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[Mongrel]

There's no "Someone Else's Job: The Movie" thread so I'm putting it here as it's still relevant to my interests.

My roommate, formerly The Girlfriend, has also had her hours cut and is working for a pittance compared to her actual skill level and work ethic (remember: I went to culinary school so maybe I could learn to cook like she does, and I don't think it's going to work).

But they just fired their executive chef, and have offered her more authority, responsibility, hours, and pay. She already loves working there, so it's pretty much her dream job now.

If any of this pulls through, we might be able to pay our rent and bills on time soon.

Maybe.

Star Fox - Good Luck!

[Lottel]

NEXT WEEK ON 'MY FAIR BRONTO'
R^2 ROOMMATE/ETC LOSES HER RIGHT ARM!

[Niku]

 

[Classic]

Gross Niku! Didn't you read what R^2 said about her? Roommates are off limits!

[MadMAxJr]

Turned out to be THREE interviews in one.

Round 1: Foreign fellow, was 30 minutes late, could not stop saying he was sorry... to me... the interviewee...  Followed his HR provided list of questions, nodded his head and left.

Round 2, late 20s tech guy, speaks shortly, says our time might be cut short, mutters under his breath.  It would appear he doesn't want to be here.  I keep my answers short and to the point, he seems satisfied and more interested in leaving asap, which I do my best to let him do.

Round 3 late 30s tech veteran, asks questions, wants to hear more on them, personal opinions on some of the situations I discuss, is far more concerned with getting an idea of what my social interactions with others are like than the position requirements.  Very friendly without crossing the lines of getting into personal details/matters.

Asked the HR gal a few questions about the benefits plan and was on my way.  They'll call back early next week with an offer or notice the position was filled.

[Mongrel]

Question for the brontos. A bit of tl;dr first though.

My job search is largely in the doldrums. Most of the jobs available downtown pay less than what I get on unemployment, which just barely covers our household budget (so if I take a cut, I'll actually taking out loans to work). Unemployment coverage is good until like next September-October, not that I'm planning on staying on it that long if I can help it.

There are jobs that pay what I used to make for similar work, but they're all way out in the suburbs (far enough that they're beyond the effective reach of transit). I don't have a problem driving to commute and then moving out to the burbs, but I don't own a car and there's issues with the car part of my license that won't be resolved soon, so I can only commute by motorbike, which is pretty much out from now until the end of march.

I will keep looking, but it looks like I'm probably going to have to wait until spring before I can have a shot at decently-paying job again. Additionally, as I posted earlier, I realized there's issues I've had with job retention that I should be having looked at, so I'm taking some steps to do just that. My treatments for lymphoma also continue three times a week (which scares off the low-rent temp/contract employers anyway). So basically, I'm probably going to tone down the searching during the winter while I focus on getting healthier mentally and physically.

Thing is, I still owe money (lines of credit etc.). It's not much. I have a pretty good credit rating because I make a very strict point of not using much of my available credit (roughly 2.5k owing out of $25k available), but I don't really have enough income to pay it down. I also don't have any money for emergencies (seeing as how all our family and housepets are ill and old, failing to anticipate those costs is foolish). So I'm trying to be prudent and get ahead if I can.

What I'm trying to do is to find some under-the-table work, day labour or the like, so that I can get some extra cash. Legitimate work will actually reduce the overall amount of money I have coming in because unemployment would be reduced by a greater amount, so this needs to be off the books for me to actually get ahead in income. If it's off the books, it won't matter if it's less than minimum wage or has few hours. I don't mind some hard labout and low pay, so long as it's not actually flat-out dangerous work and at the end of the day my balance sheet is up overall. 

I have never worked under the table before and just wondered if anyone has any suggestions on looking for off-the-books work. I asked some friends of mine who've done stuff like that before and they didn't have anything currently. I've been searching Craigslist and the like for stuff like "need help moving, $40 for a day's work" type of posts, but there seems to be no keyword for that sort of stuff and with thousands of job postings daily, there are too many to wade through one-by-one (I've tried). I was going to sign up for some medical studies (my dad's done those a couple times), but they won't accept a dork with lymphoma, obv.

[Brentai]

I don't know how well it will work out where you are, but when I freelanced I basically neglected to pay taxes on my income until the end of the fiscal year when I had to scrape together one huge lump sum.  It's a hugely dangerous thing to do for obvious reasons, but if you really need to keep your money right now and have some plan to pull a rabbit out of your ass come tax day, well... it's an option, anyway. 

[Mongrel]

Illicit freelancing wouldn't be a bad idea if I had skill that I could freelance with.

[Rico]

The other nice thing about freelancing, at least in the U.S., is that you get a whole ton of additional tax deductions.  You have to be careful not to get greedy even if you've got justifications for all of it since self-employment carries a much, much higher audit risk and that's a pain in the ass, but you can easily make up for having to pay the half tax that your employer would usually cover.

[MadMAxJr]

I want the job I interviewed for today so bad.  It's slightly lower pay, and it's an hour commute but....

"It's relaxed here"  Guys throwing nerfballs around the cubicle pit.

"We're gonna get a beer run going but nobody has drawn the short straw yet.  Sometimes that happens on Friday."

"Here's the two story tube slide."

[Büge]

Sounds like something from the days before the dot-com crash.

[Brentai]

I've come to the conclusion that I would despise working at a place like that.  I drive myself nuts trying to get other people to start working as it is.

[François]

how did it feel when you became the man, brentai

[Brentai]

I make sure everybody around me knows that I despise every minute of it, mainly because I get paid less than they do.

[R^2]

There's no "Someone Else's Job: The Movie" thread so I'm putting it here as it's still relevant to my interests.

The more I think about this, the more annoying it is.

See, we're broke. I think everyone here knows it by now. I've been looking for a new job for two months, with no results. She didn't go look for a job because she likes the one she has -- constantly-cut hours and shitty pay aside, it meant she could more easily stay out all night drinking with her friends.

That's right, we've been late on our rent a couple times, and with stiff late fees, to more readily supply her with beer.

So while I'm out exhausting myself turning in applications day after day, she gets promoted into exactly the job she wants, not only by putting in no effort whatsoever but by making the worst, most irresponsible possible choice.

[Büge]

The Odd Couple theme song

[ObliviousObi]

There's no "Someone Else's Job: The Movie" thread so I'm putting it here as it's still relevant to my interests.

The more I think about this, the more annoying it is.

See, we're broke. I think everyone here knows it by now. I've been looking for a new job for two months, with no results. She didn't go look for a job because she likes the one she has -- constantly-cut hours and shitty pay aside, it meant she could more easily stay out all night drinking with her friends.

That's right, we've been late on our rent a couple times, and with stiff late fees, to more readily supply her with beer.

So while I'm out exhausting myself turning in applications day after day, she gets promoted into exactly the job she wants, not only by putting in no effort whatsoever but by making the worst, most irresponsible possible choice.

Not to be a dick or anything, but something in me says that she's gotta go. You seem to be working way to hard to end up getting stiffed continually. When it comes to finances, at least in my book, if a roommate is making them unmanageable it is time to find one that won't.

That sentence is terribly written but my brain is about on empty right now.

[Joxam]

She used to be his lady, presumably she was when she was doing this. As, she was right up until about a month or so ago and now she's got best job ever. You can't fault him for keeping her around when they were together, and now you can't fault him for keeping her around now that she can pick up some slack on the rent. If anything, its only an insight as to why they didn't work out as a couple.

[Shinra]

So I got up this morning to run some errands and the car was giving off this awful, cloying smell of burnt rubber and oil. So, I finish what I'm doing, go home, pop my hood and a coolant hose had ruptured, spraying old coolant all over the manifold, my battery, and the roof of my car. It's not just one of the short, simple coolant hoses, it's part of an assembly and I'm not sure if I can remove this particular part of the assembly without re-assembling everything else. I'd been up for about 19 hours at this point, it was sunday, and I figured I wasn't working (as I've only worked one sunday at this place in the last seven weeks, and that was because somebody had an emergency and needed me to fill in for them) so I went to lay down and take a nap. I got up at around 4 PM and called my boss to make sure I wasn't working and to let him know that I had some car problems so he wouldn't call me if he needed anyone to fill in today, and he gets on my shit for it. The convo went something like this;

Him:"Who's repairing your coolant hose?"
Me: "I'm going to try to do it"
Him:"Well, it's only 4 on a sunday, there's plenty of auto parts stores open, there's no reason you shouldn't be repairing it."
Him:"I mean, you tried to call in yesterday, and the day before because you were 'sick', and now you're trying to call in because your 'car is broke', and it sounds to me like you really just don't want to work."
Me: "Yesterday and the day before, I was extremely sick, and I still came into work, so I don't see how that's at all relevant"
Him:"Yeah, well, you should have already got this done and you should be ready to come into work"
Me: "Boss, I just found out about this a couple of hours ago-"
Him:"You were trying to call me at 11 AM"
Me: "...To find out if I was scheduled to work today"
Him:"You always work Sunday, it's part of the weeke-"
Me:"Boss, I have never been scheduled a Sunday since I started working for you."
Him:"Well, you were scheduled today, it was on the schedule, and you shouldn't have had to call me."
Me:"Boss, I was on the schedule one day this week, on a placeholder, from 1PM to 1:15PM. That has not changed. I've had to call you every day this week just to find out if i was scheduled."
Him:"Well, SOMEBODY must have put up the wrong schedule, because you were scheduled to come in today, I don't have time for this, rush is about to start." *hangs up*

This guy can't manage his personnel to begin with - people get sent home hours early, or work hours later than they're scheduled to, half the people on the schedule show up ten-fifteen minutes late some nights, others show up on time and get made to stand around for sometimes HOURS before the boss lets them punch in 'because he needs to save on labor', and for the last five weeks he hasn't bothered to write up a schedule, and when he finally does write up a schedule, HE DOESN'T SCHEDULE FIVE FUCKING PEOPLE (myself included) probably because he literally saved it for the LAST FUCKING MINUTE on Sunday night and was too tired to finish the fucking thing! This is the third week out of the seven I've worked where I've had to call my employer EVERY MORNING just to find out if I was working or not. I'm sleeping in fucking three hour shifts now because I never know if I'm working. He's had me on the schedule six days in a row now, if he really did have me scheduled for today (I'm well convinced he didn't, since he's hurting for labor so bad he wouldn't have scheduled a driver to work six shifts in a row who wasn't a lead driver or AM) and after subsisting on shitty naps all week (while sick with a strep infection, BTW) I ended up going right back to bed after he hung up and sleeping until three in the fucking morning.

It's time to get out of the pizza delivery business, I think.
 

[Büge]

Frankly, I'm surprised you stuck with it as long as you did after last time.