Topic: Your Job: The Movie (Read 178201 times)

Lottel · « **Reply #2000 on:** February 23, 2012, 01:44:07 PM »

Another job applied to, another manager actually laughing in my face.
Oh well. Maybe tomorrow will be different.

Büge · « **Reply #2001 on:** February 23, 2012, 04:32:50 PM »

Lottel, you gotta look at this from a different angle: Only apply to places managed by tipsy college girls.

Lottel · « **Reply #2002 on:** February 23, 2012, 05:01:08 PM »

What if they cancel each other out and I lose my powers AND don't get a job?

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #2003 on:** February 23, 2012, 06:42:52 PM »

At least you can sleep well that night knowing R^2 is banging his new millionairess boss.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2004 on:** February 26, 2012, 10:52:48 AM »

What I learned today: That a single day of heavy mobile internet use in Australia can cost more than two-hundred and twenty-thousand dollars.

:thebiggestmikey:

That usage was missed due to some technical flaws. And more than wipes out the entire sum of money our dept saved the company for all of last year.

Lottel · « **Reply #2005 on:** February 26, 2012, 10:39:05 PM »

Remember a few months ago when my old boss invited for me to work over in South Carolina and was willing to put me up for a bit

Well, he facebooked me tonight. Told me he's planning on opening a few more stores. Told me to at least "vacation" there and work for a while.
I've got nothing else. Might as well "vacation," right?
I guess I should get money together, maybe.

R^2 · « **Reply #2006 on:** February 27, 2012, 10:43:06 AM »

I totally understand desperately grasping at whatever straws are available but man.

South Carolina.

Lottel · « **Reply #2007 on:** February 27, 2012, 10:57:27 AM »

This is the same place that on a good night I'd make $300 in tips and on a bad night I'd make only $150. And business is booming so every night is a good night.
I'm not going to say "It can't be worse than Decatur hyuk hyuk" because, well, Ottumwa. But surely it's not terrible for a temporary thing?

Mongrel · « **Reply #2008 on:** February 27, 2012, 11:04:43 AM »

And then Lottel stayed in South Carolina for 50 years.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #2009 on:** February 27, 2012, 07:53:32 PM »

I got my first project management assignment today! Granted, it's basically just 'make sure this money is being spent properly', but hey, gotta start somewhere.

McDohl · « **Reply #2010 on:** February 29, 2012, 10:48:08 AM »

I got an offer letter from a company! Much better pay, and I gotta move again.

It's gonna be a headache moving, but I'll deal with it.

My new home? El Paso, TX.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2011 on:** February 29, 2012, 12:48:02 PM »

Admit it McDohl: Eventually you'll wind up in Mexico.

McDohl · « **Reply #2012 on:** February 29, 2012, 01:38:09 PM »

Oooh! I'll be able to smugly sit on my high horse and be a right-wing libertarian! I can look out my back porch and watch all the brown people derking our jerbs!

It'll be ever so much fun!

Thad · « **Reply #2013 on:** March 05, 2012, 10:38:05 AM »

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.

Oh hey, this large wooden object crammed into a corner in the storage cubicle in the next room is in fact an actual straight-up (literally; it is on its side) wooden desk! Real wood, too, from the weight of it; none of this particle board shit.

Welp, think I know what I'm doing this afternoon after I get the next set of Win7 machines set up. I've wiped it down and dragged it into my room. It's wobbly as there is nothing supporting the right-hand side; I suspect this little filing-cabinet thingy wrapped in bubble wrap is supposed to go under that side.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2014 on:** March 05, 2012, 10:43:34 AM »

So some manager comes bay and asks where his desk is.

Then Thad replies, "No Manager. I am the Managers"

And Thad was the Managers.

Thad · « **Reply #2015 on:** March 05, 2012, 10:51:29 AM »

Could still happen but I did in fact clear it with a superior.

Actually we noticed it as we were going through the area looking for more places to put shit, because management is talking about how, once the pilot is over and we start deploying Win7 to the rest of the company, they want me to double my output (right now I'm doing maybe 5 machines a day; they want 10). The bottleneck is not me, it's the amount of space I have to put laptops in and the number of ports I have to connect them to. So guy comes in, starts looking around at space that's being used for storage and could be used for production instead; that's when we notice the desk and I mention I could use it as a desk and use the plastic table to image things on.

Quote from: Thad on March 05, 2012, 10:38:05 AM

I suspect this little filing-cabinet thingy wrapped in bubble wrap is supposed to go under that side.

No, probably not; at a glance it looks taller than the desk. I don't have a tape measure onhand but I'll grab a cable or something to compare before I drag it in.

Might have to set one corner on top of some kind of load-bearing something. There's a big empty mini-fridge box out there; I wonder if it would be sturdy enough. Otherwise I guess I can just stack it on top of a bunch of old computers that we're not redeploying.

EDIT: Nope, checked, and the cabinet thing IS just the right height. Glad I trusted SCIENCE! instead of my own lying eyes.

Büge · « **Reply #2016 on:** March 05, 2012, 11:26:56 AM »

Just use some sugar packets.

Thad · « **Reply #2017 on:** March 05, 2012, 01:32:37 PM »

Well, it's narrower than the plastic table so I'm a little tight on legroom. (Maybe I'll stick the workstations I'm imaging off to the left and my laptop on the right, opposite of how I'm doing it now; I think that would free up a bit of space.) But so far I like it okay and have not been shocked yet.

Brentai · « **Reply #2018 on:** March 07, 2012, 06:35:55 PM »

One of my coworkers who used to be on my team just found out she's having a boy, so she immediately decided to name him "Westley". She swears me telling her that that's would I would name a boy has nothing to do with it.

So anyway, that's something.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2019 on:** March 07, 2012, 06:48:16 PM »

I got my raise! Actually getting Raises is good!

It comes out to about $16 a paycheck.

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