You've got to remind these women of their place every once in a while.

Dear Work,

How ungodly idiotic can you possibly be? I am seeing incompetence all across the board, and now the client (Hotwire) has to take matters into their own hands. And now, you're seeing everyone having to adjust to a new schedule on the fly, and workers complaining about the abruptness of the new schedule.

And it's pretty much everyone's fault. Too many floor walkers, not enough people on the phones at the right times because management tried to be too buddy-buddy with the workers. So, the wing is abandoning 30% of the calls right now. I've seen too many workers make too many mistakes that other workers have to correct. And I have yet to have some idea how good or bad I have performed in about a month even though it was "promised" I would have weekly coaching or performance reviews. Completely and utterly unacceptable.

Seriously, Work is Dilbert-esque like in incompetence and when the six month ding arrives, you may not see me work there anymore. You can tell how incompetent management has been in the layout of the call center's floors: immaculately looking bathrooms, a waterfall structure I'll watch on my breaks, but no water fountains. If I need a drink of water, I'll have to buy it from the vending machines.

Maybe I'll join the Apple Wing, they seem to be running a tight ship even though they're not 24/7. I have seen only one person of management who I trust and I think is doing as best of a job as she can be, and she's working like 60 hour weeks trying to clean up the dumpster fires the rest of management is unwittingly setting.

More likely, I'll see if I can find someplace else where I'll be better able to use whatever crap talents I've accumulated. I thought my last place of work was bad. I'm starting to wonder if this place is even worse.

Yours,



Ampersand, who guesses 40% of the staff will quit on the spot instead of accepting the new schedule.

Dear Glasgow-in-a-heatwave

Put your fucking shirt back on

Yrs
My delicate sensibilities

Dear Wikipedia:

In no way, shape, or form was Franz Schubert a classical composer! Listen to Der Erlkonig and tell me how that is a classical piece. He was very clearly an early ROMANTIC composer, his works aren't as strictly ordered and put together as Mozart and Hayden's were but are more free-flowing and fantastic.

Irritated reader

Actually he's a classical composer in the sense of being a very well known composer. But he is in the Romantic era, along with Beethoven.

You know what I mean! He is listed in the Classical Era of music history on the wikipedia site. It INFURIATES me. I mean, I know that there are transitional composers, such as Beethoven, where some works could be considered classical era and some are more romantic, but Schubert doesn't really classify as a transitional composer. His works seem to fall pretty clearly into the romantic period. Wow, I'm nitpicking.

True, but the Romantic period isn't as hard to classify than it is after that period more towards the modern period with "Classical" music. Anything past Gershwin and it sounds like composers just gave up until the modern movies industry gave composers a bone. Which is my problem with the whole Abstract and Post-Modern art. I know it's suppose to be different, difficult, and complicated, but damn it, an Elephant can make better abstract art. You might as well be describing flavors of wine.

Dear college bookstore:

You suck. You suck so very hard. First you force me to buy YOUR Econ textbook, which is only a re-arranged copy of an existing textbook (btw, do the authors know you've done this? Do you have their consent to mess with their work?), then you try to charge me $600 for my fall texts. Three books, for six hundred dollars. Are these gold-plated books or something? I did a search for the ISBN on amazon and managed to get the whole lot for $120. So HA! You shall not get MY money!

Yours
The student who won't shop from you.

Don't blame the store, blame the professor that made them violate copyright law. (Unless that professor actually wrote the book.)

Dear (former) employee:

Fuck you. Leaving a note telling us "I quit" when we have no personell. Saying I'm not stocking when the video proves I did. We have to run the store now with two people. Fuck. You. We had planned on getting rid of you, yes it's true, but not until we had adaquate personell to run the store. I think you did this just to screw us over. I also think you're trying to get me in trouble because when someone who was calling to get a reference about your job application with them called I told them the truth that you were lazy and didn't do what we asked. Well I'm certainly going to tell them now that you quit without notice and that you shorted the store $20 on the day you quit. So up yours.

The angry manager.

Careful spike. In most, if not all, states legally you are only allowed to say a) dates that employees worked for you and b) whether or not you would hire them again. Anything else could get you in serious trouble.

You CAN say if you WOULD rehire them, and most hiring managers know that if someone says NO that its for good cause. Elaborating any further could get you into hot water.

Actually it looks like you can say they quit without notice, but I wouldn't mention the theft unless you could prove it in a court of law. Anything you say has to be 100% verifiable fact. Not that this is likely in this case, but some people do hire firms to "resume checks" for them. Doubtful that someone that stole from the gas station they worked at would do that, but there's no reason to take that legal risk.

What Jez says is truth.

Dear Microsoft,

I've been thinking about your Visual Studio 2012. And the more I think about it, the more I wonder if I should stick with Adobe. Here's the thing: if you really want to lure the IT people to your next iteration of .NET, then I think you need to consider developing a subscription model. For about $50 a month, you can have the whole Adobe Creative Suite package, which is a set of 17 items. For your base Visual Studio with some sort of MSDN subscription, you're asking for $66 a month, but you don't have a monthly option. And there's no cloud option either, which I find odd.

You want $354 a month for your Ultimate package. I'm paying $50 for the whole Adobe CS, which only maybe four items have some sort of web component in them. I realize IT admin and programmers are sheep and it looks like you're going to have some sort of Express version for web developers, which means you'll hardly have anyone pay for the full set. And such programs are easy to find through other illegal means.

So I guess what I am saying if you want more people and you don't want people using express, just lower the price point of your models to something more manageable.

Now, whether your programs are better than Adobe's stuff, well, that's another problem altogether.

Yours,

Ampersand who wonders where can he find a HTML5 certification book?

Dear FireAza:

3-1. Get it right up you!*

*Although in fairness, I don't give a shit about international football and I doubt you do either.

Dear Rors,
The what now?
Confused, FireAza