Two gripes and a meme-start
Gripe 1: When you ask for information, ask for specific information. If you're going to as for "the numbers" because you're with "the client", tell me which client and what kind of information. I have (literally) almost 4 billion numbers- dates, times, volumes, temperatures, percentages... You could also tell me which client (even what they do, or what we do with them, would narrow it down a lot). I just broke into laughing before I ended up calling the person, going two levels of management up (and one up on the client after talking to him directly), and getting it narrowed down to about 200 "numbers".
Gripe 2: Get these mother****ing "I resolve to lose weight" folk out of my mother****ing gym. Most of them are gone by January, but... Examples!
Here's this lady- she needs to lose about 100 lbs, probably. Good for her, she's trying. Walking might be better use of her time, but muscle consumes a lot of calories. Only... she's not going to build muscle. She's thigh-pressing two five-pound plates, five times, and then READING THE NEWSPAPER FOR TEN MINUTES STRAIGHT while STILL SITTING ON THE MACHINE. After about 25 minutes tried to suggest "Since that's the only leg-press, would you mind sitting on that while you rest? I'd like to use it, too, and I promise to change the weights back." She got flat out nasty & vile in explaining how she had to do her three sets and she only had one left and kids these days have no respect and if I weren't going to let her do an hour a day at the gym I'd essentially be killing her and...
It went on longer than it would have taken me to use the machine. And standing up would've probably given her more exercise than her workout.
She's not the only example. Just the worst. Thank God they leave in a few weeks.
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MEME ATTEMPT:
What's the first time you remember seeing or hearing something and thinking, "Damn, I'm old"? Explain in as much or as little detail as you like.
Gripe 2: Get these mother****ing "I resolve to lose weight" folk out of my mother****ing gym. Most of them are gone by January, but... Examples!
Here's this lady- she needs to lose about 100 lbs, probably. Good for her, she's trying. Walking might be better use of her time, but muscle consumes a lot of calories. Only... she's not going to build muscle. She's thigh-pressing two five-pound plates, five times, and then READING THE NEWSPAPER FOR TEN MINUTES STRAIGHT while STILL SITTING ON THE MACHINE. After about 25 minutes tried to suggest "Since that's the only leg-press, would you mind sitting on that while you rest? I'd like to use it, too, and I promise to change the weights back." She got flat out nasty & vile in explaining how she had to do her three sets and she only had one left and kids these days have no respect and if I weren't going to let her do an hour a day at the gym I'd essentially be killing her and...
It went on longer than it would have taken me to use the machine. And standing up would've probably given her more exercise than her workout.
She's not the only example. Just the worst. Thank God they leave in a few weeks.
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MEME ATTEMPT:
What's the first time you remember seeing or hearing something and thinking, "Damn, I'm old"? Explain in as much or as little detail as you like.