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Timbeck2 said:
I’m noticing an upward trend in the phrase “be advised” over the radio and I hate it.

Don’t know if it’s Hollywood influenced or people think it’s cool but it’s one of the most useless phrases ever devised. If you are talking to me, it’s already implied that you are advising me, you don’t have to say “be advised.” You may as well say, “hey, I’m about to tell you something.”
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It's like finger nails on a chalk board. I'm getting the shivers just reading about it. I only worked at one place where the Controllers did it and they did it a lot. I think I may have been the only one who didn't.
 
Timbeck2 said:
I’m noticing an upward trend in the phrase “be advised” over the radio and I hate it.

Don’t know if it’s Hollywood influenced or people think it’s cool but it’s one of the most useless phrases ever devised. If you are talking to me, it’s already implied that you are advising me, you don’t have to say “be advised.” You may as well say, “hey, I’m about to tell you something.”
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Can I ask you a question?
 
Or the death by power point people who:

1. Tell you what they are going to say
2. Say it
3. Tell you what they said

Very popular in the military; but they usually lose me at step 1.
 
RockyMtnFlyer said:
Or the death by power point people who:

1. Tell you what they are going to say
2. Say it
3. Tell you what they said

Very popular in the military; but they usually lose me at step 1.
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2a - say it by reading the words on the slides verbatim and not saying anything that isn't on the slide.
 
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Bob Noel said:
2a - say it by reading the words on the slides verbatim and not saying anything that isn't on the slide.
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I am so incredibly happy to never have to put up with that nonsense, or the mandatory replay of the exact same annual regulatory and HR "training", ever again.
 
Bob Noel said:
2a - say it by reading the words on the slides verbatim and not saying anything that isn't on the slide.
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Many of the committees we brief get the materials in advance to pre-read... so that would be step 0.9?

(no, they typically don't pre-read them)
 
I am so incredibly happy to never have to put up with that nonsense, or the mandatory replay of the exact same annual regulatory and HR "training", ever again.
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Me too. No longer pretend to listen to EO, non-discrimination, inclusion, etc, etc.....

Retirement is wonderful
 
Rene said:
"Well, GOLL-LEE, Sgt. Carter! I'm on final for SIX!" Said in Jim Nabors', Gomer Pyle accent.
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did Gomer ever say "Sgt Carter"? I would have guessed he would always called him "sgt"
 
I hate, realy hate, companies that insist you enter an email address when ordering online, provide a checkbox to not get "exciting announcements", and then ignore that and SPAM the email address FOREVER without providing any method to remove the email address from their spam list.

Macys will not get any additional business from me. There are others on the these-companies-are-crap list, Macys is only the most recent.
 
Bob Noel said:
did Gomer ever say "Sgt Carter"? I would have guessed he would always called him "sgt"
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He did . . .

Wait . . .

Are you telling me that a television show . . .

Contained inaccuracies?

(And Frank Sutton played a Gunny.)
 
Bob Noel said:
I hate, realy hate, companies that insist you enter an email address when ordering online, provide a checkbox to not get "exciting announcements", and then ignore that and SPAM the email address FOREVER without providing any method to remove the email address from their spam list.
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The larger email service providers (Yahoo, Gmail, Outlook, etc) these days provide the ability to add additional email addresses (aliases) to an account. Just create a few, hand those out, and then when things get annoying simply delete the alias.
 
Bob Noel said:
I hate, realy hate, companies that insist you enter an email address when ordering online, provide a checkbox to not get "exciting announcements", and then ignore that and SPAM the email address FOREVER without providing any method to remove the email address from their spam list.

Macys will not get any additional business from me. There are others on the these-companies-are-crap list, Macys is only the most recent.
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That’s why you have decoy e mail address. I have one on Yahoo years old that has about 10,000 unread e mails.
 
Bob Noel said:
I hate, realy hate, companies that insist you enter an email address when ordering online, provide a checkbox to not get "exciting announcements", and then ignore that and SPAM the email address FOREVER without providing any method to remove the email address from their spam list.

Macys will not get any additional business from me. There are others on the these-companies-are-crap list, Macys is only the most recent.
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Macys is atrocious indeed. I recall getting sometimes more than 1 promo email per day.

worst offender I ever saw was credit karma (a credit monitoring product by Intuit, I believe). They light up your inbox with so many stupid, irrelevant emails on a daily basis. Many are intentionally worded to make your credit sound like it's in trouble, or that there's some nefarious activity potentially occurring. Then once you launch the page you find out it was all a ruse to get you just to log in. All they want is for you to sign in so they can publish metrics for their investors showing good daily/monthly active users.

I think it's an underhanded tactic... So I won't give them any biz.
 
ArrowFlyer86 said:
Macys is atrocious indeed. I recall getting sometimes more than 1 promo email per day.

worst offender I ever saw was credit karma (a credit monitoring product by Intuit, I believe). They light up your inbox with so many stupid, irrelevant emails on a daily basis. Many are intentionally worded to make your credit sound like it's in trouble, or that there's some nefarious activity potentially occurring. Then once you launch the page you find out it was all a ruse to get you just to log in. All they want is for you to sign in so they can publish metrics for their investors showing good daily/monthly active users.

I think it's an underhanded tactic... So I won't give them any biz.
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One that ****ed me off the most was the U of IL's fundraising. I certainly never opted in to that one. I'm not really even sure how they got my email. I unsubscribed at least three times, but kept getting them. Then I figured out that they were coming from different email addresses...each college, each college's alumni groups, sports boosters, on and on. Finally just started reporting anything U of I as spam and finally got them stopped. Those *******s already got enough of my money.
 
Giving my old college ( also U of I) money makes no sense to me. I already paid my tuition many years ago. Am I supposed to also donate money to the car dealership I bought from 40 years ago? Or the guy I bought my house from?
 
Jim K said:
One that ****ed me off the most was the U of IL's fundraising. I certainly never opted in to that one. I'm not really even sure how they got my email. I unsubscribed at least three times, but kept getting them. Then I figured out that they were coming from different email addresses...each college, each college's alumni groups, sports boosters, on and on. Finally just started reporting anything U of I as spam and finally got them stopped. Those *******s already got enough of my money.
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Oh god -- I feel your pain 100%. It took me about 12 years to get off my alma mater's list. Same tactics you describe above.
I still vividly remember the words I wanted to say when I got a call from IU student alumni association talking to me about "giving back".
As if the obscene sums of student loan debt I incurred in out-of-state tuition wasn't giving enough :mad:
 
WDD said:
Giving my old college ( also U of I) money makes no sense to me. I already paid my tuition many years ago. Am I supposed to also donate money to the car dealership I bought from 40 years ago? Or the guy I bought my house from?
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If you are early or mid career, their prestige enhances your resume ("oooh, he went to that fancy college. He must be smart").

But I guess that's not you anymore.
 
asicer said:
If you are early or mid career, their prestige enhances your resume ("oooh, he went to that fancy college. He must be smart").
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I've met guys in my career in their late 30s who still list elite private high schools and uber high SAT scores on their resume. Doesn't happen everyday, but it happens.
You always get a little bit of second hand embarrassment when you see that as an interviewer... Some people really cling to accomplishments from their yesteryears as proof that they're the guy for the job :)
 
asicer said:
If you are early or mid career, their prestige enhances your resume ("oooh, he went to that fancy college. He must be smart").

But I guess that's not you anymore.
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Well, it's another club. Donate enough money, you get invited to the parties where you get to rub elbows with other rich people, make connections, make more money. I know a kid who did just that, met the local billionaires, and talked them into buying farm land and letting him farm it. Worked great for him. I'm just not interested, even if I had enough money to throw around like that. I guess maybe I would if I didn't light it all on fire in an effort to say "**** you" to gravity.
 
asicer said:
If you are early or mid career, their prestige enhances your resume ("oooh, he went to that fancy college. He must be smart").

But I guess that's not you anymore.
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That’s not me ever. I already paid to get that “oooh fancy college” what not. That’s why they strive to be the oooh to get people to go to their school and give them tuition money.
 
Bob Noel said:
I hate, realy hate, companies that insist you enter an email address when ordering online,
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That is why I use ''biggreen1@aol.com'' for an email address.

If they insist on a phone number I use the phone number to the company I used to fly for in Kotzebue, AK.

And if they really insist on a name, I use B.G. Giant.
 
Address? 1313 Mocking Bird Lane. Mocking Bird Heights IN

Phone? 1 312 867 5301. Ask for Jenny
 
WDD said:
Address? 1313 Mocking Bird Lane. Mocking Bird Heights IN

Phone? 1 312 867 5301. Ask for Jenny
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It's 867-5309. It's stuck in my head because my small town's area code (remember landlines & area codes?) was (still is, I guess?) 867. I went to school with a girl, whose phone number was, no joke, 867-5309. Her name was Jenny. Don't know if that's why her parents picked it, but she did say they'd get a crank caller a couple times a month.

Ours was 867-2359, which is still burned into my memory even though it's been disconnected for ~20 years. Why isn't that the penguin that gets pushed off the iceburg?
 
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Dave Theisen said:
Mars
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It’s there, trust me…..

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