Topic: Your Job: The Movie (Read 177867 times)

Joxam · « **Reply #1620 on:** May 12, 2011, 06:59:33 AM »

I don't either.

Brentai · « **Reply #1621 on:** May 12, 2011, 09:47:23 AM »

I disagree.

Thad · « **Reply #1622 on:** May 18, 2011, 09:55:07 PM »

Got a six-month contract.

To check off the boxes for a sense of futility/lack of progress in my life, it is located 25 miles away from my current residence -- but literally right across the street from the apartment where I lived 5 years ago. (Meaning that the next time Demogorgon posts a satellite photo of my location, he may finally be right!)

Hours are looking to be crummy, though as I've noted before graveyard isn't so bad when the daytime temperatures get up to 110. It pays better than my last job, though I'm concerned the wear and tear on my car resulting from a 50-mile round trip every day as opposed to my previous 7 miles could make up the difference.

If nothing else, it's six months of steady income, which I could definitely use.

Verde · « **Reply #1623 on:** May 18, 2011, 10:28:11 PM »

Heard back from my dream-job interview. They said it a was tough choice between me and somebody else but the other person had more experience. I was surprised I even came so close since I fluffed up the interview so much - I guess the fact that I turned every dumb thing I said into a joke turned out to be a better strategy than I thought. Anyway, they said there's a job coming up there that'd be ideal for me, so there's that.

In my current job, I spent the entirity of yesterday playing darts, minus a brief break to get insulted by a former customer over Twitter because he decided he hated me three years ago. I've usually got any number of small things to complain about in my job, but you know what? It's a pretty sweet gig really.

Malikial · « **Reply #1624 on:** May 20, 2011, 01:38:40 AM »

Wednesday at 3 PM I made a couple of calls and what not to see about getting a job, Thursday at 2 PM I got a call and a job offer, well preliminary, I'll have to pass the normal background checks and drug tests, but it's a pretty good entry level management job. A bit of note: I have extensive previous management experience(retail and office/personnel management) and all the compliance certifications for fresh food and prepared food(I managed a fresh produce/deli/bakery area of a store for a year) so I can generally get jobs fast once I start trying. It'll be good to be pulling in money again.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1625 on:** May 20, 2011, 05:27:34 AM »

Now that you'll both be employed, you can reactivate your Wonder Twin powers!

teg · « **Reply #1626 on:** May 20, 2011, 07:43:22 PM »

So not only is the store that I primarily work at going to be closing in a month, it will be closing entirely due to other peoples' stupidity.* AND they found a way to do it without giving us severance pay.

I am handling this remarkably well, considering that I am going to be hit the hardest.

*Blockbuster Canada is slowly going under because the Canadian branch had the entire 70 million dollar debt that the American branch accrued transferred over when The Dish Network bought them last month. The company is normally profitable, and now we can't find a buyer because of it. My store, specifically, is getting the axe because the company is currently being run by a financial advisor with no knowledge of the business. Despite doing amazingly per capita and having no local competition, we don't bring in the sheer amount of dollars that the other stores do.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1627 on:** May 20, 2011, 08:14:09 PM »

The real reason there are no takers is that the local video store distribution model is dying. It's all going to be on the Netflix model soon and the people with the wherewithal to purchase the company know that.

For what it's worth, legal video distribution is a fucking mess. Local stores like Blockbuster seem to carry nothing but recent arrivals and the absolute biggest movies. Netflix is a huge bandwidth hog at war with ISPs and (in Canada) doesn't have anything close to a full catalogue.

I know in my case, every time I get the urge to just watch some random movie from the 60's, 70's, or 80's, I can't find it anywhere without a ton of work.

Which usually means I don't watch it at all - you don't suddenly say "Hey let's watch [X]" on a given Friday, and then spend the next week days looking for a torrent/waiting for the download/fishing around indie movie stores/waiting for an Amazon purchase to arrive. You usually just give up instead. Well, Starr and I do.

Malikial · « **Reply #1628 on:** May 20, 2011, 08:51:13 PM »

Well due to some shit politics at the place I was gonna get a job at I might not be working there... I'm going to a meeting on Tuesday to meet with people and decide. They took away their previous offer and offered me a different lower paying position but I dunno, I might still take it.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1629 on:** May 20, 2011, 10:37:50 PM »

Awwwwww man. That's such garbage.

Thad · « **Reply #1630 on:** May 24, 2011, 01:49:45 PM »

Feel like they're already dicking me, and I haven't even started.

Last Tuesday my rep told me I was applying for a 4:30 PM - middle of the night shift. Which isn't a great thing but which I'm prepared to do.

Last Wednesday he told me I'd gotten the position and they wanted me there on Monday at 7 AM for training.

On Friday he told me it wasn't going to be Monday but to keep Tuesday open; yesterday he told me it wouldn't be Tuesday but to keep Wednesday open.

Today he told me they want me in tomorrow at 6 AM. Which will mean I pretty much need to get up at 4:30. And he said after training is over -- and he doesn't know when that'll be -- I'll be going in at 3 AM. When I asked about the 4:30 PM shift he said he wasn't sure but to ask about it.

Now look, I'm still a young man. I can handle fluctuations in my sleep schedule (though they often give me migraines). But I really would like to know what they're going to be from one day to the goddamn next, and for somebody to tell me what the fuck is going on at any given time.

There's still more information he needs to give me that he hasn't yet. It is nearly 3 PM.

McDohl · « **Reply #1631 on:** May 24, 2011, 01:59:37 PM »

Turns out the Radio Shack job I was laid off from last year was actually an involuntary termination, in the official record keeping system. I've been 'courting' the manager who hired me and sent me to the store I worked for to rehire me. This comes up, and it turns out I'm un-rehire-able. So I call the district manager for the area for a "What's the dilly-o?", and he comes back, saying that the manager (who's still with the company but at the corporate department) did the paperwork wrong, and there should be no problem with me coming back to RS. So he's doing things to send up the HR chain to get the un-rehire-able status revoked, to allow me to compete for the job. So, things ARE looking up, despite the rest of the paragraph.

Malikial · « **Reply #1632 on:** May 24, 2011, 05:51:12 PM »

Went to job interview for lesser job, was polite, spoke well. They were like, "Well thanks for coming in but this is all we can offer you..."

Then four hours later I get a phone call, they offered me the original higher paying position again. This time for reals, I guess they talked it over within their office or something. New job get.

JDigital · « **Reply #1633 on:** May 24, 2011, 05:56:42 PM »

gratz

Lottel · « **Reply #1634 on:** May 24, 2011, 06:01:19 PM »

Restaurant is closing on Saturday.
It'll be my last day employed until we build a new store. I'm going to almost full time to unemployed to running a restaurant.
HOPEFULLY by July I'll be back working. Hopefully.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1635 on:** May 24, 2011, 09:39:06 PM »

ENJOY THE SUMMER.

EDIT: OR ELSE.

Lottel · « **Reply #1636 on:** May 24, 2011, 09:54:00 PM »

NO U.

In a more mature fashion: What summer? Being broke and stuck at home is awful especially if you genuinely like working. And I definitely can't afford a vacation for more than a day or two. And that's pushing it.

Anyway, the time I have off is too much time not to have a job, but not enough for me to get a job. So yeah, I'll just sit around the house in my underwear all day for a month, but all the fun will be sucked out of it.

Classic · « **Reply #1637 on:** May 24, 2011, 10:57:46 PM »

Emulate the CLASSICS you never got around to emulating.
Hint hint.

I'm saying you should play Master of Magic. Like a cad.

Thad · « **Reply #1638 on:** May 25, 2011, 04:43:46 PM »

Well, when I figured taking a job across the street from my old apartment meant stepping backward into 2006, I was off by a decade. I have stumbled upon the secret dumping ground for the kids from my high school computer class.

One of them I recognize but didn't really know. The other is a guy who I would describe as my first object lesson in the No Asshole Rule. He says he has no memory of me whatsoever, which is entirely consistent with his drug use at the time I knew him. He seems like less of an asshole, though he insulted the guy who's training me for no good reason, which suggests to me that he's at least still an ass.

McDohl · « **Reply #1639 on:** May 25, 2011, 04:45:14 PM »

Yo, Thad! What's the Mesa, AZ area like? The job recruiter sent me a req for an aircraft job out that way.

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