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Author Topic: Your Job: The Movie  (Read 177823 times)

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MarsDragon

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2680 on: June 19, 2013, 12:11:12 PM »

I've been doing nothing but mess around at work for months now and no one's bothered to stop me because there's no work to do.

I'm openly playing FFV on my PSP all day now. No one gives a shit.

Hopefully next week we'll have requirements for the next release! ...the next release that is tiny because of budget concerns. That is going out in October.

aggghhhhh
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2681 on: June 19, 2013, 04:50:24 PM »

Did you hear someone say spearhead a pet project that will put your name on the map?
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2682 on: June 21, 2013, 02:24:35 PM »

So, I've mentioned that I work weekends before and that I do 10 hour shifts. Which is okay! I quite like my schedule, because I get 3 days off a week.

Anyway, if the IT department is doing heavy maintenance, they will take the whole system offline. Out of necessity, they will do this Sunday morning. So while we normally start at 8 or 10 on Sunday, we're not allowed to come in until noon when there's going to be a system outage. We also have to do make-up time for the lost hours Sunday, which means coming in on a day off or shuffling hours around to other days.

The ridiculous thing is that we've had unscheduled scheduled system outages for all but five weekends so far this year. And while they sometimes give people two or three days notice, sometimes they send out the notification on Friday - at like 4pm. I mean, I default to assuming it'll happen now.

Having no life and living close to work, the constant wild last-minute schedule changes don't affect me much. And I just tack the extra time on the preceding Saturday and do a 12-hour shift, which is also not really a huge deal for me. But I can't imagine it doesn't drive everybody else insane. If this is happening literally every Sunday for months on end, can you not just schedule it officially instead of playing up at being idiots?   
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2683 on: June 27, 2013, 11:32:19 AM »

Beyond annoying, it's actually baffling that I have to constantly remind, request, threaten, and beg the developers to manage their version numbers.  That crap is for them more than anyone.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2684 on: June 27, 2013, 02:55:57 PM »

I'm sick, for the second time in two weeks. I think this one is more due to very poor choice of dinner venue last night rather than catching another bug off the kids from work, but...

stop pooping
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2685 on: June 28, 2013, 04:23:37 AM »

This Friday is Hawaiian shirt day.

So I'm wearing a Hawaiian shirt.

And jeans.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2686 on: June 28, 2013, 04:41:19 AM »

But did you ask yourself, "Is this good for the company?"
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2687 on: July 29, 2013, 04:21:30 AM »

Guess who's going to be looking for work at the end of the week!

 :whoops:

On the plus side, I already have a couple of leads, and I don't think I would have lasted much longer at this place anyway. To put it in diplomatic terms, I don't think it was a good fit.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2688 on: July 29, 2013, 01:00:25 PM »

fuuuuucckk
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2689 on: July 29, 2013, 01:47:18 PM »

Just to give an example of the kind of workplace it was: I was informed last Thursday evening by the contracting agency that I would be let go this coming Friday. Today, two full work days later, and my boss at the place of employment itself hasn't said a single word to me about it.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2690 on: July 29, 2013, 02:53:56 PM »

Classy!
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2691 on: July 30, 2013, 01:18:23 AM »

Yep, it's basically the professional equivalent of a text message breakup.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2692 on: July 30, 2013, 05:27:34 AM »

In similar news, I got four interviews into the job of my dreams, then nothing for a week. Good god did I want this.

C'est la vie~
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2693 on: August 05, 2013, 05:46:54 AM »

Today is my first day as a salaried employee.  Thing is, the HR system fucked up and didn't exactly replace my hourly wage with my salary...

I really, really wish I was smooth enough to just get away with this.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2694 on: August 05, 2013, 06:58:15 AM »

Ah, don't sweat it. They figure that shit out eventually and claw it all back if you say nothing.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2695 on: August 05, 2013, 07:19:22 AM »

That's what I was wishing I was smooth enough to avoid, yes.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2696 on: August 05, 2013, 07:50:11 AM »

It's nice to know someone recognizes that you do the work of one and a half people.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2697 on: August 31, 2013, 03:58:09 AM »

I just got a miserable temporary job at a Macy Warehouse. I haven't started, yet, but I did go through orientation. My favorite part was the propaganda film which they might as well have called "Union Madness", and Sweet Jesus Titty-Fucking Christ was it amazing. "Remember: if a co-worker attempts to pressure you into joining a Union, you can just say no". Said co-worker, by the way, was portrayed by a fat, sleaze-ball looking pedophile of an old man while the innocent Macy's warehouse workers he was trying to exploit were all young and attractive good Christians.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2698 on: August 31, 2013, 04:58:39 AM »

It doesn't surprise me that large corporations attempt to portray unions as mustache-twirling cartoon villains, no.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2699 on: August 31, 2013, 11:57:47 AM »

That kind of sounds like it would backfire in a lot of cases.
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