnie wrote:

I'm a R &D Scientist that gets to work with Chlamydia & Gonorrhea pretty much everyday...quote]

Chlamydia & Gonorrhea: Great name for a pair of housecats.

Or a new-age duet.

Really, they are actually quite nice words and it's a shame they've been associated with venereal diseases.

"For my wedding, I chose a bouquet of pale pink chlamydia."

"I'd like an order of sauteed eggplant with a melange of tomato, onion and basil, on a bed of gonorrhea risotto."

It's not that hard to imagine, don't you think?

I had a friend tell me that when people give me a weird look when I say i work with Chlamydia & Gonorrhea, say "no, it's not what you think! Chlamydia & Gonorrhea are my co-workers!'

StillHere

unlost dogs wrote:

afroannnie wrote:

I'm a R &D Scientist that gets to work with Chlamydia & Gonorrhea pretty much everyday...quote]

Chlamydia & Gonorrhea: Great name for a pair of housecats.

Or a new-age duet.

Really, they are actually quite nice words and it's a shame they've been associated with venereal diseases.

"For my wedding, I chose a bouquet of pale pink chlamydia."

"I'd like an order of sauteed eggplant with a melange of tomato, onion and basil, on a bed of gonorrhea risotto."

It's not that hard to imagine, don't you think?

really does sound lovely....too bad

however, a gonorrhea salad ... not all that appetizing..the word is just...ohidunno..... icky?

dcfaithful

I have to share this although it hardly has anything to do with the thread other than being about cars:

When the girlfriend and I moved from Georgia to Utah we towed a Honda Civic behind the U-Haul, ya know in one of those trailers that only straps in the front two wheels and the front axle.

She thought it was needed to pull the emergency brake so that it "doesn't slip off the trailer", and so from Atlanta to St. Louis we drove (me without knowing) with the emergency brake pulled...

We stopped at a hotel one night and thought that we'd take the car off and use it to go get some food and stuff. Getting it off the trailer was fun once I realized there was no brakes at all. Getting it back on the trailer was even more exciting. First time (and hopefully the last) that I had to judge the momentum of a car enough to get it on the trailer perfectly without running off the front end. :roll:

The mechanic and I had a good laugh about it...

unlost dogs

dcfaithful wrote:

I have to share this although it hardly has anything to do with the thread other than being about cars:

When the girlfriend and I moved from Georgia to Utah we towed a Honda Civic behind the U-Haul, ya know in one of those trailers that only straps in the front two wheels and the front axle.

She thought it was needed to pull the emergency brake so that it "doesn't slip off the trailer", and so from Atlanta to St. Louis we drove (me without knowing) with the emergency brake pulled...

We stopped at a hotel one night and thought that we'd take the car off and use it to go get some food and stuff. Getting it off the trailer was fun once I realized there was no brakes at all. Getting it back on the trailer was even more exciting. First time (and hopefully the last) that I had to judge the momentum of a car enough to get it on the trailer perfectly without running off the front end. :roll:

The mechanic and I had a good laugh about it...

Good Lord!

Weren't the tires smoking like hell back there?!?

themessenger

See I'm lucky, I tell people I work for a bank and they are immediately not intrigued anymore and don't ask what I do.

Yellow Ledbelly

I've worked at a weekly newspaper for going on 11 years now. It could be worse but there's plenty of shit.

– My main function here is sports editor, which is alright, but people seem to misunderstand the concept of reporting. It's not my fault your son's football team sucks and has not won a game in four years. Nor I am here to be a cheerleader in all circumstances surrounding the schools and teams I cover. And furthermore, I am exactly have of the editorial staff here and I am not at every damn game of every sort keeping stats. Therefore I depend on coaches to supply in most all cases. So if Sally Sue's softball team isn't getting the coverage you think it deserves ask the fuckin coach why he/she doesn't give me what I ask for repeatedly and stop acting like I'm some kind of three-headed devil that just picked Sally Sue's team to ignore.

– I also cover the local school board. Last december the department of justice mandated consolidation of the local district from four schools to two schools. The two that were close should have been shut down years ago. Quite a shit storm it was. Non-stop, everywhere I go, somebody is in my ear wanting to talk about it. Shut the fuck up. I do not care. It needed to happen. I just write the fuckin news and your opinion matters none to me.

RYEzupSF

afroannnie wrote:

I'm a R &D Scientist that gets to work with Chlamydia & Gonorrhea pretty much everyday...recently we've been getting in some clinical specimens to use for our project...I'll let you think about what these specimens include. Overall I like my job and don't mind talking "shop" to people outside work...it's just that most people are scared to talk to me about my job after they find out what I do

Chlamydia is not a flower.

dcfaithful

RYEzupSF wrote:

afroannnie wrote:

I'm a R &D Scientist that gets to work with Chlamydia & Gonorrhea pretty much everyday...recently we've been getting in some clinical specimens to use for our project...I'll let you think about what these specimens include. Overall I like my job and don't mind talking "shop" to people outside work...it's just that most people are scared to talk to me about my job after they find out what I do

Chlamydia is not a flower.

It's a soup, I saw it on the grocery store shelves...

dcfaithful

unlost dogs wrote:

dcfaithful wrote:

I have to share this although it hardly has anything to do with the thread other than being about cars:

When the girlfriend and I moved from Georgia to Utah we towed a Honda Civic behind the U-Haul, ya know in one of those trailers that only straps in the front two wheels and the front axle.

She thought it was needed to pull the emergency brake so that it "doesn't slip off the trailer", and so from Atlanta to St. Louis we drove (me without knowing) with the emergency brake pulled...

We stopped at a hotel one night and thought that we'd take the car off and use it to go get some food and stuff. Getting it off the trailer was fun once I realized there was no brakes at all. Getting it back on the trailer was even more exciting. First time (and hopefully the last) that I had to judge the momentum of a car enough to get it on the trailer perfectly without running off the front end. :roll:

The mechanic and I had a good laugh about it...

Good Lord!

Weren't the tires smoking like hell back there?!?

If they were, I didn't notice. :oops:


Mechanic said everything was "white" from being so hot. :shock: :shock:

mca47

When I know a conversation will follow with someone I don't want to talk to, I tell people that I'm an accountant (which I'm not).
Nobody has followup to that I've found.

dcfaithful

mca47 wrote:

When I know a conversation will follow with someone I don't want to talk to, I tell people that I'm an accountant (which I'm not).
Nobody has followup to that I've found.

Strategy, I like it.

afroannnie

RYEzupSF wrote:

afroannnie wrote:

I'm a R &D Scientist that gets to work with Chlamydia & Gonorrhea pretty much everyday...recently we've been getting in some clinical specimens to use for our project...I'll let you think about what these specimens include. Overall I like my job and don't mind talking "shop" to people outside work...it's just that most people are scared to talk to me about my job after they find out what I do

Chlamydia is not a flower.

Chlamydia isn't a flower...but damn she's pretty cute...

mca47

dcfaithful wrote:

mca47 wrote:

When I know a conversation will follow with someone I don't want to talk to, I tell people that I'm an accountant (which I'm not).
Nobody has followup to that I've found.

Strategy, I like it.

Yeah, I fly a lot for work and the chit-chat that happens when you sit down next to someone gets annoying quick!
When I told people that I work in cancer research, half of the flight would be questions and "Oh, my friend got cancer...blah, blah, blah". On a number of occasions I've had people show me a f'n mole on the plane that they thought looked suspicious! I don't wanna see that shit!
Now it's "So what do you do?" "Oh, I'm an accountant" "Oh, that's nice" Followed by silence! Ahhhh....silence!

RKCNDY

I am a fan of the internet, and Mr RK hates mechanics (I did not tell him you were one Cav ) ok, he just thinks all mechanics want to rip you off.

So whenever something goes wrong with the car, I look it up on the net, and tell him how to fix it. he NEVER listens to me, "um, the auto parts place rents the O2 wrench...I'm pretty sure you need that" so after he grates his knuckles, I have to run off to the parts store to get the O2 wrench. :x

Anyway...in my last line of work, I was the pharmaceutical inventory manager and people would constantly ask me 'my dog has diarrhea, can I give him pepto?" "Only if you want to kill your dog, yes"
Or, "My cat hasn't been able to go potty for a few days and just screams when he goes in the litterbox...what do I do?" I wanna scream, "well what would YOU do if every time you went to the toilet you screamed and couldn't pee for 2 days?"
People would also assume that I was a member of PETA or was vegetarian....ummm, no, I like a nice steak (rare please) and since I'm having a nice steak, could you bring me my purse...it's the green suede one, thanks. Oh my, it's getting a tad chilly in here too...would you bring me my leather jacket? Great! Uh-oh...I seemed to have spilled something on my dress...does anybody know how to get ketchup out of a suede dress?

dcfaithful

RKCNDY wrote:

I am a fan of the internet, and Mr RK hates mechanics (I did not tell him you were one Cav ) ok, he just thinks all mechanics want to rip you off.

So whenever something goes wrong with the car, I look it up on the net, and tell him how to fix it. he NEVER listens to me, "um, the auto parts place rents the O2 wrench...I'm pretty sure you need that" so after he grates his knuckles, I have to run off to the parts store to get the O2 wrench. :x

Anyway...in my last line of work, I was the pharmaceutical inventory manager and people would constantly ask me 'my dog has diarrhea, can I give him pepto?" "Only if you want to kill your dog, yes"
Or, "My cat hasn't been able to go potty for a few days and just screams when he goes in the litterbox...what do I do?" I wanna scream, "well what would YOU do if every time you went to the toilet you screamed and couldn't pee for 2 days?"
People would also assume that I was a member of PETA or was vegetarian....ummm, no, I like a nice steak (rare please) and since I'm having a nice steak, could you bring me my purse...it's the green suede one, thanks. Oh my, it's getting a tad chilly in here too...would you bring me my leather jacket? Great! Uh-oh...I seemed to have spilled something on my dress...does anybody know how to get ketchup out of a suede dress?

Seriously, what WOULD you do if you had that problem?? Go to the damn doctor!!

It's pretty simple lady.

norm

Jennytree wrote:

I fix computers. Anytime I go for lunch or a cup of tea I get the "oh, while I see ye there, can you take a look at my iphone/blackberry/ipad/laptop"

And no, I haven't heard anyone take the piss out of the "have you tried turning it off and on again" resolution. It fixes 90% of issues you've caused yourself. Fuck off!

this


or i tell them to buy a mac and fuck off