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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1300 on: November 22, 2010, 01:52:25 PM »

As a couple her financial irresponsibility was one of those acceptable flaws you overlook because there are more important things going on. As a roommate her financial irresponsibility :rage:

Both our names are on the lease, and up until now neither of us could afford to live on our own. Now, she's the only one who can, making it all the more likely for me to come home one day and find she's just packed up whatever she can fit in her car and left. I'll need to have found a better job by the time the lease is up (next May) or that shitty broken-down van is going to be where I live.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1301 on: November 22, 2010, 04:25:40 PM »

And then you should live down by the river.
It won't make life better for you, but at least when you tell people you live in a van down by the river, they'll laugh first until they realize you are joking.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1302 on: November 22, 2010, 04:35:26 PM »

If she's on the lease and bails, you can probably sue her to get the remainder of her half of the rent money on the lease.

I know she was your lady once and is presumably your friend, but you'd better fucking believe I'd get litigious if somebody tried to fuck me sideways financially like that.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1303 on: November 23, 2010, 07:04:22 PM »

Got a call today. I have a job! Well, another job.

And I'm not sure how I feel about this one. It's for DaFranco's downtown, a small family run Italian place. They called today, 3 months after I applied and they said I was a sure thing. and it's for a different position. Waiting tables is way better than driving, sure, but still.

Only thing is they are so short staffed right now that I am starting with 4-6 hour shifts, six days a week.  On top of my job at gamestop which starts this week. On top of school. On top of everything else.

Um. But there is openings for dishwashers and everything. And I'm going to try to make my hours NOT so crazy. As it is, I'm looking at roughly 60 hours weeks between just the two jobs.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1304 on: November 23, 2010, 07:22:40 PM »

If they're looking for a line cook...
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1305 on: November 23, 2010, 08:41:33 PM »

They are.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1306 on: November 23, 2010, 09:21:23 PM »

Road trip!
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1307 on: November 29, 2010, 11:02:02 PM »

There's a small chance I'll be working in a full-service fine-dining restaurant this fall. Maybe.

Hey guys, remember this?

Needless to say it didn't happen. The restaurant in question didn't open.

But I talked to the chef and the owner and they're still trying to make it happen and expect the doors to open, and I quote, "January-ish".

From what I am told I am already hired, on the line and apprenticing under said chef.

So that'll be pretty cool.

If it happens.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1308 on: December 05, 2010, 09:08:07 PM »

Heeeey. So today I worked open to close. I had two tables. One of those tables? My parents. It's been like this all week. The last two nights were "busy" according to the workers. I had one table each night. I spent the rest of the time cleaning. I even ran a few deliveries.

So most of the time I stand there. Just stand there. I've already cleaned the store top to bottom, rolled silverware and everything. Just standing there, sometimes for hours on end.  I looked at my numbers. I work 6-7 days a week. Let's say six. And let's say I work... 5 hours a day. I'm averaging two tables a day. $3 per table. I used to work 4 days a week. 8 hours a day. And got $120 in tips a day. And I actually had things to do.

I might have to quit this job for sheer lack of stuff to do.

Which is fine, it's weird. The owners names are Francesca and Francesco Da Franco. And I can't understand a word HE says and all SHE says is stuff about business she shouldn't be telling me. I'm an employee and she's going on about numbers this and business stuff that. I don't care. I wait on tables. And I've been there a week and the other workers RESENT me. They call me Wonderboy.

I have no idea what the deal is.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1309 on: December 05, 2010, 09:15:40 PM »

Francesca and Francesco Da Franco

They sound like great people, I don't know what the problem could possibly be.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1310 on: December 05, 2010, 09:53:52 PM »

You just like them because they're Frankophones.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1311 on: December 06, 2010, 07:21:45 AM »

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1312 on: December 06, 2010, 08:54:01 AM »

You'd think the "frank" jokes would stop sooner or later, but it looks like they just go furter and furter.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1313 on: December 06, 2010, 06:10:49 PM »

They've covered wars, ya know.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1314 on: December 07, 2010, 01:34:48 AM »

i volunteered for a phone bank for KQED, and got paid $100 for it.

then on my way home i fell off my bike and directly on my melon-like head, but fortunately i bought a bike helmet with my $100.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1315 on: December 08, 2010, 08:23:02 PM »

Looks like I'm gonna be a Comic Store Guy again.  Time to prep the beard.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1316 on: December 08, 2010, 09:14:11 PM »

I can think of worse gigs.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1317 on: December 10, 2010, 03:13:05 PM »

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.
 

So an update to this saga

I ended up calling around trying to find a part for my car, only to find out that the only place to get it is the dealership, and it's part of a thermostat assembly and will run me 200 bucks. That's not including labor, and given that I'd have to remove the entire throttle body assembly and possibly the carbuerator to get this fucking hose off, I suspect I would have ended up having to bring it into a mechanic. I called the boss and told him the situation, he tried to bully me into going to a junkyard asap (even though I told him I wasn't sure I could do the repair and KNEW I didn't have the money, as my bank account was negative and my wife's was <20 dollars) and I kind of just blew him off for a week while I waited to get money and tried to figure out a workaround

The workaround was to take a brass barbed fitting from the local ace hardware (3.50 cent part) and basically splicing the hose that was ruptured with it. All told the actual repair cost less than 5 dollars and took less than a half an hour to complete. But as I panicked and scrambled and worried about what I was going to do with my finances this month, how long it would take to get current with my shitty minimum wage, etc, I realized that this job isn't fucking worth it anymore and the extra 20 hours of free time I have a week are coming at too steep of a cost. So I took some time to put my resume out, and by the time we'd finally gotten the car fixed, I got a call from Siwell consulting, a company who apparently does Verizon's internal IT helpdesk, and got the job a couple of days later.

Pay's great, but the position is currently temporary - some extra help since apparently they decided to do a mass Lotus -> Outlook migration at the busiest time of year for the company. The trainer and manager of the dept. are both pretty confident my class will get made permanent long before the temporary period ends, though, and even if we don't, I'll have plenty of time to save money between now and february to get me started on my plans for the future, so all in all pretty great times.

It was also a huge relief to call my asshole manager at Papa Johns and tell him I was seeking employment opportunities elsewhere.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1318 on: December 10, 2010, 06:51:41 PM »

If one more person tells me that the Thanksgiving/Christmas season is the best time of the year to get a kitchen job because lots of places are hiring seasonal work, I will probably tell them outright to choke on their filthy lies.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1319 on: December 11, 2010, 03:09:13 AM »

Fuckdicks.
I took this job for a 15-20 hour a week job. I'm already working 6+ hour shifts every day when today, Jill quit. Now Jill was the only person who worked there that was under 35. She's my age and was also an art student. So it we actually talked and had intelligent conversations. Something that's never really happened at a job before. It was 6:15, we had a full house, a table of 20 just walked in and I had to figure out how to make tables out of thin air because literally every table was full, and Jill slides up to the cash register with her coat on and starts closing out.
"I quit Mitch. Good luck." Then she walked away.
Well, my hours do go up (they can't. I literally work open to close every day.) But now I am the only waiter. Period.
And to make it better, I'm in charge of hiring new people.
Stipulations: Has to be a girl, has to be somewhat attractive, friendly, and between 21-30.  I currently have no one around who fits this description. I can't get a single day off until I find not just one, but at least two. Because one will mean I can have backup on a busy weekend. Two means one can work during the week too.

And the new cook they hired? Apparently super racist. And doesn't like Italians. Sooooooo he's going to be going bye-bye soon.


And to put the icing on the cake, the boss's daughters are fighting over me. They are 7 and 13. The 13 year old is being... quite vulgar and sexual. It is really making me uncomfortable.
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