What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

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:cry: So it turns out the 8 hours' worth of pay we got on July 4th from Duck Donuts was an error, and that extra money will be taken out of our next paychecks.

:? So Amazon's just now saying they're preparing my order for delivery. I ordered it on Friday the 9th, and it said it'd be delivered by Friday the 16th. Then yesterday, Monday the 12th it said it'd arrive the following Monday and now it's saying it'll be here by the 20th. And I chose the one-day prime shipping!
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Didn’t you buy that Switch because of that extra money? If so, you should very much return it.
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Thankfully I only lose less than $80.
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:D Amazon says it's "Shipping Now". It's so close I can practically taste it. Not literally, and not because of the obvious reasons.
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REPO Man wrote::D Amazon says it's "Shipping Now". It's so close I can practically taste it. Not literally, and not because of the obvious reasons.
Be sure to lick one of the Switch cartridges. It is a rite of passage that all Switch owners must undertake.


:? So I preordered a Memcard Pro a few months ago. They were supposed to ship mid-June but that got delayed presumably due to all the various shortages and port congestion. That's fine cause it is out of their hands. I got an email last night from Castlemania games stating that 8bitmods shorted them on certain colors (but thankfully shipped the right amount of cards). I was given the option to pick a different color, get a refund, or ship it back to 8bitmods to fix. I like two of the other three colors well enough so hopefully, I can get one of those.
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I'm back at work on-site now, but I'm working out of a closet office because the main office space for my department needs to have the separate HVAC system given some proper maintenance, something the maintenance folks kept putting off and putting off. Well, now we need it because we have to have proper air movement to and from the outside to keep an open office plan safe. Sure, we're all vaccinated, but there will be people in and out, and we need the system to be working anyway. And once I am back at my proper desk I will have to dust like crazy. There's a lot of work ahead and I'm not very productive using my ancient laptop to remote to my aging desktop to do work. I need my two monitors, man! Gotta have two screens to get any work done.
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marurun wrote:I'm back at work on-site now, but I'm working out of a closet office because the main office space for my department needs to have the separate HVAC system given some proper maintenance, something the maintenance folks kept putting off and putting off. Well, now we need it because we have to have proper air movement to and from the outside to keep an open office plan safe. Sure, we're all vaccinated, but there will be people in and out, and we need the system to be working anyway. And once I am back at my proper desk I will have to dust like crazy. There's a lot of work ahead and I'm not very productive using my ancient laptop to remote to my aging desktop to do work. I need my two monitors, man! Gotta have two screens to get any work done.
I pioneered the two screens in my office. When I first started in the role in 2018, they all thought I was crazy with the two screens. Then slowly people started going towards having two screens on their desk.

After about a year I pulled the ultimate asshole move: I went back to one screen and never looked back.

I loved the two screens at first but my productivity started to take a hit. I’m no expert but I’m sure some expert would see two screens as a cause to lose focus. I have Outlook on one screen and when an email came in, it would pull me away from whatever I was doing. Whatever the case or the issue was for me and the two screen thing, I now have a single 27” Acer monitor with no bezels and I work much better now than I ever did with the two screen setup.
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I do a lot of work that requires jumping between interfaces and data sets, which need to be wide so I can see all the data columns. I can’t do that on one monitor, not really. I am constantly getting frustrated pulling the wrong window to the front when I just need them all in the front.
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Given that information, it totally makes sense for you to have two (or more) monitors. Ever looked into the super wide displays?
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marurun wrote:I do a lot of work that requires jumping between interfaces and data sets, which need to be wide so I can see all the data columns. I can’t do that on one monitor, not really. I am constantly getting frustrated pulling the wrong window to the front when I just need them all in the front.
That's why I always loved using two monitors back in the States as well (and why I still plan to do that here too someday, once I can get around to getting a PC that can handle it properly XP). It's just so much easier to do spreadsheet work when you have the space to have 3 or 4 half-screen windows open as opposed to constantly flipping between them on just one screen Xp
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