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Re: Stuff that peels your potatoes with paring knives of ANGER.
« Reply #375 on: December 26, 2007, 07:40:53 AM »
Ahh, I never quite knew how they managed to get the ratings.. Sucks that you have to travel so much though.
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Re: Stuff that peels your potatoes with paring knives of ANGER.
« Reply #376 on: December 26, 2007, 11:31:16 AM »
I have to call people and get them to accept our request to send a TV viewing diary to their home. Then once it arrives, they write down everything they watch in a one-week period and send it back to us.

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Re: Stuff that peels your potatoes with paring knives of ANGER.
« Reply #377 on: December 26, 2007, 11:58:58 AM »
FUCK. I am never buying western digital again. (disclaimer: I might break this oath.)

Their support site sucks ass. Their forums are tiny, and apparently don't have a single person who actually works for WD or happens to know a lot about their stuff. Their email support is retarded. One person on the forum complained about being on the line for 40 minutes, and nothing, after sending repeated email requests for assistance. I can't find a single bit of help for my problem. My dad plans on going out today and buying a new router now because A) the NOS doesn't apparently work with our current one, and 2) our current one is almost as useless as a aerogel paperweight.

EDIT: Looks like there is some hope! I upgraded my router's firmware, checked the DHCP table again, and lo, it worked!
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Re: Stuff that peels your potatoes with paring knives of ANGER.
« Reply #378 on: December 26, 2007, 05:40:02 PM »
Basically, go into random peoples' homes and install and maintain the gear needed to monitor what they're watching to actually get the data for the Nielsen Ratings.

One of my friends has that setup hah. She was all discreet about it, saying she couldn't tell me exactly what it did.

BUT NOW I KNOW! muahaha.

Man I would throw that shit out my window if I had to press that fucking button every 45 seconds or whatever it is.

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Re: Stuff that peels your potatoes with paring knives of ANGER.
« Reply #379 on: December 26, 2007, 09:15:26 PM »
Man I would throw that shit out my window if I had to press that fucking button every 45 seconds or whatever it is.

45 minutes, and yes, I know what you mean. :o

also FOURTEEN HOUR WORK DAY TODAY.  God fucking damn.  It was dark when I left home and it was even darker when I came back.  What the hell.
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Re: Stuff that peels your potatoes with paring knives of ANGER.
« Reply #380 on: December 27, 2007, 12:57:16 AM »
also FOURTEEN HOUR WORK DAY TODAY.  God fucking damn.  It was dark when I left home and it was even darker when I came back.  What the hell.

That's harsh, I would go insane working that much at full time.


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Re: Stuff that peels your potatoes with paring knives of ANGER.
« Reply #381 on: December 27, 2007, 08:00:37 AM »
Yeah.

I'm trying to figure out how often this sort of thing happens.  I've already worked two 12+ hour days and I just started there.  If that happens too much then I'm definitely giving this thing a miss.  If you factor in 8 hours for sleep and a 14 hour work day, that leaves 2 hours of personal time (and whaddaya know, yesterday I got home at 9:15pm and went to bed at 11:15pm...just woke up about a half hour ago, at 7:30am).

I don't mind working by any means, but holy crap.
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Re: Stuff that peels your potatoes with paring knives of ANGER.
« Reply #382 on: December 27, 2007, 02:21:59 PM »
Jesus man, that's retarded. I hope you get some damn good pay for that shit.
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Re: Stuff that peels your potatoes with paring knives of ANGER.
« Reply #383 on: December 27, 2007, 07:37:13 PM »
GOD FUCKING DAMNIT


I've waited 10 fucking days for my damn Swap Magic to arrive, when I was guaranteed 4-8days. There was no guarantee of arriving before christmas, but the delivery date was said to be 12/27 the latest.


Well, today is 12/27 and NO FUCKING SWAP MAGIC ARRIVED WHAT THE HELL.

The last bit of info I ever got from tracking via canadapost and usps was this:

2007/12/19 03:38  International shipment has arrived in the destination country 

Meaning it's in customs, and that's the most recent info i've gotten. It shouldn't take this long first off and i'm pissed that I haven't even been notified of a delay in customs at least, instead waiting daily for it to come. If it's not here by saturday then fuck it i'm ordering fedex and paying $50 for it because i've been waiting forever for all the shit I need to import and i'm not gonna be fucking patient any longer after waiting since august with unexpected delays and other bullshit. I e-mailed canadapost and they better give me a response.

I feel like Cartman from Southpark right now waiting for the Wii. This fucking sucks and i'm so extremely pissed off right now you can't imagine.

Bobbias fuck your postal system...and fuck US customs.
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Re: Stuff that peels your potatoes with paring knives of ANGER.
« Reply #384 on: December 27, 2007, 07:58:52 PM »
I don't mind working by any means, but holy crap.

I hope you at least stick it out, at least for a little bit longer.


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Re: Stuff that peels your potatoes with paring knives of ANGER.
« Reply #385 on: December 27, 2007, 09:32:53 PM »
I've waited 10 fucking days for my damn Swap Magic to arrive, when I was guaranteed 4-8days. There was no guarantee of arriving before christmas, but the delivery date was said to be 12/27 the latest.

Christmas is a baaaaaad time to have things shipped. =(

Hope you get it soon!

I hope you at least stick it out, at least for a little bit longer.

Yeah, I'm definitely going to.  Don't have much a choice, heh...damn student loans.

I don't think I'm bound to get more than 40-48 hours a week, but getting 12+ in one day is just a little daunting.  Sure, a lot of that is driving (I drove for 3 hours on both yesterday and today) but still, it's time spent away from home.

I'll probably jump ship if a computer job opens up around here, just to get back into my field if anything.  If not, well, Nielsen is a huge company.  Who knows?  Maybe I could wind up doing systems or programming work in the Tampa office some day.
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Re: Stuff that peels your potatoes with paring knives of ANGER.
« Reply #386 on: December 28, 2007, 07:45:25 AM »
Bobbias fuck your postal system...and fuck US customs.

And a nice big fuck you too.

Anyway, my postal service isn't bad at all. I've never had any problems with my postal service, the only time I had any delay was going through customs... Customs sucks monkey balls.
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Re: Stuff that peels your potatoes with paring knives of ANGER.
« Reply #387 on: December 28, 2007, 12:51:51 PM »
Yeah according to usps my package hasnt come to the us and canadapost says it has. The site I ordered from (modchip.ca, which is very reliable despite this) is doing an investigation on what happened to it.

Anyways if it's not here by next friday i'm reordering it.


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Re: Stuff that peels your potatoes with paring knives of ANGER.
« Reply #388 on: December 28, 2007, 02:58:30 PM »
And a nice big fuck you too.

Canadians are very protective of their postal services.


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Re: Stuff that peels your potatoes with paring knives of ANGER.
« Reply #389 on: December 28, 2007, 03:06:09 PM »
Damn right, but yeah, packages sometimes get lost in customs. It sucks.
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