This thread is incredible. Keep strong duckie
Much obliged. I’m stunned by the amount of positive PMs I get about this thread, and even more shocked by the amount of people who come up to me at tournaments and tell me how much they enjoy this thread. I had NO idea it’d get this popular. o_o
(which frankly scares me because I wonder when my project managers are going to find out about this >.>)
So as I write this, I’m 45 minutes late for a call. Horribly unprofessional, but it’s because of work that I’m late. I was up until 6 AM working on paperwork for three projects, and I overslept. I was so tired that I was just standing over the oven, stirring my oatmeal for ten minutes and wondering why it wasn’t ready yet, only to realize I’d never turned the damn thing on. Yeah. Told my PM I was going to be late. It took six cups of coffee before I could see straight enough to type this.
You guys should enjoy this: Got a call back about the installation at the cheerleading academy. They want me to come out and install that card reader tomorrow, said they’d actually be in this time, and found out they specifically requested me, even though there are closer techs. Goddammit. -_-
I did find out they’re going on another field trip tomorrow. You have no idea how much I want to show up a little bit late or work a little bit longer than normal just to make them late. 
However, I’m a professional, so I’ll do no such thing… unlessIoversleepagaindoingtheirdamnpaperworkforthemuntilsixamagain… >.>
Yeah. So today… happened.
Went to San Antonio for a site survey that was supposed to be a few printers and a switch. It was supposed to take an hour.
It was twenty two damn printers, three switches, thirty desktops, etc etc etc etc across twenty pages of notes, diagrams, and everything including the goddamn kitchen sink.
Seriously, I had to diagram a damn sink.
It took six hours, and by the time it was done I was stuck in San Antonio rush hour traffic. I needed to get gas, but my card got declined. I literally had to beg for change for thirty minutes to get to a friend’s house, where he graciously gave me the few dollars he had on him, which was just enough to get me outside of Austin and back to begging for change.
Worst part is I managed to raise enough to get to one job tomorrow (getting home is a different matter), but I have to cancel on another that’s 80 miles away because it was too late to ask friends for gas money when I got back, and my roommate is out of town right now.
Of course, this wouldn’t be a problem had I gotten to go to that tournament last weekend and mod sticks, but nope… USPS lost my fucking part order and it’ll be 21 days before I can file insurance on it. Still really pissed about that.
Oh! Also, since I couldn’t go to that tournament, I’m now late on my rent, my car insurance is going to lapse, I can’t afford my pain meds (two days without them, and the pain is starting to get substantial), I can’t go get the rest of my stuff from my grandmother’s garage in Mississippi, and I can’t afford gas to get to work tomorrow. On the bright side, I loaded myself up with work this week. Suffer this week, a king the next. Payday can’t get here sooner!
Damn yo, somebody get this man a care package, hang in there duckie!!
That school got their eye on you bro. See my earlier pic post. As the great Slippy Toad would say, ‘things are starting to heat up!’.
That’s too bad UPS messed up your order; hang in there Duckie! If you start a kick-starter, I’d contribute with the swiftness. This thread can’t die…the misadventures MUST go on!!
this made my morning 
Duckie, you should know that because of you I spent a good afternoon doing a Google Image Search on Volleyball Shorts.
(High Five)
I want to donate to him or give him money but my pockets are empty. Damn it DUCK!!!
Okie, so I finally finished the work order at the cheerleading academy.
That redheaded girl was there. When I left, the entire building smelled like jizz…
… because she mopped the floor with bleach. It smelled so gross. Why would they make a little girl mop the floor anyway? It was so weird.
Women need to learn to clean at a young age dude.
She needs to get used to cleaning semen if she wants to have a bright future as a cheerleader
Its better than putting her in the kitchen to make you a sandwich.
Unless you want a sandwich that smells like semen.
Anyway you can get a pic of said redhead girl w/o alerting Chris Hanson Duckie? We need verification of redheadness… 
Oh hell naw, mostly because I hope to never set foot on that establishment again.
From the sound of it, not if they have anything to say about it.
So last week I got to go install a card reader for an elementary school. Normally this isn’t a problem because I’d show up long before I have to deal with any children, but this one was right at the end of the school day, so I got to put up with a cafeteria full of kids screaming things like:
– “Why does he have an eye patch?”
– “Hey! Pirate! Hey! Hey pirate!”
– “Why is he a pirate?”
Two brave kids came up to me and asked me to see what was underneath the eye patch. Of course I said no, but then they asked what happened, which means that I get to use my normal response of “Because I was a bad little boy and didn’t listen to my mom.” which always gets great reactions.
Anyway, I fucking hate kids. At least the director of the day care center was hella cute. Dunno what it is about brunette girls with freckles, but dayum.
Moving on to today, I just got paid $45 to go shake a dude’s hand. Dispatch sent me out to replace a motherboard today, and it turns out the part didn’t even ship. I was released from site with pay. With this client, each visit counts as a separate ticket, so this one was closed as completed since I couldn’t do it through no fault of my own. So yeah, informed the client of what was happening, shook his hand, and went home. $45 handshake. Booyah.
Hahaha… that’ll teach those bratty kids not to mess with the original Snake 
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Imagine if your next 10 assignments are just like that…you’ll be like that Obama nigga, just walking around shaking people’s hand and getting paid like a mofo. Keep winning Duckie.
Kids are assholes in general.
Agreed.
Sadly, I get to do it again on Friday. I made sure to arrange a time that was BEFORE school got out.
As for today, it was one of those “spent five hours on one damn printer” days, but at least it wasn’t one of those “spent ten hours on one goddamnstupidfuckingpieceofshitpartthat’sallthefuckingwayinside printer” days.
How to handle kids: