Topic: Your Job: The Movie (Read 178168 times)

Mongrel · « **Reply #200 on:** March 06, 2009, 03:11:49 PM »

I also reaaaaally need to stop staying for an hour past the end of the time I actually get paid to be here. I can technically claim overtime for that, but for obvious reasons I've only done so a couple of times.

Though it was funny as hell to read that our department has already gone over the overtime budget for the whole year.

Brentai · « **Reply #201 on:** March 10, 2009, 02:33:43 PM »

You know what I'm starting to think would be a good investment? A soundboard. The only thing I'd put on it is the failure tune from The Price is Right, but I'd hit it at the end of every ridiculously stupid bug from a previous developer I have to report to my clients.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A

A² · « **Reply #202 on:** March 10, 2009, 02:56:14 PM »

I have that on my phone.

Brentai · « **Reply #203 on:** March 10, 2009, 03:20:16 PM »

Did you use it on customers back at 411?

A² · « **Reply #204 on:** March 10, 2009, 03:32:06 PM »

Yes. Along with rickrolling.

McDohl · « **Reply #205 on:** March 10, 2009, 03:45:12 PM »

I can rickroll people on demand with my cellphone as well.

Brentai · « **Reply #206 on:** March 10, 2009, 04:09:38 PM »

Holy shit, I take it back. I take it all back.

If I had to do that for this new site I'd need like twenty soundboards wired together, all playing in unison.

Possibly round-robin style. On repeat.

Classic · « **Reply #207 on:** March 10, 2009, 04:29:10 PM »

The opening to megaman 2 sounds pretty cool played in a round.

Mongrel · « **Reply #208 on:** March 10, 2009, 06:55:33 PM »

Quote from: Misha on March 10, 2009, 02:56:14 PM

I have that on my phone.

For some reason that tune fragment is burned into my skull. Along with the Family Feud Theme and Dixie.

SEND HELP.

Mongrel · « **Reply #209 on:** March 10, 2009, 06:59:04 PM »

Today was hilarious.

Computer died again. Windows corrupted (missing kernel).

I call IT: "You're going to have to send us the computer" (reminder: they are in New Jersey)

Me: "... ah... can't you just, you know, send me a Windows disk or recovery disk?"

IT: "Well, then we'd have to give you the admin password to your machine."

Keep in mind the fact that if my computer is working, IT can remote-zombie it anyway.

On the other hand I get to spend the next four or five business days hanging around the office, taking the occasional call and sending all my work to the NJ location. Mostly I'm just going to hang around and (hopefully) draw. Luckily, I had just cleared a ton of shit on Monday and today was very quiet.

WAY TO GO GUYS. YOU WIN AGAIN!

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #210 on:** March 11, 2009, 08:47:04 AM »

I feel bad for the safety team/department in various industries, and the absurd safety precautions they have to tell you about for OSHA compliance. When I was working for a goverment contractor, I recall seeing stuff kind of like this coming from them. [via dailyWTF]

McDohl · « **Reply #211 on:** March 11, 2009, 09:04:23 AM »

Shop supervisor's at one of those meetings THIS VERY MINUTE. :D

jsnlxndrlv · « **Reply #212 on:** March 13, 2009, 05:50:49 PM »

Fired yesterday. It hit home today.

If I can't keep a job at fucking Walmart, I need to turn my life around.

Rosencrantz · « **Reply #213 on:** March 13, 2009, 05:54:50 PM »

You probably just weren't old or disabled enough.

(My condolences, man.)

Kazz · « **Reply #214 on:** March 13, 2009, 06:31:06 PM »

Did they give you a reason, or were you just too competent?

jsnlxndrlv · « **Reply #215 on:** March 13, 2009, 06:38:31 PM »

Absenteeism. Clocking in late four times is equivalent to a single absence; I'd accumulated the equivalent of eight absences over the last six months. Then, last week, I wrote my schedule down wrong and didn't show up on a day I'd been scheduled to work.

This sucks, but it's entirely my own fault. And at least now I don't have an excuse to not be submitting applications for non-Walmart employment.

SCD · « **Reply #216 on:** March 13, 2009, 08:00:22 PM »

If it makes you feel any better, during a lull in my life, I got canned out of a Sbux for similar reasons, and skipping a meeting devoted to showing stuff that people should buy that's not coffee.

Made me redouble my efforts towards the military, and now before I head back to school (again), I will be an instructor for a journeyman sig course followed by a two month stint during the hottest of the summer days of Ontario in a air-conditioned lab.

Life has a funny way of throwing curves at you. This whole background of economic doom and gloom is certainly another one.

I hope you'll keep your chin up and find somewhere else - someone not demeaning as Bal Mart.

McDohl · « **Reply #217 on:** March 15, 2009, 07:43:57 AM »

...you know, it's learning what you people do for a living that sometimes makes me feel bad for taking my job for granted. Especially with the political climate as it is. I really hope that I get picked up for follow-on work for Quantico if they decide not to deliver the second increment of aircraft...

Brentai · « **Reply #218 on:** March 20, 2009, 05:23:52 PM »

And then Valve was all like "You get an achievement for UBERCHARGING TWO GUYS AT ONCE!"

jsnlxndrlv · « **Reply #219 on:** March 20, 2009, 05:25:48 PM »

Looks like I'm (maybe) reemployed, as a "mortgage facilitator". This is technically just another name for collections agent.

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