Topic: Your Job: The Movie (Read 177858 times)

Doom · « **Reply #280 on:** April 21, 2009, 06:36:01 PM »

If those houses are close enough, torch the fucking neighborhood. Nothing of value will be lost.

Lottel · « **Reply #281 on:** April 21, 2009, 06:43:29 PM »

Sounds good. Find me a way to torch a town full of brick houses with a nickel.

Brentai · « **Reply #282 on:** April 21, 2009, 07:11:49 PM »

Quote from: Lottel on April 21, 2009, 05:32:44 PM

I took four deliveries the whole night meaning I didn't get much gas money.

Quote from: Lottel on April 21, 2009, 06:28:58 PM

House 1 - One penny. He said "Keep the change"
House 3 - 2 pennies. Because I had no change to give him.
House 5 - One penny.
House 6 - One penny. Fucking wrote a CHECK
House 7 - One penny. FUCKING WROTE IT ON THE CREDIT CARD SLIP

Unless by deliveries you mean each stack, in which case... oh.

Lottel · « **Reply #283 on:** April 21, 2009, 07:25:24 PM »

No. I take doubles and triples when I leave. So I leave with a few different orders and get paid less. That is what I meant. Sorry to be confusing!

Niku · « **Reply #284 on:** April 21, 2009, 10:18:43 PM »

Quote from: Iron_Mongrel on April 21, 2009, 09:53:34 AM

Man, it is just DEAD here.

I watched eight episodes of Battlestar Galactica at work today.

Kayma · « **Reply #285 on:** April 21, 2009, 10:29:13 PM »

I've been at my job six months. I've watched The entire Avatar series, Toradora!, One Piece from about Ep. 200-present (minus craptastic filler), How I Met Your Mother, Dollhouse, bits and pieces of 30 Rock and the last season of Battlestar Galactica. Not to mention most episodes of The Daily Show, Colbert Report, Conan, and even Jimmy Fallon, with the occasional Leno thrown in. Oh, and a few random movies and podcasts.

It's a fucklame job, but it's got some sweet downtime.

Brentai · « **Reply #286 on:** April 21, 2009, 10:31:44 PM »

Hmm.

On the one hand, I can fuck off and watch cartoons whenever I want. On the other hand, I'd lose enough money watching one disc of Avatar to buy the whole damn series.

And of course there's the third hand, which is that some days it's not going to make a damn bit of difference either way.

Mongrel · « **Reply #287 on:** April 22, 2009, 03:05:44 AM »

Quote from: Niku on April 21, 2009, 10:18:43 PM

Quote from: Iron_Mongrel on April 21, 2009, 09:53:34 AM
Man, it is just DEAD here.

I watched eight episodes of Battlestar Galactica at work today.

On the movie screen?

Niku · « **Reply #288 on:** April 22, 2009, 07:28:19 AM »

Sadly, no. :(

Mongrel · « **Reply #289 on:** April 23, 2009, 10:19:13 AM »

Today I got a voice mail from one of our sales reps.

She paused in the middle of the voicemail to take another call. "Blahblahblah... Hold on Matt, I've got a call on the other line... *inordinate pause* ...okay! Blahblahblah...".

...

ಠ_ಠ

Thad · « **Reply #290 on:** April 25, 2009, 03:32:19 PM »

Quote from: Killjoy on April 20, 2009, 05:55:53 AM

I've been getting "please restart to finish your update!" pop-up messages through my remote link to our work server for a full week now. Messages, that I can't do anything about.

Every. Five. Minutes.

This is one of the most legitimately fucking obnoxious things about Windows. OSX has a "don't ask me again" checkbox on its reboot prompt, which beats the fuck out of kicking me out of The Witcher every 15 minutes just in case I've changed my mind.

I think I've stated before that pretty much EVERY popup should have a "Don't show this again" checkbox.

Quote from: Kayma on April 21, 2009, 06:21:51 PM

I don't understand people who don't tip delivery guys. What the heck, people.

I tip less if there's a delivery charge. Which there pretty much seems to be everywhere now, presumably due to the $4+/gallon gas prices of last summer.

Quote from: Brentai on April 21, 2009, 10:31:44 PM

On the one hand, I can fuck off and watch cartoons whenever I want. On the other hand, I'd lose enough money watching one disc of Avatar to buy the whole damn series.

I haven't worked this gig long enough to get sick days.

The other day I stayed home with a migraine; it cost me over $100.

François · « **Reply #291 on:** April 25, 2009, 11:00:19 PM »

Quote from: Thad on April 25, 2009, 03:32:19 PM

Quote from: Killjoy on April 20, 2009, 05:55:53 AM
I've been getting "please restart to finish your update!" pop-up messages through my remote link to our work server for a full week now. Messages, that I can't do anything about.

Every. Five. Minutes.

This is one of the most legitimately fucking obnoxious things about Windows. OSX has a "don't ask me again" checkbox on its reboot prompt, which beats the fuck out of kicking me out of The Witcher every 15 minutes just in case I've changed my mind.

The trick is to not close the box. As long as you don't close it it will never try to reopen or force focus on itself. I slide it mostly off the screen so it's out of the way, and it doesn't stay on top of full screen programs.

It's still obnoxious though.

Mongrel · « **Reply #292 on:** April 26, 2009, 06:47:39 AM »

Quote from: Thad on April 25, 2009, 03:32:19 PM

Quote from: Killjoy on April 20, 2009, 05:55:53 AM
I've been getting "please restart to finish your update!" pop-up messages through my remote link to our work server for a full week now. Messages, that I can't do anything about.

Every. Five. Minutes.

This is one of the most legitimately fucking obnoxious things about Windows. OSX has a "don't ask me again" checkbox on its reboot prompt, which beats the fuck out of kicking me out of The Witcher every 15 minutes just in case I've changed my mind.

I think I've stated before that pretty much EVERY popup should have a "Don't show this again" checkbox.

It was still doing as of Friday afternoon. They STILL hadn't restarted the server. How hard is that?

I am willing to bet good money that I will go in on Monday only to see THREE weekends will have passed without the damn thing being fixed.

Mongrel · « **Reply #293 on:** April 28, 2009, 05:56:41 AM »

Quote from: Killjoy on April 26, 2009, 06:47:39 AM

Quote from: Thad on April 25, 2009, 03:32:19 PM
Quote from: Killjoy on April 20, 2009, 05:55:53 AM
I've been getting "please restart to finish your update!" pop-up messages through my remote link to our work server for a full week now. Messages, that I can't do anything about.

Every. Five. Minutes.

This is one of the most legitimately fucking obnoxious things about Windows. OSX has a "don't ask me again" checkbox on its reboot prompt, which beats the fuck out of kicking me out of The Witcher every 15 minutes just in case I've changed my mind.

I think I've stated before that pretty much EVERY popup should have a "Don't show this again" checkbox.

It was still doing as of Friday afternoon. They STILL hadn't restarted the server. How hard is that?

I am willing to bet good money that I will go in on Monday only to see THREE weekends will have passed without the damn thing being fixed.

Turns out I was wrong.

THANK GOD. BLESSED RELIEF

Also: Why does my social dynamic at work always always turn into "Get along famously with everyone at work... except my boss."

Lottel · « **Reply #294 on:** April 28, 2009, 10:08:32 PM »

Well, I put in my two weeks the other day, Friday I believe, as I am moving in 3 weeks.
I didn't work again until today so I didn't bother to check the schedule. I went in and they sent me home right away since we had no business and I was only scheduled for 2 hours anyway. I head towards the back of the store to check my schedule and they said "Oh. You are not on the schedule for the next two weeks." Oh? This seems a bit odd. Maybe they forgot that I was- "And turn in your shirt before you get your next paycheck, alright?"

Oh. Oooooooh. Great. Now I am unemployed. That's fantastic.

Niku · « **Reply #295 on:** April 28, 2009, 10:34:23 PM »

hope you weren't planning on two weeks of fat pay!

Mongrel · « **Reply #296 on:** April 29, 2009, 03:08:17 AM »

Yeah, it's really dirty, but I learned long ago not to give notice at shitty minimum-wage and minimum-wage-esque places, because they WILL just fuck you out of your last two weeks.

Whereas at professional places, I tend to give a month's notice or more if I can, so I can properly train my replacement.

Brentai · « **Reply #297 on:** April 29, 2009, 08:37:27 AM »

I never had that problem since most of my previous shit jobs spent my notice period begging me to stay (except the QA one, where I simply quit by repeatedly declining to sign up for the next project). Of course at those places I was honestly trying to get out of there as fast as possible, so the dead duck period was usually a chore for me and more often than not I went out quietly sabotaging shit by the end.

People like me are probably why they don't want you hanging around for the next two weeks. Sorry about that.

Thad · « **Reply #298 on:** April 29, 2009, 08:11:07 PM »

...So Conspiracy Theory Guy's been out for a week and a half.

He comes in Monday and tells everyone he went to Mexico and got swine flu.

After he leaves, two of the guys freak the hell out about how he shouldn't be at work if he's got swine flu. I remind them that this is the guy who recently lectured me on how Saddam smuggled the WMD's to Syria, as evidenced by the abandoned trucks full of gold that somehow never made it onto the news.

Yesterday, Samir comes in wearing a surgical mask. Not as a joke, not ironically; he gets totally pissy when I make fun of him for it. Samir, unlike the character I have named him after, is a big imposing dude, which makes this all the funnier.

But now I've had to deal with him being edgy for two days and it's not really funny anymore.

Also, today he said he'd heard on the radio that the CIA started the outbreak to distract attention from the torture memo story.

So apparently we've got insane conspiracy nuts at BOTH ends of the political spectrum!

(I, on the other hand, was once called out for being a conspiracy theorist for suggesting that Coolio was never really mad at Weird Al and the whole thing was just a PR stunt. Because THAT is just crazy talk.)

Mongrel · « **Reply #299 on:** April 30, 2009, 02:59:58 AM »

Thad, I want to work at your office.... to troll these people.

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