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[François]

10% of wristwatch sales to a local money-handling stooge found on the Internet? That sounds like "too good to be true" territory.

[Mongrel]

Looks pretty obviously like a scam to me.

[Shinra]

Yeah, the idea that they pay you buy wire transfer is hilarious to me.

Just give them your routing number and bank account, I'm sure this is legit.

[Miss Cat Ears]

10% of wristwatch sales to a local money-handling stooge found on the Internet? That sounds like "too good to be true" territory.

Looks pretty obviously like a scam to me.

You two need to be more supportive of your friend he's just trying to make an honest living okay guys jeezus

[Brentai]

I think your first mistake was applying for Data Entry Clerk.  Any company that's not contracting that kind of menial labor through an agency is probably either not very reliable, or is trying to do something under the table.

If you're okay with that sort of job then go find your nearest temp agency(s) and get on file with them.  It's either free, and they'll do all the negotiating for you, or it's a scam and you can walk out without thinking twice.  You're not guaranteed work tomorrow but it's not as massive a waste of time as trying to find an employer from craigslist that is not a massive flake.

[McDohl]

freesteamjob.tk!  :D :D :D

[Mongrel]

Mongrel's Law of the Workplace: Your company's overall performance is in inverse proportion to the number of consultants it has retained.

[MadMAxJr]

Work expands to fill the time you give it.

[Mongrel]

I'm not sure if that's an explanation, corollary, your own 'law of the workplace', or all three.

[Torgo]

So I pulled a twelve hour shift at the bakeshop I work at today, 7:30am-7:30pm.  Four hours in I decided to take a break despite the fact that my cohorts, all of whom came in before I did, hadn't.  I asked the guy I work with if he wanted to go first.  He declined, so I went.

Now, there's two girls that work there.  We work in the same space, but what I work on is almost always separate from them.  One of them came in at 3:00am, and as of 11:30 when I took a brake, she hadn't yet.  Now her boyfriend is engaging in some good old-fashioned passive-aggressive shit-talking on Facebook about me going first.

 

Never-minding the fact that my taking a break has nothing to do with whether she can or not, after eight hours, if you haven't taken one yet, it's your own damn fault.  Also, it's none of his damn business.  He came into help today,* but it's my and her workplace, not his.

*Full disclosure: This is the campus bakeshop for the culinary program I attend.  All of us are students, and Boyfriend, who I also share classes with and have known for some years, came into help today.  Help his girlfriend, that is.  Not that I have anything against that and don't appreciate the extra set of hands, but its not like he was there for academic enlightenment or just to plain 'ol help out.

edit: stupid typos

[Büge]

Then tell him

[Torgo]

Oh I did, believe me, and he replied with some incoherent wall of text about me being a self-centered douche and how I don't get it and I will never be as good as them and I'm not a team player.  Basically trying to cloak himself in a deluded sense of chivalry and taking my statements way too personally.  This all coming from someone who routinely alienates three-quarters of the people he meets because this is what he always does, and loafs about during class bitching about wanting to go home.

I've known this dude for three years and I've tried to think best of him and give him the benefit of the doubt, but I'm done.  I'm pretty sure I'm going to go to my boss with this when I see her on Monday or Tuesday.  Not to be vengeful really, I just don't want to have to deal with his bullshit when I'm there working on the clock and he's just there to hang out with his woman and mostly do nothing.  (He has to keep of a vague pretense of helping or else chef would kick his ass out.  She don't put up with loafers and distractions.)

[Mothra]

Tell her boyfriend to get his head out of his ass and stop fucking posturing

[Shinra]

Then tell him

I spent five minutes thinking 'tits your beesewax?'

[Lottel]

So tonight I made $40 on tables. Which is terrible. For 8 hours of work, I should get more. I only had 6 tables tonight. Checked in at the end of the night and I heard the girls bitching to the boss they only made $160 each. They should get more tables. They left and I told my boss what I did for the night and he said "That's not right."
After a while of talking I convinced him not to have the girls work next weekend. I'll do the whole weekend by myself. If I need help, I'll pay whoever comes in to help out of my own pocket. Every table (minus the party tables) will be mine. So next weekend will be hell but I'll finally put those girls in their place. If I can do it (or even come close to handling the whole thing with minor help) then he will cut them back to being only rush hour waitresses and they will only get what I don't want.
I am so looking forward to it.  I've got this shit down. I handled more work at Pizza Hut and back then I'd help cook too.

EDIT: To make things clear, it's not so much the money as the amount of work and their attitude that gets me. I can handle not getting a lot in tips as long as we all did roughly the same and we all did equal work.  They are taking all of the work and leaving me with none.  And then they complain they didn't get more money. I just want my fair share of work.

[Mongrel]

Oh man, if you pull that off... rich, savoury, meaty, JUSTICE.

GOOD LUCK

[Büge]

That goes double for me.

[Miss Cat Ears]

[Shinra]

I want to note that if anyone here has not worked a desk job before, the above picture is basically a summary of every desk job ever.

[Miss Cat Ears]