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Author Topic: Your Job: The Movie  (Read 177893 times)

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #920 on: June 15, 2010, 08:24:54 PM »

but i used a contraction

UNLESS I'M REALLY LORE!!!
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #921 on: June 16, 2010, 09:58:13 AM »

Thanks for the offer Brent.  Ironic you ask me in IM the day before my annual review, which I honestly have no clue how it is going to go down.  I've been criticized heavily for my work over the last year and I've never been told I've improved.  I honestly think there's a chance I could get the axe today.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #922 on: June 16, 2010, 05:28:25 PM »

Not axed.  Very neutral result.  Not that anyone cares.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #923 on: June 16, 2010, 05:35:30 PM »

Hey hold on there.

:hi5: for surviving. Because it's deserved.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #924 on: June 16, 2010, 05:38:04 PM »

I used to work at the worst of places for positive reenforcement. When I quit the boss was surprised, she implied that I was great at my job, and I was like, "When in three years have you told me I did good at my job?" Her answer was that if she wasn't complaining, then I was doing a good job. And I was like, "Bitch."
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #925 on: June 16, 2010, 06:59:51 PM »

Yeah, I think that's a Walmart thing.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #926 on: June 16, 2010, 07:14:23 PM »

A lot of places are like that.

Honestly the place I work at is so enthusiastically complimentary that it's just awkward.  It gets to the point where people just sort of bubble over if you can as much as accomplish the most basic function of your position.

...actually it's not really that surprising when you think about it.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #927 on: June 16, 2010, 07:37:43 PM »

stop that i don't actually want to move to california.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #928 on: June 17, 2010, 07:36:55 PM »

I have been shown who is the boss!

Well, really, they're giving me another lead instead of having me be the team, which is good.  I don't really have the sort of administration/management/dealing with other people's crap skills that my old lead did, so even though the new lead doesn't actually know any PHP or webdev stuff (yet), she does have all the skills needed to take on the job the old lead did: deflecting all the corporate overhead bullshit so that I can do actually do all the real work.  Plus it's somebody I know and respect, so it's at least better than the possibility of being jammed unceremoniously under some douchebag.

We're still hiring a third, though, and the nice thing is the requirements are likely to be much more relaxed now (though the job posting that's being tailored for the position doesn't make it seem so).
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #929 on: June 17, 2010, 07:49:07 PM »

So my boss put in his two weeks' notice today.  This is a bit more significant than it usually would be because, well, the team I'm on is basically just myself and my boss.

[...]

Worst case scenario, I got stuck permanently in the same position doing things (or rather, continuing to do things) way out of scope of the job that I'm being paid for until I either quit or die of exhaustion.

Ugh.  Been down that road.

The year I spent unemployed afterward was preferable.

Oh and, in all seriousness, if anybody's out of a job and has good software/avionic/testing experience and doesn't mind moving to OC California and taking a bunch of shit from me, let me know.  I've got something for you.

Gotta stay where I am for the moment; maybe next time.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #930 on: June 19, 2010, 11:53:09 PM »

So I tested something at work today. I've been saying that this new business plan was actually worse for servers AND business since we switched, Tonight, I risked money to see if I was right. Tonight I took less tables than I usually do, less than half actually. I spent more time on them and treated them and waited on them like I did before all the changes, so they got their own drinks and all that and I said my old spiel.
I walked out with $120 in tips. I had 8 tables. Last night, I had 17 tables and made a little over $80.  Same basic demographics of people coming in. Each table averaged around $40 for the bill.
A customer even said they liked the old way better. So I asked the girls to see if they were experiencing something similar. They were.
Talked to the boss after we closed. He was a little... inebriated. So I'll talk to him tomorrow again.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #931 on: June 24, 2010, 11:19:10 AM »

Big "what the fuck is even going on here" meeting moved to Tuesday.

It is looking more and more like I'm about to be straight dicked without any recompense.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #932 on: June 24, 2010, 11:24:24 AM »

What happened? No new boss after all? Boss, but no new bodies? Everyone gets fired?
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #933 on: June 24, 2010, 11:30:13 AM »

Boss who would need more training than a new person hired with the correct background, basically.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #934 on: June 25, 2010, 11:24:52 AM »

I got picked to go in the second wave of the Census which is titled the Nonresponse Follow Up Vacancy and Delete Check.

I don't actually get to start working until next week, but I guess I was silly to assume that the training today would have been important. The entire 4 hour deal was re-iterating procedure that I followed for the 4 weeks I was working, and amending or correcting the employee manual/handbook. I wonder idly if it would have been cheaper to simply reprint and distribute a new manual than pay ~60 people in every urban area of America 14 dollars an hour to cross out and add things in pen.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #935 on: June 25, 2010, 12:42:49 PM »

Found out today that my work was directly responsible for someone being fired (they were also told they needed mental help but I was only indirectly responsible for uncovering that)
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #936 on: June 25, 2010, 12:54:21 PM »

Well, did they deserve it? No reason to feel bad about an embezzler or something like that.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #937 on: June 25, 2010, 12:59:51 PM »

Well they hadn't been coming to work for several months and let an enormous national competition go unplanned/booked/etc... until we figured it out 3 days before people started arriving :nyoro~n:
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #938 on: June 25, 2010, 01:10:00 PM »

Wait... they hadn't been coming to work for several months and nobody noticed until their department was fiscally audited?

:wat:

I'm assuming this person was answerable to someone other than God.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #939 on: June 25, 2010, 01:11:38 PM »

Administrative oversight.  Her job was under two departments, neither of which bothered to look for her.

Also, our audits are operational and not always fiscal.
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