Topic: Your Job: The Movie (Read 177943 times)

Büge · « **Reply #2440 on:** November 09, 2012, 08:16:52 PM »

Quote from: Disposable Ninja on November 09, 2012, 07:31:39 PM

so uh... I'm apparently working this Kenny Loggins show tomorrow morning.

That's a ride into the danger zone if I ever heard it.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #2441 on:** November 10, 2012, 02:17:03 PM »

And I finished my contracted time before he even showed up. Rats.

Joxam · « **Reply #2442 on:** November 11, 2012, 09:57:43 AM »

I work all day today which is kind of a pain in the ass but at the same time I'm kinda glad because this is the last day I'll be a film projectionist. After I run these twenty-four shows it's all over and on to something new and exciting. I'm sad to see it go but digital cinema gives me a whole new challange and a whole new skill set. I have to confess I'm a little scared of all the things I don't know about digital cinema but there is no doubt in my mind that the benefits far outway the fears I have.

R^2 · « **Reply #2443 on:** November 11, 2012, 11:18:25 AM »

Walking down the hall to the little room we keep the drink machine in. Right as I get to the door, it opens, and out walks... A golden retriever!

Followed shortly by her owner, visiting one of our residents. Still... Did not see that coming.

Thad · « **Reply #2444 on:** November 15, 2012, 10:21:50 AM »

DES has invited/threatened me to come to some kind of Reemployment Services Orientation next week. Next Wednesday, to be precise, because apparently when you look at a five-week period where someone has a flexible schedule, the absolute BEST day you can demand he come in for something is the day before Thanksgiving. At least they didn't schedule it for Friday, I guess.

At a glance, they just select random recently-unemployed people for these things. As a currently unemployed/chronically underemployed computer scientist, I am not entirely sure I should be in the same seminar as the high-school dropout who doesn't own a computer.

(And that's no disrespect to That Guy, by any means. He deserves assistance and I hope DES can give him all the assistance he needs. I'm just not confident that his needs and my needs will be served in the same one-to-three-hour period.)

Brentai · « **Reply #2445 on:** November 15, 2012, 04:52:22 PM »

Okay, you know what? Listening to loud Japanese phone conversations from the cubicle across from me nearly fucking constantly has pretty much cured me of my chronic affliction of wanting to learn Japanese. Thanks, guy.

Classic · « **Reply #2446 on:** November 15, 2012, 05:11:56 PM »

I thought you already knew Japanese Brentai.
Or am I confusing you with someone else again?

EDIT:

JAPANESE BRENTAI

WITH RESTORED-BUT-CENSORED BUKKAKE ACTION

R^2 · « **Reply #2447 on:** November 15, 2012, 06:23:35 PM »

Japanese Brentai: like American Brentai, but with a bunch of creepy fetishes.

Look out, Shirogane no Uta.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2448 on:** November 17, 2012, 12:18:08 AM »

For the sixth weekend in seven weeks the IT guys are breaking the system on Sunday, which means I have to work a 12-hour shift on Saturday. I already work 10 hours normally, so not a huge issue, but the zero warning is getting annoying (and if it's annoying to me, a guy with not much to do outside of work, god knows how people with families and actual shit to do feel about it).

Maybe if all this tinkering actually reduced the number of crippling IT outages we've had int he past three months I'd mind less. Instead they seem to be getting worse. Maybe they shouldn't have cut the budget for the new system integration and laid off 80% of the people working on the development of what's supposed to be our core system. NAHHHHHHH...

Mongrel · « **Reply #2449 on:** November 17, 2012, 06:32:20 PM »

You know you have reached something close to the job hatred saturation point when you come back after a two-week vacation, have what is by and large a terribly easy day and still desperately want to be anywhere else.

Ocksi · « **Reply #2450 on:** November 17, 2012, 06:34:46 PM »

Uhhhhhhhhhhh

That's every job after vacation

Joxam · « **Reply #2451 on:** November 17, 2012, 06:35:23 PM »

Yeah.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2452 on:** November 17, 2012, 06:57:30 PM »

I dunno about you guys, but I usually have more tolerance for a job after vacation.

Brentai · « **Reply #2453 on:** November 17, 2012, 07:25:35 PM »

Would be neat if I had a vacation or even a four-day weekend where I wasn't obligated to do some other bullshit, to serve as a baseline.

Thad · « **Reply #2454 on:** November 17, 2012, 09:14:39 PM »

Quote from: Ocksi on November 17, 2012, 06:34:46 PM

Uhhhhhhhhhhh

That's every job after vacation

Quote from: Joxam on November 17, 2012, 06:35:23 PM

Yeah.

Wait. You guys come back from vacation and don't have two weeks' worth of shit to make up?

A² · « **Reply #2455 on:** November 17, 2012, 10:29:43 PM »

When I was in high school, I got bedridden with pneumonia for two weeks. When I came back to school and asked for the work I missed the teachers said there was none.

Brentai · « **Reply #2456 on:** November 17, 2012, 10:35:46 PM »

Huh. When I had the same thing happen in middle school they just dumped it all on me at once without any counseling and then kicked me out of the program when I wasn't able to catch up with it and my normal workload within a month.

Incidentally I think that's exactly when I stopped caring.

Joxam · « **Reply #2457 on:** November 17, 2012, 10:45:47 PM »

Quote from: Thad on November 17, 2012, 09:14:39 PM

Quote from: Ocksi on November 17, 2012, 06:34:46 PM
Uhhhhhhhhhhh

That's every job after vacation
Quote from: Joxam on November 17, 2012, 06:35:23 PM
Yeah.

Wait. You guys come back from vacation and don't have two weeks' worth of shit to make up?

Yeah, that. I was going to make a joke about how you could tell IM was non-essential because he didn't think vacations were a terrible waste of time that just set you back two weeks but thought it might be in poor taste.

TA · « **Reply #2458 on:** November 17, 2012, 10:46:05 PM »

Quote from: Brentai on November 17, 2012, 10:35:46 PM

Huh. When I had the same thing happen in middle school they just dumped it all on me at once without any counseling and then kicked me out of the program when I wasn't able to catch up with it and my normal workload within a month.

Yeah, that happened to me in third grade.

Mazian · « **Reply #2459 on:** November 17, 2012, 10:52:44 PM »

Quote from: Aoko Aozaki on November 17, 2012, 10:29:43 PM

When I was in high school, I got bedridden with pneumonia for two weeks. When I came back to school and asked for the work I missed the teachers said there was none.

In eighth grade, I got mono and was out for a month. But then I didn't have any work to make up: it was near the end of the year and the school administrators asked that I not come back, because I would make their attendance statistics look bad. Apparently this rated above "actually teaching students" in their list of concerns.

I still live in fear that someday, someone will care that I am technically an eighth-grade dropout and send me back.

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