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Author Topic: Your Job: The Movie  (Read 167625 times)

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Thad

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2380 on: October 08, 2012, 10:49:39 AM »

Submitted a ticket to replace a bad hard drive.

Waited a couple days; it didn't show.

Checked the ticket; it was closed with the message "CANCELED CALL DUE TO NO CUSTOMER RESPONSE".  I was never contacted.

Resubmitted the ticket; same result.

On closer inspection I realized I had transposed two digits on the serial number.

Now, there are three different places where the system could have caught that.

First of all, the company has a page where you can check warranty status for your computer.  If you enter a bad serial, it will tell you it is a bad serial.  There is no good reason why this check exists in isolation on a separate page and is not performed automatically when you actually submit a ticket.

Second, the company could have actually called me and told me it was a bad serial.

And finally, they could have fucking put "invalid serial" somewhere in the cancellation notes instead of that bullshit about how I didn't respond to their total lack of contact with me.  That way I would have at least had some fucking idea why my request was cancelled instead of having to figure it out entirely on my own.

So anyway.  I submitted the ticket a third time, with the correct serial number.

Today I got a box to ship the entire laptop to them.

I don't NEED to ship the entire laptop, dammit; I just want a hard drive!
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2381 on: October 09, 2012, 12:04:03 PM »

I don't believe I've mentioned this, but the office where I work is directly across the street from a Sony SCE studio. You can tell it's a video game studio by the amount of black t-shirts, cargo shorts, and gross beards on display.

Today, on my way to lunch, I spied a dude hanging out, shirtless, with his dog, on their front lawn.

Not gonna lie, I am a little bit jealous. However, given what I know of the videogame industry, and especially Japanese companies within same, I'm not really all that tempted to seek employment there.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2382 on: October 09, 2012, 12:27:10 PM »

You're hired. Here is your black t-shirt and neckbeard.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2383 on: October 12, 2012, 08:10:33 AM »

Welp, the bad news is that I didn't get the job I interviewed for last week.

The good news is that the agency's already lining me up for another job which sounds like much the same duties and pay as that one.

I have spotted a trend here.  They are offering me better jobs for better pay, and direct-hire instead of contract-to-hire.  I am sure this is a combination of two major factors: (1) the economy has improved enough that these jobs are available and (2) I've paid my dues and the agency trusts me and is rewarding me for my excellent performance in the, shall we say, less-than-ideal jobs it's given me over the past 4 years.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2384 on: October 13, 2012, 07:44:55 PM »

Guys my theatre finally gets converted to digital on the 11th of november. Over a year after they told us we were going to be converted. :D
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2385 on: October 16, 2012, 11:41:22 AM »

Oh god, they found nyancat.

My coworkers have just discovered "U MAD BRO?". It's actually kind of adorable.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2386 on: October 18, 2012, 10:53:39 AM »

From a meeting today.

"So these fraud guys are roaming in Yugoslavia"
"Okay and... wait... Yugoslavia?"
"Yeah, Yugoslavia. So the usage-"
"Uh, hold on. Yugoslavia."
"Yeah, I... ohhhh right."
"Yeah, it's been a little while since YUGOSLAVIA was a country, man."
"Ahaha, yeah, that's just what it says in AS400."
"Marshal Tito must be behind it!"
"THE CALLS ARE COMING FROM EAST GERMANY!"
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2387 on: October 18, 2012, 01:04:18 PM »

From a meeting today.

"So these fraud guys are roaming in Yugoslavia"
"Okay and... wait... Yugoslavia?"
"Yeah, Yugoslavia. So the usage-"
"Uh, hold on. Yugoslavia."
"Yeah, I... ohhhh right."
"Yeah, it's been a little while since YUGOSLAVIA was a country, man."
"Ahaha, yeah, that's just what it says in AS400."
"Marshal Tito must be behind it!"
"THE CALLS ARE COMING FROM EAST GERMANY!"

I guess when you still rely on a program that was made in 1988 a lot of information isn't going to be accurate.

What I'm saying is can we please stop using as/400

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2388 on: October 18, 2012, 01:51:57 PM »

At least it actually works properly. Unlike just about all our other IT systems
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2389 on: October 19, 2012, 08:29:37 AM »

got my own office
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2390 on: October 19, 2012, 08:52:13 AM »

Replace the carpets with bubble wrap.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2391 on: October 19, 2012, 08:55:56 AM »

I never knew that was something I wanted until just now.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2392 on: October 19, 2012, 09:31:22 AM »

It discourages ninjas, who have a hard time being stealthy on bubble-wrap carpet.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2393 on: October 19, 2012, 09:34:19 AM »

Also Vampires, who have to stop and pop every single bubble one at a time with their fingers
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2394 on: October 19, 2012, 10:07:03 AM »

I got a paycheck today, yaaay!

Also, I got a job two weeks ago, yaaay! I'm a stagehand, now.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2395 on: October 19, 2012, 11:24:18 AM »

I got a paycheck today, yaaay!

Also, I got a job two weeks ago, yaaay! I'm a stagehand now, yaaay!

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2396 on: October 19, 2012, 11:46:59 AM »

It turns out one of my managers has been purposefully making me pay more at the end of the day and pocketing the difference!
And we don't know which one (as I currently have 5 managers)!
And I don't know how much I've been missing and have no way to prove it's been happening!

Weeeeeee.


(Although they DID give me the $26 they owed me from Saturday)
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2397 on: October 21, 2012, 02:12:19 PM »

Dear Lottel / Others:

How much of a delivery fee, if any, usually goes to the kids delivering?
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2398 on: October 21, 2012, 02:20:39 PM »

Depends on the business. But for the most part that extra $5 you pay is for insurance purposes for the company (not the driver) but the driver's mileage reimbursement comes from that.
Typically the DMR is ~$1.50. I think.  It's been a while since I've actually been paid for gas.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2399 on: October 22, 2012, 02:41:50 PM »

Ever have a supervisor that is former military, and hasn't deprogrammed?

Because that shit sucks on toast.
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