Topic: Your Job: The Movie (Read 177833 times)

Büge · « **Reply #300 on:** April 30, 2009, 04:24:26 AM »

Quote from: Thad on April 29, 2009, 08:11:07 PM

...So Conspiracy Theory Guy's been out for a week and a half.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g27ekxWaA30

I didn't know he had a job.

Classic · « **Reply #301 on:** April 30, 2009, 10:45:05 AM »

When presented with that evidence, he could conceivably have several.

Mongrel · « **Reply #302 on:** April 30, 2009, 11:01:03 AM »

Man oh man.

I like how anytime something is retarded I justify a request for higher service levels with "that's how the Canadian market works".

Like, the inventory dept just DOESN'T GIVE ME BACK ORDER DATES. On MEDICAL REAGENTS. Seriously, what the fuck is this unbelieveable shit? So a hospital calls us up and something is on back order and they ask "when is it coming in?" and my response is supposed to be "DurrHurr, I don't know!"? Are you kidding me? How is this acceptable?

So then I just go "Well, Canadian hospitals expect backorder dates."

Of course, that specific example is a poor one, because our inventory dept really IS retarded, so I still don't get back order dates. But it's worked elsewhere.

Brentai · « **Reply #303 on:** April 30, 2009, 11:52:43 AM »

Tell 'em you've all got swine flu up there.

Fredward · « **Reply #304 on:** May 04, 2009, 03:43:45 PM »

I got a job! At a farm! For $10/hour!

Well, it could be worse.

Büge · « **Reply #305 on:** May 04, 2009, 06:40:59 PM »

Are you slaughtering chickens?

Fredward · « **Reply #306 on:** May 04, 2009, 06:57:39 PM »

So far? Nope. Just packin' cucumbers.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #307 on:** May 04, 2009, 06:58:58 PM »

They pay you $10/hour to pack cucumbers? I want that job. Fuck sorting comic books.

Brentai · « **Reply #308 on:** May 04, 2009, 07:58:05 PM »

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Hi. I'm Brentai.

Kazz · « **Reply #309 on:** May 04, 2009, 09:01:52 PM »

Constantine: I'll take your job if you take his.

Fredward · « **Reply #310 on:** May 04, 2009, 09:07:38 PM »

This is $10 Canadian per hour, you know. And, uh, that's only $2 up on minimum wage.

Mongrel · « **Reply #311 on:** May 05, 2009, 03:10:18 AM »

Quote from: Fredward on May 04, 2009, 09:07:38 PM

This is $10 Canadian per hour, you know. And, uh, that's only $2 up on minimum wage.

In Ontario, that IS minimum wage.

_{Okay, okay, so it's $9.20 right now and will be $10 next spring, details, details...}

Royal☭ · « **Reply #312 on:** May 05, 2009, 04:10:29 AM »

But don't the inflationary pressures of such a high minimum wage cause your economy to collapse, with the all the rich corporate owners abandoning their companies because of such outrageous labor prices and the cost of a loaf of bread shoots up to $25?

Tell me that's how it goes! Because every American ~~knows~~is told that if we get big minimum wage increases the cost of living will skyrocket so much that America will become a desolate anarcho-wasteland where ghoulish morlocks feed on the corpses of the damned.

INFLATIONARY PRESSURES!

Mongrel · « **Reply #313 on:** May 05, 2009, 04:47:09 AM »

Well, it ain't exactly New York, but Toronto is comparatively expensive. So a $10 minimum wage just brings up up to a bare minimum for the city.

Outside of Toronto it's actually kinda half-decent though.

Brentai · « **Reply #314 on:** May 05, 2009, 08:24:05 AM »

For frame of reference, that's $8.50 US. Which is still higher than any minimum wage we have ($5.15 in Minnesota to $8.00 in California. San Francisco actually has a citywide $9.79 minimum wage but it also has something like a $1000 minimum rent.)

Mongrel · « **Reply #315 on:** May 05, 2009, 12:47:38 PM »

Oh lovely.

So I need to ask for Thursday off to go a Funeral. Now, I don't mind that I have to use vacation time, because this person wasn't family, but could at least let me request that damn time?

I'm supposed to request time off using an arcane worksheet in our online hour logging system. Only... the button that creates the time off request sheet isn't there. I looked it up in the help, and in the training module, in case I missed it like a dumbass, and even called over another employee to look in case I was missing something blindingly obvious. No dice. It really isn't there.

So I emailed my mananger - even included a screenshot. She just ignores my email for hours. Eventually I poke her back asking if she still needs my request. She sends the cheery reply "Employees must filled out the form and it needs to be approved before time off is taken.". I was touched by her simple compassion.

So I tell the miserable cunt to read my earlier email, where I already (politely) explained that the DAMN THING DON'T WORK. Her subsequent reply is to forward my email to another employee, saying "Hi Xxxxxx,
Could you show Matt how to complete a time off request in EZ Labor; I don’t use that part of the application so I can’t help Matt."

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Where's that animated .gif of Phoenix Wright Smashing his head into a wall when you really need it?

SCD · « **Reply #316 on:** May 05, 2009, 01:21:51 PM »

If there was ever a sign to look for other work, I think this would be it.

Mongrel · « **Reply #317 on:** May 05, 2009, 01:47:51 PM »

Well, everyone else here is pretty decent.

She's not so much evil as she is an Asperger's retard. The kind that only reads the first two sentences of any email sent to her.

Fredward · « **Reply #318 on:** May 05, 2009, 04:42:27 PM »

I think I'm going to quit my farm job to work at Blockbuster because almost nobody at my workplace speaks more than a few words of English!

Lottel · « **Reply #319 on:** May 05, 2009, 05:30:20 PM »

Whoa! You get paid to do an easy job and you don't have to do idle chit-chat with coworkers?

Oh? You are going to quit? Huh

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