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Author Topic: Your Job: The Movie  (Read 178065 times)

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2140 on: May 25, 2012, 10:11:07 AM »

Impromptu 2-hour meeting at the end of the day on a Friday before a 3-day weekend.

Bra-fucking-vo.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2141 on: May 26, 2012, 03:32:30 PM »

My office shut down at 2:30 due to the impending 3-day weekend, and we still got paid for 8 hours!
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2142 on: May 26, 2012, 03:45:07 PM »

Trade you.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2143 on: May 26, 2012, 03:47:20 PM »

I found out the crazy conspiracy theory nut slash ron paul supporter slash Occupy protestor????? I sit next to at work finally got fucking fired.

I was sympathetic to his wife but secretly... othankgod  :perfect: :perfect: :perfect: :perfect: :perfect: :perfect: :perfect:
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2144 on: May 30, 2012, 10:46:35 PM »

I delivered one meager sandwich to the police station today. I usually do this once or twice a day so it's normally no big deal. You go into the lobby, go to the phone, and press the police button. I did all that and the lady said she didn't think anyone at the department had the last name I was delivering to. I told her I'm sure there is a lady there by that name. I've seen it before at this address and she even paid with a credit card. The lady said she'd check and send her out. 30 minutes go by and I press the button again and tell her I'm really sorry but I have several other deliveries and was wondering if I could just leave it in a dropbox or something. She said she checked and no one worked there by that name so, confused, I apoligized for wasting her time and went onto my other deliveries, which were quite late by this point in time.
I called the other deliveries and apologized and 30 minutes later, I was back in the store just in time for the police station delivery to call about her food. So I went back and waited another 20 minutes for her to walk out the doors and explained the whole thing. It turns out the person on the other end of the phone didn't even ask anyone or check anything. She just hung up and ignored the fact I called.
Combine this with the fact one driver lost his car and the other driver got into a wreck today so he can't drive anymore on top of the fact the added 18 hours to my schedule without asking me and today wasn't that great of a day.


(sorry if this doesn't make sense, I had a few drinks tonight. I'll check for coherency and whatnot in the morning.)
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2145 on: May 31, 2012, 02:23:31 PM »

Shipped a computer out the second week of April.

Got a message saying that the user couldn't set it up because she was out on leave until June, and so the office was going to send it back to us.

Which they finally got around to doing just in time for us to get the computer back on MAY 31.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2146 on: May 31, 2012, 03:18:10 PM »

Typewriters. Why do they still exist. Why am I expected to know how they work.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2147 on: May 31, 2012, 03:50:38 PM »

They make awesome auxilliary percussion.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2148 on: May 31, 2012, 06:36:14 PM »

Type every word you know!
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2149 on: June 07, 2012, 04:48:01 PM »

I waas on a long, boring conference call today, the kind that required my presence but not my input. Luckily, I had my slinky to keep me entertained! I was pretending to be an elephant when one of the project managers I work for/with walked by. :whoops:
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2150 on: June 08, 2012, 02:07:05 PM »

There's something to be said for starting early on a literal non-stop movement day during which I haven't gotten any of my daily tasks done. Then finally sitting down for a minute... at the table still covered in blueprints laid out exactly as they were after staying two hours late to print and correct them the night before.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2151 on: June 08, 2012, 02:10:31 PM »

Scheduled twelve hours next week. That gives me a lot of time to start looking for a new job!
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2152 on: June 11, 2012, 07:26:59 PM »

My boss swears he saw two UFOs last night and took video. We talked about it for a while and eventually he said "You know, I thought about how you could be in alien in disguise sent to make me paranoid and crazy." So I just said "Then I'd say I was doing my job properly" and walked out of the room backwards.

He later told me that he was thinking about asking if I could get a raise.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2153 on: June 11, 2012, 09:22:25 PM »

...for which job?
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2154 on: June 11, 2012, 11:02:44 PM »

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2155 on: June 12, 2012, 12:20:53 PM »

There's another me* at my company, but for one specific job. The only real interaction I've had with him is the knowledge that every day he's supposed to be sending me daily hour and work break-downs. He has never had one in on time.

Now, the job has him, one supervisor for half, and another for the other half who also handles the higher administrative stuff for the job site. So I was willing to believe he was just getting a ton of crap from both of them and since the original guy was never sending me them on time anyway, it can't all be this kid's fault, right?

Then the next week I start getting them in (from the last week, but still, started getting them). None of the sheets were right, ever. There were always people left off I knew had to be there, wrong times, people showing up at both sides of the job at the same times. Basically, things that if anyone there had actually looked at these sheets would stand out. Whenever I emailed one of these problems back, they would just send a new sheet with the information I gave them on it and nothing else changed (even other problems with the same employee I just hadn't listed yet).

That brings us to his third week here. Now employees have gotten paid for hours based off these schedules and almost all of them have issues. Anyone who has an issue is immediately just paid the amount they say they're owed. Much like with everything else here, my cries out questioning why I have to use more time to check paysheets to timesheets that I then have to take the time to correct based off third-hand knowledge and which clearly don't matter anyway fall on deaf ears.

Cut to today. Still haven't gotten most of last week's sheets, (and am still getting complaints about the hours not being finalized yet even though I tell everyone constantly I don't have the sheets, which I'm told I need before finalizing anything) and other me shows up. At which point he spends over half-an-hour poorly explaining something that an email could have said in a two sentence email, then proceeds to sit and play on his phone as I work on everything he needs (which is now a top priority over actual, important things that also don't relate to a job with its own personal me since he's looking at me funny between texts). When I finally get everything finished, printed, prepared and handed to him, he calls the main guy from his job and asks if he can just go home now since it took so long. Of course he can, and just leave the prints here since he'll be in in the morning to see them anyway.

So one question answered I guess, it is in fact everyone at that job with no sense of time management or efficiency.


*no real training or skill in the field but hired from nepotism for general office bitch needs.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2156 on: June 14, 2012, 10:33:18 AM »

Hey, uh, you guys sure you want me to ship this Priority Overnight to our Paradise Valley office?

Because I'm not quite sure how much that costs but if you want to split the difference and just pay me to walk it over there, I'd be happy to do it even in this heat.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2157 on: June 16, 2012, 03:55:18 PM »

Hey dumbass. If you're going to try and get out of your contract by transferring it to a made up person, you probably shouldn't use YOUR OWN SOCIAL INSURANCE NUMBER on the fake account. You know... the number we already have ON FILE ON YOUR OWN ACCOUNT.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2158 on: June 17, 2012, 03:20:27 PM »

"This customer has no contact number because he is calling from the internet. "
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2159 on: June 18, 2012, 07:17:59 AM »

So apparently the higher-ups have decided most of what I've worked on for the last year will not be used in the product after all.

Also, I constantly get screwed off job opportunities because I can't name design patterns or methodologies and have mostly learned programming by programming.