Things you wish you could say

[DukesDucks]

Hey potential contractor. Saying you will drop by some time next week to look at the job doesn't work for me. Saying you will be here between 8:00 and 10:00, and show up at 3:00 also does not work. Try doing that with a doctor's or lawyer's appointment and see where it gets you. I understand that stuff happens but you have my email and phone contacts. Let me know you are running late or not coming at all. I am going to start adding a clause to your contract that includes a reduction by hourly rate of my wasted time.

 

[cooingdove]

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OMG! thats how my mom is.

 

[cooingdove]

Hey potential contractor. Saying you will drop by some time next week to look at the job doesn't work for me. Saying you will be here between 8:00 and 10:00, and show up at 3:00 also does not work. Try doing that with a doctor's or lawyer's appointment and see where it gets you. I understand that stuff happens but you have my email and phone contacts. Let me know you are running late or not coming at all. I am going to start adding a clause to your contract that includes a reduction by hourly rate of my wasted time.

sound exsasperating.

Exactly!!

Plus I'm a terrible typist so I always have to go back on fix stuff.

really? how can you be a terrible typist and a superstar on BYC? thats kinda sad and kinda inspiring. i am also a terrible typist (probably worse than you), i type at like 14 words per minute.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

type at like 14 words per minute.

I can't type, so even you beat me

 

[aart]

really? how can you be a terrible typist and a superstar on BYC?

I edit the hell out of stuff, keep a bunch of notes it in a word doc, and copy and paste.

 

[Nabiki]

sound exsasperating.

really? how can you be a terrible typist and a superstar on BYC? thats kinda sad and kinda inspiring. i am also a terrible typist (probably worse than you), i type at like 14 words per minute.

I can't type, so even you beat me

I think typing was the most useful class I took in high school, and I was a straight A student. Typing 90 wpm got me out of retail, and got me in to accounting. Then, when I switched careers to IT, it was still very handy when I was on helpdesk and taking notes in tickets.

Touch typing is a surprisingly useful skill to have.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I think typing was the most useful class I took in high school, and I was a straight A student. Typing 90 wpm got me out of retail, and got me in to accounting. Then, when I switched careers to IT, it was still very handy when I was on helpdesk and taking notes in tickets.

Touch typing is a surprisingly useful skill to have.

We only had one typing class in middle school and I had a cast for my thumb (which meant I couldn't bend my wrist or knuckles except for the last one on each finger) on most of that semester.

I agree it's pretty darn useful, but I get by with my hunt-n-peck/typing combo I had to work with back then

 

[aart]

I think typing was the most useful class I took in high school, and I was a straight A student.

I failed it....or maybe passed with a D-.
I still can't type without looking at the keyboard.
But sometimes I can back up and fix things without looking at the screen.

 

[Nabiki]

I failed it....or maybe passed with a D-.
I still can't type without looking at the keyboard.
But sometimes I can back up and fix things without looking at the screen.

10 years of piano lessons and classical competition helps. ;-)

 

[aart]

10 years of piano lessons and classical competition helps. ;-)

HA! I'll bet!
I 'flunked' out of piano too, but could play the guitar pretty well(with chord diagrams).