There's a guy I work with who I sometimes go to lunch with. He's a nice enough guy. I usually drive and have the radio on or whatever. This guy likes to watch videos during the drive to wherever we're going to eat, which is fine, but he plays them on max volume and it's one of my biggest pet peeves.
So yesterday when I posted about not getting a promotion.
Well it turns out I was dead fucking WRONG! My manager just called me to offer me the position! For the first time in years I'll be Full-time, with benefits. Supervising a team of idiots that I love. I am so excited
She's now been looking for 10 months and unemployed for 3.5 and her mental state is getting really bad
It's weird how much of our self worth we put in our jobs. You don't notice until you're not working and suddenly 30 pounds lighter because you've been too stressed to eat, having anxiety attacks in bars, breaking down crying when you look at the SO because how could anyone love you you unproductive cog, and wondering is this just my life? Struggling and working retail forever?
It's been a long summer.
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So next week is spirit week for homecoming at work. I was going to use the back in time day on Thursday as an excuse to wear my Ghostbusters stuff to test out my proton pack repairs but I feel confident in my work so I might pull out my Doctor Who costume instead.
people need to tell me when they're scheduling meetings that require my input so I don't let a stinky fart go 1 minute before a really attractive nurse from an insulin pump company walks into my office
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
I need some advice. I was in QA for 5 years and got laid off in July. My aim is to be a product or project manager and I'm currently looking at associate positions to no avail (applying, not hearing anything back). What can I do to stand out more? I have a Scrum Master certification that expired in June, help from a transition company my previous employer provided, and the unemployment career services center I just signed up for last week. I know I can do this stuff and I have great references waiting in the wings but I feel lost right now.
I'm in the Boston area if anyone was wondering or if you know of anything available.
people need to tell me when they're scheduling meetings that require my input so I don't let a stinky fart go 1 minute before a really attractive nurse from an insulin pump company walks into my office
Hey, grab me a sample, would ya?
EDIT: of the pump
people need to tell me when they're scheduling meetings that require my input so I don't let a stinky fart go 1 minute before a really attractive nurse from an insulin pump company walks into my office
That's just appropriately setting the mood and gives you the upper hand. Either they mention it and you get to inform them of the 'Smelt it Delt it' rules of '84 and claim victory, or they try to ignore it and can't concentrate on the meeting guaranteeing you come out with the better deal.
Thank you, Trump University, you really taught me a lot.
Just a friendly reminder, when you put things in your butt, make sure there is some portion of it that's going to stop it from going in all the way, thus allowing you to get it out.
A friend of mine is an ER doctor. One time she told me about a patient who came into the ER with a bic pen completely in her bladder. No kinkshaming here, but when you do urethra play you should probably avoid sticking the instrument in all the way.
That sounds like a nasty infection either way :bigfrown:
I feel like a lot of these kinds of issues could be avoided by following the simple rule of "Don't put things in your [orifice] unless they were designed to go in your [orifice]."
It bugs me when I'm busy trying to put order to the chaos that is the warehouse in my one little corner and people can't help but come in and start shitting all over metaphorically.
I have a database. It is a very nice database, it keeps track of supply orders by their serial number, enabling easy searches in my files. I made this database because order forms would get lost on the regular. The database does not permit copies of the forms since it would duplicate the number. The warehouse policy does not permit copies of the forms because it's how people try to scam the warehouse into getting more supplies. This Goddamn housekeeping department supervisor keeps accepting photocopies and not letting me know, since I can boot them back, until they've been delivered.
They are starting interviews for our open supervisor position on Thursday. There are 2 people that I would really like to see get it, and several that I really don't want to see get it. I want to tell my manager that, but I'm not sure how well that would go over. What I would really prefer is to get rid of one of the other supervisors and promote the 2 that I want, but I don't think I'll be that lucky. Last week I started a log of everything the other supervisor isn't doing, but I think I would feel really guilty if I did anything with it.
I was just reminded by Bohlder that today is the two year anniversary of me dislocating a man's thumb over a Reese's peanut butter cup.
Good times.
How?
Don't ever get between me and my treats.
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VivixenneRemember your training, and we'll get through this just fine.Registered Userregular
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I HATE INCOMPETENT FUCKING PEOPLE WHO CAN'T SPEND AN EXTRA BRAIN CELL THINKING ABOUT HOW THEIR SHITTY DECISION MAKING IMPACTS OTHERS INSTEAD OF JUST THEMSELVES
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKK I hate my job right now
EDIT: ahem, sorry about that
work has been a shitstorm lately and it's getting to the stage where every minor transgression at work (that would usually be understood or overlooked) is just adding to the gigantic stress pile that is my professional life
they're essentially axing the team I work for, and for those of you who know what I do, it's something I never thought any government department would have the balls to axe
the worst part is that I feel like I'm becoming more avoidant of work because of how powerless we are and unappreciated our work apparently is to higher-ups, which I feel makes me look lazy to my own husband, and it's overall a shitty fucking feeling
So there's a job that was just posted, applications due by Oct. 8. The position seems to be a customer facing office manager role which I think I'm a perfect fit for. Would anyone here be able to look over my resume and help me polish it up? Maybe even the cover letter when I get that finished?
If so send me a pm, and thanks in advance.
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VivixenneRemember your training, and we'll get through this just fine.Registered Userregular
She's now been looking for 10 months and unemployed for 3.5 and her mental state is getting really bad
It's weird how much of our self worth we put in our jobs. You don't notice until you're not working and suddenly 30 pounds lighter because you've been too stressed to eat, having anxiety attacks in bars, breaking down crying when you look at the SO because how could anyone love you you unproductive cog, and wondering is this just my life? Struggling and working retail forever?
It's been a long summer.
It really looks like a spiral of self-doubt and self-hate and it's so hard to keep your head above water when your head is quite determined to keep you pinned down, right where it wants you. Having some familiarity with the situation similar you're describing, I know that you are not loved for your productivity or your job or your income. Jobs come and go. Incomes and ingoes. And people will say that we love the person, but it's so hard to maintain your sense of identity when professional identity is a huge part of it - like, am I still me when I'm not doing the things I think I need to be doing?
The hard part is that no amount of an SO's reassurance is going to make much of a dent in that. Thing is, you can plan out the rest of your life and how you think it should look, but then you're mourning something that has never actually existed. That sounds SO harsh and don't get me wrong - it's super great to have dreams and ambitions, but not if it keeps you from seeing the things you have actually achieved. Ultimately the only thing we have actual control over is what we do today and what we plan to do next, and it's so important to remind yourself of your achievements and successes, rather than lament how far you have yet to go.
It sounds like a pity party but it isn't; a culture of "follow your dreams" is a great ideal but is only achieved by people who were in the right place at the right time with the right people. Everyone else is doing the best with what they've got, often in shit circumstances, and that's good enough.
Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
We have a modest supply of fanta, coke, sprite, and stoney's ginger ale. Also I have a decent stock of beer. Which won't help with hydration but should at least make my demise less traumatic.
We have a modest supply of fanta, coke, sprite, and stoney's ginger ale. Also I have a decent stock of beer. Which won't help with hydration but should at least make my demise less traumatic.
My employer is doing its once a year internal-only job posting for control room first operators (the real job title is different but this describes it adequately). The guys who are in charge of the nuclear reactors and in direct control of them.
I am contemplating applying for it. A lot of people at work are telling me I should. My department is kind of a disorganized mess and it would be nice to jump ship over to the reactor units.
I honestly don't know if I have the mental stamina for the training though, assuming I would successfully become a candidate. Its like 5+ years of in class/simulator training. Not much time off - as opposed to now, where I get tons. During the training phase I would basically have to take the material home and study. The last thing I would want is to get into the middle of it and find out I absolutely hate it and made a huge mistake.
I think of the pluses and minuses of the job... and I'm not sure I want to do it. At the same time, I don't want to look back ten or fifteen years from now with regret that I had not done it. The benefits of the job are huge - but so are the demands.
The posting is open for about 3 more weeks. Realistically at this point in my career, I could wait another year or two (or five) for the next rounds of job postings. I think I might wait another year and see how I feel about it.
The initial application process is kind of daunting. After they do interviews and all that, they have a one week in-class cram session where you learn station systems, and do a couple of days on the control room simulator. Then they have what is unofficially called the "crash and burn" test. They tell you what the test will be on (they've been known to... grossly understate this) and then you have a simulator exercise where they throw everything and the kitchen sink at you. Basically as far as I can tell, their goal in this test is to mentally break you. If you don't make it through the test, you don't get accepted as a trainee.
Once you are a trainee, like I said it is 5+ years of training. Test after test after test. If you fail a single one, you are out. Each test over the entire five years can ask questions on material from anything covered in the entirety of the training so far.
Like. As I write that I wonder why I would subject myself to it.
She's now been looking for 10 months and unemployed for 3.5 and her mental state is getting really bad
It's weird how much of our self worth we put in our jobs. You don't notice until you're not working and suddenly 30 pounds lighter because you've been too stressed to eat, having anxiety attacks in bars, breaking down crying when you look at the SO because how could anyone love you you unproductive cog, and wondering is this just my life? Struggling and working retail forever?
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At least I can send this shit back to them and say, "Do it again, with correct documentation if you want to integrate with our system."
Well it turns out I was dead fucking WRONG! My manager just called me to offer me the position! For the first time in years I'll be Full-time, with benefits. Supervising a team of idiots that I love. I am so excited
Somebody get me a panda! Please!
It's weird how much of our self worth we put in our jobs. You don't notice until you're not working and suddenly 30 pounds lighter because you've been too stressed to eat, having anxiety attacks in bars, breaking down crying when you look at the SO because how could anyone love you you unproductive cog, and wondering is this just my life? Struggling and working retail forever?
It's been a long summer.
a 1 hour 40 minute commute sure is unpleasant
I'm in the Boston area if anyone was wondering or if you know of anything available.
Hey, grab me a sample, would ya?
EDIT: of the pump
That's just appropriately setting the mood and gives you the upper hand. Either they mention it and you get to inform them of the 'Smelt it Delt it' rules of '84 and claim victory, or they try to ignore it and can't concentrate on the meeting guaranteeing you come out with the better deal.
Thank you, Trump University, you really taught me a lot.
Wouldn't even know where to begin
Too much, really. Got another stress related health issue recently, but I guess I just don't like to think about it.
It's weird how that happens and you don't seem to realise it about yourself.
That sounds like a nasty infection either way :bigfrown:
I feel like a lot of these kinds of issues could be avoided by following the simple rule of "Don't put things in your [orifice] unless they were designed to go in your [orifice]."
I really should start looking for a closer workplace to home. Having to leave 1.5+ hours early just to maybe arrive at work on time is fucking absurd.
That's also gives you essentially a 12-hour work day which is ridiculous.
I mean, driving back is usually quicker, about an hour or a little less.
But yeah, a total of 2-3 hours for a commute is ridiculous, especially when I'm not getting paid a lot. If I got paid more it'd be more tolerable
I have a database. It is a very nice database, it keeps track of supply orders by their serial number, enabling easy searches in my files. I made this database because order forms would get lost on the regular. The database does not permit copies of the forms since it would duplicate the number. The warehouse policy does not permit copies of the forms because it's how people try to scam the warehouse into getting more supplies. This Goddamn housekeeping department supervisor keeps accepting photocopies and not letting me know, since I can boot them back, until they've been delivered.
Don't ever get between me and my treats.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKK I hate my job right now
EDIT: ahem, sorry about that
work has been a shitstorm lately and it's getting to the stage where every minor transgression at work (that would usually be understood or overlooked) is just adding to the gigantic stress pile that is my professional life
they're essentially axing the team I work for, and for those of you who know what I do, it's something I never thought any government department would have the balls to axe
the worst part is that I feel like I'm becoming more avoidant of work because of how powerless we are and unappreciated our work apparently is to higher-ups, which I feel makes me look lazy to my own husband, and it's overall a shitty fucking feeling
If so send me a pm, and thanks in advance.
It really looks like a spiral of self-doubt and self-hate and it's so hard to keep your head above water when your head is quite determined to keep you pinned down, right where it wants you. Having some familiarity with the situation similar you're describing, I know that you are not loved for your productivity or your job or your income. Jobs come and go. Incomes and ingoes. And people will say that we love the person, but it's so hard to maintain your sense of identity when professional identity is a huge part of it - like, am I still me when I'm not doing the things I think I need to be doing?
The hard part is that no amount of an SO's reassurance is going to make much of a dent in that. Thing is, you can plan out the rest of your life and how you think it should look, but then you're mourning something that has never actually existed. That sounds SO harsh and don't get me wrong - it's super great to have dreams and ambitions, but not if it keeps you from seeing the things you have actually achieved. Ultimately the only thing we have actual control over is what we do today and what we plan to do next, and it's so important to remind yourself of your achievements and successes, rather than lament how far you have yet to go.
It sounds like a pity party but it isn't; a culture of "follow your dreams" is a great ideal but is only achieved by people who were in the right place at the right time with the right people. Everyone else is doing the best with what they've got, often in shit circumstances, and that's good enough.
what are your Fanta stocks like?
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
I am contemplating applying for it. A lot of people at work are telling me I should. My department is kind of a disorganized mess and it would be nice to jump ship over to the reactor units.
I honestly don't know if I have the mental stamina for the training though, assuming I would successfully become a candidate. Its like 5+ years of in class/simulator training. Not much time off - as opposed to now, where I get tons. During the training phase I would basically have to take the material home and study. The last thing I would want is to get into the middle of it and find out I absolutely hate it and made a huge mistake.
I think of the pluses and minuses of the job... and I'm not sure I want to do it. At the same time, I don't want to look back ten or fifteen years from now with regret that I had not done it. The benefits of the job are huge - but so are the demands.
The posting is open for about 3 more weeks. Realistically at this point in my career, I could wait another year or two (or five) for the next rounds of job postings. I think I might wait another year and see how I feel about it.
The initial application process is kind of daunting. After they do interviews and all that, they have a one week in-class cram session where you learn station systems, and do a couple of days on the control room simulator. Then they have what is unofficially called the "crash and burn" test. They tell you what the test will be on (they've been known to... grossly understate this) and then you have a simulator exercise where they throw everything and the kitchen sink at you. Basically as far as I can tell, their goal in this test is to mentally break you. If you don't make it through the test, you don't get accepted as a trainee.
Once you are a trainee, like I said it is 5+ years of training. Test after test after test. If you fail a single one, you are out. Each test over the entire five years can ask questions on material from anything covered in the entirety of the training so far.
Like. As I write that I wonder why I would subject myself to it.
Is the money really worth it?
If you get a decent raise but won't have time to enjoy it, it might not be worth it. Especially if you like your current role and responsibilities.
Are you being literally paid your weight in gold for it
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
On the other hand that's some pretty heavy dust, man
Yea this is pretty lame but here's my healing song
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
I got burned out during the 8 months of training I had to do when I got hired for my current job
not because I found it overly challenging, just because I hated 8 months straight of training
not sure I can deal with years of it