Topic: Your Job: The Movie (Read 177959 times)

Mongrel · « **Reply #1940 on:** January 30, 2012, 12:35:16 PM »

I don't have that problem at my desk, but for the past two months I have not been able to press the down button on the elevator (we're on the 13th floor) even once without getting a fat shock.

Every. Goddamned. Time.

Ziiro · « **Reply #1941 on:** January 30, 2012, 01:06:43 PM »

The door to the office suite I work in shocks me every time. I have developed a psychological response where I second guess myself when reaching for the door handle and mentally steel myself now.

Friday · « **Reply #1942 on:** January 30, 2012, 01:08:01 PM »

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The door to the office suite I work in shocks me every time. I have developed a psychological response where I second guess myself when reaching for the door handle and mentally steel myself now.

Among other things, Office Space taught me the solution to this problem is drill baby drill

TA · « **Reply #1943 on:** January 30, 2012, 01:19:57 PM »

Quote from: Thad on January 30, 2012, 12:01:45 PM

I don't have a real desk; I sit at a folding table. Which is fine for the most part, but the fucking thing collects static like crazy and occasionally discharges it. To the point that my screen goes black, my keyboard and mouse become unresponsive for several seconds, and yes it shocks the fuck out of me.

I brought my ergo keyboard into work (as I am wont to do) but these moments appeared to affect it particularly badly for some reason; it wouldn't just go dead for a few seconds a few times a week, it would go dead for a measurable period of time several times a day. So I took it home and switched back to a cheapy comes-with-a-new-computer one.

Put a newspaper or some other sort of nonconductive thing between the computer/keyboard/mouse and the table?

Thad · « **Reply #1944 on:** January 30, 2012, 01:24:49 PM »

Yeah, probably a good idea. Maybe I'll cut up a box or something.

(Started using a mousepad; I think it's helped but I'm not 100%.)

Büge · « **Reply #1945 on:** January 30, 2012, 02:33:56 PM »

Quote from: Mongrel on January 30, 2012, 12:35:16 PM

we're on the 13th floor

There's your problem.

TA · « **Reply #1946 on:** January 30, 2012, 03:14:55 PM »

Quote from: Thad on January 30, 2012, 01:24:49 PM

Yeah, probably a good idea. Maybe I'll cut up a box or something.

(Started using a mousepad; I think it's helped but I'm not 100%.)

I used to rest my laptop on a particular chair to hook it up to my friend's TV, and started noticing that I'd get static shocks whenever I touched it. Then I started putting a magazine between the laptop and the chair, and that stopped happening entirely. A little insulation probably is exactly the solution you want here.

Kayma · « **Reply #1947 on:** January 30, 2012, 05:22:26 PM »

Last week, my boss called me asking if I'd be interested in a higher-level position he needed to fill.

Today, I learned he's no longer with the company.

I... huh.

Brentai · « **Reply #1948 on:** January 30, 2012, 05:41:31 PM »

The Boss is dead, long live ~~Big~~ The Boss.

Ocksi · « **Reply #1949 on:** January 30, 2012, 05:44:28 PM »

For a moment I was stricken with terror, thinking this was the obituary thread.

Rico · « **Reply #1950 on:** January 30, 2012, 05:48:20 PM »

Couldn't be, no links to conspiracy rags claiming Springsteen was a pedo.

Classic · « **Reply #1951 on:** January 31, 2012, 01:56:35 AM »

Quote from: Mongrel on January 30, 2012, 12:35:16 PM

PIKA-CHUUUUUUUU

I've heard that if you ground before the impedance of the air breaks down, and don't have an arc discharge, it's not as bad pain-wise. If you quickly touch whatever it is that usually shocks you and give the difference in charge between your two bodies time to even out, some of the annoyance is gone.

I'd vouch for this, but I don't have any special powers that let me definitively say that I would've been shocked, or that a shock would've been worse had I not employed this method.
Also you have to touch things quickly. It makes you look like a spaz until you start doing it instinctively and smoothly.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1952 on:** January 31, 2012, 10:23:26 AM »

My response for the past few weeks has been to just press it with my elbow or wrist now, through my coat/shirt.

Büge · « **Reply #1953 on:** January 31, 2012, 10:36:00 AM »

Oh c'mon. If you're the only one it happens to, you can adopt a new nickname.

Thad · « **Reply #1954 on:** January 31, 2012, 10:41:37 AM »

...I was on campus the other day and saw this on a sign:

Apparently it is supposed to represent a pitchfork.

That is not the thing I thought of when I saw it.

TA · « **Reply #1955 on:** January 31, 2012, 11:30:31 AM »

François · « **Reply #1956 on:** January 31, 2012, 02:01:55 PM »

Reste digne, Internet.

NexAdruin · « **Reply #1957 on:** January 31, 2012, 10:54:49 PM »

I got a job with surprisingly little (almost 0, in fact!) effort. I deliver pizzas and answer phones and I work with really great people around my age and everything is really laid back and a great time. I love my job.

Sunday, we had a flash snow shower that left really wet, sticky snow over all the street signs. Sunday was my first day making deliveries on my own (besides 1 single run that I did on saturday). I deliver to an area barely a mile outside of the area that I actually know really well. In 4 hours I made about 5 deliveries (on a scale of 1 to 10 that's about a -3 for performance) and got lost twice. Oh and I forgot one poor lady's drinks and had to make that run twice. Also one guy lived on a hill and his driveway was ice-covered cement and I am not really allowed to walk on the grass. I fell on my ass and that hurt.

I was frustrated and upset and when I got home I was ready to cry, but after a half hour of that I felt pretty good about the whole experience. I had a singular bad day and everyone at the shop was cool about it, knowing that first days happen and everything was okay. I was sore from falling but that went away over night and I'd learned a bit which was kind of the point. I love my job, even on bad days.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1958 on:** February 02, 2012, 02:23:41 PM »

Seen in a case filed today: From the context, the rep meant to type "... phone number of ours" but instead typed "... phone number of ares".

McDohl · « **Reply #1959 on:** February 02, 2012, 04:32:41 PM »

Uh, Brentai.

Is there still an opening where you work?

I kinda need a job.

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