Topic: Your Job: The Movie (Read 177944 times)

Mongrel · « **Reply #2460 on:** November 17, 2012, 11:13:14 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?

I dunno about anyone else, but I usually don't have much when I get back because I try to get as much stuff squared away as I can before I go (and I've been gradually engineering stuff at work so that I have less follow-up work to do). And I do all my email catching-up on the day I come back, but before I actually have to go into work.

Amusingly, some of the old-timers have commented that I now sound like I've been there for a decade, even though I've been at the current job for less than two years.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2461 on:** November 17, 2012, 11:14:09 PM »

Oh and there was a denouement to the "Lying asshole was rehired" story. Turns out he had school lined up, so he just bailed mid-week after once again not really doing anything for a month. Dude played management like a fiddle. He probably didn't even expect to be rehired but applied anyway when he saw the posting go up. Laughing all the way...

François · « **Reply #2462 on:** November 18, 2012, 12:05:39 AM »

Quote from: TA 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.

I got my pneumonia in kindergarten. It was hell. So much finger painting to catch up on.

Classic · « **Reply #2463 on:** November 18, 2012, 12:32:36 AM »

Quote from: François on November 18, 2012, 12:05:39 AM

Quote from: TA 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.

I got my pneumonia in kindergarten. It was hell. So much finger painting to catch up on.

Oh- Oh yeah? Well I got my pneumonia when I was still a twinkle in dad's eye!

Thad · « **Reply #2464 on:** November 18, 2012, 10:08:36 AM »

Quote from: Mongrel on November 17, 2012, 11:13:14 PM

I dunno about anyone else, but I usually don't have much when I get back because I try to get as much stuff squared away as I can before I go (and I've been gradually engineering stuff at work so that I have less follow-up work to do).

Yeah, unfortunately I've never really had a position where I could do that. My last four years of work have largely involved shipping/receiving, which tends to pile up when you're not there even if you've got somebody else trying to cover it on top of their regular work. And before that was the ISP gig that became a one-man operation any time I was off.

R^2 · « **Reply #2465 on:** November 18, 2012, 11:00:37 AM »

What the hell's a "vacation"?

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #2466 on:** November 26, 2012, 02:17:06 PM »

I just got assigned a new project!

I know nothing about it except that it's backed personally by our CEO, and it involves YouTube somehow.

How frightened should I be?

R^2 · « **Reply #2467 on:** November 26, 2012, 03:22:58 PM »

RUN

RUN

RUN

Pretend I linked to a Sinistar sound bite.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #2468 on:** November 28, 2012, 02:57:30 PM »

So I just learned I may not have a job past December 28th.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Malikial · « **Reply #2469 on:** November 28, 2012, 03:25:19 PM »

Mongrel · « **Reply #2470 on:** November 28, 2012, 03:31:20 PM »

Um... I hope it wasn't because you turned down the previous assignment?

Did you even turn it down? I mean, I figure you knew we were kidding, but...

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #2471 on:** November 28, 2012, 04:45:43 PM »

Nope, I did not turn it down! It has nothing to do with that, anyway.

It's actually because my contract is up for renewal on the 28th, but the person who was supposed to approve said renewal went and got herself pregnant, and had to take some time of to have her kid. The guy who replaced her has decided that he's not going to renew ANY contracts(omg he's closing all the loops), and mine just happens to be the first to fall.

My manager and director are both trying to convince him that they absolutely need to renew my contract, but who knows if they'll be successful.

Updating my resume, just in case.

MarsDragon · « **Reply #2472 on:** December 13, 2012, 06:56:33 PM »

I am so sick of supporting IE6, guys.

So so sick.

(I'm in international eCommerce, which in this case means China, and IE6 is still 20% of the users we get. We can't just drop it.)

Classic · « **Reply #2473 on:** December 13, 2012, 10:59:42 PM »

This is where I say something horrifically racist about the Chinese, right?

Mongrel · « **Reply #2474 on:** December 20, 2012, 05:11:27 PM »

"Sir, what's your father's name."

"I don't know... I call him 'dad'".

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #2475 on:** December 20, 2012, 06:51:13 PM »

And now we know why Superman drinks.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2476 on:** January 06, 2013, 12:38:34 PM »

Today at work, an enraged man demaned my name, rank, serial number, and underwear size. So I provided my name, rank, serial number, and underwear size.

Defenestration · « **Reply #2477 on:** January 08, 2013, 11:42:28 AM »

"Well, that's okay that you don't have internet on your console. We can still update the system software with an external hard drive and a computer!"
"Oh god what that sounds hard."
"It's really not, I'll walk you through it. You have a computer with internet, right?"
"Yes."
"And do you have an external hard drive?"
"Say what?"
"A hard drive that is on the outside of the computer that you hook up with a USB cable."
"What in the world are you saying!"
"It's a box that has computer storage in it and you can hook it up to your computer with a wire. But that's okay it sounds like you don't have o..."
"No tell me what that is in english I may have it!"
I pause for a moment, not sure how to break it down further, and he guesses for me.
"Do you mean like a memory box?"
"...Yes sir, like a memory box."

Mystifyingly, the memory box *was* an external HDD. How do you have enough knowledge to recognize your need for an External HDD but not know what an HDD is?

Classic · « **Reply #2478 on:** January 08, 2013, 11:51:39 AM »

Memories aren't stored on drives, Def. They're stored on brains, which are, in turn, stored in boxes.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #2479 on:** January 09, 2013, 10:56:56 AM »

I was just handed 10 bucks and told to go get as many cookies as I could with it. This is my job. This is what I get paid to do.

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