An Erdinger as dead as a Pubski beer oughtta be
I'm on my last week of training for my new job, 2.5 months of training. It as at least a half a month longer than it could ever possibly need to be. I'm am tired of listening attentivly. I get $2.50 raise at the start of next week and then a $5 raise in four months. It super strange to have things like that plotted out in front of me. Union certainty is swell. I just have to make it seven months to get off probation and I'm virtually unfireable if do the bare minimum for the rest of my career. I probably have about 3-5 years of night shifts ahead of me, which I'm ok with.
You operate a dredge for local government, don't you? Does that entail excavating waterways, or something else?
You are now playing the worst version of Zork You enter the garage. It is oddly silent. You realize the pool pump is not working. CHECK DISPLAY The display is dark. While it is not likely to get below freezing again, if it does you run a substantial risk of burst plumbing under concrete, and it will be expensive. CHECK BREAKER The breaker has not cycled. CYCLE BREAKER The pump does not start. CHECK OUTLET The outlet, which you put in, is a hard-wired armored whiptail. LOOSEN OUTLET The screws are very long. You turn and turn and turn, cursing whoever standardized on slotted head screws- CANCEL LOOSEN PUMP COVER PANEL The panel is off. CHECK VOLTAGE You measure zero voltage between either leg. STARE, WOUNDED, AT BREAKER PANEL The panel stares back. It is a Leviton Smart Panel, so it stares back with intelligent malevolence. CALL ELECTRICIAN She does not answer. CALL LEVITON Leviton puts you in a call queue. REMEMBER THAT MY 2.4GHz SMART HOUSE NETWORK IS NOW LIVE It is! You could actually put these breakers on the network! Maybe that would allow you to diagnose the problem! ROOT AROUND FOR SMART BREAKER INSTRUCTIONS You find them. In Spanish. SEARCH INTERNET You discover that you have to press a button. The button is under the cover. PULL COVER It nearly falls on you. PULL ALL THE COVERS None of this is fun but you get through it. Leviton is calling. ANSWER PHONE They tell you that if the breaker is dead you should replace it. Also it doesn't matter what order you enroll these devices in. They do not make fun of you for having six of them. They mention that pulling the offending breaker and putting it back after a minute may help. PULL AND REPLACE BREAKER Nothing happens. CHECK VOLTAGE AT BREAKER you measure nothing. CHECK VOLTAGE AT SUBPANEL you measure nothing. CHECK FOR POPPED BREAKER AT MAIN PANEL You see no popped breakers FLAIL AROUND LIKE AN IDIOT FOR HALF AN HOUR Who are you shouting at, exactly? CHECK FOR POPPED BREAKER AGAIN There are no obviously popped breakers. However, you have two labeled "cooktop". Both are 60A. One is off. Perhaps this is because there's raw wire in the kitchen whose purpose was never clear. FLIP COOKTOP BREAKER You hear the sound of a pump! Hooray! You are reminded that none of the breakers were labeled logically, and when the electricians replaced the panels they transliterated a number of things! GOD FUCKING DAMMIT LET'S LABEL THEM I don't know how to do that DOWNLOAD LEVITON APP sign up for an account! SIGN UP have you pressed the button? Do you see a blinking green light? YES How big is your breaker? 42 SLOTS Would you like me to search for breakers? YES Congrats! I just found every breaker in the house! Shall I add them all to this one panel? FUCK I don't know how to do that LET ME SHOW YOU MUTHERFUCKER
Greetings from Tyrol. Skiing is going well, for me at least because my wife is still not recovered from a flu that knocked 3kg in a day of off her last week. (The same one I had three weeks ago.) Her recovery seemed good, but then she backslid and she has ups and downs ever since. Seems to be part of this flu because I heard multiple colleagues with the same wobbly recovery process. She’s doing better now but remains low in energy…maybe there’s a small bit of skiing for her on our last day tomorrow, if only to have tried it. It feels unfair, I’m a casual skier who’s content after a day or two, while she’d been looking forward to it a lot. At least our apartment’s really nice. It even has a 4-person private sauna which I’ve made good use of every day we’ve been here. In general I’m really happy about this break, it wasn’t that I was craving it but the mountains, skiing, family time and getting away from most news for a while feels very nice. p.s. if y’all could help a European out and help maintain NATO, that’d be nice.
You beat me to it! Thanks for posting :) My job has been real rough again lately so I'm applying pretty hard right now. Plus with my partner getting into her PhD and the income cut that's going to give I'm looking for a good raise. But the use of technology in hiring these days is awful and takes out any human factors in hiring. I haven't had even a call back since my current job 1.5 years ago. It's incredibly frustrating and disheartening. Anyone know how to play the game these days? Going camping this weekend and we got a campsite that's notoriously difficult to get so we have been really excited for it, and it looks like rain will be rolling in on our 2nd and 3rd of 3 days and if that's not planning camping in advance I'm not sure what is.