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RE: Quix's Writing Samples And Random Bullshit Thread (Comments Welcome)
Of course, how could you not? (That's a rhetorical question by the way, xD)
It did; you should be a teacher!
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I figure since this is my journal, I can be as picky with non-important little rants as I want, xD. Maybe my patience has not been helped by just spending four hours liaising with our IT people in an attempt to find out why the internet at work had gone down; in the end to discover that the invoice sent from the Service Provider that confirmed the monthly direct debit had been processed, and there was a nil balance owing, didn't in fact mean that our monthly direct debit had been deducted from the account, and there was a nil balance owing, but that instead for some reason what has been occurring, each month since forever without fail, had randomly been stopped, and our service suspended due to non-payment.
So what happens when the outstanding payment is made? They tell you it will be up and going in no time, but forget to ask the tech guys to flick the switch to reactivate our service, and then you spend another hour and a half waiting for a call-back from the technical support area, which never comes, after being told it will be a maximum of twenty minutes!
That's not to mention the multitude of people who kept asking me "Is the Internet back up yet?," after I'd sent an internal email which stated, "I'll let you know when it's working again." It's best not to interrupt me with inane questions when I'm already impatient and irritated!
Three other little rants; otherwise known as:
Quix's pedantic dislikes:
1) Being addressed as Sir, or greeted as such in a PM from someone I've never spoken to before. It's a term that I often associate with deference, and it automatically makes me cringe when coming from a stranger. That's not to say my opinion can't be changed with the context of the rest of what they have to say, but the initial impression is just not a good one.
2) The phrase "whatever you want" being used when discussing a possible story. I've no problems stating my preferences but, for fuck's sake, please have your own opinions. Possibly one of my most despised phrases in the entire English Language.
3) When people reply to a PM, cutting off the message you've sent, so that all you get back is their reply. Every time. I like to be able to follow a conversational trail, rather than needing to go back to my sent items to re-read what they're actually responding to, and having to keep a plethora of one-line PM's cluttering up my inbox, which then makes it like searching for a needle in a haystack if you want to later go back and check something.
Malicious Lullaby said:
Of course, how could you not? (That's a rhetorical question by the way, xD)
It did; you should be a teacher!
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I figure since this is my journal, I can be as picky with non-important little rants as I want, xD. Maybe my patience has not been helped by just spending four hours liaising with our IT people in an attempt to find out why the internet at work had gone down; in the end to discover that the invoice sent from the Service Provider that confirmed the monthly direct debit had been processed, and there was a nil balance owing, didn't in fact mean that our monthly direct debit had been deducted from the account, and there was a nil balance owing, but that instead for some reason what has been occurring, each month since forever without fail, had randomly been stopped, and our service suspended due to non-payment.
So what happens when the outstanding payment is made? They tell you it will be up and going in no time, but forget to ask the tech guys to flick the switch to reactivate our service, and then you spend another hour and a half waiting for a call-back from the technical support area, which never comes, after being told it will be a maximum of twenty minutes!
That's not to mention the multitude of people who kept asking me "Is the Internet back up yet?," after I'd sent an internal email which stated, "I'll let you know when it's working again." It's best not to interrupt me with inane questions when I'm already impatient and irritated!
Three other little rants; otherwise known as:
Quix's pedantic dislikes:
1) Being addressed as Sir, or greeted as such in a PM from someone I've never spoken to before. It's a term that I often associate with deference, and it automatically makes me cringe when coming from a stranger. That's not to say my opinion can't be changed with the context of the rest of what they have to say, but the initial impression is just not a good one.
2) The phrase "whatever you want" being used when discussing a possible story. I've no problems stating my preferences but, for fuck's sake, please have your own opinions. Possibly one of my most despised phrases in the entire English Language.
3) When people reply to a PM, cutting off the message you've sent, so that all you get back is their reply. Every time. I like to be able to follow a conversational trail, rather than needing to go back to my sent items to re-read what they're actually responding to, and having to keep a plethora of one-line PM's cluttering up my inbox, which then makes it like searching for a needle in a haystack if you want to later go back and check something.
