Topic: Your Job: The Movie (Read 178062 times)

Mothra · « **Reply #1740 on:** August 04, 2011, 04:44:45 PM »

Quote from: R^2 on August 04, 2011, 04:02:39 PM

I got a job offer! It is for a good company in a good position for good pay in a terrible location and at the worst possible time!

R^2 · « **Reply #1741 on:** August 05, 2011, 11:21:43 AM »

So after a year of hunting and several months out of work, I got TWO job offers at the same time. [spoiler](There's a river.)[/spoiler]

So I'm doing prep work on the weekends at an Italian place until the aforementioned line cook job needs me next month. I'm kind of surprised the owner of the Italian place agreed to take me in and train me knowing I'm gong to leave, but I guess I'm buying him a little time to find a permanent person to do my job.

Joxam · « **Reply #1742 on:** August 05, 2011, 11:24:27 AM »

YAY

Mongrel · « **Reply #1743 on:** August 05, 2011, 11:28:46 AM »

There's a tentative HOORAY CONGRATS for you, R^2.

I will however refrain from throwing a beer party until you actually have the first paycheque in your bank account.

Niku · « **Reply #1744 on:** August 05, 2011, 11:44:35 AM »

two people called in sick today

this is your doing isn't it r^2

Thad · « **Reply #1745 on:** August 05, 2011, 05:29:10 PM »

So yesterday I got a cold E-Mail from a recruiter who'd seen my resume and was looking for a PHP dev. I told her I was interested and sent her a current resume.

Today I got her response; she told me who the client is.

The client is the company that fired me last month.

I considered telling her to submit me just to see what would happen.

Büge · « **Reply #1746 on:** August 05, 2011, 05:44:01 PM »

R^2 · « **Reply #1747 on:** August 05, 2011, 08:32:49 PM »

Ah, the answer to my previous befuddlement is "He's not going to train me at all". So I'm getting major flashbacks to working for the pizza place, but eh. I made nearly $90 and got two meals today. I'm cheap and easy.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1748 on:** August 05, 2011, 08:55:55 PM »

Quote from: Thad on August 05, 2011, 05:29:10 PM

So yesterday I got a cold E-Mail from a recruiter who'd seen my resume and was looking for a PHP dev. I told her I was interested and sent her a current resume.

Today I got her response; she told me who the client is.

The client is the company that fired me last month.

I considered telling her to submit me just to see what would happen.

Dooooooooooooooooooooooooo it

Brentai · « **Reply #1749 on:** August 05, 2011, 09:21:48 PM »

Quote from: Mongrel on August 05, 2011, 08:55:55 PM

Dooooooooooooooooooooooooo it

Also, hooray for R^2 cooking up some mean mudcrab legs.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1750 on:** August 07, 2011, 08:01:18 PM »

I also got a job offer this weekend! Technically, it was on Friday, but whatevs.

I did two phone interviews in between helping some other soldiers put up tents, unload cots, and move tables in the rain, so when the first manager asked me how I was doing, I responded, "Well, I'm standing in a field, soaking wet and covered in mud, but other than that, I'm pretty good." The rest of the interview went just as well as you'd expect.

I did the second interview right afterward(she literally just handed the phone to the other manager), and I rocked that one too! The second manager told me they would be making a decision soon, and would be making calls later that day.

15 minutes later, she called me and said, "I'm tired of being nice, so I'm just going to ask you. Do you want the job?"

So, I'll be working for Walmart again(boo), catching shoplifters again(yay), a job I am surprisingly great at, making decent pay(not sure about an exact figure, but last time I started at 11.50 an hour) and working with three people with whom I get along amazingly.

On the other job front, I spent the rest of the weekend trying to juggle getting a battalion's worth of soldiers to fill out their paperwork properly, trying to get my own paperwork done, then doing about four hours of drunkenly umpiring a softball game(including a very strange attempt at intimidation from the First Sergeant/pitcher for the rival team, in which he informed me that he could pitch a softball 10 feet high), five or so hours of sleep in a hot, humid building shared by about 200 other soldiers, eating a nasty breakfast, powering through a hangover to finish doing my own paperwork/getting others' paperwork fixed, and finally, once everything was done, being told by my own sleep-deprived First Sergeant that I had done an amazing job, and that she was going to put me in for an award. Also, I found out that I qualify for 5 years of free health care through the VA. Oh, and I might be making Sergeant soon, assuming my packet didn't fall through the cracks; I'll know more about that later this week.

tl;dr: Best/worst weekend ever.

Thad · « **Reply #1751 on:** August 08, 2011, 11:16:47 AM »

This is my last week on the current contract.

Luckily the agency really came through for me this time and got me a new gig starting Monday. It's still the same desktop support crap I've been doing for nearly 3 years now, but they're sticking "Senior" in front of my title and adding a buck an hour to my pay. And it's a one-year contract and my new commute will be roughly half the distance of my current one, which in itself adds up to about $15 less a week I'll be spending on gas.

So pretty much it's not what I really want but it's a step up in every immediately-visible way.

I'm still gun-shy about job security, and "one-year contract" doesn't mean much more than the paper it's written on to a guy who just got fired one month into a six-month contract, but still, it's good news. Particularly as it comes right as my GF's drastically scaling back her hours to focus on going to school full-time.

Lottel · « **Reply #1752 on:** August 09, 2011, 11:30:53 AM »

Got a call from a place I applied to.
"I'm sorry, but it seems that some of these numbers don't work. Do you know of how we can get hold of the Comic Shop in Iowa?"
"It just shut down this year, actually. That number was the cell phone for the owner. That was the only way I could get in touch with him. If that's not working, I don't know how to get in touch."
"Hm. Well, do you know how we can reach the Domino's in Ottumwa?"
"Heh, well, that shut down a few months after I left. The only employee I still keep in contact with was fired before I moved away."
"Oh. That's no good. What about Clockwork Pizzeria?"
"That closed down in March."
"And lemme guess, Da Franco's Italian? They closed too?"
"And are currently in Italy, from what I was told, yes."
"..."
"Hello?"
"Thank you for your time, Mr. Albright."

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #1753 on:** August 09, 2011, 01:47:30 PM »

In their defense, you appear to be the plague.

Büge · « **Reply #1754 on:** August 09, 2011, 05:37:15 PM »

Well, I mean c'mon, he's a mummy with two snakes. A plague is par for the course. Or at least, cursed snakebites.

Lottel · « **Reply #1755 on:** August 09, 2011, 05:43:11 PM »

The BEST part is I am moving in January. So whatever job I get will only last until then.
I can't even help it.

The REAL Curse of the Mummy is not having a job for more than 6 months at a time.

Mothra · « **Reply #1756 on:** August 09, 2011, 05:55:04 PM »

Maybe the REAL Curse of the Mummy here

is man

Büge · « **Reply #1757 on:** August 09, 2011, 06:59:55 PM »

I think we can all agree that Rygaron is the one suffering the most from the Curse of The Mummy.

Classic · « **Reply #1758 on:** August 09, 2011, 10:39:17 PM »

I want to give you a karma, but as someone who's got an unusually bad case of kin at the moment, I'm going to say, "too soon" and give a disapproving...

...
Whatever it is apparently I do too much now.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1759 on:** August 10, 2011, 06:05:27 AM »

So I keep getting recruiter calls out of the blue from established, reputable, major recruiting firms. That's good!

Only they keep offering me jobs that are worse and also pay less. That's bad!

And they basically confirm what I'd already guessed, which is the fact that I have already plateaued in terms of what kind of income I can get based on my experience and education. That's real bad!

Note that my current level of income still does not actually provide enough money to even pay my bills each month, so instead of being able to save income to pay for the badly needed education to escape this situation, I just hang on until I get a three-paycheque month or a tax return, which resets my clock to zero. Roughly. And that a week or two ago, it was made clear that the likelihood of my getting any sort of annual raise at the current job is not what you might call good.

Same old, same old.

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