I hate my job!

[Tomahawk]

When I was last unemployed during the Great Recession, I was given severance and was still able to collect unemployment to help subsidize my FUnemployment binge drinking. Even though I still have a job, I collect unemployment for the week I'm laid off.

What kind of shtein are you going to sell?

Dont hate your job it is much better then unemployment.

I appreciate the insight. You should change your name to Dear Abby then advise yourself to shut the farg up.

[Sgt PSN]

Boom goes the dynamite.

[PhillyPhreak54]

I want to quit and move to Vegas and be a bookie/tout/sports bettor.

Someone wanna go half in with me?

[Diomedes]

You are far too emotional to make any money betting.  Stick with the prison guard thing, it's working out well so far.

[PhillyPhreak54]

I haven't done that in over five years.

I've been selling lumber and plywood since 07.

Good point about emotions but I can learn to calm down. Or not and end up living under a bridge. But I'd be free of corporate America.

[Sgt PSN]

Good point about emotions but I can learn to calm down.

Lolz

[PhillyPhreak54]

It's true!

I'm at Philly airport and missed my first flight out because of a ridiculous line/mob scene at the Southwest counter.

I never ever fly SW but my boy had miles he wanted to burn before he moves to another airline. I take him up on free ticket and arrive at 0500 for an 0715 flight. Stood in line for 2.5 hours to check my bag. Now sitting standby hoping to get a flight out.

Calm, cool and collected.

Never leaving United/Continental again though. Or should I say never flying Southwest again.

[SunMo]

that's why you only bring carry ons son

[PhillyPhreak54]

You got that right.

However twofold reason I did not.

1. I was coming home for 3wks plus (turned into 5wks) and despite being an efficient packer I couldn't cram enough in a carry on for that amount of time.

2. Being that I've never flown SW I'm used to being elite on United. And united has bag drops where you don't need a person for anything but to take the bag and toss it on the belt.

Either way...no mas Southwest Airlines para mi.

[Diomedes]

Just show them your prison guard ID and tell them you have to get back for an execution.

[Rome]

I just spent 15 minutes helping someone with something totally unrelated to my job.  As she was shuffling her enormous ass out the door she made an offhand insult about government workers.

[Diomedes]

I chatted with the guy reading the water meters this morning.  Nice guy, not a lot of teeth, big smile.  He showed me how he reads the meters.  He was using homemade tools to pull the covers and brush off muddy dials so the numbers were visible.  He also showed me the handheld computer device that he uses to log the readings.

There's been a big problem with water billing in town lately, with a lot of people being issued inflated bills, so he's been getting a lot of shtein from people on the street.  I told him that I thought I was one of the people getting raped, until I compared my bills and usage with the calendar...sure enough it coincided with the inauguration of my campaign to save the earth by populating it with my DNA.

He told me we're getting new meters that will allow us to see our usage in, effectively, real time.   He did not mention that they'll be able to take readings without guys like him.

Happy New Year.

[Rome]

They read our meters once every three months.  If they're off in terms of usage they refund you the difference.  The only problem with that occurs if you or they have a leak.  They had one on their side of the meter and theoretically it shouldn't have affected my bill.  Well, I got a $700 water bill one month and needless to say it piqued my interest.  Surprisingly enough they took care of it immediately, especially after the water department guys arrived at my house to see a three by three foot hole surrounding their meter with me standing above it pointing to their busted pipe.

[PhillyPhreak54]

It's true!

I'm at Philly airport and missed my first flight out because of a ridiculous line/mob scene at the Southwest counter.

I never ever fly SW but my boy had miles he wanted to burn before he moves to another airline. I take him up on free ticket and arrive at 0500 for an 0715 flight. Stood in line for 2.5 hours to check my bag. Now sitting standby hoping to get a flight out.

Calm, cool and collected.

Never leaving United/Continental again though. Or should I say never flying Southwest again.

To follow up on this crap from yesterday...I ended up waiting at the airport until 4 in the afternoon on standby. I did not get a flight out so I took the train home and then went back this morning for the 8am nonstop to Houston.

We were delayed until 1pm. Why?

First excuse for the first 90min was the aircraft was at another part of the airport and needed clearance to be towed into the gate.

Then it was they could not tow it because the tow bar was broken. (like there aren't more tow bars at an airport with hundreds of planes).

Then they had to fly a mechanic in from Orlando to fix something on this plane.

Mechanic arrives at 11am and they start boarding at 1145 and we end up sitting on the plane for an hour while this guy fixes something in the nosecone. Why board us when it wasn't fixed? farging dopes.

Then we had to get de-iced. So we took off 5 hours late. farg Southwest Airlines.

The baggage handlers are dopes too - they had all the bags on the tarmac waiting to load and it started snowing like hell - they left the bags sit outside for a half hour and got soaked. Not mine though because mine went out yesterday on a plane even though I did not.

[General_Failure]

tl;dr Philadelphia's airport is the worst.