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[JDigital]

Are you sure you aren't a manga protagonist?

[Classic]

Would be nice if you also knew the nature of Jill's quitting and her phone number. For entirely unrelated reasons of course.

[teg]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh why can't I be good at both jobs at once

Seriously, I sell tons of stuff a the video store, but only when I can't sell anything at the office supply store and vice-versa.

Oh also I worked an opening shift door-crasher sale and a busy Saturday night in the same day with less than an hour between them. I like having two jobs, but these types of days will one day kill me.

[Lottel]

Would be nice if you also knew the nature of Jill's quitting and her phone number. For entirely unrelated reasons of course.

I already know why age quit in detail and why the boss wanted her gone. In detail. I'm the guy everyone talks too.
And Jill isn't my kind of lady to try to get a number from. She is... not a fan of other races. She's the type that'll say horrible things followed by "but I'm not a racist."

Today my boss decided she wasnt going to hire more people. If I wanted help on a Friday or something, I can bring people in to help. This is retarded. I'm going to either have her hire people so I get a day off ever or I'm going to have to quit.

To top it off, I had terrible chest pains today to the point I dropped stuff and fell into the wall. If there were other workers I'd have left.

I hate my job because I am there too much.

[Lottel]

Oh. And to "cheer me up" the thirteen year old decided she should "dance on me." Then wanted to show me her new underwear she just bought at the mall.

This is getting to comedian levels of me having to run from a little girl.

[Mongrel]

Better to run from a little girl then wind up on a Sex Offender registry.

Also, girls who behave like that have often been found to been sexually abused. The correlation isn't 100% by any means, but you should certainly continue to put as much distance and as many walls between you and her as possible. Because if she decides she doesn't like you any more, things could get REAL ugly.

[Detonator]

Lottel the problem here is that you live in Japan.  Cut it out.

[Spaco]

So I'm overdue on my 90-day review by about a month and I've been asking my direct boss about it for probably three weeks or so. I figured it would happen this past week, as it was the annual staff summit and board meeting, so the Prez was in town and he's the dude that does all the hiring and firing and whatnot since we are a tiny organization. I gave my direct boss ample time to bring this up with the Prez, but he apparently failed to do so at all. It got to the point where at the end of the week, I emailed him twice about it and got no response, and at 4:30pm on Friday asked him whether I was going to get my review while the Prez was still in town or not, and if not, when? He said he hadn't talked to him about it and that it probably wouldn't happen, since "these things tend to take place over the phone". The Prez was sitting in his office literally ten feet away on the other side of the wall from my office and for some reason he thought it was a horrible idea to bother him with such trivial botherings.

I told my boss I'd ask the Prez about it and ended up waiting around 1 1/2 hours until he was finally free, but got ten minutes of his time and brought it up with him. He was very nice about it and said he would have to talk to my boss (who had left by this point) about my performance to see where things stood, as he works remotely and I don't have a ton of direct interaction with the Prez on a daily basis, but said he didn't know of any "red flags" and was overall pleased with the work he had seen, and that they'd discuss it next week. He asked when my review was due and I replied that it was a month overdue, to which he said "well, it's your career, so you need to take more initiative about things like this". 

[McDohl]

See, here is when you DOCUMENT that shit.  Meticulously document when you were asking about your review, with witnesses, if possible.

[Mongrel]

Well, he should have those emails as a record at least.

[Spaco]

Yeah, I have email copies, but I doubt it'll come to that. He took my word for it, knowing that my direct boss is fairly hands off when it comes to management. They are hanging out in Chicago tonight and tomorrow, so I'll hopefully hear back something before the end of the week. It'd especially be super awesome to get on salary before the holidays, so that I'm on paid vacation, rather than being temporarily unemployed for a week and a half.

[Joxam]

Spaco I think you're over reacting about the intent of his comment. When my bosses boss tells me he wants to see me take more initiative in my carrier, to me, it means that he wants me to cut out the middle man, if I have to. He's telling you that if you take control and go over your bosses head about things like this, and perhaps other things, you might be on quicker track to move up. Presumably you're a good worker, I think he's just telling you how you can get promoted quicker, if you take the initiative to perhaps not take 'we'll do it later' as an answer.

[Brentai]

Depends on the context.  If it was said where I worked it would be intended to literally mean "You should be doing your manager's work."

[Classic]

i.e., Just do work you weren't hired to do and aren't paid to do, with no expectation of reward or recognition.

[Thad]

Welp, out of a job come New Year's.

On the plus side, they fought for us.  Like, my boss's boss's boss is getting reassigned for bawling out HIS bosses over it.

I don't suppose that matters from a utilitarian perspective, but fuck utilitarianism; the fact that the people who work under the same roof I do appreciate the work I do and were willing to fight on my behalf means a hell of a lot more to me than this insulting position or mediocre paycheck ever did.

I did my job, I did it well, and the people in this building know it.  Sucks that a bunch of bean counters who I've never met don't appreciate it, but that's corporate America for you.

[McDohl]

Oh no.  Thad is going to be one of those 99er guys and start sponging off the government and be a waste of taxpayer money and will become lazy and dependent on the government etc etc etc strawman conservative snarking


IN all seriousness, that sucks, Thad.  It always hurts to lose a job, even if the job blows.

[Thad]

Blah blah crisis opportunity etc.

(Incidentally, when I said that to my girlfriend at lunch, she correctly responded with "Crisitunity," which I do believe is her first successful completion of a Simpsons reference.  It made me smile.)

I do my best and most fulfilling work when I'm unemployed (or part-time) anyway.  In-between shooting out resumes and filing for unemployment I should have plenty of time to write some code.

And my agency can start trying to find me better work anyway, which they couldn't do as long as I was under contract to one of their employees.  And the fact that I spent two years in a job I was overqualified for shows my commitment -- and will hopefully make them more likely to get me a better job than try to slough another crap job off on me.  (The optimistic way of looking at it is that if I make more money, they make more money, so presumably they'll want to put me in the highest-paying gig they can.)

Meantime, a glance at unemployment suggests that I won't make enough to cover health insurance plus rent.  Well, at least I've got my savings and my freelancing.

[Mongrel]

I hear you on the being satisfied that people were satisfied with you front. In retrospect, I realized that part of the reason I think I started playing chicken with my manager so much at the last place was to see just who would really stick up for me there if it came down to it.

Now that's a stupid way to go about things and it was only a minor part of the overall situation, but I know I'm one of those people who like to actually be appreciated if I'm working hard and doing things right (as we all do, really).

[Envy]

Never join the union of United Food and Commercial Workers international. All they do is absolutely rape your paychecks so nothing is left. this is the third week in the row where my check is literally nothing useable.

[Niku]

Looks like I'm gonna be a Comic Store Guy again.  Time to prep the beard.

So it was written, so it shall be.  Not quite full-time to start, but the shifting personnel that has me getting the job in the first place will probably see me at full time within the first few months if not sooner.