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Post by elliejay21 on Feb 7, 2007 15:28:05 GMT -5
Sometimes I really want to wreck havoc on certain institutions, and this is the place to share your stories about beaurocratic nightmares, people who are too stupid to live and other tales of agnst.
Yesterday I needed to pay for my monthly parking at the Stony Brook HSC garage. Now, you have to understand, that it was only a few weeks ago that I had a major incident when they "upgraded" the system. My stupid card did not work for a week, and I had to go to the main parking office every single day in attempt to rectify this. They claimed I had not paid since July, then they said August, and I did not even get my card until September, which shows how full of crap these people are... but finally I got my card working!
I asked if I could pay up front for the entire semester, but they said I needed to wait until February, for some unknown reason, but that my card would work for the first week of the month. So, yesterday, a day WITHIN the first week of the month, I tried to get into the garage before class, and my card did not work.
I had to wait for the line of retards behind me to back out, so I could back out and drive over to the main hospital garage, where I took one look at the 35-40 people standing in line OUTSIDE in the cold, and determined that I did not have time to deal with this before class. After class, I went to the office, waited in a longer line in the cold, gave these extortionists almost $100, got a receipt, and thought I had solved my problem through May.
Incidentally, it really irks me that some of the unions have negotiated with the garage so that PAID employees are charged between 1/3 to 1/2 of what POOR graduate students must pay for the only monthly parking on our side of the campus. It also really irks me that HSC students have to pay for parking AND for the "transportation fee" of almost $200/semester, that is tacked onto every student's tuition, that pays for the busses on the west campus, where HSC students NEVER have reason to be...
In any case, after I paid at the office, I went to get some dinner before my 7-10 pm class. When I got back to the garage, MY CARD DID NOT WORK. They made me back out, even though I showed my receipt, and I had to wait 20 minutes in line at the hospital garage for some dick to tell me that unlike the old system, with the "upgrade," payments take 24-48 hours to activate your card. It would have been REALLY nice to know this before I left for dinner, because I could have avoided being 20 minutes late for class if I had known that I'd need to make another visit to the garage office, if I moved my car.
This morning I got lucky. I'm not sure if my card works yet, because the gates were all stuck open when I got to the garage.
OK. I'm done. I need to go to class now.
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Post by 9 on Feb 7, 2007 18:06:27 GMT -5
You could NOT have picked a more perfect day to start this thread.
This very morning, some idiotic fat FUCK (Note: For those who haven't met me, I ain't exactly tiny, so if I call someone a fat fuck, they're a fat fuck!) decided to stop right at the top of the stairwell to wrap his seven necks in his scarf, button his coat and adjust his hat, completely blocking the way out and thoroughly oblivious to the fact that there were a minimum of 30 people waiting to use that same stairwell.
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Post by Chrissy on Feb 13, 2007 16:01:23 GMT -5
This forum will be perfect for my daily LIRR rants!
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Post by 9 on Feb 13, 2007 16:11:48 GMT -5
I'm angry at Mother Nature because I'm stuck in Chicago until at least 6:30 tomorrow morning. I'm NOT angry at my company, however, as they picked up the hotel room. It could be worse: I could be stuck at O'Hare with no room.
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Post by yankeesgal on Feb 13, 2007 19:33:13 GMT -5
I hate how CUNY reschedules Mondays that are lost to holidays. Thursday is now running on a Monday schedule, which means I have to suffer through physics on back to back days and finish much later than usual on Thursday. This also gives me less time to procrastinate in writing up my lab report for Friday.
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Post by baldvinny on Feb 13, 2007 20:48:36 GMT -5
quit yer bitching!
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Post by 9 on Feb 13, 2007 22:43:19 GMT -5
But it's the ANGRY thread! It's FOR bitching!
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Post by elliejay21 on Feb 14, 2007 17:10:29 GMT -5
Cocksuckers at wine.com fucked up and shipped today, the gift I orders WEEKS ago for VALENTINE'S DAY.
Bad enough the weather ruined plans to go out, but this is ridiculous.
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Post by sancho231 on Feb 14, 2007 17:40:13 GMT -5
I'm Pissed today's weather done stole money out my pocket.did not venture out to the Ghettolands today. i called them ,and w as told not much of a crowd(what else is new?) tonight and my services were not needed. not to mention i think the jersey roads are Fucked up and a 10 min bus ride would have probly taken an hour
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Post by Jason Giambi on Feb 14, 2007 21:41:23 GMT -5
this is too much whining about wine
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Post by 9 on Feb 14, 2007 23:45:20 GMT -5
The Jersey roads were beyond fucked up. I landed at Newark around noon and it took me almost 45 minutes to get back to Hoboken because my cab was sliding all over 1/9, as was every other car and truck on the road.'
Kind of ironic (enter Domi): We passed three accidents and all of them involved 4x4s, with two of them one-vehicle accidents.
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Post by Jason Giambi on Feb 15, 2007 9:19:36 GMT -5
because idiots who own 4x4's don't realize that itdoesn't do shit for you on ice.
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Post by 9 on Feb 15, 2007 9:33:21 GMT -5
Absolutely. Duh ... I have a Pathfinder, so I can drive 70 while everyone else is trying to do 30. Unreal.
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Post by sancho231 on Feb 15, 2007 23:44:53 GMT -5
hey 9 when the fuck you gonna buy something from me at dem net games? i m fuckin broke
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Post by 9 on Feb 16, 2007 8:37:18 GMT -5
Y'all never come up to the upper deck!
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 16, 2007 11:00:29 GMT -5
They cant physically make it to the upper deck.
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Post by 9 on Feb 16, 2007 11:30:24 GMT -5
I have never seen a beer vendor in the stands, anyway. All I've seen is crap I wouldn't eat with a Red Sox fan's mouth, like cotton candy.
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Post by sancho231 on Feb 16, 2007 13:52:18 GMT -5
Yeah i ve been asking to sell beer but as it turns out In seat beer sales are iilegal in NJ.but hey some times i got shakes
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Post by 9 on Feb 16, 2007 14:34:26 GMT -5
I get the shakes, too, after going too many hours without beer.
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Post by dabadguy on Feb 16, 2007 19:00:11 GMT -5
Why the hell are we still watching coverage all day on CNN about that stupid junkie whore?? Does anyone really give a shit that she died. I can't believe with all that's going on in this world, we have to hear about a druggie! Anna Nicole Smith was a nobody.
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Post by elliejay21 on Feb 19, 2007 13:01:16 GMT -5
I just got a sandwich from the deli downstairs; ham & swiss with bacon on a croissent, and it was THE worst thing I have eaten in a while. Croissents should be flakey, not hard and brittle, reminiscent of styrofoam.
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Post by Chris on Feb 19, 2007 14:10:07 GMT -5
Poor service at eating establishments grind on my nerves more than anything EllieJay!
This weekend I placed a phone order to Corner Bakery ( I know they have them somewhere on the East Coast - maybe not NY - kinda like an upscale sandwich place - you know Paninis and different kinds of gourmet breads, etc...). So the girl who answered the phone was clearly a young dingy high school kid - you could just tell. As she answered I immediately pictured this tiny little bleach blond dingy Huntington Beach high school girl, probably drives a Jetta her Mom and Dad bought here with a Famous Stars And Straps sticker on the back window, who dreams of marrying Travis Barker...you all know the type...well, maybe you don't being on the East Coast. Anyway....
I ask for a Ham and Swiss Panini.
Response: Ummmm....(long pause)....ummmm....do you mean the Ham and CHEESE Panini?
(last time I checked Swiss was fucking CHEESE you dope) .. "yes, the Ham and Cheese panini. I'd also like a large bowl of the stew."
Response: Ummmm.....(longer pause)......OK, you want the STEW??? Ummmmmm, do you mean the BEEF stew
(you fucking IDIOT. Not only is the term "stew" largely accepted by society to mean beef stew, but you have NO OTHER TYPE of stew on your fucking menu!!!!) .."yes, the beef Stew."
Response: "OK, your name"
Me: "Chris"
Response: "OK....(as I heard her voice getting further away as indication that she is hanging up the phone without any further communication, just before the click I hear faintly, "phone order for Kristen"
So when I get there, the girl appeared exactly as I envisioned her. Not only that, her dingy friends were heckling her from the dining as she tried to work. I tell her I'm here to pick up a phone order for "Chris". She says, "OK, a bowl of tomato basil and a Cesar salad?"
I say, "No, not even close. Do you have a phone order for Kristen?"
She says, "nope, no Kristen."
I then tell her what I ordered, and she said, "Oh here it is, there's no name on the order...you must not have given a name when you called in."
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
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Post by 9 on Feb 19, 2007 21:04:40 GMT -5
A friend of mine and I were talking while getting rung up at a candy store in LBI, and she was talking about the fact that her boyfriend lives in Washington, near Seattle. East Coast version of Ch0's checkout bimbo: Washington's not that far. You can probably drive down to see him all the time. Me: No, Washington state. Bimbo: Wait ... there's a Washington STATE? ?
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Post by Chris on Feb 20, 2007 5:43:45 GMT -5
Well, at least she implied that she knew D.C. is not a state.
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Post by 9 on Feb 20, 2007 8:01:31 GMT -5
That's really giving her the benefit of the doubt.
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Post by elliejay21 on Mar 9, 2007 16:06:05 GMT -5
I am so fucking exhausted, that I think my head is going to fall and hit the keyboard. If I need to click one more goddamned link to see a PDF of an article that I do not care about for this assinine project, I am going to scream, but that might just keep me awake.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 9, 2007 16:11:57 GMT -5
If I need to click one more goddamned link to see a PDF of an article that I do not care about for this assinine project
To the contrary, in my own experience, the excitement generated by a truly fresh and original piece of writing is the rocket fuel that lifts any skylab -- with its grizzled crew of author, editor, publisher, agent, bookseller, publicist, marketer....into orbit in the empyrean.
You should stop watching so many Beverly Hills 90210 episodes, and you would not be so exhausted.
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Post by 9 on Mar 9, 2007 16:23:02 GMT -5
Rocket fuel that lifts any skylab? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by elliejay21 on Mar 9, 2007 16:27:40 GMT -5
The University of Virginia School of Medicine has decided to accept $20 million from tobacco company Philip Morris for medical research. A company spokesman has said the funding is not a public relations exercise.
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Post by elliejay21 on Mar 9, 2007 16:28:20 GMT -5
Goddammit! I posted in the wrong thread! ANGRY, I am.
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