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Playing grand theft thanks in advance

xGhostchantx posted...

He pivoted to MAGA rap probably because it was the only way for him to get any buzz

Worked for Tom MacDonald at least.

That sucks. I recommend emergen-c, magnesium glycinate, ibuprofen, antihistamine (diphenhydramine, promethazine, hydroxyzine, Zyrtec), and vitamin d supplements(should be taking those if you don't stay out in the sun anyway).

If you struggle with it to where it causes a ton of congestion then doctors have always written me a shitload of steroids and z pack antibiotics. I dunno why the course of action is antibiotics but tbh I stash antibiotics and put them in the fridge in case SHTF. Both times I had covid I got over it easily without the antibiotics (only one time I took steroids).

I want a ps5, but one of the biggest dowsides is how big it is and one of the biggest upsides to my ps4 slim is how small it is.

I def am gonna get one of the 1gb xbox series s when they are cheap cheap but i have a TON of ps4 discs I would like to play when I get a PS5. I when googling i just get clickbait bs so I wondered if someone had an uncle that worked at sony who could confirm ps5 slim w\ disc drive.

Oh look a link to a random reddit political sub comment. Do you know how many AI bots post on reddit? Lmao all yall do here is circlejerk about how bad you hate people that you won't ever meet and are possibly not even real.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Conservatives literally see admitting that they were wrong as a weakness

No one likes to admit they were wrong. That isn't an exclusively conservative mindset lol.

I think when drake first came around that was when i finally realized im old and out of touch.

Like the 2000s went from Camron, Jayz, 50 cent to TI, Jeezy, Gucci Mane to fuckin Drake and 100 different version of Drakes. And rap has only gotten worse from there.

Frosted_Midna posted...

They did?

Yeah thats the overweight doge pretty much (the meme with the smush faced doge is Balltze)

He might have had a thyroid issue idk he wasnt always fat but they used to post him and a gray tabby and both were fat asf

Dang I've been following balltze for a while.

They overfed that poor dog

1cm in the wrong place is painful. Like holy moly.

I had surgery on my kidneys and since then ive had stones in that kidney and ive had a 4mm one fuck me up

I mean 1cm is .40 caliber bullet diameter. So you got a .40 fmj in your kidney

It's a v6 and no digi dash. It starts with a key iirc it's like a base model. Not a bad vehicle by any means but it isn't what you posted originally in the topic I'm referring to

Of course you're gonna act that whole thing never happened. Why would you change your story? You know I'm not gonna spend the time trying to dig it up because I really don't care all that much. I just hate liars. And Im not dissing your car I'm pointing out that you lied and got called on it because you posted stock pics

And a lot of people here might not like me or side with you over me over stupid bullshit that doesn't even matter, I don't go lying to people about who I am.

If anything I'm honest to a fault and overly cynical which is why I could spot this shit 100 miles away. If there's a way to search me and her's interactions on that site you can see me saying she was full of shit multiple times. I just couldn't say anything about her baby thing because I didn't know for a fact and I didn't want to be insensitive. I never posted in any of those 500 topics she made to avoid trouble

Why coffee beans posting pics of her xans

I tried to tell you mfs this when she posted those stock pics of a mustang gt that wasn't hers and talked about how cool the digital dash was

I said then she wasnt no doctor

Quake-64 posted...

how does being woke make someone a loser?

You taking that bait that easy g?

TroutPaste posted...

Devils are forms of human ignorance, in eastern religion

That doesn't surprise me. That's some next level shit fr.

ironman2009 posted...

no, demons aren't real. he's just a piece of shit

Pretty much this. He's a rich asshole. He surrounds himself with yes men and fires people constantly.

But I don't think there is a literal demonic spirit possessing him.

Chicken posted...

Bro thinks this is avatar or some shit

It was shot almost entirely in 65mm imax. Kinda a hard thing to accomplish. I mean there was some trippy visual and sound effects all through it also. If imax was in my town it woulda been totally worth it.

Goddamn that was a good movie but it sure was slow as fuck.

Honestly I'd probably had retained more information in a 30 minute YouTube video but it wasn't awful. Nolan is kinda known for dragging out movies. I look forward to watching it again at home with captions in 2 or 3 different sittings

Ok so i doubt many people have gone and seen the standard version vs the imax to compare.

But without spoiling anything, are the visual effects really that great to be worth a 45 minute drive(vs a 5 minute drive) plus extra $5-10 for a ticket plus a likely way more crowded theater?

I know this film was done almost entirely with IMAX cameras so I figured itd be worth it. I watched Halloween 2018 on IMAX and tbh I thought it wasn't worth the extra time/money after I watched it on my TV.

Like if it were Interstellar it would be one thing, but is seeing a few mushroom clouds in IMAX gonna be worth it?

Thanks in advance CE

Edit: my local theater has DLP 4k projectors and dolby sound system. Though the enhanced theater is showing Barbie which sucks because the enhanced AMC cinemark is damn near imax quality. But the standard digital projectors are pretty new/nice.

ai123 posted...

Seems like the kind of violent fantasy that a lot of unpleasant people are into, only made real.

Getting shot while trying to get your shit back yeah. Sounds like a great time.

I'm sure CE now thinks the police would've handled it better

andel posted...

when i was in college i worked at a directv call center and it was the most soul crushing job i ever had. constantly talking on the phone to idiots for 9 hours at night with two 15 minute breaks and one 30 minute lunch and practically no down time. some of the stuff would be funny like pervy old dudes that ordered porn and couldn't get it to play but mostly it was just morons who couldn't follow the simplest directions.

i wouldn't recommend anyone working at a call center if they can help it unless they just really like talking to strangers

This sounds more like my situation except I'm dealing with medical staff instead of just tv customers. As far as the 30 minute lunch, 15 minute break and high volume calls from people who simply won't follow directions.

The only difference is that direct tv probably had a script and you also only had a handful of actual problems you could handle(I could be totally wrong though, just guessing from the people I know who did direct tv). There are literal thousands of kbs(knowledge base articles, basically how to fix shit) for my job, and I gotta troubleshoot like a thousand different things depending on the call. A lot of calls are easy like unlocking an account or changing a password but most are pretty much searching a database for a KB until you find a solution (which either tells you possible solutions or who to route the call to that has more access).

Also this is 24/7/365. Since I'm new, fuck Christmas, fuck Thanksgiving etc and also I don't even get extra money for working holidays or holiday pay or pto until I've been there 9 months. It's definitely a downgrade. I'm used to 1 hour lunches, not as busy of work but I contractors that sell devices to school systems can afford to treat their workers right.

Like honestly considering I can stand around at target as a cashier or customer service and make about the same it's not really encouraging considering it takes years for most people to move up the ladder to something different

BlazinBlue88 posted...

An IT call center seems like a downgrade for someone with a decade of IT experience.

Well I've had some employment gaps but I've been in the IT field since 2009. I started at local PC repair store and did stuff like virus removals/hard drive replacements and did custom PC builds for gamers and small business contracts.

Then I went into full corporate retail which sucked pretty badly(office supply chain). The worst part about that job was having to sell extended service plans to old people that sometimes costed more than the device itself. No commission

Then I worked for a contractor that resold/repaired all of the student laptops for a very very large school system. I then went on to manage my own contract in Memphis TN for all of the teacher laptops where I risked getting stabbed by fentanyl and meth addicts on a nearly daily basis.

Then I moved back home after that contract ended and worked for IT support for my local school system. They were a bunch of assholes who didn't take the time to actually train me and then acted like I was bothering them everytime I called them to ask a question. They laid me off when it came to renew my contract because they didn't like me taking up for myself when I pointed out the fact that I wasn't trained to do basically anything when they'd get on my ass about asking too many questions.

So I've been basically tier 1 support for a while but at 3 of those 4 places I was promoted multiple times and the job only ended due to lack of work or me finding a better gig.

Should be no reason you wait an hour and a half after your appointment time to see a doctor.

Like goddamn I woulda just came back another day.

Puglia77 posted...

Usually a good 10-20 minutes. There's an hour around 4-5 pm where it's super rare that I'm on a call, but usually it's about 3 calls between each break. This job so far seems better than the supermarket but I've only been here a few months so far.

Yeah this is WAY fucking higher volume. 5 minutes is a long time to not have a call

Puglia77 posted...

I took fake Vegy's advice and I'm at an IT help desk right now. Luckily we don't work with the public, it's a help desk for Boeing so we don't get many crazies. Most people here are nice but there are a few bad callers. Since it's remote it's not too bad, I get to be on my personal laptop all day on the side while I'm off calls. And I'm doing this after working part time at a supermarket doing closing shifts so it's a relief.

How long are you off calls usually(time between calls on average)? I'm not with the public, just medical staff which is a problem in its own.

Also I will have the opportunity to work from home once I am trained, at least if I do well(some people train and work remotely exclusively who live further away, they did not give me an option yet).

But all this shit probably doesn't matter as I'm most likely jumping ship for about anything that isn't helpdesk related.

VeggetaX posted...

I would find a job that pays for your education. My 2nd helpdesk job payed for my SQL certs and that got me to be a DBA.

Yeah I have an expired A+ from a contractor I worked for in the past.

That was actually a good company/job. This company even seems shady tbh.

LightHawKnight posted...

I work IT at a lawfirm and boy is it insane how technologically inept lawyers are and even more insane how they never ever provide any of the information needed to troubleshoot the issue. I dont get it, they have know that we need information like they do for their work dont they?! Also always get a Yes response to a paragraph list of questions in bulletpoint to make it easy to read, none of which are yes/no questions.

I would trade places just to be able to be on-site instead of always on the phone. Also I doubt lawyers use quite as much shitty proprietary database shit that you have to manage the back end of (that is always fucking up, even if it isn't the user's fault, but most of the time it is).

The people you call whenever the law firm software is fucking up beyond what you can fix is basically who I would be, but imagine you're managing like 20 different systems(as well as hardware) to a bunch of doctors and nurses that are already pissed off and stressed.

It looks like a gd nightmare so far

Bass posted...

I would rather die than ever do that job. I only have mad respect for people that can do call center jobs let alone IT ones.

Yeah I'm putting in applications today lol honestly fuck that. It isn't worth making my already shitty mental health worse

King

Kano

VeggetaX posted...

As other have said, use this opportunity as a stepping stone into the IT world.

I have tier 1 IT experience under my belt. Over a decade, managing whole contracts even. It has always been hands on type shit though and a hell of a lot more straightforward.

Certs are what I need to get into more advanced IT.The only way this advances my career in IT is by moving up in tiers of more help desk or to management/training.

If I'm too mentally exhausted after 8 hours of doing this shit to actually work on certs then it is pointless for me to stay at this company unless I'm wanting to do more call center shit. And that's not me making excuses, there are plenty of less stressful jobs I can work and do certs at the same time.

Morning bump.

I called in sick to go to my doctor. I'm going on about 3 hours of sleep and I need a day off to get something other than pot to make me go to sleep because I'm just not able to fall asleep after looking at screens all day

Trickfinger posted...

Yeah, that's why I never did helpdesk. I know I wouldn't have the patience to troubleshoot any one of a million different issues with people who are (usually) already frustrated and not tech literate. It's basically just customer service.

I can see why they are frustrated sometimes. A lot of times the shit they are calling about is not their fault. We control the systems that give them the problems. Most people know im just some poor bastard on the phone trying to help but my biggest issue is probably gonna be when people don't listen and I gotta keep repeating myself. Or just people throwing 10 things at me at one time.

Poorly posted...

Did someone float down there besides Georgie?

We all float down here

xGhostchantx posted...

This will be 90% of your work:

Customer: It's not working
You: Okay but like, what exactly isn't working?
Customer: Oh .. like .. everything
You: Any error messages? Specifically, what isn't working?
Customer: Oh ... I don't know
You: What did you [click] [on]?
Customer: ... the thing, it just won't work

I've shadowed a dude for a week lol. It is like that a lot, but a lot of times its like "i cant access x" and i look up the kb (hopefully) and then try like 5 things and if that doesn't work i kick it up to tier 2. A lot of it is active directory bullshit(if im lucky). If not its figuring out why they are blocked out of whatever system.

Which isn't all that bad, but there's like 10 systems to learn. Its a lot to throw at someone with adhd.

xGhostchantx posted...

L1, 2, 3 and management. It can be brutal.

Handy tip: The customer is always wrong
Handy tip #2: Always assume that the customer is lying
Handy tip #3: Let your brain turn off to deal with the above

Yeah this shit makes me wanna just say fuck it and go work at a grocery store lol.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

I guess I mean not a super busy call centre. Probably 75% on the phone and 25% walk ins. But all for one company and not many companies, so I got to know everyone. I had a bit of time to do non-help desk work as well which is how I started becoming a sysadmin

Yeah this is tech support for hospitals and clinics all across the country(and their staff who work from home). 6 different contracts lol. The longest you stay off the phone might be 5 minutes. Usually you get about 1-2 minutes between calls.

Im kinda like looking at it as a challenge to conquer, but im ngl its gonna fucking suck when they first throw me out there by myself. And you can't have bad days, you gotta be on your shit all the time.

sabin017 posted...

How's the dough though? The good places will pay well to have the best people as the first line of defense even though they aren't SMEs. Avoid escalation unless absolutely necessary.

Im getting $16 from a temp company. If they buy me (which would take 6 months to 1 year based on performance from what i see) I would get significantly more especially if I was tier 2.

Tier 2 is actually a better job because you're actually figuring out problems and calling people back/follow up calls instead of just taking first calls from idiots that have dumb problems.

VeggetaX posted...

They hired and trained you to take care of business did they not? You saying they throwing you to the wolves?

Im still training actually.

I can tell it will be hella stressful already. There is no script where theres only a few different problems they can have. Theres like a million different problems they have and a million different kbs.

I can do it and im just bitching but ill probably find something different tbh. Just wondering if anyone else thought it was as soul sucking as it appears.

VeggetaX posted...

My IT life started at AT&T Uverse. It's easy, they gave me a script.

Yeah this aint like that. This is learning their systems and shit and rerouting/escalating calls based on a KB and fixing a bunch of permissions and active directory type shit. Some of it is just resetting passwords and shit and easy af but most of it is some bullshit.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

I did but not in a call centre and not following a script. Worked my way up from there to sysadmin

What do you mean not in a call center? Onsite? Yeah ive done that too. Its cake compared to call center.

Ok so i got some IT experience under my belt but i don't have much experience beyond trouble shooting and repairing hardware

I just started an IT support desk job for medical contracts(nurses,drs,medical staff and their computers, tier 1 first call troubleshooting)

It's crazy asf and im already thinking about quitting. Like you are constantly on calls with dumbfucks and theres like a million different issues they could be calling about. You also have to document everything to a T. It isnt exactly hard shit, but its weeks worth of training and a lot of the people who call in either don't listen or they are just dicks

Anyone work any helpdesk shit?

Bruh slung a lotta dick in his day RIP

Trickfinger posted...

Guys, here's my advice:

Just stop complaining, and fork over the 15 bucks lol.

Stop getting mad because you can't steal Netflix.

Brah you act like password sharing is the only way to steal Netflix content.

This is terrible bait

jumi posted...

This will make the 2020 BLM riots look like a picnic.

No because there isn't a global pandemic going on where everyone has cabin fever.

We saw 5 police officers beat a black man to death a few months ago in full HD in Memphis for over 3 minutes while he was begging for his mother 100 yards away and everyone forgot in a week.

And before anyone says "well the charged those officers quickly", look at the facts. It took them less than a week to charge Chauvin. It took them 2 weeks to even fire the guys in Memphis and 3 weeks to charge them.

indica posted...

I'm not taking a side in this. I'm just providing a credible source, which is something severely lacking from this topic. Just because you say something, doesn't make it true. If you're going to start speaking about fallacies, then maybe giving us credible sources would help ( -_-)

I don't have to prove something that you never disproved. You never posted anything that contradicted what I said and I never said private sales were banned.

As a general rule, you will need a license if you repetitively buy and sell firearms with the principal motive of making a profit. In contrast, if you only make occasional sales of firearms from your personal collection, you do not need to be licensed.

That is from ATF.gov (too long of a link)

IE. You can sell a couple of your guns to people privately, yes. But you can't set up a stand at a gun show and just sell your collection to people without doing a background check

Yeah so yeah there's something in the law called intent. Just quoting yourself doesn't mean anything and I promise you are not educating me.

If you buy a gun with intention of selling it for profit you must use an FFL which must conduct a federal background check. The penalty for selling guns with the intention of profit is punishable by up to 20 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.

Like I said before, if your stance is that all private sales should be banned without an FFL, that is a stance to take. Cool, I think people very much exaggerate how much this is done, considering people can just do straw purchases at regular gun shops. You don't need a gun show to privately sell a gun and making private sales illegal wouldn't stop straw purchases from happening at all.

Kradek posted...

Try this one on, "Mr. Expert", firearms were evolved by the Chinese from their firelances to fend off Mongolian invaders. They solely exist to kill people during war time, they are not "tools for hunting" or any thing of the such, they only exist to kill people. So when people say "guns don't kill people, people kill people", that's completely asinine, because the entire purpose for why firearms exist is to kill people, in the same way that bricks only exist to be building blocks.

So because the original gun was used for killing people, it can have no other use?

So what was the first wheel used for? The first knife? The first boat? The first explosive?

What's funniest about this edit is that this dude went and googled the whole ass history of firearms only to make no actual point at all. But by all means, keep reading about firearms, get educated, go take a class from a professional.

Anyway I gotta be up for work in 5 hours. Been a nice conversation. Have a good night.