Topic: Your Job: The Movie (Read 177934 times)

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #980 on:** July 13, 2010, 08:40:02 PM »

Beaucoup.

R^2 · « **Reply #981 on:** July 13, 2010, 08:55:56 PM »

The only place that ever promised annual reviews/raises and followed through was Turner, the place where I was already overpaid. Go figure.

Lottel · « **Reply #982 on:** July 14, 2010, 05:48:06 AM »

Friend of mine is paying me to hang out and give tips on being me at my job. I mean they want everything from how I stand and where to my jokes to all my little secrets to make the person feel special.
Now I'm torn. I'm flattered and all but getting paid? I don't like taking money from friends but they insist. Maybe if I tell them they can pay me in tacos or something

SCD · « **Reply #983 on:** July 14, 2010, 10:15:41 AM »

Was able to make an effective business case to my boss on why I should have my first aid instructor's certification. I may soon be qualified to teach first aid!

Brentai · « **Reply #984 on:** July 14, 2010, 08:06:43 PM »

See everywhere I go people are complaining about not getting deserved and even promised raises. It makes me feel uncomfortable about sharing the fact that I got told today they were just waiting for an approval on giving me a 15% increase before they said anything and now it's a done deal and retroactive to the beginning of the month.

I mean I just can't post a ton of Homer Simpson gifs in response to it when every single other person I know is nearly broke.

I am very sure that you all know where I'm coming from and are extremely sympathetic to my pain and misery.

Kayma · « **Reply #985 on:** July 14, 2010, 08:42:02 PM »

I feel for you, Brentai. It's not easy having MAD BANK.

I'm considering jettisoning my Help Desk career for a position monitoring network outages on the other side of the building. Bonus round: it would be 3rd shift, overnight, but I'd then have my days free for grad school.... assuming I get in.

Thad · « **Reply #986 on:** July 14, 2010, 09:08:42 PM »

Quote from: Lottel on July 13, 2010, 08:37:25 PM

Shit. You guys get raises? I get a raise one month before minimum wage goes up. So they can say "Here is you raise!"

I'm still a temp after a year and a half.

It is the longest I have ever worked in a single job.

(I'm not saying I got passed over for getting hired on. I'm just saying I still don't know if it's happening or not.)

Shinra · « **Reply #987 on:** July 14, 2010, 10:44:14 PM »

Jesus, Thad, what do you do, again? I've never heard of someone temping for more than six months, let alone a year and a half. Standard temp is seasonal, temp to hire is 90 days. What's the deal?

I assume you're temping through an agency, have you talked to them about this?

Brentai · « **Reply #988 on:** July 14, 2010, 11:06:36 PM »

Technically I'm permatemp too with no plans for change.

Basically it's the company saying "Fuck you, buy your own damn health insurance."

Mongrel · « **Reply #989 on:** July 15, 2010, 03:08:13 AM »

Haven't you heard Shinra? Permatemp is the new gainful employment. Has been for at least a decade.

Best way for a corporation to roll back the clock to the days they didn't have to give their employees a damn thing, really.

I myself was a temp for well over two years at my previous job, as was Koipond. He was hired by another department... as a temp again. I got the boot without a dime of severance. Of course, it's not as bad in Canada, since LAWL HEALTH INSURANCE, but companies here resort to permatemps for largely the same unscrupulous reasons as they do down south.

Brentai · « **Reply #990 on:** July 16, 2010, 04:44:18 PM »

Looks like I'm going to have to start programming in Java again.

The money hat loses a little bit of its luster. Just a little bit though.

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #991 on:** July 17, 2010, 11:42:18 AM »

If the census were personified as The Cutest Puppy Ever Who Is Also A Holocaust Survivor I would punch it in the face forever.

Every day they complain that we need to go back out on completed cases and get "better" information. Then they complain that we're spending too much time in the field.

Every case someone turns in we (I have another Crew Leader working with me. She's basically beyond checked out at this point but knows what a completed EQ should look like so she's still good for that) go over, make sure it provides the information needed, from a good source, and has notes explaining every detail. Even the obviously basic ones. Inevitably despite all this we will get these back and be told to get better info. If we got a household member who refused but gave the basic info we need, hey get a proxy to give you the rest. If we get the best proxy available to give everything they know, hey, why are you going to a proxy? Get a resident's info!

All other bullshit aside, just EQ reassignments finally took me past a boiling point today. Generally with every group of kickbacks we get at least half we just added a post-it note saying (in kinder words) "look at the notes you fucking retards". After that they don't come back again. They found a way around it though! If it's an especially special (that's twice the special) case, we send the cases in with INFO-COMMs. That's just a fancy word for "piece of notepaper that has a bunch of shit you don't need". We got about 20 cases back today, that's high for our district, despite the fact that we send in about 200 every day. At least five of those cases I know definitively had INFO-COMMs explaining the exact situation. They came back with nothing but post-its asking why we would handle a case like that and why there were no notes.

The real kicker is that the guy in charge right now spent about half our training for this operation explaining how we're "the best-of-the-best from NRFU". Really? Then take our word that the work is good or get your own ass out in the field.

SCD · « **Reply #992 on:** July 17, 2010, 02:30:05 PM »

I have blisters on my right hand from training where I didn't think blisters would be possible. Intense training more intense through use of sporatic lightning storms everytime I fuck up, where fuck up is a slight flinch and not something people would consider major. No this is not a metaphor, the weather was just that wacky.

I have a reverse tan from my hat and sunglasses because the two options that day happened to be intense hailstorms with lightning and intense 40-degree sun.

Mongrel · « **Reply #993 on:** July 17, 2010, 04:36:11 PM »

Quote from: Scd XIII on July 17, 2010, 02:30:05 PM

I have blisters on my right hand from training where I didn't think blisters would be possible. Intense training more intense through use of sporatic lightning storms everytime I fuck up, where fuck up is a slight flinch and not something people would consider major. No this is not a metaphor, the weather was just that wacky.

I don't understand this at all. Were you wired to some kind of training space gun that fired REAL LIGHTNING FROM THE CLOUDS when you moved a muscle or what? Did they make you wear lightning rods on your hands?

Thad · « **Reply #994 on:** July 17, 2010, 08:32:32 PM »

My coworker actually complained to our boss yesterday because we refused to do a favor for him even though he demanded it and then knocked a bunch of boxes on the floor.

I'm not kidding.

SCD · « **Reply #995 on:** July 17, 2010, 08:57:55 PM »

Quote from: Mongrel on July 17, 2010, 04:36:11 PM

Quote from: Scd XIII on July 17, 2010, 02:30:05 PM
I have blisters on my right hand from training where I didn't think blisters would be possible. Intense training more intense through use of sporatic lightning storms everytime I fuck up, where fuck up is a slight flinch and not something people would consider major. No this is not a metaphor, the weather was just that wacky.

I don't understand this at all. Were you wired to some kind of training space gun that fired REAL LIGHTNING FROM THE CLOUDS when you moved a muscle or what? Did they make you wear lightning rods on your hands?

You'd think that was the case because THAT WAS WHEN THE LIGHTNING AND RAIN CAME DOWN.

Alas, it seems to be the norm with the weather up here. Despite the bated initial description, it was all shooting and shooting drills with regular ol pistols where somehow lightning still came down when I messed up and got out of the 3-inch group which was the ideal zone. It was pretty surreal.

Lottel · « **Reply #996 on:** July 18, 2010, 01:44:39 AM »

So new chick started last weekend. She was great. Nice, hard working, and actually stayed until she was scheduled to leave. She replaced the lazy, bitchy chick who hardly ever worked. Well she's off the next two weeks. And so is the only other waitress. The one guy who occasionally helps me is has the next THREE weeks off then he has one weekend, then he's gone for good. And the magician is finally learning how to serve. He moves in two weeks.

So for the next two weeks, I am the only server except "Mom" who can't wait too many tables before she gets tired. I told the boss he needs to hire some more waitresses and he's interviewing them now. Unfortunately his tastes go with good looking or something.
Honestly, I should just tell him to let me talk to them. I'm the one who has to deal with her. I'm the one who has to do the work she slacks off on. Bleh.

Lottel · « **Reply #997 on:** July 20, 2010, 01:14:39 PM »

Alright. So I /am/ now somewhat in charge of bringing in new waiting staff. I say somewhat as in I can get whoever I want for the job but the boss is looking at a few random people to maybe hire too. One is a drop out who /might/ have been a stripper. The other misspelled her name on the application. So we'll see.

In non-bitching related news, we already sell the 42 inch pizza. That's pretty popular and all that good stuff. But now? Six foot by four foot pizza. Biggest commercially available pizza or something like that. Thing is fucking huge. We still have to figure out a party package with it, but it alone is $550 I think

Joxam · « **Reply #998 on:** July 20, 2010, 01:27:24 PM »

that just seems stupidly expensive. its what, the area of 24 large pizzas, yes, but 550 dollars for 24 pizzas is a terrible markup.

NOT EVEN 24 larges, man!

TA · « **Reply #999 on:** July 20, 2010, 01:38:43 PM »

A 6'x4' pizza is 3,456 square inches of pizza. That volume Ledo's one-topping large pizzas to cover that is gonna be about $210, and probably a lot better since it's Ledo's and also not a gimmick pizza. So yeah that is a pretty silly markup. Even at ordinary takeout pizza dimensions, who pays $24 for a 14" pizza?

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