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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2220 on: July 20, 2012, 04:02:27 PM »

How can I NOT be having fun in such an environment?

To be honest, I'm wondering the same thing.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2221 on: July 20, 2012, 04:42:06 PM »

By changing my job I mean instead of doing two people's jobs, it'd be adding a third for no additional pay, minus the tips I should be getting if I wasn't slowed down considerably by all this extra work.

And by "saying I'll be fired" she means she'll fire me.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2222 on: July 20, 2012, 04:46:25 PM »

Either do that or report her for sexual harrassment.

If I were to try and get her fired for anything, it'd be for her being so racist she keeps skin color in mind when deciding whose food to make first.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2223 on: July 20, 2012, 04:47:47 PM »

Right, so if you're doomed anyway and the job is a crappy restaurant service job, why haven't you started Operation Great Balls of Fire yet?
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2224 on: July 20, 2012, 10:01:31 PM »

We're hiring basically anybody with a Computer Science background who has OOP/scripting experience.  If interested please send an updated resume (I refuse to dig out anybody's resume from x months ago, sorry).
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2225 on: July 21, 2012, 06:26:39 AM »

One of my coworkers discovered that "No. 'Katja Deutsch' is not pronounced 'Catch a Douche'".
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2226 on: July 21, 2012, 09:27:09 PM »

We're hiring basically anybody with a Computer Science background who has OOP/scripting experience.  If interested please send an updated resume (I refuse to dig out anybody's resume from x months ago, sorry).

Been awhile since I coded OOP but I've got Java background.  Most of my recent scripting's been PHP.

I can update my resume but most of what I've done over the past 7 years or so has been IT.  Still, I'll see about polishing it up, at least, so that it's clear I HAVE had a job for the past two years.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2227 on: July 23, 2012, 03:48:04 AM »

I almost reminded a customer today that Robocop was part man, part machine, but ALL cop.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2228 on: July 23, 2012, 06:25:52 AM »

WHY WOULD YOU NOT?
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2229 on: July 23, 2012, 01:12:04 PM »

The movie was cancelled. Or it will be in a month... Anyone read any good scripts/treatments recently?
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2230 on: July 25, 2012, 10:20:25 AM »

Once again I have let the appropriate parties know that we were about a month away from running out of X and needed to order more.

Once again they have waited until we actually ran out to order more.

At least nobody's pissing on the floor.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2231 on: July 25, 2012, 11:39:31 AM »

I'm dealing with a similar situation right now, except instead of ordering things, we're migrating databases to a new server, and I've been charged with collecting all of the information we need from the various database owners. I've been hounding them for over a month now, and it's only in the past week that they've started responding. It's interesting how much more responsive people become when you send a mass email to them and all of their supervisors with the words "PROJECT AT RISK" in 48pt bold letters.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2232 on: July 25, 2012, 08:08:04 PM »

The evidence that my boss doesn't like me continues to build. Have I been doing something wrong all this time? I'm glad I'm leaving.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2233 on: July 26, 2012, 08:38:16 AM »

I've been trying to get a phone number from my boss for the last hour. Refusing to just tell me, he keeps trying to text it.

Somehow the first message that actually makes it to me is a video file named after the contact. No number though.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2234 on: July 26, 2012, 01:02:07 PM »

"I need you to make a French call" is inexorably becoming "Let me dump my shitty fucking intractable issue on you".
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2235 on: July 26, 2012, 01:31:22 PM »

I read that twice and I'm still not sure whether or not a "French call" means prostitution.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2236 on: July 26, 2012, 01:43:24 PM »

No it means to call some sack of shit who's going to spend half an hour trying to bullshit me horribly.

"No I can't send you proof of my address in 2006, because I never paid bills, lost my wallet on 2001 and never replaced the ID, moved constantly, never paid taxes, and never had a bank account... even though I already said I worked and also used government assisstance. [Plus a half-hour of cursing.]"

That was literally the last guy's defence.

Like fine buddy, lie your shitty shitty lies. Waste my time. Swear yourself blue. But I sure wouldn't expect me to actually, you know, do anything.
 
Okay sure, we all get these deadbeat retards often enough here. They call in trying to pretend they didn't run up that $2000 account after paying for it for five years out of their own bank account or whatever the hell. They're the shit you wade through while trying to get real work done and help legitimate victims of real fraud. After they bitch and moan for however long they always get the same line in the end: We need some actual shred of proof before we're gonna do anything.

But I'm getting tired of "Oh this guy only speaks French" turning into "Here you do this" fast, because I'm starting to get an instinctive fear reaction to those requests. I can't tell people to fuck off either, because taking those is actually in my job description.

I mean, they're easy calls, because like good little petty bureaucrats we have all the power and as long as you remember that there's no reason to flip your shit. But that doesn't mean I enjoy humouring these worthless assholes for a half-hour or an hour at a time.

EDIT: So many spelling mistakes. X___x
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2237 on: July 26, 2012, 02:00:45 PM »

Also, that other job at 55k doesn't look like it's going anywhere. I was doing really really good until they figured out that I have no real "CAREER GOAL" anymore besides "Don't starve... maybe save enough money to pay for some kinda retraining to escape office work" and didn't feel like lying about that.

I'm not really broken up about that, because it seems like it would have been non-stop bitchwork and I would've had to move to ass-nowhere. But that sure would have been a step up for money.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2238 on: July 28, 2012, 08:02:05 AM »

Had something stolen off my desk, asked the people I work with if they'd seen it, sat back down, got a message from my boss that I needed to stop throwing a fit about it.

asking anyone if they'd borrowed something off my desk is fucking throwing a fit about it? What kind of infants do I fucking work with?
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #2239 on: July 28, 2012, 07:28:03 PM »

Your boss stole it.
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