Okay, fuck this. I'm a farm kid. I can deal with a goddam tick.

puts on nitrile glove

snap!

Do you have tweezers?

We always used the blown out match trick to get the tick to let go.

Practical jokes. In a place a I used to work in back in 2000, a new hire top manager was greeted by finding TRS-80 with a 300 baud modem on his desk. He trumped that by keeping both for his personal collection. Proved himself and fit right in. But it meets the ita ! test of not being a hoax or a deception.

I have been put in the position of mentoring two other people who are part of our group - one is multiple grade levels higher than I am. I hadn't realized he was a higher grade until today. Based on his knowledge and the training time I've put in with him, I'm surprised.

But now I understand why he has been the more difficult of the two to work with. And, of course, I'm getting the most pressure regarding his projects. I'm trying to step lightly, but, I fear, at some point I'm going to have to be a pushy b*tch.

Turns out, a bathroom sink is a great place to trap a squirming screeching cat while you do something like pluck a tick off his nethers.

In conclusion, ew.

::sigh::

Why won't some people read the documentation? I keep getting asked for explanations when I know they haven't read the email, or the attachment, or clicked on the link. And they'll get defensive about a lack of information, but honestly, it's all there and they don't want to do the work.

And they won't ask questions either, which is a pretty big giveaway. It's more like pouting and saying "But I don't have details!" as they cross their arms. I did give you, in two different phrasings, enough information for you to specify where you need more context. I can't just magically explain it properly if I don't know where I fell short.

We had a thing way back where people kept saying "Your boss doesn't like X's document!" and I had to keep telling them that my boss had never read the document. He'd opened it, skimmed the first page, gotten upset with what he saw, and not only stopped reading it, but didn't read any of the updates.

And even in that situation, when we were being asked to pay for delivery of the document, I had to read it and approve it, because everyone else refused. All they knew was they didn't like it, so they weren't going to read it. Because that's the order it works in.

Wow, ita, I have used read receipts for emails, but had no idea you could check if someone opened the attachment or clicked on the link!

I'm just taking their word for it when they say they didn't read it that they didn't read it. I'm not sure why they'd lie.

However, in this case, someone on the cc chain did say "But the information is right there. Why do we have to state it again?" which was a nice relief.

Oh, they're telling you they only read the first page or whatever. Gotcha--I thought you had some magic tracking tool!

Is it bad that of the contractors/handyman services I was looking at on Yelp (only ones with good reviews that sounded real), I chose to email one about a quote just because the owner is apparently a hot lesbian?