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Author Topic: Your Job: The Movie  (Read 177822 times)

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #540 on: December 06, 2009, 03:30:10 AM »

We all have a little shadow Brentai inside us. Which is good, because
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #541 on: December 06, 2009, 03:03:32 PM »

if we had a big shadow Brentai inside us our voice actor would die and our body would be relegated to mere meat-puppet dancing at the whims of a sentient weapon.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #542 on: December 06, 2009, 03:17:24 PM »

And we'd have no "happy" endings for our story mode. ::(:
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #543 on: December 06, 2009, 03:19:53 PM »

And then Shadow Brentai would spend all his time trying to molest an angry blond woman.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #544 on: December 06, 2009, 04:01:57 PM »

After which the normal Brentai would vociferously deny any connection to Shadow Brentai, the rest of the party would fight it and, because every other even remotely suitable god, mythological or distant historical figure was taken by other people previously, Brentai would end up getting John F. Kennedy as a Persona.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #545 on: December 06, 2009, 04:47:17 PM »

SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE EAAAAAAAAAAAAAATEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #546 on: December 06, 2009, 09:16:40 PM »

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #547 on: December 06, 2009, 09:29:23 PM »

I... I used to have... so much hair...
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #548 on: December 07, 2009, 05:59:57 AM »

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #549 on: December 10, 2009, 07:09:23 PM »

So I got my first paycheck today!






 :ohshi~:






 :slow: Y'ello, Workaround-for-Corporation-to-Not-Pay-You-Benefits-to-Start Services, how can I help you?
 :nyoro~n: Yeah uhhhhh I think you might have my pay rate wrong in your system.
 :slow: Hmmm.  How wrong?
 :nyoro~n: Like, almost twice as much wrong.
 :slow: Golly!
 :nyoro~n: Yep.
 :slow: Let me see... yes, it looks like we did pay you about an assload more than we're supposed to.
 :nyoro~n: Well I was hoping you were going to say I was wrong for once in my life, but okay.
 :slow: Oh don't worry about it.  We'll just garnish the difference out of your next couple paychecks.
 :nyoro~n: Okay, thanks!  ...I think.
 :slow: Thanks for working with Workaround-for-Corpor
 :nyoro~n: Yeah okay bye.

I'm sure if I had tried to play it cool and not say anything I'd have a legion of burly men showing up at my desk in about a month or so, so logically I did serve my best interests there.  On the other hand, it's hard to ignore that little shoulder devil in the back of my brain that tells me I should have taken the chance to extort the fuck out of my employers.

Shoulder Devil is kind of a fucking moron, honestly.

Anyway, I got a payday advance for the holidays, and it didn't involve going down to a little place between the liquor store and the dunk tank.  Also, I discovered that my temporary status does not preclude me from using the corporate store.  Spiffy!
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #550 on: December 10, 2009, 08:01:13 PM »

Let's hope this isn't another of those things that you'll be required to fix.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #551 on: December 12, 2009, 10:30:36 PM »

Careerbuilder

I'm tracing a lot of "resume expert" spam and "for some reason we figured you'd like to start selling insurance" calls to this one.

Oh, bigtime.

They've actually kinda cleared up since the first couple days after I updated my resume, though.

Oddly enough the easiest way to not get dicked with it seems is to go through Craigslist.  I guess the whole "no room for razz-and-dazzle, no help from the service itself screwing with people" setup turns away people who are out to waste your time.  Well, intentionally at least.

Pretty big on the simple "submit an E-Mail" ones, too.  I've reached a point where it takes a hell of a lot for me to bother with any site that requires me to sign up for an account -- I can do about ten "just give them my resume" postings in the same amount of time.

As far as "why the fuck are you calling me so early" conversations go, this one was pretty tolerable imo.

Yeah, that's how I got my current job.  The guy they'd hired pulled a no-call no-show so they called me and asked how soon I could get there.

...had a 5:30 AM call from a vendor once at my old job.  I'd downloaded some free program or another and they kept bugging me about getting some of their pay software.  I'd given them the company number, which called my cell during off-hours, and they apparently didn't bother to check what timezone I lived in.

When the lady started her sales pitch, my response was, in a tone of voice I believe is best described as "scandalized", "It's five-thirty in the morning!"

I did not buy anything from them.  And made it clear (in an E-Mail, hours later, at such a time as was actually appropriate to even be having a discussion of any kind with them) that they were not to contact me again.

My favorite thing about my current job is that it is a straight Monday-to-Friday 8-5.  I do occasionally pull a little extra time, but it's always planned for in advance, and I get paid for OT.

I... I used to have... so much hair...

You and me both.



(I still use the phrase "place of establishment" on like a weekly basis.)

:slow: Y'ello, Workaround-for-Corporation-to-Not-Pay-You-Benefits-to-Start Services, how can I help you?

Oh yeah, I'm pretty fucked right now because I still have a lung fungus and my health insurance has inexplicably decided I'm over my annual prescription reimbursement limit.  After fucking up my last two reimbursement requests and making me resend them.

Nothing like opening what you expect to be a $500 check and finding out it's actually $7!

I think I can probably get it fixed since by my math I am not even fucking close to my annual limit, but as you might expect I am very unhappy about it.  And I still have to buy at least another $200 worth of meds before the year rolls over.

Still, I know the vast majority of temps don't get health insurance at all, so maybe you're the wrong guy to bitch to.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #552 on: December 12, 2009, 10:58:47 PM »

I don't, but it's not a big deal.  It was a bitch when I was a permatemp at Squeenix, but right now paying out-of-pocket for health insurance doesn't really hurt that much, and like I've said before I'm actually pretty happy with my level of health care.  Of course, as has been pointed out, I do not have anything so serious as a lung infection.  Ouch.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #553 on: December 14, 2009, 08:06:13 AM »

If you are sick and I have a meeting for you, please let me know.  I walked for 20 minutes to your office and maybe most people don't think 30 degrees is cold but I prefer 80 degrees.  I'm dying here.

I wish I could put this kind of stuff in my audit report  ::(:
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #554 on: December 14, 2009, 09:32:05 AM »

Further cuts from this article just happened.  This directly affects what I do as I will no longer be teaching before the summer camps open up. 

On the plus side, I now have more time this winter for homework!
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #555 on: December 14, 2009, 09:37:50 AM »

Er... time to take a side trip back to soggy island?
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #556 on: December 14, 2009, 09:43:14 AM »

On the contrary.  This is sadly the best place to find training cash, not just to teach but to learn. 

I'm going to stay out here for awhile.  Otherwise things should be much better once we pull out from the Sandbox.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #557 on: December 14, 2009, 09:57:03 AM »

On the contrary.  This is sadly the best place to find training cash, not just to teach but to learn. 

I'm going to stay out here for awhile.  Otherwise things should be much better once we pull out from the Sandbox.

No, I meant "Hey if you have a few nickels for plane fare, maybe you can take two weeks off in the depths of Feb or Jan to go get rained on?"

I don't know what your school schedule's like, but it'd be a nice break from WINTARRRR. Though my god, I'd much prefer the winter in that picture you posted to the typical Toronto winter (aka ALL SLUSH ALL THE TIME... EXCEPT WHEN IT'S GLASS-HARD ICE!)
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #558 on: December 14, 2009, 10:42:53 AM »

Fancy you should mention that.  I already have my surf shack in Tofino booked for the 19th.   Of Feb :suave:
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #559 on: December 14, 2009, 11:07:53 AM »

I get to have that winter during Christmas break when I go visit my parents! There's something magical and terrifying about the silence you experience when the snow covers everything.
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