Topic: Your Job: The Movie (Read 178177 times)

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #2720 on:** November 10, 2013, 11:31:29 PM »

I have mixed feelings about what I'll be selling at my new job.

Zaratustra · « **Reply #2721 on:** November 11, 2013, 03:45:55 AM »

http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=WIGU-REFERENCES&Category_Code=WELCOME

DeusExMatilda · « **Reply #2722 on:** November 19, 2013, 06:41:56 AM »

Last week I got a call offering me a job, and despite being unemployed, I turned it down because it paid just over half the salary of the other jobs I was interviewing for. Damn company harassed me all weekend, called me seven different times trying to hire me, until I told them to never contact me again.

[spoiler]I didn't get the other jobs.[/spoiler]

Mongrel · « **Reply #2723 on:** November 19, 2013, 07:19:40 AM »

In a situation like that, it's best to straight up state that you are currently interviewing for multiple openings elsewhere all of which pay nearly double. Tell them you're only interested if they can match.

Or maybe you did do that and they said no and kept bugging you anyway? In which case, fuck those guys.

DeusExMatilda · « **Reply #2724 on:** November 19, 2013, 07:55:25 AM »

Yeah, I did tell them I had better offers when I rejected, so this is on them. It mostly just stings to still be unemployed after having straight up turned down a job, and makes me irrationally worried I made the wrong decision.

Classic · « **Reply #2725 on:** November 19, 2013, 08:16:43 AM »

It's small consolation, but you made the best move you could with the information available to you.

Brentai · « **Reply #2726 on:** November 19, 2013, 08:36:18 AM »

You don't want to work for a company that treats you like dirt before you're even on payroll.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2727 on:** November 19, 2013, 08:42:05 AM »

Yeah, it doesn't sound like you lost out on much of anything.

R^2 · « **Reply #2728 on:** November 19, 2013, 11:09:04 AM »

$100 a week is still more than $0 a week. So it'd have been a shitty job for a scummy company for low pay, but it's hard to say that that's worse than unemployment.

Condolences.

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #2729 on:** November 19, 2013, 11:48:14 AM »

One of the owners said I looked tired this morning. I apologized and told him I had stayed up later than I normally would the night before.

Now both owners think I was out 'til morning getting drunk.

I meant I had stayed up until midnight playing Final Fantasy.

McDohl · « **Reply #2730 on:** November 20, 2013, 11:07:54 PM »

So, how would you like a job that you drove an hour and a half one way to be treated like shit and be expected to be thankful you have a job, and if you don't like it there's the door, because there's 30 other assholes gunning for your job, and will backstab you for it.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2731 on:** November 27, 2013, 05:44:32 PM »

I had yesterday off.

Of course that was the day that the Stanley Cup was at work to celebrate the fact that our company had essentially bought Hockey.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2732 on:** November 28, 2013, 06:50:49 AM »

I just got a work call from a guy at another company out in Calgary. He sounded familiar.

Turned out to be a guy I lived with for 2 years a decade ago when I was in college after university.

That was seriously weird. But cool!

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #2733 on:** November 30, 2013, 03:49:25 AM »

I just realized yesterday that my store isn't 'Eureka' like the exclamation, but 'Eureeka' like the castle owner. I don't think anyone else has caught on yet.

peabody · « **Reply #2734 on:** December 13, 2013, 07:32:04 AM »

Are you pronouncing those words differently, or is the store's name a reference?

A² · « **Reply #2735 on:** December 13, 2013, 08:24:30 AM »

What about Eh Ooh Wreck Ah?

TA · « **Reply #2736 on:** December 13, 2013, 08:26:19 AM »

I assume it has to be the spelling thing. Eureka only has one pronunciation in everything.

Büge · « **Reply #2737 on:** December 13, 2013, 10:02:47 AM »

Ey, paesano! You ate-a too much-a garlic and now eureka!

Mongrel · « **Reply #2738 on:** January 12, 2014, 09:39:35 AM »

Oh boy, I sure like not being able to do anything all day for a ten-hour shift.

Is this not 2014? I mean, I work for a fucking telecom company, nominally a tech company, even. You'd think having a single server go down wouldn't mean that all my profile info gets fried such that I can't log in to anything. Ever hear of redundancy, you cheap assholes?

I mean, sure I goof off some anyway and I should probably just shut up and watch YouTube and take my free day, but we're behind and I have shit to get done.

McDohl · « **Reply #2739 on:** January 14, 2014, 02:48:41 AM »

Yep, still hating my job.

Hour commute one-way, arbitrary and flippant management, homophobia, sexism, racism, etc.

And I can't quit because I cannot find another job.

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