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[JDigital]

This is what people are reduced to after they banned Four Loko.

[MadMAxJr]

Stress over work is a bad thing.  Especially when it drives you to borderline insanity.  I was forced into resignation the 4th, my last day will be the 14th.  I think I'll be moving back in with family to pursue some technical certificates, maybe pursue a masters.  If anyone knows of any microsoft technology jobs between Oklahoma City and Kansas City, I'd love to hear about them.

No one should live in fear of their employer.

[Mothra]

Nor man clearly something isn't working right if you've gotta inflict bodily harm on yourself in order to make this thing work. Time to REARRANGE THE PIECES MAN

There is a way to be exactly as or more comfortable than you are now without this, it is time to find this thing.

[Norondor]

this is pretty much the best i can hope for right now or maybe ever.

[teg]

So the manager in charge of scheduling at Staples keeps giving me a hard time for not giving her my Blockbuster schedule on time for her to make the Staples schedule. The first time it happened, I felt like I was entirely to blame. After this many times, though, I am quite clearly not, and I'm still getting lectured for it. I've been in every day this week to try to submit my schedule, and she hasn't been there each time. I eventually just left it with the store manager. And I still got the same lecture. Oh, and did I mention that it means I only get one shift a week? Not even a full shift, either.
I'm not getting enough hours and I hate working there. I think it's time to look for a better job and quit.

...Should I let head office know that the manager in question lets her friends and family take multiple items during "one to a customer" door crasher sales?

[Joxam]

The part about the door crasher sales is up to you, I have no opinion either way, as you know if it hurts sales or undermines the stores reputation and I don't. But about your schedule, you should realize that having someone work two jobs is generally considered the WORST thing to have to work around in a flex scheduled job, especially if both jobs are flex scheduled. It might not be entirely your fault, or even a little bit your fault, for all I know she's a raving bitch, but trust me when I say you are going to get no sympathy while looking for a job as soon as they realize that you might not be able to work nights or weekends because of another job, and even more so when they realize that you had to quit your last job because of scheduling conflicts caused by you having two jobs. Most jobs expect that you make concessions for them, in scheduling, simply by virtue of the fact that you work for them and if the reason you can't do that is because you work for someone else, most managers start to get very upset, because to them, you're THEIR employee.

[Spaco]

Job get! Got a call on Wednesday to come in on Friday for a "first round group interview" for an executive assistant position at a local large nonprofit. I arrived first that day, and seven professional-looking women eventually showed up, with their ages ranging in the 20s to 40s. It was kind of a survivor style interview, where you spent fifteen minutes with either the hiring manager or the CEO. If you survived the first interview, you met with the other person, in between talking with one of the counselors who had been there for 22 years to pass the time and ask questions about the organization. In reality, the counselor was a third voting member, and I apparently was the top pick of all three women! They pretty much threw the job at me, as I think they have bigger plans for me down the road and I'm much more qualified than the position I'll be in. Salaried, about what I was making at the think tank, and full benefits (which I didn't have before). You can't begin to understand what a relief it was, considering I'm getting married in May and being employed is the last thing we need to be worried about right now.

[Büge]

The part about the door crasher sales is up to you, I have no opinion either way, as you know if it hurts sales or undermines the stores reputation and I don't. But about your schedule, you should realize that having someone work two jobs is generally considered the WORST thing to have to work around in a flex scheduled job, especially if both jobs are flex scheduled. It might not be entirely your fault, or even a little bit your fault, for all I know she's a raving bitch, but trust me when I say you are going to get no sympathy while looking for a job as soon as they realize that you might not be able to work nights or weekends because of another job, and even more so when they realize that you had to quit your last job because of scheduling conflicts caused by you having two jobs. Most jobs expect that you make concessions for them, in scheduling, simply by virtue of the fact that you work for them and if the reason you can't do that is because you work for someone else, most managers start to get very upset, because to them, you're THEIR employee.

This explains a lot about why I don't get many second interviews.

[Mongrel]

Finally, some good news in this thread

[teg]

But about your schedule, you should realize that having someone work two jobs is generally considered the WORST thing to have to work around in a flex scheduled job, especially if both jobs are flex scheduled. It might not be entirely your fault, or even a little bit your fault, for all I know she's a raving bitch, but trust me when I say you are going to get no sympathy while looking for a job as soon as they realize that you might not be able to work nights or weekends because of another job, and even more so when they realize that you had to quit your last job because of scheduling conflicts caused by you having two jobs. Most jobs expect that you make concessions for them, in scheduling, simply by virtue of the fact that you work for them and if the reason you can't do that is because you work for someone else, most managers start to get very upset, because to them, you're THEIR employee.

I totally understand, but what I'm getting at is that she tells me to bring me my schedule on days when she knows she won't be there, then chews me out for it. It's just stupid.

Also it implies that she doesn't expect me to show up.

[Mongrel]

I have a job. As of tomorrow morning, I will no longer be an itinerant mooch of the state.

Got a job as a Fraud Investigator with Rogers (the second biggest phone company in the country and traditionally, the most evil one... uh guess I better not say that at work). Pretty decent money. Less than my last job, but it's downtown (worth at least a grand a year, never mind the savings in MY TIME), and there's an annual bonus that always gets paid (verified outside of the recruiter) and some shift premiums that go a long way towards closing the gap.

It's very close to where I live, so that's quite nice.

[Rico]

It's very close to where I live, so that's quite nice.

It is hard to overstate the benefits of this.  My commute isn't even long but I'm still thinking of moving within walking distance in a couple months.

[Norondor]

i am actually a half-hour bike ride from work and i am intentionally avoiding carpooling or public transit or anything else like that because really, i need the exercise.

[Thad]

Yeah, did I mention I finally got around to riding to work once during my last week there?  Had been meaning to do it since I moved to a house about 3mi from there, but stuff kept getting in the way -- first the heat, then my asthma, and then by the time those were both sorted my girlfriend's hours had been knocked back to just evenings so if I drove I could come home and have lunch with her.

But yeah, finally biked to work once, my last week there; the trail was nice and it felt good.

[Mongrel]

Yeah, I can bike in maybe fifteen minutes, probably forty minutes or a half-hour to walk? I've walked down there before, I just need to actually time it.

It's short enough that walking may be faster when you factor in changing time after you get to the office.

Sure beats the hour+ bus ride/half-hour drive (the only reason it was a half-hour and not 45 minutes was because I could use the carpool lane on the motorbike).

EDIT: Also, the schedule (8-4 or 4-midnight, neither of which is bad), combined with it being downtown, means I don't have to ask for time off to go to my treatments. Which is more than a little useful, I would say.

[Ziiro]

I get up at 4:30 in the morning to catch the bus at 5:20 to make it to work  by 7. I then get off of work at 4, and on good days I'm home by 6. Just in time to go to bed by 8 and do it all over again.

[Norondor]

the dude in the pod next to me is
a) 18 with a wife and kid
b) super cool with his goatee and fancy clothes
c) always trying to show me his pokemons
d) setting off my furry-sense all the time

[Norondor]

also i am starting to get a lot of bruises and cuts on my arms from self-flagellation so i guess my theory that having a steady job would make my depression lighten a little has been MYTHBUSTED

[Zach]

Overheard at work today: "Watch out! The dwarf urinated all over that chair earlier."

It was not heard out-of-context.

[Norondor]

my brother's GF works at a Peet's Coffee and constantly has to deal with customers called "Stinky*" and "Piss Cripple"



*DISCLAIMER: as a well-known sacramento homeless person this is his de facto name. he is not was well liked as "Downtown James Brown" who has many imitators; you can identify them by asking them to actually do an impression of James Brown, which they will fail