Topic: Your Job: The Movie (Read 177942 times)

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1640 on:** May 25, 2011, 05:03:09 PM »

I almost caused a fight at work today!

Thad · « **Reply #1641 on:** May 25, 2011, 07:14:12 PM »

It's the third-biggest city in the state, and is predominantly Mormon but features some impressive barrios too. The Mormon part is responsible for a significant amount of the state's crazy, including Senator Russell Pearce.

But it's adjacent to Tempe, my home and the major college town, which I happen to quite like even though there are lots of places I'd rather live. Partly due to the fact that today's high temperature was 96 and we are still nearly a month away from the beginning of summer.

Work is work, and if you come out here I'll buy you a beer.

McDohl · « **Reply #1642 on:** May 26, 2011, 05:58:14 AM »

I'd accept that beer handily.

teg · « **Reply #1643 on:** June 05, 2011, 05:51:19 AM »

You know what the upside to being imminently laid off is? I can be a complete asshole to the handful of people who deserve it.

Can you tell that I'm having fun you guys?

oh also I kind of have a guaranteed job for the later part of the summer and on
It's a call center job but it pays a lot and it's about as close as Blockbuster was. I know a few people who've worked there for ages and are well-liked and they all said they'd let me use them as references. They usually hire around August or so.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1644 on:** June 05, 2011, 04:46:36 PM »

You decided to stay then, I gather?

teg · « **Reply #1645 on:** June 05, 2011, 06:08:15 PM »

For the time being. I'm definitely moving, but thinking ahead, this probably isn't a good time. It's the guaranteed job come August that made it for me.

Classic · « **Reply #1646 on:** June 05, 2011, 06:12:51 PM »

The state of Illinois is failing to live up to their pension promises to a huge swath of their employees.

Something to think about.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1647 on:** June 05, 2011, 06:26:35 PM »

Quote from: teg on June 05, 2011, 06:08:15 PM

For the time being. I'm definitely moving, but thinking ahead, this probably isn't a good time. It's the guaranteed job come August that made it for me.

Oh is the job in Fredericton? Sorry, I thought you meant it was close to where you are now. :P

teg · « **Reply #1648 on:** June 05, 2011, 06:28:54 PM »

It is. I mean I'll get it and then leave when I'm good and ready rather than being rushed into it.

(and when I say close I mean like 200 feet from here. Almost as close as Blockbuster was. It's incredibly fortunate)

Mongrel · « **Reply #1649 on:** June 05, 2011, 08:14:32 PM »

Okay, that makes sense now.

teg · « **Reply #1650 on:** June 06, 2011, 09:09:05 PM »

I submitted my resume to the place next door a few weeks ago. I figured they weren't going to bother, but today I got a call. I aced the interview questions. Next is a brief online thing and then an actual interview.

So in all likelihood I'll get another job literally nextdoor to the place that's closing.

Büge · « **Reply #1651 on:** June 07, 2011, 05:54:11 AM »

Mongrel · « **Reply #1652 on:** June 07, 2011, 05:26:32 PM »

Looks like they're tossing me off weekends for random blocks of weeks. This is a loss of pay, increased hassle, longer hours (indirectly), far less sleep (and poorer quality sleep too), more work and generally affects everything badly. Scoring perpetual weekends was the single biggest thing that made the job tolerable.

Oh well, it was inevitable. Sooner or later everyone figures out that I'm just a giant useless sack of shit pretending to be a real employee. After all, "Fake it 'till you make it" only works if you can eventually make it.

Thad · « **Reply #1653 on:** June 07, 2011, 08:28:05 PM »

Greetings. I am Brentai Roberts. I tried to piss on your window a couple of weeks ago, but I was too drunk and ended up urinating on the bagel shop several lots down instead. Point being, I want a job.

teg · « **Reply #1654 on:** June 09, 2011, 04:10:16 AM »

It's official: Store closes on Saturday. It's gonna' be sad to see it go.

So yesterday I bought the last of what I wanted to own and made myself a gag account to use if I ever go to a Blockbuster in another city.

"Baron Von Skullcrusher". Mailing address: "Peak Of The Forsaken Mountain".

McDohl · « **Reply #1655 on:** June 09, 2011, 10:52:54 AM »

Man, I wish I had done something like that when I still worked at blockbuster.

Oh well. I still have my card with my old employee number, issued in...*gag* 1999.

I'm going to be 28 next month.

In other news, I drove 3 hours last night, stayed overnight, and interviewed this morning for a Lockheed Martin position as an electronics test tech. It was fascinating as I got to see a lot of the manufacturing processes.

I feel really good about this interview!

R^2 · « **Reply #1656 on:** June 09, 2011, 12:46:45 PM »

My goal for the three-week break before the summer quarter starts is to find a job I can actually, you know, live off of. Not one that cuts my hours to ten per week making me move in with family, not one that dries up entirely after two months.

I have to call a guy back tomorrow, have a lead to follow up on, and have a phone interview Monday. So, uh, we'll see.

teg · « **Reply #1657 on:** June 11, 2011, 05:35:59 PM »

So the store finally closed tonight. As sad as it is to see it go, I got paid for doing absolutely nothing for twelve hours (best part was playing Pokémon against a coworker four or five times) and all of the unsold candy, DVDs with no cover art, and toys, electronics, and supplies went to the staff. It was like Halloween except I also got about thirty movies.

R^2 · « **Reply #1658 on:** June 13, 2011, 08:20:59 AM »

My phone interview went well! I have a followup in-person interview scheduled.

In July.

For a place that opens in September.

That is not as helpful as I was hoping!

Mongrel · « **Reply #1659 on:** June 13, 2011, 05:53:51 PM »

Talked to my boss today. Confirmed that I am being denied the ability to trade shifts (something everyone else has by default), even though I want the shifts that are widely considered shitty by most of the employees because my production rates are so low you couldn't find them on a spreadsheet of the Marianas Trench.

Played every card I had - good, legit arguments - for allowing me to stay on weekends. Even my last ace, when I lampshaded my own sleep issues and all but begged. No dice, I need too much remediation.

~~Ten~~ thirty-two years of incompetence at each and every thing I have ever set my hand or mind to.

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