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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #560 on: December 15, 2009, 12:35:10 PM »

Today at work I listened to that mp3 at the top of the screen and stared at Kazz's signature the entire time
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #561 on: December 18, 2009, 07:32:35 PM »

Yesterday basically marked the official end of my internship at this small publishing company I've been at for the past four months, mostly doing ghost writing for our clients, working up book proposals and running hells of social media. Turns out they my work is so dang  ~ s t u n n i n g ~  that they're going to hire me on for the next three or so months, and potentially further. Best part is that I managed to effectively make the case that I could work from home just as well as I could at the office, so that's three hours of pointless commuting I won't have to worry about.

Also got an interview with, ahem, "The National Network of Depression Centers" interviewing folks and writing up articles, so here's hoping that goes through as well.

DEPRESSION IS MY BUSINESS AND BUSINESS IS GOOD  :pimp:  :hi5:
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #562 on: December 19, 2009, 11:09:50 AM »

Outstanding, Kabbage.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #563 on: December 19, 2009, 07:56:09 PM »

Yesterday, I had a guy call me out for watching him and his girlfriend. When I told him he was just imagining it, he said "How about we step outside, and I'll give you something to imagine." I asked if he was threatening me. His response: "I don't make threats, that was a promise." I asked him to hold on one second while I called management, and had him removed from the store. Of course, as soon as management showed up, he claimed he just wanted to step outside to talk to me(like we couldn't talk just fine inside?) and that the only reason I was watching them in the first place was because I, and Walmart, were racist(Full disclosure: the guy and his girlfriend were black, but I'd been told by several associates that she was a shoplifter, and that was why I was watching them, not the color of their skin. Also, I've apprehended 12 people so far, all but one of them white.).

So today, I found out we can trespass the guy if he comes back to the store.  :victory:
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #564 on: December 19, 2009, 08:20:48 PM »

 :racist:
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #565 on: December 21, 2009, 04:52:43 PM »

I've been unemployed for an entire year today!    :endit:
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #566 on: December 21, 2009, 06:31:37 PM »

Uh.... How are you affording anything?
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #567 on: December 28, 2009, 09:06:23 PM »

How my day went:

Well, okay.  Some background.  There are two major IT shops at my company, one here and one in the midwest.  For our purposes, I will call their respective heads Jim and Dwight.

Jim is my boss.  He's laid-back and until recently he was just one of the guys.  He's not afraid to get his hands dirty -- literally; I've seen him take trash out to the Dumpsters when it's gotten full.  He's not what I think of when I think "management material", and I mean that as a compliment.

Dwight runs the shop in the midwest.  He has a Napoleon complex, and he's exactly what I think of when I think "corporate".  He is the kind of guy who will insult you in a monotone with neutral-sounding language.

Dwight's the golden boy.  He's by-the-book.  His shop's doing better numbers than ours; he maintains that it's because they have a tighter set of procedures in place, and upper management agrees.  From where we're sitting, it looks like we've just got so much more shit to do than they do that we can't keep up.

So, okay.  Jim's off for two weeks for the holidays.  He told us to send our timecards to Dwight last Thursday, and then to take off a few hours early.

This message was not communicated to Dwight -- probably because it has nothing to do with him.  We didn't leave him in the lurch, we didn't leave queues full of unanswered tickets, we left at roughly the same time they did (timezone difference and whatnot) on a slow day.  But he and his boss went fucking ballistic over it this morning, sending out angry E-Mails about how no one is to leave early without their permission.  (Samir said he wanted to respond with "Yes, Massa"; I wanted to respond with the bit where Scrooge rails about how Cratchit is taking advantage of him by taking Christmas off.  We both restrained ourselves.)

So, okay.  That in and of itself was annoying but something we could shrug off.  But THEN Dwight sends the three of us temps an E-Mail saying we need to resubmit our timesheets with the number of hours we actually worked, and THEN he'll send them in.

It was just pure, unadulterated dickishness.  Fucker finds a minor infraction like a dog finding a bone, and is willing to threaten our paychecks over what's got to be less than $300 out of the company's pocket.  (I should note, at this point, that we routinely receive truckloads of old equipment which we then unwrap, scan, restack, rewrap, and put on another truck for disposal.  The company blows probably seven figures a year on freight for shit that just gets sent to the scrap heap.  Squabbling over $300 is petty in every sense of the word.)

And, you know, he does it all in his corporate double-talk, addresses us as "Gentlemen", but pretty much suggests we're liars who are trying to scam the company.

And, you know, there's a way he could have been cool about all that.  He could have said, "Hey, guys, Jim never said anything about this to me, so I'm afraid I'm going to have to double-check with him before I submit those timesheets -- I trust you, but I have to follow procedure."  That would have achieved exactly the same result without the dickwaving and accusations of dishonesty.  (On the other hand, as one of the other temps suggested, the fact that Dwight didn't submit our timesheets in right away when we sent them to him last week suggests that this was premeditated, that he anticipated we were going to knock off early and was waiting to catch us at it.)

One of the other temps suggested, politely, that we shouldn't be penalized because our supervisor had told us to go home early.  Dwight shot back, "And did he say you should log it as a full day's work?"  I almost responded that there is really no other reasonable interpretation of a boss telling his employees to go home early on Christmas Eve, but managed to restrain myself.

Anyway, we eventually got ahold of Jim -- had to interrupt the poor bastard's vacation, and I'm betting he spent a couple hours on the phone with Dwight and upper management.  So we got it straightened out and I won't be losing any sleep over it tonight.

But sweet Jesus what an asshole.  What a petty little man, willing to make enemies of three people over a few hundred bucks' extra pay on Christmas Eve.

(Also, apparently Dwight told Jim that we left early while the service desk stayed behind and finished up an 8-hour shift.  This is completely false; we were the last people out of the building and the last service desk tech -- I'll call him Ryan to continue the Office motif -- left probably an hour before we did.  We asked Ryan's boss what Ryan told him, and he responded that he implied we'd kicked him out; didn't say so in so many words but hinted it pretty strongly.  I haven't heard Ryan's side of the story but that's pretty damn plausible; he's been throwing our guys under the bus since his first week on the job.)

Came home, drank beer and played Dragon Age instead of looking at job postings.  Not very disciplined of me, but damn it I needed to relax.  I'll look at job postings tomorrow.  Because I seriously do not deserve this shit.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #568 on: December 28, 2009, 09:12:07 PM »

As you have posted with Mongrel-like loquaciousness, I shall respond with uncharacteristic brevity.

That cunt Dwight is no good.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #569 on: December 29, 2009, 08:43:32 PM »

Dwight is one of those guys who isn't man enough to apologize or admit he's fucked up but will instead act extra-nice to you to try and make up for it.  The first thing in my inbox this morning was him telling me what a great job I'm doing with some extra duties I've taken on this week.

Later we had a phone conference between the two branches.  He was coming up with suggestions for things people could do if they ran out of tickets, because it's a slow week.  He commented that if we didn't have anything to do we'd have to start sending people home, and the temps would have to go first, and that he didn't want to send the temps home because they don't get PTO.

Seriously.  He said that.  The day after trying to dock all the temps three hours' pay.

Later in the meeting he said everyone could go home at 3 on Thursday.  And then added, "And put yourselves down for a full day on your timesheet.  Just so there are no questions about that."  Because, you know, there were all those questions about that yesterday.  From him.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #570 on: December 30, 2009, 04:19:55 AM »

:lol:
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #571 on: January 05, 2010, 08:06:20 AM »

Hm. A new position has unexpectedly opened up in Sales that seems to mirror a lot of what I'm already doing as side-work.

Coincidentally, I got an email from my boss asking me to account for my work hours (what I'm doing, number of calls). Sure, my annual review is coming up in a month or so, but somehow I doubt that the whole story.

I THINK I'M GETTING A MESSAGE HERE. Though it would nice if it didn't come with a side order of HEART ATTACK.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #572 on: January 05, 2010, 01:54:36 PM »

Don't understand fully.  Do you believe you may be getting ze boot?

Or getting a load off your shoulders?
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #573 on: January 05, 2010, 02:34:04 PM »

Sounds like a bunch of the stuff he's been having to do is getting tossed on a new position.  The panic is about not knowing yet whether that will include the rest of the stuff he's expected to do.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #574 on: January 05, 2010, 05:09:38 PM »

Nono, two items happened near-simultaneiously.

Last week a job posting went up that basically reads as "The Stallion's* powder monkey". A lot of the work this entails is stuff I have been doing on the side in my current position. I was fairly certain I was going to apply, but was hesitating as I don't know what the pay range is (that's not really much of an objection as that would come out pretty quickly) and wasn't sure how much of an increase in workload it would be (it would be an increase for sure, which is not a huge deal so long as it's not a retarded increase - especially if it turns out that it's actually worth it, i.e. more moneys).

This morning, my current manager basically did what seems to come up every four-to-six months: asked me justify my existence. This provided me with a rather serindipitous reminder of the BEST reason to apply for the other job. Those kind of heart palpitations I don't need.

The reason I've been doing work for the sales force on the side is twofold. One, they had literally no other source for the information they needed, and two, I had the time. My manager would normally refuse to allow any employee of hers to be of service to Sales but it was grudgingly acnowledged several months ago as another way to occupy the time they know I have on my hands (i.e. if I only did my job as it exists on paper, I really WOULD have way too much free time).

Anyway, it'll be better if I can get the new position. If the Canadian and American operations are going to be locked in a smouldering cold war, at least I won't have to play double agent any more.

*see earlier entries in this thread.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #575 on: January 07, 2010, 09:34:58 AM »

It's TWENTY DEGREES.  It's NOT ICY.  This is not a good reason to cancel school and work.  Even though I appreciated it. It's still retarded.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #576 on: January 07, 2010, 05:04:35 PM »

I never knew that sun and warmth could turn someone into a giant pussy.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #577 on: January 07, 2010, 05:13:37 PM »

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #578 on: January 07, 2010, 05:53:36 PM »

I think she meant 20 degrees Fahrenheit, not Celcius.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #579 on: January 07, 2010, 06:12:13 PM »

TWENTY DEGERES CKELVIN
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