Topic: Your Job: The Movie (Read 177887 times)

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #780 on:** April 02, 2010, 07:03:24 AM »

I have a freaking sweet phone interview next week for auditing in San Diego.

Meanwhile, in Oklahoma, the internal audit manager keeps everyone from being able to work by running around and complaining about the ants in the office (which she attracted last week by feeding them cinnamon roll and saying how adorable they were).

Kayma · « **Reply #781 on:** April 02, 2010, 03:23:58 PM »

Quote from: Miss Cat Ears on April 02, 2010, 07:03:24 AM

(which she attracted last week by feeding them cinnamon roll and saying how adorable they were).

what

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #782 on:** April 05, 2010, 05:41:50 AM »

I'm covered in ants :(

Brentai · « **Reply #783 on:** April 05, 2010, 07:01:13 AM »

...I'll be in my bunk.

Lottel · « **Reply #784 on:** April 05, 2010, 09:29:59 AM »

How terrible. Ants are some of the ballsiest bugs. They don't hesitate to not only crawl all over you (and inside) but they invite thousands of their buddies to do the same.
Fuck ants.

Defenestration · « **Reply #785 on:** April 05, 2010, 02:45:56 PM »

6 months ago, I got a job working at a movie theater... that lasted for 2 days. I quit without a regret after understanding that my boss thought that mopping the spotless floor 8 times a day that the janitorial staff for the hotel casino that the theater was in already mops it at the beginning and end of each day was normal. He had tons of little quirks, such as making sure to clean up any spilled salt used by a customer on their popcorn before the next guy comes over with his popcorn instead of doing it all at once when everyone's done, freaking out if a single ground in speck was in the carpet after I vacuumed up the theater between shows, and weirding out customers by insisting they walk through the little divider maze set out in case there is a line even if they are the ONLY PERSON THERE.

His name was Rod, and he was a total nutjob. So I wasn't really surprised to hear that he went bankrupt a month later. I was also apparently one of 20ish people that he hired for periods varying between 5 hours and 4 days. It's so hard to find good robots these days.

Anyway, a new guy named Gary was setting up to open the theater now, and I was hired by him. He's pretty much the polar opposite of Rod, and a pretty cool guy. As far as shitty customer service jobs go, I could do a lot worse. Everything was going dandy, right up until the day we were actually opening for business. And then a man in a suit came up and gave Gary a huge stack of paper.

Ron apparently is suing him and giving a cease and desist over the fact he's using the renovations he did to the theater. It sounds pretty frivolous due to the fact that he went literally bankrupt and he didn't actually pay off a lot of it so the hotel casino actually owns it... But I'm still not working for a few weeks because the nutjob wanted to pull one last dick move. Nice.

Shinra · « **Reply #786 on:** April 05, 2010, 03:48:19 PM »

Rod sounds obsessive compulsive.

Also, what the fuck is the theater going to do, un-renovate?

SCD · « **Reply #787 on:** April 05, 2010, 04:22:34 PM »

If the theatre is owned by the hotel-casino, how far does the hotel-casino have the new boss' back?

Defenestration · « **Reply #788 on:** April 05, 2010, 06:55:54 PM »

They specifically said they were behind Gary all the way, even to paying legal fees. Rod pissed off a lot of people. Apparently he's under a court order where he cannot set foot on the premise of the Hacienda.

Lottel · « **Reply #789 on:** April 10, 2010, 05:41:24 PM »

Worked from 3:30 onward tonight. They left me off at 7:30 when my table left. Not my last table. My only table. We weren't dead either. In fact, we had a full house there for a while.
The girls just wouldn't let me take a table. And the parties I was going to do were canceled. And Coop wouldn't let me bus tables. He actually threatened me. It's all he does anyway.
And I wouldn't have even gotten the one table I did if it wasn't a good friend of mine and he said he wouldn't eat there if I didn't serve him.
Tomorrow we have 7 parties and will probably have a full house most of the night. And I am the only actual server. We have a few people who can help but it looks like tomorrow is mostly up to me. And I have to show up at 1:30 and work until midnight.
Let's look at those two days. One day I work for four hours and no one will let me do my job. The next day I work eleven hours and have to take care of the whole restaurant. Fanfuckingtastic

Büge · « **Reply #790 on:** April 10, 2010, 06:39:32 PM »

They're still trying to get you to quit, huh.

Lottel · « **Reply #791 on:** April 10, 2010, 06:46:55 PM »

The girls are. They want ALL of the tables all of the money. They made over 90 bucks apiece tonight. I made 7.

Shinra · « **Reply #792 on:** April 11, 2010, 05:16:30 PM »

I just don't understand why you haven't quit yet.

If you think you're going to earn anyone's respect by weathering their bullshit, you're front of store staff, not kitchen staff. They're just going to think you're more of a pitiful dork.

Lottel · « **Reply #793 on:** April 11, 2010, 08:15:42 PM »

Eh. Everyone else has cooled off. It's just the girls don't like me. (see the post I made about the nonsexual harassment a month or so back).

Talked to the boss today. I'm going back to working as a cook on the weekdays. I'll cook the food and server. It's great for both of us. I get to work more and practice as a cook and he get's to have less people work for him and save money.
I'm also doing parties now. The magician is getting his workload cut because he can't handle it and he is a pretty shitty server anyway. So that's... $30 per party not including if they leave a tip or order a lot of beer. I get like... 50 cents per beer they order.
So everything is on the up and up. It's just now my biggest problem is the girls being bitches.

Torgo · « **Reply #794 on:** April 13, 2010, 11:03:43 PM »

I admit I don't know how your restaurant does things, but how exactly can they just arbitrarily take your shit? Servers are supposed to be assigned tables and sections. If they horn in you tell them to fuck off. Also, tell your boss/host to do their jobs right.

Dooly · « **Reply #795 on:** April 14, 2010, 02:32:31 PM »

I inquired about the job in this Craigslist ad, and got the following in reply:

Quote

Our Company Name is Victorinox,We are a swiss based trade association that deal in the sales and distribution of wrist watches.The primary goal of the Administrative Officer is to provide local customer assistant to our clients within North America. You will be assisting our clients within North America, the assistance to be provided will include: payment collections and customer service.
Your duties will include:
- Collecting Local Payments
When a buyer in United States decides to purchase an item through an online auction from our sellers he has the following payment options: paypal, Money orders, international wire transfer, international check, or local wire transfer. The quickest option of these is local wire transferring. Local wire transfers are the option that the sales support representative will provide to the clients.

- Managing Data
Along with the payments received from buyers you will be receiving details for these sales. These details will include items sold, price, and buyer's information. You are to file and maintain these purchasing records and transactions.
- Forwarding of the Payments
Once you receive each payment you will be keeping 10% as commission and forwarding the rest to the seller or representative, whose information will be provided prior each transaction. It is crucial to complete forwarding of the payments in a time efficient manner.

- Fees, and Transferring Procedures
All fees are covered by the company. The fees for transferring are simply deducted from the payments received. No client will contact you during initial stage of the trial period. After three weeks of the trial period you will begin to have contact with the buyers via email in regards to collection of the payments. For the first three weeks you will simply receive all of the transferring details, and payments, along with step by step guidance from your supervisor. You will be forwarding the received payments by wire transfer.
Additional Information:
Salary:
During the trial period, you will be paid 2,000USD per month while working on average 3-4hours per day, plus 10% commission from every payment received and forwarded. The salary will be sent in the form of wire transfer directly to your account. After the trial period your base pay salary will go up to 2,200USD per month, plus 10% commission.
Taxes:
You will receive a monthly invoice stating your total income. All applicable taxes are covered by the company.
Your First Primary task (Collection of Payments):
1. Receive payment from our Customers or Clients.
2. Cash Payment at your Bank or any cashing facilities near you.
3. Deduct 10 % which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed
4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices you will be contacted to send payment to, you'll have a lot of free time doing another job, because this job schedule is flexible, you'll get good income .But this job is very challenging and you should understand it.
Please kindly fill your details below, so that you can get started.
Personal Information
Full Name:
Address:
City:
State/Province:
Postal Code:
Resident Phone Number:
Mobile:
Regards.
Daniel Morgan

Any odd spacing or spelling seen above are as they appeared in the email, but the whole thing was bold in my gmail window. The from address on the reply is danielmrgn2 at gmail dot com. This is a scam, right?

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #796 on:** April 14, 2010, 02:36:36 PM »

Yes unless you are cool about laundering money

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #797 on:** April 14, 2010, 02:37:06 PM »

while getting your own money stolen

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #798 on:** April 14, 2010, 02:37:35 PM »

ordering a purebred teacup puppy from africa is probably an easier way to do that than applying for this job

patito · « **Reply #799 on:** April 14, 2010, 03:27:00 PM »

Victorinox is an actual thing, but I doubt they'd be advertising on craigslist.

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