Topic: Your Job: The Movie (Read 177929 times)

Lottel · « **Reply #1660 on:** June 13, 2011, 05:58:23 PM »

Those war terrain thingies are freaking sweet!

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1661 on:** June 13, 2011, 06:02:30 PM »

Not exactly my job, but: tonight, at work, my friend met and got a hug from Aretha Franklin.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1662 on:** June 13, 2011, 06:24:12 PM »

Fuck, that's awesome.

McDohl · « **Reply #1663 on:** June 14, 2011, 07:12:45 AM »

Quote from: McDohl 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!

Called my HR rep for Lockheed, he said I was a strong candidate. I should know something definite either this week or early next week!

Current Mood: cautiously optimistic?

R^2 · « **Reply #1664 on:** June 14, 2011, 07:54:28 AM »

Just spent my last dollar on quality paper to print resumes and portfolios on.

teg · « **Reply #1665 on:** June 16, 2011, 04:56:38 AM »

Convinced this lady to upgrade from a 16GB flash drive to a 2TB USB 3.0 compatible External HDD and get the extended warranty on it.

Bender the Magnificent

Oh also I have a job interview today. I have had three job interviews in my life; I have had three job offers in my life. I am going for a fourth.

R^2 · « **Reply #1666 on:** June 16, 2011, 07:29:30 AM »

I have run out of Good Leads, so everything I do from here will be cold-calling. I've never gotten a job from a cold call in my life.

Lottel · « **Reply #1667 on:** June 16, 2011, 07:34:21 AM »

To be fair, it can't be much worse than your record for Good Leads!

McDohl · « **Reply #1668 on:** June 17, 2011, 11:52:57 AM »

Job Offer GET!!

Ode To Joy

Mongrel · « **Reply #1669 on:** June 18, 2011, 04:29:40 PM »

One of my co-workers (a good guy) was investigating a case today involving a real bitch trying to claim her old deadbeat accounts were fraud (they weren't).

In telling us about the case he was describing how all her accounts were calling the exact same numbers, including a porn chat line.

"So yeah, she's even calling the same numbers. I pointed this out, and she said anybody could have called that. It's an 'adult entertainment' line. She was telling the truth - I even called it and checked!"
"So what you're saying is, you called a porno line from your work phone?"
"Oh that's going to be fun to explain."

Thad · « **Reply #1670 on:** June 23, 2011, 09:40:55 AM »

So I go into work this morning, sit down at my desk, and find that my login isn't working.

I ask the guy I've been working with to see what's up. He mumbles that he'll check on it, then walks away.

He comes back and tells me that he's talked to our boss and she said I need to take my key card to the security desk and call my rep at the temp agency.

It bears repeating at this point that I have just driven 30 miles and it is now 6 AM.

Haven't called my rep yet -- figured that after getting up at 4:30 I could use a nap -- but I most definitely did not have any unnoticed messages from him in my VM or inbox.

I'll call him a little later, when I figure out just the right way to articulate "This is the most unprofessional thing I have ever seen. Now do you have another job for me?"

R^2 · « **Reply #1671 on:** June 23, 2011, 10:36:16 AM »

Dear Whoever Made This Website:

This application is all on one page. It takes about twenty minutes to fill out, because Every Goddamned Thing is a required field.

Do not log me out for inactivity because I am not requesting new pages from your server quickly enough.

~~Go Fuck Yourself~~ Sincerely,
R2

Thad · « **Reply #1672 on:** June 23, 2011, 11:54:18 AM »

Rep says the reason he didn't call is because HE didn't find out about it until 8 o'clock this morning.

And that apparently I lost the job because I was too focused on getting the job done and not enough on bullshitting with the managers I talked to on the phone.

Something which, of course, nobody ever actually said anything to me about.

Fuck 'em all sideways. I knew it was a shit job but I never realized I was working for such shit people.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1673 on:** June 23, 2011, 12:54:26 PM »

Goddamn. That's garbage, Thad.

Brentai · « **Reply #1674 on:** June 23, 2011, 01:05:26 PM »

Perspective is worth a thousand bucks. Sorry you had to be the ass that makes everybody else feel better (instead of R2 for once).

I have some job leads outsde of my current company for PHP doods but they all share the same fatal flaw of being in goddam California.

Thad · « **Reply #1675 on:** June 23, 2011, 01:31:39 PM »

Quote from: Brentai on June 23, 2011, 01:05:26 PM

Perspective is worth a thousand bucks.

If that were true I'd be a rich man.

Quote from: Brentai on June 23, 2011, 01:05:26 PM

Sorry you had to be the ass that makes everybody else feel better (instead of R2 for once).

What really gets me is the total lack of communication. I have never in my life worked a job where a boss had a problem with something I was doing and just straight-up fired me instead of saying a single goddamn word to me about it. (Unless being an admin on Pyoko counts.)

I really can't begin to imagine where the gain is in having to train a new guy instead of just talking to me and suggesting maybe I should be spending more time talking about the weather. Because I can spend a LOT of goddamn time talking about the weather. It's 111 degrees out right now. Can you believe that shit?

Quote from: Brentai on June 23, 2011, 01:05:26 PM

I have some job leads outsde of my current company for PHP doods but they all share the same fatal flaw of being in goddam California.

Worth a look. I was talking to a company in Austin about a Linux SysAdmin job recently, but that broke down when it became clear that the reason a company in Austin is advertising Linux SysAdmin jobs in Phoenix is that nobody in Austin will accept the rate they're offering.

R^2 · « **Reply #1676 on:** June 29, 2011, 07:29:26 PM »

I got the most promising conclusion to a job interview yet!

It was "We'll let you know in a week if we want you to come in and start work in August."

Thad · « **Reply #1677 on:** June 30, 2011, 09:49:46 PM »

Welp, new contract. Same shitty commute, less shitty hours (though those come with shittier traffic), same adequate pay. On the whole it seems like about a half-step up, based on the strong statistical improbability that the working environment is as bad as the last place.

Only a short-term thing, but at least this time that's not going to be a surprise! Which also means the agency is already feeling around for my next assignment.

Worked for a half-day earlier in the week. The upshot is that I'm once again trapped in the middle of the donut hole where I am making no money tomorrow because it's just coming out of my unemployment check. Fucking Arizona.

R^2 · « **Reply #1678 on:** July 02, 2011, 11:28:52 AM »

Went to the Farmer's Market today to do some grocery shopping for my mother.

It was the busiest I've ever seen it (being a) a Saturday b) on a holiday weekend). There were three or four food vendor carts set up, including a truck selling -- of all things -- Belgian waffles.

And a line five or six people deep every time I walked by.

Now see, being almost all the way through culinary school has given me a little bit of insight. I know about how much it costs to run a food truck, overall. I know about how much investment in ingredients it takes to make a waffle. And I know how much profit is made when you sell said waffle out of said food truck for $3.50 a pop.

My irises may have turned into dollar signs for a moment there. Jealous, jealous dollar signs.

Büge · « **Reply #1679 on:** July 02, 2011, 08:19:36 PM »

Huh.

I just got offered money to write erotic fiction.

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