Topic: Your Job: The Movie (Read 177826 times)

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #580 on:** January 07, 2010, 06:14:03 PM »

funny story i had to look up athe temperateuwre to see if it was really fahtrenthiet or not and it was

Walker · « **Reply #581 on:** January 07, 2010, 08:44:37 PM »

I wish it was 20 C here...

Classic · « **Reply #582 on:** January 08, 2010, 08:50:59 AM »

I've been cruising around in a goddamned fleece sweater in 20F weather. All I'm saying:
Huge blue icy balls here.

Büge · « **Reply #583 on:** January 08, 2010, 12:20:59 PM »

I'm getting the feeling that I may be gradually fired from my job. I haven't had hours for the last two weeks; I called in today and there's no hours for me next week either. Last time I talked to my boss, she said they needed to cut hours.

Not sure how I became low rung on the totem pole.

Brentai · « **Reply #584 on:** January 10, 2010, 12:14:51 PM »

I apologize to any customer service reps I may have gotten a bit nuts on today.

Mongrel · « **Reply #585 on:** January 15, 2010, 01:59:45 PM »

This morning was the usual

-ery.

Network connection goes down. This includes all forms of internet connectivity, email, mainframe, etc. as well as my networked phone (I have two phones on my desk BECAUSE ONE GOES TO PRESIDENT OBAMA).

I call IT from my separate local phone (only thing still working). No reply. I do this again an hour and half later and harangue them (they like to ignore the Canadian office, they're also legitimately overworked). Finally get a response after three hours of the workday have gone. Problem is fixed about an hour later.

In the meantime I leave messages for my manager carefully explaining what's not working, so she knows why I am not logged in.

After the system comes up, my manager tells me that I shouldn't call these down, I should email them.

I have the temerity to point out that my email was down as well.

She replies "well, if the system is still down, you'd better send an email to IT now".

McDohl · « **Reply #586 on:** January 15, 2010, 02:04:02 PM »

Oh, that's beautiful.

Shinra · « **Reply #587 on:** January 15, 2010, 04:48:24 PM »

Quote from: Mongrel on January 15, 2010, 01:59:45 PM

This morning was the usual -ery.

Network connection goes down. This includes all forms of internet connectivity, email, mainframe, etc. as well as my networked phone (I have two phones on my desk BECAUSE ONE GOES TO PRESIDENT OBAMA).

I call IT from my separate local phone (only thing still working). No reply. I do this again an hour and half later and harangue them (they like to ignore the Canadian office, they're also legitimately overworked). Finally get a response after three hours of the workday have gone. Problem is fixed about an hour later.

In the meantime I leave messages for my manager carefully explaining what's not working, so she knows why I am not logged in.

After the system comes up, my manager tells me that I shouldn't call these down, I should email them.

I have the temerity to point out that my email was down as well.

She replies "well, if the system is still down, you'd better send an email to IT now".

It could be that she was trying to cover your ass. IT could say you never called if someone up top asks why your branch wasn't productive all day, and then the blame could fall on your shoulders or your boss'. Email is a reproducable document. Even if they delete it it can be pulled from the system in most cases, and you of course have the copy you sent.

In my last job, we sent emails of transcripts or summaries after every phone call - if a customer or other employee tried to weasel out of a fee or insist on a company paid expedite (a thousand dollars the company had to shell out and a written warning to the employee responsible) we always wanted to have proof that that wasn't necessary or wasn't our fault.

I'm sure she was really just being a raging cunt, though.

Walker · « **Reply #588 on:** January 15, 2010, 05:06:25 PM »

Well, yeah, she was being a raging cunt because how the hell are you supposed to e-mail someone when you have no internet?

Büge · « **Reply #589 on:** January 15, 2010, 05:24:46 PM »

Hey Matt, can I have a job at your office?

Mongrel · « **Reply #590 on:** January 15, 2010, 05:34:02 PM »

She's just a damned retard who often doesn't think before speaking. So... the usual kind of boss I get.

@ Princess: Only if you can speak fluent French, move to Toronto, and I get the new job with sales.

Brentai · « **Reply #591 on:** January 15, 2010, 08:30:36 PM »

Boy! It sure is boring doing this regression test.

Mah boi, this release is what all true coders strive for!

I just wonder if {proprietary module name that actually does rhyme with Ganon} has been updated!

WHAT THE F-

TESTER SAPPIN' MY ENTIRE WEBSITE!

I murdered your toys as well!

Any day people are glad that I am a QA person is a day that I am not doing my job right.

Mongrel · « **Reply #592 on:** January 18, 2010, 07:33:16 AM »

Oh man, toooooo good.

I have no access to our mainframe today. This one's for a totally different reason though: Some idiot let us run out of site licenses for our remote connect software.

The best part is that I had a valid one for the past year WHOOPS GUESS NOT ANYMORE.

Büge · « **Reply #593 on:** January 18, 2010, 04:31:37 PM »

So how long did you spend shooting staples into the garbage can?

Mongrel · « **Reply #594 on:** January 18, 2010, 06:23:37 PM »

Staples into the garbage can? Pffftt... I didn't go to the trouble of surreptitiously installing photoshop on my work computer for nothing.

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #595 on:** January 21, 2010, 05:43:29 PM »

I'm going to get a new job in California. Any ideas on how to go about this from out of state?

Norondor · « **Reply #596 on:** January 21, 2010, 06:45:45 PM »

Um. Don't.

yyler · « **Reply #597 on:** January 21, 2010, 07:16:43 PM »

Don't.

SCD · « **Reply #598 on:** January 21, 2010, 07:17:39 PM »

This is going to be one of the few times I concur with Norondor: Don't

California is the least Governable state in the union, and is in the process of going downhill from there. Unless you're going to a position where you're confident you can survive without any government assistance for sometime (outside of the normal roads and taxes), things are not looking that good. I am assuming your dude is also in the process of changing jobs right now to that state and ditto with yourself, but the crystal ball of most half-decent weeklies say bad things ahead.

Personally, survival without government assistance would be a shotgun, rifle of a 7.62x39 calibre, pistol, 1 week of food and water, an SUV capable of going off-road, clothing suitable for arid conditions, and a suitable stash of decent alcohol and dried goods for bargaining.

I would also avoid living in LA at all costs, but that's only because they do not draw their water locally.

SCD · « **Reply #599 on:** January 21, 2010, 07:29:27 PM »

So on the important subject of me, an update from this earlier status:

Quote from: SCD 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!

Oh yes, more time for homework indeed!

Heck, if the way the news is going on about it, I might even get a summer off from doing anything! Better polish off my resume to apply for the Geological Survey of Canada before I lose any prospect of being empl..

: You're teaching a basic starting this weekend. You're going to be a section commander.

: Starting this weekend

: And there's a good chance you're getting promoted

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