blueberryale77
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Semantics really. Based on that principle, from now on, don't complain about anything on this message board because my response is going to be, "Nobody is forcing you to be here." How's that?
Knowing what I know of Roch, he's hardly the type to shoot for "cute and entertaining". I'm sure it's genuine disappointment.
As far as jobs...YOU said "there are plenty of less interesting jobs out there". That's what I was referencing. Plenty of current and former members of the local sports beat have contemplated career changes over the last two-plus years.
Whether or not it makes for good sports talk is a matter of opinion. Many listeners want to get to know on-air personalities. They all do it to some capacity in this market. Even for those who don't care for it, it doesn't diminish the final product any more than commercials do.
You're right. I don't use this site anywhere near as much as I used to and I've been thinking about delving into ccbill to figure out how to cancel my subscription for awhile. If the staff wants to goad me into taking my money elsewhere, maybe it's time I get around to doing that. I'll miss chatting with some of you all about the O's, Ravens, college basketball and stuff, but it hasn't really been something I've enjoyed enough to be worth paying for in awhile. I wish you all the best. I harbor no ill will, I'm just now fully convinced that my membership in this online community has outlived its usefulness. Peace out.
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LOL...okay then...nobody should complain about their jobs, homes, cars, etc. ever. There are other people who don't mind so much and you could always change.
And I have to ask...what kind of frequency does your business travel involve? I was on the road sometimes 4 days a week at stretches. I think that's somewhat comparable to an MLB beat writer.
Are there people out there who have it worse? Sure. Are Roch and Anita "forced" to do anything? No. What sounds like a dream job to you might actually feel like a 9-to-5 grind to someone else. As far as the "plenty of less interesting jobs" comment...uh, have you seen the job market lately? There are a few unemployed Hangouters that I'm sure would LOVE for you to enlighten them to this alleged wealth of jobs.
I never said they couldn't complain, just that your statement was inaccurate because they aren't forced to do anything they didn't knowingly sign up for. They're entitled to complain all they want at the bar, to their friends, etc. Heck, they can join the Orioles Hangout and post about it in "Short Rants." However, I can very well see how viewers of a tv program (or listeners to a radio program) who are tuning in to be informed about the latest happenings in sports would be a little less than thrilled to have half the time taken up by the broadcasters' rants about what they dislike about their jobs. Honestly, they're probably not complaining about it on their shows because they're so upset and miserable and missing their families (who are just as much not with them if they're in a trendy tourist mecca as if they're in a sleepy inland town), they're talking about it on the air because they somehow seem to think it's cute or entertaining. Most of their listeners don't seem to agree with them about that.
As for the dearth of jobs on the current market, did Roch, Anita or anyone else mentioned in this thread enter the field of sports broadcasting during the current recession? I don't think so. They all made choices in their college majors, past jobs, etc. that led to them being in a field that involves travel. Like I said, we're all allowed to have regrets and vent about them, but that doesn't mean it's a good topic for your sports-talk show.
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These people get paid very little to watch sports for a living while being forced to spend significant time away from their families, for crying out loud.
They're not being forced to do anything. There are plenty of less interesting jobs out there that pay more and involve less travel. Besides, not everybody hates business travel. I like it, and so do some of my colleagues who have kids. Of course I like trips to Savannah better than trips to Raleigh, but I understand that Raleigh is part of my job for a reason so I try to make the best of it and find the few fun places to go out there. I'm sure there's someplace they can enjoy themselves in Sarasota, and it will probably fit much better into their limited per diem budget.
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I am a horrible mother:old5fan::002_scry:
I baked cookies so my kids would have warm ones when they got home today.
I dropped the pan :cussing:and the cookies fell into the oven
I got burnt trying to clean up this mess.
Time to crawl in hole now:o
If you were a really horrible mother, you would have made the kids clean the burnt cookies out of the hot oven. :mwahaha:
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That reminds of an accident I was in a few years ago. I was going through a green light (I'm pretty sure you can do that) and this lady coming from the opposite direction was trying to turn left on a solid green. She didn't wait for me, as I had the right of way, and she clipped me. I pulled over and she took off onto the highway that she was turning on. I called the cops and reported the hit and run. The cop called me back later that night to tell me that the woman's husband reported the accident. I went to the police station a few weeks later to pick up the police report and the woman was there at the same time. She called me out when the clerk told her that we were both in the accident. She was pregnant and apoligized at first. I told that it was a good thing that I hit the breaks when I saw her coming and that she only clipped me. If I didn't hit the breaks, she would have T-boned me and I would have been cooked. She's standing there pregant and asks, "well, if you saw me turning, why didn't you stop." I said "good luck with the kid" and took off.
People like that should lose their license for a significant period of time for recklessly causing an accident. It never ceases to amaze me how so many Americans view driving as a right rather than a privilege, they view BAD driving as an inalienable right... at least when it's them doing the bad driving.
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Trying to listen to the first Randy Monroe basketball show of the year to hear about the new players and having your boss walk in and talk your ear off about how great his Mercedes is! :angryfire:
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Mondays. 'Nuff said.
This Monday was/is an extra special Monday. I won't elaborate because I would need to start a "long rants" thread. :cussing::cussing: :cussing: :cussing::cussing:
But assuming I survive today/tonight, tomorrow I'm off to a conference for the rest of the week in Savannah! :boogie::smile11:
Unfortunately right now survival seems like a pretty big IF because I'm staring at a high powered nail gun for affixing traffic counters to roads and really thinking about using it on my computer. :scratchchinhmm::mwahaha:
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I took my work computer home last night to catch up on work and forgot to bring it back this morning. Fortunately I had missed the bus so I had my car to go back and get it.
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Greeting cards! I have to sign at least 2 or 3 a week for people in my office and nobody just signs them, they all write cutesy little sayings. What the heck am I supposed to say to somebody on the other side of the building who I barely know who just got a tooth pulled?
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Thank you. I don't know why people don't understand that position, but I digress.
Try being a chick who hates weddings... then people really give you a hard time. Technically though I don't hate all weddings, I just hate the materialism associated with most modern ones, and the need to wear high heels. :laughlol:
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Going to work on Sunday night to program your stupid traffic counters and having them not work! :cussing:
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I know I rant in here too much, but hey, it keeps me from doing more destructive things like kicking co-workers.
There is a woman in my office who drives me absolutely insane. She is very strange and always kind of lurking in the halls (I really wonder how she gets any work done). She doesn't just wander the halls. She does things like wander into a conference room while you're watching a webinar with the door closed and a sign on the window and start asking you questions about how the projector works. Right now she just wandered into my office, asked if I had a pen she could borrow, and before I could answer took one that was lying on my desk and proceeded to stand in my office for over a minute while she filled out a form. She did not say please or thank you. There's a copy room almost directly across the hall from me with plenty of spare pens. She also sends out spam emails to the whole staff of the agency on a regular basis, has no respect for personal space (one time I was trying to clear a jam from a printer and she showed up looking for something she had sent to it and proceeded to get between me and the copier I was trying to fix and just stand there blocking me from opening doors and trying to find the jam as if her print job was magically going to appear by her standing there) and does various other creepy/weird things. When I first started here and was introduced in a staff meeting as having a master's in urban planning from Rutgers, she accosted me afterward and started asking if I knew this English professor there. I politely explained that I hadn't gone to undergrad there and the planning school wasn't even on the same campus as the English department, but she kept insisting I should know her and eventually got really mad that I had never heard of her. Anyway, she's extremely weird and annoying and even though she works on the far side of the building in a totally unrelated department I can't seem to avoid her on her frequent walks around the office. I've exhausted the polite ways of trying to let her know she needs to stay out of my space. I would tell her off in a not so nice way but she's about 4'8" and pretty old so I'm kind of afraid to come across as a bully to others in the office. Still, she has to stop being so disrespectful of others' space! One day, someone is going to quit feeling sorry for her and do something about it. :cussing:
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I really hope you can move SOON Bluberry:(
you sound very unhappy:(
It's not that bad. The issue with the boss has blown over for the most part. But let me tell you something. I know you hate Morganton, but it is Heaven compared to Madison County! :cussing:
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Bosses who lack leadership skills so they go to their bosses before talking to the employee every time they have even a minor issue with a subordinate
Dumbasses (that would be me) who keep making themselves miserable by choosing the wrong jobs in the wrong places :cussing:
Yeah, I know I'm toast if this is read by the wrong people... and I think part of me wants that to happen. I am so homesick for Baltimore, cities and the Northeast in general right now! :002_scry:
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Backstabbing colleagues... especially when they're also incompetent! :angryfire:
Also, needing to go to a dentist and not knowing anyone in your new town who actually can recommend their dentist to you.
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Thanks Giant food for starting to carry allergen-free food (my son)- but why the heck do you have to charge 4x as much? I'm going broke buying food!
Try Whole Foods (aka Whole Paycheck). While they're more expensive for most things, a lot of times they're cheaper for specialty foods like gluten-free or other allergen-free because they actually sell more of it than the regular grocery store does and a lot of it is made by the same companies they have deals with anyway for regular health foods.
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Wow!
Oink...Oink Oink:rolleyestf:
Born a boy...........died a pig.
You do not know how accurate that is... except that you left out the part where he ate about an entire pig every day of his life before becoming one. I'm not one to pick on people for their weight... I know I would like to be thinner myself... but this dude has the most ridiculous diet I've ever seen and it shows! :rofl:
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I shouldn't have just written all of that in a public forum, but suffice it to say that my sister's no-good ex-boyfriend is a big fat thief. It's one thing to steal from my sister who made the mistake of getting involved with you, but when you take money from my parents who are nearing retirement and then spend your money on fancy tvs and computers before paying it back, that's the kind of thing you seriously go to hell for! :angryfire:
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Nothing motivates you to be productive on a Friday afternoon more than logging on to Facebook and seeing that your executive director has been sitting in his office playing "Farmville" all day. :rofl:
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Jeez. I've heard that some women are known to miss because they are afraid to sit and hover instead, but dudes. Dudes. C'mon dudes. This fear of the seat is irrational. And even if there are germs on there, poop on the toilet/floor is worse.
Also, agree 100% with some of the mentioned urinal practices. Please, no nose picking, spitting, or farting at the urinals. There is no shame in peeing in a stall if you know you'd like to do any of those things.
In 30 years of using women's bathrooms I have never once seen a case of someone missing the toilet with #2 and not cleaning up after themselves. I've seen pee (and signs that say "if you sprinkle when you tinkle, please be sweet and wipe the seat"), blood and puke, but never poop - except baby poop smeared on a wall (how a parent allows that to happen in a public place is a whole different issue...). From the anecdotes in this thread it seems to me that this is actually a problem unique to male legal professionals.
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Raleigh (the state capitol of North Carolina and the agencies therein). They do not understand that the western part of the state exists and/or is not exactly like the big suburb of nowhere they live in.
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I lament the fact that the quality that most people say they like most about me (I'm honest and don't sugar coat things) is also the quality that gets me in trouble at work...especially since it was how I was raised. I mean, I understand, ...but at the same time, I'm penalized for honesty. The worst part is that it forces me to try to find a way to remain honest without it reflecting badly...that's tough.
Knowing how not to speak truth to power is worth more in the workplace than a master's degree from one of the top universities in your field. I see proof of this every day.
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People that throw their cigarette butts out the car window. I flippin hate that. Your car alread smells leave the butt in the ash tray, no reason to litter.:angryfire:
Speaking of inappropriate ways to dispose of cigarette butts, last weekend I went tubing and there were people smoking while floating down the river. Somehow I doubt they were putting all the butts back in the little plastic baggies they used to keep the smokes dry and taking them to a trash can later. It was crowded with lots of kids too.
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I'm afraid the morons are winning.
Well hey, at least that shows the O's aren't morons! :rofl:
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That's the kind of attitude that soured this place for me. The atmosphere of sarcasm and negativity is often pervasive and contagious. I think it has a lot to do with all the losing and so is not directly the fault of the posters or staff, but I had become well aware that participating in it wasn't a positive influence on my own outlook and I wasn't doing a good job of ignoring the petty sniping that goes back and forth and focusing on the good. At the end of the day, my interest in the site had been waning for a long time and there had to be some point at which I just cut it off because as long as I was paying for it I kept coming back from time to time. Now my account is canceled so I won't feel any compulsion to come back once I close this session. In a strange way it's kind of a weight off my shoulders. Like I tried to explain, my decision wasn't based on being vindictive, it was just something that's been a long time coming. I thought I should say goodbye in some way after 4 years or so of being around here rather than just silently canceling without a word. Anyway, I genuinely mean it when I wish you all the best of luck and happiness.