Topic: Your Job: The Movie (Read 178038 times)

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1760 on:** August 12, 2011, 03:53:50 PM »

Quote from: Ted Belmont on August 07, 2011, 08:01:18 PM

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.

So yeah, I didn't make it! Turns out, they raised the requirements for promotion by quite a bit, and I didn't quite make the cut. Near as I can figure, it's part of the Army's grand plan to downsize as passive-aggressively as possible, by causing people to get so fed up with the difficulty of advancing your career past a certain point that they just do their time and get out. But hey, it's cool; it's not like the Army NEEDS skilled, experienced leadership or anything.

Mothra · « **Reply #1761 on:** August 12, 2011, 04:37:18 PM »

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Mothra · « **Reply #1762 on:** August 12, 2011, 04:38:34 PM »

What're you going to do?

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1763 on:** August 12, 2011, 04:42:37 PM »

Eh, I'll just keep trying, until I either get promoted, or become one of those bitter old guys who just count the days until they're out.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1764 on:** August 12, 2011, 08:58:18 PM »

:(

Sorry Ted.

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #1765 on:** August 13, 2011, 03:59:27 AM »

Apparently I've forgotten how to do anything but work and sleep since getting my job. I'll get home even on days where I get off early and start doing stuff, then somehow end up in bed until the next shift.

My life right now is seriously 8-10 hours of work 12 hours of sleep and 2-4 hours of eating / showering / telling my cat to stop meowing in my ear.

Thad · « **Reply #1766 on:** August 15, 2011, 09:49:52 PM »

Day One: This is simultaneously the least difficult and best-paying job I have ever had.

My ideal job is probably moderately more challenging and much higher-paying, but it's hard to complain.

Today consisted mostly of imaging and encrypting laptops. Which in practice means a few minutes of work followed by several hours of occasionally glancing up from A Feast for Crows to make sure the computers were still imaging and encrypting.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #1767 on:** August 16, 2011, 03:06:13 PM »

It may not be healthy, but in my quest to seek employment in my field, I have begun to think of hiring managers as The Enemy. I need only defeat them and claim their treasure, namely, a job, and peace and prosperity will cover the land.

So I have devised a stratagem.

I shall dig a trench outside of the office. When the hiring manager comes out of its lair, I will be lying in wait with my father's sword Gram, ready to strike from below and disembowel the ancient serpent. The trench will not only conceal me from sight, but also cause its blood to flow away rather than drown me.

Then I shall infiltrate the building. According to legend, being covered in hiring manager blood will render me invincible to all weapons of man and beast, so I should have little difficulty dispatching the security guards that guard the human resources department deep within the bowels of the office. There, I shall inscribe my name in the Ledgers of Employment, and claim the boon I have long sought.

This is an excellent plan that cannot possibly fail.

Joxam · « **Reply #1768 on:** August 16, 2011, 03:27:39 PM »

Got paid today to go to a competitor's theater and see a movie. Good times.

Norondor · « **Reply #1769 on:** August 16, 2011, 08:50:12 PM »

dude if you're going to kill the hiring manager just take their magic ring, you don't need a job after that

Brentai · « **Reply #1770 on:** August 16, 2011, 09:50:55 PM »

Quote from: Bongo Bill on August 16, 2011, 03:06:13 PM

It may not be healthy, but in my quest to seek employment in my field, I have begun to think of hiring managers as The Enemy.

I'm going to assume at least this part of the post was in earnest and offer some advice. Remember when I said interviewing is just like dating? Same thing.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1771 on:** August 17, 2011, 05:30:46 AM »

So... girls are The Enemy?

R^2 · « **Reply #1772 on:** August 17, 2011, 07:54:49 AM »

Spram should be trying to get a job at McDonald's?

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #1773 on:** August 17, 2011, 11:35:08 AM »

Interviews aren't the problem. In person I am charismatic, personable, perceptive, collected, quick-thinking, and, like, super humble. The problem is getting a human to acknowledge that I have responded to their call for applicants. My qualified resume and hand-crafted cover letters seem to tumble into the void.

Brentai · « **Reply #1774 on:** August 17, 2011, 01:43:56 PM »

I don't watch that much TV and most people around here know about the System Verification Utility, so I only today realized how weird it sounds when I tell people from outside the department that I'm working on the SVU.

Classic · « **Reply #1775 on:** August 17, 2011, 03:11:09 PM »

... You're not going to stop, are you?

Brentai · « **Reply #1776 on:** August 17, 2011, 04:23:39 PM »

That's what she said.

Thad · « **Reply #1777 on:** August 19, 2011, 11:46:39 PM »

First week down; little has changed. Blowing through everything they give me and having hours of downtime left over. Coworkers seem impressed that I'm so far ahead of schedule, but I'd rather have a bit more work. Some happy medium between "nothing to do" and "stressed the fuck out".

Slowly getting more perms in the system; maybe that'll let them shoot more stuff my way. Or maybe it just means now I can look up all the user assignments on Sharepoint.

This has been pretty consistent in my work this year (the shitty phone support job notwithstanding). Imaging laptops is, by nature, a task that involves a lot more sitting around waiting than doin' stuff.

The job I worked from '08-'10 had plenty of shit for me to do in-between imaging, though: shipping packages, receiving packages, tagging equipment, entering it into inventory, unloading trucks in a warehouse on 110-degree days, inhaling fungus, developing asthma...

...truth be told I like this better.

Büge · « **Reply #1778 on:** August 21, 2011, 06:44:40 AM »

Oh boy, another markdown story.

Last night, one old lady (who does this regularly) kept coming up to me as I was doing my closing and hassling me about when I was going to be marking stuff down. Around 7:15 I estimated maybe an hour.

8:00 rolls around and she comes back and asks me why I'm not marking stuff down. Turns out she'd gone to Tim Hortons and set her alarm on her cell phone to time me. She argued that I said I'd be marking stuff down (I was currently finishing up slicing the bread).

I told her that wasn't definite and that I mark stuff down when I'm done packing the bread and buns. She brought over a thing of chelsea buns and asked me to mark it down. I told her no, because I wasn't currently marking stuff down. I told her that it's our policy not to mark stuff down on request because then everyone would come up to us and ask for stuff marked down. This went on for a few minutes until (I guess) she went to complain up at the front.

I went on with my work, but then she came back and asked me to mark it down again. At this point I was sick of seeing her so I said "Okay. But this is the only time I can do this. I can't make this a regular thing."

She says "well, I don't have to shop here anymore, you know."

The head cashier told me she complained that she didn't like the way I was treating her and that nobody would buy chelsea buns at the regular price and that she thought I had some sort of grudge against her for being so difficult. She didn't blame me for it though. Enough people are trying to get stuff marked down on request that they're considering getting rid of markdowns altogether.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1779 on:** August 21, 2011, 06:59:45 AM »

Wait, am I reading that wrong? Was it the old lady, or the head cashier who didn't blame you for the perceived grudge-holding? I mean, I know the stereotype is that Canadians are super-polite, but if the cranky old lady complaining about you is understanding about it...

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