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François

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #800 on: April 14, 2010, 04:28:59 PM »

10% of wristwatch sales to a local money-handling stooge found on the Internet? That sounds like "too good to be true" territory.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #801 on: April 14, 2010, 05:43:52 PM »

Looks pretty obviously like a scam to me.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #802 on: April 14, 2010, 05:46:33 PM »

Yeah, the idea that they pay you buy wire transfer is hilarious to me.

Just give them your routing number and bank account, I'm sure this is legit.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #803 on: April 14, 2010, 06:20:57 PM »

10% of wristwatch sales to a local money-handling stooge found on the Internet? That sounds like "too good to be true" territory.
Looks pretty obviously like a scam to me.

You two need to be more supportive of your friend he's just trying to make an honest living okay guys jeezus
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #804 on: April 14, 2010, 06:57:10 PM »

I think your first mistake was applying for Data Entry Clerk.  Any company that's not contracting that kind of menial labor through an agency is probably either not very reliable, or is trying to do something under the table.

If you're okay with that sort of job then go find your nearest temp agency(s) and get on file with them.  It's either free, and they'll do all the negotiating for you, or it's a scam and you can walk out without thinking twice.  You're not guaranteed work tomorrow but it's not as massive a waste of time as trying to find an employer from craigslist that is not a massive flake.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #805 on: April 15, 2010, 05:10:59 AM »

freesteamjob.tk!  :D :D :D
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #806 on: April 16, 2010, 12:53:20 PM »

Mongrel's Law of the Workplace: Your company's overall performance is in inverse proportion to the number of consultants it has retained.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #807 on: April 16, 2010, 01:44:35 PM »

Work expands to fill the time you give it.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #808 on: April 16, 2010, 03:20:32 PM »

I'm not sure if that's an explanation, corollary, your own 'law of the workplace', or all three.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #809 on: April 16, 2010, 10:54:38 PM »

So I pulled a twelve hour shift at the bakeshop I work at today, 7:30am-7:30pm.  Four hours in I decided to take a break despite the fact that my cohorts, all of whom came in before I did, hadn't.  I asked the guy I work with if he wanted to go first.  He declined, so I went.

Now, there's two girls that work there.  We work in the same space, but what I work on is almost always separate from them.  One of them came in at 3:00am, and as of 11:30 when I took a brake, she hadn't yet.  Now her boyfriend is engaging in some good old-fashioned passive-aggressive shit-talking on Facebook about me going first.

 ::(:

Never-minding the fact that my taking a break has nothing to do with whether she can or not, after eight hours, if you haven't taken one yet, it's your own damn fault.  Also, it's none of his damn business.  He came into help today,* but it's my and her workplace, not his.

*Full disclosure: This is the campus bakeshop for the culinary program I attend.  All of us are students, and Boyfriend, who I also share classes with and have known for some years, came into help today.  Help his girlfriend, that is.  Not that I have anything against that and don't appreciate the extra set of hands, but its not like he was there for academic enlightenment or just to plain 'ol help out.

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #810 on: April 17, 2010, 04:01:59 AM »

Then tell him




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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #811 on: April 17, 2010, 10:55:51 AM »

Oh I did, believe me, and he replied with some incoherent wall of text about me being a self-centered douche and how I don't get it and I will never be as good as them and I'm not a team player.  Basically trying to cloak himself in a deluded sense of chivalry and taking my statements way too personally.  This all coming from someone who routinely alienates three-quarters of the people he meets because this is what he always does, and loafs about during class bitching about wanting to go home.

I've known this dude for three years and I've tried to think best of him and give him the benefit of the doubt, but I'm done.  I'm pretty sure I'm going to go to my boss with this when I see her on Monday or Tuesday.  Not to be vengeful really, I just don't want to have to deal with his bullshit when I'm there working on the clock and he's just there to hang out with his woman and mostly do nothing.  (He has to keep of a vague pretense of helping or else chef would kick his ass out.  She don't put up with loafers and distractions.)
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #812 on: April 17, 2010, 01:09:46 PM »

Tell her boyfriend to get his head out of his ass and stop fucking posturing
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #813 on: April 17, 2010, 02:00:17 PM »

Then tell him






I spent five minutes thinking 'tits your beesewax?'
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #814 on: April 17, 2010, 08:48:56 PM »

So tonight I made $40 on tables. Which is terrible. For 8 hours of work, I should get more. I only had 6 tables tonight. Checked in at the end of the night and I heard the girls bitching to the boss they only made $160 each. They should get more tables. They left and I told my boss what I did for the night and he said "That's not right."
After a while of talking I convinced him not to have the girls work next weekend. I'll do the whole weekend by myself. If I need help, I'll pay whoever comes in to help out of my own pocket. Every table (minus the party tables) will be mine. So next weekend will be hell but I'll finally put those girls in their place. If I can do it (or even come close to handling the whole thing with minor help) then he will cut them back to being only rush hour waitresses and they will only get what I don't want.
I am so looking forward to it.  I've got this shit down. I handled more work at Pizza Hut and back then I'd help cook too.

EDIT: To make things clear, it's not so much the money as the amount of work and their attitude that gets me. I can handle not getting a lot in tips as long as we all did roughly the same and we all did equal work.  They are taking all of the work and leaving me with none.  And then they complain they didn't get more money. I just want my fair share of work.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #815 on: April 17, 2010, 09:01:40 PM »

Oh man, if you pull that off... rich, savoury, meaty, JUSTICE.

GOOD LUCK

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #816 on: April 18, 2010, 04:28:37 AM »

That goes double for me.

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #817 on: April 20, 2010, 06:27:32 AM »

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #818 on: April 20, 2010, 07:28:12 AM »

I want to note that if anyone here has not worked a desk job before, the above picture is basically a summary of every desk job ever.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #819 on: April 20, 2010, 08:02:05 AM »

 
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