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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #940 on: June 25, 2010, 06:10:37 PM »

So basically you feel bad about doing your job perfectly.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #941 on: June 25, 2010, 08:12:52 PM »

No I feel awesome about finally being able to say "yes" when someone asks if I've gotten anybody fired
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #942 on: June 27, 2010, 12:07:03 AM »

Not to take away your victory, but I am still unclear as to why it's your fault.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #943 on: July 01, 2010, 07:25:51 PM »

So yeah, I did end up getting dicked raw.  Really badly in fact.

I guess I should just be happy I don't work in the public sector.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #944 on: July 03, 2010, 05:38:00 PM »

My new job as a Game Developer at a company called Bitheads has required me to move to Canada's reportedly somewhat dull but at least lovely and green capital, Ottawa.

I am currently looking for an appartment in the city in which to live until such time as I can save up enough to perhaps buy perminant lodgings. Today I drove down there to look at a number of propects. Upon returning home I sent the following email to my contact with the first appartment I was scheduled to view today.

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I drove six hours into Ottawa today and 6 hours back to see your appartment and thankfully some other ones as well. I say thankfully some other appartments because while I found the other viewings helpful an informative, I found the one I received at your building today thoroughly unprofessional and pointless.

I thought that we had arranged for me to see a 1 bedroom apparent that was availiable immediately today at 1pm, but upon arriving at your building and phoning the number provided in your posting, I got a hold of an apparently confused and rude old man who greeted me with the phrase "I don't know what you're talking about!" before even so much as an introduction before and then he hung up on me. Insensed, I approached the front office of your building, believing the person who answered to be in there since I could hear the phone ringing from in there when I tried my phone call.

"I don't know what the hell you're talking about!" was his reply again, this time in person, after I introduced myself and said that I had made an appointment for a viewing of 1 bedroom appartment on the ground floor. He then seemingly begrudgingly showed me an other 1 bedroom on the 3rd floor that was thoroughly dirty and in the middle of being repaired. He told me that this appartment was not availiable until August 1st after which point I thanked him for nothing and left since I need to move in before the 19th of July.

If I had not had other appartments to view that day, I would have complete wasted 12 hours of my time and somewhere around 50-60 dollars on gas for nothing. I find this entire ordeal to have been completely unprofessional and it leads me to believe I would not want to be tennent in one of your buildings anyway.

-James Edward Smith
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #945 on: July 04, 2010, 02:12:45 PM »

I made twice as many pizzas today as I did yesterday.




So two.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #946 on: July 04, 2010, 02:21:39 PM »

No I feel awesome about finally being able to say "yes" when someone asks if I've gotten anybody fired

To date I've gotten two people that I can think of fired. One of them was an x-bra Douchebag with a drug problem.

The other was an unwed single pregnant woman.

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #947 on: July 04, 2010, 05:16:46 PM »

I've gotten 3 people fired at work because they were incompetent, and it takes a lot of effort to be that shitty at working at a full service gas station.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #948 on: July 04, 2010, 08:57:20 PM »

The pregnant woman was basically making everyone's lives miserable. She spent 3/4s of her shift text messaging and chattybitching with the other new girl (who is about to get fired herself) and fucked up tons of Pizzas. when enough mistakes get made, the store's GM flips her shit and yells at everyone. Getting her fired felt awesome.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #949 on: July 04, 2010, 10:26:45 PM »

I love getting douches fired.  It's almost like a really mean pasttime except the part where it comes completely deserved for them and you don't have to deal with jackassery at work.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #950 on: July 06, 2010, 06:53:57 AM »

Know what I hate? The incessant "nice act" that I have to put on for work. Now, I'm not an angry person. At all. I'm not talking about being friendly to normal customers, because that's what I would do anyway. What I'm talking about is the idea that the key to being a good salesperson is being needlessly positive in situations where that is not beneficial at all. My experiences with this last night can be distinctly summarized in two points:

1) We're currently all being trained in that Kevin Graff retail junk at the moment, and most of it is completely useless to a store that only sells unnecessary impulse items like we do. The biggest thing that ticks me off about it is that we can apparently never say anything negative about our products, which is total garbage advice. I've only had somebody thank me for a movie recommendation once or twice, but I've had loads and of people who thanked me for not spending six bucks on something that was terrible. Customers appreciate honesty more than they do positivity. Last night I talked somebody out of buying BrĂ¼no by warning them that it was so bad that several customers asked for their money back after renting it, and though everyone walked away satisfied, I'd probably get chewed out if the district manager were in.

2) Last night somebody called to complain that they weren't paying the fees from the games they returned late. They claimed that their aunt had dropped them off on Friday and that they must have been sitting, not checked in, in the dropbox for four days. Now, since everyone seems to be convinced that when they drop their movies off they enter some kind of labyrinthine catacombs beneath the Earth, I'll just point out that the drop slot just leads to a small box. It takes all of two seconds to stick your head in and see what's in it, and we check it five times a day. There is no possible way for your films to sit there, unnoticed, for an entire weekend. His games were on the cart of checkins, right in front of me. There's security camera footage that clearly shows him returning his games less than an hour beforehand, and as soon as I check them in there will be a computer record showing what time his stuff was checked in. Both he and I know that he's lying, and I have a mountain of evidence against him, yet I am required to be nice and not just call him out on his bullshit like any reasonable human being would, so instead me and the manager on duty sit there and listen to him be an argumentative dick over the phone for an hour while nothing gets done and decent customers get ignored.


Fortunately the manager on duty last night hates this kind of asshole even more than I do. He now has a fifteen dollar charge and four pages of warnings on his account.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #951 on: July 06, 2010, 09:16:35 AM »

While the Acts of Gord are pretty old hat and certainly not novel when the whole Internet is a vent for shitty jobs, I did like his approach to deadbeats. "I'm not paying that!" "Then your account has been forwarded to collections. Goodbye." "Wait wha*click*
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #952 on: July 06, 2010, 11:34:31 AM »

My current job can be frustrating sometimes, so I've been looking around at other jobs, applying some places. I got a call back from Stream for their local call center.

I had a good phone interview, and I had an in-person interview lined up for today.

But then I did some research.

They had a TB outbreak in 2007, and the office itself sounds incredibly unhygienic. Based on this and the fact I re-weighed my current job with the risks/bonuses of a new job, and I cancelled my interview.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #953 on: July 06, 2010, 12:40:26 PM »

Oh yeah, I've been gradually convincing my coworkers to use better safety and sanitation practices since I arrived at my job. I hope it makes good resume padding. AFAIK I'm the only person in the kitchen who's ServSafe certified, and that's not an ideal situation.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #954 on: July 06, 2010, 07:46:19 PM »

There is a small stuffed dog at work that serves as a mascot of sorts. It has a small tear in one side that one of my managers has been using to gradually fill it with hand sanitizer while nobody is looking. After it dries, it smells like rubbing alcohol if you squeeze it.

That is pretty much the hygiene situation at my store.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #955 on: July 06, 2010, 07:55:06 PM »

On the subject of getting people fired, I once got a girl I worked with fired because she pissed in some guy's drink because the last time he was in he didn't tip "high enough".

I think she did this less out of FURIOUS ANGER and more because she thought it was THE PINNACLE OF HILARITY.

She was certainly furious when I hauled her off and told the manager what she did right in front of her, though. She even made threats of physical violence and told me "she knew where I lived".

I think like two months later I got TPed but I was living in college town so who the fuck knows
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #956 on: July 06, 2010, 08:08:18 PM »

Because when you're dragged up to your manager and accused of something terrible, threats make everything better!

Also, teg: you win.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #957 on: July 06, 2010, 08:29:32 PM »

Er, the threats came later in private.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #958 on: July 06, 2010, 08:31:45 PM »

Did you remind her of the time you leaped from a second story balcony and beat up six guys or whatever crazy shit?
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #959 on: July 07, 2010, 11:34:47 AM »

Not my job, but: I just left my knives with a professional sharpener. His actual name is Jeff Edges.
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