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Author Topic: Your Job: The Movie  (Read 178033 times)

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2080 on: April 11, 2012, 12:42:15 PM »

Aw, c'mon, Mongrel, you're not THAT old.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2081 on: April 11, 2012, 01:55:33 PM »

Well, I may not be two days from retirement, but I was five minutes from break time.

(Alternately, you could argue I'll ALWAYS be two days from retirement).
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2082 on: April 12, 2012, 09:05:46 AM »

I have never been so literally told "whenever I tell you to do something, check with me to make sure that's what I want you to do".
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2083 on: April 14, 2012, 11:16:40 PM »

It occurred to me today that, of the three people in my team, the guy pursuing a degree in Software Engineering is the one creating low-level frameworks and experimental tools like remote hardware manipulation and embedded languages for automation, and the two guys who have an M.S. in Computer Science are the ones applying them to specific applications.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2084 on: April 16, 2012, 09:34:20 AM »

God damn it, it's halfway through April and the environment in this building is still actively making people sick.  I feel like calling somebody about it but it seems like a bad idea on a number of levels.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2085 on: April 16, 2012, 09:57:55 AM »

Why?
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2086 on: April 16, 2012, 10:48:40 AM »

Um. Its his job. He is at best middle management. He needs the money. People there like him. He presumably respects his immediate supervisor. I could go on but that's just the first few reasons I could come up with off the top of my head.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2087 on: April 16, 2012, 10:56:57 AM »

Clarification: why does it seem like a bad idea?
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2088 on: April 16, 2012, 11:01:40 AM »

Because if the reason people are getting sick is outside of management's direct control, the people you would call to deal with the problem would cost the company a significant amount? Because if it is within management's control, the people he would call would be THEIR superiors and there is no way to look good while going over your boss' head to question his actions?
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2089 on: April 16, 2012, 11:37:28 AM »

God damn it, it's halfway through April and the environment in this building is still actively making people sick.  I feel like calling somebody about it but it seems like a bad idea on a number of levels.

This seems to be an industry thing and no employer really seems to think that the reliability of personnel is ever worth the cost of air filters and mold cleanup.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2090 on: April 16, 2012, 12:56:40 PM »

We changed proxy servers and now Internet Explorer is the only usable browser. I think my IT department accidentally woke up IN THE YEAR 2000.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2091 on: April 17, 2012, 05:52:14 PM »

Apparently this test rack was already running an automated sleeper script that was set to run the Yogi Bear movie on every screen after about 30 minutes.

So now I'm sitting here after hours, surrounded on all sides by the Yogi Bear movie.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2092 on: April 21, 2012, 06:21:01 PM »

Dear fraudsters,

If you're going to try and steal [some dude]'s ID to try and sign up for fake accounts, you probably shouldn't add 'fuck.[somedude]@hotmail.com' as an email address.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2093 on: April 25, 2012, 07:47:31 AM »

"customer disputing LD [long-distance] calls to labia"

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2094 on: April 25, 2012, 08:28:08 AM »

I know the feeling, I spent most of my teenage years making long-distance calls to labia. ( ._.)
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2095 on: April 25, 2012, 01:58:05 PM »

Sadly, I missed this by a few minutes, but this morning the receptionist accidentally set off the security alarm, and while she was calling the company to get it shut off a giant male turkey, angered by the beeping, started persistently pecking at the door.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2096 on: April 25, 2012, 07:31:09 PM »

LIFE IN KALAMAZOO!
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2097 on: April 29, 2012, 03:03:32 AM »

Just worked an all night post prom... went well until close when 2 girls got FORGOTTEN BY THEIR PARENTS and the teachers and us waited around so long the teachers just pooled their money and bought them a cab home, with the permission from the one's mom who was the only parent they could get a hold of, but this was because she was AT WORK and by virtue of being at work, could not come to pick them up.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2098 on: May 02, 2012, 05:41:06 AM »

Feature request added: 04/29/2012
Target version: April major release

This is the sort of shit I put up with daily.

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2099 on: May 02, 2012, 06:16:44 AM »

You can do it, Zara! There's still ti-

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