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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #480 on: October 08, 2009, 12:18:56 PM »

Q: What do you do when you're stuck between a hammer and an anvil?

A: Aim the two sides at each other and duck.

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #481 on: October 12, 2009, 04:14:55 PM »

So, okay.  Today the company bigwigs -- like big-big, people at the central office out-of-state -- announced that they're putting just about everybody in the company on a mandatory vacation the week after Christmas and running every office on a skeleton crew.  Everybody's going to have to take 40 vacation hours whether they want to or not.

Now, by my count, there are four classes of people as far as vacation time.

First is the people who never take a damn vacation and have a shit-ton of hours saved up that they never use.  Now, for them, this is a boon; they get to take a paid break and not worry about too much stuff piling up while they're gone.

Next rung down is the people who only have a week or two of vacation saved up.  For them, this is an inconvenience; they're forced to use a week's vacation here, and that's going to impact their vacation plans for the rest of the year.

Next rung down is the people who don't have 40 hours' vacation saved up.  This kinda sucks for them; they're going to have to make up those hours later.  (Someone on the group mailing list commented that that doesn't sound legal, but on paper it's optional and they can work that week if they want to.  I am given to assume that it's much less optional in practice.)

And on the bottom rung, you get the temps.  For us, it's a week of mandatory unpaid vacation.  Now, okay, a week's mandatory unpaid vacation right after Christmas is a kick in the dick in and of itself, but adding insult to injury is the fact that we're entitled to a paid holiday on New Year's Day -- but only if we work at least 20 hours that week.

This strikes me as quite possibly the worst management decision I have ever seen, which is really saying quite a lot.  I know the temps are (at least theoretically) expendable, but I think this is going to hurt morale for all but the top rung of people I've mentioned.  And it's just bad business sense to piss off a bunch of people and then give them a free week to go look for another job RIGHT BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR, which is quite possibly the easiest time to get hired.

My immediate supervisor is trying to go to bat for us; I've pointed out that UPS still runs during that week and they're still going to need us to process those packages.  Even if we could pull down, say, 20 hours that week and 20 the next, we'd at least get our paid holiday (which I don't think even costs the company anything, I think that's all on the temp agency's dime).

Anyway.  I am almost done with my first beer of the evening.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #482 on: October 15, 2009, 09:33:15 AM »

God damn this crazy freaking school.  Either there is a choir somewhere in the building singing Oklahoma songs or I have officially lost my mind.  I don't know which would be worse.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #483 on: October 15, 2009, 09:36:21 AM »

Again you people with these either or propositions. Fuck English and it's exclusive or convention. Logic OR for life bitches.

EDIT:

In summary, the silver lining here is that it's easy to figure out which option is worst. :whoops:
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #484 on: October 15, 2009, 09:47:01 AM »

Again you people with these either or propositions. Fuck English and it's exclusive or convention. Logic OR for life bitches.

EDIT:

In summary, the silver lining here is that it's easy to figure out which option is worst. :whoops:

:OoO:

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I haven't got the foggiest, old bean.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #485 on: October 15, 2009, 09:52:02 AM »

He is implying that it could be both in an extremely nerdy way.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #486 on: October 15, 2009, 10:05:06 AM »

I don't even read Classic's posts anymore.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #487 on: October 15, 2009, 10:32:36 AM »

 :victory:

I'm so proud of you!
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #488 on: October 15, 2009, 11:55:59 AM »

I am downright envious.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #489 on: October 15, 2009, 01:22:39 PM »

 
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #490 on: October 19, 2009, 10:06:38 PM »

http://www.noteviljustwrong.com/

A local teaparty chapter thing rented our theater out to show this tonight.   I wanted to walk out several times just listening to the conversations in the lobby.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #491 on: October 19, 2009, 10:09:42 PM »

Every Texan must endure the curse of living in Texas.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #492 on: October 19, 2009, 10:14:57 PM »

Haha it's giving me a 403. NICE WEBSITE, MORONS
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #493 on: October 19, 2009, 10:16:47 PM »

to prove there is a just and loving god, they have been getting ddos'd apparantly
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #494 on: October 21, 2009, 11:30:18 AM »

 :mystery: I found a fraud!!
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #495 on: October 25, 2009, 09:17:09 PM »

Quote from: the website
Right now in a classroom in Illinois, Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth is being taught to our children as an article of science, not faith.

Yes.  Because when I am concerned about things that are being taught as science instead of faith in public schools, the first thing that leaps to mind is man-made climate change.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #496 on: October 25, 2009, 09:18:31 PM »

Wait, so they'd be okay with it if we just blamed global warming on Satan?

EDIT: I just remembered that conservatives actually blame it on solar flares.  So, Ra then.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #497 on: October 25, 2009, 10:01:14 PM »

As I understand it, man-caused global warming isn't quite the open-and-shut case we'd like it to be. However, we do know that most of the pollutants we let out into the air aren't very good for you and we do know that the Earth's overall temperature is warming. So, :shrug: it's more akin to the Borh model for the atom than creation. ... ... And even then, more like the assumption that there are planets orbiting other stars. Which I mention because we recently got images of planetoids around other stars. So it turns out it was a pretty good guess.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #498 on: October 26, 2009, 01:35:10 PM »

I work in a windowless poorly ventilated box (former server room), that comfortably seats 2, currently staffing four.  I work with hardware that we cannot perform remote debugging on, that is acting up, that is managed by a server team I can't really contact easily. On this hardware I am assigned to develop and patch up custom written ASP.NET software mostly written by a person who has a background in PHP and whom likes to copy-paste things rather than use object oriented methodology to dramatically cut down work and debugging times.  Nothing we write actually builds in Visual Studio, you just have to put it on the server and see if it runs.

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #499 on: October 27, 2009, 07:51:11 AM »

You know what's awesome? Having someone call in about a situation that's all fucked up, having the thought "Oh great, what did I do now." and then realizing that the issue in question is actually eight months old and was caused by someone who was fired months ago.

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