Minor things that bother you

[mgk920]

Anyone want to a numeric value on "fuck ton?"

What is the current market price for one of those in Quatloos?

Mike

[Mr_Northside]

I really like kilodozen.

I couldn't help reading "kilodozen" and thinking of the "Killdozer"

https://denvergazette.com/outtherecolorado/features/looking-back-killdozer-rampage-causes-7-million-of-damage-in-small-town-colorado/article_ecdc6332-22a1-11ef-987d-7b59cc0005c8.html

[epzik8]

People saying "today" or "have a good day" when it's dark outside. Like, I'm about to go to bed.

[kphoger]

People saying "today" or "have a good day" when it's dark outside. Like, I'm about to go to bed.

What about when it gets dark at 5:30 pm, though?

[formulanone]

People saying "today" or "have a good day" when it's dark outside. Like, I'm about to go to bed.

What about when it gets dark at 5:30 pm, though?

Live today for your tomorrow.

[ZLoth]

Then you have the weird people like me who say, "Good Evening" at 6 AM and "Good Morning" at 6 PM... because of the overnight shift that I worked for six years. And, because I worked with customers across Asia-Pacific and Europe, I simple open up with the Words "Greetings epzik8!"

[kphoger]

And, because I worked with customers across Asia-Pacific and Europe, I simple open up with the Words "Greetings epzik8!"

That must be weird for most people.  How many of your associates even know who epzik8 is?

[JayhawkCO]

Then you have the weird people like me who say, "Good Evening" at 6 AM and "Good Morning" at 6 PM... because of the overnight shift that I worked for six years. And, because I worked with customers across Asia-Pacific and Europe, I simple open up with the Words "Greetings epzik8!"

I do similarly, but only when on Zoom calls with my colleagues in India.

[ZLoth]

And, because I worked with customers across Asia-Pacific and Europe, I simple open up with the Words "Greetings epzik8!"

That must be weird for most people.  How many of your associates even know who epzik8 is?

Uhhhh.... example name.....

I do similarly, but only when on Zoom calls with my colleagues in India.

True, true. I also make the effort to make sure I pronounce their names correctly.

[vdeane]

Then you have the weird people like me who say, "Good Evening" at 6 AM and "Good Morning" at 6 PM... because of the overnight shift that I worked for six years. And, because I worked with customers across Asia-Pacific and Europe, I simple open up with the Words "Greetings epzik8!"

I do similarly, but only when on Zoom calls with my colleagues in India.

You call them epzik8?

[US 89]

People saying "today" or "have a good day" when it's dark outside. Like, I'm about to go to bed.

As someone currently on night shift, "day" and "night" can often become quite fluid terms when you're working overnight hours. The same can happen with "morning" and "evening".

[LilianaUwU]

I often tend to say "good morning" whenever I wake up at 6pm.

[Max Rockatansky]

Sometimes I say "bad morning" to see anyone is actually paying attention.

[kphoger]

For those who work nights:  what do you call your 'lunch break'?

[Max Rockatansky]

For those who work nights:  what do you call your 'lunch break'?

Dinfast

[Scott5114]

People saying "today" or "have a good day" when it's dark outside. Like, I'm about to go to bed.

As someone currently on night shift, "day" and "night" can often become quite fluid terms when you're working overnight hours. The same can happen with "morning" and "evening".

I was always tripped up by "tonight" and "tomorrow night", especially when someone was saying them at 3am.

The casino industry tends to handle its accounting by moving the break between dates from midnight to something closer to the 3rd shift/1st shift divide, which helped matters a lot.

[kphoger]

I was always tripped up by "tonight" and "tomorrow night", especially when someone was saying them at 3am.

That's kind of like the difference, if any, between...

1.  It's Thursday evening, and someone says "next Wednesday"
2.  It's Tuesday evening, and someone says "next Wednesday"

[JayhawkCO]

I was always tripped up by "tonight" and "tomorrow night", especially when someone was saying them at 3am.

That's kind of like the difference, if any, between...

1.  It's Thursday evening, and someone says "next Wednesday"
2.  It's Tuesday evening, and someone says "next Wednesday"

Also the difference between...

1. It's Tuesday evening, and someone says "next WEDNESDAY"
2. It's Tuesday evening, and someone says "NEXT Wednesday"

[kphoger]

This is why I always say "this coming Wednesday" or "not this Wednesday but the next one".  Or occasionally "Wednesday next week".

[US 89]

People saying "today" or "have a good day" when it's dark outside. Like, I'm about to go to bed.

As someone currently on night shift, "day" and "night" can often become quite fluid terms when you're working overnight hours. The same can happen with "morning" and "evening".

I was always tripped up by "tonight" and "tomorrow night", especially when someone was saying them at 3am.

The casino industry tends to handle its accounting by moving the break between dates from midnight to something closer to the 3rd shift/1st shift divide, which helped matters a lot.

As far as our scheduling and internal accounting goes, we roll our days over at 6 AM. That makes sense for us, but whenever I have to talk to a client that goes by "normal" days and times it requires quite a bit of thinking...

[Rothman]

I've never understood why the "this [day of the week]" versus "next [day of the week]" rule was so hard for people to grasp.  Would lead to far shorter conversations if people had brains.

[formulanone]

For those who work nights:  what do you call your 'lunch break'?

Dinfast

Sounds like one of those German performance car tuners.

[Scott5114]

For those who work nights:  what do you call your 'lunch break'?

I always just called it lunch. It was also common for people to just call it "a 15" or "a 30" since we got two fifteen-minute breaks and a thirty-minute. There were also radio codes: "10-10" for a 15-minute break and "10-45" for a 30-minute.

[jeffandnicole]

When I worked with the NJ Turnpike collecting tolls, they had 3 general shifts in a slightly unusual order:  1st shift was 10:30pm to 6:30am; 2nd shift was 6:30am to 2:30pm, and 3rd shift was 2:30pm to 10:30pm.  Since I worked first shift on the weekends, my Saturday shift started Friday night at 10:30pm; my Sunday shift started Saturday night at 10:30pm.

[1995hoo]

I was always tripped up by "tonight" and "tomorrow night", especially when someone was saying them at 3am.

That's kind of like the difference, if any, between...

1.  It's Thursday evening, and someone says "next Wednesday"
2.  It's Tuesday evening, and someone says "next Wednesday"

The latter plainly means Wednesday of the following week because if you meant the next day, you'd probably say "tomorrow."