Final pass editing next in series book for one of my authors.
Well, just tested, because my mom has her knee surgery coming up, and SURPRISE! It's COVID! Yay!! Thanks guy!Sitting at the computer, wrapped in layers, because one of my coworkers was kind enough to bring in a cold his daughter dragged home from school, and share it with the office. Had a fever that started Friday night and ran all day yesterday, but seems to have left last night, as I don't have one today. Dry cough, lots of snot. Good times.
You can have. You've got the book.Putting beer in the fridge that me and dad just bought. I wish I had money I’d get some steaks but I’m not spending any extra right now.
?So many slaves serving that unrelenting master, debt. And renewing their contract with the devil at every opportunity.
Well looks like not going back on nights until the 25th is no longer a true statement. Another senior is stuck in India & not able to make it back in time for his shifts. Not official yet but looking at the schedule, I'm the only one available to cover for this coming Friday & Saturday night shifts.Working a 12hr dayshift today. Don't go back to nights until the 25th. Get some rest.
During a widespread blackout that cell phone will be useless. Landlines have reliability on their side.Right now having a debate on another forum about useless things. So far landlines and pennies are winning haha. Does anyone still have a landline besides businesses and my 99 year old neighbors? We cut ours off on 2013 when I got a cellphone. Then we had to cut it back on when dad got his business license as it was required by the company or agency or whatever and then we cut it off again after they said it was fine to have an extra cellphone for it. My coworker who lives way out in the boonies in his cabin does but that’s because his cheap Tracfone doesn’t pick up and he wants to keep the old timely look so the landline fits in well. Personally I don’t talk on the phone so landlines are definitely useless this is the 21st century we don’t talk we text. At least my generation does lol. I said landlines and cashiers are useless because I can’t stand someone else ringing me up at the store and I don’t like interacting with others. They need to completely convert to all self checkouts.
Stupid question but I’m young so I don’t know…. Don’t landlines work on the same towers as the cell phones? I was always told they did. But if not I’m sure they could take out whatever they run off of too.During a widespread blackout that cell phone will be useless. Landlines have reliability on their side.
I also prefer to go to an actual checker at the grocery or hardware store. Keeps people employed
Technology is all well & good but I’ve seen first hand the degradation of results when implemented. As just a singular example, I used to work for a large utility that consolidated AOR’s (areas of responsibility). Due to implementing new technologies, what used to be 3 separate 8 man crews in 3 neighboring geographic locations, became a single 8 man crew operating from a remote location. The control area became so large that once the experienced operators left or retired, the intricacies of each area were lost. That knowledge base was lost & the new area was FAR too large to ever get it back. This results in more errors & delayed restoration times. With the new control systems, initial responses are faster as are notification’s. Those just so happen to the the heavily weighted metrics used to justify the staff reductions.
That was a very high stress environment. 8 people doing the work of what 24 used to do. Add to that we were short staffed with only 5 & things compounded. Overtime was out of control & people were always tired & on edge.
No thank you. Went back to a better staffed entity that operates in the dinosaur era![]()
No, they don't. The towers connect to the same infrastructure as the old land lines do. Those towers are just the "wifi" part of the system to put into familiar terms.Stupid question but I’m young so I don’t know…. Don’t landlines work on the same towers as the cell phones? I was always told they did. But if not I’m sure they could take out whatever they run off of too.