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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2013 12:10:17 GMT
I received an administrative letter today demanding that I supply documents from 1977 and 1978. Believe it or not, I actually found half of what they were asking for, but I don't know what to do about the other half.
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Post by htmb on Aug 8, 2013 12:44:35 GMT
Good luck dealing with that problem. It sounds a bit stressful.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2013 16:28:29 GMT
I sent them 17 new photocopies with my letter and told them not to hesitate to contact me again if they needed more stuff. Thank god my scanner doubles as a photocopier!
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Post by tod2 on Aug 8, 2013 16:50:34 GMT
Good heavens Kerouac - from 1978? ? My son was born in '78 and his parents( us ) looked a lot like the girls and boys from ABBA! OK, never mind that.....what I'm getting at is that the time period is more than 30 years. Even here in darkest Africa we only have to keep documents for a maximum of 10 years but 5 yrs is general. Surely they jest monsieur?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2013 17:10:19 GMT
I wish it were in jest. Basically, you only have to keep things for 10 years in France, but one is always told never to discard anything concerning employment or salary.
So the executive supplementary retirement authority asked me to provide:
-- notifications of the decision of the unemployment office for 1977 and 1978 -- annual statement of payments made by the unemployment office from 26DEC77 to 08JAN78.
What's hilarious is that apparently they are stuck on a period of 14 days out of a career that lasted 41 years -- and during which time I was most certainly not an "executive."
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Post by mossie on Aug 8, 2013 18:38:12 GMT
That is most definitely bureauocracy gone mad
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2013 20:06:32 GMT
When I wrote back with all of the documents, I made a point of telling them that I understood that they were only following the rules. This generally gets much better results than complaining. It is one of the very first things that I learned about French bureaucracy. Over the past many years, I discovered that if you side with these poor civil servants, they will go out of their way to bend the rules to assist you. If you go against them, they will crush you like a bug.
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Post by mossie on Aug 9, 2013 7:21:14 GMT
Psychology as practised by psychos
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 10, 2013 4:01:26 GMT
For several months now I have been using Imgius to host my photos so I could post them here. Tonight I discovered that the *%^@! site no longer exists and that any place on anyport I posted a picture hosted with them now only shows [image] where a photo should be.
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Post by htmb on Aug 10, 2013 4:46:04 GMT
How frustrating!!!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2013 4:49:13 GMT
Horrifying. Meanwhile, Photobucket keeps telling me that I have used 91% of my space and that bad things will happen to me unless I pay their ransom;
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 11, 2013 5:53:43 GMT
I just finished reloading my Good Friday thread. It was far more stressful than it was doing it originally!
The replacement pics are hosted on Photobucket, so maybe I'll get to go through the whole horror again.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2013 6:48:00 GMT
The other day I googled "best online photo site" and was not convinced by the replies.
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Post by htmb on Aug 11, 2013 12:39:46 GMT
Bixa, was that the only report affected? I hope so. Glad you got it done!
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 11, 2013 15:44:22 GMT
Thanks, Htmb. No, that report was from March, so I was using Imgius at least that long ago. Also, I helpfully recommended it to others on an Image Bank Basics thread. The only reason I am able to reconstruct that thread & others is because the pictures for it were in a dedicated folder on my computer. The alternative is flushing the threads. I think all of us have been shot in the knee caps at one time or another by a photo hoster. It's such a shame to find some blank replacement thingy where a photo should be, knowing that someone had taken pride & pains to put a picture(s) there.
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Post by rikita on Aug 12, 2013 10:58:39 GMT
hm, while i don't like the new flickr layout and how they changed the function of groups there and all, i would say for hosting your photos they are pretty reliable.
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Post by bjd on Aug 12, 2013 12:04:50 GMT
I saw recently that my whole thread about Nantes has been erased by whatever photohost I used.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 13, 2013 5:15:13 GMT
Sorry, Bjd. Believe me, I know how you feel! Rikita, I hated the old Flickr layout, with its annoying teensy thumbnails. The new way is great, allowing us to get a good idea of a persons photos without all that clicking & clicking back. I imagine it is pretty reliable, however I don't find it convenient as a place for hosting pictures to make threads here. For one thing, I prefer to keep my Flickr account for only my best photos (such as they are). For thread making, sometimes we're forced to use some not-great pictures for narrative's sake. I also save pics there at full-size & find the capturing of a url there fiddly & time-consuming. Really, now that Photobucket has stopped mousing around, & since I apparently hit upon the correct combination of curses to get it to offer up urls, it's the easiest to use for thread-making. Still, I feel no faith in it whatsoever.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2013 7:16:20 GMT
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Post by mossie on Aug 18, 2013 7:24:53 GMT
Kerouac, be careful, you'll soon be as old as me ;D
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2013 8:30:35 GMT
I am going to check myself in to the nursing home. They are already going to be surprised since I told them yesterday that I wouldn't be coming today.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 18, 2013 16:25:58 GMT
Really, now that Photobucket has stopped mousing around, & since I apparently hit upon the correct combination of curses to get it to offer up urls, it's the easiest to use for thread-making. Why would I say such a thing?! Last night Photobucket turned around and bit me in the butt. It is an annoying, badly designed, non-intuitive, time-consuming piece of crap! I had not realized that it is no longer possible to bulk-resize the pictures hosted there. (Can't do true bulk uploading, either.) No, you have to host the photos, then laboriously resize them one by one. Once you do that, you wind up with more pictures than you started with. Soldiering on, I posted seven photos on anyport. When I Previewed, I had seven little gray squares telling me that "user has deleted this image". Eh???!
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Post by htmb on Aug 18, 2013 22:19:45 GMT
Bixa, what an agonizing pain it seems you have had dealing with photobucket! Kerouac, does this mean we will ALL have to wait for over a week to find out where you are headed next?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2013 11:44:12 GMT
No place new.
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Post by htmb on Aug 20, 2013 14:08:24 GMT
Hmm. No place new for you by train. What does that rule out? Andorra?
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Post by rikita on Aug 24, 2013 12:15:57 GMT
Rikita, I hated the old Flickr layout, with its annoying teensy thumbnails. The new way is great, allowing us to get a good idea of a persons photos without all that clicking & clicking back. I imagine it is pretty reliable, however I don't find it convenient as a place for hosting pictures to make threads here. For one thing, I prefer to keep my Flickr account for only my best photos (such as they are). For thread making, sometimes we're forced to use some not-great pictures for narrative's sake. I also save pics there at full-size & find the capturing of a url there fiddly & time-consuming. I guess it depends on preference ... i find the new layout to cluttered and that the pictures distract from each other - for me, to appreciate the pictures, there needs to be some space between them ... as for the not-great pictures - personally i tend to prefer anyway if a photothread has not too many pictures. the ones with ten or twenty similar pictures in a row i must admit i sometimes scroll through without looking that much, so i always think if i don't want it in my photostream i shouldn't want it in a photo thread either ... but as i said, that is probably different for everyone ...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2013 18:45:57 GMT
Trauma: Finding Bombay directors' lounge and having wasted an entire morning making movies for my nearest and dearest. Stop being so entertaining, Any Port!
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 24, 2013 19:39:22 GMT
You make some really good points about thread-making, Rikita. I have to make the same admission about overly similar pics in a thread, although I'm guilty of posting that way, too. Can't agree with you about Flickr, though, since I disliked it so much before & now like it very much. This is how my photostream displays. I think that's a nice amount of white space between each pic, and a nice size for a preview of it. I cropped this screenshot pretty hard in order to show the true size of the "thumbnails" -- obviously cutting off parts of the pictures on all sides. I really think that now viewers get a true idea of the photo before deciding to click on it. Before, you had to click on a Flickr thumbnail just to see what the hell it was. Lizzyfaire ~~ I'm simultaneously happily anticipating your eventual Bombay offerings and dreading how hard my sides will hurt when I see them.
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Post by rikita on Aug 26, 2013 15:46:57 GMT
i guess we just have to agree to disagree there - but that is normal. would be boring if everyone liked the same things, even if it is just about the way a website displays photos ...
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 26, 2013 17:32:10 GMT
Well, you have lots of company, Rikita. I have several photo host accounts because of having to try them out in order to report on them to anyport. I never went into my Flickr account but did have a few pictures there. Then recently a friend who is a Flickr user told me about the revamping of the site. She said that there were thousands and thousands of complaints from the long-time users who are not happy about the new version. Anyway, when I finally went back to Flickr I found that I had some really nice comments from a lovely person on the photos of my doggy. You know who you are ~~ thanks!
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