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12-18-2003, 12:56 PM
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#2341
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World Ruler
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 12,057
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Things That Piss Me Off
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Originally posted by evenodds
I have a standing lunch reservation: every week for five years at the same place with the same group of people. I also visit a couple of times of week for lunch and once or twice a week for cocktails or dinner and I host special events there in the private dining room a couple of times of month.
About six weeks ago, they hire a new reservations woman. Every week for six weeks, she gets the reservation wrong and fucks up my name. I blow it off because she is new.
This morning, I called to say we were having an extra three people and not only could she not find the reservation, she rudely told me she didn't think they could accomodate me because they were all booked.
Of course, her boss's boss's boss was more than happy to take care of me. But now I am mad.
How could you not know who I am? How could you not recognize a name you make reservations for five or six times a week? Part of her job is feigning recognition, if actual recognition is not there. How fucking hard can this be?
If every one above you on the org chart hugs me as I enter your place, shouldn't you figure out what my name is?
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Go to another Luby's.
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"More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way."
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12-18-2003, 12:57 PM
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#2342
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Fast left eighty slippy
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 1,236
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Weird Holiday Gifts
So, I'm always amused by the stuff that clients and service providers send me for the holidays. This is the first year I've sent Holiday cards to all my clients, and I think that they have generated a few extra gifts this year. Client gifts have generally been pretty nice, usually booze, food, candy, etc. Sometimes little trinkets.
But some of the service provider gifts are downright weird. Lots of calendars and desk stuff, but two stick out:
From R. R. Donnelley, a copy of The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt, with their name and logo on the front.
From a company to which I send out closing books to be bound, a small Christmas stocking with " mmm3587, Esq." printed on it.
How bizarre is that shit. I guess they worked, as I will remember both these weird gifts.
Anybody else get anything really strange?
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12-18-2003, 01:05 PM
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#2343
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prodigal poster
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: gate 27
Posts: 2,710
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Things That Piss Me Off
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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Go to another Luby's.
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As long as I can get my LuAnn Platter, I am happy.
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My enemies curse my name, but rave about my ass.
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12-18-2003, 01:07 PM
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#2344
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: NYC
Posts: 18,597
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Weird Holiday Gifts
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Originally posted by mmm3587
So, I'm always amused by the stuff that clients and service providers send me for the holidays. This is the first year I've sent Holiday cards to all my clients, and I think that they have generated a few extra gifts this year. Client gifts have generally been pretty nice, usually booze, food, candy, etc. Sometimes little trinkets.
But some of the service provider gifts are downright weird. Lots of calendars and desk stuff, but two stick out:
From R. R. Donnelley, a copy of The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt, with their name and logo on the front.
From a company to which I send out closing books to be bound, a small Christmas stocking with " mmm3587, Esq." printed on it.
How bizarre is that shit. I guess they worked, as I will remember both these weird gifts.
Anybody else get anything really strange?
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My mentor gave me a new BMW.
Everyone else got coffee mugs.
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12-18-2003, 01:14 PM
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#2345
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In my dreams ...
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 1,955
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Weird Holiday Gifts
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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
My mentor gave me a new BMW.
Everyone else got coffee mugs.
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You were right. I clearly know nothing about how to benefit from a mentoring relationship.
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- Life is too short to wear cheap shoes.
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12-18-2003, 01:17 PM
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#2346
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: NYC
Posts: 18,597
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Weird Holiday Gifts
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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
You were right. I clearly know nothing about how to benefit from a mentoring relationship.
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Haven't you been listening? It's not that you don't know how to benefit. You're just really really really not dark enough to land yourself the right kind of mentor.
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12-18-2003, 01:17 PM
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halfsharkalligatorhalfmod
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: The Ryugyong Hotel
Posts: 3,218
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Weird Holiday Gifts
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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
My mentor gave me a new BMW.
Everyone else got coffee mugs.
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I am sure your willingness to engage in monkeysex with your mentor had nothing to do with it, either.
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12-18-2003, 01:17 PM
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#2348
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Pop goes the chupacabra
Posts: 18,532
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Weird Holiday Gifts
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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
My mentor gave me a new BMW.
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When did you become the cabana boy for some cougar in Greenwich? |
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12-18-2003, 01:28 PM
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#2349
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World Ruler
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 12,057
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Weird Holiday Gifts
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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
My mentor gave me a new BMW.
Everyone else got coffee mugs.
TM
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Other gift ideas in this years Cheap Toy Roundup, "The Onion A.V. Club's annual gift guide for grownups who are either trying to work within a budget or just buying presents for particularly crappy kids."
http://www.onionavclub.com/3949/feature2.html
The DJ Battle Mix looks fun, but I don't understand the appeal of the McDonald's Play Food Set. Is the real thing that much different?
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"More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way."
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12-18-2003, 01:29 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Government Yard in Trenchtown
Posts: 20,182
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Weird Holiday Gifts
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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
My mentor gave me a new BMW.
Everyone else got coffee mugs.
TM
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Along which lines, anyone have good holiday gift ideas for their SO they want to share?
(1 week to go and still nothing in hand).
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A wee dram a day!
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12-18-2003, 01:29 PM
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In my dreams ...
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 1,955
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Weird Holiday Gifts
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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Haven't you been listening? It's not that you don't know how to benefit. You're just really really really not dark enough to land yourself the right kind of mentor.
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Well, just how is my whiter-than-white-ness supposed to compete with your chocolaty goodness? You saw how much support my spririted defense of vanilla got.
Guess I'll have to start hanging out on the links to find me a brown-sugar-daddy.
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- Life is too short to wear cheap shoes.
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12-18-2003, 01:36 PM
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#2352
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World Ruler
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 12,057
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Weird Holiday Gifts
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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Along which lines, anyone have good holiday gift ideas for their SO they want to share?
(1 week to go and still nothing in hand).
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Soapdish.
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"More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way."
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12-18-2003, 01:40 PM
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#2353
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: State of Chaos
Posts: 8,197
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Weird Holiday Gifts
Quote:
Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Along which lines, anyone have good holiday gift ideas for their SO they want to share?
(1 week to go and still nothing in hand).
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Monkey sex in a new BMW. |
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12-18-2003, 01:41 PM
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Too Good For Post Numbers
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 65,535
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Weird Holiday Gifts
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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Soapdish.
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So, you're comfortable with the "no sex until February" idea? |
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12-18-2003, 01:42 PM
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#2355
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: All American Burger
Posts: 1,446
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Weird Holiday Gifts
Quote:
Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Along which lines, anyone have good holiday gift ideas for their SO they want to share?
(1 week to go and still nothing in hand).
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For Mrs. Hand's gift this year, I'm making out like a bandit...
She asked for and is getting a TiVo (the series II, 80 hr. version). Unbeknownst to her, I wanted one for myself. So this will truly be the gift that keeps on giving as I will get to use it as well...
If she didn't ask for it and I got it for her, I might have been accused of buying her something that I really intended for me. |
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