Thank you yet again for the wait 🙂
On our return, it turns out that the Application Ninjas employ the deadly tactic of….erm….supplying applications.
…sorry…this chapter is much sillier than usual.
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In a Call-Center…no one can hear you scream…
LOL They’re such merciful application ninjas. By rights that application ought to be a sheaf a couple of cm thick. 😉
Welcome back. There’s nothing wrong with really silly chapters sometimes.
@KessyI agree. those applications should be thicker…and in triplicate!
@Farren: I may be about to seriously date myself, but does anyone still use those copy paper forms where you write on the top white hseet and it gets transfered onto the lower layers – the yellow copy, the green copy, etc? You know, the ones where you had to really press hard when writing on them to make sure the bottom copy is legible? I’m wondering if Job 4 you is the sort of business that would preserve that sort of archaic technology just because it’s such a pain for the employees to use.
I remember those forms. The last time I had to use one was two or three years ago when I filled out my health insurance form for work. I hate those forms. Job 4 You would definitely be the kind of place that would keep those forms. If only to make it more difficult for the low-level employees.
LOL Just two or three years ago? I guess those forms must still be on the endangered species list and not actually extinct yet. Am I just getting old or does it seem like every time you turn around there’s another part of everyday life that you have to stop and wonder if it still exists? Like a little while ago my old alarm clock died and I needed a new one, and the guy at Best Buy was like, “Well I guess we have some way in the back – you might have to dust off the boxes though.”
BTW, I was wondering if there’s a reason you tag links to shop.com?
It might have been longer than that, maybe four years, not that I’m thinking about it. You are getting old. I’m getting old, too. But it is amazing how much stuff we grew up with that isn’t around/in common use anymore. The funny thing is, you still see alarm clocks in movies and TV shows. But then again, that was Best Buy. The clerk was probably in his mid 20’s He took you to the cell phones first, and you had to describe what an alarm clock was to him in great detail. After which, he went to one of the “older” employees” and asked about them.
And the link is for my business. My wife and I own a piece of the Shop.com powered by Market America franchise.
Actually, it wasn’t that bad at all. Probably because I’d brought my old one for recycling. You should have seen the look on the guy’s face when I took it out of my bag, though. It was one of those old ones that had fake wood grain painted on the outside.
Although I did recently have an experience almost exactly like you described recently. I went to the local five and dime looking for a hot water radiator bleed valve key. The poor guy actually took out his smart phone to look up what the heck I was talking about. I wound up having to come back the next day to ask his boss. turned out they had a bin of them on a shelf a few meters from where I’d been standing talking to the other guy. I was pretty impressed that they had them – I was thinking I was going to have to go on a trek looking for one.
I must be getting old too, because I am kind of shocked that some people don’t know about Alarm Clocks or Radiator bleed keys.
I had for a while replaced my broken alarm clock with my smart phone, but since I could never trust the battery life I switched back to an Alarm Clock, which I managed to buy new last year. I may be a creature of habit, but when I need to know the time in the middle of the night, I like being able to just look towards the night-stand to find out, instead reaching over to pick up my phone, angling it to my face and then getting an unpleasant kick of LED light …just to find out the time. Traditional alarm clocks are also harder to ignore. especially when Anna got ‘Clocky’, the alarm clock that actively runs away from you (and always gets stuck under the bed).
I did actually encounter a carbon-paper receipt-form (like the type Kessy mention) sometime last year. It was for a delivery, but they are increasingly rare to see. Only a handful of the very small delivery companies in Norway would still be using them, while everyone else has changed over to mobile smart-pads to collect signatures on delivery.
LOL I have to admit I was a bit shocked when I realized that alarm clocks were getting hard to find. Personally I suspect that some of the things that smartphones are being used for are just because of the cool factor – I think practicality will probably kick back in in due time.
Clocky sounds hilarious – I hadn’t heard of it before.
I’m not actually surprised about radiator bleed keys though. At least around here those kinds of radiators haven’t been installed new in a long time – half a century? Maybe more? The house I grew up in had them, but it was built in the 1920’s. It also had a real fireplace and only a bathtub, no shower.
Silly is funny, when it is done right. And this is definitely done right. 🙂
And I’m only in my upper twenties yet this discussion does place me in “old”. However, that is pretty common, I often find that people just two or three years younger than me seem far far more out of touch with the technologies of old.
@O8h7w: I’m in my mid-30s now, which isn’t a massive amount of years away from you. But yea, there is a cut off there. I think once we leave the 80s, and have people born in the mid to late 90’s, then there starts to be a disconnect. I find myself in a wierd place of being considered a “Millenial” while having lived the life of a late GenX’er.